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Kew is a global resource for plant and fungal knowledge. We have one of the largest and most diverse collections of plant and fungal specimens (living and preserved) in the world.
Read the Kew Science blog for an insight into Kew's latest scientific research.
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Kew magazine wins at the GMG Awards
Kew magazine won the Environmental Award at the GMG Awards at The Savoy in London (26 November). The award was for a piece by Stephanie Pain called 'Saving for the Future' on the UK National Tree Seed Project, which appeared in the spring issue.
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Beyond the Gardens: The Forgotten Home of Coffee
This award-winning film shows how scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, are collaborating with scientists in Ethiopia (Arabica coffee originated from here) to understand how climate change is affecting wild Arabica coffee plants.
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Noble dendrobium (Dendrobium nobile)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do Aspenware utensils smell and taste like wood?
Aspen, poplar and birch don't have much of a wood smell or much of a taste. It's actually why these species are used to make wooden mixing spoons - like the ones found in most kitchens. Aspenware is engineered to eliminate any residual wood taste; each piece is individually finished to be smooth to the touch.
Is Aspenware cutlery reusable?
Sometimes, but it depends on usage. Aspenware can be lightly cleaned and reused a few times; however it is intended to be single-use and will not survive a trip through the dishwasher or being soaked for long periods of time. Aspenware is made to be strong, but it is also made to be thrown away.
How can wood make such strong utensils?
Aspenware is made using its own patented lamination and forming process. There are also a number of carefully balanced factors that combine to make each piece robust yet rapidly compostable.
What is the difference between compostable and biodegradable?
Biodegradable products degrade due to the natural action of microbes and exposure to the elements. The key things to understand about materials labelled biodegradable is that they do not require breakdown of the material on any particular timescale, nor does it require that the resulting degraded products be environmentally benign. For example, all plastic will biodegrade eventually, but it could take 10,000 years and leave toxic trace chemicals in the soil. Compostable products must biodegrade as above, but have the added requirement that the biodegradation occur on reasonable timescales and that the end products be environmentally benign. For example, an Aspenware fork will biodegrade in 49 days or less, and produce useful and nutrient rich soil that can then be used to support new growth.
Does Aspenware log trees?
No way. We use logs from trees that were previously cut down by the softwood lumber industry while trying to reach more valuable species, such as spruce, pine and fir. The species used to make Aspenware would normally be left to rot or burned in slash piles. Instead, we salvage them and give them a more useful purpose. All the wood we use is sourced from local sustainable forestry partners.
Does Aspenware create waste wood?
Yes, like any manufacturing process, we produce some waste wood when making Aspenware. Through years of development, we have substantially reduced the amount of waste produced. The small amount that is generated is sent to be made into wood pellets or is used as feedstock for biomass power generation.
What's the best way to dispose of Aspenware utensils?
Aspenware can be thrown into the green-bin (municipal compost), a home composter, or even the regular garbage. Since we only use natural ingredients, every part of Aspenware turns back into the soil from whence it came.
How fast do Aspenware utensils decompose?
Under commercial compost conditions, Aspenware completely decomposes in fewer than 49 days. Under home compost conditions, results will vary based on moisture, temperature and owner maintenance, but decomposition times should not exceed 90 days.
What about bioplastic?
To be certified a "compostable bioplastic," the material must degrade by 60% in 180 days in a commercial compost facility - a standard that has been set by the bioplastics industry. Last time we checked, 60% was not 100%, and 180 days was a long time. Bioplastics are also often laced with conventional, non-compostable plastic resins to increase their strength and performance. It sort of defeats the purpose of calling yourself 'bioplastic,' in our opinion. But what do we know? We make all-natural, compostable utensils.
But there are other types of wooden disposable utensils; what makes Aspenware better?
There are really only a few other types of disposable wooden utensils. Most companies advertising wooden cutlery are importing the exact same product from the same overseas suppliers under various trade names. If you have tried these products you will know that they are of very poor quality and taste like a tongue depressor. While we believe that the other wooden cutlery might have similar compostability characteristics as Aspenware, none of them perform like it. Nor do they offer the peace-of-mind that comes from knowing that you're holding utensils made using domestically regulated health and sustainability practices, local resource utilization and labour.
Doesn't Aspenware cost more than plastic cutlery?
Aspenware is competitively priced with the high-quality plastic and bioplastic cutlery. Sure, there are less expensive non-renewable alternatives out there, but we could argue that the overall cost is larger than what you would pay for them.
Other than wood, what else is used in making Aspenware utensils?
Aspenware is made up of two layers of wood veneer held together with an FDA-approved edible binding agent. Each piece of Aspenware is also coated with a plant-based food coating. That's it - wood, edible binder and natural coating - no nasty chemicals.

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(CBS News) -- Daniel Craig is back as Bond...James Bond. 007 is on assignment once again in "Skyfall," the 23rd film in the long-running franchise.
The British actor has been busy promoting this latest installment (which has been garnering some of the best reviews in the Bond series) and sat down with us to discuss "Skyfall" and possibilities of another sequel. You can also hear from Craig himself by watching the above video.
CBSNEWS.COM: The reviews so far have not just been good, they've been through the roof.
DANIEL CRAIG: There's certainly a lot of sense of relief. You can never tell. You're hoping people will react well to it. But it's so nice when across the board people are into it.
CBSNEWS.COM: So when you're filming, it's tough to gauge...
CRAIG: You can't think about that. You can only think about what you're doing on that day...The most important people are the audience. The privilege that you guys get of seeing it before everyone else...that is important because you're going to be forming people's opinion, but it's the audience that has to decide.
CBSNEWS.COM: Why do you think the Bond series has endured as long as it has? What is so appealing about James Bond and the stories?
CRAIG: I don't have a kind of clear answer really. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the Broccolis [the family of producers who've been behind almost all of the Bond films] have had the franchise for so long. And protected it. They've kept it peculiarly British.
CBSNEWS.COM: Is it as exciting to play James Bond as one would imagine?
CRAIG: I get a huge huge kick out of it. I'm really really lucky to have landed this role. I feel very passionately about it. I just want to do the best that we can.
CBSNEW.COM: This is your third James Bond film, are we going to see you in a fourth?
CRAIG: I hope so. I can't really think about it at the moment. I kind of want to get this out of the way. But yes, I hope so. If we get a script, which I think they're putting together at this moment, a good script, then I'm ready to do it.


