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Skip to comments.Bunkers, Food, Armor: Disaster Prep Hits Mainstream
Posted on 04/10/2012 10:01:25 PM PDT by QT3.14
Im not sure when the tipping point occurred, but at some point recently the prepper movement exploded and became mainstream.
Preppers are folks who detect the possibility of calamity and decide to increase their odds of surviving it by putting aside supplies. Putting things by essential throughout most of humanitys existence was common in the United States up until advances in transportation logistics brought about the just in time shipping model. Suddenly, we could get almost any supplies delivered fresh and year-round to massive community stores. What our grandparents called lean times became a thing of the past for even the poorest Americans.
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Its been here for a while.
Costco was selling prepper food and selling out of it 2 years ago.
Waitin for the Skiddles to hit the fan.
I'm not quite ready to invest in an NBC-protected bunker, but I've long held the notion that a little preparation can pay huge dividends when something goes wrong.
I keep a stock of "extra" canned/packaged foods set aside in the pantry case I get snowed in or the like. If I don't have cause to use it in an emergency, I'll use it up and replace it with fresh stock when I get with six months or so of the expiration date.
I also keep several large sealed jugs of drinking water around. I like the 2-3 gallon plastic jugs I can get at superstores like Wally World, etc. They're inexpensive and compact, so I can keep a week's worth of emergency water on hand (figuring a gallon a day for me and the cat) in the back of a closet without problem.
If you have canned chicken, Veg-all, cream of chicken soup and Bisquick you can whip up a decent chicken pot pie.
And who could forget how simple tuna casserole is with storable food stuffs?
I respect that... but the chef in me hates you. Nothing personal.
If you have flour, fat, plenty of time, the right kind of weeds in the yard, and squirrels in the trees, you can whip up a decent pot pie. I've done it after the Oct 2008 market crash.
I have been a prepper of sorts since before 1960. Prepping really took off back around 1978 when people got a real look at Jimmy Carter's incompetence.
Began again with Bill Clinton's admin, fell flat after Y2K, now starting up again.
It's common sense to keep extra canned food on hand for emergencies. That is something I learned while living on isolated farms back in the 1950s. My folks got through the depression that way.
I like your pie better, but we are talking fast emergency food.
Right now there's squirrels and rabbits around.
I cant make a GOOD crust without cold butter.
I take that back.
Cold pork lard is da bomb in a crust!
My viet buddy had a BBQ and he had some mystery meat on one of the grills.
I studied the anatomy as it cooked and said what is that?
He said that a damn squirrel!
I said where's you get the squirrel?
He said you see that damn tree?
LoL! The original prepper!
3:2:1 Flour:Fat:Water
Any fat. Oil even. It requires practice.
I have MREs for emergency food. And none of them involve tuna casserole without an included firearm for self termination before eating.
If it goes 3 days, I'm eating off the local economy or ecology. I got lotz o' stuff around I know how to make good meals out of. Fish, wild pig, squirrel... I don't eat the local rabbit. And I know which weed are good in salads, and which ones need cooked.
And there is local volunteer parsley, thyme, cliantro, basil, and rosemary within a one minute walk. Not cultivated, just growing.
I'll eat much better, and just as quickly off the land here. My prep supplies are more geared to things I CAN'T get here, like large bags of green coffee that I can roast.
It just makes sense to have at least some weeks (or better months) worth of dry stores and canned goods stocked up all of the time. Quite apart from some zombie apocalypse, there are any number of civil emergencies, from earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions, or whatever that can happen.
I carry a go-bag in my vehicle that I can live out of for a week or so, until I can get home, which is my primary hole-up location.
I like Tuna casserole.
It must be a midwest thang.
When I was working in the fine dining restaurants, I scored some hard beef kidney fat. Also called suet.
That's the best pies I ever made.
They'll keep you alive
Some of the best meals I have had were in the field.
I could see that working but I have never had access to the stuff.
what would be the best freeze dried food to order? Any websites that anyone has dealt with would be helpful.
The military taught me a lot about cooking, as did working in fine dining establisments. I use skill from one to help in the other and vice-versa.
Some of the best meals I have had were in the field.
LOL In Nam we'd steal condoments from the mess halls. We concocted some pretty tasty meals out of C Rations. C-4 was our heat.
One of the best memory's I have is of being in the Appalachians eating fresh brook trout stuffed with butter and wild onions with scrambled eggs and coffee
Training might be a better investment. Don't get me wrong, I dehydrate my own mirepoix for blanc stock for the more intense flavor. But I'm not living on dehydrated food or freeze dried anything.
Too many other options out there.
I did buy freeze dried egg product from Rainy Day, but I know how to use it, and my chickens don't lay so well in the winter.
I thought I invented that until I went to write the MRE cook book LOL
Boy was I late to the party!
The best tip I have for this sort of cooking is "fire makes it better" LOL
Dehydrated trinity?
That's hardcore!
It does burn nicely. I'm not big on the nitrates for food flavor.... and your experience led to the development of the fire tabs that are issue today.
Thank you for your service. C-Rats. Back when you got smokes with your meal. At least today, you get the gum and the bad butt floss.
I carry a roll of Charmin without the cardboard tube in a doubled plastic bag in my go bag.
Did you really write an MRE cookbook?
We had one early MRE meal and I can't remember what it was. The C-4 would cook the hell out of anything.
I'm poor. Seriously poor. But I will eat good.
$1.70 for 3/4 pound of the shanks. 2 meals.
No. I was going to, but then I realized there are millions like me and that it had been done already.
And I'm all about making a buck with my skills.
Eatin good in the hood ;)
Pho Tai Nam is like a drug for me.
Roast 15 lb of marrow bones...
Thanks, johnnie.
We had "Heat Tabs" but preferred C-4.
We'd get whole cartons of smokes and destroy what we didn't
use so Charlie didn't get them. Some guys would urinate
into a pack of smokes and leave it where it could be
seen. "Happy smokes, Charlie".
Charmin is good to have. LOL
So many kinds. I've never had bad, except I'm not big on lungs. I just don't like 'em.
My younger daughter's married family is Cambodian, and I can get real nuc mam made 'fresh'.
really want those rich guys to make it. I can sell them food when they get tired of MREs and crappy freeze dried stuff.
And I'm all about making a buck with my skills.
I like your thinking.
And they were right. I never made E-7. And I still smoke. Eff 'em.
Never have tried freeze dried or dehydrated foods. I was wondering about the taste and the cost of packets that could be used for hunting and fishing trips.
My hens laying tends to fall off in the winter as well, even though North Ga. winters are more mild than most areas. I did have golden comets but after switching my chickens three years ago to leghorns the fall off wasn't that bad.
.....and I can get real nuc mam made 'fresh'.
No thanks, LOL
See how it goes.
Menu fatigue is a science. It's a real thing. I've been to a conference on it.
And it's ugly. In extremis, people die from not eating, going crazy, or stealing. All over food.
There are some that are great with it every day forever. But there aren't many of those folks.
