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Cost of dying
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WE KNOW of cost of living so much that government has even required a cost of living allowance on top of the minimum wage. But no one wants to discuss the cost of dying.
The topic of death is such a taboo to many such that the business of death grows by leaps and bounds with no one keeping track and complaining in the way that everyone complains when the price of gas or food goes up.
From just burial, cremation has become an accepted option and this development is not even two decades old yet.
Thus, while everyone rushes to choose a coffin when someone in the family dies, now the first step is to agree on what to do: burial or cremation?
In this discussion are several factors, including cost.
For funeral services, one can choose from a variety of caskets; the color, size, design, and the prices of each depend on where you are buying these from. Some memorial chapels that are pushing for the mainstreaming of death and dying into regular topics and concerns like the latest iPad version are pushing chic colored coffins where used to be there were just black and brown and white, and some dark blues and maroons. Now, every once in a while, we get a peek of violets and mauves and pinks and greens from some display area.
Now the cost.
A pauper's coffin costs P8,000 to P10,000, which is packaged with the five days wake in some small funeral parlor in the suburbs or one that is targeting the lower income market. In a high-end funeral parlor, however, the cheapest will be P15,000 up to P30,000 for the package of five days wake.
The most expensive casket that is in stock in one funeral parlor here today is a carved top mahogany casket that costs up to P500,000. This is just for the casket alone. An additional cost is required for the traditional five days vigil, which increases per day when burial is not yet possible within five days.
Cremation too is more than just having the body burned to a powder form. It also comes in packages, including whether the family would want a viewing of the body in a casket before cremation.
The cost to cremate someone is about one-third that of a traditional funeral, but this can easily be offset by the cost of the urn (some can cost just as much as a casket), and the funeral accommodations and facilities required.
But because cremation makes for a smaller urn and area for rest, it is becoming more popular today.
For one, the cost of a cemetery plot is becoming way beyond what the poor and middle income can easily afford.
Another is the image that has been planted into many a person's image of dying where scattering ashes to the wind whether on land or at sea has earned a romantic appeal. It also removes the need to buy a cemetery plot.
But like a regular funeral service, cremation cost ranges from a relatively low, to very high.
The lowest is P20,000, that's good enough if you do not intend to go into some romantic cruise and cast the ashes to the wind. The P20,000 cremation isn't as dry as you'd want ashes to be.
What is called powder fine costs P150,000.
The cost of a cremation service also varies depending on the final disposition of a person's remains. When there's a viewing of the body and funeral services, the cost of cremation can be about P140,000 to P150,000.
Caskets for viewing can be rented and contain a removable container. Most crematories require that a body be placed in a non-pliable container before cremation.
Again, there are funeral homes that just caters to the basics and thus offer cremation complete with the five day memorial service at just P20,000 to P40,000.
Remains can buried in cemeteries, on private property or placed in a niche columbarium. A columbarium is a grouping of small openings (niches) that hold urns or other containers housing cremated remains, that will amount to P20,000 to P29,000.
However, looking for a place to bury the dead is another thing, a memorial lots? price happens to be very expensive if it is an on-the-spot buy in than to have paid for it for years before one's death.
A lot can cost a fortune if bought on the day of one's burial. One plot can cost between P500,000 to P1-million.
"Saving for the rainy day is indeed a practical motto when it comes to dying. The business, after all thrives on grief and the desire to give something that has not been given in life" Ergo, the craving to spend more.
The lots available for amortization only cost P30,000-P100,000 depending on a memorial sanctuary. There are high-end cemeteries now that is not that expensive, a monthly amortization of P1,000-P3,000 can be had.
Who says dying ends all miseries?
Public Cemeteries are another story, a lot only cost P1,000 a year of rental fee and there are even lower rental fees in the public cemetery in the provinces that only cost P300-P500 a year.
In Davao City, the most known public cemetery is the Wireless Public Cemetery and here the rental of a niche would cost P1,000 a year and there is a five-year contract wherein if you are not able to pay the rental fee, your remains will be exhumed and buried in one mass grave.
"Wala man mi mabuhat ana. Sakit gud huna-hunaon nga wala na sa inyong gilubungan ang inyong patay pero ug wa jud mi ikabayad, wala jud mi mahimo (We can't do anything. It hurts to know that the loved ones you buried are no longer there because we cannot afford the fees, but what can we do)," said Lauro Oligarte, a tricycle driver who had his mother and father buried 10 years ago in Wireless Cemetery.