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Archie Digital Comics Launches
- Posted by Johanna on July 24, 2009 at 8:12 am
- Category: Archie Comics
Archie Comics has launched Archie Digital Comics, an online subscription service to read back issues. From the press release:
Archie Digital Comics offers you HUNDREDS of Archie titles both past and present; from the 70s to the 90s, including the landmark Archie 200th and Archie 500th issues! You can read entire Archie & Friends runs including the complete "World Tour", "Comic Con Caper" and the "Cartoon Life of Chuck Clayton" series. Plus, "Josie and the Pussycats", "Jughead" from the 90s and today and Archie Classics like "Jughead's Fantasy", Archie as "Pureheart the Powerful", the complete run of "Cosmo the Merry Martian", "Archie's Madhouse" and MANY MORE! Young Salem, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Betty, Veronica, "Betty & Veronica" are all available online from Archie Digital Comics! And more comics will be added EVERY MONTH!
Subscriptions are $9.95 a month. If you sign up for a year, it's $49.95, or less than half that price. (Be aware: they will automatically keep billing you until you cancel, once you sign up.) Readers who subscribe now, "during the beta launch period", will also get the printed copies of the much-discussed "Archie Marries Veronica" storyline included for free. At six issues, $2.50 a pop, that covers a month and a half of the subscription, a pretty good deal.
I find it odd that none of the site links — Questions, Contacts, Links — work without a subscription. You also can't see how many or which titles are included without signing up. Maybe that will all be corrected once the site is out of beta. They have posted four sample issues on their signup page if you want to check the quality.
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August 1, 2009 at 12:49 AMI wish you would not have to pay. I would want to read comics for free online. It would be cool. :(
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February 8, 2010 at 6:13 PMveronica why don't you kiss archie?betty why don't you kiss reggie?
- Archie Plans to Release Two New Graphic Novels a Month in 2011, Starts New Subscription Program » Comics Worth Reading Says:
November 26, 2010 at 1:33 PM[…] An ad currently running in the Archie comic books is promoting the Archie Comics Book Club, a new subscription offer beginning January 2011. For $19.99 a month, billed automatically to your credit card, you'll get two new graphic novels a month, plus a one-year subscription to an Archie comic book, plus a one-year subscription to Archie Digital Comics. […]


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The Los Angeles Times reports that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and other US officials are still concerned by the incident.
"I think that what concerned us was, first, the fact that there were five of these boats, and second, that they came as close as they did to our ships and behaved in what appeared to be a pretty aggressive manner," [Mr. Gates] said. "So I think it's all of those things that raise concerns."
The Bush administration lodged a formal diplomatic protest Thursday in a note given to Swiss diplomats in Tehran, the Iranian capital. The Bush administration relies on the Swiss to help oversee Washington's interests in Iran in the absence of formal relations between the Islamic Republic and the U.S.
But the Pentagon has conceded that the threatening voice in the US video may not have come from the patrol boats, writes The Washington Post. The Post adds that such a concession appears to contradict the implications of earlier Pentagon statements about the video.
Pentagon officials insist that they never claimed Iran made the threat. "No one in the military has said that the transmission emanated from those boats. But when they hear it simultaneously to the behavior of those boats, it only adds to the tension," said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell. "If this verbal threat emanated from something or someone unrelated to the five boats, it would not lessen the threat from those boats." ...
"When you get a bridge-to-bridge call, you have no way of knowing where it came from," Thorp said. "Nobody ever, with any certainty, knew it was from them. But it did escalate it up a notch as it was happening at the same time" that the patrol boats, manned by Revolutionary Guards, engaged in menacing behavior, [Rear Adm. Frank Thorp IV, a spokesman for the Navy,] said.


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Bony defects of the face, skull, or long bone may result from trauma, destruction by tumors, or congenital causes like cleft palate. These defects are encountered regularly by plastic surgeons and current methods of reconstruction primarily involve bone grafts harvested from another part of the body (autologous bone) and re-planted into the defect. However, the amount of donor bone is limited and the grafts are difficult to shape. In addition, autologous bone adds an additional operative procedure and can result in pain, hemorrhage, fracture, and nerve injury. To solve these problems, our laboratory has been developing a bone graft substitute since 1990. In other words, we are trying to grow new bone in a pre-determined three-dimensional shape. Growing new bone instead of transferring it from one part of the body to another would dramatically reduce operative time, hospitalization, and morbidity. There are three ingredients necessary to grow new bone 1) a 3-D delivery scaffold 2) stem cells 3) factors that turn the stem cells into bone. A scaffold must be biocompatible and biodegradable and allow for cells to attach, multiply, and turn into bone. Our lab has been using a material called poly-lactide-co-glycolide (PLGA) to create scaffolds that degrade in the body into lactic and glycolic acid which are naturally found. PLGA is FDA approved and is currently used in dissolvable suture material. Osteoblasts, the cells that make bone, adhere to, multiply, and form bone on 3-D PLGA scaffolds. Another critical component of synthesizing bone is the stem cell source. Ideally, one could harvest stem cells from an individual, seed them onto a biodegradable scaffold of the necessary shape, turn the stem cells into bone, and implant the bone back into the same individual. We have used bone marrow stem cells (BMSC) grown on a 3-D PLGA culture to grow new bone in vitro (in cell culture) and in vivo (in a living organism) to heal cranial defects in rabbits. Liposuctioned fat cells have also been shown to form new bone in 3-D culture and in animal defects. There have been only a few studies investigating hESC's ability to form bone on a 2-D plate or in a collagen gel, but no studies have looked at their ability to form bone on a 3-D scaffold. Our first goal is to seed hESCs on our 3-D PLGA scaffold and form bone. We will perform this experiment side by side with human liposuctioned fat and bone marrow derived stem cells for comparison. Our second goal is to supplement osteogenic media with different concentrations of Vitamin D and/or retinoic acid to determine an ideal growth media for maximal bone formation. Our third goal is to look at the specific mechanisms through which hESCs form bone and a blood supply. We will analyze the differences in gene expression of hESCs grown on 3-D culture and compare them with human fat and bone marrow derived stem cells. Understanding these mechanisms is critical to developing a bone graft.
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Jennifer Aniston's Happiness Plan
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4. You've got to have friends.
Aniston didn't just play a loyal friend on TV: "I've always wanted good friendships, and I was inspired to create them by watching my mom with her girlfriends," she's noted. Aniston has achieved her goal her friends formed a tight and supportive circle around her during her tough times, and they are there to celebrate the good with her, too.