Great stuff... worked fast! Just don't try to stomp it out if Sir Charles decided to invite his self over for dinner!
I had my last cig last June. I'm using Totally Vapor "torpedo" e-cigs and I like it. I keep some "Commit" lozenges on hand if the power goes out and I can't charge my batteries.
I'd smack a liberal and take his smokes if I had to, I guess. Lots of libs smoke.
I can do things like that because I'm single. ;)
In before the ping (IBTP). I do both. This years garden should be interesting. I'm putting an experiment involving an automating raised garden system to the test. Will report as it progresses. I prep not so much for my immediate family, but the knowledge of having many dependents if the SHTF. I'll need a lot of Zanax if that is the case. Not for the SHTF, but for the extended family. ;-)
Hey! I was hoping you'd get in on this if you saw the thread. Good seeing you.
I know quite a few people that have loaded up on freeze dried food. They always tell me I should as well to be prepared. I have been thinking about it and will probably look into supplementing my food supply with it. Mostly for camping trips with the kids and stuff.
We garden and can most of our current food supply and when added to what my wife stocks up from couponing we have a good sized food supply. Just been thinking about extra. Just in case.
Who does the weekly prepper thread?
LOL You're tougher than me. The closest thing to that stuff I use is sauerkraut on Hebrew National Hot dogs.
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Contrails are clouds made from water vapor that condenses then freezes behind a plane engine. Since the engines are on constantly, it seems a bit odd when you see contrails with gaps in them, or even contrails that stop and start. If the engine is pumping out a constant amount of water, then why is the trail not constant? This puzzle is sometimes seized on by people who think that persistent contrails are actually "chemtrails", or some kind of deliberate spraying operation.
But it's actually very simply. The amount of water in the exhaust is pretty constant, but the amount of moisture in the air is not. The humidity varies with altitude, and a layer of low humidity can be sandwiched between two layers of high humidity. As a plane climbs or descends through this layer, then the trail will only form in the areas of high humidity, and so look like it was "switched off" in the area of low humidity.
You can get the same effect with temperature. A warm layer of air can actually lay on top of a colder layer in what is called an "inversion" (you'll hear this on the weather sometimes, referred to as an "inversion layer"). When a plane flies through this inversion layer, the trail can be "broken".
It's not just climbing or descending flights either. The boundaries between these layers is not flat, and gravity waves or rising convection currents of air can create large volume of air that differ in temperature and/or humidity from the neighboring air, and so can break (or make) the contrail when then plane flies through them. You can think of these regions as invisible clouds:
This can be see in this 1944 footage (about 70 years old) from the WWII film Memphis Bell:
Don't take my word for it though. Do a Google search for "broken contrail" and you'll find lots of examples, and similar explanations (Click the photos above for two).
Occasionally a jet plane, especially if ascending or descending, will pass through a much drier or more moist layer of atmosphere which may result in a broken pattern to the contrail, with it appearing in segments rather than in one continuous plume.
If the contrail stops, then starts up again, creating a broken line, chances are the airplane flew through a dry patch.
What is happening here is that warm air rising from the ground carries vast amounts of water vapor upwards into the highest levels of the atmosphere. This water vapor exists as massive, plumes of warm, moist air ascending to very high levels. When a rising plume reaches the upper atmosphere it condenses into high ice clouds known as cirrus or feather clouds. In the case of the jet contrail (condensation trail) in the first image, the condensing cloud formed where the aircraft passed through a rising plume of moist warm air. The air on either side of the plume was not sufficiently moist to support the formation of an enduring cloud. As a result the contrail only remained visible in the warmth plume.
This uneven humidity does not always result in an instant on/off for the contrail, but can result instead in some regions of the contrail being more persistent than others. This can lead to a gap forming a minute or more afte the contrail originally formed:
Here's what it looks like from a pilot's perspective. You can see that that clouds occur in layers, and they are very unevenly distributed. The pilot said:
"I was flying today above a layer of Cirro-cumulus and snapped a couple of photos of a contrail below me that may be useful in explaining the stop/start nature of some contrails.
The aircraft was actually flying inside the layer and generating quite a thick trail, which either stopped or thinned out where the cloud stopped or thinned out, and started up again where the cloud resumed normal thickness.
Once again, the contrail is not above the cloud layer, but actually inside it."
89 Responses to "Broken Contrails and Contrails with Gaps"
Hi, Uncinus
I thought I'd let you know that JazzRoc, Epoxynous, and Doublemeat appear to be ONE.
A single AGENT SMITH in the "chemtrailer" park.
In the interests of sanity we three ought to group together… and rejoin our obviously SPLIT personalities. Just joking…
contrail science? to purport to talk of "contrail science" then hide your credentials is suspicious to say the least, i do not know of any scientist who would do extensive research on a subject and then not cite documentation or reference directly the "german research" etc then add to this not put his name to anything!
i put it to you sir that this site is no more than a selectively edited message board for a single viewpoint designed to do very little but misinform. i suggest that people refer to the wikipedia page on chemtrails as a start point not some anonymous site run by people whos reference material is cited as "some german contrail research".
can i suggest you rename the page "contrail stuff" cos ive read every page and cant find any proper "science" anywhere.
"chances are" and "probably" which are words from your site whoever you are,are not really terminology used in scientific documentation unless probability math is your discipline.
Good site!!!
My name is Heriberto, I am an argentinian-spaniard psychologist living in Madrid.
The "chemtrails" are explained: they are contrails.
What remain unexplained is the sociopsychological aspect of the problem: why people believe in such a weird thing?
I am investigating the possible answer in
Yawn, yawn, yawn, which gov. agency is sponsoring this site? You can fool some people most of the time, but you will never fool everyone.
This is an obvious clandestine operation. Conspiracies are ongoing,'I think people subconsciously like to believe in conspiracy theories because it gives them a sense of control and understanding of a world that has become too complex for the average person to fully understand'
What an absolute crock of crackpot psychology. What we understand is all of this is a lie.
I think the reason folks believe so easily in conspiracy "theories" is because history so readily proves reason to be suspicious of government! I used to give the benefit of the doubt. Now, well, like government treats its own US citizens, guilty until proven innocent. (ever been audited?)
There is much controversey regarding the 9/11 investigations. And gov't officials don't seem interested in continuing research pertaining to the worst "war" crime against the US in history. If there is nothing to hide, then continue the investigations!!!
Cloned farm animals have been approved by the FDA as "safe" for human consumption (when there is NO reason to be cloning farm animals to begin with. There is NO shortage of healthy meat and the FDA's own studies along with many others show LOTS of issues with cloned animals) Genetic seeds by US companies are being forced down the throats of other countries (read Censored 2008) and devestating their farming communities! We've had dangerous genetic crops, i.e. Roundup ready corn, for quite a while. Our gov't is allowing us to EAT poison, why shouldn't we believe they are spraying it in the air now as well?
The FDA allows us to be used as guinea pigs. They protect big drug companies and food companies all the time.
I could go on and on…WHY do we believe in such conspiracy theories??? PLEASE…..Give us reason NOT to.
