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- Snack bar
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Room service - 24 hour
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Laundry room
- Multilingual staff
- Front desk - safety deposit box
- Concierge
- Luggage room
- City tour
- Shuttle service
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Shuttle service from and/or to the railway station
- Free parking
- Internet/Email services
- TV Lounge
Know before you go
- Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
- This property offers transfers from the airport and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Children 2 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Check-in: after 6 PM.
Check-out: before 10 AM.
PolicyExtra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 10 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 55 per vehicle (one way)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 15 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 35 per day
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the hotel:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 6 per person, per night, up to 10 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 10 years of age.
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
JC Hotel reviews
- March 2015
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- United Kingdom
Value for money! Highly recommend staying here it's not too far from everything, it's clean and it's modern. The staff are friendly and the breakfast was lovely. Would go back in a flash!
- May 2014
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
- United Kingdom
I was unexpectedly upgraded to a suite. A splendid surprise. A wonderful experience.
- October 2013
- Venere Guest
- Family with young children
- Canada
Our biggest complaint is about the bathroom. The shower was very mouldy. To an unhealthy level, black mould with a very intense smell. We only stayed one night. We would not stay here again.
- January 2013
- Venere Guest
- Not Specified
- Italy
Great contemporary hotel! Needs a big signboard to correctly direct guest to hotel, otherwise no colonist at all. Call the hotel for directions so you don't end up going round the one way systems few times
- November 2011
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- Italy
main downside is the location, but once you're in you really appreciate the attention dedicated to guests and room furniture and spaces. If you're travelling for work or need a place near the GRA or the Fiumicino Airport is pretty good. Bed liners great quality but a bit too hot/heavy and the room AC wasn't exactly working properly (no way to get the temperature below 24°C). Big tv flat screen, Sky TV, wonderful bathroom with a lovely shower room surrounded by glasses and able to be seen from the room. Nice furniture, lots of space for your bags (even if the rooms are not really big, but thei permit two people to have a lovely space to live.) Good breakfast and very good service (all the recptionist and waiters are young, polite and very helpfull and discrete). Definitevely a nice place to stay for a couple of night but not for tourist or people without car.
- December 2013
- Venere Guest
- Couple
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- May 2015
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- Belgium
- March 2014
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- Italy
- December 2013
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
- Italy
- August 2012
- Venere Guest
- Family with older children
- Italy
- August 2014
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- Couple
- France
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Room Details
Offering the right accommodation for your romantic holiday, JC Hotel offers 12 guest rooms with climate control and free local calls. Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy LCD televisions with digital channels. Corporate travelers visiting the EUR area will benefit from free wired and wireless high-speed Internet access as well as desks, safes and phones. Individual décor and furnishings make each stay a unique experience. A good night's sleep in comfortable beds with premium bedding will have visitors waking up refreshed and well-rested throughout their vacation or business trip.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with superior features such as showers, rainfall showerheads, bidets and complimentary toiletries. Minibars and hair dryers are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Additional guest comforts include air conditioning, free dial-up internet and blackout drapes/curtains.
Accommodation Services
- Air conditioning
- Telephone
- Mini bar
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Hairdryer in each room
- Safe
- Desk
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- LCD flat screen TV
- High speed Internet access
- Dial-up Internet access
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from JC HotelEuroma2 - 2.6 km / 1.6 mi
PalaLottomatica - 3 km / 1.9 mi
Biomedical Campus Rome - 3.5 km / 2.2 mi
Museum of Roman Civilization - 3.6 km / 2.2 mi
White Gallery - 3.9 km / 2.4 mi
Palazzo dei Congressi - 3.9 km / 2.5 mi
Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari - 4 km / 2.5 mi
Abbazia delle Tre Fontane - 4 km / 2.5 mi
Palazzo della Civilta Italiana - 4.3 km / 2.7 mi
I Granai Shopping Center - 4.6 km / 2.8 mi
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Love - 5.7 km / 3.6 mi
Parco de' Medici Golf Club - 6.2 km / 3.8 mi
Appia Antica Regional Park - 6.5 km / 4 mi
St. Paul Outside the Walls - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi
Tomb of Cecilia Metella - 6.8 km / 4.2 mi
The closest major airports to JC Hotel are:
Rome (CIA-Ciampino) - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi
Rome (FCO-Fiumicino - Leonardo da Vinci Intl.) - 18.9 km / 11.7 mi
The preferred airport for JC Hotel is Rome (FCO-Fiumicino - Leonardo da Vinci Intl.).
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile.
Transportation services JC Hotel
- Shuttle service
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Shuttle service from and/or to the railway station
- Free parking
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GOOD MORNING: Animals like Fritz and Big Ears have to make you wonder
I got a phone call from Bruce Adler, who I met at the celebration of the life of Gary Jackson. Gary had gotten him into long-distance bike riding. They had a routine where they would stop at the same bench every day and have a bite to eat.
Bruce called because he had read my story about Fritz, my dog friend who recently passed away.
"I had to smile when you wrote that column," he said. "Gary and I would make friends with many dogs on our long bike rides. We didn't know their real names, but made up names like 'Big Ears' and silly things like that."
Taking his long bike rides without Gary now, Bruce never stopped to think about what the animals know or realize. All he knew was that he missed his friend, Gary, a great deal. He thought it was very strange that right after reading about my run, as I felt empty without seeing Fritz, the owner of one of his furry friends ran out and said, "Hey, where is the guy you always rode by with?"