Even with her crazy-busy schedule, Aniston spends as much face time with her friends as possible. She's often spotted walking on the beach with Courteney Cox and frequently joins Courteney and husband David's Sunday-night dinners. Aniston even finds ways to connect when on the set. Says her friend and makeup artist Angela Levin: "I'll be putting makeup on [her], and she'll grab a little cheek color and put it on me and say, 'You need a little color on your face.' It's really funny. She's a very wonderful girlfriend."
When she can't spend time in person with her pals, Aniston reaches out with thoughtful little gestures. Somehow, she makes these look effortless. Just ask Jake Gyllenhaal, who costarred with her in 2002's critically acclaimed The Good Girl and has been a buddy ever since. "Birthdays, celebrations, or anything, she always thinks of me," he says. "She calls or sends something. She's so busy, and she seems to make time not just for me, but for everybody." Thanks to this thoughtfulness, Aniston has cultivated close friends who are always there for her.
5. Do what you don't know how to do.
Obviously, Aniston's DNA is hard-coded for creativity: She's an actor. But now, on the brink of turning 40, she's challenging herself in new ways. In fall 2006, she codirected the short film Room 10 with friend Andrea Buchanan, and she and producing partner Kristin Hahn recently landed a deal at Universal Pictures for their new company, Echo Films. Aniston's pet project, The Goree Girls, tells the true story of eight Texan inmates who start an all-female country-western band in prison. Aniston plans to work her musical mojo and star in the film. "I can carry a tune, and I was known to throw out a jazz hand from time to time in high school," she has joked.
"[One thing] I really love about Jennifer is she wants to do a broad range of things," says Ken Kwapis, director of He's Just Not That Into You. "What's great about the choices she makes is that she seems really motivated to tell stories that resonate with her personally, and that's why they resonate so clearly with audience members. Because when I look out into the audience and see the rapt faces of people when they're watching a scene with Jennifer, especially an emotional scene wow that can't be beat."
What those audience members are connecting with, no doubt, is the wise way Aniston tackles life's ups and downs. "I've learned that you can get through things that hurt," she's said. "My pain was real...but people are unbelievable. We have such resilience." Certainly, the way she's rolled up her sleeves and developed her own happiness recipe is proof of this resilience. With a spirit like that, it looks like her lucky-charm necklace can stay tucked away for keeps.
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Dan Warner
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My research interests broadly center around physiological, behavioral, and evolutionary ecology. I am interested in how environmental factors (e.g., temperature and moisture) encountered by developing embryos affect offspring phenotypes and their subsequent fitness consequences. Additionally, much of my work evaluates how environmental factors affect maternal reproductive physiology, behaviors and allocation strategies, as well as their impacts on offspring phenotypes and fitness. My integrative approach combines laboratory and field studies to provide insights into the adaptive significance (or lack thereof) of organismal responses to the environment. I focus on reptiles (primarily lizards and turtles) because these organisms have a variety of characteristics that make them excellent models for empirical tests of adaptive evolution. My current work focuses on the two related topics below.
Developmental Plasticity and Parental Effects
Decades of research demonstrate that embryo physiology is sensitive to surrounding environments, which can influence developmental patterns and offspring phenotypes in ways that could impact fitness. In addition, the phenotype or environment of parents (typically the mother) can influence offspring phenotypes independent of, or interacting with, inherited genes. These parental effects are a form of developmental plasticity that spans generations, and can influence evolutionary processes. My research on this topic involves a series of on-going laboratory experiments (using the brown anole lizard) designed to elucidate the role of the parental and embryonic environments in shaping phenotypic variation in reptiles. A critical component of this research involves field work (on islands in Florida's Intracoastal Waterway) aimed to quantify how natural selection operates on environmentally-induced phenotypic variation under natural conditions. This combination of lab and field studies provides robust assessments of how natural selection has shaped organismal responses to developmental environments.
Ecology and evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination.
Numerous organisms, including many reptiles, have temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), whereby temperature during embryonic development determines offspring sex. My Ph.D. research focused on the adaptive value of this atypical sex-determining mechanism a short-lived Australian lizard. Although, I demonstrated that TSD enables each sex to develop at their own optimal temperature (thereby enhancing parental and offspring fitness), we still have a relatively poor understanding of the adaptive significance of TSD in longer-lived reptiles. To address this, I am currently involved in a long-term study to evaluate the sex-specific effects of egg incubation temperature on reproductive success in the painted turtle. My research on this topic also aims to understand physiological mechanisms underlying TSD and the impacts of climatic variation on sex ratios under TSD.
Selected Publications
Warner DA, MA Moody, RS Telemeco, JJ Kolbe. 2012. Egg environments strongly impact embryonic development, but have minimal consequences for hatchling phenotypes in an invasive lizard. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105:25-41.
Warner DA, MA Moody, RS Telemeco. 2011. Is water uptake by reptilian eggs regulated by physiological processes of embryos or a passive hydraulic response to developmental environments? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 160:421-425.
Warner DA, R Shine. 2011. Interactions among thermal parameters determine offspring sex under temperature-dependent sex determination. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 278:256-265.
Warner DA, MN Chapman. 2011. Does solitary egg incubation enhance water uptake and offspring quality in a lizard that lays single-egg clutches? Journal of Experimental Zoology 315:149-155.
Warner DA, CF Jorgensen, FJ Janzen. 2010. Maternal and abiotic effects on egg mortality and offspring size of turtles: temporal variation in selection over seven years. Functional Ecology 24:857-866.
Du, WG, DA Warner, T Langkilde, T Robbins, R Shine. 2010. The physiological basis of geographic variation in rates of embryonic development within a widespread lizard species. American Naturalist 176:522-528.
Warner DA, RS Radder, R Shine. 2009. Corticosterone exposure during embryonic development affects offspring growth and sex ratios in opposing directions in two lizard species with environmental sex determination. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 82:363-371.
Janzen FJ, DA Warner. 2009. Parent-offspring conflict and selection on egg size in turtles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:2222-2230.
Warner DA, X Bonnet, KA Hobson, R Shine. 2008. Lizards combine stored energy and recently acquired nutrients flexibly to fuel reproduction. Journal of Animal Ecology 77:1242-1249.
Warner DA, R Shine. 2008. The adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a reptile. Nature 451:566-568.


