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There were various responses on my Strawberry ice cream recipe, requesting a retraction of the moniker ice "cream" since it didn't have cream in it. And a respected food writer pointed out that pumpkin was obligatory in Soupe au Pistou. I, too, know that folks will sometimes call something hot 'chocolate' even though it was made with cocoa powder instead of chocolate. And have been served fried onion rings that were actually broken circles, not neat, closed rounds of onions. And don't get me started on thinly sliced fruit being called carpaccio.
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: consisting of or abounding in pith(see 1pith)
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GOLDSBORO — The buzz surrounding Jones Senior's football team and its surprise run to the second round is over.
It ended with a splat.
Jamari McGowan returned the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown and Rosewood never looked back as the Eagles rolled past the Trojans 42-17 on Friday night in the second round of the NCHSAA 1-A playoffs.
The opening-play score, which took all of 12 seconds, put Jones Senior (3-9) into a hole it never climbed out of. As a matter of fact, the hole just got deeper and deeper for the Trojans.
"Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug," Jones Senior coach John Davis said. "Tonight we were the bug."
McGowan's return was the beginning of a chilly evening in which Jones Senior committed five turnovers, was penalized eight times in big situations and had three TDs called back on one drive.
The Trojans were also victims of just about the unluckiest of situations.
Rosewood's Josh Davis returned a missed field goal attempt 98 yards for a touchdown after a 45-yard try by Parrish Bryant came to rest on the Eagles 2.
The unusual play gave Rosewood (5-7), which will host rival Princeton in the third round next week, a 29-7 lead that was never really threatened again.
"(Rosewood) had a well-prepared team. They were more prepared," Davis said. "They looked just the way they looked on film."
Glen White had a game-high 121 yards rushing on 14 carries and scored both TDs for Jones Senior. His 10-yard TD run late in the first quarter made it 13-7 and then he added a 75-yard score in the third to cut the Eagles' lead to 29-15.
The Trojans forced a safety two Eagles drives later to make it 29-17, but another fumble cost them any chance at getting any closer.
"You can't play mistake football in the postseason," Davis said. "Some old habits came back to haunt me tonight."
Jones Senior, which began the season by losing its first eight games, had a three-game win streak halted with the loss, a season after reaching the state title game for the first time.
Davis said he and his team will lick its wounds and be ready for 2013.
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R — McGowan 94 kickoff return (Almontaser kick) 11:48
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MK: So what do you think of the current atheist revival. The books out by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris. They all think it's a very important war to fight.
NC: Dawkins is serious. The others are frauds. I mean what's the debate about. Do people like us have to debate about whether God exists? I mean, yeah, we know it doesn't. In fact, take the religious people. Go to most of the religious faiths, they don't literally believe in the Bible.
I mean there's a sector that believes literally in the Bible, but first of all we don't have to argue about that because nobody who's going to read one word you are writing believes it, so you are talking to an audience that's already convinced. And those who believe in the literal word of the Bible you are not going to convince them, so what's the point?
I wonder if Chomsky didn't like what Sam Harris wrote about him in The End of Faith? As for Chomsky saying most religious people don't actually literally believe the bible.. I mean has he been living under a rock? When was the last time he talked to a Christian or a Muslim about what they believe? In The End of Faith it says "According to Gallup, 35% of Americans believe that the bible is the literal and inerrant word of the Creator of the universe." p17. Chomsky must not have heard of this statistic. Nor am I guessing has he heard that Four out of every 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country.
And I believe that it is false to say, "those who believe in the literal word of the Bible you are not going to convince them, so what's the point?" Personally, I know several people who have changed their minds over what they believe after reading the likes of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens.


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Originally it was meant to be a one-off. Back in 1985 some of the greatest acts of their era – including U2, Chris de Burgh and Marius Müller-Westernhagen – performed at the Nürburgring, the Formula 1 racetrack in the Eifel hills of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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I've worked in the service industry since I was sixteen years old and realize how hard the work is, and how much the people who work in it are undervalued and generally underpaid. On a recent trip I stayed in quite a few hotels, a different one every day for a week, and realized they could be doing a few things that would make things more pleasant for guests, as well as make life easier for the good people that work there:
1. Put amenities in large refillable bottles.
I've stopped taking home those tiny bottles of shampoo and body lotion. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that I'm no longer that cheap and don't mind spending a few dollars every couple of months to buy my own. I suspect most people that take them aren't merely using them as travel-sized bottles for their carry-ons. I've always wondered what happens to those little bottles if I use them once. Do they get refilled, or tossed away? I assume they're tossed, so I no longer bother to use them and bring my own. But for those who just have carry-ons, let's all make the switch to using large refillable bottles.
