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Climate Change: 3 Proteins With a Big Carbon Footprint
The Environmental Working Group recently released a guide which ranks proteins based on their environmental impact. It's not shocking that lentils top the list of the most environmentally-friendly foods you can eat, but we were surprised by two of the three foods that have the biggest affect on climate change.
We expected beef to be one of the worst offenders, and it is indeed ranked number two among the three foods with the biggest carbon footprint. Cheese, number three, was unexpected, but it is the number one that came as the biggest surprise: lamb! Looking at the fertilizer used to grow the animal's food, the energy needed to process the meat, and the fuel burned to transport it, lamb has a carbon footprint that is 50 percent higher than beef.
This study looked only at conventionally-raised meat, fed non-organic grain and raised in confined feeding operations, so these results don't necessarily apply to pasture-raised, grass-fed animals. Still, this well-made guide is a good reminder that small changes, like skipping meat and cheese once a week, can have a big impact; for a family of four, it's the equivalent of not driving for five weeks.
• Check it out: Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change + Health at the Environmental Working Group
Are you surprised by these rankings?
Related: Soul-Satisfying: A Roundup of Great Lentil Recipes
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Maybe because so much of it comes from New Zealand? (I suspect that locally-raised lamb doesn't leave such a large carbon footprint)
I try only to buy meat that was raised locally, but cheese...I had no idea! shucks.
It might also be that cheese picks up some of the cow emissions. Even though dairy cows aren't raised the same way, the feed and some of the drugs are likely to be similar. Plus shipping and processing/pasteurizing.
Aww man. Not cheese now too! :( Bummer.
My area has a lot of local sheep ranches yet the grocery stores around here all carry lamb from New Zealand. The local lamb is half the price of the imported stuff (if you know where to buy it) but the stores won't carry the local meat. How dumb is that?
The graph is kind of deceptive because it is comparing equal weights (4 oz) where we usually consume foods in unequal portions. Milk is listed as 0.4 miles, yogurt as 0.6 miles and cheese as 3.4 miles. Using standard portion sizes, an 8 oz serving of milk would be 0.8 miles, 8 oz of yogurt would be 1.2 miles, and a 1.5 oz serving of cheese would be 1.3 miles, not as big of a difference.
I agree with mschatelaine.. Look at cheese labels before you buy! Sooo much of it comes from overseas! ...I wonder if they took into consideration ALL cheese, or just domestic cheese, because there are those cheese connoisseurs out there who buy the super aged cheese from super far away, and that certainly has a big footprint (I'm guilty of getting those cheeses sometimes too unfortunately).
Of course, we could research alternative fuels, production methods, etc. and still enjoy our meat.
This really feels like a bit of a copout to try and push vegetarianism. How about comparing something with more equivalency, like carbon/KCal? I know that 4 oz. of lentils is not going to fill me up like 4 oz. of grass-fed beef.
Eye opening for sure but what hits home for me is that making the concerted effort to cut out these things once or twice a week makes such a large impact. I'll never give up cheese or meat entirely but we have many more meatless meals/days than we used to. Over time, little efforts do add up.
While I agree with the study's general conclusions, I think @katilan is right about the comparison methodology. It uses "per kilo of food consumed" which doesn't match with actual consumption patterns. It would be better if the comparisons were standardized as per calorie or per serving.
i never even thought about this when i really cut down on meat. it was mostly weight loss/budget cuts related. this is a nice side effect though.
i live very near an independent farm/butcher shop, so i've been getting a lot of our beef from there. i wish this was an option for more people.
It's unclear to me if the methodology would hold for beef in the US. Typically, beef is fed on range land and then finished off in feed lots after reaching a certain size. I see confined feeding applying to only a limited portion of the beef life cycle unless looking at veal. I'm not familiar with lamb, but would assume similar practices based on the large NZ stations (ranches) and seeing pastured sheep in the US.
I guess the cheese makes sense, since you need the cattle to get the milk to make the cheese, so I guess it would include all of that cattle grazing in the process? Maybe the only reason it's not as bad as beef is because milking a cow doesn't kill it?
Yes I struggle to see how this study would stack up in locally raised and grown setting. In Portland, we can regularly purchase cheese directly from the farmer, who uses their local pasture to feed the animals, and also opts for the solar power energy offered by PGE.... I have trouble understanding how the footprint would be so large. I wish they'd given real examples, and more data to support the argument. It behooves studies like point out that there are two arguments to be made, purchase local & Organic whenever possible, even when purchasing locally investigate the practices of the people you regularly purchase from, and of course eat less meat. It's better for your health, and nicer to the environment.
