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Votto Home Run Leads Reds Over Dodgers, 6-4
By Eric Stephen@ericstephen Jun 13, 2011, 10:24pm PDT
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A big seventh inning, capped by a three-run home run by Joey Votto, broke the tie and gave the Reds a 6-4 win over the Dodgers Monday night in the opener of a three-game set at Dodger Stadium. It was the fifth straight loss for Kuroda, who was done in by a pair of errors to begin the top of the seventh inning. Rookie Dee Gordon, making his first ever start at Dodger Stadium, figured prominently in several facets of tonight's game.
Gordon made two dazzling defensive plays in the third inning, robbing Brandon Phillips of a hit up the middle, then robbing Joey Votto on a ball that caromed off Kuroda. However, Gordon also made his first major league error on a ground ball to lead off the fateful seventh inning. At the plate, Gordon hit an RBI triple in the eighth inning, which snapped an 0-for-9 skid and was also the first extra-base hit and first RBI of his career.
Bronson Arroyo pitched 7 2/3 innings for the win, allowing four runs. It was the second victory for Arroyo over the Dodgers in 11 days. Kuroda allowed four runs (two earned) in his 6 1/3 innings for the loss. It was the fifth straight loss for Kuroda; the last Dodger pitcher to lose five straight starts was Brad Penny in 2008.
For more news and information about the Dodgers, or on tonight's game, be sure to read the SB Nation blog True Blue LA.
Dodgers Done In By Joey Votto, Reds In Homestand Opener
Vicente Padilla To Have Neck Surgery Thursday


Making a big pot of soup chockfull of vegetables is a weekend ritual around here, and Hungarian Bean Soup is a favorite.
1. Heat olive oil in a large stewpot. Sautè celery, onion, carrots, and garlic until vegetables begin to soften (about 10 minutes).
2. Add vegetable stock; heat to boiling. Reduce heat; add bay leaves, cover, and simmer until celery is soft (about 30 minutes). Add pinto beans, paprika, oregano, and basil. Cook for an additional 5 minutes.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste. Discard bay leaves and serve with sides of salad and/or crusty peasant bread.
Rebecca Valencia says that her children love these homemade refried beans. If you like spicy food, add cumin or jalapeños to the saucepan.
1. Pour the beans into a crockpot and fill to the top with water. Cook on low for about 9 hours or on high for 5 or 6 hours. When the beans are tender, add salt to taste. Pour the bean broth into a bowl and set aside.
2. Pour the beans into the blender. Gradually add the bean broth and puree the beans. Don't add too much water-the beans will be soupy instead of thick and creamy.
3. Heat olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the pureed beans and cook until heated through. Serve with your favorite Central or South American dishes, or refrigerate and reheat for a later meal.


Using data from 207 college students, the interactive effects of an applicant's accent (standard American English vs. Arabic), attire (no hijab vs. hijab), and job status (low vs. high) on perceived applicant characteristics (i.e., competence and warmth) and employment-related decisions (i.e., job suitability and hiring recommendation) were examined. Inconsistent with the hypotheses, results showed that an Arabic-accented and an applicant wearing a hijab were not rated as less competent and warm compared to a standard American-accented applicant and an applicant not wearing a hijab, respectively. Additionally, an Arabic-accented applicant wearing a hijab was not perceived as less competent and warm. However, when it came to employment-related decisions, an Arabic-accented applicant was considered less suitable for a low status job compared to a standard American English-accented applicant. When an applicant did not wear a hijab, an Arabic-accented applicant was rated less suitable for a high status job compared to a standard American English-accented applicant. A standard American English-accented applicant wearing a hijab was rated as less suitable compared to those not wearing a hijab for a high status job. The results of the study indicate that a foreign accent and hijab could serve as bases for stigma. Consequently, foreign-accented applicants and applicants who wear a hijab might suffer disadvantages in an employment setting. Organizational strategies such as job-structured interviews are discussed to minimize the negative impact of such stigmas.
Nguyen, Bonnie, "The Interactive Effects of Accent, Attire, and Job Status on Employment-Related Decisions" (2015). Master's Theses. 4605.


