Food Crisis 2011?

Food Crisis 2011? 14 Disturbing Facts That Make You Wonder If The Coming Global Food Shortage Has Already Begun


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Will 2011 be the year that we point to as the beginning of the great global food crisis? Food prices are soaring, supplies are very tight and already we have seen some very intense food protests flare up around the globe this year. When people don't have enough to eat, they tend to become very desperate, and unfortunately it looks like the global food situation is not going to improve much any time soon. Right now the world is really struggling to feed itself, and with each passing day there are even more mouths to feed. It is being projected that the population of the world will reach 9 billion people by the year 2050. There are already way too many people starving to death around the globe, and unfortunately starvation is only going to become more rampant as food supplies get even tighter. Some of the key food producing provinces in China are facing their worst drought in 200 years. Flooding has absolutely devastated agricultural production in Australia and Brazil this winter. Russia is still trying to recover from the horrific drought of last summer. Global weather patterns have gone haywire over the past 12 months, and this is putting immense pressure on a global food system that was already on the verge of a major breakdown.


The following are 14 facts that make you wonder if the coming global food shortage has already begun....

#1 According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. corn reserves will drop to a 15 year low by the end of 2011.

#2 The United Nations says that the global price of food hit another new all-time high in the month of January.

#3 The price of corn has doubled in the past six months.

#4 The price of wheat has roughly doubled since the middle of 2010.

#5 According to Forbes, the price of soybeans is up about 50% since last June.

#6 The United Nations is projecting that the global price of food will increase by another 30 percent by the end of 2011.

#7 Due to all of the unprecedented flooding, the winter wheat crop in Australia has been absolutely devastated.

#8 This winter Brazil was hit by some of the worst flooding that nation has ever seen. This has substantially hampered food production in that country.

#9 Russia, one of the largest wheat producers on the entire globe, is still feeling the effects of last summer's scorching temperatures. In fact, Russia is actually importing wheat this winter to sustain its cattle herds.

#10 China is busy preparing for a "severe, long-lasting drought" that is projected to have a huge impact on several provinces. In fact, Chinese state media says that the eastern province of Shandong is dealing with the worst drought it has seen in 200 years. The provinces being affected by this severe drought grow approximately two-thirds of the wheat in China. The following is a very short video news report about the horrible drought that China is going through right now....



#11 It appears that Chinese imports of corn will be about 9 times larger than the U.S. Department of Agriculture originally projected them to be for 2011.

#12 Approximately 1 billion people around the world go to bed hungry each night.

#13 Somewhere in the world someone starves to death every 3.6 seconds, and 75 percent of those are children under the age of five.

#14 As food has become increasingly scarce around the world, many companies have started using whatever kinds of "fillers" that they can think of in their "food" products. For example, Raw Story is reporting that some companies in China have actually been mass producing "fake rice" that is made partly of plastic. According to one Chinese Restaurant Association official, eating three bowls of this fake rice is the equivalent of consuming an entire plastic bag.

Ethanol to take 30 pct of U.S. corn crop in 2012: GAO

Proof that the world food crisis is preplannned. No reason to use food to make energy for our cars.

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Reuters) - Almost a third of the U.S. corn crop will be used in five years to produce fuel ethanol, possibly raising animal feed costs for farmers and meat prices for consumers, a new government report warned on Monday.

Assuming U.S. ethanol production continues to expand to the Energy Department's projected 11.2 billion gallons by 2012, about 30 percent of the corn crop will be needed for the fuel supply, according to the Government Accountability Office.

"Using more corn for energy production will likely exert additional upward pressure on corn prices, potentially influencing livestock feed markets and meat prices," the GAO said in a report to Congress.

This article was written in 2007. This is what it said....

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About 27 percent of this year's corn crop will be used to make ethanol, according to the Agriculture Department. Corn prices are projected to average between $3 and $3.40 a bushel, making up an estimated 74 percent of the cost of producing ethanol, the GAO said.

Fast forward to 2011. Current prices are at $7 per bushel. Doubled. in 4 years! And going higher....much higher!

