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Thread: New Burglar PvMP Sets
Apr 28 2012 04:54 AM #81
Jun 03 2012 09:40 PM #82
Jun 04 2012 04:30 AM #83
Re: New Burglar PvMP Sets
After 7.1 Pandemonium KO bonus still not fixed. I feel like I wasted a lot of commandation. Since KO bleed type is common, it's almost do no dmg. It's just mitigated. With still not working hips with spieders kid, that makes me really sad
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Jun 19 2012 08:44 PM #84
Been looking around to see if anyone's posted the actual Evade +5% dmg bonus. If anyone knows, how long does it last? How high does it stack?
Jun 19 2012 10:09 PM #85
Jun 19 2012 10:49 PM #86
Followup question; I've got 5 of the QK set and am starting in on a new 3-set bonus. With the KO bleed now being common dmg, would you recommend grabbing the Chance set for evade dmg bonus instead?
Jun 19 2012 11:54 PM #87
gloves, leggings, helm of chance and the rest of the mischief = perfect for a gambler burg, At least it's the PErfect COMBO, Qk if your going that way either way id say 3/3 gambler/qk but to say i'd suggest go 5 pieces of a certain set only if you truly know you going to be in combat long, 5 pieces of gambler = long fights with WL, Qk set 5 pieces only good if you can 1v1 really or suggestly rvr since if it's a go kill you doubtly will be able to tier the buff past 5%-10% unless it's an actually 1v1.. mischief set is honestly past 3 sets is for Raids, at least what i use it for.
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Jun 21 2012 11:49 PM #88
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Jun 25 2012 05:37 PM #90
Maybe it's just the contrast I'm experiencing between having 1 Audacity a month ago and 7 now, but I'm really enjoying it on my burg out there. I'm survivable and fights are longer, though I still get a ton of KB's. Had an epic 5v5 the other day that lasted over 10 minutes...a few deaths on each side and it ended. But it was fun while it lasted (read: creeps decided they didn't like an even fight.)
Jun 28 2012 08:26 AM #91
Aug 28 2012 02:09 AM #92
ok so what does the buff actually do? the wording is weird. does if give you a straight damage buff to all of your attacks, and can stack? or does it give you damage bonus to your skills, like bleeds, that can stack? I'ma confuzzled. and is that set buggy too, I'll just start buying unseen since it is so freaking op.
Aug 28 2012 04:19 AM #93
The stats are interesting (nowhere near what I wish they were though), but the cosmetic part looks too clothy. Needs to look more medium armourish, in my opinion.
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Aug 28 2012 05:30 AM #94
Basilcally, every time you use SS you get a +5% devastate chance on skills. The buffs duration is 10 seconds and stacks up to 4 times, every hit tiers up 5% thus giving a maximum +20% devastate chance.
Couple of points of note,
This needs to be maintained as if you miss or dont refresh the buff in time, your buff disappears, rather than tiering down
The buff only activates on hit so if you have FA active, SS has a 0.8 second (not sure that number is entirely guesstimated but used for explanation reasons)physical animation delay
Short of it. Make sure SS is always on CD and your have a juicy 20% devastate chance buff which is sweet !.: LaolosBurglarR7:.
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I'd wondered about the smoke, but never checked it out. Yet another source of the various metals. Ash will contribute for longer than the actual fires burn, being easily windblown.
I'd wondered about the smoke, but never checked it out. Yet another source of the various metals. Ash will contribute for longer than the actual fires burn, being easily windblown.
More MJM for your enjoyment. One lie after another just to alarm people over nothing.
He claims there's 20 people with barium levels "1000 times the toxic level".
That's just nonsense. They would be dead if it were true. And it's not true, as they actually had levels in the normal range.
At best a misunderstanding or blindly parroting something. At worst a lie.
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Mt. Shasta Water Wins Best Tasting Drinking Water in California
The primary water source for the City of Mt. Shasta is Cold Creek Springs, located at an elevation of 4,400 feet on Mt. Shasta. The springs produce around 2,000 gallons per minute of the purest, unfiltered and untreated water in the nation.
In fact, the City of Mt. Shasta's drinking water is the 2006 and 2008 winner of the California Rural Water Association's Best Tasting Drinking Water in California Award.
The City of Mt. Shasta also earned 3rd place in the 2007 Great American Water Taste Test, a national competition held annually in Washington D.C. Others may boast about having the best drinking water, but the City of Mt. Shasta has the awards to prove it!
UPDATE: The City of Mt. Shasta placed first in the 2010 Best Tasting Drinking Water in California competition at this year's CRWA conference in Lake Tahoe.
Last edited by Jay Reynolds; June 18th, 2011 at 06:30 PM.
The water on Mt. Shasta -- water tasting comments:
The aluminum content is superbly allusive....albeit woodsy, if that's possible...(perhaps brought about by it's forest local)...but
definitely light and airy with a hint of oxidation and infused with dark barium overtones.
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Note that Al2O3 in the table below is aluminum oxide, also known as alumina, or corundum and ruby in its crystalline form.
Units in percentage.
Last edited by Jay Reynolds; June 19th, 2011 at 02:23 AM.
I happened across this 2009 California Energy Commission public record transcript which describes the pond referred to in WITWATS as being 50 years old, and being fed by a spring, not a well. I wonder why the story was changed?
The transcript also shows the person AKA Mauro Oliveira giving his name as Mauro Martins.
I wonder what his true name is and why he uses more than one surname?
He claims that his group has spent "tens of thousands of dollars doing the research, and screaming and yelling, and not getting anywhere."
It also features Dane Wigington claiming to be a climate researcher who lectures at Chic State and Shasta Colleges.
I have never heard him make those claims before. Why did he say that then and not afterwards?
The group was told that aluminum makes up a large part of soil, and that the Commissioners would look into it.
Last edited by Jay Reynolds; August 1st, 2011 at 03:39 AM.
A puzzling statement by the Mt. Shasta bunch has had me wondering. I had heard their claim mentioned several times by Michael Murphy that California should have no aluminum in their rain water because there was no aluminum there, and the mention that an unnamed 'hydro-geologist' had said so. I see this claim repeated at contrailscience.com comment by a poster named "Guy", and a quote to that effect:
Using the quote I find that it originates from a 12/2010 blog by Doug Craig in Redding, CA:
In the comments section, a writer named "Mt. Rose", who I am guessing is Rose Taylor(AKA Rose Casebeer)
posed as a student and asked a USGS geologist why GROUND WATER doesn't contain much aluminum.
So, either "Mt. Rose" deliberately misread the response which speaks about aluminum DISSOLVED in ground water, or simply doesn't understand that aluminum compounds from minerals can be suspended in any water, be it from ground water, surface water, or rainfall.Originally Posted by Mt. Rose
I haven't seen much participation by any of the Shasta bunch on forums, not using their real names anyways. I suspect that they do write under assumed names.
The comments in the blog above do contain statements from Dane Wigington, Mauro Oleivera, and I suspect Rose Taylor. Their statements are informative to read to ascertain their personal take on what they are doing. Based on what they said last year, they were totally wrong and had no clue about what was the normal levels of aluminum in soil, air, or water.
