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A second research expedition to study the winter ecology of salmon in the Gulf of Alaska
Researchers continue their study on the winter ecology of Pacific salmon by returning to the Gulf for a second international High Seas Expedition!
It is believed believed that the 'readiness' of juvenile salmon to survive winters in the Gulf of Alaska may be determined during the first months at sea. On March 11, 2020 Chartered Canadian fishing vessel Pacific Legacy will set sail for the high-seas region of the Gulf of Alaska for one month to study the winter ecology of salmon and test this hypothesis.
This research will build off the first 2019 International Gulf of Alaska Expedition. The study is a continuation of the international scientific effort to identify mechanisms and environmental factors that could determine the annual abundance and condition of Pacific salmonids in the Gulf of Alaska. It also seeks to establish greater international research capacity for understanding the consequences of future environmental conditions and is being used to study the impacts of extreme climate events and ocean conditions.
The expedition team consists of 12 scientists from Pacific salmon producing countries and a highly experienced crew.
The Scientific Team
Meet the fascinating team of research scientists that will collaborate on the second research expedition in the Gulf of Alaska!
Christoph Deeg, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Christoph Deeg is first and foremost a biologist, with a background reflecting a broad interest in all "living" things. He started his research career in Germany and made contributions to a diverse number of fields including genetics and genomics of microorganisms and animals, fisheries research in the North Atlantic and North Sea, immunology of the innate immune system, conservation biology of salmon stocks and habitat on the central British Columbia coast, virology on the interactions of influenza with the innate immune system, and environmental microbiology. His PhD research at the University of British Columbia explored parasitic interactions in aquatic microorganisms, from giant viruses to predatory bacteria that form the base of the food web. Being a passionate outdoor enthusiast, he was able to take several field trips around British Columbia as well as the Caribbean to collect samples. After graduating, he decided to apply his broad skillset in organismal, molecular, and computational approaches with his passion for fieldwork to the management and conservation of Pacific salmon, a topic that he felt strongly about since moving to British Columbia. Christoph considers that having the opportunity to kick-start work in this field by joining the International Year of the Salmon Signature Expedition to the Gulf of Alaska alongside global leaders in salmon research is both a huge opportunity and an honour, and one that he is very much looking forward too!
Svetlana Esenkulova, Pacific Salmon Foundation, Canada
Svetlana Esenkulova is a marine biologist studying plankton and how it affects Pacific salmon. She has worked on projects at the Pacific Biological Station and with the Pacific Salmon Foundation associated with a five year study of Pacific salmon in the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound. Svetlana has a number of interests and will be helping Chrys Neville with the sampling of salmon and the communications for the expedition. She will be collecting an "Expedition DNA sample" that will be used to ensure that there is a standard DNA sample for all salmon. She will also help to provide a focus on squid. Squid is an important component of salmon diet and it is especially important to Pacific salmon in the Gulf of Alaska. There are studies that indicate a relationship between the carrying capacity of the Gulf of Alaska for salmon species and squid abundance. However, despite its importance, very little is known about squid in the Gulf of Alaska. She hopes that results will offer new information on squid biology and ecology. Svetlana is excited to be part of a study that will for the first time study the abundance, distribution, and health status of salmon in the winter period in the Gulf of Alaska. She says that it is pretty cool when the genetic analysis will tell us what country and even what river each fish came from. When this is combined with an abundance estimate, there will be stock specific abundance estimates for the first time in the Gulf of Alaska. Svetlana looks forward to knowledge and experience exchange with researchers from five counties. She speaks English and Russian and is happy to help with communications. Svetlana believes that multicultural crews are more creative and hopes the team will be particularly effective due to the diversity and shared common goals. This survey is the first of its kind and from her personal point of view; results could be ground breaking. One of the practical results of this survey will be an improved assessment of salmon returns. And of course there will be new knowledge accrued that can advance salmon research in general and redefine how high seas studies are done. Svetlana is very honoured and grateful to be a part of what she considers to be an historic expedition.
Albina Kazneparova, TINRO, Russia
Albina Kanzsparova graduated from Perm University with a specialisation in ichthyology and then moved to the eastern part of Russia to study Pacific salmon. From 2005 to 2015, she worked as a research fellow in TINRO, Khabarovsk city branch where she studied the freshwater life of pink and chum salmon in the Amur River and rivers on the North Coast of Okhotsk Sea and the Shantar Islands region. The Amur River is three times the size of Columbia River and is comparable to Yukon River which is why her work experience obtained on Amur is so unique.
Historic Chum catches in 1910 were 93 metric ton. In 2016 it was 42 metric ton. It was part of her work to understand how fishing affects the production of chum salmon in the Amur River. Her work with the commercial salmon fisheries during spawning migration was tracking migration, biological analysis, and determining the catch per effort. After the spawning migration, she counted the spawned out salmon on foot and used all of the data collected to estimate the production of juveniles that would rear in the North East part of Okhotsk Sea.
Since 2016, Albina worked in TINRO in Vladivostok in the fish stocks forecasting branch. In 2016 she participated in the project "Wild and Hatchery Salmon" in Prince Williams Sound, Alaska where she gathered samples for DNA analysis and otoliths from pink salmon. "Working there was fun as we had a very friendly team" recalled Albina. Since 2017, Albina has participated in the annual TINRO trawl surveys which will be similar to the survey in the Gulf of Alaska. In summer, they estimate pink returns in the Pacific Ocean, close to Kuril Islands and Okhotsk Sea and in the fall – juvenile migration from Okhotsk Sea to Pacific. This is 24 hour work with a pelagic trawl, sorting of the catches and collecting samples. All of the information is used for catch forecasting of pink salmon in Okhotsk Sea basin. Albina sees her participation in the Gulf of Alaska expedition as a novel investigation phase in her career. She thinks that the Gulf of Alaska and Russian Far East are not separated by the Pacific Ocean but unified by the Pacific Ocean. Because of that, she wants to see how salmon stocks are formed in both sides of the ocean, what are the processes that define the stocks, what factors are common and what are region specific. Russia reached salmon catches of 0.5 mi metric ton in 21st Century. As a biologist, Albina would like to understand what factors lead to higher returns and what can be done to maintain this high salmon productivity of the ocean.
Alexei Somov, TINRO, Russia
Aleksei Somov, is an ecologist, studying pelagic communities at TINRO, in Vladivostok. He finished a postgraduate degree last year and is currently working on a Candidate Dissertation. The topic of his research is nekton composition, structure, and dynamics in epipelagic region of the East Bering Sea. The fish stocks found in Eastern region of the Bering Sea have significant impotence to Russian commercial fisheries. This region is a major feeding area for commercially important species including walleye pollock, herring, halibut, Pacific cod and of course, salmon. In the open waters, in the summer-fall period, there are substantial numbers of salmon feeding prior to their spawning migration. Aleksei's goal is to find seasonal, annual and spatial patterns of epipelagic communities and connect the patterns to climate and oceanographic changes on the regional and on the global scale. To reach this goal he expects to analyze vast amounts of data collected during annual TINRO surveys since 2000 and available climatic data, including satellite images. Because the study region is not an enclosed water body, all processes and changes in communities depend a lot on what is going on in adjacent areas. This is especially relevant for Pacific salmon, as local and non-local stocks in Russian waters of Bering Sea migrate south from Aleutian Islands to Gulf of Alaska for winter period and then migrate again to west part of the Bering Sea to spawn. The question about how critical the winter period is for salmon survival remains to be answered. This complex expedition in the Gulf of Alaska will become a big step in answering this question. As a young scientist Aleksei is very interested in sharing and learning field methods and expertise with international colleagues. Participating in this expedition is a wonderful opportunity to work shoulder to shoulder with colleagues from Canada, USA, Japan, and Korea on solving this important question.