I've been reading Apartment Therapy for awhile and finally signed up just so I can post a comment on this. Everyone needs to wake up to all the myths about dairy. I'm so happy this study finally revealed that cheese is just as bad as meat when it comes to its environmental impact! Vegetarians think they are not supporting animal cruelty by not eating meat but dairy is a direct link to the meat industry. This is why I have been vegan for 3 years now and have never felt better. Dairy cows are raised in the same disgusting, overcrowded conditions as cows are in slaughterhouses. We are not doing them a favor by milking them either, they are mammals just like us and only produc milk when pregnant. Therefore they are kept pregnant for as much of their lives as possible and their ofspring are either sentenced to the same hell as they are if they are female or sent to veal crates if they are males. Once they are too sick to produce anymore more milk which is usually in only about a few short years, they are sent to be slaughtered. Why does nobody get this? Dairy is just as bad as meat but people are only just now waking up to how horrible meat is for our bodies and the environment, so I guess it will take awhile for everyone to see that dairy is just as bad.
So how many carbon offsets do I need to buy to enjoy a cheeseburger now?
Matt Yglesias had a great post on this, where he noted that while lamb has a higher footprint per ounce, it's also much more expensive than beef. So if you have a fixed meat budget, it's not clear which one is better for the environment.
Huh. I generally try to buy local cheese just to support local industry, but it's nice to know there's a side perk to that habit.
Although I *refuse* to give up the California made Humbert Fog! :P It's expensive enough that I can't buy it all the time anyway.
@GoVeg: I usually try not to be inflammatory, but I feel that this is an important topic. I fail to see where you make the leap from carbon footprint to animal cruelty. I, for instance, buy my meats from local sources where I know the animals have been treated well. The chickens are cageless (and not just label-wise, which means nothing), the cows are grass-fed pasture cows, etc. Should I refuse to purchase Mr. Tudor's meats because his animals produce waste and he uses gas to drive to the farmer's market?
I also have contention with your notion that meat is bad for the body. Meat is, hands down, the best source of good fats and proteins. Eaten with a healthy supply of good vegetables and fruits, a diet centered on meat is optimal for maintaining physical fitness and form. I exercise regularly, and in order to get the amount of protein my body requires from vegan sources would be impossible. While not everyone requires my protein intake, it is hard to argue, for instance, that beans can be substituted for meat: beans contain large volumes of carbohydrates that get stored as adipose tissue if not burned quickly, while meat contains fats that get broken down slowly.
Personally, I feel as though the worst offenders of the farming world are the mass-producers of subsidized corn, wheat, and potatoes that get processed down into empty calorie foods, unnatural vegetable oils, processed sugars and starches, etc. that are pushing the obesity epidemic.
All in all, this is just my opinion, but I wanted to present a contrasting point of view for those interested.
Interesting points from both GoVeg and scotchncoffee. I have personal experience with a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet and weight lifting. It is tough. Very tough. But I don't eat mammals (I'm more flexible when it comes to poultry and fish). I've started sipping protein drinks (totally not sustainable!) on my lifting days. Veggies are totally awesome, but it's hard to build muscle on veggie protein alone.
I think that if you are really committed to planning your diet and making the right protein and carbohydrate combinations you can easily get all the needed amino acids from plant sources. There are many body builders who are vegan and obviously have no problem building muscle on this diet. but when it comes to buying local and organic meat and dairy i think this is an exception to what the whole point of this study is. the majority of Americans are not buying their food from these farms so that is beside the point. And animal cruelty goes hand in hand with what this study is talking about. The reason that this industry is causing so much environmental damage is because of the huge amounts of animals that are being raised in very small quarters, which causes a huge amount of waste to be produced in one area. This causes a lot of environmental damage to the water and soil as well as the air and atmosphere in these areas where the animals are being raised. And because there are so many of them crowded into one place they are not living a very good life and are constantly sick and fed huge amounts of antibiotics to keep them alive. Which is another reason I believe meat and dairy is wrecking our health as a country because we are consuming so many antibiotics we don't need not to mention all the growth hormones they give them. There are so many negative sides to the animal agriculture industry that I really don't see how anyone can continue to want to support that.
@GoVeg: I see your point about the connection between mass animal farms and carbon footprint. This bridge was missing from your original post. Thanks! I think we are in agreement, then, over mass animal farms.
I still stick to my guns over meat being good for you. I went vegetarian with my only dairy as milk for a while, and the excess carbohydrates I got from plant protein sources required me to put in hours of body-damaging, intense cardio. Now I eat a high fat, high protein diet and the going is much easier: I do cardio only a couple times a week.
In the end, my big point was to demonize Monsanto-style corn and grain producers. Its this subsidized mass farming in general (not just meat) that is the real problem. What feeds all those mass animal farms, anyway? Corn.
Thanks for the food for thought,
Most veal is not kept in boxes.Where do you live and get your information about livestock farming?
Most veal is immature MALE dairy livestock.
Milk is manslaughter.Sorry vegans.If you can't eat a cow,I agree with GoVeg,you have no 'right' or business eating milk products.
I am also sick of vegans supporting and encouraging commercial farming of any kind.It's all nasty any way you cut it.If you have issues with any segment of the industry,not eating milk products isn't going to help future generations.Good luck with that.