After the comments made on that blog, they have no excuse. They KNOW that what was put out in WITWATS was WRONG, they KNEW this almost a year ago, yet haven't retracted any of it, or corrected what Michael Murphy continues to assert.
It was bad enough just being ignorant and thereby disseminating bunk to others in their community, to Murphy and G. Edward Griffin, and to the world at large via WITWATS.
KNOWINGLY continuing to let their errors continue uncorrected is a sign of real problems being able to accept responsibility and being able to live in the real world where your words have consequences.
The Shasta bunch will eventually be held accountable by the other folks that simply accepted what they were told, and they will not be happy about it.
Last edited by Jay Reynolds; August 18th, 2011 at 08:03 AM.
for future reference:
"Mines and Mineral Resources of Shasta County, Siskiyou County, Trinity County"(1915)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Dane Wigington stated his research shows a high level of metal in the air, water, and
dust. He requested this issue be agendized so that independent testing can be ordered.
Supervisor Cibula directed staff to present any determination or response to this issue in a
public forum.
Last edited by Jay Reynolds; September 15th, 2011 at 07:44 AM.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
One of the Shasta Group's claims are that soil pH in the northern California area has been on the increase, and that some trees are dying.
Dr. Lee Klinger is at the same time controversial and main-stream. There is a phenomenon called Sudden Oak Death which though seen worldwide even in other species, is prominent in California. He contends that the symptoms are a consequence of soil acidification, calcium deficiency, and aluminum release due to pH decrease.
He sees these symptoms as resulting from a decrease in fire frequency and subsequent proliferation of moss growth on trunks and soil contributing to acidification aluminum release. He also contends that historically, native americans cultivated on a wider scale than presently believed, using fire producing ashes to ameliorate acidification, reduce moss growth, and thin understories. He contends that these native americans also extensively planted and maintained trees, especially oak, redwood and sequoia, using calcium rich shells, bone, and lime mortars to ameliorate acidification around individual trees for food production and sacred purposes.
For part of his research, the researchers onducted extensive soil and rainfall pH testing with results quite different from that of the Shasta Group:http://bioscape.com/SOD_acidity_paper_v1_2911D8.pdf
He is also tracking rainfall pH in California:
Here is his website:
Last edited by Jay Reynolds; September 20th, 2011 at 07:50 AM.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
"The sample was taken July 9th, 2008."
2008 had the worst air quality I can remember. I have lived in Mt Shasta for 32 years. Starting about June 20, many thousands of acres were burning. Particulate mater is one of the main components of smoke.
This is the best reference I have seen on the elements found in soils. It is based on samples taken at 20cm (8 in) depth, not just analysis of parent materials. Table for aluminum is on p 11 of the pdf, p 6 of the report. map is on p. 18 of the pdf.
Arithmetic mean aluminum concentration in the western US is 7.4%. There were about 13 samples taken in northeastern California. 12 of them were above average, closer to 10% aluminum concentration.
Google Element Concentration in Soils, USGS, 1270, if the link doesn't work
here is a link to download the .pdf file (3 MB):
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
This 1986 US Geological Service report contains tables showing dissolved trace elements from wells, springs, and streams in the Mt. Shasta area on pages 38-69.
Many springs are listed as having water with aluminum, barium, and strontium generally at levels from 10-100 ug/L.
Note: These are dissolved metals, not suspended sediments.
By K. R. Poeschel, T. G. Rowe, and J. C. Blodgett
Open-File Report 86-65
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I took the samples on July 9, four years after the sample taken by Rose Taylor showing 61,000 micrograms/liter. The dirty snow at the top of the 16 inch deep drift had 11,400 micrograms/liter of Al. Cleaner snow towards the bottom of the drift had 70.2 micrograms/liter. Meltwater from a stream on the north side of the old ski bowl had 73.5 micrograms/liter. The dirty snow was also tested for total suspended sediment, which measured 796,000 micrograms/liter. The aluminum was 1.4% of the total suspended sediment, a relatively low figure, since soil averages 7% aluminum. This is a very strong indicator that the aluminum comes from dust in the air. I would suggest two possible reasons for the lower reading on these samples. One is that we didn't have nearly as much ash from forest fires this year. A second reason is that the snow drift I sampled this year might have been a little deeper. About 40-50% of the snow is lost to evaporation instead of melting. The metals don't evaporate, so the closer the drift is to disappearing, the more concentrated the metals become. I would be fairly certain that the earlier sample was taken from the dirtiest snow at the top of the drift. The location of these samples was in the old Ski Bowl, reasonably close to where Rose Taylor sampled in 2008. I couldn't find my altimeter that morning, but the parking lot is 7.700 and I was at least a half mile from the parking lot. I have some video, but it will be a while before I can upload it.
Last edited by Steve Funk; July 25th, 2012 at 09:11 PM.
Good job Steve. This is what proper sampling looks like. You actually described the media you were sampling, which helps interpret your results. The big thing is the total suspended solids reading. Very high. That should be a standard analysis conducted for all of these chemtrail rain/snow samples. The higher the suspended solids, the more metals you will find in your results.
Yes, a very good test which shows a lot more than the WITWATS propaganda movie did.
Have any of the Shasta Group been made aware of these results?
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
Francis response was basically that there is other evidence, it does not matter if the snow test is debunked.
Here are two photos that go with these tests. Above is the snowdrift, showing the deposition of dust on top, and relatively clean layer below. Below is the meltwater stream. I think the striation you see about 4 inches down was just an area where it had started to melt prior to the last big storm. On photos from other areas I have seen layers of dust embedded in the snow, but not here.
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Below are the rain water sample lab test results found at the Coalitionagainstgeoengineering.org website:
Sample Dat Location Aluminum Level (µg/L)
12/27/2007 Italy 13
3/1/2007 "East Lake Shasta, CA (snow)" 7.2
4/14/2007 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 88
4/21/2007 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 27.2
5/4/2007 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 33.2
1/31/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA (snow)" 368
2/23/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 262
3/18/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 2190
4/21/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 650
5/22/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 188
5/29/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 881
10/4/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 84
11/1/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA" 815
11/11/2008 "East Lake Shasta, CA (lightning storm)"3450
3/21/2009 "Mt. Shasta, CA" 1540
3/22/2009 "Mt. Shasta, CA" 41
3/28/2009 "Mt. Shasta, CA" 853
10/14/2009 "Mt. Shasta, CA" 611
7/10/2010 "Maui, HI" 400
7/26/2010 "Maui, HI" 219
1/14/2011 "Long Island, NY (snow)" 15
1/14/2011 "Long Island, NY (snow)" 82
1/14/2011 "Long Island, NY (snow)" 13
1/14/2011 "Long Island, NY (snow)" 20
2/21/2011 "Big Bear, CA (snow)" 38.8
5/17/2011 "Orinda, CA" 118
5/17/2011 "Orinda, CA" 66.9
Average 484.2333333
Compare to this 1967 study:
Compare to this 1973 study:
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
I have uploaded some video of the Mt. Shasta snow tests I did. It is edited a little better than the first version.
Belfrey (October 30th, 2012)
Steve, very good and a very fair job on your testing and your second video.
This is the way I view your findings.