Igor Grigorov, VNIRO, Russia
Igor Grigorov is a biologist who is interested in pelagic (and not only) fish species and the conditions in which they live. He works in the international Department of VNIRO (Moscow) At the moment he is working on a doctoral dissertation – the biology and distribution of Pacific skates in the Northern part of the Pacific Ocean.
Wes Strasburger, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, USA
Wesley Strasburger is a fisheries research biologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Labs in Juneau Alaska. He is also currently a PhD student at the University of Alaska College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. His previous work has primarily been focused on feeding ecology during early life history of Alaskan fishes, including groundfishes, Pacific salmon, and spiny dogfish sharks. He has served as the Chief Scientist on U.S. fisheries oceanography and ecosystem surveys in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Chukchi Seas over the past 6 years. His PhD work is focused on the early life history ecology, growth, and subsequent recruitment of juvenile sablefish in the Gulf of Alaska.
Kristin Cieciel, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, US
Kristin Cieciel is a fisheries research biologist with the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau Alaska. She has provided research support and survey logistics for trawl-based marine surveys on forage fish in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska for over 17 years and works mostly on research involving the abundance and ecology of juvenile salmon and jellyfish in the North Bering and Chukchi Sea.
Tessa Minicucci, Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, USA
Tessa Minicucci is the Research and Evaluation Manager at Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (SSRAA) in Ketchikan, Alaska. Tessa serves as the biologist for SSRAA and oversees the return of millions of Chinook, coho, and chum salmon to numerous release sites throughout southern Southeast Alaska. Her work focuses on evaluating hatchery and wild salmon contributions to common property fisheries in the region to maximize survival and harvest of hatchery fish. Tessa received her M.S. from UAF where her thesis focused how interactions in the Bering Sea between western Alaska chum salmon and Asian pink and chum salmon affect chum salmon growth, age, and maturation. As a participant on the 2020 International Year of the Salmon survey, Tessa hopes to learn more about chum salmon growth rates and marine survival during their first year at sea to better forecast salmon returns and age-class compositions of salmon returning to Southeast Alaska in a changing marine environment.
Stacy Vega, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, USA
Stacy Vega is a research biologist with the State of Alaska's Department of Fish and Game, Commercial Fisheries Division. During her Master's work at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, she took part in surveys aimed at understanding early life history characteristics, including migration timing and growth rates, of juvenile salmon in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas. She is currently the assistant area biologist for Bristol Bay salmon and herring fisheries which includes leading multiple stock assessment projects in order to assist inseason management, as well as analyzing catch, escapement, and total run data to forecast the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world.
Sabrina Garcia, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, USA
Sabrina Garcia is a research biologist with the State of Alaska's Department of Fish and Game based in Anchorage. Her work focuses primarily on the early marine ecology (abundance, distribution, and diet) of western Alaska juvenile Chinook salmon in the Bering Sea in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She also leads surveys in the southern Bering Sea to determine the migration timing of Kuskokwim and Bristol Bay stocks of juvenile Chinook salmon. Some of her new projects include forecasting adult runs of Yukon River fall chum salmon, estimating the stock composition of immature Chinook salmon in the eastern Bering Sea, and identifying the migratory movements of salmon sharks in the Bering Sea ecosystem.
Rebecca LaForge, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Rebecca is a fisheries technician with the South Coast Stock Assessment Division of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, in Nanaimo, B.C. Her field work for the department has included swimming rivers counting salmon, sampling Chinook for the West Coast Vancouver Island Chinook Run Reconstruction Project, supporting juvenile salmonid studies in the Salish Sea, and working with local anglers to collect and manage data of recreational fishing catches.
Originally hailing from the Ottawa area, Rebecca moved in 2004 to Vancouver Island, whose beauty and ecological diversity immediately captured her heart. Her pre-DFO career included a carpentry apprenticeship that took her all over Western Canada into the Yukon and northern Saskatchewan, to coastal islands and more recently to Cadiz, Spain. Her academic studies — anthropology and resource management — led to adventures such as ethnographical research in Macedonia and ecological monitoring on Mitlenatch Island Nature Provincial Park in the Salish Sea.
Rebecca attributes the years of witnessing the destructive systems of resource extraction and the associated environmental decimation while working in the trades to her decision to dedicate her life to studying and conserving the precious environment. She is now an avid volunteer and enjoys organizing dump site clean-ups, supporting conservation and environmental education projects both with DFO and communities around Vancouver Island. Rebecca's passion for understanding and nurturing the environment extends beyond the aquatic world to the trees, skies and coastal shorelines where she studies birds whenever she has the chance. She loves to devote some of her (extremely early) mornings to the Vancouver Island Banding Station collecting important data on the health and survivorship of birds.
When Rebecca is not studying fish and birds or travelling the world, she enjoys sailing with her partner, scuba diving with her family in the Cayman Islands, camping, and dreaming of her next adventure. She plans to continue with her career in the sciences and purse studies in environmental anthropology looking at the intricate and ever-changing relationship of humans and their environment.
She's ecstatic to be a part of the GoA Expedition and to be working with — and learning from — an international dream team of scientists. Go team!
Tristan Blaine, Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance
Hailing from the small town of Rock Creek British Colombia, Tristan has followed his love of sharks and SCUBA diving to the Central Coast. Joining the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance in 2015, Tristan supports local resource management science and conducts dive research to learn more about Central Coast rockfish populations and inform the marine protected area network implementation. Recent trends in Central Coast salmon stocks led to Coastal First Nations contributing Tristan to join the Gulf of Alaska 2020 cruise to increase our understanding of salmon life while out at sea, and collaborate with the other GoA 2020 participants on potential actions to aid salmon going forward.
Natalie Mahara, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Canada
Natalie Mahara is a biological oceanographer with a particular fondness for zooplankton. Since completing her MSc on coastal zooplankton composition in British Columbia several years ago, she has been working to establish a baseline of microplastic concentrations in nearshore food webs in B.C. She has been involved in other projects and field programs involving Fraser River Estuary zooplankton communities, juvenile salmon outmigration, zooplankton fatty acid analysis, and science outreach and communication. She is attending the Gulf of Alaska 2020 Expedition to collect oceanographic data in the North Pacific to add to our understanding of the physical characteristics and lower trophic level dynamics in the open ocean.
Jacob Lerner, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Canada
I am a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in the Pelagic Ecosystems Lab under Dr. Brian Hunt. I am marine scientist with an interest in trophic ecology, biochemical tracers, and the impacts of climate change on marine food webs. My PhD research investigates stock-specific Chinook salmon marine trophic ecology off the BC Coast utilizing bulk/compound specific stable isotope analysis. I aim to investigate both this and Chinook habitat-use with the aim to connect these analyses with regional food web dynamics and climate change. I am also interested in using these tools to examine the quality of Chinook salmon as prey for threatened resident killer whale populations.
2020 Gulf of Alaska Trawl Net
