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As Doctors Without Borders announced last week that they're quitting Somalia after 20-plus years in the country due to an increase in violent attacks, the need for new solutions to this crisis is key. The answer to the rebel group al-Shabaab's growth in Somalia, as I discovered this month while visiting Mogadishu, can be found in the women and youth.
The real way to prevent any growth of the "Shabaab" – which, not coincidentally, means youth in Arabic – is through Somalia's youth and Somali mothers. So how will it work? As I visited various women and youth organizations doing outreach, training and empowerment throughout the country – from the Somali National Women's Organization to the Coalition for Grassroots Women Organizations to the Somali Youth Development Network – what became clear is that this critical constituency is the underfunded and under-pursued answer to countering al-Shabaab.
What I heard consistently and categorically from the women and youth above, who are courageously working to build a sustainable peace in Somalia, was that the United States wasn't supporting this important work. This is disappointing given how much the State Department and USAID emphasize the importance of empowering women, especially in Muslim countries.
The women, however, remain undeterred and continue the fight in the trenches irrespective of the violence around them. While visiting with one of Somalia's great female politicians and peace activists, Asha Elmi, who happens to be married to the Prime Minister of Somalia and who has been featured for her work to bring dignity to the women of Somalia's refugee camps, she is absolutely convinced the answer lies with the mothers.
A mother loses all influence with her child, said Elmi, after she is unable to put food on the table. Considering that Somali kids are being recruited by al-Shabaab for as little as a gift of a cell phone, a mother's ability to put food on the table is priceless. Walking through the streets of Mogadishu, not only was the poverty painfully apparent, but so too were the high numbers of youth aimlessly roaming with nothing to do. Easy pickings, then, for opposition groups keen to recruit among these disenfranchised youth.
As part of a sustained effort to improve a mother's ability to put food on the table, Somalia's female activists have made significant political headway but still have a ways to go. Somalia's constitution allocates 30 percent of the seats in parliament, but women currently fill only 12 percent of the seats – due, in part, to lack of political campaigning precedent and infrastructure.
Elmi and others reiterated the need for the international community to support women in Somalia in even the smallest of ways. Since United Nations Special Representatives to Somalia and the international community's ambassadors to Somalia have historically been men, the message being sent is one that undermines local efforts to empower capacity and promote gender equality. That must change, say Somali women on the ground, if a stable Somalia is the desired goal.
A stable Somalia's main sticking point, however, is with the youth, since they compose the large majority of the al-Shabaab fighters. The Somali Youth Development Network is working with youth at risk of being recruited by al-Shabaab, providing religious counseling, training in marketable and employable skills, help with trauma healing (for those that have witnessed violence) and rehabilitation (for those that have already engaged in violence). Reintegrating these at-risk youth back into the mainstream is no easy task.
In a meeting, the Minister of Interior noted that $18 million has been set aside, provided by the international community, to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate 3,000 former al-Shabaab fighters (most of them youth), and that 700 have successfully gone through the program. With an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 al-Shabaab fighters in total, a doubling of the available funds seems very doable. The key question is, will the international community commit to it.
Beyond rehabilitation and reintegration of youth, however, the necessary long-term work is in conflict mitigation and violence prevention, as SOYDEN has emphasized. On mitigation, they support 15-member peace committees in all of Mogadishu's 16 districts, capable of dealing with conflicts before they turn violent. Let's help them scale that up nationally. On prevention, they emphasize that it's all about jobs and socio-economic development. They couldn't be more right.
One elder minister of the parliament – as he walked me through Mogadishu's destroyed downtown infrastructure, once a beautiful colonnade of colonial-era buildings – said the answer lay here in the ruins. Why wasn't the international community helping Somalia rebuild itself, instead of throwing so much money at drones, air strikes and AMISOM military? That would provide jobs, tens of thousands of them, for years to come and for much less funding. Again, yes.
As the power outages, the dusty, muddy and potholed roads, the pervasive waste and sewage and the thousands of internally displaced persons indicated, Somalia now needs to be rebuilt and there are youth ready and willing to do it. Somalia's peace lies in Somalia's future. Time to help them put food on the table.


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The Daily News says Shiba Russell, a weekend co-anchor at ABC-owned WCVB in Boston, has told the station that she is leaving. She is reportedly is talks with WNBC to become a weekend anchor. Her contract at WCVB expires in January.