2. Give me a checklist with checkboxes asking me what level of service I want.
I am sure there are people out there that like it when someone knocks on their door in the morning, asking if they're in there so they can clean the room. And I am certain some people like it when they're watching television and relaxing in the afternoon and someone stops by to see if they need the minibar filled, then thirty minutes later, another person comes by to lift the top of the sheet from the bed and fold it down, otherwise known as 'turndown service.'
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Filed Wednesday morning, House Bill 1009 creates a "School Marshal" program.
What we do here is create a new class, a new licensed law enforcement officer to serve in the classroom, serve in school, serve on the school premises, said Representative Jason Villalba, (R) Dallas.
According to the legislation filed by Representative Villalba, Texas school districts could opt into the program and appoint school marshals to serve on campus.
Villalba got the official stamp Wednesday morning at the Chief Clerk s Office of the House of Representatives. The 11-page bill opens the voluntary position to any faculty member including principals, teachers, coaches - even custodians.
According to the bill, any employee who wants to serve as school marshal must undergo 80 hours of intensive training.
We have active shooter training. We have psychological profiling and evaluation. We have a number of different safeguards to make sure that those who serve in this role are licensed and have the same kinds of training as if you were undergoing a police academy training, said Representative Villalba.
Villalba says he developed the legislation, dubbed the Protection of Texas Children Act, in hopes of closing a gap in response time in the case of an emergency from minutes to seconds.
I have a six year old daughter in the independent public school system in Dallas, and I know when I drop her off I am deeply concerned about her safety, explained Villalba.
Schools would be limited to one marshal for every 400 students. Their weapon would remain under lock and key, but within immediate reach. Their ammunition must be designed to disintegrate upon contact with hard surfaces, limiting the risk of shots that might ricochet or go through a wall.
It's a covert position. Only school administrators and law enforcement would know the identity of each marshal on campus.
The cost for training would fall on whoever volunteers to serve as school marshal. Districts could, however, chose to reimburse them for training.
Under the bill, the State of Texas would pay to develop the training program and manuals.
Representative Villalba says he's already getting strong support from others at the State Capitol.


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adjective \ˈhät\
: having a high temperature
: having a feeling of high body heat
of food or drink : heated to a hot or warm temperature : served at a hot or warm temperature
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a : having a relatively high temperatureb : capable of giving a sensation of heat or of burning, searing, or scaldingc : having heat in a degree exceeding normal body heat
: having or causing the sensation of an uncomfortable degree of body heat <hot and tired> <it's hot in here>
a : newly made : fresh <a hot scent> <hot off the press>b : close to something sought <hot on the trail>
a : of intense and immediate interest <some hot gossip>b : unusually lucky or favorable <on a hot streak>c : temporarily capable of unusual performance (as in a sport)d : currently popular or in demand <a hot commodity>e : very good <a hot idea> <not feeling too hot>f : absurd, unbelievable <wants to fight the champ? that's a hot one>
a : electrically energized especially with high voltageb : radioactive; also : dealing with radioactive materialc of an atom or molecule : being in an excited state
a : recently and illegally obtained <hot jewels>b : wanted by the police; also : unsafe for a fugitive
: fast <a hot new fighter plane> <a hot lap around the track>
— hot·ness noun
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— hot under the collar
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Examples of HOT
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- We worked all afternoon in the hot sun.
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Origin of HOT
Middle English, from Old English hāt; akin to Old High German heiz hot, Lithuanian kaisti to get hot
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Definition of HOT
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This is going to blow your mind. This turned out to be the most amazing pizza—ever. I was inspired by Kelly over at Vegan Thyme who made this using Gardein, but because Gardein never seems to agree with me, I thought I'd sub in cauliflower. A friend had made buffalo "wings" from cauliflower and used this recipe from PETA. If anything, try the wings—they are incredible! (just double it if you're feeding a crowd). March Madness, anyone? Can I tell you how excited we are that our CSU Rams have advanced?! GO RAMS!!