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Issues and downloads 2018 November 2018 .NET Core - Publishing Options with .NET Core
.NET Core - Publishing Options with .NET Core
By Jamie Phillips | November 2018
The advent of .NET Core brings a new paradigm for publishing your applications with the introduction of two new techniques: framework-dependent deployments (FDDs) and self-contained deployments (SCDs). Each option has advantages and disadvantages that need to be considered before publishing. In this article, I explore both approaches by building a sample application and discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each. I then take a brief look at an additional deployment option—CoreRT—that's in the early stages of development.
Publishing with .NET Core brings a lot of information to consider. Traditionally, the typical deployment option for a desktop or console application in the .NET Framework has been an executable. For an ASP.NET application, it's a DLL. These were the only available options and they were dependent on the type of application being built. With the new paradigm, the significant aspect is whether .NET Core is installed or not. The FDD technique requires that .NET Core be installed while the SCD technique brings the .NET Core runtime with it, which means it can run on a machine that doesn't have .NET Core installed. An ASP.NET application can now additionally be packaged as a standalone console application because it brings its own Web server (Kestrel) as an executable.
For my exploration of the two approaches, I'll use .NET Core SDK 2.1 along with a command-line interface. You can find instructions for installing .NET Core 2.1 at microsoft.com/net/download. I'm using PowerShell almost exclusively to run all the commands that I show in the article, but the command prompt (cmd.exe) should work just fine, as well, and, in fact, these commands will execute on the shells of other OSes, including macOS and Linux. Finally, to experiment with SCDs, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is invaluable for enabling first-hand testing of any executables created for Linux. You can learn more about WSL at bit.ly/2Nj7FuQ.
Sample Application
I'm going to create a very basic sample application for testing the two publishing methods using .NET Core 2.1. This will be a console application that prints hello along with the name provided. You can use either cmd.exe or PowerShell to input the following code:
> dotnet new console -o Publishing
Once the new console application has been created, I open Program.cs and enter the following code:
namespace Publishing
static void Main(string[] args) => Console.WriteLine($"Hello {args[0]}!");
When I execute the application, I see this:
> dotnet run -- Jamie
Hello Jamie!
As you can see, it works as expected. As a quick aside, the two hyphens syntax (--) is how parameters are passed to the application when using the "dotnet run" command. With my console application complete, I can dive into the publishing methods.
The Publish Command
First, let's look at the options available with the publish command by executing it with the "-h" (help) option:
dotnet publish [<PROJECT>] [-c|--configuration] [-f|--framework] [--force]
[--manifest]
[--no-build] [--no-dependencies] [--no-restore]
[-o|--output]
[-r|--runtime] [--self-contained]
[-v|--verbosity] [--version-suffix]
Note that two of these options are especially useful when publishing .NET Core applications: --runtime and --self-contained. These options are used together; runtime specifies which runtime or runtimes should be targeted when creating an SCD, while self-contained signals that a self-contained package with the runtime needs to be created. If the runtime option is passed, the self-contained option is automatically applied.
Other choices to note are the no-restore and no-build options. The no-restore option won't execute the implicit restore when running the publish command. The no-build option won't build the project or run the restore command, so the publish command will run against the existing build. This is useful in continuous integration/continuous deployment scenarios because a build and restore won't be triggered multiple times. Last, the framework option allows the framework version to be specified. The official documentation can be found at bit.ly/2pizcOL.
Framework-Dependent Deployments
FDDs are the default when executing the publish command under the .NET Core CLI. The publish command creates a platform-agnostic application that can run on any .NET Core runtime that's equivalent to or newer than the minor version used to build the application (though version 2.0 won't run something that targets 1.x, and 3.0 won't run something that targets 2.x). Because the targeted runtime isn't packaged with the application, this option yields the smallest package. If several applications are going to be deployed to a system, allowing the runtime to be shared among the applications reduces overall memory and disk usage on the system. Another advantage of the shared runtime is that any future runtime updates will apply to all applications.
Let's walk through publishing the sample application as an FDD by entering the following at the command line:
> dotnet publish
This creates output in the bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0 folder, including the file publishing.dll. This 5KB DLL is the application. Next, run the application using the dotnet CLI, like so:
> dotnet Publishing.dll Jamie
That's all there is to it.
FDD provides several benefits, including a smaller deployment package, a system-managed runtime, and the ability to share the runtime among multiple apps to reduce disk and memory usage. The app is also guaranteed to run on any platform that has a compatible runtime installed.
The disadvantages of FDDs are that system-wide runtime updates could cause issues as they might be incompatible, and that your application can only run on the framework version (or newer) with which it was compiled. It also requires users to have installed that version of the .NET Core runtime on their machine prior to executing the application.
Self-Contained Deployment
Now let's look at the second approach to publishing provided with the .NET Core CLI—SCDs. I'll use the same publishing command as I did before, but this time I'll pass a runtime identifier (RID) as an option to the publish command. The RID tells the .NET Core CLI which platform or platforms to target when creating the application. In this example, I'll create a Windows 10 x64 build of the application. Any platform can be targeted from any OS, allowing executables for other OSes to be created from Windows. Here's the command I use for this sample:
> dotnet publish -r win10-x64
Notice that there's a subfolder created under the netcoreapp2.0 folder that's named after the target runtime passed. Inside the win10-x64 folder, you'll see that there's now an executable instead of a DLL. That executable is 77KB, which is 72KB more than the previous application. I can run the executable to show that it still works:
> .\Publishing.exe Jamie
Now that I have an SCD for Windows 10 x64, I'll build one that targets Ubuntu x64, like so:
> dotnet publish -r ubuntu-x64
I can then utilize WSL to test that the Ubuntu version executes as desired. I open WSL from Windows and make the newly created application executable, so I can I execute it to make sure it's working. Here's that input and the resulting output:
> chmod +x Publishing
> ./Publishing Jamie
The upside of SCD is that the .NET Core runtime is controlled and shipped with your application. This is convenient for users, as they aren't required to install the runtime, and any system runtime changes won't impact your application. On the other hand, SCD creates larger deployment packages because the runtime is shipped with the application. You also need to know your target platforms in advance to generate packages for each target. Moreover, every time there's a runtime update that includes security or bug fixes, you must republish every application on the machine to get these fixes rather than installing a single machine-wide runtime update.
In the past, the approach to distributing .NET applications had been to require the .NET Framework to be installed or to package it with the installer. With .NET Core and SCDs, there's no longer a need to create a special installer to deliver a basic application.
As positive as SCD is, there's still one looming issue when deploying these applications to a Linux system. The runtime dependencies for .NET Core aren't included with SCDs, which means users won't need to install the runtime. However, users will need to install six dependencies from the package manager for the Linux distribution. For example, on Ubuntu the following dependencies will still need to be installed:
liblttng-ust0
libcurl3
libssl1.0.0
libkrb5-3
zlib1g
libicu52 (for 14.x)
To resolve this issue, a developer needs to package the SCD application in a native package format for the distribution so additional dependencies can be defined.
While this may be a negative, the positive is that users don't have to add any of the additional package repositories that would be required if the .NET Core runtime needs to be installed.
SCD is fascinating and deserves more discussion. Though there are several pieces that go into making SCD work, as part of the .NET CLI installation there are two components that really contribute to this. The first component is the shared runtime, which is a redistributable version of the .NET Core runtime and is consumed by the CLI and end users. The second component is the shared host, which is responsible for consuming the DLL that's generated as part the publish process. The shared host is a generic apphost that allows any .NET Core library (DLL), to be executed as an application. When "dotnet run my.dll" is executed, my.dll is being hosted inside of this shared host. When the SCD application is packaged, what's happening is that the shared runtime, the shared host, and the application DLL are placed together in an executable package, an .exe for Windows, or an appropriate executable file for Linux and macOS. The actual documentation for this design can be found in the .NET CLI repository at bit.ly/2QCgZIp.
Runtime Identifiers
RIDs indicate the supported platforms for creating self-contained deployments for platforms other than Windows. For example, Windows 10 supports x86, x64, ARM and ARM64. Support for ARM addresses Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT) devices. On Linux, only x64 is supported, with the following distributions: Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, OpenSuse, Oracle, Tizen and LinuxMint. In macOS, versions 10.10 through 10.13 are supported. Finally, Android is supported in .NET Core 2.0 or later, which also introduces a portable RID that will build all options for a particular target group. More information can be found in the RID catalog located at bit.ly/2PKXRXi.
CoreRT Deployments
In addition to FDD and SCD, a third option being worked on at Microsoft, called CoreRT, offers the ability to generate native binaries from .NET Core-based code. CoreRT performs ahead-of-time (AoT) compilation using the CoreCLR just-in-time (JIT) compiler. This allows .NET Core code to produce both single executables and libraries that can be consumed by other languages like C++. CoreRT lets .NET developers create libraries and executables that are native to the targeted platform, providing a wider reach for the .NET platform.
Getting started with CoreRT is as simple as adding a NuGet package to a project. Inside the sample project I've been working with, I simply run the following command:
> dotnet new nuget
With the nuget.config file added, I then call to the .NET MyGet feed using the following lines:
<add key="dotnet-core"
value="https://dotnet.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/api/v3/index.json"/>
<add key="nuget.org"
value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" protocolVersion="3"/>
Next, I add the CoreRT NuGet package, like so:
> dotnet add package Microsoft.DotNet.ILCompiler -v 1.0.0-alpha-*
And then I run publish, passing in the platform RID, as shown here:
> dotnet publish -r win-x64
Finally, I can test the application as a natively compiled application. The application is created in a folder called native and is roughly 6KB in size, which is close to the size of the FDD application and doesn't require any runtime to be shipped with it, as it would using SCD.
The pros of CoreRT are native compilation to a single native binary, with dependencies included, for each target. Execution is faster, because JIT compilation isn't required, and the application should have faster throughput due to compiler optimizations for each target.
The cons are that the application must be compiled for each target platform, which needs to be selected in advance. There's also, for now, the small matter of CoreRT being in pre-release stage.
CoreRT applications work very similarly to how SCD applications work. There's a small native execution engine, the CoreRT native runtime, which provides runtime services like garbage collection that gets compiled with the application into a single native package. And there's a managed portion of CoreRT that's written in C#. The .NET Core application is first compiled with the Roslyn Compiler, then the application, along with CoreRT and CoreFX, is passed through an intermediate language compiler that analyzes the dependencies and shakes the tree so only the absolute minimum number of libraries will be compiled into native code using a compiler based on LLVM. Finally, a linker is used to link the CoreRT native runtime with the compiled native output from the application to produce the final native executable. Matt Warren has an awesome blog post about the subject at bit.ly/2NRS5pj, and of course the GitHub repository for CoreRT has links to parts of the design at github.com/dotnet/corert.
SCD offers one big advantage over FDD—it doesn't require the user to install any additional software to support an installed application. I'm used to just building applications for Windows where the .NET framework is typically already available. But when .NET Framework isn't installed, or the wrong version is installed, it can create bad experiences for users.
.NET Core promises to change this, as it will require users to install not only the runtime but a specific version of the runtime to support your application. SCDs may produce larger applications (and, therefore, larger downloads) because the runtime is packaged with the application, but this allows the user to install the application without having to worry about additional requirements. For users outside of Windows, such as those for macOS and Linux, SCD is the common experience that users expect, and it will help with the adoption. In environments that are controlled by the developer or organization, this becomes less of an issue, and FDD would likely have the advantage.
CoreRT—compile to native—deployments are still in the very early stages. These deployments will offer many of the advantages of both FDD and SCD, with no framework installation required and compact application files. However, there's still a journey ahead to make this approach functional.
Jamie Phillips is a senior software development engineer at SentryOne, located in East Tennessee. He's been working with .NET since 2007 and has a keen interest in DevOps and the cloud. He can be found on Twitter: @phillipsj73, his blog at phillipsj.net and GitHub as phillipsj.
Thanks to the following technical experts for reviewing this article: Andrew Hall (Microsoft), Daniel Oliver, Cameron Presley (SentryOne)
Andrew is the Program Manager lead for the .NET, Web and Azure App Service tools in Visual Studio. After graduating from college, he wrote line-of-business applications before returning to school for this Master's degree in computer science. He then joined the diagnostics team in Visual Studio working on debugging, profiling and code analysis tools. He now works in the .NET and Web tools team, where he leads the team of program managers responsible for the core .NET development experiences, including projects, IntelliSense, productivity, and Azure tooling support.
Cameron Presley is a Microsoft MVP helping developers improve one day at a time.
Daniel Oliver is a software developer in Tennessee learning and building new things using .NET and Azure
Hello, Thanks for writing this article! I would just like to ask, after we publish the files as SCD, how do we deploy it to azure still using a CLI? Thank you!
Explore the publishing options for .NET Core applications. Two of these-- framework-dependent deployments and self-contained deployments--ship out of the box. A third still in development is called CoreRT deployments and generates native binaries fro...

