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Melissa Wood is associate editor for Professional BoatBuilder magazine and a former associate editor for National Fisherman.
Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 20 February 2014
I worry the most when times are good. That might be true for commercial fishermen too. Take pinks. If you hold a Southeast purse seiner permit, it brought in an average of $454,190 in 2011 and $313,658 in 2012. That number is going to be even higher for 2013, when Alaska fishermen harvested a record-breaking 219 million humpies.
We should all have that problem, right? That's a lot of cash, but the amount has caused a glut of product.
"We don't have any marketing going on with this canned salmon. It's a problem that the industry has at the moment," Bruce Schactler of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, said at the Pacific Marine Expo in November.
What I like about Alaskans is they don't just talk about problems, they take action. Schactler said the industry has committed several million dollars to address this concern. As Schactler, also a commercial fisherman, explained, "We're very fortunate here in Alaska that we have a marketing association like that where we can actually get up and make something happen."
Marketing efforts are good news for the industry, but I hope pinks aren't elevated too high (if that's the intention). I like pink canned salmon. I like that I can throw it in an omelet or a frittata without a lot of planning or expense. I was happy to see that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to buy $20 million of canned pink salmon for food assistance programs.
I know more pinks are being flash-frozen and sent to Asia for processing. I hope they also stay in the can. We may not be getting top dollar for pinks that go to food pantrys, but I think those efforts will put them in the minds of more people looking for a protein to feed their families who will realize it's cheaper than chicken and healthier than ground beef. That's not a bad place to be.
I am writing a story about pinks for the next issue of Seafood Business magazine (a sister publication of National Fisherman aimed at seafood buyers). If you have any thoughts about the future for pinks, I'd love to hear from you.
Permit holder statistics from the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. Photo by Jessica HathawayAdd a comment
Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 13 February 2014
There are fewer than 20 left of the 150 historic schooners built for Alaska's longline halibut fishery. These survivors will be in the "Highliners: Boats of the Century" exhibit opening at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle on Saturday. Some will also be taking part in a parade today on South Lake Union.
I think it's amazing there are any left at all. Think about it. A boat is a piece of technology designed to hunt fish. How much other technology is still around from 100 years ago? Most people consider their iPhones useless if they're older than 6 months.
To find some of their stories, this morning I looked through National Fisherman's archives. As you'll see from the slideshow, a few of these venerable boats have floated through our pages.
In May 2002, for instance, writer William McCloskey joined the Vansee for a weeklong run targeting blackcod in the Gulf of Alaska (with a secondary take of halibut). Per Odegaard ran the 86-footer along with a loyal crew whose most recent member joined five years before and most senior had been with the boat for 17 years. Odegaard's history with the Vansee stretched even further, as he took over the boat in 1982 from his father Nils, who had purchased a part-share in 1960.
In a two-part series published in October and November, McCloskey writes about 16-hour workdays and recounts the history of the schooner. The Vansee was built in 1913 in the John Strand boatyard in Seattle. Like other classic schooners, she was run by Norwegian skippers, whose first fishing was done by a 15-man crew from six dories. In the 1920s the boats switched to the safer deck fishing and dominated the halibut fishery until the free-for-all days of derby fishing in the 1980s.
Those still around may have held onto traditions but also knew they had to change to survive. After the halibut fishery became overrun, the fleet began fishing blackcod in 1983. Odegaard told McCloskey how he came to adopt circle hooks around that same time after reading about them in National Fisherman in 1983. "I tried the circle on just 10 skates. The difference was remarkable — how many more fish came aboard than with our traditional J-hooks. Right away I phoned my dad in Seattle and said get down to the stores first thing." He bought as many circle hooks as he could find and by 1984 the rest of the fleet had converted from J-hooks to circle.
But the hooks had been around before then, McCloskey asked, why hadn't anyone else in the fleet tried them before?
"The old way had always worked. We're a pretty conservative lot," Odegaard told McCloskey with a smile.
Experienced commercial fishermen like Odegaard understand new is not always better. The longevity of these wooden boats built between 1911 and 1929 is a testament not only to the craftsmanship of the original builders, but also to fishermen who have maintained the vessels that have served them and previous owners well over the years.
Fans of wooden boats will get to see the classics for themselves when some of those still hardworking longliners gather at the Center for Wooden Boats on South Lake Union today at 10 a.m. to celebrate the opening of the exhibit as well as the 100th anniversary of the Fishing Vessel Owners' Association. Those expected include the Seymour, Vansee, Grant, Polaris, and Resolute, which along with the Republic, Pacific, Thor, Northern, and Tordenskjold, are the present-day schooners highlighted in the exhibit. They may be from the past, but they're not relics.