So, making cauliflower wings is definitely going to add to your prep time, so I recommend enlisting some help. That's why you had kids, right? The Eighth Grader was a great sous chef. I also made several changes to the original, just based on what I had on hand, so feel free to tweak the recipe. This recipe is going to require a certain timing of tasks, but thankfully, they're all easy to do. So, get ready for some amazing pizza that you won't mind making again and again!
1 C almond milk
1 C flour (any variety)
2 tsp garlic powder
1 head cauliflower, chopped into pieces
1 C buffalo wing sauce (I used Wing Time)
1 Tbs olive oil or Earth Balance, melted
Dough: (I made a quick, no-rise pizza dough. So if you like a thin crust, crispy dough, this is a good one to use. Otherwise, if you have more time, I recommend a yeast-based one).
2-1/2 C flour
2-3/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 Tbs olive oil
3/4 C to 1 C warm water
3 large russet or Yukon Gold potatoes, sliced thin (my sous chef used a potato chip slicer—major time saver)!
3/4 C red onion, chopped
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp dried rosemary
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/4 tsp black pepper
5 mushrooms, diced
3 celery stalks, sliced
1 tsp olive oil
Daiya mozzarella, optional
Vegan ranch dressing (Try Follow Your Heart Vegan Ranch or make your own)
2 Tbs flour
1/3 C warm water
3 Tbs Earth Balance
1 C vegetable broth, warmed up
Dash or two of red wine vinegar
So, first off, prep the potatoes. Once they're sliced, place in a bowl of water with 1 tsp of salt and let sit for 30-45 minutes. This is a good time to make the dough and chop up the mushrooms, celery, and cauliflower. Drain the potatoes and season them with the rosemary, basil, and pepper; stir in the red onion.
To make the dough, mix the dry ingredients together in a stand mixer. Slowly add the olive oil and warm water until you have a dough that is just slightly sticky. Knead on a lightly floured surface for 5 minutes.
This is where timing comes in. Preheat oven to 400. Roll out the dough to fit an 11″x17″ pan. I actually let it hang over the edges a little to account for shrinkage:
Stick with a fork in several places and bake 5 minutes. This is also where you'll need a hand. While your amazing helper lines the crust with the potatoes and onions . . .
. . . you'll want to be making the "wings." Pretty easy: Preheat oven to 450. Whisk together the milk, flour and garlic powder in a medium bowl. You'll have a pancake batter-like consistency. Add the cauliflower and coat them completely; transfer to a baking dish.
Bake for 15-18 minutes . . .
While they're baking, whisk together the wing sauce and olive oil (or Earth Balance). Loosen the cauliflower if it's stuck to the dish. Pour the wing sauce over the cauliflower and bake another 5-8 minutes.
Now, while those are baking, saute up the celery and mushrooms in the olive oil. Also, start the sauce in a small saucepan. Combine the 2 Tbs of flour and 1/3 C warm water; set aside. Melt the 3 Tbs of Earth Balance in a the pan and add 1 Tbs of the flour-water mixture and whisk until smooth. Slowly whisk in the rest over medium heat. Just a little at time, add the broth. Whisk until thickened; add the red wine vinegar.
So now, your wings are ready to come out of the oven. Throw the pizza in the oven (still at 400 degrees) and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until the potatoes start to brown on the edges. This is a good reason to use a slicer to make them thin, otherwise, they'll take too long to cook and your crust will be lovely shade of black. I then chopped up the cauliflower into bite-sized pieces.
It even looks like chicken pieces! Try not to eat it all yet. Combine the cauliflower in a bowl with the celery and mushrooms and pour the sauce over them and coat well. When you have just a few minutes left on the potatoes, sprinkle the top with a little Daiya cheese.
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The paradoxical nature of Asia's current food situation makes it doubly challenging to create effective and long-term strategies for alleviating poverty and malnutrition in the region. On the one hand, life has improved for many Asians, with significant gains made in the past 30 years in per capita income and calorie consumption, leading many increasingly affluent Asians to diversify their diets and create an explosion in the demand for livestock products, fruits, vegetables, vegetable oils, and feedgrains. On the other hand, some 800 million Asians still live in poverty and 90 million preschool children remain malnourished.
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The vast majority of those who are hungry still rely, directly or indirectly, on the agricultural sector for both food and their livelihoods, a dependency that places enormous pressure on natural resources. Further agricultural growth is needed to complete the economic transformation of rural Asia, but it must be more equitable and environmentally sustainable than it has been in the past. It must also capitalize on changing food consumption patterns in the region and on a growing global demand for diverse products.