Russell was born in Boston and grew up in New Jersey. She does have TV experience in New York. Russell previously worked for Cablevision's News 12 Long Island and News 12 The Bronx. She is a graduate of the College of New Rochelle.
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Charlie Brooks was "close to death" after drinking a pint of Fairy Liquid in the hope that it might cure a bad hangover, the hacking trial at the Old Bailey has heard.
A friend of Mr Brooks, Sara Bradstock, said that she once found the former race horse trainer "frothing at the mouth" after drinking the washing up liquid. She admitted that his behaviour could at times be "completely daft".
Ms Bradstock, appearing as a character witness for Mr Brooks at the phone-hacking trial, said the charge of perverting the course of justice was "out of character" for her former housemate.
Ms Bradstock said she believed Mr Brooks was not capable of being dishonest, adding "he is kind and good company".
Mr Brooks is jointly charged with his wife, Rebekah, and former News International security staff, of hiding computers, papers and other material from officers of the Metropolitan Police's specialist unit who were investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.
Mr Brooks, and the six others involved in the trial, deny all the charges against them.
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Andrew Campbell picks out the best English labels that will swell your heart with pride this St George's Day
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Newcastle's Edwardian electricity pioneers are to be honoured in a ceremony led by the city council
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TV comedy character Lee Nelson has withdrawn his nomination to stand in the South Shields by-election
A new No Cold Calling Zone has been set up on a Tyneside estate to discourage rogue traders
Police are hunting a "wonky-eyed" man after an assault in Sunderland
The threat of a triple dip recession and its potential consequences will be examined at a public lecture at Northumbria University this month
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Baton-wielding robbers have carried out a string of frightening attacks
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A North East research centre working to improve the health of the nation is set to expand after successfully securing funding.
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Tony 'The Fridge' is pounding the fundraising trail again – running 100 miles in 24 hours to raise thousands for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation
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A family from County Durham who had to move into a portable building after lethal gas filled their home have won their court case
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Paolo Di Canio says he can get much more out of Sunderland winger Adam Johnson after last week's derby goal
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I am 5'6" and weigh about 165lbs and I am looking for the best winter wetsuit. I currently have a Xcel LS 3/2 that fits pretty well but I am looking to get a 5mil or a 4/3 for the winter. I've never used anything thicker than a 3/2 so I would prefer a suit as flexible and as warm as possible.
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Short, stock dude needs wetsuit advice...
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spend some time at your local surfshops and try on a lot of suits.. i am 5-8x190. (33" waist/44"chest) my 3/2 is a large/short bodyglove vapor and it is the best surfing product i have ever pruchased. my 5/4 is an xl quiksilver ignite. it fits well and is warm and flexible. I will definitely get a vapor 5/4 when my quik gives up the ghost.
it's sometimes kinda tough being built like a wrestler. you just gotta be patient and let the trial and error procedure lead you to suits that fit well. fit is king. btw, there are a lot of girls who go for the short/stocky type, so don't stress about that, either. i married one twenty years ago.
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I would say largeshort oniel mutant.
all i know is i love my o'neil heat it was relatively cheep and kept me toasty all winter long
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I have a similar build just larger and the mutant was the only front zip I could even consider.
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dude..i'm 5' 6", 170lbs. lean, not fat. i go medium short with my suits. Tried excel large short but the legs were still too long, had to cut like 2 - 3 inches off the legs. Just got new oneill winter suit, medium short. perfect!
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I'm 5-7 165, I've got a Hyperflex Amp 5/4/3 LS fits really well and excellent flex. Best bang for your buck.


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GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band, Nightrage, has teamed up with Revolver Magazine to launch a music video for the new track "Stare into Infinity" at: http://www.revolvermag.com/?p= 72650. The song comes from the band's upcoming sixth studio album, The Puritan, set to release on April 24 through Despotz Records.
"'Stare into Infinity' is one of my favorite songs on our new album The Puritan," guitarist Marios Iliopoulos told Revolver. "It has all those elements that are Nightrage – heavy riffs, emotional melodies and brutal vocal hooks. The whole arrangement of the song is very simplistic and in your face. The verses are very thrashy with straightforward riffs and pounding drums, creating that feeling of power and metal mayhem. The chorus is where the song really lifts up with those signature Nightrage melodic guitars and big '80s metal riffs played with a thrashy and more modern approach. And Ronnie´s vocals, singing with such a great passion and old school melodic death metal vibes, makes for a really cool contrast on that part.