(this site has given me pause, though….THANK YOU. I don't WANT to believe such horrendous acts are being taken by gov't against its own citizens!!)
I came upon this just recently when I began researching information regarding Morgellons because a friend of mine's sister has it! I read about it first about 5 years ago before it had a "name"…
To NOT acknowledge that possibly something is being released into our air…and a connection to this bizarre affliction is absurd. ALL possibilites should be considered.
Have you read the patent for HAARP? U. S. Patent 4,686,605. and the FAQ at http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.html
Be warned there is a disclaimer at the HAARP website advising you that you are on gov't property and will be watched! The day after I was on that site I got a message from my McAfee that a program was trying to download to intercept and redirect my computer data! And I should NOT be suspicious of the gov't????!!!!
You've got a live one here, my friend. Can't wait to get a response!
You'd mentioned how clear the HAARP site is on another thread..I'm merging that comment into my response now to explain why I believe chemtrails could be real.
Yes, the HAARP site IS quite clear: they state it is not for military operational use, yet the military requested its construction and manages it. That doesn't make sense.
The patent # 4,686,605 for this "device" states Under the "Claims" section:
2. The method of claim 1 including the step of providing artificial particles in said at least one region which are excited by said electron cyclotron resonance.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein said artificial particles are provided by injecting same into said at least one region from an orbiting satellite.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said threshold excitation of electron cyclotron resonance is about 1 watt per cubic centimeter and is sufficient to cause movement of a plasma region along said diverging magnetic field lines to an altitude higher than the altitude at which said excitation was initiated.
It further states;
injecting charged particles from a satellite carrying a payload of radioactive beta-decay material or alpha emitters; and injecting charged particles from a satellite-borne electron accelerator.
AND it says:
It has also been proposed to release large clouds of barium in the magnetosphere so that photoionization will increase the cold plasma density, thereby producing electron precipitation through enhanced whistler-mode interactions.
NO, this is not a "smoking gun"…..just building a case. It certainly is cause for suspicion. If it was proposed to release "artificial particles" via satellite, why NOT use planes? Even in a court of law, enough circumstantial evidence can result in a guilty verdict. AND, like in a court of law, if the "accused" is shown to lie about other things, it lends to their character.
You didn't respond to the patent that states a proposal for releasing barium clouds…….
I wonder if the "excitement" in the sky they conduct is visible?
We had a sky full of clouds with squared off edges that fit perfectly into eachother…horizon to horizon. I'd never seen anything quite like it. The spaces between the jagged clouds were the same width as the clouds. As the clouds left the area, there was a definite "pattern" at the edge of the cloud line as well.
I felt like I'd stepped onto an X-Files set. I sent copies to two of our local meteorologists and never got a response.
When I saw the explanation of "dropping a stone into a fast moving stream. The ripples caused by the stone are very quickly lost in the rapidly moving water and, a little farther down the stream, are completely undetectable." I got chills, because the clouds DID look a lot like a ripple effect.
I just saw another patent regarding releasing a metalic substance in an attempt to reflect sun and offset global warming. USPatent 5,003,186. That one DOES call for using planes/jet fuel.
And a question: At 30 miles up, would gravity pull particles toward earth?
Thanks for the info. That link you gave for "ripple clouds" ARE similar to what I saw. I appreciate the reference materials. I've seen small sections of clouds looking like that before, but not an entire sky's worth with jagged little "rays" on the edge.
They were quite amazing to see. Perhaps it may be more in the way of proof of intellegent design…(only not of human form) :o) It was beautiful, yet eerie.
Ah, yes, my friend but somebody MAKES nature!! ;o) To think this all happened from some "Big Bang" or accident is like saying a print factory exploded and resulted in the Webster's dictionary.
I'll definitely look at the Cloud Appreciation Society. And I'm still not TOTALLY convinced that there ISN'T something sinister going on. There seems to be an awful lot of conversation regarding it, from all over the world. It warrants some investigation. I'm just trying to weigh all sides and quit freaking out everytime I look at the sky! LOL.
Good site, it challenges people to really use the brain! In fact I am convinced that artificial trails (=purposely created) exist for real. Yes, the author of this site is right for the most trails which for real are natural and not artificial. But if just only one trail is artificial all the epistemic castle would fall down in a nano-second…..
Chemtrails: this is a global wide psy-operation to make the most sensible, critic, intelligent and not submitted people to waste their time with the nose in the sky. It works in this way, (thanks the helps of an army of psychologists, psychiatrists, experts in social communication, etc.): some aircrafts spread some water at un-usual altitude or in an un-usual geometry. Then a particular social layer of people (the one I talked above) will find in the web all the 'conspiracy' sites backed by the same agencies (see the psy expert above) who are doing the aerial comedy (I call them no Chemtrails but Showtrails). As explanations they'll find every kind of theory, as what matters is: to make waste the psychical energy in a wrong direction. This is a normal way to proceed by govt. agencies, which work always using the psy-warfare manuals, expecially the ones based on Sun Tzu not conventional warfare. It works fine 100%, guaranteed by Adolph and Stalin!
So even if people are wrong (as regard my particular conviction about the goals of artificial trails who is a giant psy-op) as I don't believe in HAARP or similar, I support all their 'conspiracy theories' because they are expression of FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE, something that from day to day is more and more dangerously lacking. The most fine strategy to kill FREEDOM OF SPEECH /COSNCIENCE is to call it with a terminology taken from the world of the Nazi psychiatry: "YOU DON'T HAVE RIGHT TO SUSPECT OF YOUR GOVERMENT AND TO EXPRESS IT BECAUSE SUSPECTING YOUR GOVERMENT IS A SIGN OF MENTAL ILLNESS".
Is it the Psycho-Bolschevik regime of New World Order?
Best regards – avles.
Many fact finding and life treatening problems started from conspiracy theories. It's good and healthy to think.
What about the woman who fought for MTBE additive being dangerous? She was touted as a nut right from the beginning. Thankfully someone paid attention. But tha't only one small step for human-kind.
On the Conkemtrails. Please produce some photographs prior to 1999 showing this anomally or 'phenonenom'. How can flight patterns produce waffle-like grids of contrails in the sky? Scientifically why are there huge X's in the sky for as long as the eye can see? I'd love to here the explanations to this. Let's go…
According to professors aren't Ionospheric heaters able to artificially move the ionosphere lower or higher, this being part of the experiments. I have read some on this and watched some science documentaries on this, they could be all wrong though.
The HAARP experiments interact with the ionosphere. The ionosphere begins 30 miles above the surface of the earth and extends up to around 250 miles. The highest passenger jets fly at about 10 miles (with the vast majority at around 4-6 miles).
Hi unicus,
As a commercial pilot, I cannot believe how people with so little meteorological knowledge can claim they know all about cloud formation.
I was watching the wonderful shot movie "Les Chevaliers du Ciel (Skyfighters)", when I came across a very nice example of gaps in contrails.