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Mendel Samayoa, a Guatemalan artist whose work has brought him both national and international prestige.
After a series of successful international exhibitions between 2013 and 2015 in England and the United States Mendel Samayoa was invited by the Vice Ministry of Culture to exhibit his work at the Palacio Nacional de Guatemala. Relatos Asimétricos 1 (Asymmetric Stories 1) included twenty-plus new works and more than twenty-five retrospective pieces.
Relatos Asimétricos 2 quickly followed with thirty new compositions that were showcased in San Pedro Sula, Honduras in March 2017. In October of the same year, an additional twenty pieces made up Relatos Asimétricos 3 which was shown at the Artist Room in La Antigua Guatemala's Casa Santo Domingo.
In 2018, Samayoa inaugurated yet another exhibit in Quetzaltenango and another showcased at the Penthouse Cayalá in Guatemala City. In May Penso debuted at the Pensativo House Hotel in La Antigua.
With dozens of new works in oil on canvas, in varied dimensions, a diversity of themes and his characteristic stamp, Samayoa's artistry has brought him both national and international prestige. Strong and sure stroke, unexpected characteristic textures and the revealing human gestures of his famous "washed silhouettes" as the center of inspiration, Samayoa takes us through a unique path that reveals his artistic sensibilities which incorporates figurative expressionism and anthropomorphic surrealism that generate powerful and intriguing art.
He explains, "I consider myself a lover of the unforeseen, the insurgent and the suggestive. I am a visual provocateur that celebrates imperfection.


On behalf of Jacobs & Dow, LLC posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
Connecticut residents depend on their healthcare providers for diligent and informed care. They expect to receive assistance from a doctor and hospital in treating a disease or other ailment. In fact, the very last thing any individual would expect upon entering a hospital for care is to be somehow harmed by the visit itself. But, this may be exactly the case for an individual who went to a doctor for shortness of breath issues recently.
The 68-year-old man went to the emergency room after experiencing shortness of breath one evening in February 2009. The doctor attending to him sent the man home after an examination and tests. Two days later, the man was being brought into the hospital again, this time by ambulance, when he died. The deceased's family recently brought a medical malpractice claim against the hospital and the attending doctor.
Usually, at the heart of any medical malpractice claim is the question of whether the care delivered to the patient met the standard of care as measured against what would be expected from other professionals in the field. That's the question that is now before an eight-person jury in connection with this case out of Iowa.
The deceased man's loved ones' claim of negligence is backed by their argument that the doctor who first saw him in the ER should have been more thorough in his examination and analysis of the man. They say if he had been, the man would not have died. The defense argues that the doctor did all he could to care for the man.
At the time this post was written, the jury had reportedly deliberated for three hourswithout coming to a verdict. Deliberations were due to continue the following day, but it's not known whether the case has been resolved.
Source: The Hawk Eye, "Jurors ponder verdict in medical malpractice suit," Andy Hoffman, Oct. 2, 2012.


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August 15th, 2011 by Mark Barley
Arkham City PC Version Will Have 3D Support
The upcoming October edition of PC Gamer has lifted the lid off of Batman: Arkham City and different features the PC version of the game will have from the console versions.
The PC version of the game will have 3D support as well as Physx enhanced effects.
"Thanks to the high-altitude gliding and swinging, the depth effects of 3D really stand out in Arkham City, though it does make a dark game look that much darker," noted PC Gamer.
It is noted that you will need a 3D monitor, enhanced GPU, and 3D glasses.
"In [the courthouse battle], the not-so-subtle PhysX enhancement causes a wooden wall to splinter as inmates are flung against it."
Batman: Arkham City is out on October 18 in the US and October 21 in Europe for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Via Arkham City UK


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Description of the institution that represents and lines of work
The entity is responsible for the conservation of marine and coastal biodiversity in the management of marine protected areas throughout the territory of Senegal. The lines of work focus on the warning and monitoring system in case of invasion (algal settlements, invasive species or toxic algae, influence on fish and shellfish).
Description of the work he performs within the MIMAR project.
The entity participates directly as an institution of third country beneficiary of the following activities:
Characterization of maritime traffic and of existing species or commu- nities in docks, hulls, ballast water and sediments in the tanks of ships or oil rigs that reach the ports of the region.
Monitoring of the biological communities (fauna and flora) settled in the interior and exterior of the port facilities determined the interactions that exist between these and the native species.
Development of protocols for the control and surveillance of introduced exotic species, especially those of an invasive nature that affect the Natura 2000 Network.
Identification of the species capable of developing toxic algal blooms (HABs, Harmfull algae Bloms) and their distribution in the region.
Development of a surveillance, alert and coordinated monitoring protocol in the region, through the creation of an observatory.


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First Single from the brand new Crookers album "Tons of Friends". I'm listening to it right now and it's awesome. You should get a copy as well.
This is a combination between the Crookers and their canadian friends Poirier and Face-T the result is a Soca/Dancehall/House/Electro mash. Major Lazer can take a leaf out of their book!


Your boss has disproportionate influence on your success. It's important to explain what you're doing and get his/her support. This toolkit helps you navigate through the Boss and HR presentations and teaches you about fostering a Roadmap dialogue with HR. You'll learn how to present yourself, and your ideas, so they are the most powerful. Lastly, we provide a decision tree for HR next steps so you can keep the momentum going.


