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Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt 1629 WATER RESOURCES AND AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY CONTRIBUTING SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BANGLADESH Md.Sohrab Uddin Sarker Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh E-mail: email@example.com ABSTRACT Bangladesh is rich in water resources of 6564 square kilometer consisting running and closed freshwater in the main land and 5,518 square kilometer of estuarine water and open sea water of the Bay of Bengal to the south. Closed water reserved are haors, baors, lakes, ponds, deghees and ditches in plain land mass and Kaptai and Bogakine Lakes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The running water are large rivers of the Padma, the Jamuna and the Meghna and their tributaries, Karnaphuli, Kushiara, Dhaleshari, hilly springs, drainages, canals, etc finally discharging to the Bay of Bengal. Moreover, rain and flood water are also available seasonally. Brackish water consists of the Sundarban mangrove forests and numbers of islands and islets in the southern coastal offshore and 200 naughty kilometer of marine water in the Bay of Bengal. Kaptai Lake contributes greater amount of electricity generation and Bogakine Lake and springs developed for ecotourism. Ground water is used mainly for irrigation in the crop field, drinking and sanitation purposes. The surface water carries out large amount of erodated soil sediments of inorganic and organic nutrient to the cultivated land and offshore areas. Water is more or less full of aquatic living biodiversity resources particularly in flood and rainy seasons and even through out the year. About 6 species of crabs, 46 species of shrimps and prawn 600 species of freshwater, estuarine and sea water fishes, 5 frogs and toads, 27 turtles and tortoises, one salt water and 2 freshwater crocodiles, 3 monitor lizards, 200 species of migratory and 100 of resident birds, 7 dolphins and whales have so far been recorded from there. Planktons, annelids, mollusks, insects provide food to fish and fisheries components. Biodiversity resources contribute protein demand of the people and play a vital role in the ecosystem of the country. In recent years, river and coastal water are highly contaminated by heavy metal toxicity of industrial residual discharge and oil spills of ships and other vessels. It creates health hazard and adverse effects and even killing of biodiversity. International assistant and cooperation are mostly essential in this aspect. Keywords: Haor, Baor, Beel, Deghee, Donga. 1630 Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt INTRODUCTION Bangladesh is a deltaic island of the Bay of Bengal rich water and aquatic bio-diversity resources throughout the year particularly in monsoon and winter seasons. The fresh water mainly composed of haor 'a large natural shallow water basins of 30-60 square kilometer area' of Sunamgqanj, Maulavibazar, Sylhet, Netrokona districts; baor 'a large natural shallow water area comparatively lesser than haor' in Jessore and Faridpur districts and beels 'a small natural shallow water body' scattered in several low lying districts and numerous new and old ponds and deghees (large pond) excavated everywhere in the country for drinking, bathing and fish culture purposes. Three largest rivers of the Padma, Jamuna, Meghna and their tributaries flow north- south direction carrying running water with sufficient nutrient throughout the year. Moreover, a number of water falls and lakes are in Moulavibazar and Chittagong hilly districts. Heavy rainfalls occur particularly in rainy and summer seasons bringing sediment from hilly erosion increasing fertility of the agricultural field and productivity. Ground water is also available for drinking and irrigation purposes but some of them are contaminated by arsenic creating health hazard of the local people (NCS Part-1 Report 1995, Sarker and Hossain 1997). Bay of Bengal of the Southern part of the country contributes estuarine and salt water resources. Water bodies are full of biological diversity e.g., annelids, mollusks, insects, helminthes in invertebrate and fish, amphibians, aquatic birds and aquatic mammals in vertebrate groups (Sarker 1980-83, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2000a&b). Besides, planktons are available in fresh and marine water. Some areas, water is presently contaminated by heavy metals from dyeing industries and oil spills from ship braking industries and on going vessels (Sarker 1991, 1992a&b, 2004, Sarker and Sarker 1986, and 1988). Running water of the Rivers Karnaphuli and Padma is heavily contaminated by industrial influents of factories from the river banks. Present objective is to study the water and water resources in Bangladesh perspective and its future prospective. METHODS AND MATERIALS The data of water and its resources were collected all over the country by direct field visits since 1989. Field visits were made in flood, rainy and dry seasons of the year where data on water quantification, resources assessment, pollutant density and sources of origin were being investigated. Besides, local aged people were interviewed for present and past status of water resources, reports of ANGOs, published information and news media were also used in preparation of the present article for water quality and quantity, pollutants and resources. Data are also available from city corporations and town authorities. Climatological data were collected from weather broadcasting agencies. Moreover, remote sensing water map, water area map with their seasonal variation and quantification were also contributed to the article. Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt 1631 Estuarine and coastal offshore areas e.g. the Sundarban mangrove forests, coastal islands and islets were observed by manually driven wooden boats and mechanical vessels e.g. trawlers, launches, ships, etc. All collected data were entered in the field data sheets and finally were analyzed in computer. OBSERVATION AND RESULTS Water and Bio-resources Water is the most important component of living and non living materials. Life is the source of water. Bangladesh is one the water resource country in the world. About 60% plain land used to go underwater in big flood season and even the whole plain land mass is over flooded in subsequent years as natural phenomena. During flood and heavy rainy season maximum plain land mass remains under water for 3-4 months. Rural people have to only way of manual driving transportation by locally made wooden boats, excavated palm tree locally called 'Donga' and 'Bhura' made by 3/4 banana plants attached side by side by jute thread or bamboo sticks support one or more person or domestic animal like goat, dog, fowl, etc . In flood and rainy seasons aquatic biodiversity e.g. fish, frogs, turtles, snakes, insects breed and rebreed in water provide important protein supply to the local people. During the wet seasons haors, baors, beels, ponds, deghees, canals, drainages remain full of water and water biodiversity resources. Biggest haors are Hakaluki 50X70 square kilometer water area of Fenchugonj-Sylhet district, Tanguar of 100 square kilometer and Pashwar 25 square kilometer of Sunamgonj, Hailar 30-50 square kilometer of Srimangol, Moulavbaxar districts; Baors of 40x50 square kilometer of Jessore districts. Beside, numerous beels, ponds and deghees, dithes are important sources of fresh water utilized mainly for bathing, domestic uses, and fish culture. Deghees are also large old ponds made by local Jaminder (Land lord, now abolished) mainly for bathing and drinking purposes of local people. In the passed these dehees were abandoned facilitated the growing of small aquatic vegetation first then floating ones followed by herbs and small wooden trees over the surface of water and become thicker and thicker and hard so there created habitats for wild animal like monitor lizards, snakes-python, king cobra, small carnivores e.g. jackals, foxes, civets, jungle and fishing cats, mongoose live and feed there and domestic animals like goats, cow could also easily graze over there. Carnivore fish, climber fish, cat fish like magur, singhi live in water under thick cover over and they climb out on land in rainy day or night in group lines and local people used to catch them by hand. Kaptai is the largest man made lake of 567.97 square kilometer of water body in Rangamati Hill district is mainly contributed for electricity generation, covering most of the country areas. Bogakine a natural lake the second largest one of the country situated on the top of hill of many meter above the ground but lake is less bio- resources except only few fish but draws attention of tourists in winter season. Large rivers the Padma, Jamuna, Meghna, Kushiara, Karnafulli, etc. and their tributaries 1632 Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt carry water over the country from the Himalaya of India and Nepal to the south into the Bay of Bengal. Many of them are dried in dry season mainly due to Farraka Barrage of India causes sever environmental impacts in agriculture and climate. There are 5,518.square kilometer of estuarine /brackish water and about 200 naughty kilometer of open sea water of the Bay of Bengal. Estuarine causes high and low tides of 0.5- 2 meter height every 24 hours in the Sundarban mangrove forest of 6200 sq. kilometer alone with other coastal areas 710 kilometer long. Bio-Resources Estuarine and marine water are important natural fisheries and fish resources and recent decades are used for fisheries cultures like fish, shrimp, prawn, crabs, etc. for foreign and local trade. Corals Tomascik (1997) recorded 68 corals from the supra, inter, and sub-tidal zones of the St. Martin Island Some corals are encrusted on the boulders at the island. The genera Porites, Goniopora, Cyphastrea and goniastrea were abundance. Corals are heavily exploited causing rapid declining of these resources from the St. Martin. Growing of awareness among the fishermen and local community about the harm they do the ecosystem of resources which are sustaining their livelihood. Mollusks About 301 species of marine mollusks are recorded from the Bay of Bengal of which 187 from St. Martin Island and other from freshwater areas (Ali 1975, Ahmed et al 1990 and Sarker 2006). The pearl producing and cowries molluscs like Pinctada sp. are also available in Bangladesh. Among the molluscs Trochus sp. and Conus sp. are commercially very important. The species should be used in mariculture practices along the off shore islands. The deep sea species under class Cephalopoda recorded from Bay of Bengal (NCSP-1-2001and Sarker 2006). Crabs There are 17 species of marine and 6 freshwater crabs so far reported from estuarine, marine and freshwater water (Paul 1996, IUCN and Sarker 2004). Among them mud crab is one of the largest one, sells in local markets and exports foreign countries. Crabs are flattened in culture and rearing pond for increasing the size and weight for exporting. Fishermen collect mud crabs from estuarine water in the rivers of the Sundarbans and others areas along the coast as well as the muddy bank of brackish water rivers by baited hooks, Long hook and Behundi Net (Sarker 2004). Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt 1633 Shrimps About 70,000 km² marine water of which 10,240 km² are used as shrimp and fishing areas. Sixty seven species of shrimps and prawns are recorded of which approximately 35 from the estuaries and marine water off Bangladesh coast (Hawlader (1976). Shrimps occur in the offshore and the deep sea where salinity varies from 15 to 20 ppt. Shrimps are processed at Chittagong and Mongolia ports for shipment and by air at Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet air ports for exporting. Echinoderms Eight species of echinoderms are so far been identified from the coastal areas of Bangladesh by NCSP1 team member 1995-1997. The most of them are used in education and research purposes in the colleges and universities. Eel and Chewa Eels and Chewa (small eel like fish) are also important component of marine fishery resources. Local people and fishermen collect the eels by special type of nets, hooks and hands from shallow water areas of the sea coast like crabs for sale in markets and export. Fish and Offshore fishery Four hundred seventy five species of marine fish are known to occur in the coastal and open sea water of Bangladesh. Among the marine fish Rup chanda, loita, catfish, swordfish, hilsha (shad), phaisa, chela, tona, sardin, poa, baila, kaika, potka, bombey duck, ribbon fish, mackerel, thead pomfret, skates and ray, etc etc. are important. Important yearly product estimated 4000-12000 tons processed for exporting in 1974 (Sada, 1991) and 160,000 tons (Saetre, 1981, Shafi and Quddus 1982). Besides, different species of sharks are fished for fins to export. In February–April 06, large number of tiger sharks are caught in the fishing nets and dried for selling to tribal people. In winter from November to mid March fishermen dry all kinds of fish in the sun along the coast where they fish in the sea. Dried fish are processed for Chittagong from where distributed to local markets and ships for export (Sarker 2004, Sarker and Shafi 1994). Herpetofauna Three species of frogs and one toad were recorded from the Sundabans and 9 species from main land freshwater.(Sarker 1980-83 & 2004). Skipper frogs were the highest number and had wider distribution in the mangrove forests areas. Three hundred fifty five green frogs were recorded in the mainland along the outer fringe of the four ranges of the Sundarbans. Of the reptilian species 3 were crocodiles, 5 sea turtles, 1 batagur, 3 monitor lizards and 11 sea snakes occur in Bangladesh water. Crocodiles Saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) were numerous towards the end of seventeen and beginning of eighteen century. In the past decades the population of the 1634 Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt crocodiles declined very rapidly. In recent years population recorded 200 by Khan (1982), 62 sighting report by Sarker (1980-1983) and 40 by Sarker and Shafi (1994).The freshwater crocodile already extinct and Ghorial is few and on the verse of extinction. 5 species of sea turtles occur along the coastal areas of Bangladesh like Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) Green turtle (Chelonia mydas), River terrapin (Batagur baska) and Leatherback turtles (Lepidochelys coriacea). During fishing, sea turtles particularly the Ridley were caught in the fishing nets and they are killed or died there. Remaining live turtles, some of them consumed and sole (Sarker 1982, 2000, NCSP-1 2001, Gani 2000). Grey monitor (Varanus bengalensis) and Yellow monitor (V. flaviscence) distributed in the plain wood land and forest periphery and watered areas. The ring monitor (V. salvator) occurs in the Sundarbans and other mangrove forests. Snakes Of the11 species of sea snakes recorded from the coast and deep sea. King cobra is the most deadly poisonous snakes and python the largest non-poisonous one occur in the mangrove and plain and hilly wetland forests and besides, 7 species of snakes occur in freshwater (Sarker 1999). In winter, hundreds of sea snakes were caught in the fishing nets and they died either in the nets or in the fishing boats while they are kept over night along with fish. All dead snakes are thrown on the fish land spots. Alive ones were killed or died there. Aquaculture Resources Shrimps, Crabs and Fishes In the shrimps culture, Penaeus mondon covers 80% and the rest are P.indicus, Metapenaeus moncerceros, M.breviornis. Number of shrimp hatchery and rearing culture are 101530 and the areas are 133670.70 ha (Paul 1996). Shrimp fry is collected usually by local poor people in the shallow water of the offshore areas by different types of nets from January to April and August. Collectors collect only shrimp fry and reject the other marine animal fries where they die cause huge loss of the fry and young of the marine biodiversity resources. Government recently imposed ban on such type of shrimp collection for protecting them. Production of shrimp was 35.34 thousand metric tons and earned Taka 382.05 core. Aves and Mammals Fisheries fries particularly shrimp and prawn are collected by nylon thin nets by a number local poor people for their livelihood in the estuarine and coastal water all the year and supply to the hatcheries for culture there. During collection of shrimp fries a large number of fish fries are also caught and rejected to the sandy bank where they all died and it causes great loss of biodiversity resources throughout the year. It needs to be stopped. Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt 1635 During dry season water reduce to 60 to 90 % and even dried out in some areas used for cultivation irrigation. Water areas provide fish resources and one the protein resource for the people throughout the year. Culture fisheries like freshwater and marine fish, shrimp and prawn, frogs, mollusks are usually imported out side earning foreign currency for socio-economic development (Sarker and Hossain1997 & Sarker et al 2000, Sarker and Mollah (1996). In winter season 100 species of migratory birds of millions individuals including water fowl, storks, ibises, spoonbills, waders, eagles, kites, come to visit wetland areas every year in search of favorable habitats and food first along the coastal water and then followed inland water of Bangladesh . They begin to come in August at the advent of winter, become highest concentration in December and January and decline from March and begin to return from April and finally left in May June every year. Many of them have failed return their origin due shooting, killing, trapping, poisoning, etc. by local professional hunters, shooters and trappers in spite of existing Wildlife Preservation Order which strongly prohibited of killing of migrants and other wildlife both water and terrestrial condition. About 9 species of porpoise, dolphins and whale occur in off shore coastal estuarine water of the Bay of Bengal on the southern part of Bangladesh. Among them only one species of Genetic dolphin (Planista gangetuicus) occurs in fresh water rivers and sometimes in estuarine rivers of the Sundarbans. Impacts and threats Unscientific implementation of projects e.g. FDC, FCDI, Mahuri, coastal embankment, and dam across the rivers Padma-Farraka Dam of India. Oil spill, industrial wastes, e.g. urea, chromium, mercury, agrochemical, insecticide, herbicide, rodenticides, etc. over floodding, mangrove destruction, ship braking, over exploitation of shrimps, fish and other marine resources. Hunting, trapping, capturing and killing by professional poachers assisting decline of biodiversity of the marine and mangrove resources. Destroying of the nests of sea turtles by erosion of rive, canal, banks and chars, tide and inundation. Drainage of agrochemical, siltation, erosion, cyclone, sea level rise are enhancing the problem of the marine wildlife like heherpeto-fauna, birds and mammals for future. Threatened Marine and Estuarine Species Eighteen species of marine fish are listed in threatened categories both globally and nationally by 1UCN, Bangladesh 2000 (Table 1). 1636 Thirteenth International Water Technology Conference, IWTC 13 2009, Hurghada, Egypt Table 1. Nationally Threatened Group of Marine Animal Diversity of Bangladesh Major Group Threatened Category Fish CR EN VU DD LR Total Marine fish -- 1 3 -- -- 4 Reptile 1 4 -- -- -- 10 Bird -- 2 4 4 6 6+10+ Mammal -- 2 1 -- -- 3 Total group 1 9 8 4 6 18+10 ** Sources: Sarker and Sarker 1988 Among the fish Hammer headed shark, Pristis microdon is endangered and Black shark, Carcharinus limbatus, Hippocampus kuda and Thannus obesus are vulnerable globally. The Green frogs are endangered and Bull frogs are threatened locally. In reptiles Saltwater crocodile, Crocodilus porosus is critically endangered nationally and all sea turtles are threatened globally. Salt water crocodiles are vulnerable globally and Critically Endangered nationally Grey and yellow monitors are also threatened. In bird species, 4 are endangered, vulnerable and 4 species are data deficient and 2 mammals are endangered and 1 vulnerable. CONSERVATION ISSUE The following recommendation may be considered for conservation of fresh and marine water and their resources; - Creation of awareness in the local communities and stakeholders, - Strategy and action plan, - Incorporating local communities in the conservation and management programs, - Nursery, horticulture, aqua-culture, etc. practices for their livelihood. - Training to the forest, fishermen and stakeholders adjacent to the resources, - Research and monitoring of water and bio-resources, - Prohibition of sand lifting, hill cutting, erosion and jhum culture, etc., - Activation of law inforcing agency, - Protection of nesting ground of sea turtle from human and predator animals. Beautiful and colored corals, molluscs, starfish, coral fish, tiger, Saw headed and hammer headed sharks, skates rays, etc. Crocodile, sea turtles, monitor lizards, marine snakes, diving sea birds and dolphins in the marine aquarium might be attractive to the tourists. 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The former Middle East managing partner of DLA Piper, who resigned from the firm in June, has re-emerged to launch Gulf firm Al Tamimi & Co's new Kuwait office.
The board of DLA Piper has appointed Abdul Aziz Al-Yaqout as the new regional managing partner for the Middle East.
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Carl Pettit is a columnist, editor and writer working for an array of colorful publications. He specializes in cultural and social issues, as well as East Asia, politics and satire.
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Cats and dogs, while extremely lovable, are not the only choices out there when it comes to selecting a household pet. There are quite a few unusual animals in existence that actually make good, even great companions for their human owners. We're not talking man-eating tigers or wild boars here—there are some limits to just how exotic you should go.
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Rumblings of renewed militancy continue in Bayelsa, Nigeria
The violence seen in the lead-up to the gubernatorial election could be just the beginning of trouble in the Niger Delta, says guest blogger Alex Thurston.