In this clip at 1:36 you can see 2 Mirage 2000's producing contrails. As the one on the right moses to air with different propeties the contrail disappears, only to appear again when he moves back.
haha 99% of ppl who believe in chemtrails think they know everything about meteorology, or yet seem they think they do. try asking them technical stuff and they have no clue. they just verbaly take it off subject with a stupid remark.
I think you got it spot-on why people do believe these things.
But they are hard to 'debunk', since they're never really proven by the people themselves.
They observe 2 totally different things (contrails that stay for a while and increased pollution) and then they link those two things together without any argumentative basis.
Then they move on by: "prove me wrong." While to be scientifically correct, they should first of all prove themselves right.
And naturally, it is impossible to prove them wrong, since any reputable source like scientific institutions, government institutes of all kinds, people with who actually are real experts on the issue ofc are part of the conspiracy. People like you who can give fairly straightforward explanations must be bought by government or are "sheep".
But any person that clearly says he isn't familiar with the subject, but took sciences classes and 'knows' it can't be natural is ofc unbiased prove, people who do some observations while they don't even know that 1 milligram isn't 10 microgram, but 1000 microgram are scientific observers…
They call themselves critics, but they don't notice the obvious mistake in readings?
I'm so extremely happy that you're doing this, at least one piece of common sense on the internet.
I hope you keep it up, it really is enjoying to see someone point out obvious faults in their 'science' and giving the straightforward explanations that can actually sustain real scientific critique.
Kind regards,
Very interesting discussion. You can find out inmediately about the topic if you take a large metal pipe (more than a meter we would recommend) and point it directly into your dizzy and strange skies.
After less than a day your skies will start changing. You will recover blue parts, you will recover nice sunlight, you will recover soft and contínuos raining. This just with a pipe. If you build your own chembuster or cloudbuster a bit more professionally, then these results will appear quicker, and even clearer to you.
But even a large metal pipe, pointing into the chemtrails, will cut them within minutes.
Find out about the truth. Just find a stupid metal pipe and have some fun.
German Military admitting they use chemtrails earlier this year. Was on the German main news earlier this year. Chemtrails dont exist he he well i guess you fucked it up bigtime Mr "Clandenstine"
Hi there, thanks for the site.
was wondering if you would be ready to spread the discussion a bit!
There is indeed a lot of concern about global warming — globally The scientific lobby clearly has to find the answers itself. As per my analysis and models, the primary player is water vapor itself. Its concentration goes on increasing exponentially with temperature, and absorption with concentration. Hence the rate at which the planet is heating itself up is but proportional to the exponent of its temperature! On the other hand diffusivity falls exponentially with temperature, which means (exponentially) more hetrogenous distribution of this vapor/temperature, meaning higher probability of a convection current sending this heat out of the atmosphere.
It all comes out to mean that the probability of the next ice age showing up in the style depicted in the movie 'the day after tomorrow', increases exponentially with — time.
I guess everyone feels so much better now — thank me — the scientist with good news for all.
yes buddies — good news for all — 'you cant fight em, join em'. Who ever suggested controlling the climate? lets just play along. Vapor can give us heat, convection (wind), and evaporation can give us (local) cooling — so whats keeping us?
I assembled a commercial design of mist being sprayed in the air passing a wind turbine, the temperature gradients and density change introducing convection: increasing wind speed. The last piece of the jigsaw i need is the variation of humidity/vapor pressure/dewpoint with altitude. So far I have a model which takes up the data for any city and lets you know how economical is how much of a setup going to be. In cold areas you won't appreciate the cold dewpoint wind yet the same would be an extra treat if your area is above the 25C mark. The energy is delivered as wind before the turbine converts it to more usefull electricity — so you might already define some limit on how much wind can you live with.
Control over wind speed gives you steady generation — as compared to the normal practice of waiting for the wind to blow. The only variable you have to adjust then is the mist flux you are spraying (kg/s) — and then this consumes (a part of) the increase in generation.
The technology is free — no patents claimed, no carbon released. cost effectiveness (net W/m2) increases with (turbine) blade length.
hi. i wanted to know can a short-lived contrail form above a persistent contrail?
i do not care for contrails at all, because i am not a scientist. However why in the world are there so many JETS flying other Chicago in a CHECKERBOARD pattern? What is the logical reason that JETS have to fly about twice a day (9am – 11 am) and then 4-6pm, with occasional 1 – 2 day breaks? That was not the case until last year.. i live here since 2004 and do sky photography of clouds a lot… and last fall is when i started to notice these strange JET patterns
@Uncinus: You misunderstood the question. I do not care for the contrails. I care for the checkerboard patterns that are NOT normal
besides, 12 or > jets in the sky at the same time on routine bases could not be ordinary.. Planes yes – JETS that fly faster than speed of sound – no. Just concerned, because those are military jets and thats citizens tax money burned in hundreds of thousands weekly, just over Chicago
because by the time sound reaches the ground, the jet is long gone out of sight – simple conclusion, the speed of the JET is faster than sound, no other evidence required. I am not concerned with commercial flights from the map you provided. Considering the image to appear on life magazine cover, and in the Getty images – it's not something you would see daily in the 70's. Even eight years back seeing a military jet would be a hell of a sight. So what's your point, come again?
oh and your link is a fake.. you grabbed the image id straight from the getty images and input it into the life magazine. Here 's a little tutorial how to do just that nifty trick: go to http://www.gettyimages.com/Creative
in search box type in jet, pick out any jet image (i choose the one with lady waiving a rag) and click it. In the pop-up find the ID (heres an example of the string which contains it – http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/200335636-002/Stone?axd=DetailPaging.Generic|1&axs=0|85375635%2c200………abrvted the # 200335636-002 is an id.. now go and input that into the link of life magazine image GRABBER http://www.life.com/image/72931188?xid=embedimage72931188 change the ID our friend Uncinus used to the image we are grabbing http://www.life.com/image/200335636-002?xid=embedimage200335636-002) – VOILA end result http://www.life.com/image/200335636-002?xid=embedimage200335636-002 ………!!!!!!!!
now try and prove that it was on the cover of the 1970 edition of life magazine
something faulty in your scientific methods .. smells like you are a deceiver
according to your logic all images on getty site were in life magazine at some point?
oh almost forgot – the smel….. l delicious
am.. seems like you are an admin i cannot use html here…
well i do not trust anything you have to say any further .. i will await until the image that i've submitted gets cached and search for it … to verify your statement. Read the comments to answer your question. I do not dispute it's from 1970
hmm.. what were the keywords for your search?
you're right /… there should be grids
reason for my concerns was not seeing these over chicago until the past year and a half.. maybe i just noticed them at that time
Unicinus, you seem to have an answer for everyone:
If the government is spraying in the ionosphere and manipulating some 30 miles above where planes fly, doesn't that still impact our system? Also, if they are manipulating there, why wouldn't they be doing similar work below, with planes instead of satellites?
Do they have to display there actions on an FAQ online for it to be possible that they would do this? Also, I understand having scientifical evidence to back this up and prove it right or wrong, but we are stuck here bound by gravity and the ones privelaged enough are the ones up there experimenting. How could we prove it? Seems we only have what they tell us, unless you have the capability to do such scientific experimenting.