Earth economist: The food bubble is about to burst

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927986.400-earth-economist-the-food-bubble-is-about-to-burst.html


What is a food bubble?

That's when food production is inflated through the unsustainable use of water and land. It's the water bubble we need to worry about now. The World Bank says that 15 per cent of Indians (175 million people) are fed by grain produced through overpumping - when water is pumped out of aquifers faster than they can be replenished. In China, the figure could be 130 million.

Has this bubble already burst anywhere?

Saudi Arabia made itself self-sufficient in wheat by using water from a fossil aquifer, which doesn't refill. It has harvested close to 3 million tonnes a year, but in 2008 the Saudi authorities said the aquifer was largely depleted. Next year could be the last harvest. This is extreme, but about half the world's people live in countries with falling water tables. India and China will lose grain production capacity through aquifer depletion. We don't know when or how abruptly the bubble will burst.

With population rising, a fall in grain production would spell big trouble.

Yes. Tonight at the dinner table there will be 219,000 people who weren't there last night. But that's not all: we also have maybe 3 billion people moving up the food chain, consuming more grain-intensive livestock products. Then there is the conversion of grain into ethanol for cars, mainly in the US, where last year 119 million tonnes went to distilleries out of a harvest of just over 400 million tonnes.

I have been concerned about this for a while Mic and the floods down here have wiped out crops which makes me think if that wasn't engineered?

If I cannot get hold of any chocolate for a long period of time I am afraid biggs will be looking for a gun.

Biggles wrote:

I have been concerned about this for a while Mic and the floods down here have wiped out crops which makes me think if that wasn't engineered?

If I cannot get hold of any chocolate for a long period of time I am afraid biggs will be looking for a gun.

Better stock up on chocalate then! hehe

As far as the floods. I have no proof but what if they modified the weather using Haarp?

Whether this crisis is man-made or mother nature getting even or 2012/Nibiru, it is certainly fulfillling biblical and other prophecies!

The supply of corn keeps getting smaller

675 million bushels of corn may seem like a lot, but that is only an 18 day supply for the US grain market, and that is the reason corn prices pushed above $7 Wednesday on the CME. March corn did not close above that level, but settled at $6.98 per bushel following USDA’s February Supply and Demand report that indicated the ethanol industry was refining corn faster than previously thought.

Corn, beans and wheat prices have all been rising, but so has the price for ethanol. A year ago, ethanol was in the $1.70 per gallon range, but Wednesday closed at $2.457 per gallon, the highest it has been since the early summer price spike in 2008 when it exceeded $2.80 per gallon.

The result of the ethanol industry’s demand for corn tightens down the supply, says University of Missouri marketing specialist Melvin Brees. In his Crop Report Commentary Brees says USDA economists raised corn use by 70 million bushels and 50 million of that was added to ethanol refining. The 745 million bushel ending stocks were lowered to 675 million, and that is 5% of the expected use for the current marketing year. Actually it parallels the tight corn supply of the 1995-96 season and is the least stocks to use ratio in the past 50 years.

USDA also cut back its estimate of global corn stocks to a 54 day supply, which is the least in 37 years, and may continue to ratchet that down as the droughty Argentine yields are known. The global estimate is now 122.5 MMT, which is a continuation of the lower estimates for feed grain supplies around the world. Brees says the USDA raised its estimate of the price range for the 2010 corn crop to $5.05 to $5.75. While much higher prices for corn currently are being offered, market analysts say the bulk of corn was sold at lower levels, pulling down the overall season average, with little free supplies left to be marketed.

As corn prices continue to push higher, so will soybean prices, in an effort to keep pace with the spring race to buy acres. While the USDA did not change any of the soybean supply and demand projections, March soybeans closed 16.75 cents higher on the day and November beans close 19.5 cents higher, but did not push through the $14 mark for new crop beans. Since USDA retained its 140 million bushel estimate of the 2010 carryout, global soybean stocks held steady. Declines in the Argentine bean crop were offset by increases in the Brazilian bean crop. Currently, the season average for soybeans is estimated from $11.20 to $12.20

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/latest/The-supply-of-corn-keeps-getting-smaller.html

Oh man...................