Written by Melissa Wood
Monday, 03 February 2014
The night before I headed out on Puget Sound on the Miss Mae, I had drinks in Port Townsend with the boat's skipper, Sam Bain, and his friend and fellow fisherman Billie Delaney. Billie thought it was amusing that I was going to be writing a story about Sam's fishery (see the March 2014 issue of National Fisherman, page 24).
This is no "Deadliest Catch." There's hardly any waves, no turf wars (at least not on the water; there have been battles over catch allocation among commercial state, tribal and recreational fishermen). For me, the story was in how Sam found his niche in a small-boat, low-key fishery that allowed him to stay on the water for most of the year.
That doesn't mean there's no excitement. A day on the water is not the same as a day in the office. If I trip, I'd be a little bruised and more embarrassed than hurt. When Sam is out on the water he's usually alone. A slip could mean a splash.
One thing Sam must consider is where to put his pots. One area may be falling off, but if he moves his pots, he loses a day of crabbing. The new area may not turn to be as productive as hoped and may also be farther from the dock, which means the gas you use to get there could offset the bonus crabs.
There's also price. Dungeness is prized by Asian markets, which can mean a lot of fluctuations. Some crabbers will put their catch back in the water at the dock to wait for a better price, but that's a strategy that can backfire: I heard about one crabber who lost $10,000 this way.
It's interesting to watch fishermen work these equations, but no matter how much you crunch the numbers, there's always going to be uncertainty. This to me is the most exciting part of fishing (when the waters are calm). Even though my paycheck isn't tied to what's inside, I always feel a thrill when I watch the pulleys turn and ropes slide up as they retrieve the net or pot below. What's inside can either prove or disprove a fisherman's logic — or just be luck. Wild animals hidden under dark waves will never be completely predictable.
I took a short (under 2-minute) video on the trip of Sam hauling up a pot. It may not leave you on the edge of your seat but watching it and hearing the hum of the engine and the cries of the seagulls was a nice mental break from a dreary February day in the office.
That hum in the video reminded me of some other excitement. As you'll find out in the story, a problem with the hauler almost canceled the day. As a fisherman said to me on a previous trip, "That's fishing."Add a comment
Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Someone asked me last night why fishermen are so angry. I live in Maine. When fishermen are in the news it's over a contentious issue, like an area closure or reduced quota. In televised meetings fishermen speak their minds and tempers can flare. My answer was that often fishermen don't feel like anyone's listening.
These televised glimpses don't paint an accurate picture of fishermen in general, but the rules and quotas handed down affect their livelihoods. It's good to speak up. Sometimes if you yell loud enough and long enough, someone hears you.
That seems to be happening in the battle to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay. The Environmental Protection Agency released its final draft report on the potential harm to the area from large-scale mining operations and Alaska Sen. Mark Begich (D) came out against the project last week. A rally held in Seattle on Friday (shown below) drew more than 200 fishermen and supporters.
That fight goes on. While the EPA report advises against the mine because of its threat to the valuable salmon watershed, the agency needs to issue a 404(c) to actually prohibit development. Brett Veerhusen of Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay says a final decision could come in a couple months.
But I think it's good to go beyond battle-mode. The advocates for Bristol Bay have done this by using the Pebble Mine issue as a platform to spread the word about the value of their fishery. As Begich said in his release, the region "produces half the world's red salmon and supports thousands of fishing jobs and way of life for thousands of Alaskans."
More people need to understand that value. Yesterday, I talked to Laine Welch. She's been the voice for commercial fishing on Alaska public radio since 1988. She wants more people to understand that the fishing industry provides more jobs than oil, gas, timber and tourism combined.
I like the example she's giving people: In her home of Kodiak there are about 700 boats in two harbors. She's trying to make people see that each one of those boats is an individual storefront. They're small businesses. Each one supports one or more more families.
This example applies to every coast. If you value something you need to not only show it, but help other people understand why it's worth something too. If not, you stand to lose it all.Add a comment
Written by Melissa Wood
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
At the beginning of the 2013 Maine elver season, Chad Jordan was hoping for another boom year.
"The spike in the eel market the last couple years has really changed my life," he says on the TV series "Cold River Cash." With his earnings from the previous season he had put a down payment on a new boat.
But when the season starts slow, he's working double shifts. At night he's on the riverbank with a dipnet trying to catch glass eels then knee-deep in mud flats digging for clams during the day.
The reality television show, which debuted earlier this month on Animal Planet, was shot last spring in Southern Maine. 2013 was the third year of high prices for glass eels, or elvers.
The 10-week fishery has become a gold rush recently because Maine is one of the only places that can meet Asian demand for these tiny elvers. It takes 1,800 elvers to make a pound, but when prices go past $2,000 per pound, each one counts.
I was especially interested in the show because I wrote about the fishery in the September issue of National Fisherman after a trip Down East last spring. On the riverbanks I heard stories of nets being cut and attempts at elver robbery. Of course, those things happen when no-one's watching.