"Lyrically, it´s a song that has to do with leading you out of dark times, reaching the light at the end of the tunnel and leaving everything that's troubling you behind – searching to find your inner self.
"The production and sound that Daniel Bergstrand and George Neranzis did for the song made all the difference in the world; they really gave the song the needed power and loudness to create such a strong and beautifully loud brutal/melodic sound."
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TOMAS LINDBERG To Rejoin NIGHTRAGE For GOTHENBURG SOUND FESTIVAL Performance
December 18th, 2012
Due to scheduling conflicts, Antony (vocals) will be unable to perform with multinational thrashers NIGHTRAGE at the Gothenburg Sound Festival on January 5 in Gothenburg, Sweden. His replacement for this show only will be NIGHTRAGE;s former frontman Tomas Lindberg from AT THE GATES. NIGHTRAGE states: "We are super-excited about this!"
Comments Antony, "as some of you may already know, the band has been selected to play the Gothenburg Sound Festival in January. Unfortunately, due to some scheduling conflicts I was unable to resolve, I will have to miss this show. It will be the first NIGHTRAGE show in six years that I will miss and it completely sucks!
This festival's lineup is of legendary proportions (CEREMONIAL OATH, GARDENIAN). But fear not, I am proud to announce that we are going to just tack one more to that list of legends for our friends and fans in Sweden. That's right, the one and only Tomas Lindberg will be helping us for this one-off show. And it's safe to say I am jealous as fuck not to see this take place. I have also seen the setlist for this show, and let me tell you, no one will be disappointed."
Lindberg, who is also known for his work with THE CROWN and LOCK UP, appeared on NIGHTRAGE's first two albums (2003 – Sweet Vengeance and 2005 – Descent Into Chaos) before being replaced by Jimmie Strimell, who sang on 2007's A New Disease Is Born.
NIGHTRAGE's fifth album, Insidious, was released in September 2011 via Lifeforce Records. The CD featured guest appearances by Gus G. (OZZY OSBOURNE, FIREWIND), Tomas S. Englund (EVERGREY), Apollo Papathanasio (FIREWIND, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS), John K (BIOMECHANICAL) and Tomas Lindberg.
Video clip for "DELIRIUM OF THE FALLEN" taken from the album "Insidious" can be found here:
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DEMON HUNTER @ O2 Islington Academy
July 20th, 2012
Demon Hunter / Deadlock / Nightrage / Insense
@ O2 Islington Academy
Saturday 5th May 2012
Review by Chris Rossiter
Photography by Michelle Murphy
So here we are, a warm Saturday in early May, and I'm out doing my first Review for Metal-Rules.com! Stoked to see some amazing bands too!
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AFTERBLOOD: Debut Album Ready, Featuring Guests Appearances By Members of SODOM & NIGHTRAGE
November 25th, 2011
Newly formed female fronted metal band AFTERBLOOD from Athens, Greece, has completed the production of its debut album, tentatively titled "Of Unsound Minds". The album, which was recorded at Dungeon Studios in Athens, was produced by Waldermar Sorychta (GRIP INC, ENEMY OF THE SUN) and AFTERBLOOD and was mastered by Dennis Koehne (LACUNA COIL, MOONSPELL, SAMAEL, TIAMAT etc) at Germany's Flying Pigs Studio. It features SODOM's Markus "Makka" Freiwald on drums (recorded at Dortmund's Waldstreet Sound) throughout the entire album, as well as guest appearances by legendary thrash metal singer Tom Angelripper (SODOM) on the song "Mission of Aggression"; singer Antony Hamalainen (NIGHTRAGE) on the song "The More I Lie" and a guitar solo by Waldemar Sorychta on the song "Beyond". The complete tracklist of "Of Unsound Minds" as well as the artwork will be revealed soon.
Waldemar Sorychta described the sound of AFTERBLOOD as: "The perfect mix of aggression and darkness!"
A release date for the album remains to be determined as the band is currently considering record label offers. The band recently signed with independent band manager and former MTV Greece "Headbangers Ball" host Orpheus Spiliotopoulos (SCAR OF THE SUN, DISHARMONY, SIC).