When the people of China were standing in line for water last month, to me, that is a crisis! The food is not going to be freely available for much longer, and what is left will be be.... well, not free. Russia stopped exports of wheat last year. Brazil dot douched with mud and flood a couple months ago- major world food producer. Austrailia continues to get douched.

All that's left is the USA. our crops go into the ground next month. I believe when the USA's crops fail, that will be the begining. What we are seeing is foreshadowing. "If things get much worse..." If winter continues into April/May, and if rain stays steady, crops won't be planted on time. then you get the 'trickle down effect' of global food shortages. The key is the rain! Rain will delay planting and rain will delay harvest. A $200k combine cannot drive in mud! Rain is a blessing for a while. In September... it is a curse upon humanity. the Midwestern united States farmers have the eyes and stomaches of the planet watching this year!

The 'x-factor' is volcanism. Iceland is going to erupt. Fact. This year! Not if but when this year. If it goes before mid summer, crops won't get enough light in the northern hemisphere. Spiral down.....

This video is what is coming our way. The radar images seen at the half point are actual physical satillite data! And as we go through this summer, it will only increase in magnitude, frequency, and sphere of influence.



Shit's gonna hit the fan. If you haven't started, get on it now!

All part of the NWO, .... cause a panic..... then come riding out like knights on shining horses to give us the 'solution' to the problem they caused in the first place.

It's just another way to keep the general populous under control and to feed us baron seeds from Monsanto.

Related Thread.....

https://theforceiswithinyou.forumotion.com/t4598-2012-equation-solved-pan-andov

Before watching this vid posted by Biggles, I would have agreed with you Skywatcher. I am not convinced now that all of the wild things happening in the world are man-made. Perhaps we have been giving the NWO way too much credit. (Monsanto and seeds .... yes)

Biggles thread fits nicely with RuffleTheTeachers post. External forces from the middle of our galaxy is the cause of the bees/birds/fish dying, climatic changes, earthquakes, whales beaching themselves, anomolies on other planets in our solar system and especially causing our sun to act very strangely.

Haarp certainly can't be doing the later two things.

RuffleTheTeacher wrote:

Shit's gonna hit the fan. If you haven't started, get on it now!

Ruffle, first of all, good morning and

secondly, would you elaborate on how to "get on it"?

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....secondly, would you elaborate on how to "get on it"?

Firstly, micjer, thanks for the semi-vote of confidence! Of all the investigations into why these animals fell dead, no one sadi a thing about radiation exposure. Smaller animals would be more prone to dying from doses of solar radiation and/or galactic radiation (from stellar explosions, etc). And, yes, the NWO is getting too much credit attached to them. Evil exists. Evil men are everywhere do shitty things hourly. But, for thoes who seek to control the masses for their gain, what would be better-

"The planet's temperature/climate is changing due to intergalactic energies from the coalescence of two black holes 25,776 light years distant, and the instability of a handful of magnetars between 26,000 and 163,000 light years distant. We all must unite to help ensure the survival of the spieces."

or

"The planet is getting hotter. Ice is going to melt, causing the oceans to rise. Food shortages, drought and flood, and diseases will become more frequent. And we believe it is due to our burning of fossil fuel. You must stop using so much energy. You are going to kill the polar bears. YOU ARE THE CAUSE! HOW DARE YOU! Well, not you. But that different looking guy over there, from that country where they worship a god who is of darker skin tone.... GET 'EM!!"

humans are powerful. But to think that we can change the climate? What about the changes seen on Jupiter?... or on Mars?... or the warming seen on Pluto?

Second: WineHippie... I started out with a 30 day emergency stash. Cereals, raisins, water... enough to get a family of 4 through 30 days without worry. I have since expanded that to a five year supply. Non parishables, dehydrated, bottled water... muti vitamins (the ones that wont kill you )calcium, vit D.... but as it seems prices are about to spiral out of control, food is where you should start. Each paycheck I got a bit more. And now have a sizeable stash.
My suggestion- Costco!! Get a membership. But, if not, I choose a simple pancake mix (all in one, minus water) and build from there.

