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Explore the historic community of Union with our shopping shuttle service for guests from our property to the Union City Market and nearby stores. Shuttle leaves Resort entrance every half hour between 11AM-3PM on Saturdays and Sundays with stops at Union City Market and Cameo Boutique every half hour, Complimentary to hotel guests
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Walking hand in hand, you see an eagle soar overhead. You stop to skip stones across the water. Four, five, six skips. A perfect moment suspended in time. A story for dinner. This is the place where memories are made, where families come back year after year. Like having your own waterfront cottage, only better. Cartwheels on the grass. A game of badminton at sunset. Leather couches and a glass of Washington state Syrah. The sweet succulent bite of fresh oysters. Rooms that make you say "wow" when you open the door. Can this hotel be only two hours from Seattle? It can. Welcome to Alderbrook Resort & Spa.
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Upcoming Events
Canal Cinema: Morris From America
Dragonfly Cinema has partnered with Union City Market to create a nostalgic, monthly celebration of Hood Canal charm. Movies will be offered the 1st Thursday of every month and will be shown inside a historic marina. Cost is $10 per person for cinema enthusiasts of all ages. Tickets can be purchased online via Brown Paper Tickets, at Union City Market or by calling 360.898.3500 or at the register the day of the show. Food and drink will be available for purchase at Union City Market. Outside food and drink will not be permitted. $10 per person, Located at Union City Market
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Full Moon Yoga
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Way too many to name.
Castlevania CoM
Castlevania HoD (most hated among the 3 titles but happens to be my favorite.)
Castlevania AoS
Lilo & Stich
Lilo & Stich 2 (Metal Slug clone, both are fun)
Drill Dozer
Sigma Star Saga
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland
Kirby & The Magical Mirror
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Shaman King
Shaman King 2 (both play and feel like Castlevania, Stay away from the Card game ver.)
Megaman Zero
Megaman Zero 2
Megaman Zero 3
Megaman Zero 4
Megaman and Bass
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 2
Donkey Kong 3 (If you haven't played them on snes of course)
Zelda The Minish Cap
Zelda A Link to the Past
Mario Advance
Mario Advance 2
Mario Advance 3
Mario Advance 4 (Same as DK)
Scurge Hive
Ninja Turtles
Ninja Turltes 2 (The cartoon looking ones, feels abit like Vania)
Double Dragon
Final Fight One
River City Random EX
I'll stop here, I can post my whole collection if you'd like. They're all games I'd recommend.
Why don't you go take a jog? Better yet, go kick some rocks.
Let me guess you have a blog, follow trends like it's your job.
Oh wow. Thanks for the VERY thorough answer! I've played a few on the list and had a decent collection myself before i went to college. a few years ago. Sadly most the games got sold in a yard sale after I left, so I've been using an emulator until lately. A friend gave me his GBA where the A and B buttons were unresponsive, so I had a friend replace the pads and it' s great now. Right now I basically have Pokemon Silver and Zelda: Link's Awakening haha. (I know, those are GBC.) I might try the roms first before I buy them, but I'll definitely be going through the list.
Also, if you haven't player Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga yet, I'd recommend that. Possibly Lufia: The Ruins of Lore as well, though I'm not too familiar with it. The GBA Crash Bandicoot games are okay as well, though not as good as the PS1 ones.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Harvest Moon:FOMT
Summon Night 1-2
Mega Man Battle Network 1-6
Shining Soul 1-2
Klonoa 1-2
Astro Boy:Omega Factor
Breath of Fire 1-2
Boktai 1-2
Tactics Ogre - the Knight of Lodis
Ninja Five-0
Mario Vs.Donkey Kong
Give us a ring when your done,this is far from over ;)
Take the 3D Take the Touch screen Take the WI-FI Take the camera Take the Menu Take the MP3
Just make sure you leave me with the epicness which is pure gaming!
Ragnarokxv 3 years ago#6
Just buy Castlevania Aria of Sorrow and you now own the best GBA game.
Did I say that, or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me??
sketchturner 3 years ago#7
Advance Wars
Chu Chu Rocket
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
Mario vs Donkey Kong
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Rainbow Six:Rogue Spear
Now Playing:Blackthorne, Divide:Enemies Within, Metal Gear Solid, Pandora's Tower, Sheep Raider, TimeSplitters 2
Castlevania Aria of Sorrow
Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2
Golden Sun and The Lost Age
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror
Konami's Crazy Racers
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap and A Link to the Past
Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World
Megaman Zero Games
Megaman and Bass
Metroid Fusion
Spyro The Eternal Night
Pokémon Leaf Green
Pokémon Sapphire
Pokémon Pinball
majin_shinsa 3 years ago#9
well it looks like any game i could have added have already been...
Murder and Mayhem await!
Only three things are infinite: the universe, human stupidity, and the amount of Zubats in any cave - Albert Einstein
Of the games I have played and memorized:
-Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls (just for 1)
-Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
-Metroid Fusion
-Metroid: Zero Mission
-Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (you didn't think my list was going to be in alphabetical order, did you?)
-all of the Super Mario Advance games
-Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls (just for 1; 2 isn't good...at all)
-Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls
-Final Fantasy Tactics
-all of the other Final Fantasy games
-Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls (just for 1)
-Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls
-Golden Sun
-Samurai Jack and the Amulet of Time
-The Urbz (if you like the Sims...or just like having games where you can have enough money to compensate for reality)
-The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
-The Legend of Zelda: the Minish Cap
-Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls (just for 1; Final Fantasy 1 is one of the best games ever, period)
I think I'm indecisive, but I'm not sure.