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Radio Review: The New Viking Invasion
By Olivia Montuschi
Depending on which clinic they attend in the UK, people needing sperm donation to conceive may find themselves being directed to the website of the European Sperm Bank (ESB) based in Copenhagen, rather than a list of home grown sperm donors. The trend for using Danish sperm was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary called The New Viking Invasion. Researched and narrated by fertility author and blogger Kate Brian, this was a light-hearted, but nevertheless serious look at why so much Danish sperm is imported into this country.
The important question of why there are insufficient sperm donors in the UK was tackled first. There is, of course, no single straightforward answer. Dr Allan Pacey, andrology lecturer at the University of Sheffield, said that about 500 donors are needed to meet all UK needs, and despite recruitment having become more successful, there was still a gap between demand and supply. He regretted that NHS funding procedures did not take into account the interview and testing processes that potential donors have to go through before they can be accepted into a donor programme. Some private clinics specialise in recruiting sperm donors but they like to keep the fruits of their efforts for their own patients and won't sell to others.
The programme also pointed out that clinics like to keep their own patients and prefer them to import sperm from ESB rather than sending them to a UK clinic that has recruited donors successfully. Several people, including Dr Jane Stewart, head of Newcastle Fertility Centre, where donors have always been in short supply, acknowledged that identifiability is not now thought to be a problem in donor recruitment.
So how come ESB has managed to be so successful in encouraging men to donate sperm? The answer to this question seems to be that they have nothing else to distract them. They don't do treatments: they simply facilitate the donation of sperm, distribute it around the world and get paid for it.
In 2006 there were no imports of sperm from Denmark. Now Danish sperm accounts for a third of the sperm imported into the UK. Danish donors are certainly popular with UK women and families, possibly because Danish people feel culturally close to the UK and are seen as a strong and dependable nation.
But does it matter that so many children are being created with Danish sperm? We won't know for some years yet how the children feel about it (the oldest are likely to be no more than seven now). If most of the donors are as open to contact as the ones interviewed by Kate seemed to be, then maybe there won't be a problem, but do the donors really understand the implications of being available to offspring once they turn 18? They don't have counselling like they would in this country. The UK limit may be ten families, but ESB send sperm around the world and 25 is apparently an average pregnancy rate for each donor. Allan Pacey thought that some super-successful donors were probably used much more and were likely to be very profitable: money really is the bottom line.
Whilst a second Viking invasion is probably not an imminent worry, putting more effort into recruiting UK donors is needed and Laura Witjens from the National Gamete Donation Trust mentioned the possibility of a national sperm bank in the UK. Now there's a good idea, but would the clinics co-operate? The Hub and Spoke idea of some years ago died from the inability of clinics to agree. Whilst clinics and sperm banks are tied together I am rather afraid that private sector interests will prevent a spirit of public interest prevailing. I hope I'm wrong.
Is the UK sperm donor shortage a myth?
18 May 2015 - by Dr Kamal Ahuja
For the first time, a British sperm bank has sufficient stocks and donors to begin supplying clinics registered by the HFEA. The move marks a shift in the dynamics of UK sperm donation and would suggest that the perception of any shortage of donor sperm in Britain is no longer true...
Radio Review: Out of the Ordinary - Desperately Seeking Sperm
26 January 2015 - by Simon Hazelwood-Smith
The world of unregulated sperm donation is revealed as an underground market of desperation, exploitation and remarkable characters.
UK national sperm bank given green light
11 August 2014 - by Simon Hazelwood-Smith
The first national sperm bank is to be opened in England this October after receiving a £77,000 grant from the Department of Health...
An extraordinary bank for extraordinary people
28 July 2014 - by Natasha Canfer
In July 2014, the Department of Health announced that it had awarded the National Gamete Donation Trust funding to set up an independent National Sperm Bank in partnership with Birmingham Women's Hospital....
Age of sperm donors does not affect IVF success
30 June 2014 - by Siobhan Chan
The age of sperm donors has no impact on the chances of having a baby via IVF and donor insemination, a study has found...
Investigation into fertility clinic worker who switched sperm 'inconclusive'
28 April 2014 - by Julianna Photopoulos
A University of Utah committee has concluded its investigation into allegations that in the early 1990s a fertility clinic worker allegedly switched a couple's sperm sample with his own....
Knowing your donor: How can we best recruit and keep donors?
7 April 2014 - by Dr Ruth Curson
Sadly, there are currently not enough egg and sperm donors in the UK to meet our needs. Recipients are now seeking alternative routes to find donors, either by travelling abroad or from unregulated internet sites: both with the potential for unwanted consequences...
Liverpool fertility clinic imports sperm after fall in donors
13 May 2013 - by Rivka Marks-Maran
A Liverpool fertility clinic has been forced to import sperm from Manchester and London after a significant fall in local donations...


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What would happen if Iceland voted now?
'Elections now!' was the simple demand of these protestors on Monday. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Kristján
Protestors in Iceland have been demanding early general elections – but how would elections, say, tomorrow affect the shape of Iceland's parliament?
The Icelandic parliament is called Alþingi (pronounced 'Althingi'), a democratic institution which can trace its history right back to 930 AD and the first Norse settlers.
63 MPs elected from Icelandic constituencies by proportional representation sit in Alþingi and pass national legislation.
The Iceland Parliament in Reykjavik. Photo: Ómar Óskarsson
A total of 32 MPs is needed to form a majority government. Representatives of six parties currently sit in Alþingi and the government is a two-party coalition.
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Based on the very latest opinion poll reported on this morning, the open-democracy Pirate Party would be the runaway winners, with 43% of the vote.
On the basis of the raw percentages alone, this would give the Pirate Party 29 seats out of 63, a hair's breadth away from an absolute majority. They currently have just three MPs in Alþingi.
The Pirate Party could from just three MPs to almost thirty. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Styrmir Kári
In this case, the Pirate Party would have the first crack of the whip at forming a coalition.
Given the numbers of MPs estimated for the other five parties, the Pirates could form a two-party coalition with any of them.
The current fall from grace of the Progressive Party (led by the beleaguered Prime Minister) and the major ideological differences between the Pirate Party and the Independence Party make these two options unlikely.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir (left) is leader of the Left-Green Movement, while Árni Páll Árnason (right) leads the Social Democratic Alliance. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Kristinn Ingvarsson
The Pirates could form a comfortable majority either with the Left-Green Movement (37/63) or the Social Democratic Alliance (36/63).
By contrast, the only possibility of a majority government not involving the Pirates would have to be a four-way alliance of the other four parties – a highly unlikely and unstable prospect. The Bright Future party would disappear from Alþingi according to the lastest poll.
(All MP figures for 2016/17 quoted here are estimates based on raw percentages only.)
It is not yet known when exactly Iceland will next be going to the polls. Photo: Iceland Monitor/Brynjar Gauti
The chart below shows the current make-up of Alþingi (after the 2013 elections) and a possible future distribution based on the latest opinion poll. It is not yet clear whether elections will take place early, i.e. 2016, or in 2017 as originally planned.
Hover over the different-coloured little MPs to see exact data.
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High Winds Fan Custer State Park Fire in S.D.
The Legion Lake Fire has rapidly moved east of Custer State Park, forcing evacuations, and making firefighting difficult.
A fire that broke out early Monday morning in Custer State Park in South Dakota near Legion Lake has quickly spread to over 4,000 acres, according to park reports, and was last reported at only 7 percent contained.
According to the Custer County Sheriff's office, Hwy 79 was closed from Maverick Junction to Hermosa the evening of Dec. 12 and remains closed until further notice.
The official cause of the fire remains under investigation, but original reports listed a power line as the potential cause. The blaze started near the intersection of U.S. Highway 16A and S.D. Highway 87 North early Monday morning.
The Legion Lake Fire has rapidly moved east of Custer State Park, forcing evacuations, and making firefighting difficult. Smoky conditions are making the exact location of the fire difficult to find, and park officials believe spot fires are popping up within a half mile of the fire flank.
The fire has moved out of the Custer State Park boundary, and Custer County Sherriff's Office has expanded evacuations to include Cobb, Downen, Dry Creek and LH roads, and all areas south of Buffalo Gap, but not including Buffalo Gap residents. Residents at risk east of the Custer State Park boundary near Wildlife Loop Road and LH Road were also evacuated.
Firefighters have worked to protect structures including the popular Blue Bell Lodge, Legion Lake Lodge, and the State Game Lodge, but all remain threatened. Five homes in the park have been evacuated and one unused building was burned down. No one has been injured.
Custer County Dispatch has more evacuation information and can be reached at (605) 673-8176.
Custer County Search and Rescue is reportedly helping with evacuations, according to the county's emergency management office.
Custer State Park and roads in the park are expected to be closed now through at least Friday, Dec. 15.
The American Red Cross said it would open an emergency shelter for those displaced by the fire at the Hermosa School, 11 4th St. in Hermosa.
Hermosa area rancher Rick Fox said Wednesday morning the fire remains on the west side of 79 and is mostly burning in the forest but depending on the direction of the wind and the progress made in fighting the fire, it could be out of the trees and onto the prairie east of the trees soon.
The wind blew hard during the night of Dec. 12 and morning of Dec. 13, which pushed the fire south and east, Fox said.
Some of Fox's neighbor's pasture cattle within a mile of the current fire. He said his horses are saddled and ready to go gather the cattle if he gets the call from the neighbors seeking help.