"The National Security consequences of Climate Change should be fully integrated into National Security and Defense Strategies. As military leaders, we know we cannot wait for certainty. Failing to act because a warning isn't precise is unacceptable."-Quote from "National Security and the Threat Of Climate Change", 2007

They have already started. If you have not, please get on it!

okie doke, ruffle, thanks ...
maybe the food bank will let me have 2 boxes @ a time .....
no, nevermind, their "food" is mostly crap ....
no, wait a sec, could be better than nothing ....
sprouting indoors may be helpful, but who knows how long
i will have an indoors?
and perhaps i should be sun-drying my own fruits this summer?
i really gotta learn how to prepare and eat cactus ....
actually, with all the (snow) moisture at the moment
sis and i have been advised to collect pinon nuts this
year ...
p.s. what's a paycheck?

Firstly, welcome to the madhouse Ruffle

... but then I must say that global warming is a man-made ideal that is actually not true. Infact, the planet is cooling down, not warming up.

Global warming is just a myth perpetrated by those that wish to add yet another tax to our pay checks by false means and downright lies. The Global Warming Hoax, has been in plan/preparation mode since 1961 and is being 'told to us' in order to gain the said tax. Nothing Man has done or will do will alter the carbon emissions to the planet.

I have posted these clips somewhere else in another thread yesterday, but it seems fitting to post them here to, seeing as we're on the subject.


Global Warming Hoax, Planned in 1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvcuylMrkXk&feature=player_embedded



10 mins to Expose Global Warming Scam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP1Q-0fdkWI&feature=player_embedded



Al Gore sued by over 30.000 Scientists for Global Warming fraud / John Coleman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ&feature=player_embedded

RuffleTheTeacher wrote:

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....secondly, would you elaborate on how to "get on it"?

Firstly, micjer, thanks for the semi-vote of confidence! Of all the investigations into why these animals fell dead, no one sadi a thing about radiation exposure. Smaller animals would be more prone to dying from doses of solar radiation and/or galactic radiation (from stellar explosions, etc). And, yes, the NWO is getting too much credit attached to them. Evil exists. Evil men are everywhere do shitty things hourly. But, for thoes who seek to control the masses for their gain, what would be better-

"The planet's temperature/climate is changing due to intergalactic energies from the coalescence of two black holes 25,776 light years distant, and the instability of a handful of magnetars between 26,000 and 163,000 light years distant. We all must unite to help ensure the survival of the spieces."

or

"The planet is getting hotter. Ice is going to melt, causing the oceans to rise. Food shortages, drought and flood, and diseases will become more frequent. And we believe it is due to our burning of fossil fuel. You must stop using so much energy. You are going to kill the polar bears. YOU ARE THE CAUSE! HOW DARE YOU! Well, not you. But that different looking guy over there, from that country where they worship a god who is of darker skin tone.... GET 'EM!!"

humans are powerful. But to think that we can change the climate? What about the changes seen on Jupiter?... or on Mars?... or the warming seen on Pluto?

Second: WineHippie... I started out with a 30 day emergency stash. Cereals, raisins, water... enough to get a family of 4 through 30 days without worry. I have since expanded that to a five year supply. Non parishables, dehydrated, bottled water... muti vitamins (the ones that wont kill you )calcium, vit D.... but as it seems prices are about to spiral out of control, food is where you should start. Each paycheck I got a bit more. And now have a sizeable stash.
My suggestion- Costco!! Get a membership. But, if not, I choose a simple pancake mix (all in one, minus water) and build from there.

"The National Security consequences of Climate Change should be fully integrated into National Security and Defense Strategies. As military leaders, we know we cannot wait for certainty. Failing to act because a warning isn't precise is unacceptable."-Quote from "National Security and the Threat Of Climate Change", 2007

They have already started. If you have not, please get on it!

I have thought of that too Ruffles, but from what I have researched about the planets and the galactic core and 6,000 degree temperatures from the sun and everything the planet doesn't seem like it is going to sustain life, sorry not very scientific minded to talk like a scientist. But what I am saying is from what I have seen and read the planet here seems like it wont be able to sustain life at all with what is coming from the galactic core.? So the food wouldn't matter?