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Aquaculture in Saudi Arabia dates back to the early 1980s when Nile tilapia was reared in inland water bodies. The sector started to move toward shrimp aquaculture - giant tiger prawn first and Indian white shrimp after. The disease-hit with native species led to a Kingdom-wide crop holiday and meanwhile partial switch-over to Asian seabass in shrimp ponds. Ministry recognized the need for a new candidate species to lead the industry and after cumulative due diligent study, analytical discussions, factual and objective evaluation with Scientific peers and industry experts took the lead and embraced Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) Vannamei for commercial scale farming.
Whereas the bulk of freshwater aquaculture production is consumed locally, the shrimp production is exported in many countries like Japan, European and North American markets, once the domestic demand has been satisfied. There has been a rapid development of aquaculture in the last 5 years, as perceived from the rapid increase in the number of fish farms during this period. The development is towards increased production of whiteleg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) and diversification towards the culture of marine fish species. This trend is expected to continue in the coming years. 23 870 tonnes of total aquacultured production for the Kingdom was recorded in 2014 wherein the share of shrimp, freshwater fish and marine fish were 54.38 percent, 20.23 percent and 25.38 percent respectively.
In Saudi Arabia aquaculture has been practiced for the last three decades. During 1970 the Ministry of Agriculture (and Water) in cooperation with FAO and the White Fish Authority (WFA) of the United Kingdom made specific studies on the potential of aquaculture development providing a list of potential species suitable in fresh and marine waters in the Kingdom. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) established a tilapia and common carp hatchery in Riyadh in 1980. Since then a substantial number of fingerlings were produced and distributed to fish farmers. To promote marine aquaculture, the Jeddah Fisheries Research Centre (JFRC). Erstwhile, the Fish Farming Centre in cooperation with FAO was established in 1982, in the north of Jeddah. JFRC has reached several notable and valuable results in its research activities. It provides farmers with seawater sabaki tilapia (Oreochromis spilurus) tilapia fry and Asian seabass fingerlings to farmers. Its results are continuously disseminated to investors interested in establishing aquaculture farms across the country.
Principled aquaculture amongst farmers thus began during the early 1980s when some farmers started culturing tilapia in freshwater bodies in inland areas. Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) has been the major fish produced in aquaculture until 2000 when shrimp began to be produced in large quantities. Initially, the activities on shrimp culture were mainly on giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) where the breeding and culture technologies developed in Southeast Asia were brought to Saudi Arabia. However, because of the high saline waters around the country, P. monodon culture was not successful. Instead, it was replaced by the Indian white shrimp (Penaeus indicus), which was found to survive and grow well in the high saline waters around the country. Indications of a viral disease led to the closure of all shrimp farming projects and the industry had a renaissance, recovery and revival with SPF Vannamei sourcing from specialised facilities in the Americas. Special attention has been directed at boosting a Biosecure commercial aquaculture production now. The Ministry of Agriculture strongly supports and encourages investment by facilitating the acquisition of project land and water under concession, as well as providing favourable loans. Experimental and show-case aquaculture projects have been established by the authorities to encourage local and foreign investments. Feasibility studies concerning aquaculture operations demonstrated the economic importance of investing in different aspects of this sector.
The Ministry of Agriculture is especially focused on the activities and development of the aquaculture sector, so as to meet local needs and for the purpose of exports from such an important source of animal protein. Aquaculture projects in Saudi Arabia are either inland projects, established within agriculture projects or close to them, or coastal projects located along the Red Sea coast. The Department of Aquaculture is responsible for issuing licenses, for setting-up operations for aquaculture projects after the evaluation of due feasibility studies.
The first aquaculture farm in Saudi Arabia was established a little over two decades ago when the first license to operate this kind of business venture was granted in 1983. During this time, freshwater aquaculture was the main activity producing largely Tilapia. There were less than 20 fish farms in Saudi Arabia during the 80s until the early 90s. The number of fish farms increased significantly to 109 in 2002 (Statistical Indicators for Fisheries in Saudi Arabia, 2002) and more than doubled in just 2 years to 227 in 2008 (Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics, 2008). Licensing count swelled thereafter in recent years with focus onto cagefish farming also.
From a mainly freshwater aquaculture-oriented activity, it became a highly successful marine aquaculture venture dominated by only two aquaculture commodities, Tilapia for freshwater and white shrimp for marine aquaculture. After a total dependence on these two aquaculture species, farmers have now started to diversify their aquaculture operations into marine fish culturealong the Northern Red sea. Recirculation systems for finfish being is now prevalent among few producers but not with majority of farmers and still in the incipient stages.
A marine fish cage culture industry is emerging within the territorial waters of the Kingdom with several projects and associated land-based hatchery facilities under current development. Furthermore, there is evidence of a growing interest among both national and foreign entrepreneurs to invest in this sector as a result of pristine waters and the vicinity of attractive markets. In view of this there is the opportunity to properly plan the development of this new sector in a responsible and sustainable manner, reducing potential and future conflicts and improving long-term socio-economic and environmental sustainability of this emerging industry (ADF, 2011).