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Beyonce & Kelly Clarkson Shine At President Obama's Inauguration
Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Clarkson rocked the (White) House Monday morning as the two singers helped officially kick off President Barack Obama's second term in office.
Who's Best? Beliebers, Smilers Or Glamberts
In front of over a million people, an incredibly nervous and cold Kelly brought Washington to its feet with her performance of "My Country Tis Of Thee".
Beyonce, a longtime President Obama supporter, also graced the stage with her performance of the National Anthem. She would prove once again how amazing she is as a performer when she removed her earpiece midway through the song. However, the NY Daily News are claiming Beyonce lip-synced her jaw-dropping performance of the "Star Spangled Banner".
We couldn't help but smile when we saw Kelly and Beyonce have a mini freak-out after the performances. Kelly took to her Twitter with the caption, "Me and B just hangin' out ….don't worry about it. Seriously, God did good. She is so beautiful!"
Kelly would also have the chance to meet the President. "Maybe the coolest photo I've ever been in ….ever :)," she tweeted.


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BobSagat wrote:Idra won that because he had the resources to use from so many bases and he could've won even faster if he hadn't been so stubborn about using ultras and switched to brood lords.
If he had killed 40 drones to make room for 6 more ultras he might have even lost because that's 2 bases down, he wouldn't have time to replenish his army when Drewbie's mostly intact tank army comes in and rofflestomps his base
EagleMan wrote:Sentios this is assuming that a person with less bases than you can actually get 200/200 as easily as you can.
Unless you let them get a massive force and just push out, you have the clear advantage. While they may have more food available, it certainly doesn't mean they're going to have the resources to outnumber you.
Coos wrote:Cannons along the mineral line is usually the best counter to a muta attack. Void Rays take too long to charge against the number of Mutalisks. Phoenix's would be optimal, but what use is there after?
BobSagat wrote:You can't lift ultras. CUZ THEY ARE TOO MASSSSSSIVVVEEE.
said so by mistake, my badBobSagat wrote:You can't lift ultras. CUZ THEY ARE TOO MASSSSSSIVVVEEE.
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The SNP was today the target of a sustained attack from defence secretary Des Browne over its defence and foreign policy. That policy amounted to the Nationalists simply saying "it's not our fight" on matters ranging from a global terrorism to combating the opium poppy trade in Afghanistan, he claimed. [Which is true, it's not! JOE]
Mr Browne launched his attack in a speech to Labour activists in Glasgow, where he accused the SNP of wanting Scotland to move apart in a world becoming every closer. "They want to remove Scotland from Nato and to cut off the Scottish people from an alliance that is a force for good in the world," he said. [By threatening the rest of the world with nuclear annihiliation? Great! It's a Nuclear alliance the SNP is against Nuclear weapons. Trident is a complete waste of money why on earth would Scotland want to be part of this imperial fantasy club?]
Mr Browne went on to defend the Nato presence in Afghanistan, and urged resolve to see that mission through. "The Afghan people, our own people, and the Taliban are watching us," he said.
"If we are indecisive or divided, the Taliban will be strengthened just as all of the others despair." [The SNP actually supported this action so this is a typical lie from Labour]
Mr Brown said that under a "separatist" SNP government, Scotland would not be part of the international effort in Afghanistan - and the party's foreign policy implied Scotland could "hide" from the reality of international terrorism. [separatist, yawn! if this means we might disagree with the US and the English rump state then he's probably right, we would and should. Sooking up to Bush won't help Scotland internationally.]
"The idea that a Scotland separated from the UK would be safer from the terrorist threat rests on the false assumption that it is the UK's foreign policy that has made us a target," said Mr Browne. [Bingo! That's exactly what HAS happened. It IS the UK's foreign policy that has made Scotland a target, we have no interest in invading Iraq or anywhere else.]
"The SNP are dishonest if they pretend to the Scottish people that by taking Scotland out of the UK and out of Nato they can protect the Scottish people from global terrorism. "They know as well as any political party that in today's world there is no guaranteed protection from terrorism." [Threatening other states and invading other nations is an excellent way to make the situation much worse. Maybe Scotland would call for a GENUINE resolution of the Israeli/Palestininan conflict rather than cheering on the Isrealis and funding their illegal operations and murder of civilians.]
Mr Browne went on to accuse the SNP of seeking to make political capital out of Iraq and said: "I respect the opinions of those who opposed the war and their right to voice them.
"Let me say this - if the question is the rights and wrongs of the action in Iraq, the answer isn't Scottish independence.
"If the problem is stability in the Middle East, a border between Scotland and England is not the solution. "If the objective is bringing peace to Iraq, breaking up the United Kingdom isn't going to achieve it." [It could be an excellent step in the right direction towards a saner policy in the middle east, Britain has imperial ambitions which it no longer requires and are dangerous to Scotland, that's the reality.]
He said that while world leaders at the G8 conference in Gleneagles last year signed a historic deal to make poverty history, the SNP had complained about who was paying for the policing in Perthshire - another example of their "not our fight" attitude. [the G8 could have done a lot more and it was an insult to hold the meeting here when our country ie Scotland was not represented at the talks because our parliament has no powers on foreign policy.]
"I believe that Scotland and the UK should fight tyranny, should fight poverty and play our part in taking on terrorism," said Mr Browne. [Has this man read George Orwell?!]
"Scotland's partnership in the UK makes us punch above our weight when when stand up for what we believe in on the world stage. [More like we don't punch AT ALL.]
"Alex Salmond believes we shouldn't even pull our weight in the international community.
"We believes we should stand apart, watching the world from a distance and hoping it next comes near us." [He actually believes we should have a seperate national foreign policy and we definitely need one to save more of our soldiers dying in quagmires like Iraq.]
Nationalists hit back by demanding an apology from Mr Browne over his department's "continued failure" to stand up for Scottish interests. The SNP said 4,800 defence-related jobs had been lost in Scotland since 1997, and Labour's policies in Iraq and the Trident nuclear missile system would damage Scotland.
"The SNP will not be taking any lessons from this minister, flown up on public money to make a party political lecture to Scots," said SNP shadow defence minister Angus Robertson.
"Under Labour almost 2,200 MoD jobs have been lost in Scotland, in addition to over 2,600 in shipyard jobs.
"On top of this, eight military bases and two supply depots have either been run-down or closed under this failing administration."
Mr Robertson said the MoD employed 10,000 fewer civilian and service personnel than Scotland's population share warranted, and spent ?420 million less in procurement.