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the planet here seems like it wont be able to sustain life at all with what is coming from the galactic core.? So the food wouldn't matter?

The planet is 4.5 BILLION years old. This event is less than 26,000 years old. If, as some suggest, this is one in a string of events going back 1 million years, then this is not new.

The energies involved with an event like a magnetar giant flare or eruption, or a coalescence within the Galactic Center, are not hot events. They have had tens of thousands of years to 'cool'. All that is left are the radiations- gamma, x-ray, microwave, and electromagnetic. ALL OF THESE ARE KNOWN TO MAN AND SHIELDING IS AVAILABLE! Natural shielding is everywhere. Caves, stone quarrys, ancient tombs. If you can protect against these energies, then it will be survivable. It is survivable! Proof?

Ex: SGR, soft gamma repeater, aka Magnetar. A gamma ray burst model shows that there are three parts to this type of event. The initial, then at the half way point, and at the end. As I will now delve into the abyss of astrophysical theory, I'll attempt to not wander. Short and sweet, if possible. When the event happened 25,776 years ago (at a distance of 25,776 light years) the explosion changed massive amounts of matter into energy. More than a million times the mass of our Sun! As per Einstein, you cannot get rid of mass. It can change forms, but it is still there. Like a shockwave, this mass converted into energy had to expand. E=MC^2 Play with the equation and solve for all variables. (Algebra AHHHHHH!)

As this mass became energy, it slowed down time on a 'local' scale. (galacticly speaking) So it was able to traverse huge distances faster than the speed of light. As you get closer to a massive object, time slows. If the massive object gets larger, the area affected does, too. you cannot lose mass.

The initial explosion was felt here on Earth within 160 years. Records show in the mutations of our DNA, that around 26,000 years ago we walked out of Africa and started to spread to Southern Europe and on to southern Asia. Dramatic changes in Earths weather, famine, and mass deaths may have brought our speices to the brink of extinction. We are all related to a group of humans no bigger than 30,000. These were the initial survivors.

Now, flash forward 13,000 years. 10,000 to 11,000 BC. The midpoint of this gamma ray burst. With in mind the shockwave idea, this would be the point where the midpoint reaches us. 26k to 13k is an ice age. At 13,000 years, ice age ends, big cats die off, mammoths die off, giant sloths... glacier covering N America melts. and the interglacial period begins. Temps warm and its the begining of the social evolution of humanity.

And here we are. At the tail of this tsunami of destruction. All that is bound by Newtonian physics has yet to arrive.... the radiation, the debris, the stuff caught up in the debris, the radiation of the stars that didn't survive the blast (ones with masses much greater than the Sun)... No, it doesn't sound pretty at all.

Every religion speaks of these times, and every religion I know of says that the Earth will go on. there will be life and life anew. I am not a religious person, but I do believe that people wrote these texts. And they wrote them a long time ago, attempting to describe whatever it was that they saw/felt or were told by their elders events they saw or felt.

Bottom line- Earth has seen this before. We are not the first, and we won't be the last.
We are all decendants of survivors! We have it in our being!! listen to your gut.

Does it seem as if this is all familiar? It does to me.
If we do not heed the warnings of our ancestors, we will make the same mistakes.

RuffleTheTeacher wrote:

Bottom line- Earth has seen this before. We are not the first, and we won't be the last.
We are all decendants of survivors! We have it in our being!! listen to your gut.

Does it seem as if this is all familiar? It does to me.
If we do not heed the warnings of our ancestors, we will make the same mistakes.

exactomundo, well said

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okie doke, ruffle, thanks ...
maybe the food bank will let me have 2 boxes @ a time .....
no, nevermind, their "food" is mostly crap ....
no, wait a sec, could be better than nothing ....
sprouting indoors may be helpful, but who knows how long
i will have an indoors?
and perhaps i should be sun-drying my own fruits this summer?
i really gotta learn how to prepare and eat cactus ....
actually, with all the (snow) moisture at the moment
sis and i have been advised to collect pinon nuts this
year ...
p.s. what's a paycheck?