He added that others may seem to think that they have no respect towards the remains of his parents but what can a family man do when he still has live mouths to feed?
"Makabisita man pud gihapon mi didto ang kalahian lang dili na sarili. Daghan na sila. Wala man jud ta'y mahimu ana (we can still visit except that they are no longer in single niches, the remains are there all together)," said Angie Santos, a vegetable vendor with a brother buried at Wireless Cemetery.
"Naa naman sila sa langit, ang lawas na lang nila ang naa diri sa yuta. Ug mao ng desisyon sa atong gobyerno para sa kaayuhan sa semeteryo, kinsa man mi mga kabus mopalag (They are now in heaven, it's only their body that remains here and that is the decision of the government so who are we to go against that)," said Dominador Pentejos, a shoemaker who opted to transfer the remains of her wife and daughter somewhere else after hearing about the exhumation.
He said that he brought their remains back to the province and had them buried outside his parents' home where a family cemetery has been set up since the 1940s.
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Glasgow – After learning that Collins is collecting new words to be added to its upcoming dictionaries, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) US has submitted a list of five animal-friendly terms to the Glasgow-based publisher. The terms include "Trollsen", a name befitting each of the fashion-backward Olsen twins for including fur and other animal skins in their collections; "sea kitten", a term for fish that will elicit more empathy for these persecuted aquatic animals; "veganise", the act of replacing meat, eggs and dairy products with kinder and healthier foods and ingredients; "veggie dog", meat-free frankfurters that have skyrocketed in popularity; and "elefriend", someone who supports elephants by boycotting circuses and zoos that use or display the animals.
"Dictionaries are updated to reflect the times, and animal-friendly terms reflect one of the fastest-growing social movements of our time: animal rights", says PETA UK Associate Director Mimi Bekhechi. "Word choices have a lot to do with shaping attitudes, so it's time that animals received the respect that they deserve in our everyday language."
People who support animal rights believe that animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other purpose and that animals deserve consideration of their best interests regardless of whether they are cute, useful to humans or endangered. Animals who suffer in laboratories and on factory farms are incapable of defending themselves, so compassionate people need speak up for them.
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As for his public life as a master restaurateur, which has always seemed charmed, that too appears to have suffered. Last year Max unloaded almost all his signature Max's Grilles, including the popular Weston venture and the location in Las Olas Riverfront. He split with a subsidiary company formerly known as Sforza, which had operated several previous Max properties (Sforza and My Martini Grille) before that corporation, now known as S.E.I., decided to embark on its own. And his long-time partnership with the nationally known Aspen chef Nick Morfogen disintegrated after five years, along with their restaurant Nick and Max's (formerly Maxaluna's) in Boca Raton. Morfogen is now wowing regulars at 32 East in Delray Beach.
Feeling sorry for Max? Don't bother. However desperate his situation might seem, Max has never been one to take losses any way but in stride. And his stride is in top form -- confident, even cocky -- at the Addison in Boca Raton, a phoenix built on the ashes of negative publicity.
On the other hand, bad word of mouth might not stop there. See, I'd even go so far as to call the attitude that pervades the new eatery arrogant. The Addison, a six-month-old restaurant and banquet facility for functions of fewer than 80 people, is located in the house of the celebrated turn-of-the-last-century architect Addison Mizner. Mizner was responsible for introducing the Spanish-Mediterranean style to Boca Raton, and he designed his own personal dwelling with an eye for courtyards, loggias, Jerusalem tile floors, mosaics, and "pecky" cypress ceilings. (He's also dubiously honored in Boca Raton by having a shopping center named after him.)
Fast-forward a hundred years or so, and you'll find that the sprawling Mizner den has been subdivided into several businesses, of which the restaurant is one. Formerly an Italian eatery, it had lain dormant for four years. Max's restaurant company, Unique Limited, had the challenge of renovation and restoration, which it undertook in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the local historical society. Yet manager Fred Gushue has the gall to claim that they've "improved upon Mizner's dream." He also tells me I "can't write an article about it until [I'm] shown around" -- as if dining there weren't sufficient. I hear Mizner redesigning in his grave as I write, and I'm about ready to flip, too.