Uncinus, you seem to have an answer for everyone
Hey B, you seem to have a question for everyone.
If the government is spraying in the ionosphere and manipulating some 30 miles above where planes fly
That's a difficult spot to reach. It could be only be done by sounding rocket from below. Such rockets are always visible, and would always get a mention in the news – unless they were very small, and launched into an overcast daylight.
If your concern is about putting a small cloud of metal ions into the ionosphere to test radio reflectivity, that would be a matter of a few pounds of material and entirely inconsequential compared the area and volume of the planet.
doesn't that still impact our system?
Also, if they are manipulating there
Manipulating what?
why wouldn't they be doing similar work below, with planes instead of satellites?
They cannot be using satellites. These fly outside the atmosphere. If they flew through it, they would be slowed by it, and fall out of orbit. Orbital satellites do so eventually when the reaction fuel used to orientate the satellite gets used up. They are hardly likely to contain other materials to be "dispensed". I can't ever recall a 'tanker' satellite…
If you're talking "chemtrails" – persistent contrails are composed of ICE. They are frequently visible on radar screens.
Do they have to display their actions on an FAQ online for it to be possible that they would do this?
No. But they cannot 'invisibly' launch rockets either. And every pound of payload is accounted for. Military excepted.
Also, I understand having scientific evidence to back this up and prove it right or wrong, but we are stuck here bound by gravity and the ones priviledged enough are the ones up there experimenting.
The only people experimenting 'up there' are in the International Space Station.
How could we prove it? Seems we only have what they tell us
Prove what? What they tell us is in agreement with what we see!
For goodness sake, get one of those HEPA air filtration devices and test your own air.
For goodness sake, get one of those HEPA air filtration devices and test your own air.
Please remember when you have it tested that there is no way possible to link the pollutants in a ground level sample to anything you see over your head where contrails form. This point seems to baffle so many on "chemtrail" sites, who routinely sample ground level air and water and base their assertions that "heavy spray days" ,when lots of contrails are visible and persist, are actually polluting their backyard. You can't even link what might be in a rain drop directly to an exhaust plume. To find out what is in a contrail, you must sample the trail itself.
I read an interesting article about conspiracy theorists brain patterns. It mentioned something about how people who fall victim to these crazy beliefs tend to use a different part of their brain for reasoning.
They have something in that part of the brain that releases dopamine when they think they discover patterns in otherwise random occurrences.
I wish I could find that article again. It really made you go hmmm. They do seem to get excited when they learn about some new link that they feel proves their point, and allows them to disregard actual proof.
Av8er: here are some links:
Psychology Today:
Krzysztof Kieślowski:
Textbook of biological psychiatry By Jaak Panksepp:
When analogue TV goes the way of the dodo such people are going to be deprived of the "no signal" visual screen noise, which digital technology has sidestepped…
There must be some link with optical illusions in general, but the rotating cube illusion (it goes either way but some people insist only one way) must also be connected, I think.
I've been to this site pretty much recently, researching discussiion of chemtrails on other boards. It's a great resource…and now, perusing some of the comment sections, I am seeing a lot of the same claims.
Thanks for the site…will recommend it to all.
I found this in ten seconds, I can keep finding more evidence that the governments do experiment on populations.
Hope this helps.
"I really should write a post on this."
Yes, please do. There are so many people that believe the well documented testing in the UK, is somehow proof that the lines we see in the sky today are full of chemicals. That is much more than a stretch in logic! It's an assumption with zero evidence to support it yet so many people present the UK tests as "in your face!" proof! I'm not even saying that "the government" is NOT spraying things in the atmosphere. I'm saying that persistent contrails are not EVIDENCE of any such program. The science that explains persistent contrails is basic and simple. Some people don't trust science/scientists and assume they are lying about contrails but, in this case the science is unquestionable! When a jet engine burns fuel in varying atmospheric conditions, persistent contrails will or will not appear BASED on those conditions.
I guess it's just easier to point to the sky and claim "the government is doing that!". That way, the science becomes less important.
I really should write a post on this.
The man to contact is "Icewhale". I believe you know of him. He seems to have amassed a wealth of detail on the subject.
I took this picture of several broken contrails south of Anaconda MT. Within a few hours thunderstorms began to build up. The same pattern happened the previous day, persistent broken contrails in the morning followed by thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Don- nice picture…Montana sure is beautiful…
persistent contrails are often found preceding weather fronts as the moisture increases in advance of the front…
The chemtrailers are whining for some more broken contrail evidence from pre 1997…*sigh*
Now they want video evidence filmed IN america, from before 1997.
Does anyone know of any?
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Cloud seeding exists and happens everyday. Look into the chemicals used and how toxic they are.
Look into scalar wave technology too while your at it. You cannot pull the wool over the sheeples eyes any longer!
Once again they're spraying the shit all over the sky here on the west coast while banking and doing bizzare manoeuvres.No plane shows up on flight tracker to correspond with these chemtrail sprayers.Full zoom with a 200x video camera shows aircraft identified 100% as a Boeing stratotanker.several chemtrails this morning have grown to several miles wide.how anyone can continue to peddle their mumbo jumbo bullshit to explain this shit away as normal and constantly berating and belittling people who know dam well this bullshit is going on in the sky is mind boggling.you're not fooling anybody with your bullshit explanations.
Uuhhhhhhhhh sure absolutely.6-8 Boeing stratotankers doing formation flying,holding paterns,refueling over Vancouver island, georgia straight,YVR,Fraser valley.that's just as disturbing as any conspiracy idea.none of these tankers are on flight tracker.
Overheard over the panhandle of Texas today:
ZFW (fortworth center)- "Gaser One (local air refueler), how many are in your flight (formation) and where do you want to go?"
Gaser One- "Gaser One is a flight of three and we'd like the Abeline 360 at 30 block 200 to 250."
ZFW- "Gaser One and flight I can can give you block 200 to 250 but you need to remain within 25 miles of point Bravo."
Gaser One- "understand 25 miles of Bravo and we'll be joining Mustang 20 and flight and point Bravo"
ZFW- Roger advise leaving point Bravo.
Mustang and flight had checked on as a flight of six- that would bring everyone in that area to a total of 9. And that was just practice aerial refueling.
Hmm, what's more likely, airplanes flying common patterns and manuveurs, or a vast, yet secret conspiracy poisoning everyone with clouds that look and act just like regular clouds? Well….
If you have to ask then you are part of the conspiracy!!
Since coming across the site several days ago I've been paying more attention to the sky and whether or not contrails are forming. (As the "chemtrailers" say, I've been "LOOKING UP"! ) It being the middle of summer here, there haven't been many persisting ones, but I was super excited to see a persistant contrail being formed yesterday evening across a patch of cirrus clouds. As the plane reached the edge of the patch of clouds, the trail abruptly stopped. It was fun to see the science you and your commenters have described being displayed right overhead.