This year, a special trawl net was built specifically for the Gulf of Alaska Expedition using funding from the DFO and Province of BC Salmon and Restoration Innovation Fund (BC-SRIF). Part of the scientific methodology is ensuring comparable results across expeditions. The net has a mouth opening of 24.9 Fathoms horizontally and 16.4 Fathoms vertically, and was custom built to replicate as closely as possible the configuration of the Russian net used during the 2019 Expedition on the Professor Kaganovskiy, and the net that will be used by the United States during the proposed 2021 Pan-Pacific High Seas Expedition. Scientists from Russia, Canada and the United States collaborated with Brian Mose from the Pacific Legacy on the development of the new net built by LSF Inc. in Seattle, WA. It is planned to use the net on the Canadian Coast Guard research vessel the R/V Franklin during the 2021 survey.
Why the Gulf of Alaska during Winter?
Chief organizers of the 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition, Dr. Richard Beamish and Dr. Brian Riddell, suggest that fish that grow faster survive better. It is believed that the 'readiness' of juvenile salmon to survive winters in the Gulf of Alaska may be determined during the first months at sea. The stocks of origin of salmon that we encounter and identify using DNA and health data (energy, content, pathogens etc.) will increase our knowledge of this potentially critical period for survival and production of B.C. salmon. These discoveries will be the basis for forecasting and managing salmon populations in a rapidly changing environment.
Updates from the Ship
The Pacific Legacy, with her commercial fishing crew of eight and 12 scientists from Canada, Russia and the United States, left Victoria harbour on the evening of March 11, 2020. As of March 20 they have completed 17 sets. There were no salmon in the two sets within the Canadian EEZ. In the next 15 sets we have approximately 440 salmon which exceeds the total salmon catch of 417 in our 2019 expedition. We are catching all species except for Chinook salmon but including one steelhead. It was a rough start with high winds, but the science crew recovered quickly and are in good spirits once they got their sea legs.
Until more of the survey area has been sampled, it is early to interpret results or variation in catch patterns. However, a first impression is that the catch pattern and abundances are different from last year. It is possible that the low catches last year were an index of the exceptionally poor coast wide returns of most species. If the stock specific catches this year relate to the returns this fall, it may show that these surveys can provide an early warning of return abundances. Our catches so far also contain excellent samples of chum, pink, coho and sockeye that will allow participants to test their hypotheses about the mechanisms regulating salmon production.
In addition to fishing, a CTD and plankton set has been conducted at each station and water samples for environmental DNA have been collected. The vessel and crew are scheduled to continue fishing the SW portion of the survey grid over the next few days. Following this they will be headed to Prince Rupert for fuel on March 24. Due to current conditions with the coronavirus, there will be no crew changes in Prince Rupert and the science team on board will continue for the duration of the expedition. Everyone is appreciative of the exceptional abilities of the crew of eight and the support of Brian Mose who is an owner of the vessel and can get anything done.
Where is the Vessel now?
Vessel Route
We receive the vessel's coordinates daily. This map shows the vessel's progress to date – April 7, 2020 (arrival)
Note: each feather on the arrow is 10 knots of wind
A Partnership with Industry Makes Major Contributions to the Success of the 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition
Long-time Captains and major players in the fishing industry, Brian Mose and John Roach have made some stellar contributions to the 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition
News Release:
Funders & Friends Virtual Information Session- June 12th, 2020
Virtual Press Conference - June 2nd, 2020
2020 GULF OF ALASKA EXPEDITION:
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS ANNOUNCED
Funders & Friends Virtual Information Session; June 12th, 2020
Virtual Press Conference; June 2nd, 2020
Dr. Richard Beamish and Dr. Brian Riddell discuss preliminary findings of the 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition in two special presentations, with comparisons to data from the 2019 International Gulf of Alaska Expedition.
Preliminary Results for the 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition Announced!
Media Coverage: 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition
Alaska Native News: NOAA Fisheries Part of International Team to Study Salmon in Gulf of Alaska Under Continuing Warm Conditions
Times Colonist: On the Hunt for Secrets of Pacific Salmon
Kamloops Matters: Glum Forecast for BC's Salmon Returns and Fisheries
CTV Victoria: International Team of Scientists Depart from Victoria to Research Salmon
SeaWest News: Salmon Sleuths Set Sail Again to Study Secrets of the Sea
Times Colonist: Expedition to Probe Pacific Salmon Survival
Victoria News: International Salmon Research Expedition Sets Sail for Alaska from Victoria
Times Colonist: Scientists score salmon bonanza on Pacific expedition
Homer News, Alaska: Seawatch: Scientific Survey finds High Catch Numbers
Times Colonist: Where, oh where, did the salmon go? Expedition Puzzled.
Times Colonist: Ship returns after international team spends months at sea studying salmon.
Launch of the 2020 Expedition
Relevant Documents:
Press Release: Launch of the 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition
Media Advisory: The 2020 High Seas Expedition Departs for the Gulf of Alaska
Event Plan: 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition Send-Off
Press Release: Preliminary Findings from the 2020 Gulf of Alaska Expedition Announced
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An image grab taken from a video obtained by AFPTV on Jan. 16, 2019, shows US troops gathered at the scene of a suicide attack in the northern Syrian town of Manbij.
The death of several Americans today in a suicide attack in the Kurdish-held Syrian city of Manbij has thrown another wrench into US plans for a rapid withdrawal from Syria. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack weeks after President Donald Trump touted the group's alleged defeat as the impetus for his decision to pull US troops out of Syria.
Questions abound: The fallout from the attack, which killed two service members, a Department of Defense civilian and a Pentagon contractor, remains in question. Meanwhile, Turkish media are reporting that a suicide bomber targeted a meeting of US and French troops with Kurdish militants at a Manbij restaurant. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 16 people died in the blast, including nine civilians.
All eyes on Trump …: Already dealing with the fallout from a weeks-long government shutdown at home, the US president now has to contend with new facts on the ground in Syria. Trump has pledged to cut down the United States' overseas troop presence, but his Syria policy has drawn fire from the Pentagon and State Department as well as from allies in Congress including Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Trump previously walked back his 30-day deadline for the pullout, but with the mission having little public support, today's attack may cause Trump to once again press for a speedy retreat.
… and Erdogan: The attack comes as Turkey-backed Syrian rebels are chomping at the bit to launch a full-scale assault to take back Manbij from the US-backed Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, which Ankara considers terrorists. Today's attack right on Turkey's doorstep may be all the justification Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan needs to act, especially if he gets a tacit green light from a US president eager to disengage from the chaotic conflict.
US residual presence: Even if Trump pivots back toward quickly pulling out of Syria, it doesn't mean US forces will completely leave the country. As news of the blast began breaking this morning, Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley, tapped by Trump last year to be the Pentagon's top military officer, indicated today that the United States still had a small pocket of Islamic State fighters left to finish off. "We've got the remnants, a relatively small amount of remnants of [IS] bottled up in a small geographic area and we are determined to finish that off and then hand the battle off to our indigenous partners," Milley said at an army association breakfast.
IS resurgence: IS has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack but did not make clear whether it was designed to hasten a US withdrawal from the country. The attack will inevitably raise questions about how strong the group remains, and could create public pressure for European countries including France to withdraw if their forces died in the attack. That could give IS some breathing room to regroup.
The White House is showing no inclination to review its analysis of the group's demise. "[IS] has been defeated," Vice President Mike Pence insisted today during a visit to the State Department during which he touted a list of the Trump administration's perceived foreign policy accomplishments.
Know more: Al-Monitor Pentagon correspondent Jack Detsch first reported on Defense Department concerns about a possible IS resurgence across Syria and Iraq back in August. And make sure to read Kadri Gursel on the limitations of Turkey's ability to take over from the United States in northern Syria.
Update: Jan. 16, 2019. This post has been updated with a US casualty count from the Department of Defense.