Mainly the Indian white prawn, P. indicus, is present in the waters around Saudi Arabia and is tolerant to high water salinity. Because of its capability to breed and grow well in high saline waters, this species was found to be the best shrimp species suitable for aquaculture in the country. JFRC (formerly FFC) developed and demonstrated the successful culture of the Indian white shrimp Penaeus indicus under hypersaline conditions of the Red Sea. The domesticated strains are now maintained, while for gene pool expansion, the Center cultured a cross between wild breeders and FFC's domesticated breeders. FFC has remained the most important source of Red Sea strain domesticated broodstocks in the Kingdom, and it has distributed these breeders to shrimp farmers, and provided the impetus for the development of the commercial shrimp industry in the Country. The Ministry has planned a program now to purify the indicus broodstock, already bred for more than two decades at JFRC. Expert assistance will be sought to assess the level of genetic variability available in the existing domestic Penaeus indicus population (for more than two decades under continual selection). Detecting any feeble heterozygosity reduction in domestic JFRC indicus stocks and evaluate if it is beneficially higher than in the wild gene pool of eastern Red sea is warranted. After a recent three years of whitespot disease problems with Penaeus indicus, the Kingdom switched to Penaeus vannamei in 2014 because of the availability of specific pathogen free Penaeus vannamei broodstock from certified central agencies in the Americas. 12 980 tonnes of shrimp were produced in the Kingdom during the year, 2014. The Ministry has defined a stringent biosecurity concerning the three spheres -the host, the environment and the pathogens keeping them from intersecting by either controlling environmental variables, securing all pathways of pathogen introduction, or simply keeping populations low at 50 individuals/ sq.metre.
Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is the main freshwater fish cultured in the country with present production of 2 276 tonnes or about 20 percent of the total aquaculture production in 2004 (Fisheries Statistics, 2006). These are mainly cultured in inland waters, where freshwater is also used for agricultural crops irrigation. In the last 10 years, sabaki tilapia Oreochromis spilurus, a salt tolerant strain of tilapia was introduced from Kenya. This species is now bred and cultured in high saline waters of the Red Sea. The present production of O. spilurus is still very minimal at about 1 percent of the total aquaculture production in 2004 (Fisheries Statistics, 2008) and 1.5 percent in 2014. A Ministry of Agriculture study on 2014 cultured production evaluation of this marine species scored 370 tonnes which was 5.9 percent of the total tilapia production in the Kingdom. Freshwater tilapia production in 2014 was over 20 percent of the total aquaculture production for the year 2014.
The freshwater tilapia species which showed potential for aquaculture in Saudi Arabia were sabaki tilapia O. niloticus, blue tilapia O. aureus, and Mozambique tilapia O. mossambicus. Also for seawater tilapia species O. spilurus were cultured. Technique of freshwater tilapia culture was initially introduced from Taiwan. Tilapia farm sizes ranged from 3 000 to 50 000 m². Concrete and fibre glass tanks of different sizes and shapes are in use. The depth of these tanks ranges from 0.8 m to 1.50 m. Groundwater is used. The production method is mixed sex tilapia in a three phase system of brood, nursery and growout in separate tanks. The production varies from 5 kg/m³ to 20 kg/m³ in well managed farms where intensive aeration is provided and a large volume of water is used. The feeds are available in powder, crumble and pellet at reasonable prices. The feed conversion ratio ranges between 2 to 2.5. Farm raised tilapia weighing 200 g and above is marketed. KACST has established two research centres at Dirab, Riyadh and at Al-Qassim to carry out the research projects for culturing Nile tilapia for freshwater farming. More than 40 inland freshwater aquaculture farms using intensive system are involved in tilapia production. Aquaculture in 1986 constituted less than 1 percent of fish production in Saudi Arabia but has grown to 20 percent in 2005 and to about 25 percent in 2008. During the five years period of 2004 to 2008 production of tilapias grew from 2 276 tonnes reaching 3 673 respectively. 2014 assessments for tilapia cultured production stood at 6 291 tonnes of which 94.1 percent attributed to freshwater tilapia and the rest being marine tilapia species.
Other species
Research at the JFRC in earlier days demonstrated the successful broodstock management of the local Hamoors (Malabar grouper Epinephelus malabaricus, brown-marbled grouper E. fuscoguttatus, and camouflage grouper E. polyphekadion), hatchery and nursery. Growout to marketable sizes greater than 500g in ponds, tanks, pens and cages has also been shown feasible. During 2014, in the Kingdom, 140 tonnes of grouper were farmed through aquaculture practices. The other marine fish is the marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus), known locally as safi or sigan, which has been identified as one of the local species with commercial potential in the Kingdom, having a big demand in the local market. Techniques are also available to produce hatchery-reared fry, and good results have been obtained with growout culture in tanks, net pens and cages, where they can reach marketable size in 6 months using artificial feed. During the year 2014 were produced in the Kingdom 50 tonnes of rabbit fish. JFRC also succeeded in developing and demonstrating domestication and full-cycle culture of the Asian seabass or barramundi (Lates calcarifer) also in hypersaline water. The culture of Asian seabass is now in the process of being adopted by several marine fish farms. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, were produced 2 525 tonnes of Asian seabass during 2014. Technologies for production of the above marine fishes in land-based tanks, ponds and floating sea cages are indeed available, with offshore cages showing better promise for commercial production. Some near shore islands in the Red Sea offer protected sites for sea cages, but many sites in the open sea are also available for offshore cage culture along Central to Northern Red sea as answered by GIS mapping techniques. Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) though considered an exotic species was bioinvasive in the Red Sea vicinity of the opened Suez Canal and established successful populations in this new ecotype and ecoclimatic conditions. However, Ministry imported fingerlings of gilthead seabream under strict biosecurity standards subjecting them to quarantine and after careful post-import behavioural evaluation were accessed for the private sector farming practices. Hatchery technology for gilthead seabream within the Kingdom is in its infancy and is under maiden trials with private sector with advances in broodstock management, systems design, nutrition, and disease management, and unit productivity through controlled Recirculation Aquaculture Systems (RAS). Ongrowing technology for gilthead seabream in the northern Red sea mirrors that of the tri-decadal Mediterranean experiences. Northern Red Sea has warmer winter growing temperatures than Mediterranean region thus accelerating the effective growth rates. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were produced 1 685 tonnes of gilthead seabream in 2014.