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According to MEND's recent statements, the fresh attacks have come about for a number of reasons, including the alleged incompetence of President Jonathan, the alleged corruption of the government, and what MEND sees as the misguided use of amnesty funds. One of MEND's communications reads in part, "Rather than address serious issues facing the nation and its citizens, Goodluck Jonathan squanders public funds on tribalistic sycophants and thugs calling themselves ex-militants."
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The discontent surrounding the question of who has benefited from the amnesty and who has not is critical. One analysis of the potential for renewed violence in the Delta elaborates:
The Presidency and security agents may have underrated the capacity of a group of ex-militants who claim that they were not included in the 'largesse', coming from the amnesty programme.
Their colleagues, enlisted in the programme, collect moneys from the federal government...Some have received training abroad; some have been sent to schools abroad. Ex-militant leaders are those who commanded 'troops' and called themselves 'Generals' during the militancy era.
Many of them are millionaires now. They have access to the Presidency, top government officials and high profile establishments. The presidency pacifies the ex-militant leaders to sustain stability in the Niger Delta since the leaders are thought to have control over their foot soldiers.
Indeed, many of the ex-militant leaders ... have significant influence over their ex-militant members.
The ex-militant leaders are however the envy of many youths now threatening fresh militancy. Some of them feel unsafe, that some of their boys could harm them. This is mainly because the leaders have become so rich, leaving behind some of their members in anguish.
The boys insist that they fought the wars while the leaders argue that they took higher risks of providing arms and being the main persons hunted by security men prior to the amnesty regime. Some of the youths (called boys by the 'generals'), simply cannot feed now, others want to go to school, some want to be rich, some want to drive posh cars and fly on business class seats in airlines as most ex-militants do on domestic and international trips.
The whole piece is worth reading. If this diagnosis is correct – namely, that there exists a class of former footsoldiers who received little or no benefit from the amnesty, and are angry enough over their exclusion to contemplate picking up weapons again – the violence seen in the lead-up to the gubernatorial election in Bayelsa could be just the beginning of another round of problems for the Delta.
– Alex Thurston is a PhD student studying Islam in Africa at Northwestern University and blogs at Sahel Blog.
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Last year was supposed to have been the first he could start fishing full time. Then BP's offshore oil rig exploded in April, and 185 million gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the Gulf shrimp industry.
In the wake of the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, Aaron has been trying to decide what to do with his life.
"It made you feel like it was just gone, like there was nothing you could do," he says of the spill. "It would come in and wipe us out."
Ten months later, deepwater drilling has resumed in the Gulf and the ban on fishing has been lifted for most areas, but the cleanup is far from over: In some communities, tar balls continue to wash up on beaches and an oil sheen can still be seen on the water. And though most agree the worst case scenario was avoided, the long-term environmental impact of so much oil in the water remains unclear. That's what worries Aaron Greco.
Few of his friends born into the Gulf Coast's fishing communities followed their fathers and grandfathers in the pursuit of wild seafood. Long before the oil rig exploded, rising fuel prices and competition from Asia's cheap farmed shrimp had made a risky and physically punishing profession far less profitable: Only a few thousand Louisianans now make their living fishing, down from more than 20,000 in the late 1980s. In short, it's a dying profession.
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Yet Aaron was among those of his generation still drawn to this way of life. He wanted to be his own boss, to spend his days on the teeming marshes outside his door.
When the spill closed the waters around Delacroix Island, some 30 miles south of New Orleans, Aaron bounced between doubt and determination. His sisters pushed him to go on to college; his uncles warned of the lingering effects of the chemicals used to clean up the oil.
For his father, Buddy Greco, who had dropped out of school in 10th grade without ever learning to read, there had been no choice: Like almost everyone else in Delacroix, he never considered anything other than fishing.
Teenagers could make good money in those days in the Gulf. In 1986, wild-caught Gulf shrimp still accounted for nearly a quarter of the shrimp Americans ate, commanding the equivalent of nearly $2 per pound dockside.
By the time Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, imported farmed shrimpcheaper, but sometimes laced with illegal antibioticshad ballooned to 95 percent of U.S. consumption.
At age 13, Aaron began lobbying to quit school. "Let me come on the boat," he pleaded. But Buddy Greco wanted his son to have other options. The money in fishing was unpredictable and the work was dangerous. "You finish school, Aaron," he told his son. "You smart enough to go to college."
Aaron eked out a 2.9 G.P.A. at Chalmette High School and aced honors chemistry. A teacher urged him to apply to community college: "You're good at problem-solving," she told him before he graduated in January 2009.He considered mechanic school and took a job washing cars at a collision shop, with the promise to do body work eventually. But when the job was given to someone less skilled, he quit to go out on the water.
A few months later, Aaron's dad traded $800 and bartered time and equipment for a 51-foot boat that needed fixing up. When the BP oil rig exploded 41 miles offshore, they were almost done with repairs. Suddenly the future seemed very much in question.