In the episode I watched the season had just opened to cold weather that was keeping catches low for the three teams, the Grinders, Eelinators, and Maineacs. The teams (not a normal part of elver fishing) are not only trying to catch as many elvers as they can but also competing against each other. I don't know if there's a prize beyond the price of elvers for getting the most but they heckle each other with words, fireworks and water balloons.
This comes across as silly. The show appears to be part of the trend of reality shows where the main premise is to marvel and laugh at blue-collar Americans with funny accents and pickup trucks.
These are New England fishermen. There's plenty of real drama in the fishing industry around here. It doesn't need to be manufactured.
It was also hard to root for any of the teams. I'm sure the guys in Cold Water Cash are good guys, but on TV they're presented as composites. The family man. The joker. The bickering father and son.
We get a small sense of their lives but it's only a glimpse. I would have enjoyed a more in-depth look at a fisherman like Jordan, and how he's managing to hold on to a way of life that's quickly disappearing along these same shorelines. He says at the beginning of the episode that he makes as much money all year clamming as he does in the 10-week elver fishery. It'd be interesting to see what other fisheries he participates in and learn more about his life on and off the water.
I think that's why I couldn't get into the show. I would have liked it better if it focused on what it means to be a fisherman in a place where your kind is facing extinction. That would be more interesting than how many tiny glass eels are in the bottom of a dipnet and might also help the public understand what's at stake.
Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Certainly no high school guidance counselor could have predicted Sam Bain's path. The 34-year-old from North Carolina began commercial fishing 11 years ago in Alaska. During his first season he gillnetted for sockeye out of Dillingham, and for the last 10 years he's been traveling to Bristol Bay each summer to setnet salmon.
He wanted fishing to be more than a summer job, but he didn't see much of a future beyond crewing in Alaska, where the cost of boats and permits can be prohibitive. That's why he began running his own 25-footer to pot for Dungeness crab in Puget Sound's small fishery three years ago.
I just finished writing about the day I spent with him for National Fisherman's March issue. What struck me as most compelling about his story was his dedication to building a future for himself on the water near his home of Port Townsend, Wash.
As a writer, I didn't have a career path laid out for me to follow either. But I know what's important to me, and so does Sam. He values his work as a fisherman as well as sustaining the resource and environment that surrounds and supports him.
This is no gold-rush fishery like the ones you see on TV. The waters are calm and though there's a short peak after the Oct. 1 opening, the price falls as the season progresses (mostly because of other areas opening and fluctuating overseas markets).
But the resource is sustainable, and Sam's overhead doesn't usually exceed the cost of filling up his 100-gallon fuel tank every third day and $150 a day in bait. Even with the slowdown, he can keep going until the season closes on April 15.
That's the point. This isn't a quick get-rich gig. It's a job. It's a home. It's a life.
You can read more about Sam's life on the water in the March issue of National Fisherman, which will be out in the beginning of February.
Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 07 January 2014
It's so cold even Florida is under a wind-chill warning. That's because of the polar vortex dipping down from the North Pole that's bringing sub-zero temperatures with it. My own polar vortex experience hasn't been too bad: I lost water yesterday when a pipe burst in my building's basement, but it's fixed now and I'm warm and can take showers again.
That's a common story. Cold weather can cause a lot of damage, and not just to buildings. If you're in Florida or other places in the South not used to frigid temperatures, you should probably turn to page 30 when you receive your February issue of National Fisherman. In the article, "Save room for vroom," Brian Robbins writes about how to prevent freeze-ups before your pack up after a long winter's workday.
Before you go home for the night, Robbins recommends shutting off your boat's raw-water intake then adding antifreeze and rolling the engine over a few times to pump it through the system. He cautions to make sure to do the reverse before you head out again the next day.
Even if you're not experiencing the polar vortex, I'd recommend checking out Robbins' article. As a former offshore lobsterman and longtime contributor to National Fisherman, he offers common-sense tips for making engine maintenance easier that should come in handy all year.
I realize that these sub-zero temperatures aren't a novelty for our readers in Alaska, but being used to them means that you're also better prepared. Do you have any cold-weather tips you can share with our commercial fishermen readers in the South? And yes, I realize we're all in the south compared to you...
Photo of ice breaking on Maine's Kennebec River by Lauren Downs/USCGAdd a comment
Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 02 January 2014
In 2012, a year after implementing catch shares in the West Coast groundfish fishery, NOAA was calling the program a success. It was hard to argue with the numbers: The fishery made $54 million in 2011 compared to its historical average of $38 million for 2006-2010. In addition, bycatch was down from 15 percent to 1.3 percent.