For as much as I hate (read: love) to nitpick, Gushue's imperialism is beyond pretentious. He wouldn't give me the names of Max's partners, though they're no doubt a matter of public record. He was indignant when I asked about the restaurant's barely visible sign, located at the top of an archway after you turn into a compound that looks more like a school campus than a place to eat. (Forget about finding it at night.) Even simple questions like how many seats the multiroom place had resulted in pregnant pauses, as if he were weighing the value of the information and my worthiness to receive it.
Unfortunately the haughty manner doesn't end with him. Gushue calls the Addison an à la carte, reservations-only restaurant, which is fair enough if the place intends to honor reservations or to hire enough staff to deal with a full or overflowing house. But on a recent Monday evening, we waited more than 30 minutes for our table, and when we approached the hostess to inquire about the holdup, she snapped something like "You'll know your table is ready when I come and get you." Ten minutes later she found us to inquire, "Are you sure you don't want to dine outside?" as if we'd already been asked our preferences; we hadn't. Can you say "uppity snit"?
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Wildfires are occurring at greater frequency on southwestern arid lands, such as the Mojave Desert in Southern Nevada. The scars of the post-burn landscape often remain visible as efforts to reestablish native vegetation take years or decades, while non-native grasses continue to grow and serve as fuel for the next lightning- or human-sparked wildfire. The objective of this research is to identify which native species can be reliably established and most effectively compete with exotic annual grasses in post-fire environments.
The objective is measureable by performing a suite of studies that quantify competitive interactions between two exotic annual grasses (Bromus rubens [red brome] and Schismus sp. [Mediterranean grass]) and nine native species along a functional trait gradient, measure the outplanting and seeding establishment success of these native species, and compare the relative abilities of the native species to depress dominance of exotic grasses responsible for heavy fuel loads. By the end of the project, we expect to provide practitioners with suggestions for candidate native species for revegetation that have the greatest chances for successfully establishing and competing with exotic grasses.
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In the picture here ( http://images.nikonians.org/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/388181/size/big/cat/22223 ), I used AF-S focused on the black line on the front round. I am not sure where sharp focus is. The distance was about 4 feet with 18-200mm lens set at 200mm. Where does the sharpest focus appear? I'm not sure. Looking at the rim at the bottom of the round on the right side of the second row, it appears to me that the focus is there. Is there perhaps these there is too much reflection to make a determination?
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Looking at the rims of the cases and the folds in the bullets, I would say that the focus is at the front of rounds 2 and 3.---------+---------+---------+---------+Joseph KSeattle, WA, USAD700, D200, D70S, 24-70mm f/2.8, VR 70-200mm f/2.8 II, 50mm f/1.4 D,17-55mm f/2.8 DX, 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR, 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 DX
With a small subject and being fairly close to the subject you will also have to deal with a limited Depth of Field, DOF.
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>With a small subject and being fairly close to the subject>you will also have to deal with a limited Depth of Field, DOF.>For my purposes, that's the idea. To me, this camera produces "soft" pictures, although, this past weekend they seemed to have sharpened up somewhat. What I am trying to do either prove that there's nothing wrong with the camera (by producing a picture in which the item that is supposed to be in focus is sharp) or that the focus is "off" because of a still subject which should be in focus isn't while something else is. So far, I've had no luck. I haven't been able to get a picture of a still subject in which any part of the picture was sharp. Even on test patterns that are supposed to show where the focus actually is, the whole thing seems soft when viewed full size. And I've tried to follow all the suggestions - solid tripod, weight hanging from center shaft of tripod, shutter speed equal to lens focul length.
You also need a very flat clearly printed and high contrast target. And this would be start of process for testing the AF system.You shutter speed formula is for the FX or 35mm full frame camera. For a DX sensor, you need to adjust the focal length for the crop factor.