1. You have been friends with Francis for years, you obviously live and care about the area.
2. You worked within the scientific method to replicate as closely as possible a previous data collection.
3. You documented the collection procedure carefully compared to the previous one, leaving no questions about your procedure.
4. You added further insight into the true nature of the aluminum by separately sampling and analyzing surface, subsurface, and snowmelt.
5. You found that only the top layer of obviously soil contaminated snow contained large amounts of aluminum, subsurfaceand meltwater had negligible amounts of aluminum.
6. You analyzed the suspended sediment from the top layer of snow which turned out to have not a "Welsbach geoegineering signature" as claimed, but the same percentage of aluminum as the ordinary local soil analyzed by Francis Mangels.
The claims have been that a "mountain of metal" has been raining down from airplanes upon Mt. Shasta.
If that were true, equal amounts of aluminum would have been found throughout the snow, yet snow which fell when the mountain itself was covered with a soft blanket of snow had almost no aluminum.
Based on these facts, the reality seems to be that the mountain itself and the surrounding soils are likely the source of what has been raining down, not airplanes.
Considering those facts which you have documented quite well, Francis Mangels has no basis to claim that any metal comes from airplanes when the mountain snow a few miles away collected virtually no aluminum through the winter, except for soil which blew in during the summer when most of the snow had melted and dust was free to blow.
Again, many thanks for solving this mystery.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
Last month, a rain water sample was taken in the town of Mt. Shasta by Steve Funk.
Here is a photo of the sample collector:
Here is the sample report from the same lab used by the chemtrail people:
The lab test results are given in two different forms for different substances, below are the units standardized to units ug/L (micrograms per liter),
the same units used by the chemtrails people:
Units standardized:
SiO2-300.0 ug/L
Si----140.0 ug/L
Al-----54.2 ug/L
Sr------1.9 ugL
Ba------0.6 ug/L
Last edited by Jay Reynolds; November 24th, 2012 at 04:54 PM.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
Belfrey (November 25th, 2012)
So, aluminum, barium, and strontium were all found in similar proportions to their abundance in nature around the Mt. Shasta area, and in nature generally.
Referencing the known chemical composition of parent rock found in the Mt. Shasta, we see that the compound that makes up the largest percentage of native rock in the area is silica, SiO2 which is a mineral formed by the combination of silicon and oxygen. Silica is also known as common sand.
The analysis shows that the rainwater collected contains 300 ug/L of silica. This is a strong indicator that the rain contained material of crustal origin, in other words, soil dust that derived from the parent rocks of Mt. Shasta. This is not surprising. It would actually be uncommon to not find silicon and silicon dioxide in dust.
The reason for this is because just behind oxygen, silicon is the second-most abundant element in the crust, followed closely by aluminum.
Taking a closer look at the various minerals found in earth's crust, we find that practically all minerals in the crust are compounds of silicon, and most of these silicate minerals also contain significant amounts of aluminum. In the pie chart below, all of the minerals are silicates except the turquoise slice shown as non-silicates.
Plagioclase- a calcium or sodium aluminum silicate mineral
Alkali Feldspar- a potassium aluminum silicate mineral
Quartz- silicon-oxygen mineral
Pyroxene- aluminum silicon oxygen mineral
Amphibole- iron or magnesium silicon oxygen mineral
The Shasta Group led by Francis Mangels and Dane Wigington have stated over and over that finding aluminum in rainwater is not likely, and that if found it indicates a "Welsbach signature" of geoengineering. They negelected to study what would be normally expected in rainwater, however, which is soil dust from earth's crust.
They never tested for the most common solid element on earth, silicon. Had they done so, they certainly could have saved themselves and the public much trouble, because what this rain test is showing us is that indeed the source of the aluminum found in rain water samples is not consistent with a "Welsbach" signature, but rather with the signature of the earth itself!
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
It looks like Shasta is forecast some record snow over the next few days:
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If anyone lived on the summit of California's Mount Shasta, they'd need a mighty big shovel to dig out of the snowstorm that will bury the mountain in astronomical amounts of snow through the weekend -- amounts that could flirt with world records.The Thursday morning National Weather Service summit forecast for Shasta predicted an incredible 33 to 39 inches of snow -- just for Thursday alone.
(By comparison, Atlanta, Ga., has reported 38.9 inches of snow since March 1, 1989 -- a period of over 23 years.)
But it gets crazier.
Add in another 37 to 43 inches of snow Thursday night, and additional amounts ranging from 21 to 35 inches every 12 hours through Saturday night, plus a light dusting of 11 to 17 inches on Sunday...
...and you get a storm total of 176 inches. On the low end.
Add up the high end of the numbers and you get a forecast maximum of 218 inches of snow in four days!
For the surrounding terrain, which is nearly 10,000 feet lower than the summit, this will be a massive rain storm with the potential for over a foot of rain.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that the Shasta crowd will take this as clear evidence of weather manipulation.
Here in Los Angeles it has been raining for a few days, and fairly solidly the last 8 hours. There were a couple of nice contrail days before the weather arrived. Lots of Cirrus Uncinus, contrails and ripple clouds. I imagine there were similar portents up in Shasta. Again that's going to be used as evidence - the old "why do they always spray before it rains" argument.
The first sample was from a bucket washed and dried the night before the storm on Nov. 16/17, about 8 hours of rain with 2-3 inches in the bucket. The second sample was from a jar which had been left out since August 28. First sample had 6.6 micrograms/liter aluminum, and 30 micrograms/liter silicon. The second sample, tested just for al, had 198 micrograms/liter. This indicates that dust in the air during dry periods can significantly affect the reading. Francis mentioned to me once that he didn't think dust accumulating in his rain guage during dry periods would significantly affect the lab results. One caveat is that the first sample had more than I could get in the bottle. It is possible it wasn't mixed perfectly. But the silicon/aluminum ratio was again indicative of a crustal origin. And the heavier particles that could have stuck to the bottom of the bucket would have been silicon dioxide (sand).
Steve your method here comparing two samples tested for a variable called dry deposition.
The jar which was set out immediately before the rain was only exposed to wet deposition, while the sample taken after the container had remained exposed to the air during the 10 week dry period was exposed to both wet deposition and dry deposition
Testing for variables is a basic scientific technique used to discover why a particular experimental run differs from another. In science, one does not just "think" something makes no difference in an experiment. "Thinking" is simply a guess, also known as a hypothesis. The scientist who designs an experiment devises ways to test for any variables which he "thinks" might affect the outcome of the experiment.
Besides allowing a very important variable like dry deposition to skew the results of his experiments, Francis Mangels seems to have very little idea of how atmospheric deposition works, surprising if you consider he holds himself out as such a brainiac.
Scientists who study the atmosphere learn in their first year of study the difference between wet and dry deposition, that is basic stuff.
The apparatus below is commonly used worldwide to collect BOTH wet and dry deposition at the same time. You can see that the bucket on the right collects rain, but remains covered until actual rainfall is detected. The bucket on left is the dust collector and remains open collecting dust until rain is detected. The cover slides over from right to left when rain is detected to open up the rain collector and keep water out of the dry collector.
This is yet another example of the gross errors being made in "chemtrail science".