'BP Fails . . . AGAIN!!!'
When the oil company's efforts to cap the well fell short, Aaron recorded it on his Facebook wall. "BP fails.... AGAIN!!!" he posted on May 29. Then, on June 15: "Sleepless night, lots of thinkin goin on."
As Aaron watched the live video of the oil flooding out of the well 5,000 feet underwater, he felt as if a brake had been slammed down. The money BP was paying him and his dad to help with the cleanup effort was welcome. But everyone knew that couldn't last. And then what?
And whether anyone would buy their seafood once they were allowed to catch it was another matter. Aaron saw a news clip showing a New York restaurant with a sign saying it did not sell Gulf seafood.
When an uncle offered him a deal on a shrimp boat that would be his own, Aaron wasn't sure what to do. On July 15, the BP well was finally capped, and Aaron decided to buy his uncle's boat.
Aaron's first solo run in late October was a disaster. His nets got tangled and ripped. The knots holding his rigging slipped. Two of his baskets meant to hold shrimp blew overboard.
But the next time, and the time after that, were better. Aaron was barely covering his fuel costs, but he would go every day, he vowed, to catch the volume he needed.
"This was a good day," he told his girlfriend optimistically a few nights later. "I got used to everything. I feltaccomplished."
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"We're all responsible, and it's up to us to use our voices and our dollars to speak out against it," Newsom said to the students.
Newsom and Heldman were the keynote speakers for Marin Academy's 2011 Conference on Democracy-a two-day affair that features speakers and forums addressing subjects from France's ban on religious attire to the New Deal to the media's portrayal of women.
In Thursday's discussion, Newsom showed an abridged version of her new film Miss Representation (view trailer above), which features male and female politicians and CEOs commenting on why women are underrepresented in American politics and what role the media play. Some interviewees include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Sen. Barbara Boxer, actress Rosario Dawson and Newsom's husband Gavin Newsom.
"We don't value women enough," said Heldman, who teaches political science. "It's damaging to our boys and it's damaging to our girls."
Women's perspectives need to be involved more in decision making, Newsom said. She told the students about Nancy Hult, her friend and writer for the NBC series Pan Am that follows several stewardesses in the 1960s. She said Hult, who had been a stewardess for the airline and was one of the only women working on the show, argued against over-sexualizing the female characters with short skirts and risque advertising.
"She knew that they were worth more than that," Newsom said.
Marin Academy history teacher Bill Meyer already started showing parts of the movie in his class, and his students are responding well.
"They are troubled in a good way," he said. "The great thing about teenagers is that they're willing to try and fix things."
If you are interested in seeing the film, there will be a screening tonight in Marin Academy's Performing Arts Theater. Tickets are available online. Or you can catch it on the Oprah Winfrey network tonight at 6p.m.
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My wife is a scrapbooker. She has done some amazing projects of our family. Thanks to her scrapbooking, we have a remarkable record of our lives and some interesting insights. As a creative person, she also takes on projects such as the One Word project.
The One Word project challenges a person to select one word and then track his or her life in relevance to that word for one year. Pictures, quotes, and events that reflect that word are then captured into a scrapbook for an entire year. What I like about the One Word project is its singularity. It causes you to choose an area of intense concentration and awareness. With that one frame of reference for performance, I believe that you can make real change in your life by awareness and practice.
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One word. That's the challenge. Can you declare a theme to guide your decisions and desires for a year, and then use it as a measure on how you spend your time and resources? I am not a partitioned person; I do not have a way to parse my life into work, play, family, friends, hobbies, and faith. My life is one big casserole. For me, I believe that the one word has to fit all of them to be of realistic value. If you have read this far, then 60 seconds of further consideration is a small investment. If you can think of a word for your One Word project, write it down in the comments section.
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American Songbook is set to celebrate and explore the glorious history, diversity and joys of American songs. From Motown royalty channelling Lena Horne, to our very own Bernadette Robinson taking on three of America's greatest female songwriters, the programme will celebrate the power of great song writing and the female voice. Check out programme highlights below... (Tickets go on sale April 15)
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Standing on the banks of the Malden River below the famous Anthony's restaurant – where the river pokes its head out of a long, dark culvert, it's intriguing to imagine what downtown Malden might look like if the river was exhumed from the culvert it is constrained in. A ribbon of blue and green connecting shops and residents in this dense downtown would be like a shot of adrenaline – drawing people and new businesses to the riverfront. If you listen carefully at select street drains, the Malden River can be heard flowing under roads, buildings and sidewalks – a constant reminder that the river is there and ready to be shown the light of day.