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England's Discontents explores British identities over the last two hundred years as they have been shaped by political cultures. Conservatism, social liberalism, economic liberalism, social democracy and socialism have forged different models of national belonging and identity. Wayne draws on debates about Britishness to explore recent events such as Brexit and the Scottish referendum. In doing so, he reveals that England's enduring attachment to economic liberalism is in danger of eroding all other political cultures, even conservatism, liberalism and the British state.
"This is a hugely ambitious and seriously rewarding genealogy of Britishness. Navigating the East India Company and Brexit, conservatism and liberalism, Gramsci and Stuart Hall, Mike Wayne has produced a fantastic analysis of the contradictions of our political culture."
Des Freedman, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
"Wayne's excellent book delivers home truths and important historical lessons with authority, clarity and conviction. Its call for a radical version of social democracy is both convincing and energising. Anyone seeking the sign-posts for social change should read this."
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In the aftermath of Brexit, Mike Wayne's provocative rereading of the tangled historical relations between Britain's contesting political cultures forces us to think again about the exercise of power, the imagination of nationhood and the possibilities for change.
Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University


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A $1 million gift to Vanderbilt University has established a new faculty chair named in honor of the late biochemist Richard Armstrong.
The Richard N. Armstrong, Ph.D., chair for innovation in biochemistry will support a faculty researcher in the school of medicine's division of basic sciences.
Endowed by Armstrong's family, the chair was created as part of the Chancellor's Chair Challenge, during which the university is investing $30 million to support endowed chairs.
Armstrong passed away in 2015 at the age of 66. He had served since 1995 on the Vanderbilt faculty, where he was a professor of biochemistry and chemistry. His research career focused on understanding detoxification enzymes.
He also served as editor-in-chief of the journal Biochemistry for 12 years and held an adjunct professorship at the Karolinska Institute.
Molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler received the 2018 Ernst Schering Prize for her research on quorum sensing. One of the most prestigious German science honors, the award is issued annually to a scientist who has done outstanding biomedical research.
Quorum sensing is the process of cell-to-cell communication in bacteria. Bassler was honored for describing the universal use of chemical communication among bacteria, transforming our view of bacteria.
She is Princeton's Squibb professor in molecular biology and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The award carries a €50,000 prize.
Melanie McReynolds is among 15 early-career scientists to receive Hanna Gray Fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The program seeks to promote diversity in the biomedical research community by supporting scientists who come from backgrounds underrepresented in the life sciences.
McReynolds is a postdoctoral research assistant in the lab of Joshua Rabinowitz at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the diseases of aging and on understanding how the molecule NAD+ is produced and used.
Each fellow receives up to $1.4 million in funding over eight years, supporting them from early postdoctoral training through obtaining a faculty position.
In addition to funding, the program supports career development through mentoring and networking with other scientists.
James Berger has been appointed director of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
Berger's appointment is part of the university's Betting Big on Basic Science initiative, which will invest $100 million over the next five years to hire new faculty and support core programs.
He will be tasked with developing interdisciplinary as well as translational and collaborative research programs at IBBS.
Berger is a professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at John Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the cancer chemical and structural biology program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
A structural biologist, Berger studies the fundamental mechanisms of enzymes that control cell proliferation.
Jonathan Cornett is among seven Lee University faculty members to be promoted from assistant professor to associate professor.
Cornett received his undergraduate degree at Lee University in Tennessee, where he was named a Centennial Scholar and a Ledford Scholar, won the E.K. Hamilton Scholarship in Math and Sciences, and received the departmental biochemistry award.
Cornett earned his doctorate in genetics and molecular biology from Emory University and completed postdoctoral studies at the Yale University School of Medicine.
He joined the Lee University faculty full time in 2012.
Salisbury University undergraduate student Mollie Jewell received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship at the university's annual honors convention.
The Gilman scholarship, a grant program through the U.S. Department of State, provides financial support to study or intern abroad. With it, Jewell took a summer course titled Bioscience for Global Health at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
The program is open to undergraduates who are U.S. citizens receiving federal Pell Grant funding at two-year or four-year colleges.
A senior biology major at the university in Maryland, Jewell serves as president of the Delta Alpha Pi international honor society and as co-president for Salisbury's American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Student Chapter. She is also a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Beta Beta honor societies.
Lewis Nelson Lukens, a former Wesleyan University biochemistry professor, passed away at his home in Middletown, Connecticut, on Sept. 8. He was 91.
Born Jan. 21, 1927, Lukens earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1949 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954.
Lukens was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and later joined the faculty at Yale Medical School. In 1966, he joined the faculty at Wesleyan, where he stayed until his retirement in 1999.
Lukens was a founding member of the department of molecular biology and biochemistry at Wesleyan. His research focused on the regulation of gene expression by eukaryotic cells, specifically the genes for type I and type II collagen.
He also served as chairman of the biology department, on the committee on graduate instruction and as program director of the university's biomedical research support grant.
He is survived by his wife, Ellen, and their four children, Katherine Lukens, Marie Lukens Hansen, Ellen Lukens Sisson and Lewis Lukens Jr.