The first caviar-producing project started by Dammam Abdallah Al Faris Group is based on inland recirculating aquaculture system by Cimbria aquatic of Denmark. This project started with ambitious plan to produce sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, A. baerii and crossbreeds) meat and Ossetra caviar. Initial production target is 5 tons per year Ossetra caviar and 200 tons of sturgeon meat. Actual production levels in 2014 for Sturgeon in the Kingdom stood at 35 tonnes as per Ministry of Agriculture estimates.
Studies on the higher-priced Plectropomus spp. (locally known as taradi and najil) are in the early stages at the Jeddah Fisheries Research Centre. Limited success has also been achieved in the hatchery of taradi (Plectropomus areolatus) and roving coralgrouper P. pessuliferus for the first time ever in the Kingdom and elsewhere, fingerlings were successfully produced and have been shown to feed and grow using artificial pelleted feed. Larval culture techniques are still being established but these recent results show great promise. Catfish production in the Kingdom through aquaculture showed 104 tonnes of farmed produce in the year, 2014.
Future focus onto economically significant species like golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus), mangrove red snapper (Lutjanus argentimaculatus), snubnose pompano (Trachinotus blochi), spangled emperor (Lethrinus nebulosus), greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) and meagre (Argyrosomus regius) need comprehensive research for future development of breeding and farming expertise alongwith deciphering the nutritional requirements at different growth stages.
Tilapia farms employ the semi-intensive culture system. Most of the farms produced their own fry and fingerlings for stocking in growout ponds or tanks. The main source of water is from a well. Water is changed once a week and waste pond water is recycled after staying for some time in a settling pond. During the exchange of water, 50 percent of new well water and recycled water is introduced. Artificial feeds from commercial feed companies are used and some farmers produced their own feeds. Similarly for shrimp culture, the semi-intensive method is largely used. The size of the culture ponds is large, ranging from 1 hectare to 10 hectares per compartment. Stocking density in growout ponds ranges from 15-25 pcs/m3. Approximately, 15-20 percent of water is changed daily.
The graph below shows total aquaculture production in Saudi Arabia according to FAO statistics:
The majority of fish production in freshwater systems, mainly tilapia and catfish, are sold in the domestic market either live or in fresh form. The local marketing chain is very well established. Selling is done by whole sale in the farm site and the products are distributed to a chain of retail shops around the country.
Although fish is not truly a staple of the Saudi diet, demand for fresh fish is climbing up. Annual fish consumption per capita increased from 3 kg in 1977 to 6.5 kg in 1998 and touching around 8 kg in 2007. In 2010 per capita supply is just 11.5 kilograms in the Kingdom. (FAO, 2012).
Investing in fish production is one of the best opportunities for any company since seafood products may be of high-value, and have high demand both in the export market and locally by both Saudi nationals and expatriates. Loans are provided to farmers by the Saudi Arabian Agricultural Bank for the development of aquaculture projects, purchase of many production requirements, equipment and other facilities. Such loans are normally with very low interest, and depending on the category (short-term, medium- term, long-term), the loans are payable within a period of up to 25 years. On the other hand, the Industrial Development Fund provides loans for the food industry, and aquaculture investors may utilize these loans for value-added aquaculture product processing. No excise duty is imposed for the import of farm equipment, fish feeds, instruments and chemicals related to the farming activities. While capital investment in aquaculture may be high, return on investment is usually high and payback period is short if properly planned, constructed, equipped and operated.
The government of Saudi Arabia has embarked on an ambitious reform program to encourage greater participation by the private sector in economic development. Steps have been taken to implement genuine reform aimed at creating a more open and competitive economy. Furthermore, the Kingdom has eased the regulations governing freeing investment by endorsing the Foreign Investment law. Under this law, investment projects, including aquaculture, can be either fully-owned by foreign investors or owned jointly by Saudi and foreign investors. Foreign investors do not need a Saudi sponsor to establish a project in the Kingdom. Licensed firms will sponsor the investor and his expatriate employees, and will have the right to own the projects' land, buildings and housing complexes for its employees, and enjoy all the benefits and incentives offered to a national firm. An investor shall also have the right to transfer his share of profits outside the Kingdom as well as his entire share if the project is sold. These reforms are a forward drive to encourage foreign investors. The Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority will provide foreign investors all that they need to start projects in the Kingdom. There is an Investors Service Center, which is a one-stop shop where applications for license may be finalized within 30 days. If this period lapses without a decision taken on the application, the license will be issued to the investor. As additional incentive, the government would bear 15 percent of corporate tax imposed on foreign companies that have an annual profit of more than SAR 100 000 (USD 26 664); the companies can transfer losses to following years, and loss-making companies will get tax exemption until they improve their financial performance. Several other positive considerations to invest in Saudi Arabia include:
Seeing the potential of aquaculture as a means to provide food fish for the local people, the government established research centers to strengthening the development of the sector. These research centers are the Fish Farming Center in Jeddah, Fisheries Research Center in the Eastern Province and Fisheries Research Center in the Red Sea. Soon to be operational are the Fish Health and Safety Laboratories in Jeddah and Dammam. There are a number of universities that are offering courses on Fisheries and Aquaculture and the graduates from these universities find their way to work in the different research centers and the private farms around the country.