Bruce made me start wondering if animals like Fritz and "Big Ears" watch for those of us who befriend them and if they notice that we aren't there with our usual greetings. Why are we arrogant enough to think we are the only feeling and thinking beings in this world? I never stopped to appreciate the fact that the animals, (this includes some horses) who are there for a pet and a hello as I run by, may look forward to our little meetings as much as I do.
Although losing Gary and now finding out that my big furry friend, Fritz, has passed are sad things, I also find reason to smile. Love is not words or just shared among humans. Love is all around, even in the animal world. Today, as I started my daily writing, a beautiful picture of Fritz was awaiting me on my email. His owner sent it, saying that he thought I would enjoy having it. Enjoy is an understatement. I was thrilled, because as long as we have memories and pictures and sweet thoughts, nothing ever really is too far away to love.
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Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 17 April 2014
If you're doing everything right, isn't it a good idea to be able to show that to people? Justine Simon runs Salt & Sea, a community supported fishery in Portland, Maine. Her husband is a fourth generation fisherman. Her goal is to connect Maine consumers to the best quality local fish. The fishermen she works with — who catch their fish using best practices — want that connection, too.
"The fishermen we work with take tremendous pride in what they're doing. They'll have heated conversations about which way to lay fish in the hold," she says.
Quality is priority, and they don't like it when their fish is not given the recognition it deserves.
"For these guys, it kills them when their boat's being unloaded and it's kicked off the boat or mixed in with other fish" for which maybe the same care wasn't taken. "For them it means a lot when we give them the customer feedback — people are raving about their fish."
The conversation reminded me of a discussion I had with Eric Brazer of the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance. I interviewed him for a story I'm writing for the June issue of National Fisherman about efforts to use cameras for catch monitoring instead of or in addition to human observers.
It's a cost issue, but it's also one of recognition. The fishermen Brazer works with would like electronic monitoring to help tell the story of the quality and sustainability of their fish. That story includes the success of the recently rebuilt red snapper fishery.
Extra accountability from cameras on fishing boats could help reinforce the Gulf Wild program, which tags a fish so the consumer can see the boat it came from and/or dock it was landed at. He says it was developed partly to disprove myths and rumors about gulf fish that followed the oil spill.
"It's more than just traceability, it's getting the most accurate information into the hands of anyone who touches the fish," he says.
It shows the importance of marketing. It's not just about adding value through best practices, but getting the word out about those practices. There are challenges to doing this, but consider this: Are you doing enough to ensure your fish and your hard work are getting the recognition they deserve?
As we've seen with the recent report from Oceana about the United States' "dirtiest fisheries," sometimes others will gladly tell the story for you, but it won't be a good one.
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Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
David Soares knew he had hooked a big one when his line practically vanished. It was around 10 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2013. He was trolling for wahoo and yellowfin tuna on Challenger Banks about 12 miles southwest of Bermuda when 950 yards of a 1,000-yard reel was gone in seconds.
It wasn't just a big one. It was the big one. After the fish took him two miles in reverse and fought a "straight up and down battle" for two hours, Soares reeled in a bluefin tuna weighing 1,003 pounds, gutted and gilled. It was the biggest one ever caught in Bermuda, said Soares.
"Right away, when anything takes that much line off a reel that fast, I realized he was quite large," said Soares. "I've never had them take it that fast or that much. I've had them take 400 or 500."
For the two-hour battle, Soares said his reel was set at its maximum drag of 55 pounds and at low speed for a slow and steady pull-in.
About halfway through, the fish dashed away with 400 yards of line. But Soares, who caught the big bluefin single-handedly, persisted. When finally the fish was about 10 to 12 yards away, he harpooned it and brought it in.
Once you learn more about Soares, the monster catch is an achievement but not a surprise. At 43, the third-generation commercial fisherman has been fishing from Bermuda for 25 years. His grandfather was the island's last whaler and last person to build and sail a trade schooner. Soares has caught four of the 10 bluefin tuna landed in Bermuda, which also included a 630-pounder in November 2009 and a pair on the same day — weighing 403 pounds and 395 pounds — in February of 2012.
When I talked to him last week he was stateside at Platypus Marine in Port Angeles, Wash., which is building him a 55-foot power catamaran for personal use. He and his wife plan to make its first journey to Southeast Alaska toward the end of this summer when the salmon fishing is hot (and fishermen love to fish on their vacations).
Soares fishes year-round from his Central Marine 44-footer, which was built in 2003 on Prince Edward Island, mostly trolling for yellowfin tuna and wahoo with some longlining for swordfish. He said of the small island's 65,000 population, there are about 150 full-time fishermen and lobstermen. There's a handful like Soares who go out each morning alone and are back in time to sell their catches directly to hotels and restaurants.
"There's no fishhouses in Bermuda," Soares explained. "We go out and catch the fish and we sell off the fish directly to them, tell them what we have and they tell us what they want and then we sell it off piece by piece."
He told me he had a personal goal to catch a tuna more than 1,000 pounds on his own. "The way I truly wanted to do it was by myself, that's the way I've been fishing for the last 15 years now… this is the way I really wanted it to happen."
He sold the bluefin to the restaurant company MEF, which distributed the fish to the restaurants it owns (those are listed on the promotional poster of Soares with his fish).
At National Fisherman, we talk to fishermen on all coasts about the concerns surrounding their fisheries. But when I asked if commercial fishermen in Bermuda were facing any troubling issues, he had nothing for me. "Life's good. It's sunny, nice weather, average temperature 70, 72. In the dead of winter you might get down 60 to 65."
He's clearly passionate about life on the water. Soares tells me he jumps out of bed in the morning ready to go fishing. "The true fishermen fish for the love and the passion of fishing, they don't fish for the money," he said.