>You also need a very flat clearly printed and high contrast>target. And this would be start of process for testing the AF>system.>>You shutter speed formula is for the FX or 35mm full frame>camera. For a DX sensor, you need to adjust the focal length>for the crop factor.>Got one. While one can see approximately where the focus is, there is no point where the picture is crisp. It's soft everywhere. Yet when I take some pictures, it seems that I can sometimes see an area behind the point on which I focused that is sharper than the focus point. For example, in this picture ( http://images.nikonians.org/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/388775/size/big/cat/22196 ), the bug was the point of focus, but it is obvious that the point in focus is the on the flower, about an inch behind the bug. (I know, it's only 1/80th of a second, not 1/200 but I was taking pix of a yellow flower in the sun just before this and the shutter speed was 1/360)OK. You lost me on the second part. From what I've been reading in forums relative to focus, shutter speed should equal or exceed the focal length. I set the focal length as high as it will go much of the time because I am shooting small things like flowers, or rather the small pollen stalks within the flowers. What is "crop factor" and how should it be related to focal length?
I think that the real issue is that the 18-200 3.5-5.6 G DX is not a very sharp lens. My experience with that lens is that is not capable of the critical detail that you seem to be looking for.I have been very disappointed with my 18-200 at 18 and 200mm, and especially macro at 200mm. The in-between focal lengths and distances can be ok especially at f/8. I read a post by a Nikonian team member a few months ago that the 18-200 NIKKOR lens was not as good optically as the 18-55 or 55-200 "kit lenses" so I tried some macro shots of a cone flower with the 18-55 and had fine detail in the flower that the 18-200 only had fuzzy edges with. I used manual and auto focus with both lenses on a D3100.Try those same shots you had with the 18-55 "kit lens". The 18-55 focuses very close and will reveal detail in the photo that the 18-200 can't come close to. I hope this helps.Well Wishes,Ken
One issue I see is the bright light in the background.The camera is using that light to select camera speed or aperture. neither of what it should be doing. You never want the background light be brighter than the light in front. With one possibel exceptionYour outside in bright sun light and the subject is standing in front of tree with lots of shade. In that case you need fill flash but it should never be bright than what you use in front. else you will always get these washed out pictures. I've tried and everytime the background was brighter than the foreground I always get pictures that look like this.
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In this picture you actually fouses on part of the flower to theft of the butterfly.You need to change theFocus setup so that focus in this pattern--------------------------*--------------------------Hard to draw exactly (i needed to add dashes to space everything corect) you need to set so that the center item is chosenHere is an example using my camera:
Maybe we need to step back to some very basic concepts. A Prime lens is a fixed focal length lens and is optimized for sharp focus, corona aberration, and other lens properties.A Zoom lens tries to cover a number of various focal lengths and has a sweet focal length for which the majority of lens properties are optimized and only acceptable at other focal lengths.If you want to shoot Macro, it is best to use a prime lens designed for macro work. If you must use a zoom lens, then find the best focal length for that lens and use that length. So setting the focal length to the largest or smallest value may put your lens at the end of the reasonable results.Focusing in a Macro mode is different than in the macro mode. In the Macro mode the lens focal length determines the magnification and the camera to object adjust the focus. That is why there are focus rails for serious macro shooters. You might want to switch to manual focus.Another point to consider is that Macro images are magnified from the Macro image and camera shake, mirror slap, or any camera movement is magnified. So you either need a very good tripod and remove all sources of movement or have a very good VR lens and very good hand holding technique along with breath control.If you look at the meta data for images shot with a prime lens you will see a tag for the "Effective focal length" as well as the "focal length". If you put a 50nn focal length lens on a D4 the values for these tags will be the same. If you put that same 50mm lens on your D5100, the focal length will be 50mm but the effective focal length will be 75mm. If you were to look through the viewfinder, you would see that the D5100 showed less of the scene than the D4 would show. And the amount less would be more than the 5% difference in the viewfinder. See "Field of View Values for Common Focal Lengths" And if you printed the captured images you would see that the D5100 only captured the 50% center section of the D4 image. The effective focal length is a means of comparing a 35mm size sensor to a different sized sensor for the users of 35mm film cameras. And since the original digital cameras had a sensor smaller than the 35mm cameras, it was referred to as the "crop factior".