The people making the chemtrail claims need to learn the basics of science, but instead they ignore them, and mislead thousands into a false belief system.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ...Mark Twain
Wow, I almost purchased from that website in the past. Please present the tests you've probably made of those medicines, since you claim they are quack, so we can be sure it is a quack medicine they're selling, so we can report them to the BBB and FTC.
Chemx, if you are referring to Basic Labs, they are just an outfit that does soil and water testing. Or did you accidentally get your post in the wrong thread?
Here is another data point for the silicon/aluminum ration in rain. 260 ug/l silicon, 103 ug/l Al., for a ratio of 2.58 to 1. The average of the three samples (see #67 and #64) is 3.21/1, which is pretty close to what you would expect from published graphs of the composition of the earth's crust. This sample is from rain May 6 and May 8. I washed the collection bucket before the rain, but had to strain leaves and bugs out after three days.
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Bugs and leaves will have dust and dirt (earth crust) on them, so they add to the Al content in the sample.
Even with the extra dirt, the Al is below MCL EPA guidelines/limits.
Aluminum MCL is " 0.05 to 0.2 mg/L "....and this test found 103 ug/L, which is the same as 0.103 mg/L......below limits and not unusual.
That's under the "Secondary Standards"....what are those ?
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Why Set Secondary Standards?
Since these contaminants are not health threatening at the SMCL, and public water systems only need test for them on a voluntary basis, then why it is necessary to set secondary standards?
EPA believes that if these contaminants are present in your water at levels above these standards, the contaminants may cause the water to appear cloudy or colored, or to taste or smell bad. This may cause a great number of people to stop using water from their public water system even though the water is actually safe to drink.
gimmie it, I'll drink it.
(this info has been said before, but just as a reminder....)
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HappyMonday (May 28th, 2013)
There have ben a few test floating around the UK FB pages since we had some snow this spring what the chemtrailers refer to as "strange snow". Here is an example;
The aluminium content is about the same as Steves'. However all comments seem to be based on the "unusually" high aluminium content, with one commentator saying "how does something so heavy get into the air, yet no one bats an eyelid at the Iron content of 110 ug/l. I have mentioned that maybe they are starting to spray iron as well but all I get is derision for some reason
The strange snow saga has come about since someone heard Dane Wigington witter on about ice nucleation and since then they have been terrified of snow. This one relates to soft, powdery snow shaped like polystyrene balls. Its soft hail, hallway between graupel and hail. It is common but I guess people have never noticed it before this spring.
It would be good if the chemtrails folks started adding silicon to their testing array. Silicon, the second most abundant element in the crust (oxygen is #1), will be a good indicator of crustal material.
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In a rustic pavilion a few hundred feet from Village Creek, smoke fills the woods, creating shafts of light through bare winter branches.
More than two dozen people are gathered around sacks of Galveston Bay oysters and there is laughter between bites.
Beaumont City Manager Chris Boone is teaching someone how to shuck raw oysters while Chef Monica Cobb piles lightly-fried oysters topped with bright green cilantro onto a tray. On the grill, a bountiful mound of oysters is steaming inside a coffee bag from Texas Coffee Company. There exists no word to describe the smell that fills the woods.
Rebecca Boone, founder of the new Slow Food Beaumont chapter, commands the group's attention.
"We believe that everyone has a right to fresh, local, in-season, nutritious food," she said. "We believe that everyone has a right to the pleasure of food."
That pleasure is being shared this afternoon, and it is impossible to deny. A massage therapist prepares fresh oyster ceviche as a Beaumont plant worker gathers people around a giant plate of boiled Gulf shrimp. A 25-year-old organic sustainable farmer collects empty shells for her tomato beds as the owner of Bicycle Sports huddles over a table covered in shucked oysters, each filled with colorful accoutrements.
The Beaumont chapter of Slow Food is only weeks old, but it is already committed to the mission of Slow Food International.
"Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world," the group's website reads.
More than 1,500 local chapters gather in meetings such as these, dining on fresh local fare while swapping recipes and tips. They share stories of first-time beekeeping and grinding backyard acorns into flour. They introduce dishes lovingly prepared with ingredients from their own gardens. No texture, no flavor, no effort goes unnoticed.
Slow Food Beaumont is just one small piece of a greater puzzle that Southeast Texas is finally putting together. Factory farming, genetically modified crops, piles of out-of-season produce shipped from around the world just to disappoint us with its lackluster flavor — so much of the modern industrialized food system has robbed us of the true taste and experience we should be getting from our food.
But like much of the world, Southeast Texas is fighting back, one bite at a time.


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Extending Search Engine Optimization using Sitemaps in Drupal 6
In this article by Ben Finklea, we will discuss some more techniques on how should the sitemaps be used to make sure your entire web site is crawled by the search engines. We will also learn how to make a user-friendly sitemap for your site visitors. We will cover the following topics in this article:
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Although Joomla! has all of the basic content management tools you need to build a website, it is also designed to run custom-built extensions written in PHP. This article steps through working examples of PHP code written to work seamlessly in Joomla!. Modern websites use JavaScript-driven effects to aid navigation, reduce on-screen clutter, and provide interactive features that are not possible with static HTML.
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In this article by Andrew Siemer, we will cover the most important aspect of any community site—making friends. We will divide this article in two parts. This part starts with the discussion of Problem, that is, what we need to do to achieve success for the article's topic—finding and inviting friends to your network on a community site. It then moves to Design part where we decide on our requirements, and finally the article reaches Solution part where we begin discussing how to actually implement the features.
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We will consider the example of an imaginary web site created for a restaurant called Good Eatin' Bistro. Chef Wanyama is the owner of the Good Eatin' Bistro, a popular upscale restaurant. You can check this web site at http://goodeatin.drupalbyexample.com/.
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Blackbeard's Pirate Trail
Arrr, mateys! Seek ye the treasure of Blackbeard the Pirate? Aye, then come ye along on this trail of NC's coastal hideouts and the seafaring scalawags that made them home. Ye shall see the colonial town that the notorious Blackbeard called home, the salty waters under which his trusty Queen Anne's Revenge still lay, and the bloody shoals where this feared pirate met his violent end.
4-Day Itinerary
Day 1
Start your voyage to the place where Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, sits in her watery grave.
Day 2
Discover ye the ways of the pirate as you travel back in time to North Carolina's first town and Blackbeard's last home.
Day 3
Sail ye to the island called Ocracoke, where Blackbeard faced his final battle and where modern day landlubbers can seek cool ocean waters and pristine beaches.
Day 4
Explore the Outer Banks with its history of pirates, lighthouses and shipwrecks.
With so much to see and do in the area, we recommend the following 4-day itinerary. Visitors can easily turn this into anything from a three-day weekend to a week-long trip. Enjoy your visit by mixing and matching events to your particular interest. Be sure to check days and hours of operation for each venue.
Day One
Start your voyage at the North Carolina Maritime Museum, where you will find a fascinating exhibit on Blackbeard the Pirate including artifacts from his ship. You will also learn about the efforts to locate Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. The wreckage was found in Beaufort Inlet by a private group on November 21, 1996 and confirmed the next day… the 278th anniversary of Blackbeard's death. The site of the wreck is under about twenty feet of water just offshore from Fort Macon State Park.