Investment in infrastructure and in marketing and distribution systems will provide significant benefits to those who depend on agriculture. However, a reliance on market forces alone may mean that many poorer regions and poor people are likely to be left behind. IFPRI has responded to the challenge by working to develop viable strategies in five key areas: making growth pro-poor, revitalizing agricultural research and technology dissemination, managing land and water scarcity and degradation, managing globalization, and building good governance and social capital.


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There are many things we do less of now than in the past, and sleeping is one of them. In fact, studies show that people sleep an average of 20-percent less today than they did a century ago. Then, nine hours of sleep a night was typical; today it is closer to seven and a half hours spent in bed, with considerably less spent actually sleeping. And it's not just adults that are sleeping less. The National Sleep Foundation's annual survey in 2004 found that children were also getting less sleep than they needed, including infants.
"A few reasons we are sleeping less include the invention of electric light, jobs becoming more urban in nature, and an increase in technology in the home," explains Darius Zoroufy, M.D., medical director of the Lake Sammamish Sleep Center.
Technology is one of the most glaring reasons behind American's lack of sleep. "A 2009 study reported that TV is the number one factor keeping adults awake," says Dr. Zoroufy. Computers, iPods, and cell phones are similar culprits.
"Not only are these things taking up our time, but they are stimulating us mentally, making it difficult for us to shift gears and fall asleep."
Swedish Pediatric Sleep Specialist, Preetam Bandla, M.D., agrees. "Light from screen media can activate the light-sensitive circadian cells in our brains that regulate when we are maximally alert and maximally sleepy," he explains, "So our TVs and computer screens can keep us from wanting to sleep."
Technology is not solely to blame for our lack of sleep, however. "The majority of sleep problems result from self imposed and externally imposed factors," says Dr. Zoroufy. "There are simply too many opportunities and pressures to stay awake."
The demands of work, school, family and social activities are causing people to become overscheduled and the first thing people give up is sleep. "The idea that we can sleep less and still function well is a misperception," says Dr. Bandla.
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Since 1972, the Kansas City Chiefs have played their home games on the turf at Arrowhead Stadium. A three-year renovation has renovated large parts of the venue. To be fair, some of the renovations won't effect the ordinary family attending a game. The Arrowhead added 44 new suites, many of them with kitchens, fireplaces, easy chairs, multiple TVs, private elevators and the like. That's too pricey for most fans. But most of the stadium's additions can be appreciated even in the cheap seats. The stadium added handrails and ADA accessibility on two levels -- as important for families with young or elderly members as those with physical disabilities. New restaurants will include local favorites like Gates BBQ, Peachtree and Garozzo's Italian. And with the addition of 860 TVs throughout the stadium, Dad won't miss any big plays while he's buying food for the kids. On the stadium's field level, the Arrowhead unveiled a Hall of Honor in 2010, with displays honoring legendary players. Area high school players and each year's Big 12 football champs will be honored in separate displays, and the Arrowhead will open a new sports lab, designed to teach the physics of sports to children on educational field tours.


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In July 2009, a special little dog with big brown eyes was found abandoned in a box outside Angels for Animals Animal Center in Canfield, Ohio, a participant in the 2011 ASPCA $100K Challenge. She was alone and in desperate need of a loving home. Luckily, Elizabeth Stark's family decided to adopt the homeless pup and give her a fresh start.
They chose to call her Chooey, a name they picked to commemorate this sweet dog's endearing snaggletooth. Elizabeth's family also thought Chooey's shiny blonde coat gave her a stylish look, so they adapted the spelling of her name to match the famed shoe designer, Jimmy Choo. One of Chooey's favorite past times is to chew on her pet parents' shoes, so the name is very fitting.
It didn't take long before the Starks were head over heels for their furry new addition.
"How could anyone not enjoy the company of such a sweet little companion?" Elizabeth says. "Chooey is unlike any other dog I have ever encountered. Sometimes I'm not even sure if she is really a dog. She stretches like a cat, howls like a wolf, dances like a monkey, and smiles like a toddler."
But whatever animal personality Chooey chooses, she is an energetic and steadfast companion.
"Sometimes the best things really do come in small packages—and they're covered with fur and filled with love," Elizabeth says.