But some California fishermen are telling a different story about catch shares. Jeremiah O'Brien, director of the Morro Bay Commercial Fishermen's Organization, called the program the "worst thing that ever happened to the fishing industry." Likewise, Jiri Nozicka of Monterey Bay told the Associated Press he hasn't been able to fish since spring because he can't find a monitor willing to go out on his trawler the San Giovanni (the Juneau Empire has a photo).
The lack of observers is hitting the fleet hard. "Financially, I can only say that multiple trips have been cancelled due to a lack of availability of these monitors, millions of pounds of fish have not been caught, processed and sold to markets and this is a loss of millions of dollars," Michael Lucas, president of North Coast Fisheries, wrote in a letter to federal regulators that was also included in the AP report.
Electronic monitoring might help. Alaska's halibut longliner fleet is also pushing for the use of cameras instead of costly observers. That industry recently drafted an exempted fisheries permit for the use of cameras, which NMFS rejected because of a lack of technical specifications and performance standards. Its fleet also stands to lose its small boats if a more cost-effective solution to fund monitors isn't found soon.
Unfortunately, it may be too late for some in California. Beginning in 2014 fishermen can sell their quota, which was prohibited by a two-year moratorium when the program launched in 2011. Along with the loss of small boats also goes the fishing industries in the small ports they call home. If that happens, I wouldn't call it a success.
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Written by Melissa Wood
Friday, 20 December 2013
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Dickens' iconic opening lines could also sum up this country's commercial fishing for any given year. A banner year for one fisherman could mean a horrible year for another.
2013 was the best of times for Alaska salmon fishermen. In recollecting the past year, they don't have to search for reasons to be grateful. They had record-breaking catches in 2013. During the Pacific Marine Expo in November I met some coming off this season who were ready to make the most of their good fortune.
Jim Whitcher of Anacortes, Wash., had just bought a new boat for gillnetting on Bristol Bay. He closed a couple days before the Expo. Another fisherman, Ray Forsman, skipper of the Silver Isle, told me it was a normal year, which he said (and other fishermen will probably agree) is a "good thing."
But Alaska's salmon fishermen have known the worst of times too. I also caught up with Vicko Fiamengo of Belllingham, Wash., at the Expo. The longtime salmon fisherman was only 16 years old when he left his home of Komiza, a historic fishing village in Croatia, in 1970.
"I was born on a little island back in Croatia. I fished on the dock in the port when I was five years old, and I've been fishing since," said Fiamengo.
So 20 years ago, when salmon prices dipped down to 35, 25 cents a pound he never left the fishery. He remembers going out when it was just "me and the fish and game [enforcement personnel] and one other guy."
But it was not enough to get Fiamengo off the water. "I didn't go to school. That's in my blood," he said. "That's all I do. That's all I know."
Perhaps his story of perserverance will inspire those whose fisheries experienced the worst of times in 2013. It may not be the best of times, but sometimes normal is good enough.
Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
The often overlooked requirement of the Magnuson-Stevens Act is not overlooked by Madeleine Hall-Arber. As MIT Sea Grant's marine anthropologist, she was one of the first people to closely study the social impact of regulations on fisheries.
In the field for 25 years, she works with New Bedford fisheries managers on how their decisions will affect their communities. In a new video released last week by NOAA she talks about New Bedford's Working Waterfront Festival.
While there is a rich heritage to celebrate in one of America's most historic ports, New Bedford is also the leading port in value, and Hall-Arber says that spreading the word about the importance of the industry today is an important goal of the festival.
"Part of the effort for the festival is to make the young people realize there's still an industry, there's still a value to working in the industry," she says.
As she points out, the value of those jobs goes beyond a paycheck. People who work in fishing should be proud of what they do. Their jobs put food on many people's tables — and not just their own.
Her words are a reminder of all that is lost along with the economic disaster facing the region's groundfish industry. But there are still those trying to keep this struggling part of the industry alive. When the New England council meets this week, the Northeast Seafood Coalition is proposing alternative management strategies that could help create stability in annual catch limits, Executive Director Jackie Odell told the Gloucester Daily Times.
The three-day council meeting started yesterday in Danvers, Mass. Those who are unable to attend can listen in on the proceedings by clicking on this link: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/865489879.
Learn more about Hall-Arber's work by watching the video below.Add a comment
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Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is required by state statute to appoint someone to the Board of Fisheries by today, Tuesday, May 19. However, his efforts to fill the seat have gone unfulfilled since he took office in January. The seven-member board serves as an in-state fishery management council for fisheries in state waters.
The resignation of Walker's director of Boards and Commissions, Karen Gillis, fanned the flames of controversy late last week.
Keith Decker, president and COO of High Liner Foods, will take over for the outgoing CEO, Harry Demone, who will assume the role as chairman of the board of directors. The Lunenburg, Nova Scotia-based seafood supplier boasts sales in excess of $310 million (American) for the first quarter of the year.Read more...