(Those who are certified SCUBA divers and who really want to get up close and personal with the QAR can even go on a charted dive of the wreckage with the Friends of the Queen Anne's Revenge. The "Dive Down" is a scheduled, two-day program based from the group's headquarters in Morehead City.)
For the kids, Port City Tours offers a treasure hunt adventure. Guests are ferried to Pirate Island where the crew must help the marooned pirate guide solve puzzles and riddles in order to uncover the clues that will lead them to the buried treasure. For older kids, the Beaufort Ghost Walk and Legend of Blackbeard walking tours bring the pirate stories to life on the waterfront Historic District of downtown Beaufort.
Enjoy dinner at Clawson's 1905 Restaurant & Pub and spend the night at the Inlet Inn, both on the town's picturesque waterfront.
Day Two
Head out to Historic Bath, North Carolina's first established town. Blackbeard arrived here in June of 1718, and immediately received the "gracious pardon" of the Royal Proclamation from colonial Governor Charles Eden. It is widely believed that Blackbeard took up residence in a home on Plum's Point, visible across the bay from the Bonner House. Members of the Bonner family told of a ghostly phenomenon called "Blackbeard's Lights" where during violent storms they would see a ball of fire as large or larger than a man's head sail back and forth from Plum Point to Archbell Point all night without any deviation.
A room at the Bath State Historic Site is dedicated to Blackbeard and his men, many of whom may have been Bath residents. The historic Van Der Veer House also has a room dedicated to Blackbeard that includes a graphite vase – rumored to be the famous pirate's money pot. Accounts say the people of colonial Bath treated their infamous pardoned pirate as somewhat of a celebrity, and when Blackbeard and his crew were in town, there were lavish dinners and wild parties.
Today visitors to Bath can party like a pirate at Blackbeard's Slices & Ices on Main Street at this authentic Italian restaurant and pizzeria, or at the Old Town Country Kitchen for favorites such as locally-caught fish. Blackbeard's features live entertainment on Friday and Saturday evenings during the warm months.
Spend the night at The Inn on Bath Creek or Bath Harbor Marina & Motel or catch the afternoon ferry to Ocracoke Island for your next adventure!
Day Three
The NC State Ferry offers a leisurely trip for you and your vehicle from Swan Quarter to the Outer Banks Village of Ocracoke, the site of Blackbeard's last battle. Look for dolphins in the surf and see if you can spot any shipwrecks along the way.
Ocracoke Inlet was one of Blackbeard's hideouts, and it was here that two small sloops hired by Virginia governor Alexander Spotswood found and cornered Blackbeard on the inner side of the island. In the battle that ensued, Blackbeard was killed on November 22, 1718. His headless body is believed to be buried in a mass grave somewhere on the island.
Today, all things Blackbeard and pirate can be found at Teach's Hole, which operates as both a Blackbeard Museum and pirate specialty shop. Here you'll find everything from pirate flags to pirate party supplies, but you can also see displays of pirate weapons and flags, and view a two-part documentary on Blackbeard's life and death on Ocracoke.
Now, take a break from your pirate trail to enjoy Ocracoke's charming village and pristine beaches. The Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach was named 2007's Best Beach in America by Dr. Beach. It was the first beach outside of Hawaii or Florida to be given that honor.
Enjoy fine dining on an island paradise at the Back Porch Restaurant or the beach-side ambiance and seafood at Howard's Pub & Raw Bar. For a historic treat, stay overnight at the family-friendly Blackbeard's Lodge or stay in a property built with wood collected from shipwrecks at The Island Inn.
Day 4
Head north on North Carolina's famous Highway 12. This ribbon of roadway runs the length of the Outer Banks and is a National Scenic Byway. Take the free ferry to Hatteras Island and explore the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. The popular shipping lanes off the Outer Banks made piracy and warfare an integral aspect of the region's maritime history. The museum has displays of shipwrecks related to piracy and warfare off the coast from the late 17th century through 1945.
History buffs will want to tour or climb the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, America's tallest lighthouse. Exhibits include the history, maritime heritage and natural history of the Outer Banks and the lighthouse.
Families with kids will want to climb aboard the pirate ship Sea Gypsy at Pirate Adventures of the Outer Banks where they can sail and search for sunken treasure, fire water cannons, dress up and get their face painted like a pirate and, of course, find some treasure. For meals, Pamlico Jack's Pirate Hideaway in Nags Head features island and coastal cuisine with three menus including one for little pirates or try the fresh seafood, grilled, burritos and homemade Carolina barbecue from Teach's Island Bar and Grill at Teach's Lair Marina in Hatteras.
Rental homes are the most popular lodging option in the Outer Banks or try the Inn on Pamlico Sound, a full-service inn offering a casually elegant lodging and culinary experience in the midst of the natural beauty of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
added: May 1, 2009
updated: May 18, 2011
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I already used Shur-Line's mini rag rollers for my decorative painting business before Hosting Fresh Coat then becoming Shur-Line's spokesperson (2007-2010; a great run!) and a huge fan of their brushes and teflon coated trays. My favorite brushes are 1 1/2″ square and angle. (Thank you, Paul and Shur-Line team)
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Natural Resources & Environment
Let markets play their part in feeding the world
Dougal Thomson | June 11th 2012 | @EG_Enviro
Barack Obama's announcement of a 'New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition', a partnership between G8 nations, African countries, and businesses to boost African agriculture, promises to raise 50 million people out of poverty in 10 years. Oxfam have criticised it for focusing too heavily on the private sector, but they're missing the point.
The alliance will invest in projects across six African nations: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Burkina Faso. Forty-five private-sector firms, including Cargill, DuPont, Rabobank, Unilever and SABMiller, have committed to invest more than $3 billion throughout the agricultural value chain: in irrigation, processing, trading, financing and infrastructure.
The money is certainly needed. We live in a world where a billion people go to bed hungry and 170 million children suffer from chronic malnutrition, where government efforts to alleviate these problems have continually failed to deliver. For example, the G8 Aquila meeting in 2009 committed to investing $22 billion in food security by 2012. Time's up, but only half of the money has been disbursed.
The Chicago promise is sounder than the Aquila version for a simple reason: it relies less on stretched/shrinking international aid budgets and more on private sector money/leadership. Yet there's a caveat. Multinationals, African governments and not-for-profit agencies are uneasy bedfellows. Understandably, charities harbour deep suspicions about the private sector's role/motivation in national food security plans: whatever they say about CSR, agribusinesses exist to make a profit.
But here's the point: the only way the world can feed seven billion mouths nutritiously is by forming cross-stakeholder alliances (governments, private sector, agencies, charities, donors) that reconcile a multinational's need for profit with a smallholder's need for income, a mother's need to feed her baby and a nation's need for food security. Partnerships that develop Africa's agricultural base, which help rural communities by creating stable markets for smallholders, can do just that.
Here's an example: in Ethiopia, Pepsi are partnering with the World Food Program and USAID to fund better seeds and drip irrigation systems so farmers can improve their yield of chickpeas. It's a project that makes business sense (creating a stable supply chain for Pepsi), while helping smallholders and giving the WFP excess chickpeas to fight famine. Creating a sustainable chickpea market benefits all, from shareholders to consumers to the most vulnerable.