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Opinion | Who's Afraid of Al Jazeera?
2014 March/April, World
An American offshoot of the Qatari network makes some watchdogs nervous.
Media observers buzzed with consternation last August when Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned network that played such a dramatic role broadcasting the Arab Spring, bought Al Gore's cable network, Current TV, and launched Al Jazeera America. It hired seasoned American journalists, some of them Jewish, and promised to cover America for America. Dark predictions flew. Would Al Jazeera America fulfill the fears of Cliff Kincaid of the watchdog group Accuracy in Media, who in 2011 called for a congressional investigation into whether Al Jazeera English—the international service then available mostly on the Internet—was "playing a role" in homegrown American terror plots?
Months later, fears continue to bubble. For many, it rankles that the network broadcasts some programs from prestigious rented studio space in Washington's Newseum. For others, no amount of seemingly anodyne programming—on state abortion restrictions, domestic violence on Indian reservations and the dangers of gold mining, to cite a recent lineup—can trump their sense that the network is up to something shady. This despite the fact that the biggest news angle so far is the network's emphasis on outside-the-Beltway sources and its shunning of celebrity coverage such as singer Justin Bieber's arrest.
No one doubts that the original Arabic-language Al Jazeera drastically reshaped the world's media landscape. Robust, even rollicking debate came to dozens of countries where it had been unknown. The network was sharply criticized from the start for showcasing anti-American and anti-Israel bias, and specific outrages have attracted considerable attention: broadcasting Osama bin Laden, throwing an on-air "birthday party" in Gaza for the release of a Palestinian prisoner who had brutally murdered a four-year-old Israeli child, airing the violently anti-Semitic talk show hosted by the Islamist Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Al Jazeera sprang from plausible journalistic roots in 1995 when a liberal new Qatari emir, fresh from deposing his father in a coup, saw the chance to hire some 120 BBC-trained Arab journalists who'd been cut adrift after a failed attempt to start a BBC Arabic service. The companion Al Jazeera English service began in 2006, openly intended to clean up the Arabic service's anti-Western reputation. During the Arab Spring, both President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said they were watching it daily. Anti-Israel bias on the Palestinian question remains blatant on Al Jazeera English, but the network also covers Israel more broadly, and Israeli cable providers readily carry it in both languages. (At one point in 2007, Israel's second-largest cable network notoriously dropped CNN in favor of Al Jazeera English.)
There's always been copious head-scratching as to what the Qataris think they are getting for their money—the American venture cost them $500 million for the network alone. But it's quite possible that the emirs have found, like many media barons before them, that an empire built on actual journalism gives them more power and global influence than they could attain any other way.
Most observers draw a distinction between the space given to ranting "opinion" like Qaradawi and the network's wide-ranging if sometimes agenda-driven reporting. This isn't unanimous: Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg says he doesn't see how any Jew could accept money from an institution that employs Qaradawi. When Al Jazeera English first launched, it hired the well-respected (and Jewish) journalist Dave Marash as its marquee anchor in Washington. Marash vouched for the network, calling its Qatari bosses "Jeffersonian" in their commitment to free speech. But he resigned two years later, saying the Doha powers had insisted on covering some American issues, such as poverty, in "reductive" ways he couldn't support. Another close observer of the network, scientist Judea Pearl—father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl—fears that the Qataris want to "undermine the West in a Western way" and that respectful reception of Al Jazeera America could lend cultural legitimacy to the blatant transgressions by the Arabic-language network.
So far, the cultural impact of Al Jazeera America has apparently been nil. The network failed initially even to capture Current TV's 48 million households, partly because Time Warner and other carriers quickly dropped Current TV from their packages when the sale was announced. More damaging for the network, agreements it reached with the cable carriers required it to take down nearly all of its flourishing Internet content—a "terrible" deal from a business perspective, says Shawn Powers, a Georgia State University communications professor who has studied Al Jazeera for a decade. From 10 million views a day on YouTube, Al Jazeera's online U.S. traffic has become a trickle. If TV viewers have glimpsed it lately, it's by proxy, in the signs that say "#FreeAJStaff" held up on the air by some journalists—notably Christiane Amanpour on CNN—in solidarity with four Al Jazeera staffers jailed in Egypt.
Some see a sharp decline even in the once-mighty Arabic-language service, especially since 2012, when the network's longtime editorial overseer—a Palestinian-born, Western-trained journalist named Wadah Khanfar—was forced to resign in an improbable piece of collateral damage from the WikiLeaks scandal. (Leaked cables featured Khanfar agreeing, in conversation with the U.S. State Department, to tone down coverage; he was replaced by a member of the Qatari royal family.)
Does watching Al Jazeera pose a danger to viewers? I put the Cliff Kincaid question to Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an anti-terrorism think tank in Washington, DC: If a teenager in, say, rural Ohio starts watching Al Jazeera America, will he become a suicide bomber? Gartenstein-Ross thought not; the only effect he could imagine, he said, would be a sort of creeping loss of faith in the American dream, based on the station's dogged coverage of the underprivileged. This doesn't sound like the work of wild-eyed clerics, but you never know. Americans should make the effort to tune into Al Jazeera America—if only to sort out legitimate concerns from unfounded fears.
Amy E. Schwartz is Moment's opinion editor.
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Q: HTML and Typescript buttons without React? UPDATED CODE (still not working) I have been trying to figure out why my buttons weren't working on the html, and all of the tutorials I see use React or Angular. I was wondering if there is a way for my code to run without it.
This is the simplest I've gotten it down to and none of the examples I've been following have made it run.
Currently it's just a button that gives an alert, and I just need help to figure out how to get that small part to work
edits:
transpiled from .ts to .js,
changed the forgotBtn to same as eventListener