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Location | San Mateo County, California |
Coordinates | 37°35′36″N 122°25′27″W / 37.5932°N 122.4241°WCoordinates: 37°35′36″N 122°25′27″W / 37.5932°N 122.4241°W |
Type | Reservoir |
Primary inflows | San Andreas Creek |
Primary outflows | San Andreas Creek |
Catchment area | 4.4 sq mi (11 km2) |
Basin countries | United States |
Max. length | 4.8 km (3.0 mi) |
Surface area | 550 acres (220 ha) |
Water volume | 19,027 acre·ft (23,469,000 m3) |
Surface elevation | 453 ft (138 m) |
Settlements | Millbrae, California San Bruno |
References | U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: San Andreas Lake |
San Andreas Lake (Spanish: Laguna de San Andrés) is a reservoir adjacent to the San Francisco Peninsula cities of Millbrae and San Bruno in San Mateo County, California. It is situated directly on the San Andreas Fault, which is named after the lake.[1]
After discovering San Francisco Bay from Sweeney Ridge on November 4, 1769, the Portolà expedition descended what Portolà called the Cañada de San Francisco, now San Andreas Creek, to camp the next day at a '"Laguna Grande" which today is covered by the Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir. The campsite is marked by California Historical Marker No. 94 "Portola Expedition Camp", located at Crystal Springs Dam, on Skyline Boulevard, 0.1 mi south of Crystal Springs Road.[2] They camped here a second time on November 12, on their return trip.[3] Padre Palóu, on an expedition from Monterey to explore the western side of San Francisco Bay led by Captain Rivera, renamed Portola's Cañada de San Francisco to Cañada de San Andrés on November 30, 1774, it being the feast day of St. Andrew.[4] Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, after forging the first overland route from Monterey, California to San Francisco Bay, explored the peninsula and selected the sites for Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) and the Presidio of San Francisco. De Anza returned to Monterey via the Cañada de San Andrés and camped on the banks of San Mateo Creek on March 29, 1776. In de Anza's diary on March 29, 1776, he wrote: "Night having fallen, at a quarter past six I went down to the arroyo of San Andreas and to another, that of San Matheo, where it descends to empty into the estuary..."[5]
Originally a small natural sag pond, the lake was expanded by the construction of a 100 foot high earth dam in 1868.[6][7] The dam survived the 1906 earthquake despite the fact that the fault runs directly under the dam.[8]
In 1895, Professor Andrew Lawson of the University of California, Berkeley, conferred the name of the lake on the earthquake fault he discovered in its vicinity.[9]
Construction of the 1868 dam would have trapped salmonids such as Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), both known to have been historically present in the San Mateo Creek watershed. San Mateo Creek once hosted coho salmon as evidenced by specimens collected by Professor Alexander Agassiz of Harvard University in the 1850s and 1860s.[10][11] The historical presence of coho salmon is also suggested in an 1877 description by Charles Hallock: "Pilarcitos, one of the Spring Valley Water Company's reservoirs, is now well filled with fair-sized trout, and San Andreas, chiefly with silver salmon of generally moderate size".[12] Rainbow trout are the landlocked form of steelhead trout.
Public access[edit]
Since the lake is a public water source, it is closed to the public. However, hikers and bicyclists may travel along the eastern shores of the lake on a paved trail that runs just west of Skyline Boulevard from San Bruno Avenue to Millbrae Avenue. A connecting trail, called the Sawyer Camp Trail, crosses the rift valley on the San Andreas Dam. This 6 mile (10 km) trail eventually reaches the eastern shores of the Lower Crystal Springs reservoir and the Crystal Springs Dam.
See also[edit]
- ^ Department of Water Resources (2009). "Station Meta Data: San Andreas (SNN)". California Data Exchange Center. State of California. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ "California Historical Landmarks". California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ "California Historical Landmarks". California Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ David L. Durham (1998). California's geographic names: a gazetteer of historic and modern names of the state. Quill Driver Books. p. 694. ISBN 978-1-884995-14-9. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ de Anza, Juan Bautista (1776). Diary of Juan Bautista de Anza October 23, 1775 - June 1, 1776. University of Oregon Web de Anza pages. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ Alan Hynding (1982). From Frontier to Suburb, The Story of the San Francisco Peninsula. Belmont, California: Star Publishing Company. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-89863-056-5.
- ^ "San Andreas 10-010 Dam". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.
- ^ Robert Iacopi, Earthquake Country (Menlo Park: Lane Publishing Company, 1964)
- ^ Winchester, Simon (2005). A Crack in the Edge of the World. Harper. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-06-057200-6.
- ^ Robert A. Leidy, Gordon Becker, Brett N. Harvey (2005). "Historical Status of Coho Salmon in Streams of the Urbanized San Francisco Estuary, California". California Fish and Game: 219–254. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
- ^ "Oncorhynchus kisutch". Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ Hallock, C. (1877). The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide. California section in Forest and Stream. New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company. p. 15. Retrieved 2012-09-10.


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When local indie band It's True's announced that it was breaking up at a performance last June, I was more than a bit surprised.