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Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 03 April 2014
Sometime before 8 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12, Eric Eder fell from the 87-foot trawler Seeker into the Bering Sea. A 10-hour search by Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley, Jayhawk helicopter and nearby good Samaritan vessels was called off at 10 p.m. The water was 42 degrees.
Eric was 43 years old. He was a lifelong commercial fisherman and had recently moved from his hometown of Waldport to Redmond, Wash. His wife Adrienne was home with their two sons, a 5-year-old and 5-week-old baby, when their father passed away. Eric's last time home was for the birth of his son, according to Taunette Dixon, whose husband, Kevin, is one of the two captains of the Newport-based Seeker though he was not on the boat at the time.
It's a hard hit for the whole community, says Taunette. "He's just known as a super nice guy. I have never heard a negative word about him. He's a very kind and selfless man."
I had heard the news about Eric's death but only learned more about him recently when I came across a GoFundMe page created for Eric's family. The page's goal was to raise $8,000. As of this writing, people had donated $44,700. That's when I knew I had to find out more about how Eric's community has responded to this tragedy.
There are three ways to donate. The Newport Fishermen's Wives is collecting donations and Oregon Coast Bank, a local bank in Newport, has set up an account for donations too. Taunette says unlike the GoFundMe account, which collects 5 percent for the service, all proceeds donated to the nonprofit Fishermen's Wives go directly to the family. I contacted Sandi Pankey, the administrator for the GoFundMe page, who told me the money goes to Eric's wife as it comes in. She also offered to send me the Oregon Coast Bank account number to donate directly.
Taunette, whose family has been in the fishing industry for generations, says she has never seen anything like this outpouring of support. "We've had other tragedies in this area, but this has been amazing. I think it's unique in the fact that he just had a baby, and I think that really tugs at people's heartstrings."
She told me for Eric's family the loss is not only a huge hit emotionally but also financially. He made a good living on the water, and that's gone now. Often commercial fishermen's wives stay home with their children because their husbands are gone for weeks at a time.
She also says his family has been overwhelmed with thankfulness: Nothing really helps but the support makes them see how much he was loved.
I can't imagine what Eric's family, friends and community are going through. This support for them shows the importance of healthy fishing communities and organizations like the Newport Fishermen's Wives. Taunette says the group helps keep the community connected through events and education. Its fundraising efforts help local families who have lost someone at sea or in times when someone can't work because of an injury on a boat.
We will all die someday, but when your job is the most dangerous one in the U.S., it's nice to know your community will look out for the loved ones you leave behind.
To donate:
Newport Fishermen's Wives
Photo of the Seeker entering the Port of Newport terminal courtesy of Sharon Biddinger, simplydesignstudios.com
Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 01 April 2014
At a session on seafood export trends at the Maine Fishermen's Forum in Rockport, Jeff Bennett from the Maine International Trade Center pointed out 95 percent of people live outside the United States. That means there are great untapped seafood sales opportunities beyond our borders.
A month later, I'm still not sure about that message. I know international trade has been valuable for the seafood industry. It fascinates me to see how much Asian holidays can spike the value of fisheries like red king crab, Dungeness crab and geoducks. Expanding trade in Asia and Europe may help Maine get more value for its abundant lobster harvest.
In China consumers will pay up to $150 per pound to put geoducks in their hotpots. But it can also lead to problems when a catch's value is dependent on something totally beyond your control. Geoduck harvesters learned this when their main market — China — shut down on December 3 after that country banned all mollusk shellfish from most of the West Coast. The ban came after Chinese officials reported finding unacceptable levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning in geoducks from Alaska and inorganic arsenic in shipments from Washington.
Testing and diplomacy have not yet been able to lift the ban. In National Fisherman's May issue, Phil Doherty, of the Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association in Ketchikan, tells how his group is doing what it can during the ban, which some believe is motivated more by politics than safety concerns. Whatever the reason, it's hurting the harvesters, says Doherty:
"Some divers bought permits at high costs expecting to be able to fish; others bought new boats and have boat payments; others are talking about leaving Alaska to participate in fisheries elsewhere to make some money. All divers have everyday living expenses. As long as the embargo is in place, Alaskan divers face economic hardship."
Doherty says it's possible $3 million of geoducks won't be harvested this season in Southeast Alaska (read more in our May issue's Northern Lights column, page 7).
Everyone wants to get the most value possible for their catch. That makes sense. It also makes sense to establish markets that offer both value and stability. Seattle restaurants, for example, have begun highlighting geoducks on their menus to help establish a greater local demand for Washington producers.
By looking across our borders to grow seafood consumption, we're missing a better opportunity. One of my colleagues at Seafood Business, Jamie Wright, made the case for taking another look at growing U.S. seafood consumption at his presentation at the Maine forum. In the United States the average person eats just 14.4 pounds of seafood per year, down from a record high of 16.6 pounds in 2004. For a comparison, we ate 44 pounds of pork, 54 pounds of beef and 58 pounds of chicken per capita in 2012.
Part of the problem is image, according to Wright. Seafood is usually enjoyed on special occasions. Through innovation, the industry needs to make more convenient products for everyday use. As he said, for today's consumer, "You have to produce products that eat themselves." If you'd like to dig deeper, read his story about seafood's challenges at the plate in the January issue of Seafood Business.
As Jamie also pointed out, the good news about geoducks is that they live a long time. If harvesters leave them in the sand, they'll still be OK to harvest next year (or the next, geoducks in the wild can live to be 150 years old). But as Doherty writes, it's the fishermen who might not survive geoduck's market meltdown.