This is my HTML Code:

    <TITLE>Capstone Typescript Login</TITLE>

Billy Bronco's Grading Calculator

Log in

Register

        <link rel="stylesheet" href="Login.css">

Sign in

            <input id="se" type="email" placeholder="Email" required/>
            <input id="sp" type="password" placeholder="Password" required/>

            <input type="button" class="button" id="enter" value="Login">
            <input type="button" class="button" id="forgotPass" value="Forgot Password?">

Register

            <input id="re" type="email" placeholder="Email" required/>
            <input id="rp" type="password" placeholder="Password" required/>
            <input id="rrp" type="password" placeholder="Re write Password" required/>
            <input type="submit" onclick="register()" value="Submit"/>

Forgot Password

                <input id="fe" type="email" placeholder="Email" required/>
                <input type="submit" onclick="forgot()" value="Submit"/>

and this is my Typescript code:

class LoginTs{
    username: string;
    password: string;

    constructor(username: string, password: string ) {
        this.username=(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById("se")).value;
        this.password=(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById("sp")).value;

        let submitBtn= document.getElementById("enter")
        submitBtn.addEventListener("click",(e:Event) =>{ return loginTs.validateInput()});

        let forgotBtn= document.getElementById("forgotPass")
        forgotBtn.addEventListener("click",(e:Event) =>loginTs.validateInput());
    }

    validateInput(){
             return alert("wrong user or password but good job erin")
    }

let loginTs = new LoginTs("billy", "bronco");
loginTs.validateInput();

Thank You!

A: This is what jQuery did that made it so popular - until the DOM is built your JS won't be able to find anything. You want the hooking up of events to happen after the DOMContentLoaded event.
You also have a .ts file in your script tag, but you need the transpiled .js file for the browser. Change this to:

LoginTs.js is the default, or set wherever your tsconfig.json sets your output to.
Then your DOM queries don't match your HTML:
<input id="se" type="email" placeholder="Email" required/>
<input id="sp" type="password" placeholder="Password" required/>

this.username=(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById("email")).value;
this.password=(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById("password")).value;

Change this to:
this.username=(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById("se")).value;
this.password=(<HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById("sp")).value;

Next up you're trying to call onclick="validateInput()" on the forgot button but the method is an instance on loginTs declared with a let in a script file - you're best off subscribing all your controls the same way and avoiding onclick, but if you want to reference your instance methods outside the script you either need to switch to var loginTs or set a global explicitly window.loginTs, and you need to include the reference to the instance (i.e. loginTs.validateInput).

A: Assuming you are using babel or TS to compile your Typescript to a javascript output. You should then update your HTML from
<button onclick="validateInput()">Forgot Password?</button>

to
<button onclick="loginTs.validateInput()">Forgot Password?</button>

Your method validateInput lives within your class, and is therefore a class method. You need to prefix your method call with the class it belongs to. Which you set in the code:
let loginTs = new LoginTs("billy", "bronco");