"The evidence is clear. In terms of lost jobs and defence spending, Scotland suffers as part of the UK," he said.
"All this is in addition to Labour's dangerous and unwanted plans for a new nuclear weapons system on the Clyde to replace Trident, and their continued pursuit of the war in Iraq."
[This really is a steaming pile of cr*p from Labour. It is Tony Blair and his illegal Iraq war against imaginary weapons of mass destruction which has made Britain a target of international terrorists who have come to believe that the West is waging a war against their culture and religion and are trying to steal their oil.
Britain want us to 'share the pain' of their foreign policy which basically entails sucking up to George Bush without any benefits to Scotland whatsoever. Scotland is an energy rich country we don't need to interfere in the affairs of other nations in the middle east and we don't want to either. Scotland does not have an imagined post imperial role nor do we want to share in an American empire.
We need our own seat in the UN and our own independent foreign policy. NATO is a nuclear alliance and the SNP is absolutely right to want no part of it. - JOE]


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"Wait," Herer says, "and I'll show off for you." He breaks out a plastic bottle and twists the cap. Before it comes off, the room fills with a piny smell. Probably 29.86.
The problem isn't pot, Herer insists, it's politics. One of the few books to undertake the nearly impossible mission of delivering a wholly objective look at so-called recreational drugs, Chocolate to Morphine by Dr. Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen, declares that marijuana "is no more of a health problem than the occasional use of coffee or tea, and certainly it is less toxic than alcohol or tobacco."
That might not jibe with "research" that "proves" marijuana kills brain cells. Sadly for prohibitionists such research is questionable at best. Long before he became a two-term president Ronald Reagan denounced reefer by citing the Heath/Tulane University Study, which claimed that dope killed monkey brains. Playboy magazine broke the real story: The rhesus monkeys used in the study wore gas masks into which heavy-duty concentrations of marijuana smoke were pumped for several minutes. When researchers killed the monkeys and cut open their brains, they found dead brain cells. Ergo, pot smoke kills brain cells. The study deletes two important factors that Jack Herer gleefully points out in The Emperor: 1) the monkeys were simply suffocating from oxygen deprivation (he footnotes the Red Cross Lifesaving and Water Safety manual), and 2) the report never mentions carbon monoxide, which is found in all smoke.
Studies and politics, politics and studies. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew reefer, and Ben Franklin processed it. Jimmy Carter, as president, sought to eliminate federal controls over small amounts of cannabis. Former secretary of state George P. Shultz proselytized for "controlled legalization" of drugs. Current Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders let slip the wild notion that America should at least give this idea some thought. And in 1988 the DEA's chief administrative judge urged the federal government to make pot available for medical uses. Even people who wear suits sometimes see the light.
President Bill Clinton, an admitted dope smoker, stands firm against an end to prohibition. He says his brother Roger would be dead by now if drugs had been legal all these years. The president is either stupid or a liar. Or both. Roger Clinton's drug of turpitude was cocaine, a substance generally despised among the modern-day hempsters. And if pot were legal, people like Gary Shepherd might be alive. Shepherd was the subject of an in-depth investigative story published in the current issue of High Times, the pro-cannabis mag's twentieth-anniversary edition. He was a farmer in Kentucky with a family and some land and a broken-down pickup truck and a hunting rifle. He grew some vegetables on his land, and some killer bud for his own use, according to the magazine. When the helicopters buzzed in and the SWAT teams surrounded him, Shepherd refused to surrender, refused to hand over his rifle, just plain refused. Before the eyes of his wife and young son, Shepherd was shredded by 9mm bullets.
The origins of the hemp plant have been traced to Asia, and it has long been a staple in parts of India. It is thought that pot was brought to the New World via the slave trade, particularly in Brazil, or by sailors visiting the West Indies. By the beginning of this century, cannabis was well known in Mexico and soon crossed the border. Historians note that in the U.S. it was especially popular as a psychoactive substance among Mexican immigrants and poor Southern blacks. The first documented recreational toking reportedly took place in Texas in 1903. A few years later it became popular in the New Orleans port and red-light district of Storeyville. Jack Herer bellows over and over that the plant's popularity among blacks gave the government another reason to ban it A simple racism. But he's also happy to outline the famous marijuana conspiracy theory.
When companies such as Kimberly-Clark and the Hearst newspaper corporation found out their vast interests in paper could be undercut by this alternative (according to a 1938 article in Popular Mechanics -- not to mention dozens of subsequent newspaper stories, books, and private communiques -- marijuana can produce four times as much raw material per acre as trees for paper and similar uses, without contributing to soil depletion and the greenhouse effect), they teamed with bigot and director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics Harry J. Anslinger to combat pot. DuPont and other companies that had invested heavily in the very things marijuana would replace joined the battle. The movie Reefer Madness was released in 1936.
But with new generations comes new hope, and Herer's hemp tour is celebrating it. The tour has turned out to be in many ways like a rock and roll road show. All the events start on time A the rally at the courthouse, the debate at UM, the book signings, the blowout party A but it's only luck or fate or karmic bud that makes it so. These reefer-legalization people improvise like a well-oiled jazz band; it may seem that no one knows what he's doing, but everything comes together nicely.


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Former Pfizer executive Erica Mann is set to join Bayer HealthCare LLC as the new president of its Consumer Care Division.
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MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Former Pfizer executive Erica Mann is set to join Bayer HealthCare LLC as the new president of its Consumer Care Division.
Plans call for Mann, most recently president and general manager of Pfizer Nutritional Health, to start at Bayer on March 14. She also will become a member of the Bayer HealthCare executive committee, the company said.
According to Bayer, Mann was a member of the Pfizer senior management team and joined that company with its acquisition of Wyeth.
As senior vice president of nutrition at Wyeth, Mann helped establish the shape and strategic direction of the new nutrition business unit, and as managing director of Wyeth Australia & New Zealand she introduced a range of significant medicines and nutritionals. Mann also led Wyeth's pharmaceutical business in South Africa for over a decade as managing director and chief executive officer and was the first woman to serve as CEO of a pharmaceutical company in that country, Bayer said.
Earlier in her career, she held positions of increasing responsibility at Lederle Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly.
"Over the past 25 years, Ms. Mann has become noted in the industry for her strong record of delivering business results. Her outstanding experience and insights will drive [Bayer] Consumer Care to take advantage of the sustained growth forecast for the OTC market," stated Jorg Reinhardt, chairman of Bayer HealthCare AG and chairman of the Bayer HealthCare executive committee.