At present, aquaculture research and training is done mainly in the Jeddah Fisheries Research Center (JFRC) in Jeddah. The focus of research in JFRC is mainly on marine fish species. Very little aquaculture research is done elsewhere in the country. Grants for scientific research studies come mainly from the government and is administered by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). There is no vocational training on aquaculture in technical or vocational colleges except for the fish farm of King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Obhur under the Faculty of Marine Science. There is a dedicated graduate training for aquaculture at King Faisal and King Abdulaziz Universities. However there is an apparent lack of segment-focused technique-oriented vocational training opportunities for Saudis wanting to work in aquaculture. Companies are directing their staff for in-house short term training or on-the-job training. There is a need for capacity building in this area with the development of vocational training courses and materials in management, laboratory and technical skills (ADF, 2011). Under technical agreement with National Aquaculture Group (NAQUA), industry-linked problems, needs and requirements are experimented under field trials on pilot scale in the KAU aquaculture facilities for translating the solutions to commercial ponds for reproducibility of results. FAO in the current year-program (2011-2016) has conducted several aquaculture-based training workshops to improve capacities of the national technicians on these subjects.
Fisheries Research Centers
The Deputy Minister of Fisheries Affairs supervises several fisheries research centers in Saudi Arabia. These centers provide technical and extension services to the local aquaculture projects based on scientific and research studies. The research centers are:
The Jeddah Fisheries Research Centre in Jeddah was established in 1982, under an agreement between FAO and the Saudi Arabian government. The main targets of the centre are to focus on research and development programmes for marine fish and shrimp species suitable for fish farming operations, transfer and application of recent aquaculture techniques and training programmes. The centre lies on the Saudi Arabian Red Sea coast, 60 km north of Jeddah. It has been carefully selected to fit the establishment of models for different fish farming systems, e.g. cages, pens and ponds, as well as, other accessory facilities. The centre has the following objectives:
Thus, the prospects for the farming of shrimp and fishes, particularly groupers and marine fish species, appear very bright. As with other commercial ventures, continuing research and development of cost-effective techniques to enhance production as well as to screen local species for future development are necessary, and are presently being addressed. The Red Sea coast has high potential for coastal and offshore fish farming. Coastal intertidal zone aquaculture is in the progressive stages of development.
R&D studies related to culture of local species, larval rearing, genetic improvement, aquaculture-agriculture integration, polyculture, organic farming, and low-cost feed formulation, disease control etc are essential segments today (Kitto and Regunathan, 2012). Issues like harmful algal blooms, biotoxins, episodic pollutants, global warming related issues etc. also deserve much attention. New driving forces are redefining the Saudi seafood consumer interests. Promoting subsistence farming is a must for Saudi coastal fish workers. Boundless growth of whiteleg shrimp farming is apparent today but without a domestic breeding program for the Kingdom. Greater recognition of traditional aquaculture fish like Sabhaki tilapia is needed in the Kingdom to sustain the poor farmers through biofloc approaches and sustainably higher yield per unit volume. Jeddah Fisheries Research Center is now preparing the protocols with FAO Consultant inputs for growing shrimp with lesser waste outputs by cleaning shrimp pond while under culture through biofloc culture systems.
Saudi Arabia has considerable development potential for expanding coastal aquaculture - it has long coastlines with relatively few alternative economic uses, a range of water temperature regimes for culturing a mixture of fish and shrimp species, cheap energy and (albeit rising) labor costs and access to strong national, regional and international markets. Led by a number of pioneering Saudi companies, this potential is beginning to be realized. However there are a number of barriers and threats to this expansion. The predominant concern is the complicated and unpredictable planning and land allocation process which is a major disincentive to would-be investors in coastal aquaculture. This situation is exacerbated by uncertain jurisdictional boundaries and inter-sectoral competition and disputed user conflicts amongst permitting agencies. The situation offshore for cage farming is similar but lacks even the most basic development framework for sea area permitting which FAO has started filling this gap. At a technical level, there are also issues over the availability of specific and optimized feeds for the growing number of finfish species being considered for culture, difficulties in commercializing culture technologies for indigenous species with proven local markets and a lack of commercially-proven hatchery, nursery and growout technologies. This is compounded by the lack of graduate and vocational training opportunities in this increasingly complex subject for young Saudi resourcive manpower (ADF, 2011)
The Kingdom still has tremendous potential for coastal as well as inland aquaculture development. Surveys conducted by the country's Department of Aquaculture have shown the availability of many suitable coastal areas for marine farming operations. The Kingdom's natural resources (highly suitable environment with unpolluted water, favorable climate, large areas of suitable land; in addition, there is no mangrove destruction) and well-established infrastructure (good road networks, airports, sea ports, communication system), together with the government's full support (from MOA and other related government agencies; e.g., long-term lease of land at very low rent, long-term at zero interest loan by the Agriculture Bank, grants for work permits, investment incentives) and the availability of established technology are all contributing to the success of aquaculture in the Kingdom. The country will still more pursue the aquaculture of other unconventional locally now found species of fish (sherry, pompano, meagre, sobaity) algae (Dunaliella) and seaweeds (Ulva, Gracilaria), crustaceans (P. vannamei) and Mollusks (Oysters). At present, the Kingdom is in the process of revising the legal framework to regulate the aquaculture industry. Very recently, aquaculture practitioners adopted a Code of Conduct and Practices for Responsible Aquaculture in Saudi Arabia, which is in the process of being finalized for implementation. The Kingdom advocates responsible and sustainable aquaculture projects that are environment-friendly, socially acceptable, and technically and economically viable. Greater participation by the private sector is encouraged, and aquaculture investments can be either fully-owned by foreign investors or owned jointly by Saudi and foreign investors.