>I think that the real issue is that the 18-200 3.5-5.6 G DX>is not a very sharp lens. My experience with that lens is>that is not capable of the critical detail that you seem to be>looking for.>Well that really sucks considering it's an eight hundred plus dollar lens.>>I have been very disappointed with my 18-200 at 18 and 200mm,>and especially macro at 200mm. The in-between focal lengths>and distances can be ok especially at f/8. I read a post by a>Nikonian team member a few months ago that the 18-200 NIKKOR>lens was not as good optically as the 18-55 or 55-200>"kit lenses" so I tried some macro shots of a cone>flower with the 18-55 and had fine detail in the flower that>the 18-200 only had fuzzy edges with. I used manual and auto>focus with both lenses on a D3100.>>Try those same shots you had with the 18-55 "kit>lens". The 18-55 focuses very close and will reveal>detail in the photo that the 18-200 can't come close to.> >>I hope this helps.>>Well Wishes,>>KenYour right! This pic ( http://images.nikonians.org/galleries/showphoto.php/photo/388947/size/big/cat/22196 ) was taken with the 18-55 kit lens. I was focused on the tip of the blue plant and expected to see something an inch down from the top in focus. But that tip is really there.But why? As I understand it, the light comes in the lens and most of it is reflected up to the eyepiece. The rest of it, since the mirror lets some of the light through, goes to anoter mirror behind the main mirro and at a 90 degree angle and is reflected down to the focusing sensor on the floor of the camera. When the picture if focused, the sensor tells the lens to stop focusing. If the distance the light travels between the back of the lens and the focusing sensor is not exactly the same as the distance it travels between the back of the lense and the imaging sensor, the focus will be wrong. If there is something wrong, how is changing the lens going to affect this. If the focus is right, how is a different lens going to mess it up? What does the lens have to do with any difference between these two distances?
>But why? As I understand it, the light comes in the lens and>most of it is reflected up to the eyepiece. The rest of it,>since the mirror lets some of the light through, goes to>anoter mirror behind the main mirro and at a 90 degree angle>and is reflected down to the focusing sensor on the floor of>the camera. When the picture if focused, the sensor tells the>lens to stop focusing. If the distance the light travels>between the back of the lens and the focusing sensor is not>exactly the same as the distance it travels between the back>of the lense and the imaging sensor, the focus will be wrong.>If there is something wrong, how is changing the lens going to>affect this. If the focus is right, how is a different lens>going to mess it up? What does the lens have to do with any>difference between these two distances?I think that we are talking about two different things, image quality of the lens and Auto Focus.IMAGE QUALITY: I think its the quality of the lens glass - placement of the lens elements I don't know - Like you said it sucks. We would expect more from an $800 lens. It doesn't affect the focus of the camera, its just that at some (maybe many) focal lengths and distances the 18-200 lens is not very sharp (your question "Where is the focus"). There are quite a few photos that I took with that lens which I have been very disappointed with and kept thinking it was me or the camera. AUTO FOCUS and what may have pulled your camera's auto focus: Items of high contrast near your intended subject of focus can influence your camera's auto focus. In your first photo of the flower from your earlier post, I think what happened there was that the brighter light and difference in contrast pulled the focus to the flower pedals behind the part of the flower you intended to focus on.Sometimes manual focus works better when there are items near your intended target that have greater contrast, or moving to get a darker background. Earlier this summer I was photographing day lilies and to get the front for most stamen and the others behind in focus, I had to use manual focus because the camera kept shifting focus to the stamens that were closer into the flower (more contrast) and I wanted to keep a wider aperture to keep the background out of focus.Looking at that flower and the petals "in focus" in your earlier photo the 18-200 still did not produce a crisp fine image of the detail on those pedals. I am amazed at the detail that the 18-55 and 55-200 "kit lenses" show, and bummed that I spent $800 on a lens that I have been more often than not disappointed in.Well Wishes,Ken
Ditto on the 18-200 mm Nikkor coke-bottle. My lens is awful. I knew that there would be some compromises in a lens of that focal length range but I work in the desert and wanted to mate the lens to the body and never have to change it, particularly in the field. I'm a geologist taking pictures of volcanoes. In some of my images, the distant mountains are so soft, I could fall on them without injury. I have been bitterly disappointed with this lens and it has colored my respect for Nikon. I am going to get another lens when I can afford it.
Nikon publishes a lot of technical information about its products. It makes cameras and lenses for the entry and consumer markets as well as the professional markets. As noted all zoom lenses are compromises and the more the difference between the focal lengths, the greater number of compromises are made.There are also a number of outside factors that can affect the quality of an image.