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This week on the Cafe Pod, we note that the AL East standings seem flipped from preseason expectations. Can the Red Sox keep surging, and can the Blue Jays get things turned around? We also answer some Cafe questions, play Name That Waiver Claim, examine a few rookies, find good spot starters for the rest of the week, discuss a few key players returning from injury/suspension and diagnose a few closer situations.
- Nine fantasy baseball questions from the Cafe forums are answered, from the following users:
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- The big name promoted is a guy we discussed last week, Anthony Rendon. Was the timing right? Also, what do we make of Allen Webster's first start, and how does Travis d'Arnaud's injury affect the Mets?
- We make it a five-day forecast this week and identify spot starters to consider from Wednesday through Sunday, including one pitcher who may be worth an add in all leagues if he sticks in the rotation.
- Freddie Freeman is back with the Braves, so what will they do about playing time for Chris Johnson and Juan Francisco? John Lackey could be back this weekend; is he worth a start against the Astros, or do we need to wait and see? Carlos Ruiz should be back this weekend as well; should owners cut April surprises John Buck and Evan Gattis for him?
- The Cardinals and Red Sox may have finally found their closers in Edward Mujica and Andrew Bailey. The Tigers say Jose Valverde will close immediately. What are they thinking?
- Last year, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper were promoted in late April and took the league by storm. Who will be the next big-name prospect promoted?
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Olympic speed skater Shani Davis was handed his first defeat in almost a decade on Feb. 12 in Sochi. The decorated veteran had been the golden boy during the last two Olympic Games, becoming the first African-American to win an individual Winter Olympic gold medal.
Shani Davis felt the biting cold of defeat on Feb. 12 as he suffered his first loss in almost a decade in the 1,000 meter speed skating event in Sochi, Russia.
Shani Davis Falls From Olympic Glory
Shani, 31, fell horribly short of his goal to become the first male speed skater to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the same event. Unfortunately, he was only able to manage an eighth-place finish in his signature event, the 1,000 meters.
"There's no excuse," Shani dejectedly said after the event. "I just didn't have the speed I've always had." Now after having competed at three Olympic Games, Shani's career may be coming to an end. We'll have to wait and see if he decides to try to return four years from now.
Dutch Speed Skater Hands Shani Davis First Loss
The Chicago native is actually the world-record holder, with a time of 1:06.42 for 1,000 meters, and he had won three of the four World Cup events at the 1,000 meters this year alone. With those accomplishments Shani had painted himself as the clear favorite going into the finals in Sochi. However, victory was not in the cards for this decorated athlete.
Instead, Dutch speed skater Stefan Groothuis, 32, of the Netherlands ended up snagging the gold medal followed by Denny Morrison of Canada in second-place.
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I have often wondered if colour matters even today so long after apartheid, slavery and all the things that differentiate humans are a thing of the past. Not that it is bad to differentiate in order to be unique and individualistic but to do so to discriminate and victimize?
Looking around and going through statistics, I have come to the conclusion that it is not something only to wonder about but it is a fact of life. A fact of modern life and therein lies the sadness and tragedy. Humans have come a long way travelling from Stone Age nakedness through sophisticated civilizations and scientific achievements. Yet, we have not reached a place where colour, beliefs, language, origins do not matter.
UK is a multicultural, diverse country that is accepting of people from across the world. So, unpublished unemployment statistics by the Datablog appearing to show young black men hit harder by the recession than young whites is worrying news. And it's just not blacks, but other ethnic groups too. The figures highlight the challenge in tackling why unemployment seems to have so affected one minority ethnic group as compared with others. The data points out that almost half of black youths are unemployed.
People say that being black definitely makes it harder to get a job. The other ethnic groups could say the same. Google's UK operation is among the companies that have taken a more pragmatic approach to the ethnic employment issue, but there is need for more companies to do the same. Sandra Kerr, Race for Opportunity's national director says that some employers, including the Home Office and consultancy group Ernst & Young, are attempting to eliminate racial bias in graduate recruitment. "If you leave university and you are 'Bame' [black, asian and minority ethnic group], you are still more likely to be unemployed one year on," said Kerr, ascribing the problem to "that subtext of what you don't know". She added: "I think it's unconscious bias. Some employers are being really truthful about it already."
It is shocking that we have been so accustomed to this bias that it has become part of our subconscious mind and hence we don't even have to behave with prejudice in order to put out prejudice. It comes so naturally to us. Unemployment is an important yardstick to measure psychological well-being and self-esteem which are important values that make us feel valued and relevant, that make us human.
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April 8th, 2011, 05:23 PM | #1 |
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Disgusting Land Use, Newaygo County
I found this yesterday on state land in Newaygo County, 8 miles or so west of Big Rapids.
Pics really don't do justice, it's just a cheapo camera. Pictures really don't do justice. There are easily 10,000 shell casings strewn all over the fucking place, empty ammo boxes, shot up tv's, radios, etc. It's a fucking wasteland. I spent about 2 hours picking shit up today, and plan on heading back there tomorrow. Anyone in the area that would like to help, the help would be appreciated. I did find some reciepts with EBT numbers and partial credit card numbers, who can pull those numbers up and find out who caused this shit? It is bullshit like this that gets land closed for public use. |
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April 8th, 2011, 05:49 PM | #4 |
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Is this just off of 9 mile, just west of airborne auto salvage? Because im a freshman at ferris, and if this is the 2-track im thinking of, it really needs help.
April 8th, 2011, 05:51 PM | #5 |
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If you go out there and pick any of that up, MAKE SURE you collect any identifying info available. Be on the look out for meth making materials too. Keep a safe distance and call the police if you find any of these things! I can give you tips on how to have those people taken care of. This is exactly what we have been combating in Muskegon and Oceana counties through the Two Trackers Forest Clean Up for 13 years.
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April 8th, 2011, 06:27 PM | #14 |
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Unfortunately disposal of all that junk will have to come out of someones pocket.
I think the cost of a trailer of junk to the dump is around $20 call your local dump for pricing. Good luck to you guys.
April 8th, 2011, 08:43 PM | #16 |
Call the operators of your local landfill and tell them what you are doing, Youd be surprised what they will do for a little positive community PR. Then get some local news outlet to run a story on what your doing and make sure you mention the generosity of the landfill.