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Fear: agreement could cause military nuclear program to go overlooked
The leak yesterday of a sketch of a device used for nuclear bomb work that, according to a "country tracking Iran's nuclear program," can be found at Iran's Parchin facility has lent new urgency to the P5+1 talks scheduled for Baghdad next week. It's also driven a new narrative: that, for Israel, a resolution stemming from those negotiations would actually be a bad thing.
The logic goes like this: the P5+1 negotiations are focused primarily on uranium enrichment and are overlooking the explicitly (and allegedly) military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program, which appear to be proved by such things as yesterday's leak. U.S. expert Anthony Cordesman's new report has received much attention in Israel. "The threat Iran's nuclear efforts pose are not simply a matter of its present ability to enrich uranium to 20 percent U-235," Cordesman argues, "and efforts to control its enrichment activities will not halt its ability to move forward in many areas even if its current enrichment facilities and stocks of highly enriched uranium are fully secured." (David Albright said much the same in The Scroll last Friday: "If Iran showed in a verifiable way that it wasn't going to build nuclear weapons," he noted, "people wouldn't care so much about centrifuges.") Cordesman also convincingly lays out the case, based on prior international inspectors' reports, that the program includes a military component.
Under Israeli thinking, a P5+1 deal on enrichment is a dialectical step backward, because it will reward Tehran and create international complacence, which will in turn weaken the sanctions that have so far effectively slowed Iran. As Defense Minister Barak put it, "If the demands are expressed in the minimalistic manner which we suspect, Iran could agree to all of them, and still be able to continue progressing toward a nuclear weapon." A senior Israeli official, who for all we know is also Barak, added, "Israel's main concern is if the talks lead to the stop of Iran's nuclear program, or create a platform that buys Iran time, while eroding sanctions." He concluded: "The recent positive statements made by Iran are meant to create an impression of moderation and bolster relations with the world powers, but there is no real fundamental change in Tehran."
So, what are the plausible alternatives? Here are two different models. Patrick Clawson argues that the sanctions-negotiations balancing act needs to be accompanied by greater support for pro-democracy groups in Iran that may eventually lead to a new regime. "A democratic Iran would likely drop state support for terrorism and end its interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries such as Iraq and Lebanon, improving stability in the Middle East," Clawson argues. "And although Iran's strongly nationalist democrats are proud of the country's nuclear progress, their priority is to rejoin the community of nations, so they will likely agree to peaceful nuclearization in exchange for an end to their country's isolation." On the other hand, Mehdi Khalaji proposes something of an opposite route, in which the United States goes out of its way to insist that it is not even thinking of regime change in order to give Ayatollah Khamanei the peace of mind—and the domestic victory—that will allow him to compromise.
Reports such as this one that Iran is getting what it wants could be designed to open such political space. But it also could worry Israel.
Meanwhile, though, columnist David Ignatius may be an uncharacteristic step behind in lauding the potential for a deal on enrichment. The potential is certainly there, but it may not be enough. If he is reflecting U.S. thinking, then the administration had better wake up to the concerns of Israel's government, which is newly strengthened but still evidently as worried as ever.
Drawing Shows Iran Has Chamber Used for Nuke Arms Work [AP/Vos Iz Neias?]
Israel Fears Nuclear Deal Between Iran, World Powers as Baghdad Talks Draw Near [Haaretz]
A Compelling Plan for Iranian Talks [WP]
Sanctions Are Only a Stop-Gap [Foreign Affairs]
The Ayatollah Contemplates Compromise [The Washington Institute for Middle East Policy]
Earlier: Cleansing Suggests Iranian Military Program
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From my perspective, the state of the props stems from a few problems during the launch of the Foundry:
Although we had a very nice guy named Mapolis (and others) who added all kinds of really interesting props and effects, there was never much of an attempt to put in things that fit together or to provide a comprehensive set of essential props. Part of this was that the devs just didn't know how we would build. The platforms and primitives were a quick afterthought based on some player feedback. They never intended us to basically throw away many of the maps they gave us and just build in the sky.
At the time of launch, there were also no triggers, so there was little planning as to how we would need to use props in conjunction with triggers. So, almost no "pick-ups" like medkits, etc., because (at the time) there was no way to pick up and "carry" items. Then, when triggers came, there was little to no effort to add in props to use with triggers, like a brig and a brig door that fit together. I think most of the non-programming stuff had shifted to NW (because there were already so many, many delays with STO Foundry launch, like 4 months late).
There was also no kind of checklist of needed locations like:
Props for Engineering, like a warp core.
Props for Sickbay, including sickbay map.
Transporter pad for..
etc. etc.