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Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 27 March 2014
On March 27, 1964, Basil Ferrier and his son Del were fishing near Valdez, Alaska. They had rowed their skiff to shore from their fishing boat anchored in deep water when earth and sea began to move.
"A snowslide, set off by the forces working through the earth's crust, roared toward them and — at the same time — their skiff was tossed out from shore. Their only refuge was behind a large tree in the path of the snowslide," National Fisherman reported in the May 1964 article, "Earthquake Staggers Alaskan Fishing Industry."
The Ferriers' strange experience stands out among the many stories of Alaska's Good Friday earthquake. After they had taken refuge behind the tree "an incoming wave carried the skiff back, almost to their feet. They jumped in it and rode out with the wave, but were unable to maneuver the skiff because the oars had been swept away. As if the fishing boat was a magnet for the skiff, the outgoing wave carried them to the side of their boat. They climbed aboard, cut the anchor and rode out the storm safely in deep water."
They were safe, but the 4-plus-minute earthquake and the tsunami that followed devastated much of southern Alaska, its fishing fleet and processors. Among the casualties were fishing gear and boats around Kodiak Island, Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound. In Kodiak "fishing boats were picked up and tossed around like pieces of cork. Many are still unaccounted for, with no trace of the men aboard them."
In Seward, eyewitness Robert Lenz described a wall of water and flames engulfing everything. "Docks on the waterfront catapulted into the air and disintegrated into flames. Railroad cars flew through the air, I saw one box car hurtled about a block." The scene is depicted on the cover of National Fisherman in an illustration by Sam Manning.
But amid the stories of destruction, the National Fisherman article, written immediately after the earthquake, was hopeful about the Alaska industry's future. Writer Tom H. Inkster looked back at how after the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco "arose from her ashes to become a magnificent city, with one of the finest harbors in the world.
"We envisage the earthquake area of Alaska arising from the debris, just as did San Francisco to go onward to be — in a few years — more substantial and prosperous than ever. And while the fishing installations of that area are being reborn, the areas below — in Southwestern Alaska — and above — in the Aleutians and Bering Sea — will keep Alaska's great fishing industry moving forward."
It was a good prediction. I saw a reminder of the earthquake in my one trip to Alaska two years ago. The Star of Kodiak, once the World War II liberty ship named the Albert M. Boe, was towed to Kodiak after the canneries were destroyed, as a quick means of getting production back online. It is still part of the Trident Seafoods plant today and a symbol of the tenacity of an industry and its people who continue to move forward.
Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Frank Mirarchi runs his small groundfish dragger, the F/V Barbara L. Peters, out of Scituate, Mass. He is out of quota until the next season begins on May 1, and the free time has allowed him to follow congressional hearings for the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the law overseeing U.S. fisheries.
"I watched with horror the crescendo of voices calling this the 'empty ocean act,'" he said at a workshop on the reauthorization held on Monday at Seafood Expo North America in Boston. "We're not going to have empty oceans. We're going to have empty ports."
The act's inflexibility has been tough for fishermen in places like New England. Mirarchi (he's in the photo above in the green plaid shirt) has been a commercial fisherman for 50 years. He said although the industry will receive $33 million in disaster funding, it may not be enough to save small ports like Scituate. The town has only six draggers left.
"The reality is rusty old boats and burned out people. It's terrible," he said.
The session was part of a series of public workshops put on by the Center for Sustainable Fisheries (CSF) and National Fisherman. CSF is led by former Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Scott Lang, former mayor of New Bedford — the nation's No. 1 port in terms of landings value — and Brian Rothschild, former dean of the School of Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Frank, Lang and Rothschild saw the Magnuson reauthorization as an opportunity to fix arbitrary requirements and the act's failure to balance the needs of fishing communities with sustaining healthy fisheries.
"The fishing industry understands the need for regulations," said Frank. "They don't want fishing to disappear — they want to keep this up."
But some of the act's arbitrary requirements, like the 10-year time line for rebuilding depleted stocks, are making it difficult for fishermen to stay on the water. Frank said when he asked the former head of NOAA Fisheries Jane Lubchenco if the 10-year timeline was scientifically justified, she told him it wasn't, but when he asked if she would consider changing the law, she said no.
"It did not seem to me to make a great deal of sense to have something that arbitrary," he said. "Frankly, that's when I lost confidence in her."
Rothschild said CSF believes the authorization should be based on certain fundamental principles, including maintaining the scientific process, a recognition of flexibility, decision-making from the bottom up and a national discussion that accommodates and builds upon regional differences.
"We have centralized solutions for decentralized problems and they don't work," said Rothschild.
Mirarchi said it would help if the law could be changed immediately to prevent catch limits from fluctuating wildly from one year to the next.
"You can run a business with that kind of volatility, and it is basically breaking down the economic structure of our ports," he said.
The next Magnuson workshop will take place on Tuesday, April 8, in Baton Rouge, La.
Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 13 March 2014
This week a series of public hearings began on proposed Amendment 28, which would reallocate a greater share of Gulf of Mexico red snapper to recreational fishermen. Commercial fishermen and others who support the gulf seafood industry are encouraged to attend a hearing and speak up against the change.
According to a briefing from the Coastal Conservation Association, the move would right a past unfairness that bases anglers' catch on an allocation that was made 30 years ago.
"It's not fair." If you're a parent you've probably heard those three words many times. You'll also know that when the question of fairness comes up, there's no way to settle it so everybody's happy.
But if we're going to argue about fairness, it should apply to all aspects of the fishery, not just allocation. Since 2007, the recreational fishery has gone over quota every year except 2010 (the year of the BP oil spill). Even though its "unfair" share is set at 49 percent, the recreational sector harvested 56 percent of red snapper in 2012, going over its quota by an estimated 440,000 to 880,000 pounds.