Offshore aquaculture is the frontier ahead for redefining Oceanic property in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Fish are one of the few naturally occurring sources of meat available from the Arabian Peninsula. With natural resources under careful stewardship and production increased through innovative aquaculture, it will be possible to reverse the current dependence upon imported seafood and thus increase the food security of the Kingdom (ADF, 2011).
Aquaculture of microalgae for pigments and algaemeal to replace fishmeal and their relative downstream processing forms a lucrative part of the sector (ADF, 2012). ADF speculates the 27 500 tonnes aquaculture production in 2009 is expected to touch 770 000 tonnes by 2024.
During the last four decades, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has witnessed rapid urban, industrial and agricultural growth. Diversification of the predominantly oil-based economy into other sectors as the core of the government's approach in recent years is well-evident and manifested. Unlike other Asian countries where there is a directed development approach to benefit smallholders, in Saudi Arabia it had been purely a private sector initiative involving large companies (Kitto, 2013). The Kingdom is currently oriented towards the development of small-scale aquaculture for providing a much needed boost to poorer coastal economies in Saudi Arabia.
In the future, producing seafood in Saudi Arabia through aquaculture practices and diversification is vital for the Kingdom in the new millennium.
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The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nationby Sally Jenkins
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Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike.
If you'd guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you'd be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle's first students.
Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played.
Sally Jenkins gives this story of unlikely champions a breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim Thorpe kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D. Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious rise of Coach Glenn "Pop" Warner as well as his unexpected fall from grace.
The Real All Americans is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our differences and embrace a common purpose.
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Adult/High School -Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner may be familiar names, but it's unlikely that teens have heard of U.S. Army Captain Richard Henry Pratt or the Sioux leader American Horse. Jenkins introduces readers to these figures and others in her vivid social history of the decline of American Indian culture and the development of college football. Her lively writing features unbiased descriptions of major historical figures, thumbnail sketches of minor personalities, and cameos by Mark Twain and President Eisenhower. The book opens with familiar events-the battles between Native Americans and U.S. Army soldiers over Western territories and the abysmal treatment Native American tribes received at the hands of the government. Less widely known is Captain Pratt's dream of providing educational opportunities for Indians and his founding of the Carlisle Indian Training School in Pennsylvania. Jenkins's strength is in her sports writing; the most compelling sections of the book are descriptions of the Indians at Carlisle inventing new plays and prevailing against all odds in pivotal games against Harvard and West Point. The volume is enhanced by an eight-page spread of black-and-white photos with detailed captions. All Americans is a history book of heartbreaking stories that will appeal to teens interested in football or Native American history; it also has value as a narrative nonfiction supplement to the U.S. history curriculum.-Sondra VanderPloeg, Tracy Memorial Library, New London, NHCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
—Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL
A fascinating historical account and an implicit commentary on modern sports." —Wall Street Journal
"[The Real All Americans] does a marvelous job of making a direct and intimate connection between our beloved, modern game and the unlikely team that, a century ago, helped make it what it is today." —Newsweek
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Chapter 1: The Real Field
December 21, 1866, Dakota Territory
The hillside on which the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho were about to make such a grisly fool of Lieutenant Colonel William J. Fetterman was dun–colored and bare, with no cover save for some broken rocks that looked as if they had been thrown down by a short–tempered God. There was just one other visible thing on the expanse, the faint double track of the Bozeman Trail, heading off into the immensity that would become Wyoming. The trail sketched westward along a ridge, ragged but decipherable, its ruts worn into the ground by a succession of iron–rimmed wheels bearing the weight of American ambition.
Fetterman and his command of eighty men pushed over the hill and fanned out, barely holding their formation as they chased a handful of Lakota warriors mounted on ponies just ahead, baiting them. The impatient cavalrymen surged forward on their chesty Army horses. Infantrymen grabbed at their stirrups and ran along, trying to keep up.
The braves drawing the soldiers on had been chosen to lead the attack for their exceptional bravery and fighting skills. One of them was Crazy Horse, not yet famous. Another was a patrician twentysix–year–old Oglala–Lakota named American Horse, a burgeoning leader who was participating in one of the many conflicts with whites that would engage him for the rest of his life. (1)
American Horse and his fellow decoys beckoned the soldiers with a variety of ruses. They galloped back and forth on ponies, screeching insults and firing occasional shots. They waved blankets at the cavalry horses, hoping to frighten them into bolting. Every now and then, one of the Indians would appear to tire. He would slow and walk his pony, seeming fatigued. This was another feint, perhaps the most tempting of all. The bluecoats hurried after them, down the Bozeman Trail.
Below, hidden in hollows and gullies on either side of the trail, fully two thousand Oglala, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors awaited the soldiers. They crouched in long grasses, wallows, and swales, holding the lariats of their ponies. Strapped to their bodies were a variety of knives, hatchets, bows, and brilliantly painted shields. They clenched war clubs made of rough triangular rocks bound to heavy wood handles. A few of them had rifles, but mainly they carried bows and arrows, thousands of arrows. (2)
The isolation and the unfamiliarity of the ground should have made Fetterman pause. The geography of the Dakota Territory alone was forbidding. It was just that–territory, not a state or a county, but an indistinct region where the Gilded Age stopped. It was a sunburned and epic American Serengeti, a series of rolling mounds and weather–tortured prairie ridges that stretched as far as the eye could see, covered by scorched hay–colored grasses, only occasionally interrupted by weird rock outcroppings and misshapen trees. Out here, the world was still large and mysterious; not everything had been discovered, surveyed, charted, explained, and blueprinted.