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The Rest Is Silence
By James R. Benn
Part of A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
Category: Military Fiction | Historical Fiction | Crime Mysteries
Aug 04, 2015 | 384 Pages
Sep 02, 2014 | 352 Pages
About The Rest Is Silence
The fog of war surrounding D-Day and Operation Tiger provides cover for one of Billy Boyle's grisliest investigations.
When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sands on England's southern coast, US Army Captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshire beach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for the approaching D-Day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from. Luckily, Billy and Kaz have a comfortable place to lay their heads at the end of the day: Kaz's old school chum David lives close by and has agreed to host the two men during their investigation. Glad for a distraction from his duties, Billy settles into life at David's family's fancy manor, Ashcroft, and makes it his mission to get to know its intriguing cast of characters.
Just when Billy and Kaz begin to wrap up their case, they find themselves with not one soggy corpse on their hands but hundreds following a terrible tragedy during the D-Day rehearsal. To complicate things, life at Ashcroft has been getting tense: secret agendas, buried histories, and family grudges abound. Then one of the men meets a sudden demise. Was it a heart attack? Or something more sinister?
Also in A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
About James R. Benn
James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut, Billy Boyle, was named one of five top mysteries of 2006 by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee. A Blind Goddess was… More about James R. Benn
Published by Soho Crime
Aug 04, 2015 | 384 Pages | 5 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9781616955700
Sep 02, 2014 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781616952679
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Praise for The Rest Is Silence
2015 Barry Award for Best Novel Nominee
"This Billy Boyle World War II mystery is an exceptionally written book . . . the plot and historical sights and sounds are top-notch. Whether a reader holds WWII books or suspense books close to their heart, this one will be a true find."
—Suspense Magazine
"[W]ill be savored by any fan of historical mysteries… don't miss The Rest is Silence! Highly recommended."
"Everything about this particular entry in the Billy Boyle series and the series in general makes for great reading. Benn does his research, and it shows in the quality of his writing. The scenes are intense, the dialogue powerful and genuine. Spend some time with Billy Boyle. You'll be glad you did."
—The Weirs Times
"[A]n enthralling mystery combined with an interesting bit of history with the usual flair and clarity of the prior entries in the series."
—Midwest Book Reviews
"With its very smooth mix of mystery and historical references (with a dash of Downton Abbey), just about everybody will find something of interest in this fizzy retro cocktail."
"This series continues to grow, with the characters adding depth in each episode, and the ever-fascinating historical material dexterously tucked into the plot."
—Bill Ott, Booklist
"Benn offers a thrilling mix of fact and fiction in his ninth whodunit featuring Boston cop-turned-army investigator Billy Boyle. The affable and capable Boyle continues to grow as a character, and Benn effectively uses the impending Allied invasion of Europe as the background for the whodunit plot."
"[W]hiz-bang first-person narrative keeps the story afloat, and its Greatest Generation plot gives it an appealing sense of nostalgia."
"A double-edged sword of a novel. A ripping murder mystery and a meditation on the terrible costs of war—hidden and otherwise."
—Reed Farrel Coleman
Praise for A Blind Goddess, the previous Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
"James Benn has written a gripping and entertaining mystery, but also . . . realistically and sensitively explores the rarely discussed race relations and power struggles in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II Britain."
—Susan Elia MacNeal, author of the Maggie Hope mystery series
"One of Mr. Benn's best books of the series . . . A pleasure to read."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"[Benn] achieves an impressive authenticity of time and place . . . without sacrificing a sense of underlying urgency, and it's his engaging characters, complex whodunit(s), and subtle humor that will sustain the more traditional mystery reader. Those who are first initiated to Billy Boyle with A Blind Goddess will find it hard to resist the desire to revisit the author's earlier offerings."
"[An] excellent eighth Billy Boyle whodunit . . . The superior plot and thoughtful presentation of institutional racism directed against American soldiers about to risk their lives for their country make this one of Benn's best."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Benn's thoroughly researched exploration of segregation in the wartime armed services is revealing and sensitively handled. Another nice mix of human drama and WWII history."
"A Blind Goddess is a gripping, exciting entry in this outstanding series . . . The disparate storylines are clever and credible in their setup and execution, resulting in a superior mystery that fans of the series will thoroughly enjoy."
—Mysterious Reviews
"James R. Benn is getting even better . . . [A Blind Goddess] is all a big bag of delicious intrigue if you love World War II-era stories. Definitely a series you should look into."
"A good and disturbing read. Highly recommended."
Praise for the Billy Boyle series
"This book has got it all—an instant classic."
"Terrific . . . Razor sharp."
—Joseph Finder
"Full of action, humor and heart."
—Louise Penny
"Spirited wartime storytelling."
"A fast-paced saga set in a period when the fate of civilization still hangs in the balance."
"Consistently entertaining."
—WWII Magazine
"Stark and poignant."
"Benn's Billy Boyle mysteries are always entertaining, filled with riveting characters, and beautifully plotted stories."
"Benn does a superb job of simultaneously capturing the personal anguish of war and creating a splendid adventure novel."


Teeth are something most people just don't think about. After all, you shouldn't really be aware of your teeth unless something is wrong. We've grown up associating tooth and gum pain with common, but potentially very painful, problems like cavities or gingivitis.
Fast forward to when the natural teeth have deteriorated to the point that they must be fully extracted and replaced with dentures. Suddenly, the mouth has been completely changed, and a prosthetic device inserted – a big adjustment for most people, similar to a prosthetic limb. The long term success of permanent dentures as a replacement solution for natural teeth rests largely upon the first few weeks of adjustment, and the patient's attitudes towards their new teeth.
Though great strides have been made in the world of dental technology, greatly increasing comfort, quality and fit of dentures, having false teeth is still a different experience for most people. Being prepared for the change will help you acclimatize to the new normal much faster, and lead to your long term success as a happy denture wearer. There are 3 major areas of adjustment that can be expected when you wear your new dentures at home.
Let's unpackage these concepts to give new denture wearers a good idea of what to expect.
Eating. You may have heard that sticky or hard foods like nuts, nut butters, toffee, some meats and seeds should not be consumed with dentures, nor should you bite into hard fruits like apples due to the pressure this puts on the teeth and gums. This is only true for the first few weeks of denture wearing. You are still getting used to eating with your replacement teeth, so it only makes sense to practice on softer foods until you become used to eating with your dentures.
Do practice consciously chewing your food on both sides of the mouth equally, to reduce strain on pressure points in your mouth and strengthen your muscles on both sides.
Don't take your dentures out to eat. You may be tempted to do so, but the only way you will get used to eating with them is with practice.
Soreness and fit. It's normal for dentures to feel weird in your mouth at first, while your tongue and cheeks get used to keeping them properly in place. It might feel like every time you open your mouth to speak or laugh, they're going to fall out – but this really shouldn't happen! If it does, you might need to return to the denturist in Toronto who originally fit you, because your gums might have significantly shrunken during the healing process, resulting in a loose denture.
Do visit your Etobicoke denture clinic if you feel sore or irritated spots developing on your gums or cheeks.
Don't be alarmed if your mouth produces excess saliva at first. This is normal, and will pass.
Denture care. Just as you learned a routine around soaking your contacts at night, so too will you learn the basics of caring for your dentures: when not in your mouth, they should be soaked in water or a specially formulated denture cleaning solution.
Do use a soft-bristled toothbrush and a mild dish detergent or soap, to clean excessively dirty dentures.
Don't be tempted to soak your dentures in hot water; this can warp or damage the delicate bridgework.