For more information regarding the band, please visit http://www.afterblood.com (Official website)
*** Listen to "Mission of Agression" feat. Tom Angelripper (SODOM):
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AFTERBLOOD lineup:
Hel Pyre – Vocals & Lyrics
Cyan – Guitars
Dasno – Bass
Markus "Makka" Freiwald – Drums
Official Website – http://www.afterblood.com
Facebook Page – http://www.facebook.com/
Twitter Profile – http://www.twitter.com/
MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/
ReverbNation – http://www.reverbnation.com/
Youtube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/
Last.FM – http://www.last.fm/music/
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Nightrage – Marios Iliopoulos, Anthony Hämäläinen, Jo Nunez
June 21st, 2009
Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall
Thanks to Arne Kupetz at Lifeforce Records for setting up this interview
WEARING A MARTYR'S CROWN is the name of the amazing fourth album from Nightrage. I have interviewed bandleader Marios Iliopoulos before but when I heard that he and Nightrage were back I felt that it was time for an update. So for all you Nightrage fans out there here comes an update from the Nightrage camp by Marios, singer Anthony Hämäläinen and drummer Jo Nunez.
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Marios of Nightrage
May 28th, 2007
Interviewed by Anders Sandvall
Thanks to Arne at Lifeforce Records for setting up this interview
I hooked up with bandleader and master maniac Marios of the Swedish-Greek act Nightrage who just released their third album. The band has gone through a few member changes as well as label changes and on the new album it's once again a new line-up.
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Vader, NightRage, BloodThorn – Helsinki, Finland November 2006
January 8th, 2007
The coverage of obscure underground death metal gigs continues in Metal-Rules.com. Previous reviews have covered gigs of both Grave and Dismember when these bands played in obscure places in front of small, but enthusiastic audiences on their small tour thru Finland.
Vader had toured in Finland a couple of years ago gaining a solid and strong reputation as being a tight and merciless live act on stage. The band had guaranteed to deliver a lesson in the purest death metal mayhem for several extreme metal maniacs on their last tour. Therefore Vader's return to the soil of Finland was definitely welcomed.
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Interview with Marios from Nightrage
March 12th, 2005
Here is an interview that I?ve done with Marios from the band Nightrage. Nightrage have recently released their second album on Century Media and I asked him, of course, about the new album, about the member changes, about tour plans and what?s going to happen to Nightrage in the future.
Interviewed by Anders Sandvall
Thanks to Jenny Walroth at Century Media Sweden for help with the interview
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Firewind guitarist Gus G.
February 21st, 2005
Firewind Guitarist Gus G.
Interviewed by Anders Sandvall
Thanks to Jenny Walroth at Century Media Sweden for help with the interview
Gus G., guitar player and leader of Firewind, who recently released their third album FORGED BY FIRE had the kindness to answer my questions about Firewind, their new album, his appearances in Nightrage, and his previous band Dream Evil. Nightrage is about to release their follow up to their brilliant debut "SWEET VENGEANCE".
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The Great African Land Grab
The price of food post-globalisation is often invisible consequences. In this first of two extracts from his latest book, "The Great African Land Grab?", Lorenzo Cotula looks at the impact of land deals on water resources.
by Lorenzo Cotula
On this stretch of the River Niger, in central Mali, colourful pirogues bustle in all directions carrying people, sheep and goods. It is here that the River Niger meets the River Bani and feeds one of Africa's most spectacular seasonally flooded plains – the Inner Niger Delta. When I first visited the delta in October 2002, soon after the rainy season, the miracle of the seasonal flooding was at its peak. Bozo fishers were at work, hoping for a good catch. For a traveller coming from the surrounding dry scrublands, these vast expanses of water seemed like a mirage. With the rains, local farmers plant rice that they will harvest as the waters recede. During the dry season, the lakes turn into dusty plains where Fulani herders graze their livestock on the nutritious grass locally known as burgu. At this time, the delta hosts about half of Mali's national livestock, with cattle also coming from Burkina Faso and farther afield.