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it is amazing how many area's like that are actually on state land. Our club is working on putting a forest cleanup together in the Allegan State Game area. There is a rediculous amount of trash out there all over the place.
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news over history over millennia.
ghostly scarlet figures.
prints of hands repeated
on the sheer walls, petroglyphs
pecked into the patina
beneath rock overhangs.
we are drawn to them. face-to-face
with bighorn sheep, antelope, and lizards
we are inches from three-toed footprints,
bear tracks, and centipede, the shaman, his headdress,
shields of warriors, old humans holding hands.
spirals and circles of power or population?
zigzags of rivers or lightning?
white dots carefully spaced to show
how long they stayed, how far is the water?
a large bear is chiseled
far above the road;
men on horseback aim arrows
at its belly, back, and nose.
Boys' names are scratched
nearby; bullet holes pierce
the bear's body, shattering rock.
so many passings have left a mark.
who, though, shoots at art?


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A man in cryo sleep wakes up on an Earth devoid of human life but teeming with strange, frightening creatures in this epic short film. Read more
A man in cryo sleep wakes up on an Earth devoid of human life but teeming with strange, frightening creatures in this epic short film.
About this project
Thanks to you we hit our $18,000 goal, and we are making ENDANGERED! But rather than sitting back to relax, we are more determined than ever to make this short movie even more exciting. If we reach our new $25,000 Stretch Goal, we'll be able to improve the film for all of our backers.
If we can hit the $25k mark by the end of our campaign, we'll be able to:
Improve the quality of the musical score. Reaching our stretch goal will allow our composer to hire session musicians to create a more orchestral, cinematic score rather than a synthesized one.
Add professional color grading. Our stretch goal allows our color grading session to be more comprehensive, so that the look of every shot can be dialed into perfection.
Create multichannel sound mixes. Sound is one half of the movie watching experience, and our stretch goal will allow us to create an industry standard 5.1- channel sound mix in addition to the 2-channel stereo mix. This fully immersive mix will be available for live screenings such as the premiere and film festivals, as well as on the DVD and Blu-ray discs.
We know that getting another $7,000 in pledges in the next 4 days will be tough, but we are nothing if not ambitious. With your help, we think we can do it, so don't forget to spread the word!
The Endangered Team
ENDANGERED is the new action-packed scifi short film from director, visual effects master, and Project Greenlight winner Efram Potelle.
THE STORY: A man wakes up from cryo sleep expecting to arrive into a futuristic society; instead he steps into a nightmare world devoid of people and technology, but filled with exotic, dangerous creatures that have apparently taken over the world. As these monsters chase him through a decrepit city, he must learn to survive while searching for the answers to very important questions: What are these creatures? Where did they come from? And where is everybody? Is he the only one left? The answers will shock you.
With ENDANGERED, Efram aims to push the boundaries of what can be done with visual effects on a limited budget, while still telling an exciting and compelling story. Our goal is nothing short of creating a huge, exciting and epic new world that people will want to explore long after they've seen this film.
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We'd never ask for money without offering something in return, and so we'll include our backers as much as possible in the incredible process of making this film. If you look to the right, you'll see a galaxy of different reward tiers, from $1 (every little bit helps and is appreciated!) to $10,000, and rewards – everything from invitations to swanky LA screenings and Blu-Ray copies of Endangered to the filmmaker's rewards, including behind-the-scenes movies and even instructional videos on how to make your own action/scifi film. Need Efram to personally troubleshoot VFX problems you're having on your film? We have a reward for that!
After pooling all our resources, stretching ourselves to the limit of what we can personally do, and calling in favors from everyone we know, we still found ourselves just short of the funds which would make this film truly EPIC. And epic is the only way we want to make it. We want this world to feel huge and real, filled with unique and scary monsters that live in their own ecosystem. We want to create a setting that you'd want to explore. Our goal is to raise at least $18,000 to make this project the way it deserves to be made.
The money we receive from Kickstarter will go to the actual hard costs of production that we simply can't do ourselves or get for free; mainly prop construction materials and location fees. To a lesser extent, the money will be spent on equipment rentals (at a thankfully discounted rate), storage space, travel costs, character wardrobe and set dressing.
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We're deep into pre-production and have finished (or nearly finished) securing locations, creature design, prop building and design, budgets, storyboards, schedules, and countless other odds and ends. Our Kickstarter fundraising drive runs through the month of March into the early part of April, and if successful, we will immediately finish up pre-production and shoot in mid-May. Because of the extensive visual effects work, the post-production will be longer than usual, but we're going to work as fast as we can to deliver the finished film.
Efram Potelle is an award-winning director and visual effect artist, and winner of the second season of Project Greenlight (he co-directed The Battle of Shaker Heights starring Shia LaBeouf).
Efram on the set of THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS
Efram's short films have generated millions of hits, everywhere from Atom Films to YouTube; you may have even seen a few. Here are two of them:
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In his spare time, Efram designs his own unique, darkly funny, holiday cards (of which you can get limited edition prints … just check out the reward tiers to the right!!)
Efram's 2011 Holiday Card - The Exploding Santa
You can find out more about him and see the rest of his shorts and reels, including the remaining episodes of HellHoles at his website (http://eframcentral.com), or you can shoot over to his IMDB page (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003768/) for more information.
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Does this story end with this film? Absolutely not. This short is the first step in a campaign to build a world of story and hopefully many hours of entertainment for lovers of sci-fi and fantasy adventures. So come with us as we begin the amazing journey into this new world!
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FILM SCHOOL PACKAGE #1: All of the above PLUS you'll get access to special "how to" videos we'll be posting throughout the entire filmmaking process. They will serve as invaluable instructional films on what to do (and what not to do) when making your own action adventure scifi film, covering everything from prop making to shooting for visual effects. And we'll throw in an additional invite for two to the Los Angeles premiere and after party. That's three invites total!
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TWISTED HOLIDAY CARDS: A limited edition set of 6 Holiday Cards painted and designed by Efram Potelle (check out the project description for an example). These cards showcase his unique brand of humor and are perfect to send to anyone in your life who loves slightly twisted humor around the holidays. Don't we all? PLUS, all previous rewards.
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Lobsters[Note 1] are widely fished around the world for their meat.[1] They are often hard to catch in large numbers, but their large size can make them a profitable catch.[1] Although the majority of the targeted species are tropical, the majority of the global catch is in temperate waters.[1]
Several methods are used to catch lobsters, with the method depending largely on the species being targeted.