Thank you everyone. Your suggestions have been extremely helpful. I've gone to using the 24-55 lens for macro work and have even started to get the hang of using the 18-200. I backed it off to somewhere below 135mm and pix of the bird feeder seem a lot sharper.Oh, and one other thing if found today is that for macro, a tripod is a must. I shot a lot of pix and found that due to the almost nonexistant deapth of field, even at f/11, my body motion when in an awkward position can move the focused subject outside the deapth of field and blow a really good shot.Again, thank you all.


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I got this on sale when I needed a black eyeliner. I was just in the mood to try something new and this caught my attention. It goes on smoothly but fades quickly to a charcoal color, and can get smudgy and smeary pretty easily here in FL. It's nice for doing a smokey eye or if you need a fast application but it doesn't wear well so it's not for summer or special occasions.
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This product is perfect for the water line. It goes on really easily and is really black. It doesn't stay on the water line for a long time though, but its the easiest drugstore liner that i found that works amazingly. I recommend this for everyday look, you can easily smoke it out, it's really good, high quality, i really like it =)
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I got this on sale at CVS for five dollars, and I'm really happy with it. It does not bleed all over my face in a weird way, it just sort of fades over time. The lasting power is pretty good though, and my eyes look pretty and smoky when I use it on my waterline. Love. Will always use this from now on. <3
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I've been after a replacement for my Sephora Piink Kohl for the past year, it was super intense, easy to smudge but didn't budge once set, perfect consistency and only a few dollars. (nothing like their Keep Kohl)
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Between 2005 and 2009, according to Pew, overfishing cost tens of millions of dollars in recreational fishing revenue across the southeastern United States. The group says that dwindling populations of species such as black sea bass and grouper have slowed bookings for charter boats, which in turn have cut sales at bait and tackle shops and hindered the tourism industry.
Seigel points out that while overfishing hurts the industry as a whole, it's mainly industrial fishing fleets that are the perpetrators and not private charters that take families out for a day of recreational angling.
The Pew study examined a handful of species found in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico that are considered important to recreational fishing. It broke up the financial losses into two categories: Direct losses, including boat rentals, bait and tackle sales, and fuel charges; and broader economic losses, such as hotel reservations and restaurant tabs picked up by tourists on fishing trips.
"We wanted to take a look at the real, big picture economic costs of overfishing," says Holly Binns, director of Pew's Southeast and U.S. Caribbean fish conservation program. "Depleted fish populations aren't capable of supporting a robust fishing industry."
According to the study, the slim population of the red grouper resulted in half a million dollars in direct losses and $1.3 million in broader losses during the study period. The numbers are more startling for the red snapper: $15.9 million in direct losses and $41.6 million in broader losses.
On the other hand, Binns says, rebuilding these species to healthy levels could yield "real economic gains... It makes economic sense as well as ecological sense."
Not everyone thinks overfishing is the sole factor behind these economic losses. Capt. Mike Johnson, who runs the charter boat Local Knowledge out of Fort Lauderdale, says the recession had the biggest impact on recreational fishing.
"The first year [the economy] got really bad, it was scary. I didn't know if we were going to make it," he says. European and South American tourists helped Johnson stay afloat those years.
So far, 2012 has treated Johnson well, though he admits that his reputation and 18 years in the industry give him a leg up on the competition. Still, Johnson, who's a third-generation fisherman, says everyone in the industry feels the effects of overfishing, particularly when it comes to grouper. "They've taken a whack," he says.
According to the Pew report "overfishing has depleted nearly 20 percent of the nations' commercially and recreationally important ocean fish."
Although some progress has been made toward replenishing fisheries, it's important to keep tight catch limits on certain species and not reverse course, Binns warns.
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What happens on Fire Island stays on Fire Island if you're John Roderick, frontman of Seattle indie rock quartet the Long Winters. The video for "Fire Island, AK" off his band's recently released third album, Putting the Days to Bed, follows the singer/songwriter as he takes refuge in a secluded summer cabin. Roderick's band mates, who pose as police officers, spend most of the video interrupting his solitude, so it's only natural that when the frontman can finally drive away, he leaves them stranded on the side of the road.
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Miley took to Twitter to change her profile pic and it's one of the most intimate pictures of her and Liam! Are they the most in love couple in Hollywood?
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are the real deal! The happy couple do everything together and now Miley is showing the world just how in love she is with this new Twitter profile pic!