For the herders who, sitting in a circle, share with me sour milk in a wooden bowl, the delta is a source of life. It is here that, in the nineteenth century, the religious Fulani leader Sekou Amadou established a theocratic state and a sophisticated resource management system that, despite many important changes, is still applied today. A diverse mosaic of ethnic groups, each traditionally associated with different liveli- hood systems, depends on the delta. A walk across the bustling streets of Mopti, the main town in the delta, is a tour through this patchwork of cultures and livelihoods.
Upstream, the town of Ségou, on the southern bank of the River Niger, hosts colonial buildings that are a vivid reminder of a not too distant past. It was the French colonizers who built the Markala dam north of Ségou, created one of the largest irrigation schemes in West Africa – the Office du Niger – and forced farmers to settle on the scheme and grow cotton for the French textile industry.
After independence, rice replaced cotton as the main crop in the Office du Niger, and the Malian government and donor agencies expanded the irrigation infrastructure. Today, the Office du Niger hosts some eighty thousand hectares of irrigated land.
The parastatal agency that, through various incarnations, has managed the scheme since colonial times is based in the town of Ségou. The headquarters of the agency, also called Office du Niger, is an imposing white building in elegant Sahelian architecture located in the centre of the town. The extensive powers of this agency in shaping the lives of thousands of small-scale rice growers led some commentators to talk about 'a state within the state', though institutional reforms adopted in the mid-1990s have redefined and partly democratized those powers. Productivity on small-scale farms in the Office area has increased sharply since the mid-1990s, but demographic growth and plot subdivision have resulted in an average farm size of less than two hectares.
For the government, expanding the irrigation infrastructure has become an imperative, yet there are limited public resources to finance the expansion. To address this challenge, in 2008 the government issued an 'appeal to investors', calling on private capital to acquire land in the area and bring the irrigation scheme to its claimed full potential of 1 million hectares.
Within a few years, the Office du Niger became a hotspot of the global land rush. Companies from South Africa, Libya, China and Europe have flocked in to tap into the area's potential. National entrepreneurs have also moved in. Nearly 900,000 hectares have formed the object of land deals since 2004, though, as discussed, only a small part of this involved definitive leases from the Office du Niger.
The political mobilization of local producer associations, concerned at losing their land to outsiders, resulted in high-profile farmer fora that called for a halt on the deals.Villagers affected by the deals have also filed lawsuits to challenge two major investment projects. Opposition leaders in parliament have seized on the matter. But it was the military coup of March 2012 and the ensuing political instability in the country that put a brake on the pace of the deals. Many foreign investors have now pulled out, and much uncertainty surrounds the future of agribusiness ventures in the Office. But the full implementation of the deals signed so far could profoundly transform ecology and livelihoods not only in the Office itself, but also, via impacts on the water resource, downstream in the Inner Niger Delta.
No place in Africa can illustrate more powerfully the important implications of the global land rush for water resources. A land lease in a semi-arid country like Mali would be worthless if it did not ensure access to sufficient water for agricultural use. Land acquisitions in Mali were concentrated in the irrigable Office du Niger area. And water is an important driver of the land rush in the first place. Countries that have much land but little water – such as the Gulf states – have been among those signing the deals. Financiers interested in capturing increases in the price of land are also mindful of the gains that can be made from the water rights embedded in the land deals. It is impossible to assess what the land deals mean for recipient countries without properly under- standing their water dimension. There are two aspects to this. The first concerns water issues linked to individual deals – the 'micro' level. The second relates to the cumulative impact of numerous deals in a given location – the 'macro' level. Developments in the Office du Niger provide insights for both aspects.
At the micro level, an important issue concerns the commitments that governments enter into to make water available to the companies that lease the land. Some contracts relating to agricultural investments in the Office du Niger contain clauses that are capable of affecting water access for small-scale farmers. A deal for 100,000 hectares grants the company the right 'to use the quantity of water necessary for the project without restrictions' during the wet season, and to use the water necessary for less water-intensive crops during the dry season. Another contract commits the government to provide water for irrigation and industrial use for up to 20 cubic metres per second every day. This can be extended to 35 cubic metres per second if the company exercises an option to expand the plantation area within fifteen years.