Bacillus probiotics are now in my "use with caution" list.
ImmunoIn a recent post I suggested MegaSporeBiotic because it is full of different bacillus species [but only if you do not have histamine issues]. A reader pointed me at John Brisson's blog on megaspore. He raises a valid question in his post "Why I Do Not Recommend MegaSporeBiotic or My Issues With Bacillus licheniformis".
I reviewed this in a year ago with a do not take if you have histamine issues.
Burning lactic acid sensations in muscles and increase in severe fatigue.
I will not be trying them again.
John was kind enough to send me a followup draft. The manufacturer has launched a different version, Just Thrice, unfortunately it contains histamine producers still. A reader forwarded me a link to a Crohn's Disease targeted probiot, Perfect Pass, which I have also added to the table below.
As a FYI, Bacillus Indicus HU36 was obtained from the ocean  but marketing literature cites human source. While Bacillus Subtilis HU58 was from humans . Enterogermina contains 4 strains of Bacillus Clausii only.
I cannot give medical advise, I can provide education on what has been published else where (and the reader and their knowledgeable medical profession can draw their own conclusion).
"Live combined Bacillus subtilis and Enterococcus faecium ameliorate murine experimental colitis by immunosuppression manifested by downregulation of TLRs, macrophages, Th1, and Th2 but upregulation of Tregs."  So it appears to actually helps!
So we have had one death reported associated with this in almost 60 years of OTC use.
Liver abscess and bacteremia caused by lactobacillus: role of probiotics? Case report and review of the literature .
Remote transient Lactobacillus animalis bacteremia causing prosthetic hip joint infection: a case report .
The potential risks of probiotics among HIV-infected persons: Bacteraemia due to Lactobacillus acidophilus and review of the literature .
Incidence and outcomes of bloodstream infections among hematopoietic cell transplant recipients from species commonly reported to be in over-the-counter probiotic formulations.
Importance of Molecular Methods to Determine Whether a Probiotic is the Source of LactobacillusBacteremia .
If you want to play it safe, then definitely no yogurt or any fermented foods of any type. IMHO, the apparent risk is very very small.
Try — knowing that there is likely a low risk of the issues that he is concerned about, and a major risk of a beneficial shift and thus improvement.
Thank you Ken for such quick response and all information provided by me. It is a real pleasure, and it helps having your wonderful work on this blog that helps us both. Very valuable information.
What are your thoughts on single strain bacillus subtilus HU58, you had suggested bacillus sublitus natto as being beneficial for my overgrowth. I read up and am basically comfortable taking. I found it as a single strain and purchased it.
I'm confused. Was Enterogermina the product that was used by the 73 year old patient who developed septicemia?
They did not name the product in the article. Given where the patient was, and where Enterogermina is manufactured (same country), it is likely.


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Apple may not use Intel's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in 2020 iPhones
Femmy Lucas Last updated on July 10th, 2018
It seems that Apple will no longer be using Intel's modems in the iPhones they will manufacture in the future according to the report we received from our sources. The company told Intel that it will not be making use of its upcoming Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in the product lineup of 2020.
Our sources also said that this has made Intel stop the development of the chip which is codenamed Sunny Peak because Intel hoped Apple would be the company that would make others interested in the chip. Now, Intel will only be working on improving the chip in an effort to win Apple over with better performance for its lineup in 2022.
A representative at Intel stated that, "Intel's 5G customer engagements and roadmap have not changed for 2018 through 2020. We remain committed to our 5G plans and projects." We are still unsure if Intel will continue to provide Wi-Fi or Bluetooth chips.
The report doesn't however come as an entire surprise because late last month we had gotten a tip from one of our sources saying that Apple will no longer be using Intel's modems and it will start using those made by MediaTek. Further rumours state that Apple will also no longer use Intel's chips for its Mac devices beginning from 2020.
The reports we have thus far received only seems to raise further questions such as where Apple will be getting its modems from by the time it drops those created by Intel. Apple's supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote a research note in February this year stating that Apple's iPhones would rely more on Intel's modems during the course of the year because the company seeks to reduce its dependence on chips made by Qualcomm.
For all we suspect, Apple may want to make up with Qualcomm or maybe look into new manufacturers such as MediaTek. The ultimate guess could be that the company wants to start using its own processors like it tried to do before and in that wise, give itself more control over the components that make up an iPhone.
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On Monday, September 25, Lucas Holliday, an employee at store #10261 in Lansing, Michigan, catapulted his singing career to center stage of NBC's television show The Voice.
During the first round of blind auditions, Lucas sang R&B singer Maxwell's song "This Woman's Work" which earned him a place on singer Jennifer Hudson's team. Hudson and Holliday went on to sing Hillsong Worship's "God is Able" as a duet.
Last November, Lucas became an internet sensation when he was recorded singing a rendition of Maxwell's song "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)" while helping customers at Dollar General. The YouTube video gained Lucas national attention from publications such as Huffington Post, Today.com, NBCChicago.com and Good Morning America. Maxwell even took notice and invited Lucas to join him on stage to sing during a Detroit tour stop.
On Season 13 of The Voice, the lineup of judges includes singers Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Hudson. Contestants from all over the country compete in blind auditions for the top 48 spots and will go on to sing for the chance to win a recording contract.