We think it's great that Miley is so happy and wants everyone to know it. The pic really gives insight into just how well these two go together — they look so comfortable.
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they r cute but miley is 19 ,… my sisters age. she should wait a while and live her youth. give it some more time because they do get into fights and storm out on each other and they r both really young. they need to go through some rough times together before they get married. good luck and congrats x
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Caramabola: This ellipsoid star fruit is known to most by now. Crisply juicy, the nearly translucent flesh, when of the sweet variety, provides a refreshing taste of plums, apples, and Concord grapes with a citric edge.
Cherimoya (custard apple): It comes from the South American highlands and may be the earliest recorded New World fruit. The flesh is silky smooth, cream colored, and moist. It has a slight granular finish, like pear custard, with hints of mango, pineapple, and papaya. Like many tropical fruits, it contains a slightly fermented, musky flavor.
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Pomelo: Originating in the Malaysia-Indochina region, it also is cultivated in China and Japan. It's the largest citrus fruit, with thick, soft skin and pale yellow to pink fruit that differs dramatically from one variety to the next. The pomelo seed was first brought to the West Indies in the mid-Seventeenth Century and evolved into the world's first grapefruit. Unlike its sister citrus, however, pomelos are never bitter.
Monstera: The scaly spadix of the philodendron flower is nearly a foot long and quite reptilian looking. The creamy pulp will irritate the membranes of your mouth, tongue, and throat if eaten unripe, but when ready to eat, the green scales peel off in hexagonal pieces to reveal pulpy plugs of delicious banana-pineapple flesh.
Litchi: Revered in China for more than 2000 years, the litchi is becoming a popular back-yard fruit and an important crop in South Florida. Litchis are roughly the size of Ping-Pong balls, slightly oval with spiky rose-colored shells -- the rosier the shell color, the fresher the litchi. The gray-white flesh is sweet and juicy, and has the texture of a peeled grape and perfumed aromas of muscat and rose.
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quote:You can scream till the cows come home about how terrible monty is and how shitty his d is(which imo isn't the whole problem), but you're not gaining ANYTHING constantly bitching and moaning about it.
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PUBLISHED: 11 Feb 2013 12:35:17 | UPDATED: 11 Feb 2013 14:03:32PRINT EDITION: 11 Feb 2013
The Australian share market is trading marginally higher, with a good earnings report from electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi boosting retail stocks.
At 1400 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 1.4 points, or 0.03 per cent, at 4972.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had lifted 3.4 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 4992.4 points.
On the ASX 24, the March share price index futures inched forward one point to 4936 points, with 10,848 contracts traded.
"It's a bit of a tricky session. We're pretty much flat at the moment," IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said.
"Of course, most of the region is shut today for the Lunar New Year holiday. It just seems like we don't have many leads at all out there."
Mr Shamu said JB Hi-Fi had released a positive earnings report.
"They've lifted the rest of the sector," he said.
Mr Shamu said the question on everyone's lips was when the stock market would hit the 5000-point mark.
"It's hard to quantify, especially when we've got such big earnings reports coming up," he said.
"I suppose we'll probably see a little bit of consolidation just hanging around these levels until we start seeing some of the big names come out, like Commonwealth Bank on Wednesday."
At 1350 AEDT, JB Hi-Fi had surged $1.72, or 15.67 per cent, to $12.74 after reporting its first-half net profit had risen 3 per cent to $82 million.
Elsewhere in the retail sector, Myer Holdings was 7¢ richer at $2.66, and David Jones had advanced 9¢ to $2.72.
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) dipped 3¢ to $5.16 after it said about 14,300 claims related to ex-tropical cyclone Oswald and bushfires in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania could cost the company up to $175 million.
Share market operator ASX firmed 18¢ to $36.13. ASX will retain its dominance of processes behind share sales after the federal government put off for two years a decision to consider new competitors.
Among the major banks, National Australia Bank added 31¢ to $29.33, Commonwealth Bank put on 34¢ at $65.17, Westpac firmed 3¢ to $28.11, but ANZ backtracked 27¢ to $27.85.
In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton lost 16¢ to $37.79, and Rio Tinto dumped 27¢ to $69.33.