Can you imagine what would happen if commercial fishermen overreached their quota by half a million pounds in any fishery anywhere in the United States? My guess is that they would not be granted a bigger share of the quota next year.
Again, take a look at the public hearing schedule and make your voice heard. There may be more recreational fishers than commercial harvesters out there to argue in favor of this change taking place. But the greater seafood and restaurant industry that depends on a well-managed fishery and public who enjoy eating fresh Gulf of Mexico seafood should be fighting against this too.
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Written by Melissa Wood
Thursday, 06 March 2014
Though crowds were thick at the Maine Fishermen's Forum last weekend, in some places they formed an extra tight knot. Chances are that within that cluster you'd find a familiar face. Keith Colburn, captain of the Wizard and star of the reality TV show "Deadliest Catch," was in town.
The story of how he came to be in Maine is interesting in itself. Colburn is an avid cyclist. After a 60-mile trek from Bangor to Port Clyde one day last summer, he was wiped out, but he accepted an invitation for a drink. Inside the bar, forum organizer and fisherman Gerry Cushman recognized Colburn despite spandex and a setting completely out of context for the Alaskan crabber. "Oh my god. I've seen everything now," were Cushman's words according to Colburn.
The recognition led to another invitation, and Colburn spent the night in Cushman's fish house — which is actually an art studio for Cushman's wife. One kindness led to another and Colburn returned to Maine (when the weather isn't quite so nice) to attend the forum in Rockland as a guest speaker. He was nice enough to stop by the National Fisherman booth for a quick interview (and dropped off the signed photo of the Wizard above).
NF: How's this year going for you?
KC: Things are going well for us this year. We're down in red crab, up in opies. There's a 25 percent reduction in opie TAC so that made things a little difficult for us. It's fishing, and it's going to be cyclical.
NF: How's your experience of being on the show?
KC: I've been on the show eight years. I get accosted when I go places. I think it's been totally positive. When the government shut down last fall [Alaska] Sen. [Mark] Begich called me and said, 'Can you guys come down and testify?' [The shutdown delayed the crab season meaning the potential loss of lucrative holiday markets].
NF: What do you think of all the tough guy reality dramas that have followed "Deadliest Catch"?
KC: When it came out it wasn't reality TV. It was a documentary on crab fishing. Crab fishing's not fixed staged or scripted. They [meaning other reality shows] don't deal with 30 foot waves, they don't deal with conditions like this [at this point Colburn shows a photo of a massive chunk of ice that was chipped off the mast — but he wasn't able to share it because the episode hasn't aired] that you can't script. The difference between Deadliest Catch and other shows, you can't make this crap up, what happens to us.
I think the shows are great, if you're documenting what guys do. They come on board and they're not after reality. They're after what's going to sell potato chips.
NF: Why did you decide to do the show in the first place?
KC: I initially wanted to do the show because I had no photographic history of myself as a fisherman. I wanted to chronicle what I did for my kids.
NF: Are you paid?
KC: Are you crazy? You think I wouldn't do it if I wasn't paid? Fishermen's egos end at the dock.
NF: How's your experience been meeting fishermen around the country?
KC: It's positive. Fishermen watch the show. They love it.
Colburn further explained that the real drama of fishing is not some petty argument between crew members, but a mechanical problem. Cameras can't convey that type of drama to a broad audience, but fishermen get it.
Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 04 March 2014
When wooden traps ruled Maine waters, their designs were all over the place. "There as many ways to build a trap as there are lobstermen, but there's only one right way — and that's mine," one Downeast fisherman told National Fisherman in an article from 1984 that's highlighted in our April issue's Back When section on page 4.
That variety was supposed to end 30 years ago when the use of manufactured wire traps quickly spread. The preference for wire is easy to understand. It fishes better. Wire traps are more likely to land upright and don't bounce around on the bottom as much as wooden ones do. Wooden lobster traps were on their way out along with the tradition of lobstermen spending their winters in their basements building oak-lath traps for next season.
You'd think that would be it for wooden traps. But on the cover of the April issue with that item from 30 years ago, there's a wooden trap. The photo of lobstermen hauling up a wooden trap on the 45-foot Persevere was taken last year off Chatham, Mass. If wire traps are clearly better, why are wooden ones still in the water?
I tried to find out more about this while I was at the Maine Fishermen's Forum this weekend. I asked the lobster trap manufacturer at the booth next to ours if he knew of anyone still using wooden traps. From his visits to lobster fisheries on the East and West coasts, he said he knew of only one place where lobstermen held onto the tradition of using wooden traps, Canada's Prince Edward Island. They're traditionalists.
There's more that goes into traps than how well they fish. I watched people come over to inspect his wire traps. Some liked the runners on them, but one woman dismissed them, saying they'd cause the traps to slide all over the place if you stacked them onboard.
One lobsterman I talked to from Massachusetts said he only phased out the last of his wooden traps in the last couple years. He couldn't really tell me why he kept using them for so long. He just did. It reminded me of a conversation I had with a Dungeness crabber on the West Coast. He keeps using his lucky trap — even though it's old and battered and he has new ones that are supposedly better.
You can read more about traps in the April issue's profile of Eddie Heath, also known as Chesapeake Bay's crab pot king. If you work with traps you know there's always something to tinker with. Lately, Heath, who has been making crab pots for 40 years, has been experimenting with color. The most popular for the past few years have been pots in bright greens and yellows, which some crabbers believe help draw crabs toward their pots.