Did you adopt a homeless pet? Tell us about your furry friend in the comments.
This is just to let all those working for animal good, that we have been adopting "rescues" for 46 yrs. NEVER had anthing else & while we are currently "animaless" after the passing of our last beloved dog, Tommy ( & it's driving us crazy ), we have a 6 wk. trip planned to Australia to visit family & can't, in all good conscience, adopt before coming back. But then we will be "back in business" with adult, older, often medical issues ( retired nurse here ), medium to lrge. sized dogs. Also going to adopt a black one for starters & later another one. I only recently learned that black critters are harder to adopt; I've never heard the reason, but #2 son has a black Lab. now. (#1 has an Akita puppy mill dog with literally THOUSANDS spent on her.)Hope to adopt a pair of kitties, too; again black.
So, keep the faith, adopt rescues & know we all are doing the "right" thing.I only wish I were younger & could work actively with rescue groups.
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Representatives from Hyundai Motor America and local Hyundai dealers were on hand Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 28, 2010) to deliver a $100,000 check to All Children's Pediatric Cancer Program. The funds will be used in support of our CanSurvive Clinic and research addressing fertility issues for childhood cancer survivors.
In accepting the grant, All Children's Blood & Marrow Transplant Director Michael Nieder, MD noted that 80% of childhood cancers are now curable - a great increase from 60% when he first entered the profession in the 1980s. "We now have cure at a cost," Nieder said, "and that cost is too high."
Cancer survivor Dana Bertoch spoke of some of the long-term effects she faces after having conquered a form of Hodgkin's Lymphoma. "I knew that the drugs I received had the potential to harm my heart, lungs, bone marrow, and reproductive organs. I also knew that the radiation came with risks as well, and I had to worry about secondary malignancies in the future. That was an overwhelming amount of worry for me that I often tried to push to the back of my mind." Dana was among the first patients of All Children's CanSurvive Clinic, where the same nurses who'd helped her through treatment now explained the health monitoring she'd need to continue leading a healthy life. " I left that appointment feeling once again I had a great team on my side in which I completely trust. " Dana is now a registered nurse working with adult oncology patients at Tampa General Hospital.
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Seals Sleep with Only Half of Their Brain at a Time
If you've ever seen a clip of a seal being ambushed by a great white you might understand why they only sleep with one half of their brain at a time. With enemies like The Man in the Gray Suit it's always advisable to maintain at least a marginal degree of 'round-the-clock alertness.
A new study led by scientists at UCLA and the University of Toronto, and published in the February Journal of Neuroscience, investigated this phenomenon of half-brain sleeping.
"Seals do something biologically amazing — they sleep with half their brain at a time. The left side of their brain can sleep while the right side stays awake. Seals sleep this way while they're in water, but they sleep like humans while on land. Our research may explain how this unique biological phenomenon happens," said Professor John Peever of the University of Toronto.
The researchers found higher levels of an important brain chemical, acetylcholine, in the waking halves of the seal brains than the sleeping halves. The discovery could aid in the understanding of human sleep disorders, the study's senior author Jerome Siegel of UCLA's Brain Research Institute claims.
"About 40% of North Americans suffer from sleep problems and understanding which brain chemicals function to keep us awake or asleep is a major scientific advance. It could help solve the mystery of how and why we sleep."
Sleep tight seals, and don't let the great white sharks bite.
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New Report: 100 Million Sharks Are Killed Each Year
There's a new estimate for how many sharks are killed each year by fishermen worldwide and the news is grim. Despite growing awareness of the threat sharks face and legislative efforts around the globe to stem the unsustainable harvest of sharks, a new study published this week in Marine Policy puts the number slaughtered each year at 100 million sharks, or three sharks caught per second.
Due to the incomplete nature of the data for shark catches, that number could be as low as 63 million or as high as 273 million, but both the high and low end estimates are outside of safe biological limits. According to the study's authors, this number represents approximately 7% of all sharks in the ocean. On average, shark populations can grow at a maximum rate of 5% per year. As can be seen, shark populations cannot grow fast enough to sustain this enormous removal each year, which is why sharks numbers have declined so dramatically in recent years.
The primary culprit for this staggering level of exploitation remains the same: overfishing and bycatch, driven by the unabated demand for shark fin soup, the consumption of which is seen as a status symbol in China. The fin itself is a largely flavorless component of the soup and provides no additional nutritional value.