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Sydney Surfers Get Too Close To Large Whale For Comfort
#MarineWildlife - Surfers in Sydney's Freshwater Bay have been accused of harassing a large whale that came close to the shore at the weekend.
The southern right whale, believed to be a female searching for a quiet place to calf, caused amazement when she swam into waters populated by surfers and swimmers near Australia's largest city.
But as the UK's Independent reports, such giant marine wildlife poses a serious danger to humans, with a surfer reportedly injured by a whale of the same species at Bondi Beach last year.
That didn't stop one group of surfing enthusiasts from paddling close to the whale, ignoring warnings over loudspeaker from the beach nearby.
"To be honest they were harassing it a bit," said local resident Ian Hansen. "They were so close and it had no room to move."
As ITV News adds, Australian law requires swimmers to stay at least 30 metres away from whales in the water, while boats and surfers must keep 100 metres' distance.
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Coakley Takes Silver Medal at World Cup in Sydney
#ROWING: Skibbereen man Richard Coakley took a silver medal at the World Cup Regatta in Sydney Australia. The 30-year-old, competing for the first time in a regatta for Australia, had to give way to the faster Wang Tiexin of China in the A Final of the lightweight single sculls. The two fought it out at the head of the race, but Wang had too much for Coakley and moved clear in the final 500 metres.
Coakley won a World Cup medal for Ireland in the lightweight eight in 2005. He rowed for Ireland at the Olympic Games in 2008, coming in as a reserve for Gearóid Towey in the lightweight four in the B Final in Beijing. He moved to Australia in 2010.
World Cup Regatta, Sydney, Australia (Irish interest)
Lightweight Single Scull – A Final: 1 China (Tiexin Wang) 7:05.54, 2 Australia One (R Coakley) 7:13.54, 3 Australia Two (J Harrison) 7:20.87; 4 Vietnam 7:22.75, 5 Hong Kong Two 7:33.45, 6 Vanuatu 7:54.72.
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Lambe Pulls Out of World Cup Rowing Regatta
#ROWING: Ireland will be without an entry at the World Cup regatta in Sydney this weekend. Claire Lambe, who was entered in the lightweight single sculls, has pulled out because of injury. The Dubliner has hamstring tendinitis. She has been competing with some success for Melbourne University Boat Club but plans to return home to Ireland as planned in the next two weeks.
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Derry-Born Surf Kayak World Champ Gets Congrats From Home
#Kayaking - Derry Mayor Martin Reilly offered his congratulations to native son Jake King on taking the surf kayak world title in Australia earlier this month.
As the Derry Journal reports, 18-year-old King was crowned champion after topping three other reigning top dogs in the men's longboat, masters and junior short boat in the final of the competition at Maroochydore beach in Queensland.
According to his father Paddy, Jake King can now add his name to the list of five previous world champions from the Canoe Association of Northern Ireland (CANI) surf kayak club - which includes his brother Corin.
In other kayaking news, a London paddler has broken the record for circumnavigating the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
BBC News reports on the feat achieved by 39-year-old George Shaw, who completed the 115km route around the island in 11 hours 43 minutes - smashing the previous record by almost an hour.
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Irishman Drowns While Diving Off Thailand
#Diving - The Irish Times reports that an Irishman has died in a diving accident in Thailand.
Twenty-nine-year-old Colin Callanan from Cork drowned off the island of Koh Tao off the east coast of the South East Asian country on Friday 12 April.
The exact circumstances surrounding his death have not yet been announced.
Callanan was diving in his spare time while on a work trip to the country. He had been based in Perth, Australia for the last six years, and was employed by an air conditioning firm since 2010.
The Irish Times has more on the story HERE.
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Crushing Incidents Restate Need for Safety Around Moored Vessels
#Safety - Two recent crushing accidents in the UK and Australia have restated the need for vigilance at the waterside even when boats are moored.
Yachting & Boating World reported last month on a port worker at Denton Wharf in Gravesend who was rendered critically ill after being crushed against a pier by a 40-tonne barge.
Thirty-six-year-old Michael Russell, a 20-year veteran of the wharf, was mooring the boat when the accident occurred. His wife Natalie said he "was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Elsewhere, Australia's 9 News reports that the body of a man in his late 20s or early 30s was recovered from the water in Sydney Harbour after falling overboard from a luxury yacht and being crushed against a mooring pillar.
Both incidents should serve as a reminder all those on or near boats moored at port or dockside to maintain the same safety standards they would while on the water.
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Man Saves Children from Shark Attack
#MarineWildlife - The video below from the Guardian captures the moment when a brave Welsh tourist wrestled a shark away from a beach crowded with children in Australia.
As BBC News reports, 62-year-old Paul Marshallsea took charge of the situation by grabbing the two-metre-long dusky shark by the tail and dragging it away from the shallows at the beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast - narrowly missing being bitten in the process.
"My instincts took over and I just grabbed the shark by the tail," said Marshallsea, who added that the ocean predator "nearly took my leg off in a split second - it was that quick."
Though few attacks by dusky sharks have been recorded, the species is regarded as "potentially dangerous" to humans due to their large size.
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Irish 'Happy to Be a Part' of First SUP and Paddleboard Worlds
#SURFING - Team Australia proved that when it comes to watersports, they're a step above most of the competition at the inaugural ISA World Stand-Up Paddle (SUP) and Paddleboard Championships in Lima, Peru recently.
The paddleboarding duo of Brad Gaul and Jordan Mercer each won three gold medals, along with the team gold medal and the perpetual Club Waikiki Trophy, which will be awarded to the overall team champion every year.
But for every powerhouse team like Australia, the USA and South Africa, there were teams like Ireland who arrived at the world championships to represent themselves well, but also to be able to say they were there for the beginning of something big.
"The event was just amazing, such a positive vibe amongst all the competitors, everybody that we met from local organizers to everyone at our hotel or the drivers," said Finn Mullen, who competed along with teammates Dave Owens, Paul Byrne, Ed O'Farrell, Keith Gorman and Jane Downes.
"They were all so stoked to have the contest and see us all here," Mullen added "and there was like this amazingly friendly vibe in the water, because really they were being super gracious to us, giving us the break for the entire week, and they couldn't be more accommodating and I couldn't me more happy that I was able to be a part of it."
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Irish Tourist Drowns in Melbourne
#WATER SAFETY - A 27-year-old Irish tourist had died after drowning in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The tourist and a colleague, who have not yet been named, had reportedly entered the Yarra River in central Melbourne around 9pm intending to swim across. Some minutes later screams were heard from the water.
"At first I thought they were joking, I think most people did," said David Brearley, a barman at the nearby Riverland bar who had warned the pair not to attempt the crossing - but responded to the calls for help and swam out into the river.
Brearley was able to take one man to the shore where he was treated by paramedics. But the other man was lost despite the assistance of other bystanders.
His body was discovered some three hours later floating near a bridge close to the incident.
Paramedic Susie Dean praised Brearley's actions as "absolutely heroic", noting that there is "a very strong current in the Yarra".
The Sydney Morning Herald has more on the story HERE.
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NI Fields First Full Team at Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships
#ANGLING - Two Newtownabbey anglers are part of a six-man Northern Ireland team competing at the 2012 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships, which started yesterday in Tasmania.
The Newtonabbey Times reports that Kenny Ferguson and team captain Alan R McDade set out for the Australian island last Wednesday for the competition that runs till 19 February.
They join Campbell Baird and Harvey Hutchinson from Carrickfergus, Banbridge angler Neil Cardwell and Harry McAteer Jr from Belfast for the week-long contest.
The six - who qualified from contests held throughout Ireland organised by the Trout Anglers Federation of Ireland - also comprise the first full team that Northern Ireland has entered in the competition.
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Hayamizu noted that mice taking Garcinia cambogia had lowered blood levels of leptin, resulting in conjecture that the supplement may improve the body's ability to use this hormone.
Although this strong extract has existed for hundreds of years it has only recently gained popularity after being mentioned on an episode of a doctor television show that was popular.
Kidneys and liver - since Hydroxycitric acid, manipulates how the liver system functions there are worries about the security of using Garcinia Cambogia.
This is possible due to hydroxycitric acid gotten from the rind of the fruit, which is a dynamic component responsible for rapid weight loss.
HCA stands for hydroxycitric acid, which is the natural extract that burns off fat.
Even by simply replacing one meal a day with a shake, you can easily see results with this.
He likely based his claims on a study of mice that raised a potential link between weight loss, and zinc, leptin.
Garcinia cambogia has side effects - it may lower an individual's blood sugar , so it can socialize with diabetes treatments.
Depends on many different variables including diet and exercise.
US Superior Garcinia Cambogia is loaded with 60% HCA extract (as per the recommendations by Dr OZ) and naturally procured calcium and potassium salts that are tremendously significant for the optimum absorption of HCA (Hydroxycitric Acid) HCA, the primary component of Garcinia Cambogia is extracted from the rind of this fruit.