These contractual commitments to the company create a legal obligation for the host government to ensure that the water needs of the project are met. Effectively, this establishes priority rights for access to water. In fact, the contract for a sugar cane project explicitly states that the project regulated by the con- tract and a pre-existing sugar cane project would be prioritized if water became limited. Should a water shortage occur – owing, for instance, to drought or to over-commitment of the limited water available – government authorities would be contractually obligated to prioritize these two sugar cane ventures over other water users. Sugar cane is a thirsty crop. Thousands of small-scale rice growers, who account for the bulk of agricultural production in the Office du Niger, risked being left without sufficient water. Scope for dry-season cultivation of water-demanding crops like rice is already restricted by water scarcity during this season. Also, in times of crisis, prioritizing sugar cane over rice may result in food scarcity. These concerns are all the more important if one considers the very long contract durations and the growing fluctuations in the water resource base due to climate change.
The cumulative impact of large numbers of land deals can also have profound implications for water use. The rise in large-scale irrigation projects in the Office du Niger area may impinge on water availability in the Inner Niger Delta. The environmental impact assessment carried out for a large sugar cane project in the Office noted that, although there is currently enough water to meet the water demands of different users in the area, the cumulative effect of numerous land acquisitions could create shortages vis-à-vis the multiple water demands of existing or planned users. That study also found that only measures to in- crease seasonal water availability, such as the construction of the Fomi dam upstream in Guinea, would ensure that water demand is met during the dry season in the longer term. Others agree that the Fomi dam is critical for the viability of additional large irrigation projects in the Office du Niger. It is worth looking further into this dam.
Fomi is one of three dams that the Niger Basin Authority — the intergovernmental body that regulates the river basin – has been planning since 2008. The other two dams are downstream of the Office du Niger, in Taoussa (Mali) and Kandadji (Niger).
Fomi is located in the highlands of eastern Guinea, which receive abundant rainfalls. This is where the River Niger originates. The dam aims to generate electricity and stabilize water flows for agriculture, fishing and navigation. Construction works are set to start in the course of 2013 and would involve a 'Build, Operate and Transfer' scheme, whereby a concessionaire will build the dam and generate returns through operating it for twenty-five years, before handing it over to the Guinean government.
The governments of Guinea and Mali have been strong supporters of this dam. It is not difficult to see why the Malian government is keen. The dam will increase water flows in the dry season, which – among other things – will allow extension of dry-season farming in the Office du Niger. Easing water constraints in the dry season will improve commercial prospects for agricultural ventures in the Office. But the dam in Fomi will also have negative impacts. One is that the dam will reduce water flows during the wet season. As a result, the flood plains of the Inner Niger Delta are expected to shrink.
According to some projections, the flood plains might be reduced by up to a half. A squeeze on this scale could have disastrous consequences for the estimated one million herders, farmers and fishers who depend on the delta. In the Inner Niger Delta, competition for resources is already intense. Over the past few decades, pressures on land, water and grazing have increased as a result of demographic growth, but also of an already shrinking resource base: the scale and duration of the flooding have already contracted owing to climatic fluctuations and to the earlier construction of another dam upstream, at Sélingué.
Already, when I conducted fieldwork in the delta back in 2006, concerns about the shrinking resource base were raised by mayors, customary authorities and pastoralists alike. Conflict over access to land and natural resources was endemic – for example, between competing customary authorities, between these authorities and elected mayors, and between fishers and farmers, on the one hand, and customary leaders and herders on the other.75 Any further squeeze on the delta is bound to be felt. The rapid unfolding of the land rush in the Office du Niger reflects strategic decisions about water management that will have lasting repercussions for livelihoods well beyond the areas immediately affected by the land deals.
By signing many large land deals in the Office du Niger and by supporting the new dam in Fomi to make the deals viable, the Malian government put at risk one of its most precious resources, the Inner Niger Delta. Hundreds of thousands of farmers, herders and fishers risk losing out to plantations that will most likely support only a smaller number of jobs. Because of the close interconnection between livelihood systems and social identity, these changes will also profoundly affect local societies. There is nothing to suggest that people who have so much at stake have been meaningfully involved in these decisions. In fact, there has been very little public debate in Mali about the implicit strategic choice to shift water from the Inner Niger Delta to the Office du Niger, or about the full implications of this choice.