Here's a pair of broken contrails east of Missoula Mt. Given that the wind aloft was from the west, you would think the evil chemtrail sprayers would have started spraying sooner. http:[email protected]/7933037674/in/photostream
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Yes but do you have proof for all of that? And most of those words have been addressed here in previous posts. Sesquipedalian isn't even possible though. Fun.
Thank you very much for explanation.I learn much about contrail.
How contrail make different colors?
How can you tell if an aircraft is ascending or descending by looking at the contrail?
^^ With no other frame of reference, like from a pic of the sky, and no visible planes. Like after the fact, from a pic, how can you tell?
Tough to tell without other references. Easy to infer though.
OK so how?
What characteristics should I be looking at to make such an inference?
I would look for changes in contrail formation, obvious penetrations of cloud layers, knowledge of probable points of descent on popular arrivals. its pretty hard to see these events, I'll admit. What are you trying to determine?
Not sure if that pic will show up. Heres the link.
Can you tell if these are ascending or descending?
no- i can't but i would confidently say they are not. or at least the most dominant ones are not. looks like lots of level flight to me.
that last comment was from me by the way
go and study a bit of geo engineering and then come on that talck on contrails…hehehe…selling ignorance instead of information…people believe on what they see with their eyes…and they have memorie…there is a lot of people in the world that likes observing nature and notices the diferences…and if you study a bit, not this personalized approac to the so called science, that is worst fundamentaed the many crazy conspiracy blogues…go and study Keith, caldeira, the work of the council of foreign relations, the meetings of UN about clima change and clima engineering…don´t spread ignorance and mesinformation because this is why a lot of people gets crazy on the subjects…this is no better then the crazy theories sites…and it´s fulled of crazy personalized theories…go and study athomsferical condensation, the effects of aerossol, on moisteur and on diferente hights, go na study abou the cloud albedo enahncement….then talck about things…this is no more then ridiculous…
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Voter turnout, however, is expected to be low for the runoff election between Eric Jackson and Paul Perez, who are seeking to become the first elected mayor since Tony Mack was convicted on federal corruption charges and ousted from the post in February.
Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, predicted that turnout will be less than in the May 13 municipal election, when 26 percent of the 38,736 registered voters cast ballots in the race that selected Perez and Jackson from among six candidates.
"Runoffs always have lower turnout than the initial election," Murray said. "People feel they made their choice already. They feel that they did their duty."
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Last week's primary battle for the right to be the Democratic Party candidate in the congressional race for the 12th District House seat being vacated by Rep. Rush Holt had candidates looking to get out the vote with multiple robo calls and campaign literature.
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This problem is not unique to Trenton, Murray said; low turnout in runoff elections occurs regardless of whether the election is in a suburban or urban community.
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It was far from the first contest win for the 45-year-old Pleasant Hill man. Just last year, The Oregonian wrote about Starr when he won the Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off in Gervais.
Back then, the stay-at-home dad said that giant pumpkin growing is "a subculture that most people don't know about. You won't find a grower who doesn't admit we're crazy. We tear out trees, dig up grass and turn our backyards into giant pumpkin patches. Our pastime is driving around looking for piles of manure to haul back."
This year, the Gervais winner, Steve Daletas, posted an even bigger number than Starr: 1,779 pounds.
In 2011, the title for the world's heaviest pumpkin went to a Canadian, who trucked his winner to New York, where it weighed in at 1,818 pounds.
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This year, the goal was met when the world record fell — twice, in fact — in the last week. Ron Wallace of Greene, R.I., whose pumpkin weighed in at a whopping 2,009 pounds, netted $5,500 for first place and another $10,000 as a bonus for breaking the one-ton mark.
Just a few days earlier, a pumpkin grown by Steve Geddes of Boscawen, N.H., weighed in at 1,843.50 pounds at the Deerfield Fair in New Hampshire. Organizers claimed then that Geddes' gourd had broken the world record — a title the surely disappointed Geddes held for all of four days.
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When the cold chill has set in during the dead of winter, I start to get anxious and crave the foods of late spring and summer. There's only so much soup, stews, pasta, and heavy dishes I can take before I lose my mind. To alleviate some of that angst, I try to find ways to make my favorite warm-weather dishes inside sans grill.
At some point along the way I came up with this recipe for a spice-rubbed chicken breast that has all the flavors of barbecue without all that heavy, gooey sauce weighing it down. Call me nutty, but if we are having BBQ chicken, I insist on coleslaw and corn on the side. You can choose to serve sides of your choosing that might be more appropriate for winter, but trust-you-me this chicken is good year round!
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Preheat oven to 350˚F. Coat a 9x9 glass baking dish with cooking spray; set aside.
Combine first 8 ingredients in a bowl. Add lemon juice and stir to make a thick paste.
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"The ladies love it," Wilson says smiling.
Bartender Jamie Anema, Wilson's sidekick at Hops & Barley, says that's something she cannot refute. The drink seems to draw in a crowd entirely on its own.
"He is known for his chocolate martinis," Anema admits.
Located at the former Charlie Brown's Steakhouse in Alpha, Hops & Barley has slowly but surely been finding its niche in the area since opening in early August, owner Paul Louie says.
With features ranging from drink and wings specials on game days to a full array of sushi offerings, Louie says the restaurant has carved out a place for locals and newcomers alike.
"We've started to develop our core customers," says Louie.
The bar, manned by Wilson and Anema, has been one of the biggest successes, Louie says.
The bar also features a German-style beer brewed exclusively for the restaurant and its sister location in Titusville, N.J. It's Louie's own recipe.
Wilson, a bartender at the former Charlie Brown's prior to starting at Hops & Barley, says that customers appreciate the community atmosphere the restaurant is trying to establish.
Of all the drinks Wilson regularly makes, he claims the Hops & Barley Chocolate Martini is by far his most special. Admittedly a "dessert drink," Wilson says the only requirement to enjoying one is harboring a love of chocolate.
The drink is started in a shaker with one part each of Kahlua, Bailey's Irish Cream, Van Gogh Dutch Chocolate Vodka and Godiva Chocolate Liqueur.
A splash of half-and-half and a drop of chocolate syrup is added to the shaker prior to mixing. The result -- a chocolaty goodness of sorts -- is poured into a chocolate-rimmed martini glass with a fresh-cut strawberry for garnish.
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Hey, I strongly reccomend you to go to a clinic with CAESAR.
He came to Peru a few months ago to give us a freestyle clinic and we really learned a lot of him. He is not only a great person, is a great instructor and also a great freestyler and innovator.
Also...he left us a lot of motivation for freestyling.
Before he came I was complicated finishing my vulcans, and trying some spocks and grubbies. Today I can finish them and also like a lot light wind freestyle because let me learn freestyling and use of the sail when there is no wind.
I Hope he comes back this year later for a second clinic.
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Resurfacing on South East Loop 286 AND US 271
Drivers in the Paris area should look out for work zones and lane closures starting Feb. 19, as South East Loop 286 at the US 271 South interchange will be resurfaced.