After playing South by Southwest the March prior, the band had released its debut full length to much local adoration. They went on to play a number of shows in California that were, by all indication, a big success. Rumors abound that the band had caught the eye of a few big-name star makers. The world was about to take notice of what many of us thought was Omaha's next big thing.
And then during a show that was more like a drunken Irish wake, It's True frontman Adam Hawkins announced with a bourbon drawl, "This is our third-to-last show," and that the band was hanging it up after its performance at the MAHA Music Festival that July.
The reasons for the break-up are hinted throughout the band's fantastic, soon-to-be-released EP, Another Afterlife. There's the opener "Don't You Know You're Never Alone," with the line "Looking at all these people looking back at me it seems they're seeing more than I would want them to see." Or the opening phrase to "Stand Still," which goes "He breaks another vow and sells his guitar / He says 'I'm never gonna be a star.'" Or maybe the most definitive line of all, from track three: "I don't want to be the one who let's you down."
"I got tired of all day, every day, all anyone would talk about was the band," Hawkins explained from his home in Grimes, Iowa, a small town just outside of Des Moines. "The strategizing and worrying about decisions about where we should play next, those were the only conversations we had; and it was all that anyone would want to talk about whenever I ran into anyone outside the band. It felt mentally limiting. Everything that I was doing at that point was not feeling right or natural. It wasn't anything personal, it wasn't any big dramatic event, I just needed a little space to breath."
Hawkins said the breakup didn't catch the band by surprise. "I think that maybe they didn't think it would actually happen," he said, "but I don't think they were surprised at all. Everyone knew I wasn't happy."
But if the band knew it was coming, the fans didn't. "I had a couple people tell me that they were really pissed at me," Hawkins said. "People thought I was really throwing something away and making a big mistake, not understanding the situation. A number of people cried at the last few shows, they came up to me teary eyed. It was strange to hear how much it meant to people."
But despite those reactions, Hawkins said nothing was going to sway his decision. "(Their reactions) felt good, like we were really doing something," he said, "but I knew I needed time to air out."
If fact, he'd already made his decision by the time of that brief California tour. "We all knew that was our last hurrah," Hawkins said, adding that he had nothing to come home to after the tour. "I'd been slacking off at my job, and they fired me, rightfully so," he said. "And so I came back with no job and no money and decided I was going to get out of there."
Hawkins' parents own a combination art gallery, frame shop and flower shop located in an old stone church in Des Moines. "I knew mom was looking for some help in the kitchen and asked if she'd be interested in me coming back and staying a month or two," he said.
The plan was for Hawkins and his girlfriend, Katey Sleeveless, to save some money before going back on the road, but things didn't work out that way. His kitchen replacement fell through, and his mother "made strong hints that it would be helpful if we hung around, so we signed a six-month lease on an apartment."
And then Hawkins and Katey found out that they were going to be parents.
"It hit me in a lot of different ways," he said. "Everything is totally different now. It's definitely the No. 1 important thing for me — finding ways to provide happiness for my family."
But while all that was happening, Hawkins never stopped writing songs. "Music was always there," he said. "I wrote songs no matter what, and had a little collection that I wanted to record and not worry if they were good." His first call was to It's True bass player Kyle Harvey. By October Hawkins was recording most of the parts at the home studio of Jeremy Garrett, The Waiting Room's sound engineer. The rest of It's True filled in the holes, except for drummer Matt Arbiter, who had moved to New York.
The 8-song EP is an evolution for Hawkins. It's more straight-forward and tuneful, and in many ways more personal than the band's debut full length. "It's all about the last year or so," Hawkins said of the album. "It's kind of all about starting over, different things beginning and different things ending."
But the EP and its release shows at The Waiting Room April 1 and the Bourbon Theater in Lincoln April 2 aren't so much a new beginning for It's True as a reunion (even Arbiter is coming back from NYC for the shows). Hawkins has his sights set on only one thing after the final encore.
"First of all, I'm going to have a baby," he said about his future. "That will take precedent for awhile. After that, I don't know. Katey and I are both musicians. We'll find a way to do that, and not in a background sort of way. We'll find ways to make it an integral part of our lives."
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Want a sneak peak of Another Afterlife? Check out the interview with Adam Hawkins at Worlds of Wayne (it's right here), which includes a sampling of the songs off the EP.
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Saturn Moth, a new-ish four piece fronted by Collin Matz, headlines a show tonight at The Waiting Room that also includes the amazing Dim Light, Cymbal Rush and Knife, Fight, Justice. $5, 9 p.m.
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Buccaneers' running back LeGarrette Blount played in Sunday's 16-10 win over the Carolina Panthers. But if you showed up to the game late you missed his three carries. During Greg Schiano's day-after-game press conference today, no answer was given as to why Blount did not return to the game.
"LeGarrette could have gone back in the game so let me make that clear," Schiano said. "He came out of the game and we thought it was his leg. We're not sure."
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