EthioPEA is a good start but the world needs many more collaborations that harness the skills and capacities of the profit and not-fot-profit sectors. The challenge of building trust and commitment between strange bedfellows is one we'll be exploring at The Economist's Feeding the World conferences in Johannesburg and Singapore.
But let's start the debate here. If you have a view on how to create partnerships with impact, please share it.
Private Investment in agriculture to achieve food security
14:37 June 12th 2012
IFAD was one of the agencies invited to help shape the G8 New Alliance to ensure that 50 million people overcome poverty and hunger during the next decade, by focusing policy efforts and resources on smallholder agriculture.
Five things need to happen for initiatives like this to succeed:
1. Small farmers (men and women) need to be supported first and foremost. They are the primary investors in agriculture in Africa.
2. We need to help farmers work better with agribusiness (domestic and international), thus ensuring that the value chains become efficient and fair.
3. Investment is needed in more sustainable, resilient, climate smart agriculture, a message we'll be taking forward in Rio next week.
4. Governments need to ensure that private investment fosters food security and inclusive growth - through governance of natural resources and by developing inclusive business models and legislation.
5. Farmers need to organize, to engage with investors and government. This is critical for developing inclusive, pro-poor value chains and partnerships.
Carlos Sere, Chief Development Strategist, IFAD
I Very Much Support this
16:44 June 12th 2012
I Very Much Support this initiative to Support Agriculture as its the Backbone of many Poor African Family Economies,Modernising it Shall Trully Lift many a Family out of Vicious Poverty Circle
Approaches will be as varied as specific opportunities
09:51 June 13th 2012
One of the most difficult mind-sets to overcome in being open to approaches that involve NGOs and private sector players, is the tendency for many to latch on to "one-size-fits-all", grand strategies and master plans. This arises from a long history of such grand approaches - many of which have been found wanting - among centralized governments, multilateral finance institutions, and large bilateral aid agencies. It is becoming increasingly clear that success cases reflect context-specific economic factors and business feasibility for the players concerned. Indeed, business arrangements are as varied as the opportunities, the contexts, and the players.
Examples of Private-Public Partnerships That Work
15:06 June 13th 2012
The following are some examples from the direct experience of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Do note that the IRRI is an international, non-profit, private scientific research organization with a public mission to harness science in service of enhance productivity in rice production, for the benefit of farmers and consumers, particularly in developing countries.
IRRI normally partners with various public and private agencies in each of the rice-growing countries where we work. The public agencies are as varied as extension agencies, ministries of agriculture, universities, agricultural research organizations and so forth. The private agencies include NGOs, and private for-profit firms such as agribusiness enterprises. The partnerships are aimed at achieving shared goals, and each partner contributes resources to implement the partnership, in addition to resources generated from donors. The terms of each partnership are tailored depending on the specific objectives and design of the shared activity and the specific context of the project.
IRRI has entered into a joint project with international and local private insurance firms, a European satellite company, two European donors, and the public rice research agency of the government of a Southeast Asian country to generate and process high-resolution satellite data into information useful for disaster (i.e. flood) damage assessment, and crop production estimates and forecasting. The information is also amenable to applications in private insurance and banking.
IRRI is developing approaches to the appropriate protection and licensing of its scientific discoveries and innovations, for the purpose of generating a stream of resources to support continuing scientific research, while maintaining open access to the innovations by public agricultural agencies and farmers from developing countries
And many more mechanisms are being explored, each designed according to the particular attributes and enterprise opportunities of each innovation.
Don't forget livestock!
10:05 June 13th 2012
Including livestock in plans for Africa's sustainable agricultural development is essential.
For increasing food production, or sustaining farming systems, increasing the incomes of the poor, developing new global bread baskets, making better use of dryland resources, conserving biodiversity, slowing climate change, helping people cope with climate change, or enhancing human health and nutrition, livestock issues are critical.
In Africa as the rest of the developing world, livestock are the fastest-growing part of agriculture. They're a 'demand-pull' that can drive small-scale agricultural systems—the motor that brings in cash to smallholder mixed crop-and-livestock farmers. While cereals sustain the family, farm animals are the family's source of cash— its living 'asset base'.
Due to population growth and other drivers of change, many of Africa's livestock systems are transforming as fast as they are growing. We need to help the world's poorer livestock keepers make better and more sustainable use of these big changes and new trends.
Public-private insurance insures remote Kenyan livestock herders
09:36 June 14th 2012
A new book on markets development for African smallholder farmers highlights a pioneering livestock insurance project as a key innovation that could enable African farmers reduce their losses in crop and livestock production.
A 2012 publication by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the book, 'Towards priority actions for market development for African farmers', calls for the 'right mix' of policy and investments to not only 'strengthen African policy expertise' but also encourage 'a more diverse array of investments and initiatives, including those initiated by the private sector.'
One such initiative featured in the book brings together private- and public-sector actors to support an Index-Based Livestock Insurance project in Kenya.
Started in 2010 by ILRI in partnership with UAP insurance, Equity Bank, Cornell University and the Index Insurance Innovation Initiative program at the University of California at Davis, the Index-Based Livestock Insurance project provides livestock insurance against forage losses to over 2500 households in Kenya's Marsabit District. Freely available satellite imagery is used to assess conditions of pastures. When pasture vegetation is reduced to a level below a specified threshold, the insurance company pays herders who bought insurance. Yearly premiums cost USD100 for 6-8 animals.
Pastoral livestock sectors are at the heart of agricultural markets in Africa. Kenya's livestock industry, for example, is estimated to be worth about USD800 million per year and produces most of the meat consumed in the country and is critical to the country's food security. Research by ILRI shows that long-term solutions to food security in Kenya and other countries in the Horn of Africa need to support livestock herding. Pastoral systems are critical for the survival of livelihoods here and offer the most efficient way of managing the region's large arid and semi-arid lands.
This insurance scheme is currently being piloted in other parts of Kenya and in Ethiopia. In late 2011, 600 livestock keepers insured through the project received insurance payments for vegetation losses arising from the drought that struck the Horn that year. The project is also now making use of mobile phones to widen its impact in remote communities.
The new book describes the outcomes of an international conference held in Nairobi three years ago that examined the 'priority actions' that if taken could speed up the development of African agricultural markets. Authors of the market's book recommend enhancing markets for poor people, improving market information, lowering transaction costs associated with trading and adding value to farm produce by upgrading value chains and processing mechanisms.
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Sharing experiences from the German Development Cooperation
13:46 June 14th 2012
Indeed, forming cross-stakeholder alliances is a difficult adventure as mentioned in the text. However, bridging the gaps should works as an incentive, not a deterrent. It is not governments producing foods, but small, medium and large-sized food companies worldwide. Only the civil society can trigger hard-to-achieve changes in eating habits through social marketing; and only academia can offer independent data sets on the extents of hunger and malnutrition that governments can translate into effective policies. Working across sectors is not something nice to have faced by the challenge to feed 9 billion people in 2050 – it is the essential precondition if we want to deliver and reduce hunger and malnutrition.