So what did I learn about traps? I'm thinking of looking into this further for a possible story, but I think for most fishermen, the quote from the Down East lobsterman in the 1984 article still rings true. Whatever works best for you is best.
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Written by Melissa Wood
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
I'm not really sure how this happened, but I set out to write a blog about the possible reemergence of sail power, and ended up thinking about the extinction of our species. Thank goodness February is almost over.
I will try to explain. Today I read about a commercial fishing and gear firm from the Shetlands that was awarded a research grant for almost $11,000. The money will help the company move toward its goal of developing a sailing mast system for commercial fishing boats.
Sail Line Fish unveiled the Balpha Mast prototype in 2011. The project began five years ago when gas prices spiked. The collapsible mast is designed to be put in use when conditions are favorable for sailing and without needing extra crew.
There's no overstating the importance of fuel prices on commercial fishing. I've seen fishermen do the gas math, trying to decide whether it's worth the extra cost of steaming farther out. Even if the catch is more abundant, it may be offset by the gas it took to get there.
The Balpha Mast seems to have potential. In a 2011 feasibility study, 17 fishing trips were made covering 136 nautical miles. Of that distance, 33 percent was under sail, reducing fuel consumption by 17.6 percent (taking into account all fuel use, including setting and hauling lines).
The company, which has been funding the research with sales of its own line-caught fish, next plans to design and build a sail-assisted fishing vessel to test and trial the system. Stuart Balfour of Sail Line Fish says it has had interest from fishermen both nearer to home and all around the world, including Malaysia, Dubai, Maldives and Nova Scotia.
We've gone from sails to steam to internal combustion to diesel and now possibly back to sail again. Seeing this shift in technology is fascinating to me. I wouldn't say this is a step backward but that our definition of moving forward has changed. That's pretty monumental when you think about it.
When I'm in a certain mood, I like to read about the collapse of societies and our own inevitable end. Which is why I started thinking about the Fermi paradox. It's the idea that the universe is so vast that intelligent life MUST exist on other planets.
The paradox is why haven't they visited us yet? One theory is advanced societies tend to move in the direction of self destruction — we have the capability of destroying ourselves before we're smart enough to use it wisely.
That's all conjecture, but it's so interesting to think about. At least for now, new technology is reducing our impact on the planet. More importantly, it saves on gas. Check out a video of the Balpha Mast in action below:Add a comment
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National Fisherman Live: 3/10/15
In this episode, Online Editor Leslie Taylor talks with Mike McLouglin, vice president of Dunlop Industrial and Protective Footwear.
National Fisherman Live: 2/24/15
In this episode:
March date set for disaster aid dispersal
Oregon LNG project could disrupt fishing
NOAA tweaks gear marking requirement
N.C. launches first commercial/recreational dock
Spiny lobster traps limits not well received
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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PORTLAND Portland Public Schools Superintendent Carole Smith revealed what she's choosing to cut from a group of North and Northeast Portland campuses Friday.
It s a decision that affects hundreds of students and their families in the Jefferson cluster.
The school district said only about half the students who live in the Jefferson neighborhood actually go to school there.
After months of meetings, the district announced a plan to eventually close Chief Joseph Elementary and merge it with the Ockley Green School.
Upset parents said Chief Joseph is a solution for increasing enrollment, not a school that should be closed.
We have the highest number of students from our neighborhood attending our neighborhood school, said Melissa Frantz. It feels a little bit like being punished for success, and that s probably the hardest pill to swallow.
It has been clear that the issues facing the Jefferson cluster are complex and long-standing. I recognize that PPS itself carries a measure of responsibility for these issues, Smith said in her statement.
The closure of Chief Joseph, however, is just a recommendation at this point. The school board will vote at the end of the month.


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When a nerve impulse reaches the synapse at the end of a neurone, it cannot pass directly to the next one. Instead, it triggers the neurone to release a chemical neurotransmitter. The neurotransmitter drifts across the gap between the two neurones. On reaching the other side, it fits into a tailor-made receptor on the surface of the target neurone, like a key in a lock. This docking process converts the chemical signal back into an electrical nerve impulse.


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Lincoln Center Choral Concert to Benefit UN FAO.
NEW YORK, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- World Culture Open, in collaboration with Open Center, is hosting the 3rd New York International Choral Festival on June 28th at 8 p.m. at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall to raise awareness for the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as funds-all monies from ticket sales and individual contributions will go directly to FAO. The concert is a concerted effort by World Culture Open to highlight and support FAO's tireless efforts in eradicating global poverty and hunger.
Titled "Peace in Harmony," the 3rd New York International Choral Festival will feature a musically rich and culturally diverse repertoire, including the world-renowned gospel ensemble, the Boys Choir of Harlem. Additional concert headliners include the Young People's Chorus of New York City, Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus, Hai-Tien Chorus (China), Sound of Korea, and the Pyongtaek University Chorus (Korea). Tickets are $30, $50, and $100 and can be purchased at Alice Tully Hall's box office at 212.875.5050 or from World Culture Open's headquarters at 212.244.7200. All monies generated from ticket sales and contributions will go directly to the UN-based Food and Agriculture Organization's TeleFood program. Money raised for FAO's TeleFood program pays for small, sustainable projects that help small-scale farmers produce more food for their families and communities. To find out more about UN FAO's TeleFood projects, go to http://www.fao.org/food.
This is World Culture Open's second appearance at Lincoln Center, having hosted the World Culture Open Awards Ceremony at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in 2004 to celebrate the inaugural awarding of three $100,000 Peace Prizes for Arts and Culture. The 2004 Awards Ceremony featured renowned artists Youssou N'Dour from Senegal, Yair Dalal from Israel, Misia from Portugal and Wyclef Jean from Haiti/US.