Sharks are especially vulnerable to overfishing due to their slow growth, late maturation and small litters, with biological life histories that more closely resemble large mammals than other fish. Some sharks, like the Atlantic Ocean's dusky shark, do not mature until as late as 21 years of age and give birth to as few as three pups every three years.
Oceana is fighting to protect sharks around the world. Learn more about what we do.
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The Cutest Predator
On February 8, Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to explore the waters off of the remote Desventuradas Islands more than 500 miles off the coast of Chile. By documenting marine life and habitat the team hopes to persuade the Chilean government to protect more than 60,000 miles surroundinig this archipelago. Below is an expedition journal entry from Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. Click here to view all Desventuradas Expedition blog posts on National Geographic's Explorers Journal.
19 February 2013
When we think of predators, our minds often picture large animals with sharp teeth and scary faces, animals that have evolved just to kill humans. Our collective memory makes us fearful of the night, and almost everyone has been startled by unknown noises in a dark forest. This fear has been engraved in our collective unconscious like carvings in a rock. When it comes to the ocean, many people still fear sharks (despite repeated evidence that sharks are the ones who should be scared of us) or deep alien creatures that hide in the darkness to attack unexpectedly.
The top predator at the Desventuradas is not the typical reef shark, or a grouper with a huge mouth able to swallow a diver. It is not a fearsome animal that kills at night either. The largest predator here is the Juan Fernández sea lion (Arctocephalus philippi), the cutest carnivore we have found in any of our Pristine Seas Expeditions to date. They spend much of the day hanging out on rocky platforms near the water. When we approach them, it's like someone brought free candy to a school. The sea lions raise their heads, get indeed very excited, and drag their fat bellies from rock to rock until they jump in the water.
The Juan Fernández sea lion is the cutest carnivore we have found in any of our Pristine Expeditions to date. (Photo by Enric Sala)
Underwater, the sea lions become torpedoes of enormous grace and elegance. Their eyes are large as a Japanese cartoon character's, and their looks pierce us as they swim very fast between us divers. After playing with our bubbles and checking us out very closely, they just hang out, their backsides on the surface and their heads hanging down like bats.
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Cod's Comeback
While things look bleak for cod populations in the United States, particularly on Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine where late last month regulators slashed quotas for these beleaguered stocks, cod off of Norway and Russia are providing an encouraging example of the fish's resilience when managed wisely.
As Reuters reports this week, fishermen in the far north are enjoying a boom in cod fishing where "the quota off northern Norway and Russia is a record 1.02 million metric tonnes, up a third from 2012 and six times as high as in 1990."
The article credits both global warming for expanding the fish's range northwards, but also the strict management of quotas issued from Oslo and Moscow.
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Protecting Habitat in the Dry Tortugas a Boon to Fishermen
Two and a half hours west of Key West by boat is lonely Fort Jefferson, a Civil War-era fort marooned in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and encrusted in coral reefs. Here the color of the water ranges from cerulean to toothpaste-aquamarine as magnificent frigatebirds, masked boobies, and sooty terns haunt the coral-white beaches of this unfinished garrison, a former prison for union army deserters.
One of seven islands that make up the Dry Tortugas (so named for their lack of water and wealth of turtles at the time of Ponce de Leon's discovery in 1513) Fort Jefferson is a monument to the ingenuity and industry of engineers and masons who slogged bricks from as far as Brewer, Maine, to the middle of the ocean to construct a fort that has survived in the crosshairs of two centuries of hurricanes. Now, the park is also a monument to the scientific principles of ecosystem management, proof that protecting habitat benefits all—environmentalists and fishermen alike.
In 2001, over the objections of local fishermen, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced that it would establish a 151-square nautical mile no-take zone in the area—the Tortugas Ecological Reserve. It was assumed that closing the well-known grouper and snapper spawning grounds of the Dry Tortugas to fishing would hurt the industry's bottom line.
But that didn't happen. The fish got bigger. And there were more of them.
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Diving into the Unknown
On Friday Oceana and National Geographic launched an expedition to explore the waters off of the remote Desventuradas Islands more than 500 miles off the coast of Chile. Already the team is sending back fascinating footage. Below is an expedition journal entry from Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. Click here to view all Desventuradas Expedition blog posts on National Geographic's Explorers Journal.