The cross-stakeholder model partnership, German Development Cooperation (GDC) has on offer is SAFO: SAFO stands for the 'Strategic Alliance for the Fortification of Oil and Other Staple Foods' and is a develoPPP.de development partnership between BASF and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It runs from 2008 to 2012. SAFO has already achieved its agreed objective: More than 150 million poor and malnourished people in SAFO partner countries are now using edible oil fortified with vitamin A. When development cooperation and businesses join forces, their approaches are diverse. Companies seek new markets while development agencies want to improve life for the poorest. The thinking behind the SAFO alliance is to show that these aspirations are not mutually exclusive but can be complementary. For GIZ and BASF, food fortification is the right medium-term approach, complementing short-term food supplementation and long-term dietary diversification. Taken together, these three approaches are GDC's three-pronged model for reducing malnutrition.
Focus your attention on the bottom of the pyramid
13:37 June 19th 2012
Potential private sector partners should read the economic case first developed by Professor C.K. Prahalad which shows the estimated 2.5 billion people who live on less than $2.50 a day not as victims of poverty, but rather as creative entrepreneurs and value-demanding consumers.
Rather than adopting a charitable approach or relegating activity to the realm of corporate social responsibility, the private sector should recognize the opportunity for delivering nutritious food to a huge and unique market. Approaches such as smaller packaging alone, would put products within reach of families earning small daily wages.
The private sector can do more than simply increase access to food. With its marketing power, it can create and fill a demand for access to nutrition – a critical piece of the hunger pie.
The whole chain of food production is ripe with opportunity - from crop breeding through to fortification of staple foods like flour, cooking oil and salt with vitamins and minerals.
As a global community, we must remain committed to delivering direct nutrition interventions to the very poorest and most vulnerable. Every one of the world's governments needs to keep its sights set on this segment of the population. But greater private sector attention to the vast, currently under-reached market at the bottom of the pyramid would help aid efforts to finally reach those in the very greatest need.
Venkatesh Mannar
President, Micronutrient Initiative
We all have a role to play - our interests are not so different!
08:46 June 20th 2012
The nature of partnerships, whoever they are with, is about matching incentives and objectives. Every NGO, agency, and private sector company has a set of objectives they are trying to fulfill whether that be humanitarian or profit results. So the secret is to find ways that both sides benefit and to look for the connections. The objectives are often not so far apart. The development community wants to lift people out of poverty, enable them to stand on their own two feet without handouts. The private sector actually wants this too - when the poor can stand on their own two feet, and have more disposable income, they are both the producers and customers the private sector is looking for! Plus we often seem to forget all farmers, including smallholders, who sell any level of produce are the private sector.
At WFP, when we started to receive more of our resources in cash rather than food, it was clear to us that purchasing where we could - keeping in mind that we need to remain cost-efficient - in the developing world would benefit developing country agriculture and farmers. As we did this we realized that given the magnitude of our purchases, poor smallholder farmers in developing countries could not access our supply chain.
So we looked at why smallholder farmers could not access the supply chain, which came down to size of production, quality of production, and basic business skills in terms of tendering and contracting. So Purchase for Progress (P4P) was borne – a pilot initiative that builds the capacity of smallholder farmers to access the supply chains in their countries. Working with other implementation partners, such as FAO, we build their farming capacity – productivity and quality, we help them explore models whereby groups of farmers aggregate their production, we contract with them to buy their production in the first instance so they become familiar with a formal buyer. The goal is to support farmers' organisations and help farmers to become savvy businesswomen and men who are not only able to sell to WFP, but are knowledgeable and successful private sector players in their countries.
Core funding for P4P has come from the 'private' sector with both the Howard G. Buffet Foundation and the Gates Foundation providing sizeable funding, alongside traditional donor governments to WFP. Private sector players including supermarket chains and breweries are starting to source from smallholders in the wake of P4P, and financial institutions increasingly enable access to credit for farmers' organisations when they have a contract to sell to WFP.
WFP has many private sector partnerships that range from the pro bono service and capacity provision to our operations to what one could term active participation as the private sector in our operations. One example is where we give vouchers that enable people to go to a retail outlet to obtain more diverse food products than we are able to supply in a 'food aid' basket due to shelf live and perishability issues. In the occupied Palestinian territory we give vouchers, which enable people to buy dairy products and eggs, supporting demand for these commodities produced by local farmers, as well as having a positive impact on the other actors in the supply chain (processors, transporters, wholesalers and retailers).
If we fail to integrate the private sector into the work we do, or to connect the people we work with to the private sector as both employees, producers and consumers the pathway out of poverty will be much longer for many people.
Healthy, Just, Sustainable Systems
05:17 June 27th 2012
I embrace any sector that works towards healthy, just, sustainable systems to provide humans with the nutrition, water, shelter, medicines and other things we need while caring for our earth.
The problem is that all to many in the private sector, government leadership and donors/aid/development are poisoning the earth with chemicals (e.g. in products, in agriculture and food systems, for 'pest' controls), genetic manipulation (e.g. hybrids, genetic engineering) and systems that are unbalanced and unfair.
This partnership described by the USA to support several of the biggest offenders taking us in the wrong direction. We need to partner with people who will help take us in the right direction to achieve food and nutrition security.
Choose organizations that support healthy systems, such as Permaculture, which designs sustainable systems for all human needs while caring for the earth, its people and sharing resources fairly. www.NeverEndingFood.org
Joining forces against food waste
17:35 July 25th 2012
The concept of 'conservation' gets immediately linked to natural resources and biodiversity. Oddly enough, we don't put the same emphasis on conserving the very output of those natural resources, the harvests. With 30-40 percent of food being lost postharvest (depending on the perishability of the food, the country at stake and the nature of the supply chain), we should also focus our attention on postharvest losses as we talk about food security.
Well-established and responsible private-public partnerships can help integrate the various links in the supply chain, tending to minimize postharvest losses. A strategic combination of players that: a- devise locally-relevant production and postharvest systems (public organizations and academia), b- accelerate adoption (local communities, funding, public and private organizations) and c- insure adequate food transportation (public and funding organizations) is an essential piece of the food security puzzle.
African Youth and solving the hunger problem
13:54 August 15th 2012
The contributors are very learned people, so I feel a tad bit intimidated giving my opinion. My opinion regards the role of the youth in solving world hunger.
You see, most initiatives target farmers who own the land. This is not wrong, per say. They own the land (most important resource) and therefore make the most logical targets. However, the profile of these farmers is mostly an ageing population which will in a few years time be put out of the business altogether due to inevitable ageing. For sustainability that is beyond a few years, I think more aggressive measures to involve African youth should be highlighted. Africa, and most other hunger stricken areas, have large populations of youth who flood the urban areas in search of work. This high urban migration pattern leaves an ageing population in the farming areas who are initiated into such beneficial programs.
To be effective in the long-run, the youth need to be the ones benefiting from such programs. I think that if Africa finds a way to be able to attract able bodied youth to agriculture then we will be very close to solving world hunger. Youth are faster learners, can more readily accept new technologies, are open to new ideas and would be able to put in more physical labor as needed.
That said, they need to be attracted to the idea of farming in the first place. Therein lies the challenge. The youth would much rather linger jobless in urban areas than perform farming duties back in the village.