Crews will remove old pavement, repair joints, improve drainage and add new striping and reflectors. The project is expected to be complete at the end of March 2014.
This work will require the temporary closure of two ramps at the interchange. These two ramp closures will be for southbound US 271 traffic exiting right on to northbound Loop 286 and a closure of northbound loop traffic when merging with northbound US 271 traffic. Once the pavement surface is removed, some sections of the existing pavement will be repaired and some underdrains will be constructed. This portion of the work should take two weeks to complete. After these activities are complete, the resurfacing operation will begin.
During the resurfacing work phase, there will be a ramp closure for southbound loop traffic exiting right on Clarksville Street. Separately, there will be a closure of the ramp for southbound US 271 traffic exiting right on to northbound Loop 286, and a closure of northbound loop traffic when merging with northbound US 271 traffic. Each closure will have a clearly signed detour.
All temporary ramp closures will be short term and all sections of the interchange will be open to traffic by the end of each day. It is very important that all traffic signs are obeyed. There will be flaggers present to hold traffic as needed.
This work is a complex operation which involves many people and several pieces of heavy equipment. For both the safety of drivers and the workers on site, TxDOT asks drivers to slow down and avoid distraction. Access to adjacent properties will be maintained throughout the duration of work.
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With the Red Bulls having tied the score on Fabian Espindola's second penalty kick of the game with one minute to play, midfielder Dax McCarty should have been sitting back in front of the defense and protecting a much-needed point.
Instead, he took a chance, and Red Bull Arena was never louder.
McCarty's diving header off a beautiful cross from Brandon Barklage in extra time capped a stunning comeback from what appeared to be a crushing loss at home, and the Red Bulls came away with a 4-3 victory over Real Salt Lake in a game that saw four goals scored in the final 10 minutes and momentum change with each one.
"(Coach) Mike (Petke) is probably really happy with me right now, but I don't think he was happy after the third goal when I was running into the box," a smiling McCarty said. "He said 'I know we're at home, but sit in front of the back four. We can't give up another goal. We have to be smart about this.' I saw Eric Alexander sitting a little bit, and when the ball was getting worked out wide I thought I'd give it a go. Why not, there were only a couple of minutes to go."
"It was a great ball by Brandon and I figured I'd just channel my inner Tim Cahill and stick my head where it didn't belong. Luckily I got good contact.
"You close your eyes and good things happen."
The victory, combined with Montreal's 1-0 win over Sporting Kansas City, kept the Red Bulls (10-7-5) tied with the Impact for second place in the Eastern Conference, one point behind SKC. The Red Bulls have a showdown at SKC on Saturday after Wednesday night's All-Star Game in Kansas City.
"It's thrilling for one second, then it's agony the next second, and then you're trying to find a way (to win)," Petke said.
For the majority of the game it didn't appear any last-second moves or heroics would be necessary. The Red Bulls went ahead, 2-0, within 23 minutes on Cahill's diving header off a Thierry Henry cross in the 11th minute and Espindola's initial penalty kick.
A shot by Henry in the 38th minute that would have killed the game hit the post and RSL (11-7-4) cut the deficit in half just before the break on a penalty kick by Alvaro Saborio.
Still, the Red Bulls were in control. But Saborio, who was playing his first game since his return from the Gold Cup after Costa Rica was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Honduras, stunned the crowd of 18,604 with goals in the 80th and 82nd minutes to complete his hat trick and seemingly put the Western Conference leaders in control.
It was a tremendous effort by Saborio and RSL, which was playing without four starters: goalkeeper Nick Rimando, midfielder Kyle Beckerman and defender Tony Beltran, who are with the U.S. national team for today's Gold Cup final against Panama in Chicago, and defender Chris Wingert, who was suspended.
"They came up with five minutes (of stoppage time) so you know you have time to win it," Henry said, "and Dax won it for us."


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Robert Pattinson has always said he wants kids, and now he's gotten his wish! Brothers Mason and Liam Gonzalesare two of the lucky little boys cast to play the Twilight star's sons in his upcoming film, Water For Elephants!
"They play two of Robert Pattinson's kids in the movie," momSonya Gonzales told Chattanooga's News Channel 9 of 7 year-old Mason and 5 year-old Liam.
Director Francis Lawrence assured Sonya that her sons' scene are an important part of the film's ending and she should definitely expect to see her kids on the big screen. They play just two of Depression-era veterinarian Jacob Jankowski's five children.Rob, 24, wrapped his latest flick in Chattanooga, Tennessee August 3. The film, which also co-stars Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, is expected to premiere on April 15, 2011.
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How do I respond to this FB message?
I agree. Don't respond at all and I would go so far as to DELETE DELETE DELETE.
How very disrespectful of him =/
he probably thought you were having trouble in your marriage. I would tell him your flattered but happily married. if he questions your status which he probably thought you meant you wanted out of your marriage , just tell him you meant you had a bad day. if he continues to hit on you just delete him from your list and block him. one guy on my list even after I asked him nicely to stop flirting with me he got worse and my bf was getting pissed. even a friend told him on my wall he was being rude to me and my bf by continuing to flirt even though I asked him to stop, he got even worse. SO I had to delete and block him.
I am sure yours was just a mis understanding. Just let him know you are happliy married.
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Each day, every teen in the Snoqualmie Valley community has a place to go.
At the Snoqualmie Valley Y, teens can hang out in the After Zone, daily from 3 to 5 p.m. for no cost. It's a time for youth in grades 6 to 10 to unwind from a long day at school—play Xbox, Ping-Pong, get help with homework, or just kick back and chill with old friends and new ones. YMCA staff will be present to answer questions and connect with teens on a daily basis.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, following After Zone, teens can get pumped for Sno Valley Squad. The Squad will include intentional based programming for teens 12 years old and older. Be ready for Pickle Ball, Ping Pong Tournaments, Duct Tape Art, Basketball, Graffiti Art and many other progression type programming throughout the school year. If youth are into getting out, being active and engaging in new activities and sports, this is something to be a part of.
If your teen is interested in leadership opportunities, there are new and exciting opportunities available. Winter break field trips, Y-Riders Snowboarding and other fall-winter activities are also in the works, so be on the look-out.
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By Amy Cherry 9:21am, June 12, 2013 - Updated 2:19pm, June 12, 2013
WDEL's Amy Cherry talks with KidsHealth Medical Editor Dr. Mary Gavin.Kids need to be more physically active and parents want it that way.
WDEL's Amy Cherry has more in this week's WDEL Delaware EducationWatch.
99 percent of parents and teachers say they'd like to see mandatory gym class in school and that their schools aren't doing enough to promote health and wellness.
That's the findings of a new poll by KidsHealth at Nemours that surveyed more than 1,100 parents and educators.
"Most schools do not have daily physical education and many schools do not have health education or have minimal health education requirements," says pediatrician Dr. Mary Gavin.
Gavin, who's also the medical editor for KidsHealth, says funding is the main issue.
"It's a matter of priorities. Academic requirements in school are pushing out things like physical education and health education," and music and the arts, adds Gavin.