10 February 2013
Today we did the first scientific dives reported for San Ambrosio Island. We don't even know if anyone has ever dived here, period. The sea was calm, the water blue and clear, and we could not wait to jump in the water.
It has been almost a year since Alex Muñoz – Executive Director of Oceana Chile – and I started planning this expedition. During this time, we were not able to find a single underwater photo of the Desventuradas Islands. So I felt like I was parachuting in, at night, over unknown territory. I had no idea what I was going to find, but this only made it more exciting. Because these islands are so remote and apparently devoid of local human impacts, we expected to see lots of fish–and hopefully large fish in particular.
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Whale watchers off of Dana Point, California were treated to an exhilarating sight this weekend, witnessing a spectacular if unusual phenomenon: the so-called dolphin stampede.
All at once a massive pod of 1,000 dolphins turned the waters around Capt. Dave's Dolphin and Whale Safari boat white, seemingly engaged in one one observer described as a "race", at times topping 25 mph. While the sight of a dolphin stampede is extremely rare, tours by this operator encountered the phenomenon twice this weekend, once on Saturday and once on Sunday.
It is unknown why the dolphins "stampede" or what prompts the bizarre but breathtaking behavior.
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Mysterious Dolphin Deaths Mount in the Gulf
For the past three years, whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico have been undergoing what the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is calling an "unusual mortality event"—that is, they have been stranding and dying off by the hundreds (817 in all), and no one knows why. The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe provides a likely explanation, but, in fact, 114 marine mammals died in 2010 even before the devastation of the oil spill had even begun.
It could have something to do with a bacterial infection, known as brucellosis, revealed in some animal necropsies, or it could be related to environmental degradation, climate change, fishing activity, or the cumulative effects of all these combined stressors. Or, it could largely be a natural phenomenon merely exacerbated by anthropogenic impacts (though unlikely). It is truly a mystery.
What is less mysterious is the cause of death for three of the most recent dolphin victims. In the past six months, two bottlenose dolphins washed ashore, one in Louisiana and one in Mississippi, with gunshot wounds to their heads. In Alabama, another live dolphin was discovered stabbed in the head with a screwdriver. Though it initially survived this brutality, the dolphin eventually succumbed to its injuries and died. NOAA is currently investigating these cases and asks anyone with any information to call their Office of Law Enforcement hotline at 1-800-853-1964. Penalties under the Marine Mammal Protection Act range up to $100,000 in fines and up to one year in jail per violation.
Learn more about the bottlenose dolphin and Oceana's work in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Pregnant Whale Shark Rescued off of Mexico
Kudos to a team of divers off the coast of Mexico who rescued a pregnant whale shark from near-certain death after the gentle giant became entangled and trapped in a thick rope some 90 feet underwater.
The divers were accompanying a group of tourists off of Roca Partida, a remote volcanic outcrop that is part of the Revillagigedo Islands 250 miles Southwest of Cabo San Lucas, when they discovered the 33-foot 15-ton animal. After the animal was cut loose it showed deep scars where the rope had cut into its back and fins.
Despite their massive size (they are the world's biggest fish and their mouths are large enough to fit a human inside) whale sharks are docile filter feeders, gulping down huge quantities of plankton, small fish and krill.
Like all sharks, whale sharks are targeted for their fins and face serious conservation concerns. Learn more about this majestic animal.
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There are One Million Species in the Ocean
It is difficult to describe the ocean's vastness and variety of life, but that is exactly what some researchers have tried to do. In a study released this week, and carried out with the help of 270 taxonomists from 32 countries, researchers put the likely total for the world's marine species at a tidy million species, only a third of which are known to science. Scientists arrived at the million figure by extrapolating from the rate of discovery of new species and by projecting from sampled areas of the ocean.
Of the roughly 230,000 species that have been described there are 200,000 animal, 7,600 plants, 19,500 diatoms, kelps and red algae known as chromista, 550 protists and 1,050 fungi (the study did not include bacteria, viruses or archaea). But even those species that are known can prove amazingly elusive. Last week scientists announced that a spade-tooth beaked whale and calf that washed ashore in New Zealand were the first such animals ever seen (what was known about the animal previously had come from skull fragments).
Hundreds of thousands more species await discovery.
What is your favorite species? is it the spanish dancer, the longnose sawshark, the pineapplefish? Check out our marine wildlife encyclopedia to learn more about just some of the million species of living beings in our oceans.
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