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Now the conspiracy has moved on to Iran, in the view of hard-liners, some of whom also accuse former Iranian presidents Mohammed Khatami and Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani and reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi, who are not on trial, as being in its vanguard. (here's a story looking at which politicians are under threat in the crackdown).
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Web 1.0 dot-bomber cum screed-writer Andrew Keen mentioned Boing Boing today in a debate (with David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous) about the cultural impact of Web 2.0, published in the Wall Street Journal.
"Boing Boing is a surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge -- listing stories about kidney donor hoaxes, a pedagogical tract on "How to Kiss" and, a game-theory piece entitled "an economic analysis of leaving the toilet seat down." he wrote.
I guess we need to 'fess up. He's right -- Every single one of the 35,000 posts we've published since 2001 has been about organ scams, kissing, or toilet seats. We've been exposed! Link
Previously on Boing Boing:
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What a surprise, knock me over with a feather These Phucking people are all cut from the very same cloth. They are in effect " BETTER " than the common citizen, oh if you don't believe that, think that, feel that~~then by all means just ask one of em straight away.
This guy is a real piece of work:
Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush
'Statute of Limitations Has Expired' on Many Secrets, Former Vice President Says
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 13, 2009
In his first few months after leaving office, former vice president Richard B. Cheney threw himself into public combat against the "far left" agenda of the new commander in chief. More private reflections, as his memoir takes shape in slashing longhand on legal pads, have opened a second front against Cheney's White House partner of eight years, George W. Bush.
Cheney's disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues. By habit, he listens more than he talks, but Cheney broke form when asked about his regrets.
"In the second term, he felt Bush was moving away from him," said a participant in the recent gathering, describing Cheney's reply. "He said Bush was shackled by the public reaction and the criticism he took. Bush was more malleable to that. The implication was that Bush had gone soft on him, or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney's advice. He'd showed an independence that Cheney didn't see coming. It was clear that Cheney's doctrine was cast-iron strength at all times -- never apologize, never explain -- and Bush moved toward the conciliatory."
The two men maintain respectful ties, speaking on the telephone now and then, though aides to both said they were never quite friends. But there is a sting in Cheney's critique, because he views concessions to public sentiment as moral weakness. After years of praising Bush as a man of resolve, Cheney now intimates that the former president turned out to be more like an ordinary politician in the end.
He said " ORDINARY "
Cheney's post-White House career is as singular as his vice presidency, a position he transformed into the hub of power. Drained of direct authority and cast aside by much of the public, he is no less urgently focused, friends and family members said, on shaping events.
The former vice president remains convinced of mortal dangers that few other leaders, in his view, face squarely. That fixed belief does much to explain the conduct that so many critics find baffling. He gives no weight, close associates said, to his low approval ratings, to the tradition of statesmanlike White House exits or to the grumbling of Republicans about his effect on the party brand.
Shaping EVENTS~~HELLO PEOPLE~~
Cheney's imprint on law and policy, achieved during the first term at the peak of his influence, had faded considerably by the time he and Bush left office. Bush halted the waterboarding of accused terrorists, closed secret CIA prisons, sought congressional blessing for domestic surveillance, and reached out diplomatically to Iran and North Korea, which Cheney believed to be ripe for "regime change."
CHENEY TRYING TO TAKE OVER COUNTRIES: The HELL with what us normal people say and think about where are tax dollars are best served. Bomb em I say fucking bomb em!
That's right people I said Bomb em to death!
It's nice to see what some so blindly support via unabashed blind IGNORANCE. They follow their leaders regardless of the path, like sheep of a cliff, unaware yet ever faithful.
Just like a school kid beaten in a pick up game of shirts vs skins, he's gonna take his ball and go home. Despite being beaten he'll end the game on his terms, the hell with anything he's done or said in the past. Talk about ORDINARY A few other words come to mind, my mind anyway!
Please do read the rest, for as usual the summation is always validated within the last few paragraphs. This piece is no different, just like the principal of which this venom was drawn from.
Phucking unbridled audacity and arrogance. I'd have to give Bush a wink and a nod for it's quite possible he really was dangled from the strings by the PTB MASTERS. Sure looks that way to the trained eye. Obviously he did something to piss them off.
Any takers on it being " NOT " signing off on Iran before leaving Office! Just my two cents worth.
And surely Mr Cheney this is but my humble opinion, so let's not get our knickers in a twist!
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