Where water is a trans-boundary resource, the cumulative impacts of land deals may have important international dimensions. The basin of the River Niger includes nine West African countries. A regional body to coordinate the management of this shared river basin, the Niger Basin Authority, has been in place since 1980. A Water Charter adopted in 2008 by the Niger river basin countries refers to the principle of 'equitable and reasonable' utilization of the shared river basin among the riparian countries. But what this means in practice may be open to different interpretations, and is likely to involve political negotiation. The disconnection between the trans-boundary water implications of the land deals and the power of national governments, not regional bodies, to sign those deals may yet prove an important source of tension. Nigeria, which is the country farthest downstream and also West Africa's economic powerhouse, has raised concerns that the three new dams planned on the River Niger will reduce water flows.
Despite the many specificities of the Malian context, the issues raised by this experience resonate with developments in many parts of Africa. For example, governments from three countries that share the Nile river basin – Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan – have collectively allocated millions of hectares of land for irrigated agriculture. While exact estimates of increased water demand linked to the rise of large irrigation projects in Ethiopia are not available, important impacts on water availability downstream seem inevitable.78 These developments risk straining relations among riparian states.
In Mozambique's Massingir district, a large ethanol project raised concerns about water availability – with the trade-off here being between the new venture, involving irrigated sugar cane farming next to the dam, and pre-existing irrigated rice cultivation downstream, in the Limpopo river valley.
The rush for land has major implications for access to water – not only because the deals may give companies priority rights that disadvantage local farmers, but also because the cumulative effect of the deals on water abstraction may have far-reaching reverberations downstream, and because strategic policy choices may link the signing of the deals to major dam developments that can affect transnational watercourses. As a result, the socio-economic outcomes of the deals are not limited to the people who live in the project area. Directly or indirectly, the deals can affect a much wider set of interests, within the national territory and beyond.
Since the many land deals were signed in Mali's Office du Niger area, the political situation in the country has deteriorated. The occupation of northern Mali by an alliance of Tuareg rebels and foreign jihadists in early 2012 destabilized agribusiness developments in the Office du Niger. Several foreign companies have now withdrawn, and many investments have been put on hold. Between the rush for land and water, on the one hand, and political instability, on the other, the future of the Office du Niger and of the Inner Niger Delta looks more uncertain than ever.
Lorenzo Cotula is Senior Researcher, Law and Sustainable Development at the International Institute for Environment and Development.
The Great African Land Grab? is published by Zed Books


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Kai Ryssdal: This is going to sound like a rhetorical question, but I promise I'm being completely serious. If a given economic indicator has been abysmal for months, then how big a deal is it that said indicator has become less abysmal? The housing news today is one of those 'depends on how you look at it' stories. After a dismal April, home construction did surprisingly well in May. But that's really only half the story as Marketplace's Dan Grech explains.
DAN GRECH: The May figures show the biggest rise in housing starts came in the regions hardest hit by the housing bust. Economist Edward Leamer says the biggest jumps were in the West and the South.
EDWARD LEAMER: And that's suggestive that we're at or near the bottom right now and makes us hopeful that the official recession will end in the middle of the summer.
Still, May was the fourth-worst month for new construction in nearly half a century. Housing starts are down 75 percent from their boom-time peak. Lawrence Yun is chief economist with the National Association of Realtors.
LAWRENCE YUN: The latest increase is just a bounce from a rock-bottom level of activity that we saw in April.
Yun says a glut of foreclosed homes has driven down prices and brought back buyers. Builders are responding to that.
YUN: But the bad news is builders are adding more inventory to the already existing high inventory levels.
With so many existing homes already on the market, why would anyone build?
Chris Mayer is a senior vice dean at Columbia Business School.
CHRIS MAYER: They're people who want to build their dream house, and construction costs are incredibly low, and they view this as an opportunity to do that. You have some builders who are finishing up projects where they got financing. And even though it doesn't make economic sense for them to do it, they're going to finish up the project anyway.
Housing represents only three percent of the U.S. economy. But Michael Englund, with the consulting firm Action Economics, says economists consider housing a bellwether.
MICHAEL ENGLUND: Housing is an extra sensitive sector to longer-term expectations and growth prospects and to interest rates. It's essentially the canary in the coal mine.
Englund warns the light at the end of this tunnel could still be months away.
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J.Lo on motherhood: I'm "able to laugh at myself more"
By Dana Flax
With about a bajillion rom com ticket sales to her (nick)name, it's hard to imagine Jennifer Lopez as a regular ole humble mother of twins, is it not?