The recommendation is for kids to have at least one hour of physical activity a day -- and in most schools, gym is only two or three times a week, and much of that hour is spent changing or explaining the rules. Lack of physical education in schools is helping feed the obesity epidemic nationwide.
"If they're not doing anything in the school, it becomes very difficult for parents to get the kids out moving every day," Dr. Gavin says.
Studies show students who are physically active do better in school. The survey didn't take into account how kids feel about gym class, but KidsHealth hopes to look at that next...
"When I ask kids what's their favorite subject, they typically say gym and recess," she says with a smile.
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Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain sent to prison today two men involved in the Sept. 26 armed robbery of a Jackson convience store.
Earl Howard, 21, was sentenced to 13 to 20 years in prison for armed robbery and felony firearms.
McBain then sentenced one of Howard's four co-defendants, Joseph Gray, 18, to 4 years and 9 months to 15 years in prison for unarmed robbery.
Gray earlier pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in exchange for his testimony against the others.
Investigators alleged both were involved in the armed robbery last fall of the B&S Convience Store at 1000 E. Ganson St.
Two others already have been sentenced in the case. The last defendant, Jason Boone, 27, will be sentenced next week.
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Publisher SEGA disclosed new information regarding the gravity mechanics, characters, vehicles and multiplayer in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
Players will have 18 characters to choose from as they race through the game's 16 courses. All characters will have the ability to rack up Gravity Points through tricks and challenges. Players can manipulate gravity after accumulating a set number of Gravity Points, riding along walls as if they were part of the track and grinding on objects like cars for extra speed.
Zero Gravity will allow players to switch vehicles during gameplay. The normal air board, for instance, can transform into a motorcycle or hover craft. Players will be able to customize their vehicles as they see fit, which will be important towards discovering hidden routes.
Multiplayer in Zero Gravity will consist of three modes: Free Race, World Grand Prix and Survival. SEGA did not detail these modes explicitly, but did mention that Wii owners will also be able to download ghost data and race against top riders.
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Audits can last anywhere from 1 day to 3 weeks depending on the type of audit being performed. In addition to typical audits, such as yearly GMP assessments by clients and regulatory authorities, contract organizations can also be tasked with "for-cause" audits by inspectors due to customer complaints or product recalls. Clients might also decide to perform a "for-cause" audit if the contract organization manufactured a number of lots with associated investigations for deviations during the manufacturing process.
To stay ahead of the audit game, contract organizations must have a system for handling audits that is efficient, consistent, and flexible. A great deal of experience among the audit team is necessary because the team must be audit ready all the time while also assuring that the company's other departments maintain an audit-ready posture. The group must have the ability to host more than one audit at a time and be able to address questions and provide documents—in a timely manner—for as many as three auditors per group. The team must also be prepared to provide some of the same information to more than one group at the same time.Admittedly, handling two separate audit groups with two to three auditors each is an unusual situation. However, let's say that a contract organization has 14 clients and each client requires an annual GMP audit. To maximize audit time, each client brings two auditors and plans for a 3-day visit. Considering that each audit requires one day of preparation and one day of follow-up activities for the contract organization, each audit ultimately takes up one week of the organization's time.
Let's also assume that the contract organization is trying to attract new business. It has five potential new clients that wish to perform a quality audit before entering into a contractual agreement. In addition, let's assume that the organization provides sterile injectable products (or a similar product) to the global market, placing it in the high-risk category of manufacturing. This classification would result in annual GMP audits from, at a minimum, the regulatory agencies of the US, Europe, and Japan. Agencies typically spend 1 to 2 weeks conducting cGMP audits.
Because contract organizations also must perform internal audits, which typically last one week and occur once a quarter, the numbers above equate to approximately 26 weeks or half of a year devoted to handling and conducting audits. This amount of time does not take into account preparation of responses to any potential audit observations or necessary follow-up activities.
To successfully accommodate all of these audits, a contract organization must maintain a full-time contingent. Organizations must be aware that the time commitment entails more than preparing and hosting audit groups. Each audit could easily take 4 to 5 weeks when considering preparation, hosting functions (both escorting and staging room activities), responses, and followup.
In addition, the organization must have a unique layer of resources to manage internal cGMP audit programs, which are required by regulators to ensure that each facility has a process for meeting compliance. Typically, these resources are passed on to customers as part of the cost for a contracted operation.
Given these expectations, there seems to be an opportunity for industry to work with consortiums such as Rx–360 or the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Auditing (IPEA) program to share audits and thereby ease overall costs and time tied to the audits. Moving in the direction of shared audits, however, requires more consistent interpretations and expectations, general acceptance of responses, and perhaps a certification process. Companies using contract services must be willing to share their audit programs and compromise on what should be the ideal approach to assessing GMP compliance of contract organizations. They must agree to a set of criterion to be consistently applied for auditing and they must be somewhat consistent in their interpretation of the regulations. This would allow contract organizations to be able to maintain a robust quality system that is suitable for multiple clients. The use of shared audits has been discussed for quite a while and it seems that Rx–360 and IPEA have started down the road of solving the problem for raw-material suppliers. Let's hope they agree to continue with the process and help out contract organizations in the same manner.
Susan J. Schniepp is vice-president of quality at OSO Biopharmaceuticals and a member of the Pharmech Editorial Advisory Board, [email protected]


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I'll admit, I am not a big fish person. I do love most shellfish (ah, lobster!!), but when it comes to fish fish, I tread very carefully. Even though I know it is oh, so good for you. But over the years I have found some types of fish that I really do like, and one of them is tilapia. It's light and mild, so mild in fact that it needs to be paired with something that can dress it up and give it some pizzazz...and this great little taco dish is just the ticket. The tilapia itself is cut up into strips, breaded and popped into the oven for a a few minutes just to cook it up and brown the bread crumbs. The real prep for this dish is the fabulous peach salsa that goes with it. Chopped peaches, red onion, lime juice, jalapeno...sweet and spicy and wonderful! You tuck the tilapia strips into a nice warm tortilla, spoon some peach salsa over the top, and you are in fish taco heaven. Now, naturally I did not decide to make this until it was completely not peach season...not even my beloved Read More & Get the Recipe
Grand Central Market!!
So, I am LOVING all the recipes and suggestions you guys are sending me, and have been thinking to myself, Self, this is one of the best things that has come out of this little food blog adventure. How could life get any better? Then the Grand Central Market folks called me. Life got better. For those of you (like me) who weren't aware of this little piece of heaven in the middle of big bad New York City, it's located in the Grand Central Station terminal, and is a beautiful collection of 13 shops selling everything from wild boar salami to the best bread pudding I have ever tasted in my life, and everything in between. A few days ago they invited me down to meet some of the great folks who work there, and to sample some of the amazing treats they have to offer. We started out at Murray's Real Salami. You know you are in heaven when you are dealing with a store that only sells salami. Or to be more specific, cooked and cured meats from all over the US and Europe. I tried Read More & Get the Recipe