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A "Golden Opportunity" Don't take NOAA for an answer – Video
October 28, 2013 ENGO, New England
What we have here is a golden opportunity. This report ( National Academy of Sciences report) about how NOAA manages fish has been percolating for what, three or four years? Former NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco ordered up this study to deflect the hailstorm of criticism she endured following the catch shares and sector management scheme started strangling the Northeast groundfishery. [email protected] 09:31
Gov. gets deaf ear from White House on fisheries as Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama Dummies Up!
May 13, 2013 New England
Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama, has declined to explain why the White House turned a deaf ear to the pleas of Gov. Deval Patrick for relief from what Patrick told her were "impending drastic cuts" in landings allowed the groundfishing fleet concentrated in his state. continued
BULLARD, SHELLEY, and COD: or Fish Being and Nothingness – Featured Writer Dick Grachek
May 6, 2013 New England
"Returning Our New England Fisheries to Profitability": "You're doin' a great job, Brownie" aka, Janie, Johnny, Petey. You should be proud. Mission Accomplished?
In her resignation email Lubchenco made the gravity-defying claim that she had made "notable progress" in "ending overfishing, rebuilding depleted stocks, and returning fishing to profitability"; but soon after, John Bullard "In an interview at the Times, Bullard said the telling figure was that the fleet caught only 54 percent of the allowed catch in 2012, and reasoned from that statistic that there is a dearth of inshore cod, a situation that warrants serious action to reverse." Richard Gaines March 8, 2013 Gloucester Daily Times, "NOAA head explains stock stand"
Peter Shelley of Conservation Law Foundation explains the Cod Dilemma in a wormy little video he so humorously named "For Cod's Sake"…..continued
Three years into catch shares, fishing industry faces 'Day of Reckoning'
NEW BEDFORD — Sharp new cuts in fishing quotas mark the start today of the fourth year of fishing catch shares and sector management in the Northeast, NOAA's prescription for rebuilding fish stocks and streamlining the fishing industry. But the fishermen who now see their quotas of some fish cut by more than 70 percent, who see their livelihood evaporating before their eyes, who are losing homes to foreclosure, insist, without contradiction, that they have done everything NOAA Fisheries has asked them to do in the past three years, and years before that. sadly, continued
Gloucester fishing community seeks relief from catch limits – Gloucester's historic industry. Uncertain future
April 18, 2013 New England
A few weeks ago, second-generation commercial fisherman B.G. Brown almost gave up. He had learned how much fish he can legally catch in the coming year. The numbers were shockingly low. "I was ready to throw in the towel," Brown told a crowd of about 40 local business people, political leaders, concerned community members, and fellow fishermen that gathered last week to discuss the uncertain future of Gloucester's historic industry. continued
60 Massachusetts Lawmakers urge Governor Patrick to seek fishing aid from Obama, his personal friend from their Chicago days
April 5, 2013 New England
A group of more than 60 state lawmakers, including many with districts far from the sea, asked Gov. Deval Patrick Thursday to appeal directly to President Obama, his personal friend from their Chicago days, to grant emergency relief from impending cutbacks in commercial fishery landings widely feared to render the commercial fishing industry "non-viable."President Obama has kept a stony silence in the face of the growing crisis once he appointed Lubchenco to administer the nation's oceans and fisheries. And he failed to respond to requests for her dismissal from Reps. Barney Frank, John Tierney, Walter Jones and Sen. Scott Brown. Frank, now retired, and Tierney, whose district includes Gloucester, are Democrats. Jones, who represents the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Brown, defeated last November by Democrat Elizabeth Warren, are Republicans. continued
Editorial: Division of Marine Fisheries chief Paul Diodati's stand shows catch shares killing fishery
March 9, 2013 New England
Noting that he shares the concerns of the relatively few state-permitted, small-boat fishermen, he made it clear that the shortage of fish within those fishermen's usual grounds is due in large part to the fact that more and more big boats —
"unencumbered by trip limits …particularly on Gulf of Maine Cod when they are aggregated for migration, feeding (and) spawning, has significantly contributed to declines in local abundance." Read more
My View: Science, sense needed in fishing's 'human crisis' – Scott W. Lang
The human crisis in the groundfishing industry is a real crisis. It is not contrived, it is not looming, it is not a threat, it is here.
Jesus Christ! Not Cape Pond Ice. Cape Pond Ice on the block
Scott Memhard cited the decision by NOAA against allowing the industry a second year of relief via interim catch levels as forcing his hand. The first year of interim limits held the reduction in Gulf of Maine cod to only 22 percent but without the same for the 2013 fishing year beginning May 1, landings will be compressed by 77 percent. And with $1 million in debt coming due, Memhard said he has little choice. Read more
Catch shares tied to cod losses – State fisheries chief cites lack of controls under NOAA system
February 28, 2013 New England
The 2010 catch share commodification of the Northeast groundfishery, hailed by advocates including NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco as a sure path to restoring overfished stocks and profitability for the fleet, has had the opposite effect on Gulf of Maine cod, according to the state's director of marine fisheries.
The habit of bigger offshore boats to accumulate catch shares in Gulf of Maine cod and capitalize on pulses of the cod with landings far larger than 800 pounds has "significantly contributed to declines in local abundance" of the essential fish for the day boats, state fisheries chief Paul Diodati said in a memo sent Feb. 5 to the Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission and obtained by the Times. Read more here
Frank backs White House fishery push
Recently retired Congressman Barney Frank said Thursday he would "absolutely" be willing to go to the White House as an advisor to and friend of Sen. Elizabeth Warren to seek President Obama's support for executive orders and congressional appropriations to relieve the Northeast groundfishery disaster.
Frank, a staunch critic of Lubchenco's policies almost from the start of her NOAA reign, described her in a telephone interview as an intellectually dishonest environmental zealot and enemy of the fishing industry. Read more
Fishermen look to White House – John Bullard, NOAA's Northeast regional administrator based at Gloucester's Blackburn Industrial Park, scoffed at that idea.
By default and past experience, what slim hope remains to relieve the declared federal fisheries disaster before it consumes the surviving core of the groundfishing fleet in Gloucester and other New England ports has shifted from le
adership at the Commerce Department to the White House. "I have not heard one word about fisheries from the president,"said Paul "Sasquatch" Cohan, the Gloucester fisherman who announced at the Warren meeting in Gloucester that he had nothing left to fight with. "I wouldn't give up, but now I have to give up," said Cohan, who operated a gillnet day boat. Read more
Senator Warren hears the fears of a community poised to lose it all, the fishing community
An airing of grievances and an airing of fears rained down on U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tuesday in her first meeting with the fishing community since she took office last month. The grievances were those of business people, descendants of the nation's earliest industry, who in one form of another had made their way harvesting the sea, but now find themselves trapped by government edicts and policy said to be posing as biology, according to Vito Giacalone, the local port's best known and connected leader. Read more
As Fisheries Struggle, Debate Heats Up Over How to Help
February 16, 2013 National, New England
Russell Sherman stood at the wheel of his boat, the Lady Jane, as light faded and his crew prepared to dock for the night. He made $19,800 fishing last year, he said, and at 64 is afraid he will go into foreclosure. "People are on the hook for money, and they're not going to be able to pay it off," said Mr. Sherman, who is a founding member of the Northeast Seafood Coalition, an industry group that supports fishermen and has pushed against deep cuts to the industry. "Desperate situation." Sadly, Read more here
Editorial: Fed lawmakers must look beyond boat monitor costs
As lawmakers step up the pressure to secure NOAA funding for the failing monitors' program, it's also important that they not lose sight of a far bigger picture as the new Congress takes its early steps forward regarding ocean policy. Read more here
One fisherman's tale shows plight of many -Richard Gaines – gloucester daily times
February 6, 2013 New England
For a gillnet fisherman, these are trying times — with worse yet to come. Captain Don Smith, a 57-year-old transplanted Mainer whose family roots are in Nova Scotia and has fished commercially from Gloucester for more than 30 y
ears, doesn't need to be prodded to speak to that…… Making life more difficult for the small boats are the big boats; these "trip" boats that traditionally worked offshore on the more distant Georges Bank. But the catch share trading system imposed by federal regulators in 2010 has liberated them to acquire quota from non-participants or day boats, and — no longer limited by daily catch limits —they have been induced to chase the pulses of cod onto Stellwagen, where they flaunt their scale and have their way. Read more here
Editorial: Lawmakers must force NOAA's hand on fisheries
Yes, NOAA can show "scientific" data suggesting that these dire cuts — up to 77 percent for the Gulf of Maine cod catch – may be necessary. Yet, NOAA also had 2008 survey data that showed many of the cod stocks were already rebuilt. And remember that the latest data is off an assessment model that did not include any input from rank-and-file fishermen, meaning it's no more credible than the admittedly bogus data used in the "Trawlgate" fiasco of 1999-2000, when NOAA conceded its statistics were hopelessly flawed, yet still used them to set stock limits. Read more
Officials Back Deep Cuts in Atlantic Cod Harvest to Save Industry –
January 31, 2013 New England
New York Times "I do not deny the costs that are going to be paid by fishermen, families, communities. They are real. They will hurt." The problem, he said, is not government inflexibility, as fishermen have suggested, but the lack of fish. "It's midnig
ht and getting darker when it comes to how many cod there are," he said. "There isn't enough cod for people to make a decent living." But opponents said the limits would not help save the industry.