It was a magnificent setting, but an austere one, and it provoked deep apprehension in one Army wife. The country was pervaded by "an almost overpowering sense of stillness," wrote Frances Grummond, whose husband, George, was a cavalry lieutenant riding with Fetterman, "especially at night when conversation could be heard and understood at a long distance." Frances had felt a deep sense of dread since her arrival just a few months earlier. Every cloud seemed to dim the entire landscape; every crack of a rifle in the night seemed to explode right by her bed. "Every sound exacted attention." (3)
The post that Fetterman and his men had ridden out from, Fort Phil Kearny, was hardly a stronghold. Rather, it was an unfinished, frighteningly remote stockade of newly hewn logs, just six months old, and it sat squarely alone in the middle of a six–hundred–mile tract of Lakota country. It was undermanned and underarmed, with just 640 troops, most of them inexperienced recruits. The nearest reinforcements could be summoned only with a four–day, death–defying gallop to Fort Laramie.
Fort Phil Kearny had been built in this forsaken locale to protect the Bozeman Trail, the hazardous new shortcut to the gold fields of Montana, forged by prospector John M. Bozeman in 1864 right through the heart of the Powder River country and Lakota hunting grounds. In just two years, the trail had become an enormously popular route west, with thousands of emigrants trekking along it, homesteaders bound for Oregon, gold seekers, fortune hunters, ranchers, farmers, and trappers. They all clamored for protection, and that spring the U.S. government acceded and sent a force under Colonel Henry B. Carrington to construct a series of garrisons to defend the route, one of them Fort Phil Kearny.
But in the brief life of the fort, there had already been terrible casualties. Men and livestock were lost almost daily to Lakota raiders, livid over the intrusion of the road and the new fortifications–in a sixmonth stretch of 1866 they would kill 154 settlers and soldiers. (4)
The post commander, Carrington, was increasingly anxious about his vulnerable position. When a woodcutting party was attacked that morning, Carrington issued cautious instructions: Fetterman and his men were to relieve the woodcutters but were not to pursue the Indians beyond the farthest visible ridge, called Lodge Trail.
Fetterman, however, was not inclined to obey anybody or anything except his own impulse toward bravery. Bristling with whiskers and decorations, he was a hugely confident officer who had been twice brevetted for gallantry in some of the worst fighting of the Civil War. He was the son and nephew of military careerists, with an eye on advancement, and it's likely he chafed at taking orders from Carrington, a painstaking administrative sort who had never been in a major battle. Carrington had been sent west for his efficiency in building the real field 11 forts, not for his fighting abilities. He was fine–bearded, sad–eyed, and hyperarticulate, and in Fetterman's view weak. "We are afflicted with an incompetent commanding officer, viz. Carrington," Fetterman complained in a letter to a friend. (5)
The mounted men chased the decoys down the slope and along a lengthy shoulder of parched yellow ground. The troops became strung out, their boots and their horses' hooves kicking up dust. Occasionally a cavalryman paused and fired a burst from his light carbine rifle.
Ahead, as the Indians raced across the prairie mounds, they did something curious. Two parties suddenly cut across each other's paths, riding toward each other, and then swerving away again.
This was the signal for attack.
On either side of the trail, the warriors rose from the golden brown prairie. It was as if the whole crust of the earth suddenly burst upward. Waves of arrows arced up from the gullies and draws. Pony hooves thrummed over rock and soil.
Months of preparation and pent-up aggression went into the attack. The battle plan was the work of Red Cloud, leader of the Oglala–Lakota. (6) For years, the Lakota had watched whites encroach on their hunting grounds, and they were furiously determined to shut down the new Bozeman passage. In 1840, the first small wagon train of settlers had crossed through to the Pacific. By 1848, huge lines of prairie schooners snaked westward, including Brigham Young's parade of 397 wagons. With them came a variety of pestilences, including Asiatic cholera, measles, and smallpox. (7)
Most important, they rousted the wildlife, particularly the allproviding buffalo, which gave the Lakota every element of their livelihoods. The Lakota, highly attuned naturalists, had a practical understanding of the famine that could result from the smallest disruption of their hunting patterns, one drought that came across the prairie as if blown from an eagle–bone whistle.
While American Horse couldn't have known the precise facts of white emigration, his own eyes told him that it was becoming a real threat to Lakota sustenance. He understood that, "unless the white people could be kept out of the buffalo country, they were doomed, so far as being a free and independent people was concerned. They would have a strange master to look to for existence," according to a white friend, the famed scout, cattleman, and sharpshooter James Cook. (8)
The Lakota in their dominant years were many things: hunters, natural philosophers, tireless orators, and seekers who felt that the ephemeral was graspable with deep concentration. But they were something else, too, when threatened: absolutely lethal combatants.
There was no better example than American Horse, the picture of flourishing Lakota male splendor. He was born in 1840, the son of a tribal leader named Sitting Bear, and he was of ancient stock, with a family winter count, the equivalent of a calendar, that went back five generations. His lineage showed in his handsome features, which exuded entitlement, vanity, and resolve. He was tall and deepchested, with a face that looked as though it had been stroked with a knife out of wood. His mouth bowed downward, grim with purpose, and elongating his features were thick plaits falling over his shoulders, wrapped in cloth.