Now as soon as the Foundry team moved, the nice guy and others who did this stuff moved with them. By looking at some of the things from NW, it looks like they planned ahead based on watching us build. So, that game has more foresight, especially with stuff like an interior builder.
It seems like nobody on the STO team knew how to do any of this stuff, after they were gone.
State of STO's Foundry: We have a random collection of props, most of which don't fit together. There are obvious things missing, so we build our transporter pads out of klingon barrels, and other sets, like sickbays, have to be built from scratch.
Now, does the STO team have the ability to fix a lot of this? Yes, but no. Yes, they have someone who could probably crank out a carpeted floor primitive in no time. Does that person have that assignment? No.
Every team is assigned to do things unrelated to Foundry props, although they are encouraged to maybe add something every once in awhile (when they have nothing else to do after bug fixes).
This means that, unless priorities change from Dstahl, nobody will have the job of fixing the library, updating it, or making it rational. The art team will make stuff for whatever the next thing is, not revisit the old thing and add stuff.
So, we pretty much have what we have, and I'll be surprised if that changes, beyond a few more random glass panels being thrown in, or a few stealth additions. Usually, it has nothing to do with what we're requesting. It's more like if a dev is making something and has extra free time, maybe that thing will get added.
From the dev blog, it seems like, just to add a new npc group of Mugatos, our Foundry producer had to learn how and do it herself by unconventional means.
That's where we are.
In my opinion a proper transporter pad is almost the #1 needed asset.
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It has become part of the liberal common sense in the United States (buttressed by the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century) that rising inequality is a top priority, with little discussion of poverty. Conservatives, of course, are pushing back—with the argument (currently being peddled by Deirdre McCloskey, basically a more libertarian version of the argument that more conventionally conservative Martin Feldstein was making in the late-1990s) that we really should be worried about poverty, and forget about inequality.
They're both wrong. Poverty and inequality are, in fact, connected—both in the long term and in the short term. They're connected in the long term in the sense that the period of rising inequality, beginning in the late 1970s (measured, as above, by the income share going to the top 1 percent) is also the period during which the poverty rate stopped declining and the number of Americans living below the poverty began a dramatic increase (reaching 46.5 million in 2012).
And, in the short term, we can see that the "recovery" that has been engineered to the benefit of those at the very top (again, measured in terms of the share of income going to the top 1 percent) has been accompanied by a dramatic growth in poverty (as measured in both monthly and annual rates).
Clearly, we can't afford to choose between poverty and inequality. Current economic policies and arrangements, as they have been implemented since the mid-1970s and kept intact in the midst of the Second Great Depression, have led to growing inequality and consigned a growing segment of the population to living in conditions of poverty. Long live the rich, and to hell with the poor! Is it really so difficult to understand the following proposition: a society that lets a tiny elite capture an obscene portion of its income and wealth is also prone to force a large portion of its citizenry to try to survive in conditions of abject poverty?
Fundamentally changing the economic policies and arrangements of such a society—for example, by changing the way the surplus is appropriated and distributed—can serve to eliminate grotesque levels of inequality and, at the same time, the enduring legacy of massive poverty.


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- Written By Tony Benedict, Warren Foster, Dalton Sandifer.
- Music: Hoyt S. Curtin.
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- First Aired on September 30, 1964.
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Welcome back to 5 Days of Homeschooling Essentials. This week, I am sharing about what I believe is most useful for our homeschool. Yesterday, I shared some of my favorite books for homeschool moms and the importance of having eyes to see and ears to hear.
Today, I'm going to give you a peek into my homeschool closet. Or rather a list of what I keep in our homeschool closet.
Because we homeschool in a child-led manner, it is pretty much necessary that I be prepared for just about anything. One thing I try to do to make sure Ben has what he needs for whatever impassions him on any given day is to keep a well-stocked homeschool closet.
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measuring tools (rulers, measuring tape, balance)
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various card games (Skip Bo, Uno, Phase 10)
puzzles (we love Ravensberger)
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The National Anti-Doping Appeal panel has upheld the appeals of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) while imposing two-year suspensions on athlete Sharadha Narayana and weightlifter Pradeep Sharma.
Both were handed down suspensions in recent hearings by the panel, headed by Justice C.K. Mahajan (retd.), following appeals against their exoneration by the WADA.
Initially both appeals had run into problem when the Mahajan panel ruled that the WADA could not maintain two appeals in the same case, one at the national level and the other with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Lausanne.
The WADA withdrew its appeals with the CAS, paving the way for the Mahajan panel to resume hearing the cases on merit.
Sharadha and Sharma were suspended from the dates of sample collection, and provisional suspension respectively.
It was fixed as May 16, 2010 in the case of Sharadha, the day she gave the sample at the Open National in Kochi where she won the 100 metres title in a personal best 11.56 seconds, and March 15, 2010, the date of his provisional suspension in the case of Sharma who had tested positive at the Udaipur National the previous month.