"Right now what we've got is a plan that guarantees the fishermen's extinction and does nothing to ameliorate it," David Goethel, a New Hampshire-based fisherman and biologist, said as he cast his vote against the plan.
Fishermen were furious with the result."I'm leaving here in a coffin," said Carlos Rafael, who owns a commercial fishing business in New Bedford, Mass. "With all these cuts, I won't be able to keep half of my fleet working. I'll have to cut down from 20 groundfish boats to maybe 5or 6." Read more
New England panel approves 2013 cod limits with 77 percent cut
The New England Fishery Management Council voted Wednesday night to cut the Gulf of Maine cod fishery limits by 77 percent for the 2013 fishing cycle and to extend similar cuts for the 2014 and 2015, dealing a dire blow to the region's fishing industry. Why this should be so became a sub-theme of the day, with the phrase "regime shift" used frequently to suggest a braid of environmental and ecological alterations —including millions of lobster traps that take an unknown quantity of cod as by-catch, large volumes of herring which eat cod eggs and seals which feed on cod, as well as the various forms of global warming that emanate from and absorb into the seas. Read more
NOAA sugar coats disturbing fleet numbers By Michael Souza
According to a report issued by NOAA's Fisheries Science Center during the last week of December, the fishing fleet in the Northeast has gotten smaller but has also caught more fish and made more money in 2011 than it d
id in 2012. And as reported by Richard Gaines of The Gloucester Times, two independent analysts, from the Northeast Seafood Coalition and the School of Marine Science and Technology at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, noted troubling behavior of the data in NOAA's report. Read more
Editorial: Fed lawmakers miss key point on fishery 'disaster'
That's the fact that, while Superstorm Sandy brought unforeseen cleanup costs, the economic disaster recognized by the aptly named Blank and her Commerce and NOAA colleagues wasn't unforeseen at all. And despite claims to the contrary in her own disaster declaration, it is not merely a case of declining stocks and other natural factors. Read more
NOAA administrator to step down; some actions sparked controversy. hee hee yeah!
January 10, 2013 National
"Under her leadership, NOAA has focused on restoring fisheries to sustainability and profitability, restoring oceans and coasts to a healthy state, ensuring continuity of the nation's weather and other environmental satellites, developing a weather-ready nation, promoting climate science and delivering quality climate products, strengthening science and ensuring scientific integrity at NOAA and delivering the highest quality science, services and stewardship possible," the administration said. "Healthy oceans and coasts and a nation prepared for sever weather, disasters and climate change are keys to economic recovery and prosperity." Wow, just, wow. Read more!
House plan guts aid for fisheries
January 9, 2013 National, New England
Two newly released U.S. House Rules Committee amendments combine to roughly match the Senate appropriation totaling $60 billion for Superstorm Sandy relief, but virtually eliminate the $150 million for fisheries disaster aid a
imed at providing relief to the Northeast groundfishery, including fishermen working out of Gloucester. One amendment for $17 billion, filed by Rep. Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, contains no money for the fisheries disasters of Massachusetts, four other New England states and New York, as well as Mississippi's oyster fishery and Alaska's Chinook salmon fishery. Read more
Closed Areas need fed's OK to open
January 4, 2013 New England
The New England Fishery Management Council has voted to recommend giving commercial groundfishermen access to parts of five areas that have been closed to them for many years. The request to open closed areas to commercial fishing came days before the NOAA Science Center issued a report on the 2011 fishing year that contained the revelation that only 41 percent of allocated fish were landed in 2011. Read More
From Nils Stolpe – Remember the fishing-induced "plague of jellyfish" that was threatening the oceans…? Remembering the "Worm" hook! Refuted
January 3, 2013 National
Brought to us, of course, by the Walton Foundation, EDF and Dr. Lubchenco as a reason to shift fisheries to catch share management immediately? A National Academy of Sciences study – Recurrent jellyfish blooms are a consequence of global oscillations – refutes that (now there's a surprise!) contention. The article is available here. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Happy New Year – and sleep soundly, knowing that we aren't being threatened by hoards of slimy, nematocyst-brandishing cnidaria,
Boris Worm outed himself with an email that oceans full of jellyfish were the future by 2048, and he used it as a "hook' in "Oceans of Abundance" the EDF, Walmart bought and paid for doctrine that hooked Lubchenco to the Obama administration. Seem's though there's more to it, and the "Smart from the Start" program of ocean industrialization along the East Coast of windmills and drill rig's is the administrations answer to jellyfish aquaculture!
Remember this guy? "Gloucester, New Bedford Mayors foolishly endorsing crazies in New England" a few fisheries malcontents??
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS by John Sackton (Editorial Comment) – June 15, 2011 A
Here is our editorial today, and a video.
Gloucester, New Bedford Mayors foolishly endorsing crazies in New England while the industry thrives, sickness has descended on the political class in New England that has so tied themselves to a few fisheries malcontents that they have lost sight of how they might really support their industry. Read and watch the video
NOAA study shows shrinking fleet – a perpetual struggle that will only be amplified in Fishing Year 2013,"
Keiley said she believes people are "frustrated" with the report because "they want to know two things:" "Are people making money … and how many people are working," she said, "and those are two questions the report does not, and
really cannot answer directly." She said she did not blame the Science Center because "they have presented everything they can." "This is a situation where data is insufficient to provide the analysis people want," she said. Keiley also pointed out that "revenue is not evenly distributed. The top 50 percent of vessels earned 90 percent of the total revenue, leaving the bottom 50 percent of vessels earning only 10 percent of the total revenue. Read More
Upbeat NOAA fishery report challenged
December 28, 2012 New England
NEW BEDFORD — To say that Richard Canastra didn't quite believe an upbeat NOAA report on the state of the Northeast groundfish industry is to understate it.
"It's a crock," said Canastra, who co-owns the BASE seafood display auction. Only a few days ago he was telling regulators that this year might be the fleet's "last hurrah."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration painted a sunny picture in a Dec. 26 report, saying that even with a smaller fleet, the catch was up, profits were up and total catch was up.
Canastra replied: "The headline looks great but when you look at it it's just like the science. Everything NOAA does they try to cover up."
There was also unanimous suspicion about the timing of the report, which was released the morning after Christmas, usually not a big news day. Read More
Editorial: Extending interim fish catch limits has benefits for all – Gloucester Daily Times
Simply put, if our own federal government is considering any type of move that would virtually shut down an entire industry, it had better be absolutely certain that an such industry poses either such a threat to public safety or, conceivably, the environment, that it would pose a public hazard to allow it to continue. And commercial fishing, of course, falls far, far short of any such risk. Read More
Your View: Fishery council must reject unreliable assessments – By Richard Canastra – southcoasttoday
I nearly always attend New England Fishery Management Council meetings in person, but last month, I was unable to attend the meeting in Newport, and instead listened to the proceedings online. I found that listening, and not physically being there, gives you a different perspective on a meeting. You hear more intently. There are fewer distractions. Examples seem clearer. Patterns emerge. There are some predictable patterns in life. When there is an accident, at the end of the traffic jam you find a police officer. When you go to a restaurant, at the end of dinner the bill comes. And when you attend a fisheries management council meeting that is dealing with a crisis, there is usually a bad stock assessment.
Bad stock assessments have become as predictable as the sunrise. Read More
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As a citizen advocate of the fishing industry, I have no confidence in NOAA stock assessments.
I spend a lot of time reviewing material, attempting to convey the results to as many people possible.
These listening sessions allow, as Mr Canastra stated, patterns to emerge.
The patter of Bill Karp, and Sam Rauch deviates not from the typical bureaucratic structure, much to my disappointment after listening to them from various venues, and reading a lot of information.
The revelations of the Georges Bank Yellowtail Flounder Working Group Meeting May 23, 2012, are the foundation of my opinion to condemn the stock assessments as a tool for fishery management, while enforcing Mr Canastras belief that the proper equipment is not being utilized to sample yellow tail flounder abundance.
As stated, patterns have emerged. The pattern of over looking details that have detrimental affects on stock assessments and confidence in them.
At the The New England Fishery Management Council's three-day meeting in Plymouth Ma on 9/25/2012, a major detail confirmed the retrospective patter of no confidence in stock assessments conducted by NOAA.
During the 54th Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW)/Stock Assessment Review Committee (SARC) Meetings, a fisherman asked a question that received a hollow shrug of the shoulders answer that I find alarming, and telling that these assessments are substandard and incomplete.
The question was, "why is there no mention of herring as a predator species" in the ground fish assessment?
The answer. " The SSC was, ah, not presented, ah, ah herring as a, ah, predator species…."
Yes. A Retrospective Pattern of the science used to mismanage this industry is established.
No confidence.
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Effective fishing regulations benefit all Floridians by Edward Gaw, president, HI-LINER Fishing Gear Inc.,
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I decided to keep it vegetarian.
Come and sit down, have a few cocktails. I even found a vegan birthday cake, excuse me....vegetarian.
Oh goodie, they're here. They even bought the presents with them.
I thought you may need to turn in your old broom for a high tech one!