World Culture Open is an international nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City, celebrating and utilizing humanity's artistic and cultural resources to promote peaceful coexistence between diverse cultures. To find out more information about World Culture Open's international programs, please visit WCO at http://www.worldcultureopen.org/ or call 212.244.7200.
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AUSTIN, Texas The University of Texas School of Law announced today that the friends of Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen,'42, have established an endowed Chair in his name. The Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law will be used to attract and retain outstanding teachers and scholars.
A Chair in Law requires an endowment of at least $1 million, and is the highest honor the Law School can bestow on a member of its faculty.
"We are grateful to all of our friends who helped establish The Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law. And, we are grateful to Lloyd for allowing his name to be associated with this endowed chair. By doing so, he honors us, and we resolve to perpetuate the excellence of character and service that Lloyd has always given to the profession and to our nation," said Dean Bill Powers at a dinner in Houston on Tuesday, honoring Senator Bentsen, his wife, B.A., and all the contributors to the Chair.
Bentsen was one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1971 until his appointment as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1993. He began his career in public service as a Texas county judgethe youngest everand went on to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1988, he was the Democratic Party nominee for vice president of the United States.
Bentsen received his degree from the Law School in 1942, and then volunteered for the Army. He flew combat missions in B-24s from southern Italy with the 449th Bomb Group. At age 23, he was promoted to major and a squadron commander. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, one of the Army Air Corps', and now the Air Force's, highest commendations for valor. He was also awarded the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. The medal and each subsequent cluster represents specific campaigns for which he was decorated. He was promoted to colonel in the Air Force Reserves before completing his military service. After retiring from government service, he joined the firm of Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand as a shareholder in February 1995. In 2001, the Law School honored Senator Bentsen with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the legal profession and his remarkable record of public service to the State and the nation.


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As an advocate on database virtualization, I often challenge customers to consider if they are using their resources in an optimal way.
Goal: for a given process, find out how the SGA was allocated in different locality groups on a system running Solaris operating system.
If you attended Open World, you were present for a historic occasion, not only was this the largest Open World, but the Oracle team also won the America's cup against incredible odds. There are a few lessons we can apply to security. Security, like the America's Cup race, is about latency. Since 2007 the boat speeds have gone from 14 mph to 50 mph with greater control and roughly the same number of crew on-board.
Following the introductory blog post on the topic – ' Stream
your transactions into Big Data Systems', and blog posts on "Streaming Relational Transactions to HDFS and Hive", in this blog post I focus on the
architecture for streaming transactions into HBase.
As shown in the diagram below, integrating database with HBase is accomplished by
developing a custom handler using Oracle GoldenGate's Java API and HBase
A new article, now up on otn/java titled "JavaOne 2013 Review: Java Takes on the Internet of Things," takes a look back at the lively happenings at JavaOne 2013, which reprised the 2012 JavaOne "Make the Future Java" theme. The articles quotes JavaOne keynoter Peter Utzschneider, Vice President, Java Product Management at Oracle, who said, "There is a lot going on in the industry, with massive shifts and innovation happening which pose huge challenges and opportunities for Java."
Constantin Drabo, who set up a JUG in Burkina Faso, sent me some cool screenshots (below) together with this text: "These are screenshots of my plugin for the the R Language for Statistical Computing for NetBeans IDE. It is not very mature right now, I'm working on a palette and code completion, hoping to finish in two weeks."
On Thursday, 10 October, the JCP hosted a Meet the EC Candidates call for Java
Community members. The recording and materials are now available on JCP.org (audio file); all nominee information is available on the JCP.org 2013 EC Nominees page to follow along with the recording.


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Film: Gippi
Cast: Riya Vij, Jayati Modi, Arbaaz Kadwani, Taaha Shah, Doorva Tripathi, Divya Dutta
Director: Sonam Nair
Rating: **1/2
Coming of age is a genre that has been often explored by film makers. That adolescent pre-puberty phase where you look at yourself in the mirror, magnify every single flaw and antagonise about the years to come has been the storyline of many teenage dramas and TV shows.
Sonam Nair's Gippi however is the tale of a 14-year-old girl who is the butt of every joke and is ridiculed for her full figure and lack of being socially popular with her peers.
Gippi is a Shammi Kapoor fan who has his posters on her walls and lives in her own bubble where dancing to the tune of Piya tu ab toh aaja wearing a fur stole will solve every possible problem.
Her school has characters and situations that are inspired from the classic American teen drama Mean Girls and the notorious fashionable telly show Gossip Girls.
Gippi is happy being herself until she has a crush on someone elder to her. From that point onwards, her character goes through a series of events where we watch her talk about periods, explain the term horny to her best friend, decide to contest the school election, stand by her mom who's going through a separation and eventually give that heartwarming big speech that talks about being OK with who you are!
A lot of this is predictable, which takes out the fun from some really well executed scenes. So when Gippi falls off her chair as her class mates giggle and poke fun, or when she struggles to get into that school uniform we know where the film is heading.
Riya Vij as Gippi is extremely likeable and a perfect cast for the lead role. She has this cool vibe which makes her act believable. She's someone who you would want to hang out and spend a day with. The supporting cast especially the kids are fantastic. It is the grownups that drag the film. There are some touching moments that will resonate with a lot of girls her age.
Divya Dutta's smothering act fails because of a weakly written character. The scene where she makes Gippi try on a bra for the first time is awkward not because of the situation, but the lack of chemistry between the mother and daughter. We wish Sonam Nair tried to dig in deep instead of lurking on the periphery and rehashing some already dated plots.