Sharadha was not provisionally suspended by either the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) or the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).
According to the appeal panel, the Tamil Nadu sprinter "voluntarily refrained from participating in any sporting event" after she was informed of the rule violation by a letter dated June 7, 2010.
There is, however, no provision in the rules for such voluntary acceptance of provisional suspension unless it is in writing and is noted and approved by the authority concerned.
Considerable delay
The panel also noted that there had been "considerable delay in the disposal of the case by the Disciplinary Authority."
However, the crucial error in backdating her suspension seems to have been made in ignoring her participation in the all-India inter-Railway Championship in Chennai in February this year following her exoneration in January.
This might have happened since no agency informed the panel about her participation, but it is still a grave error.
Sharadha had tested positive for steroid Stanozolol.
Her doctor, Dr. C. Senthil Raj, had advised her drug for knee joint pain. Her last prescription, out of four recommending Stanozolol use, was dated September 5, 2009.
No question raised
No question has been raised, either at the disciplinary panel hearing or in the appeal panel, by any prosecuting authority or by the panels themselves, how a course of medicine that would have ended at least by October, 2009, could lead to a "positive" test on May 16, 2010.
Stanozolol gets cleared from the system in three weeks, if taken in tablet form (Menabol) or two months if taken in injection form (Winstrol).
Both were prescribed for Sharadha. The appeal panel simply ruled that the athlete cannot hide behind her doctor's ignorance of anti-doping rules. It also said she had failed to advance any truly exceptional circumstance to gain benefit out of the "no significant fault or negligent" rule that could have helped her gain a reduced sanction.
Failure to obtain exemption
Sharma had produced medical records to support his argument that he was advised testosterone therapy for infertility that eventually led to his turning up a 17:1 testosterone-epitestosterone (T/E) ratio against an allowable threshold of 4:1.
"It was imperative for the respondent to have obtained TUE (therapeutic use exemption) and having failed to do so, the respondent violated the anti-doping rules," the WADA contended in its appeal.
The appeal panel ruled that the weightlifter had not taken all precautions to ensure that he was not violating any anti-doping rule in order to benefit from the "exceptional circumstances" clause.
According to the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) Secretary, Sahdev Yadav, Sharma did not compete in any meet even after his exoneration by the disciplinary panel.
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What Went Before: Glut of nursing graduates
Health Secretary Enrique Ona, in a consultation in Baguio City, advised incoming college students in 2011 to stay out of nursing.
"If I have a daughter today, I would not let her take up nursing," Ona said, adding that highly specialized courses in medical research and medical technology would be more appropriate if students wanted to pursue a career in health care.
Many nursing graduates are unemployed.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz advised unemployed nurses in the country to seek jobs in the booming business process outsourcing industry, which has an array of non-clinical but medical-related information outsourcing opportunities such as medical transcriptionists, billers and health care secretaries.
The latest data showed that with 176,646 enrolled students, nursing was the most popular in medical and allied discipline during the academic year 2011-2012. Nursing graduates during the previous academic year numbered 86,816.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has ordered at least six schools in Southern Mindanao to stop offering nursing courses starting this academic year due to their graduates' mediocre performance in recent nursing board examinations.
In March, Raul Alvarez Jr., CHEd regional director was quoted as saying that these schools, which he did not name, could not satisfy the 30-percent passing rate requirement set by CHEd Memorandum Order No. 14 Series of 2009.
The CHEd warned in 2010 that nursing schools with dismal board exam passing rates should shape up within the next three years or close shop.
In the same year, the CHEd released Memorandum Order No. 32, which ordered a moratorium on new programs in five courses, including nursing, citing the decline in the quality of graduates in these fields.
The other courses were business administration, teacher education, hotel and restaurant management, and information technology.
The moratorium applies only to schools planning on opening courses in the affected programs. It will not affect those that currently offer these courses.
Despite the increasing number of board examinees for nursing, the qualifying rate for nursing boards remains stagnant. In 2009, only 40.7 percent of 172,344 takers passed the nursing exams, lower than the 43.9 percent in 2008.—Inquirer Research
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"I thought, `Man, this dude is good.' And then he went on to finish fifth in the tournament," Bryant said. "But other than that, I haven't had the opportunity to spend time with the young guys and I probably won't. I'll say this, though. It's amazing walking around and seeing the physical status of these young guys. Eighty percent of them are big dudes, man. I was telling this guy on the tee, `Who started recruiting athletes to play on our tour?' Man, this sucks."
And then he chuckled, knowing that for all he went through, Bryant got the last laugh.
Russell Henley said he got chills when he was asked a question about the time he once helped Scott Langley with his swing, perhaps because it was a reminder how different golf is to other sports. This is nothing new, of course. Players often help guys who are struggling, even as they're trying to beat them.