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Mexican Marijuana: The Effects of Legalization on the Economy and the War on Drugs
by Samuel Arnold-Parra	,	May 21, 2021
Following in the footsteps of countries including Canada and Uruguay, Mexico's lower house passed a bill on 10th March for the purpose of legalizing the recreational use of cannabis. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, often referred to as AMLO, has cited undermining drug cartels as one of the key reasons behind his support for the proposal. Nevertheless, though, legalization is likely to prove an economic boon, its impact on crime is likely to be less substantial.
Mexico and Marijuana: The Recent History
Like many countries, Mexico banned the production and sale of cannabis in the 1920s. However, the path towards legalization began in 2015 when members of the Mexican Society of Responsible and Tolerant Self-Supply (SMART) succeeded in having Mexico's Supreme Court declare the prohibition on the growth and recreational use of cannabis to be unconstitutional. Though this initial ruling applied only to the claimants, it opened the floodgates to many similar rulings which set the precedent for a change in national law. Given this precedent, in 2019 the Supreme Court ordered Congress to reform the law.
The reforms were originally scheduled for 2019 but due to numerous delays, including the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court extended the deadline for its order to the end of April 2021. Though the legalization bill was approved by Mexico's Congress, it still requires approval from the Senate in order to become law. Consequently, it is likely that the bill will be voted on in the Senate before the 30th April deadline. Moreover, as President Obrador's party MORENA and its allies hold a majority in the Senate, it is highly likely that the bill will become law.
The Economic Effects
The legal changes would establish Mexico as the world's largest cannabis market by population size, ahead of Canada and Uruguay, with an annual demand worth at least $3.2 billion USD. Therefore, legalization theoretically has the potential to generate a significant number of new jobs and possibly generate hundreds of millions of pesos in taxes. However, the potential of legalization is likely to be tempered by low demand for the drug in Mexico, given statistics from 2016 indicating that only around 2.1% of 12-65 year olds had used cannabis in the previous year. These statistics suggest that in the short to medium term the legal cannabis market is unlikely to live up to the potential that Mexico's population of 127.6 million implies; over the long term, however, consumption and the value of the market are likely to rise.
Critics of the legalization bill have also pointed out that it is likely to favour large agribusiness firms over smaller producers such as impoverished farmers and indigenous groups given high barriers to entry. For example, the bill requires commercial producers to adhere to strict regulations on the packaging of products containing cannabis and necessitates separate, annually renewed licenses for the production and sale of cannabis. It also requires the use of approved seeds and limits the level of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which cannabis plants and products can contain. These regulations make it probable that, as has occurred in countries like Colombia, smaller domestic producers will be sidelined by large firms.
Cannabis and Crime
The aforementioned barriers to smaller producers suggest that cannabis legalization will not be as effective as it could be in reducing crime or ending Mexico's war on drugs. Mexico's drug war began in earnest in 2006 after then-President Felipe Calderón dispatched 6500 Mexican Army troops to Michoacán in an effort to dismantle criminal cartels in the state. Over 14 years later, the war still rages on across the country with no end in sight and little to show for it. What's more, by being left out of the legal cannabis market, small producers may continue growing cannabis for the illegal market or, in the face of greater competition after legalization, grow opium poppies or engage in other illegal activity to make ends meet.
Similarly, the terms of the bill may continue to discourage some from growing cannabis legally. This is because the new law requires individuals and groups to register and face the possibility of inspection at any time, with refusal of an inspection being grounds for fines and the suspension of their license. Thus, to avoid privacy infringing inspections it is probable that some will not register, choosing to grow their own cannabis illegally. In addition, critics have warned that this requirement may put people at risk of extortion and other abuses by giving potentially corrupt authorities such power over private citizens.
The effect of legalization on Mexico's criminal cartels is also likely to be subdued given that cartels have increasingly turned away from cannabis and towards methamphetamine and opioids such as fentanyl for revenue as a result of factors like the growth of the legal cannabis trade in Canada and part of the US. Cartel activity may actually increase due to legalization. For example, cartels may jump at the opportunity to engage in money laundering or investment in the legal market. They may also act as a damper on the growth of the legal cannabis market by threatening dispensaries, particularly those in cities like Guadalajara affected by gang violence.
This is not to say that legalization will have no positive impacts on crime. The changes are likely to help bring down the rate of charges and arrests for drug possession by increasing the amount of cannabis individuals are allowed to keep on their person. This change will benefit young people in particular given statistics which show that 80% of Mexican adolescents arrested for drug possession in 2018 were arrested for possessing cannabis. As a result, the changes are likely to help police focus on more serious crimes and keep young Mexicans out of prison.
Ultimately, even if cannabis legalization does not prove to be a silver bullet for putting an end to Mexico's drug cartels, it stands to reduce unnecessary criminal charges for drug possession and contribute to the creation of new jobs and economic growth over the medium to long term. Furthermore, the biggest impact of legalization is likely to be on the regional level. Mexican cannabis legalization will leave the United States sandwiched between two countries with legal marijuana, a situation which is likely to spur further debate on federal cannabis legalization in the US.
Categories:	Latin America, Security
Tags:	drug policy, drug trafficking, Mexico, Trade, war on drugs
Samuel Arnold-Parra
Samuel graduated from LSE in 2020 with a degree in International Relations and History. Since graduating, he has been building up experience in research and analysis. Currently, he is conducting voluntary research on Japanese national and sub-national responses to COVID-19. He is eager to use his skills in Spanish and Japanese to contribute valuable insights focusing on Japan and Latin America.
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