WineHippie,
I must say, I have been kicked in the nuts today. I read your reply about 6 hours ago and have been a bit fucked in the head since. I don't know you, so please don't take what I say as directed at you personally. I am a liberal, and I believe in compassion for people who need help. I believe in disability pay for all who are unable to work due to injury, illness, or mental disease. And, being a recovering user, i believe addiction should be qualified under that framework. the treatment center I went to made a point of saying "We are a for proffit organization. If you don't pay, you won't get treatment." Funny, that's what my dealer used to say!
The situation you described is a tough one indeed. Doubtless this is the main reason why full disclosure has been stopped. The decision was made years ago (possible the decision was made ten thousand years ago) that compassion and charity can only go so far. this decision was made by thoes we elected, and thoes we elect tend to be self sufficient and self centered, and their head is more-often-than-not stuck up their... um, self.

When given the choice.... disclose and attempt to unite all in an all-encompassing solution, or classify and make only thoes who can support themselves (and more) able to survive, leaving millions out... the wealthy we send to Congress made the decision. that decision is backed by the "Obama's a kenyan", "Towel-head's killed us on 9/11", "mexicans are goona decapitate you and rape your daughters, kick 'em all out" devisiveness played out in American politics and social discourse daily. Like a raccoon... "Hey! Look at the shiny thing! Ohhh... it's sooo shiny! Nevermind we're taking our retirement fund, your home, your quality education, your freedom.... Shiny! Don't you wanna get the shiny thing? Ohhh..."

Also called 'bread and games' by the Romans. So long as they had bread to eat and games to play and see, they wouldn't question the government and continue to be content. "So long as I can get my latte and put gas in my Hummer, I'll sacrifice some of my freedom to feel safe."

Anyone who says that should be shot. No one gives up freedom with no fight. And anyone who says that the NWO is gonna do this or that is full of it. The NWO doesn't have to do a thing! they don't kill people. they don't poison streams/skies/animals/water. Just the idea that there is a group like that out there is all they need. A 'strawman' to push the blame on.

If you don't want people to survive the coming events, all you have to do is wait. Nothing else.

That decision is the worst mistake humanity has ever made. We have it in us all to save every last soul. yet, the selfish among us would rather not cower in a bunker next to a commoner. They seem to forget one thing.... Karma is a bitch! hense, why we have ass cancer!

If you have not yet watched this, do so.
Let us all unite, before it is too late.

Spring 2011 Forecast: Wild Weather Continues

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/46431/spring-2011-forecast-wild-weat-1.asp


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To hear from Pastelok on where the wildest weather is expected this spring, click on this video.
The AccuWeather.com forecast for Spring 2011 calls for more wild weather for the U.S. The biggest concerns center around expectations of an active severe weather season, the spreading of a severe drought and a high wildfire danger, and, as always, threats for flooding.

Paul Pastelok, leader of the AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team, warned that this spring's severe weather season will be more active than normal, meaning there could be a higher-than-average number of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in the eastern part of the country.

He is also concerned about abnormally dry and warm conditions worsening a drought on the Plains and bringing a major hit to cotton growers in Texas and wheat growers in sections of the southern Plains.

From my personal view of running out of food for me. I have come to learn and believe that if and when I am cut off from food, it will be no problem at all.

The God I believe in feeds his children and will when and if these things happen. I look at food shortages as an opportunity to see miracles happen to me and for me at close quarters when lives are on the line.

It is wise to store food if you can, if you can't, let your faith sustain you, as it has for many in the past.

peace to you all. and what a great thread.

What about using sugar cane or sorghum ?
What about eating the rich greedy bastards who caused this ?

I have ate the greedy bastards in a way Long Hunter, by being against them and making the distinction between their actions and mine.

The Karma wheel of balance will be thier final judge as they face their evil doings and their ill gotten gains.

No one is immune from justice as I believe, right or wrong they will stand for their actions and answer for them.

One thing about Karma is that we all don't get to watch them being judged, but their are no free lunches.

I think they will pay in this lifetime, and if not, then the next phase of their miserable existence.

I am convinced that there will be divine justice at more than one point of all existence.

I could be wrong but I hope not in this case.

Well there has to be some recompence Gabe. xo