The large Homarus lobsters are caught almost exclusively with lobster pots (also called "lobster traps"). These are large rigid objects which the lobster enters voluntarily, often to reach bait, and which it then cannot escape.[2] Traps are also used in some spiny lobster fisheries, such as the fishery for the California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus, in the eastern Pacific Ocean.[3]
Trawling is the main method used for the Norway lobster or Dublin Bay prawn, Nephrops norvegicus,[4] and for those slipper lobsters that prefer soft substrates, such as Thenus and Ibacus.[5] It has also become more frequently used in the fishery for Homarus americanus.[6]
Gill nets and trammel nets are used for the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.[7]
Slipper lobsters that prefer crevices, caves and reefs (including Scyllarides, Arctides and Parribacus species) are usually caught by SCUBA divers.[5]
Legal restrictions apply to the catching of lobsters in many parts of the world, in order to prevent overfishing and allow recruitment to the next generation. Common restrictions include the provision of a minimum landing size, preventing fishermen from catching "berried" females (females carrying eggs), closed seasons and limiting catches with individual fishing quotas.
Commercial fishing regulators in the United States, such as the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the National Marine Fisheries Service, enforce restrictions through the use of lobster fishing licenses and lobster pot tags that correspond to the fisher's permit number. Tag manufacturers also maintain databases for each state's licensed fisheries, tracking how many tags each fisher purchases every year.[8]
Of the 280,000 tons of lobster catches reported to the Food and Agriculture Organization for the year 2010, 188,000 t (67%) was of true lobsters (family Nephropidae), 80,000 t (28%) was of spiny lobsters (Palinuridae) and about 10,000 t (4%) was of slipper lobsters (Scyllaridae).[9]
FAO common name | Scientific name | Catch in 2010 (t) [9] |
American lobster | Homarus americanus | 115651 |
Norway lobster | Nephrops norvegicus | 66544 |
Caribbean spiny lobster | Panulirus argus | 35642 |
Tropical spiny lobsters nei[Note 2] | Panulirus | 22128 |
Japanese fan lobster | Ibacus ciliatus | 9114 |
Australian spiny lobster | Panulirus cygnus | 5502 |
European lobster | Homarus gammarus | 5083 |
Southern rock lobster | Jasus novaehollandiae | 4368 |
Cape rock lobster | Jasus lalandii | 3418 |
Red rock lobster | Jasus edwardsii | 2871 |
Lobsters nei[Note 2] | Reptantia | 2577 |
Longlegged spiny lobster | Panulirus longipes | 2303 |
Palinurid spiny lobsters nei[Note 2] | Palinurus | 1132 |
Flathead lobster | Thenus orientalis | 924 |
New Zealand lobster | Metanephrops challengeri | 825 |
Southern spiny lobster | Palinurus gilchristi | 734 |
Common spiny lobster | Palinurus elephas | 449 |
Tristan da Cunha rock lobster | Jasus tristani | 403 |
St. Paul rock lobster | Jasus paulensis | 390 |
Spiny lobsters nei[Note 2] | Palinuridae | 306 |
About 122,000 t of lobsters are caught in the north Atlantic Ocean (FAO Fishing Areas 21 and 27),[1] where the dominant species are Homarus americanus and Nephrops norvegicus.
The State of Maine accounts for 57,000 mt of Homarus americanus landings. Controversially, the Maine lobster industry uses over 110,000 mt of bait per year,[10] primarily herring and menhaden, causing massive disruption to the Gulf of Maine food chain.
N. norvegicus is mostly caught by trawling. Around 60,000 tonnes are caught annually, half of it in the United Kingdom's waters.[4] Discards from Nephrops fishery may account for up to 37% of the energy requirements of certain marine scavengers, such as the hagfish Myxine glutinosa.[11] Boats involved in Nephrops fishery also catch a number of fish species such as plaice and sole, and it is thought that without that revenue, Nephrops fishery would be economically unviable.[12]
The European lobster, Homarus gammarus is found across the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean from northern Norway to the Azores and Morocco. Homarus gammarus is mostly fished using lobster pots, although lines baited with octopus or cuttlefish sometimes succeed in tempting them out, to allow them to be caught in a net or by hand.[1] In 2008, 4,386 t of H. gammarus were caught across Europe and North Africa, of which 3,462 t (79%) was caught in the British Isles (including the Channel Islands).[13] The minimum landing size for H. gammarus is a carapace length of 87 mm (3.4 in).[14]
In the Caribbean Sea, the main species targeted by lobster fisheries is the Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.
The most important lobster species on the West Coast of the United States is the California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus.[15] Recreational lobster fishers in California must abide by a legal catch limit of seven lobsters per day and a minimal catch size of 3¼ inch long body measured from the eye socket to the edge of the carapace.[16] The sport season for California spiny lobster starts on the Saturday preceding the first Wednesday in October through to the first Wednesday after the 15th of March.[16] Commercial fishers use lobster traps.[17]
New Zealand implements the Quota Management System (QMS) to limit catches of fish and shellfish. Under QMS, a limit of 2,807,364 kilograms (6,189,178 lb) for the rock lobster Jasus edwardsii, and 1,291,000 kg (2,846,000 lb) for the New Zealand scampi, Metanephrops challengeri, were in place in 2011.[18] Recreational fishers may only gather by hand or use lobster pots, while commercial fishers catch lobsters by trawling. The total catch in 2011 was 2,539,946 kg (5,599,622 lb) of J. edwardsii, 350,194 kg (772,046 lb) of M. challengeri, and 23,086 kg (50,896 lb) of Sagmariasus verreauxi.[18]
Recreational fishing of lobsters ("crayfishing") in New Zealand does not require a permit provided catch limits, size restrictions, and seasonal and local restrictions set by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) are followed. The legal recreational daily limit is six lobsters per person, with a maximum of three lobster pots permitted per person. Lobsters cannot be taken if they are in berry (carrying eggs) or in the soft shell stage. For J. edwardsii, the minimum legal size is 54 mm for males (no pincers on the rear legs and single pleopods) and 60 mm for females (pincers on the rear legs and paired pleopods), measuring the width of the tail over the primary splines on the second segment.[19]
A number of species are targeted around the coasts of Australia. Jasus edwardsii is found off Australia's southern coast, from Western Australia to New South Wales, as well as in New Zealand. Thenus orientalis, known as the Moreton Bay bug, is fished on the country's north coast.[20]


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