As a boy, he learned to hunt buffalo through the snow, on foot, with a bow and arrow. From the age of five or six years on, he played the Lakota war games that prepared braves for their adult responsibilities— games not unlike football. One of them was a harrowing contest called Throwing Them off Their Horses, a form of mock battle in which mounted boys lined up and charged at each other. As the ponies collided and floundered in a dust cloud, the riders seized each other, wrestling. They played until all of the men on one side were unhorsed. (9)
By the age of about fourteen, American Horse had fought victoriously against half a dozen enemy tribes. At eighteen, he earned his adult name of American Horse (Wasicu Tasunke) when he captured a large Army horse and rode it into battle and slew an enemy. In 1864, he was appointed a "shirt wearer," or leader, in the same ceremony with Crazy Horse. "The following are the names of the Indians I scalped and stole horses from: the Shoshonies, Arapahoes, Bannocks, Nez Perces, Blackfeet, Piegans, Assinaboines, Arikarees, Omahas, and white men," he said later in his life. "I defeated every tribe of the above named Indians that I came in contact with. That is what made me chief." (10)
By the time of the Fetterman battle in 1866, American Horse was a canny and commanding warrior, fully engaged in the campaign to drive out the whites. Just a few weeks earlier, in a similar ambush, American Horse had served as a deputy to Red Cloud in an attack on a train of forty wagons that killed fourteen emigrants. But they wanted larger prey: soldiers.
American Horse joined the frenzied battle. The air filled with the whine of arrows, black gunpowder, and dust. Horses wheeled, crazed, with arrows in their flanks. Infantrymen struggled clumsily to reload their outdated, single–shot, muzzle–loading Springfield rifles, pawing at the cartridge boxes at their waists as cold bit into their fingers. To a Lakota named Fire Thunder, the arrows slinging overhead from the gullies seemed "like a cloud of grasshoppers all above and around the soldiers." (11) Men staggered around with arrows in them. Others wobbled and fell down insensible, their heads crushed by blows from war clubs.
Fetterman and his men alternately fought and clambered back up the trail toward the split rocks that offered the only possible cover. Their belted greatcoats encumbered them, and their heavy Jefferson boots slipped on the icy ground, which became stained with sheets of red ice, blood freezing in rivulets down the hillside. For a few minutes, Fetterman held together a band of soldiers among the rocks. But the boulders were only knee high, and the Indians steadily encircled, crawling toward them over the ground or galloping their ponies up the hill. The besieged soldiers fought with increasing terror and hopelessness. Combat became a horror, with men swinging gunstocks to fend off the hatchets, stone clubs, and thrusting knives.
There are conflicting accounts about what happened next. Carrington, who was not there and may have wished to perpetuate a noble story for the sake of the families, claimed Fetterman and Captain Fred Brown placed revolvers to each other's temples and pulled the triggers before the Indians could kill them. However, the report of the post surgeon who examined the bodies contradicted him. "Col. Fetterman's body showed his thorax to have been cut crosswise with a knife, deep into the viscera; his throat and entire neck were cut to the cervical spine, all around. I believe that mutilation to have caused his death." (12)
Years later, American Horse gave his own account of Fetterman's death. According to this version, American Horse and Fetterman, each the manful pride of his people, met on the hillside. The Lakota warrior galloped his mount toward the rocks, hurtled into the midst of the bluecoats, and ran his horse full speed at Fetterman, knocking him down. He then leaped from his horse, seized Fetterman around the neck, and slashed a knife across his throat–apparently with so much force that he almost beheaded him. (13)
It took only about ninety minutes from the time the first volley was fired until the last soldier died. Victorious, the Indians began to ritually mutilate the bodies, which they believed incapacitated their enemies in the afterlife. They stripped off overcoats and trousers, shook money and trinkets out of pockets, and kept what they liked. Then they sliced open arms, legs, and abdomens, pulled out muscles and organs, gouged out eyes, cut out tongues, and removed genitals. They cut the tops off skulls and removed the brains, and pulled arms out of sockets.
A soldier's dog darted from the rocks. One brave suggested that they let the dog run to the fort and carry the news of the battle. Another thought he was too sweet to shoot. Yet another said, "No, do not let even a dog get away." (14) They shot the animal full of arrows. The dog fell to the ground, one more dead thing on a field strewn for a mile with the corpses of Fetterman's command, as well as those of horses, shattered weapons, and an almost incredible number of arrows. One soldier's body had 165 arrows in it. (15)
A relief party of soldiers appeared on a high ridge to the east. The sharp, rapid volleys of fire had been clearly audible at the fort. As Captain Tenedor Ten Eyck stared down from the summit of the ridge at the valley below flooded with Indians, he could see no trace of the bluecoats.
But as the throngs of warriors began to recede from the valley, the battlefield gradually became visible. The soldiers spotted what at first looked like cottonwood limbs, stripped of bark. An infantryman suddenly called out.
"There are the men down there, they are all dead!" he said.
Chillingly, the Indians began to taunt this second group of soldiers to come down the hill. They catcalled, shrieked, showed their naked buttocks to the soldiers and slapped them. The soldiers did not dare move from the high ground.
Meet the Author
Sally Jenkins is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and the author of eight books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers, most notably It's Not About the Bike with Lance Armstrong. Her work has been featured in GQ and Sports Illustrated, and she has acted as a correspondent on CNBC as well as on NPR's All Things Considered. She lives in New York City.
John Stauffer is chair and professor of the History of American Civilization at Harvard University and the award-winning author of The Black Hearts of Men and other books on the Civil War era, including Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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