There is something innocent and vulnerable about Gippi that touches a chord, but it is the unnecessary mix and match of clichéd moments and mundane dialogues that prevents the film from rising above the ordinary.


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I recently started digging into design patterns. Generally speaking, I thought the design issues that most of the design patterns solve do not generally occur in Ruby. Most of the design issues were because of datatypes (No dynamic typing and arrays can hold objects belonging to same class at a time etc. and many more.). Being a ruby and ruby on rails developer, I realized that absence of concepts of interfaces, abstract classes, references, pointers etc and presence of concepts like modules, dynamic typing, array with objects of any class together, features like eval really makes life easier for the developers. I also went through the book by Russ Olsen. I however, thought that the book tried to simulate design patterns instead of actually implementing them, reason being, the design issues just do no generally occur in Ruby. Is it that, the Ruby programming language has evolved with time and takes care of the design issues internally making developers concentrate just on the business logic more?
I would like to know views of other Ruby developers on this. Thanks.


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- Release Date: Nov 19, 2013
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Nov 24, 2013While Stick It to the Man! isn't a particularly long title (it may only take you between three to five hours to complete the game's ten chapters) there's loads to observe and listen in on, and dozens of minds per level to explore, leaving you wanting more. I couldn't get enough of it.
Nov 11, 2013It's such a rare treat to find yourself blown away by a game you had no expectations of. I don't want to ruin that feeling for you, so forget everything you just read after hitting the 'buy' button on the store, so you can enjoy the through-the-looking-glass wonderment of SITTM afresh. I can think of only one reason you wouldn't go and play this, and it's that you hate fun.
Nov 12, 2013Stick it to The Man! really is the complete package. Its style feels fully developed, its comedy proves genuinely funny, and its puzzles are actually fun to solve.
Mar 3, 2014A personality-packed puzzlefest that defies categorisation and is one of the funniest games in recent memory. [February 2014, p80]
Nov 11, 2013A brilliantly insane in the brain platform puzzler. An indie gem.
Dec 4, 2013I recommend this game to anyone who loves a good comedy and has a little patience.
Dec 3, 2013There is a lot of fun to be had with this title and is a cracking showcase of how to build on some tried and tested formulas.
Nov 27, 2013The PS3's analog stick isn't the most accurate means of applying stickers and navigating Ray's world.
Nov 13, 2013Stick It to the Man is a great title that oozes charm, intelligence, and humour. It's hard not to recommend, even if it does have very limited replayability. Indeed, once you've worked your way through the campaign and heard all of the dialogue – as great as it is – there's very little left to do.
Nov 13, 2013Stick It To The Man is such a bizarre and brilliant title overall offering an approximate six hour experience that can't really be compared to anything else on PS3 or PS Vita.
Nov 12, 2013It's quirky, it's weird and it's dark - Stick It To The Man is also brilliant and its effortless combination of bizarre humour and tricky puzzles is infectious.
Jan 23, 2014There's a surprising amount of versatility to the characters. [Issue#143, p.117]
Jan 15, 2014All told, its peculiarities make for a fun and well-paced trip into cartoon weirdness with just enough of a Tim Schafer tint to pass the grade.
Dec 11, 2013With a touch more refinement in its platforming and less zeal in its agent-based aggression, Stick it to the Man could have staked a claim as one of the most essential games of the year.
Nov 12, 2013My largest disappointment came in how quickly my adventure came to a close, but given the solid overall experience, I am very interested to see where developer Zoink! goes from here.
Nov 11, 2013Whenever a game can surprise you, it's obviously a good thing. Stick It To The Man definitely does that at points – but, when it's touted as a comedy and the laughs don't come in thick and fast, disappointment follows.
Nov 11, 2013This is a dark, thoroughly ridiculous world you're visiting, but it's an inviting one, and its odd sense of humor, semi-absurd puzzles, and delightful action grab your attention and hold it.
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 58 Ratings
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Positive: 5 out of 7
Mixed: 1 out of 7
Negative: 1 out of 7
Dec 30, 2013ray in this game with a giant pink spaghetti arm. he gets mega pwoers and using his stick cut and scissors paste he mst defeat evil in theray in this game with a giant pink spaghetti arm. he gets mega pwoers and using his stick cut and scissors paste he mst defeat evil in the land of paper.… Full Review »
Jun 25, 2014The game is a lot of fetch quests, with some platforming, kind of like a dumbed-down spiderman game.
The art and animation are both great,The game is a lot of fetch quests, with some platforming, kind of like a dumbed-down spiderman game.
The art and animation are both great, unique and charming. The humour is funny, but some dialogs are long, and some become repetitive.
The level design is good but sometimes the fixed camera in certain areas are not exactly ideal and can cause confusion. For example, sometimes there's a floor below you but the camera won't let you see it so you don't know where to go next.
Cutscenes trigger too suddenly, and you can't listen to dialog while moving, making it hard to listen to all the possible dialogs.… Full Review »
May 19, 2014Awesome game that will have you entertain for about 4 or 5 hours but during those few hours you will enjoy it. The cartoon animation makesAwesome game that will have you entertain for about 4 or 5 hours but during those few hours you will enjoy it. The cartoon animation makes this game very welcoming. The game is very entertaining and fun.… Full Review »


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Flip Out Wooden Turner
Express yourself with these fun wooden kitchen tools that have witty sayings printed on the handle. "Flip out"; turner is perfect for tossing pancakes, flipping fried eggs, turning burgers and more.
- Material: Beech
- Care: Hand wash only
- Dimensions: 12"
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