On the contrary, J.Lo's bestie Leah Remini told reporters at "The Back-up Plan" premiere that, "At the end of the day, she's just a mom," whereas J.Lo herself said motherhood's made her sillier. Maybe we pegged you all wrong, Jenny!
Wonderwall was at the fete; check out J.Lo's answers to questions from the reporting pool below.
So what drew you to this film in particular?
Jennifer Lopez: I love romantic comedies, I don't know if I'm more easy-going and able to laugh at myself more, but I'm really enjoying the comedy and being silly. Maybe it's the babies! You're start doing all these crazy things, and you're like, "Wow, I haven't laughed like this in a long time."
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What's the trick to being a mom and looking like that?
JL: You've gotta put a little effort into it, I'm not gonna lie!
When you were pregnant, did you have a hard time finding really fun and stylish maternity wear?
JL: Sure! Especially when you get into the super heavy months. It's tough. I think anything kind of draped and empire waist is really the best thing to wear. Trying anything else too tight is just crazy! I lived in these Isabella Oliver wrap tops that give a little support on your belly.
Any music news for us?
JL: Yeah, we're working on music right now! As we speak, music is happening.
A duet? Solo?
JL: Solo. [Marc] has his own album coming out right now, which is brilliant.
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In the Ag Mechanics contest, competitors had to apply skills using: both a MIG and Arc welder, use a cutting torch, take various tool identification and written tests and create an electric circuit board. Bronco Odell and Evan Moore both received an individual gold award, and Guy Wallace received a bronze award. As a team, they received the gold award and were recognized on stage.
The Farm Business Management team of Breana Maxwell, Tyler Nance and Riley Syra, took one hourlong test and a 2½-hour long test. The test are made up of business questions and the students also have to solve a business problem analysis.
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Laboratory tests used to detect pancreatic insufficiency
- Elastase is a protein-cleaving enzyme produced and secreted by the pancreas. It is resistant to degradation by other enzymes and so is excreted and can be measured in the stool. The amount of this enzyme is reduced in pancreatic insufficiency. This test, also known as the fecal elastase-1 test, is often chosen to aid in the diagnosis of pancreatic insufficiency in children and adults; however, it is more effective at detecting severe exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and not as effective for mild to moderate forms.
- Chymotrypsin is a pancreatic enzyme that cleaves proteins. Unlike elastase, chymotrypsin is digested while passing through the intestine; however, there remains sufficient residual activity for measurement.
- Fecal fat (fat in the stool) is often the first sign of insufficiency. The simplest test for fecal fat is to place a suspension of stool onto a glass slide, add a fat stain, and observe the number and size of fat globules that are present. A more accurate assessment of fecal fat requires a timed stool collection, typically spanning 72 hours, and a dietary sheet to help calculate the total fat intake during the collection period. This test is generally thought of as unreliable because it is difficult to achieve proper control of the diet, challenging to ensure complete sample collection, and there is significant assay variation.
- 13C-mixed triglyceride breath test is a novel test that is a noninvasive, reliable method of diagnosing moderate pancreatic insufficiency, but it is not widely used and not commonly available. The test may also be used to evaluate the efficacy of enzyme therapy on fat digestion in people with insufficiency.
Non-laboratory tests used in diagnosing pancreatic insufficiency
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP): a test that uses a flexible scope inserted through the mouth and threaded through the esophagus to see and document damage to the pancreas and/or bile ducts.
- Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP): a type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used to examine the pancreas and bile ducts.
- Secretin test (not widely available): a tube is positioned in the duodenum to collect pancreatic secretions stimulated by intravenous (IV) secretin. Secretin is a hormone that causes the pancreas to release fluid containing digestive enzymes. The amount of certain enzymes and bicarbonate in this fluid is measured and compared to normal values.
For more on imaging studies, see RadiologyInfo.org.


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Discussion in 'Stringing Techniques / Stringing Machines' started by fed15, Sep 22, 2008.
I'm looking to buy this stringer and am still not sure about it, do you have any opinions on it?
I used it at my friends house- my klippermate broke - amazing, so much simpilar, very good.
you will have a hard time finding anyone to speak against it
I dont believe I have ever seen a unhappy revo 4000 owner
I am an unhappy revo 4000 owner....
The clamp broke, the base shattered, the tension head blew up...and for some reason the customer support at alpha told me this was normal
Just joking =]
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