I may not have stated my ideas as coherently as the posts above, but I hope you get the idea.


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Frank Marshall LLP
Two Day Sale of Antiques, Fine Art, 20th Century Design, Toys, Models, Fine Wine, Champagne, Clocks and Rugs
1349 Lots
Lot 1
A 19th century Satinwood veneered banjo barometer with ebony stringing, broken pediment top, made...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 2
An early 20th century ebonised circular wall clock with Roman numeral dial, with two train...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 3
An early 20th century German postman`s alarm clock, with Roman numeral dial, circular face,...
- Estimate: Est: £70 - £100
Lot 4
An early 20th century Black Forest cuckoo clock, with three train movement, having heavily carved...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Lot 5
A late 19th/early 20th century French onyx and gilt metal mantel clock, with enamelled Roman...
- Estimate: Est: £100 - £150
Lot 6
An Edwardian inlaid mahogany balloon mantel clock, with circular gilt metal dial, having relief...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 7
A 19th century French hand painted and gilt decorated mantel clock, having scenes of a French...
- Estimate: Est: £100 - £150
Lot 8
A late 19th/early 20th century French gilt metal mantel clock, with a lady holding a hen and a...
- Estimate: Est: £150 - £250
Lot 9
An early 20th century carved oak and pine Gothic style cuckoo clock, having central Roman numeral...
- Estimate: Est: £60 - £80
Lot 10
A French reproduction cast brass three piece clock garniture, having pierced and relief...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 11
A reproduction French style brass and porcelain mounted three piece garniture, decorated with...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 12
A French Art Deco marble and onyx three piece garniture of arched form, relief decorated with onyx...
- Estimate: Est: £120 - £180
Lot 13
A good early 20th century gilt brass oval Strut clock, with central oval silver-plated dial, with...
- Estimate: Est: £200 - £300
Lot 14
A Junghans c.1900 mystery clock, in the form of a cast spelter elephant and gilt metal pendulum,...
- Estimate: Est: £300 - £500
Lot 15
A 20th century Napoleons hat form mantel clock, having chinoiserie decoration, with French...
- Estimate: Est: £70 - £100
Lot 16
An unusual early 20th century ebony inlaid mantel clock, having classical scrolling decoration,...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 17
An early 20th century British made novelty brass gravity driven clock, with circular dial, raised...
- Estimate: Est: £60 - £80
Lot 18
An Edwardian inlaid mahogany mantel clock, having satinwood inlay and crossbanded, with circular...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 19
A late 19th/early 20th century French cast and pierced brass mantel clock of square proportions,...
- Estimate: Est: £200 - £300
Lot 20
An impressive Barrie of Edinburgh (1840-1907) bracket clock, with ebonised case, complete with...
- Estimate: Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Lot 21
A late 19th century gilt brass Portico mantel clock, the clock supported on six fluted columns on...
- Estimate: Est: £300 - £500
Lot 22
A Victorian Belgium slate mantel clock, with arched form top above enamel and brass circular dial...
- Estimate: Est: £60 - £100
Lot 23
A late 19th/early 20th century French cast mantel clock, in the form of a lady seated on dressing...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 24
A Victorian slate and marble drum shaped mantel clock, the circular enamelled dial with Roman...
- Estimate: Est: £100 - £150
Lot 25
A late 19th/early 20th century German walnut veneered cased mantel clock of architectural form,...
- Estimate: Est: £80 - £120
Lot 26
A Victorian rosewood and abalone inlaid wall clock, having circular dial with Roman numerals by...
- Estimate: Est: £150 - £250
Lot 27
A Victorian carved oak monumental mantel clock, carved with a central shield flanked by scrolling...
- Estimate: Est: £300 - £500
Lot 28
A 19th century brass cased carriage clock with bevelled edge plates enclosing circular faced dial,...
- Estimate: Est: £100 - £150
Lot 29
A 19th century brass cased carriage clock with bevelled edge plates, enclosing Roman numeral dial...
- Estimate: Est: £100 - £150
Lot 30
A good quality 19th century Champleve decorated carriage clock, the bevelled edge plate enclosing...
- Estimate: Est: £150 - £250
Lot 31
An Edwardian brass cased alarm carriage clock, with enamel dial of Roman and Arabic numerals above...
- Estimate: Est: £150 - £200
Lot 32
A Seth Thomas striking mantel clock, in the form of a house, impressed metal cased, height 17cm,...
- Estimate: Est: £60 - £80
Lot 33
A 20th century clock with a mother of pearl craft built clad exterior in the form of a building,...
- Estimate: Est: £70 - £100
Lot 34
An early 20th century circular brass cased Swiss made by Zenith Watch Company for Birch and Gaydon...
- Estimate: Est: £50 - £80
Lot 35
An early 20th century French oval brass cased carriage alarm clock, the bevelled glass plate...
- Estimate: Est: £300 - £400
Lot 36
A 1960`s Jaeger-le-Coultre mantel clock with mechanically driven mechanism, decorated with a gilt...
- Estimate: Est: £300 - £500
Lot 37
Seven LP`s by Pink Floyd. LP`s consist of `The Piper at the Gates of Dawn` (Columbia SCX6157),...
- Estimate: Est: £200 - £300
Lot 38
A collection of fifteen vinyl records by Pink Floyd. Records consist of fourteen albums and one...
- Estimate: Est: £250 - £350


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- Bedrooms3
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- Approx. Sq. Ft.2,295
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- Year Built1998
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Ohio State football: Urban Meyer says Jordan Hall will redshirt this season
Ohio State running back Jordan Hall will miss the rest of the season, take a redshirt year and return in 2013, Coach Urban Meyer said on 97.1 The Fan on Thursday afternoon.
A three-year letter-winner, Hall has played sparingly this season because of injuries.
He missed the beginning of the season with a foot laceration that required surgery. Then he partially tore the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during Ohio State's 17-16 win over Michigan State in Week 6.
Hall is third on the Buckeyes in rushing with 218 yards on 40 carries. He has one touchdown on the ground and three catches for 31 yards.
In recent weeks, Meyer and the OSU coaching staff have said redshirting Hall wasn't in the thought process. That process obviously has changed.
Meyer said Hall is "bouncing around a little bit," but the plan now is for Hall to redshirt and return next year.
Meyer lamented in recent weeks the injury to Hall.
"You just hate to see that because it's a kid who has worked his tail off, one of the hardest-working guys we had in the offseason," Meyer said.
With Hall out of action, Ohio State has relied heavily on junior Carlos Hyde, who has 737 yards rushing — second only to the 1,166 yards posted by quarterback Braxton Miller.
Sophomore Rod Smith (211 yards) and freshman Bri'onte Dunn (133 yards) have also gotten time at running back. Continued...
With Hyde, Smith, Dunn and now Hall all expected to be at running back next year, the position seems rather crowded.
Another freshmen, Warren Ball, is redshirting this year. Additionally, this year's recruiting class includes Ezekiel Elliott (St. Louis) and Jalen Marshall (Middletown). Marshall played quarterback in high school, but is expected to play the flex/hybrid position, as Percy Harvin did for Meyer at Florida.
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