The topic came up because Henley and Langley played together in their rookie debut on the PGA Tour. Walking up the 16th fairway, with the Pacific Ocean behind them and a television tower off to the side, they began chatting about where they were at time last year.
They were at a Hooters Tour event in Florida. Henley had missed the cut, and Langley was a second set of eyes as he tried to figure out what was wrong with his swing. Langley, meanwhile, was telling stories about going through a slump in 2010, and how Henley always came over and offered help.
"I don't know everybody out here on the PGA Tour, but you don't come across a lot of guys who really get it and play the game the way I think it should be played," Henley said. "I think when you get guys who are selfless, that's a really cool thing. I try to be that way. I'm probably not always like that. ... It's really cool, that side of the game, because that would never happen in any other sport. You'd never see Federer help Nadal with his backhand - or I don't think you would.
"That's why I love the game so much," Henley said. "I love the competition, but also love how you can be the guy's best friend."
The PGA Tour asks rookies to fill out a questionnaire with some offbeat questions so fans can know a little more about them than where they went to college and how they reached the tour.
Here's a sampling:
- Derek Ernst says he would be a rock star if he didn't play golf for a living. And as a reminder that we're in the next generation, his dream foursome would include Arnold Palmer, Rory McIlroy and Tim Tebow.
- Paul Haley II played baseball in the sixth grade on the same team as former Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw and Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford.
- Robert Streb has on his bucket list going to an Oklahoma-Texas game. He went to Kansas State. Then again, he grew up in Oklahoma and used to play hockey with St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford.
- Henrik Norlander is from Sweden and played for Augusta State. His dream foursome would include Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Johnny Cash.
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WILMINGTON — Bruins coach Claude Julien said after the team's first practice since returning to the United States that the club is better off not putting unnecessary pressure on Marc Savard has he recovers from post-concussion syndrome symptoms. Savard has been unable to take the ice since failing his impact test when the team opened training camp in September.
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Julien also added that Marco Sturm, another long-term injury player (knee) is expected to begin skating in the coming days as he continues his recovery.
Both Dennis Seidenberg and Andrew Ference left the ice early on Wednesday. Julien said that while Seidenberg was dealing with either the flu or food poisoning, Ference was unable to shoot pucks due to a cortisone shot he received in his thumb. Julien noted that the veteran defenseman's thumb ailment is "very, very minor" and that he won't miss additional practice time due to it.
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RailAmerica 's RA second-quarter consolidated ..... and nonrecurring items, we calculate RailAmerica 's operating ratio improved approximately ..... fair value estimate, which reflects RailAmerica 's recent agreement to be acquired
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railroads Genesee & Wyoming GWR and RailAmerica RA have reached an agreement whereby G&W intends to purchase RailAmerica for $27.50 per share, or $1 ..... value of $2 billion when including RailAmerica 's $600 million of net debt
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Police: 19-Year-Old Woman Accidentally Shot By 13-Year-Old Boy After Target Practice
It happened Monday behind a home in Pennfield Township.
Former Head Of County Vets Office Charged With Embezzlement
… about $42,000 is believed to have been taken from people seeking assistance with disability benefits.
Police: 12-Year-Old Girl Stabs 9-Year-Old Sister
The girl was treated for stab wounds to the face, neck and chest before being taken to a hospital for treatment.
Man Sentenced In Arson That Killed Michigan Girl
A 25-year-old man who intentionally set a house fire that killed an 8-year-old Battle Creek girl will spend 39 years to 80 years in prison.
Verizon Expands 4G LTE In West, Central, Northern Michigan
Verizon Wireless rolled out its advanced, high-speed wireless network across portions of four counties in Michigan: Calhoun, Clare, Mason and Missaukee.
9 Amish, Plus Driver Hurt In Icy Road Crash
Authorities say a van went off an icy southern Michigan interstate, rolling over and injuring the 10 people inside.
Police Cracking Down On Drunk Drivers Through April 8
Luck may belong to the Irish, but it won't help Michigan motorists who don't designate a sober driver over the next few weeks.
45 Drunk Drivers Arrested During Super Bowl Weekend
Michigan State Police say they arrested 45 drunk drivers across 20 counties during Super Bowl weekend.
Police Throwing A Flag On Drunken Drivers This Super Bowl Weekend
Michigan State Police are reminding motorists to make the right call by designating a sober driver before kick off if their Super Bowl celebration includes alcohol.
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The sound in "Shift 2: Unleashed" features the generic racing sounds we've all come to know, the roaring engines, soft metal / rock bands in the breaks and it also features the dulcet tones and video of racing driver Vaughn Gittin Jr telling you how to play the game. For true fans of the Formula D series, this is pretty cool, for the rest of us he might register as stopping the flow of the game.
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