Not eating meat doesn't make people saints.Vegans are living in the same world as everybody else.Though they have been 'tricked' by the same consumer society as everyone else,into thinking they are making a difference.Lobby groups and advertising dollars will make your decisions,regarding the food on your table ,for you.As they always have.
How about the migrant slave labour used to harvest your food?Care to do anything for them.I didn't think so.
Food IS cheap.So cheap,in fact,that many people haven't a clue how to prepare and store it,never mind where it comes from.
I would like to second scotchandcoffee's remarks about Monsanto, and also hello123's remark that food is so cheap that people don't know what to do with it (storage, preparation, etc). I never made that connection, but it makes so much sense. Thank you.
Bless every person here for avoiding the seemlingly inevitable denier claims. Yay! Now onto the real topic. I understand all the cheese / beef etc points, but only one small side of the story is being told here. Deforestation not only destroys trees (that are crucial for absorbing CO2) but also can cause peat bogs to release methand (short acting, but think feedback effect). So add to this list: palm oil, corn, tea, sun-grown coffee and any other product that requires monoculutre destroying the soil and tons of deforestation. Solution: a varied diet, and knowing where your food comes from.
Methane, not methand. Sorry.
OMG! @Emmi
All commodities traded on the world markets.
Our food is our politics.We ARE what we eat.
Good to see other people with the same ideas. Unfortunately, as long as commercial farming produces cheaper products than local farming, most people aren't going to care that they are eating inferior, environmentally-damaging, soil-ruining junk. It saddens me to know that today's veggies are physically less nutritious than yesteryear's. While modern medicine may be prolonging our lives, we certainly aren't getting any healthier during those years.
I eat local farmed lamb (I'm in Australia so that's as easy as throwing a rock). I think that is probably less carbon foot print than eating turkey, here, as turkey would be imported massive distances - often from the US. I would not eat lamb nearly as much in the US, partly because it'd still be coming from AUS/NZ.
I don't drive, live in small apartments, have energy saving lighting and appliances, recycle and don't buy plastic whenever possible. I rarely ever fly, maybe 5 times in 50 years. I buy antique furniture whenever possible. I will eat whatever I like when I want it without guilt over it's carbon footprint. When it comes to food the only thing that counts for me is it's quality and presentation.
@Hello123 - yes, hopefully more people will connect with the anti-lawn movement and grow their own food! (And hopefully not get arrested like that poor woman recently) :(
@Goveg - I so agree with you about veal and livestock being bad for the land. I have to tell you though, there is more to nutrition than simply eating the right foods. There are 2 other elements called absorption and bioavailability. I'll use myself as an example, I was a vegetarian for 20 years until I became allergic to wheat. Absorbing enough iron and other nutrients is nearly impossible sometimes. I eat meat for my health - sparingly, but still. I eat it. I don't know many vegetarians at all or vegans who have actually tried a gluten free, vegan diet, but I'd challenge any critics to try it first. Anyway - reducing meat is great. But quitting is nearly impossible for some people, if they want to sleep less than 14 hours a day.
I meant to say, veal being cruel. Sorry. Long day. ;)
Organic turkey....there's another commercial farmed animal that isn't living the life of Riley.Organic farmers,all farmers,buy them from hatcheries then grow them out.A crueler or more heavy carbon footprint we won't likely see.The industry has to use artificial insemination to breed them and most livestock.Knowing how an animal is bred should be a prerequisite for anyone considering an organic purchase.Who is advertising 'organic' breeding?
I would urge people to apply this thought and fact,to any organic meat purchase.Raising it with an environmentally low imprint,does not organic make.As far as I'm concerned.
Want to see a true organic turkey?Check out a field during turkey hunting season.Only starving Pilgrims would bother with them.
@Emmi I'm all over growing in my front yard,on one of the busiest streets in Canada.So far...so good.People have been admiring and interested.Though it has taken a far share of work to make it 'pleasing' to the eye and not contaminated by the road.
I also work in a hospital part time.Yes...Drs are prolonging our lives.Statistically we are living longer and healthier.At a certain point that stops being true.If your taking life saving meds for 30 years,as many people will and do, disease 'gets' you later than sooner.
Buying local means leaving a smaller carbon footprint.It doesn't mean the food is any better.Organic isn't a 'get out of jail free card' for anyone.That's the problem for our modern society.We want absolution and it isn't coming anytime soon.It won't be had for anyone.
Starving humanity doesn't help the animals or the environment.Fair trade.....how is it fair when it exploits the hunger and labour of our fellow man.It's not fair to buy 'fair trade' coffee from a farmer that can't afford to buy their own produce.How insulting....and then criticize how they treat their mule.Who's the real ass here?I suppose it takes one to know one.
I don't believe I said that veal cows were raised in boxes, if I did I phrased that wrong and only meant that they live in cages so small they can't move or turn around, sorry about the confusion. And I am with everyone who is talking about the problems that Monsanto has caused and the huge mass production of corn and soy. Our whole agricultural sytem is completely destroyed and I'm not saying I'm only against the meat and dairy industry, they are right up there with the corn industry in my personal opinion. By focusing on consuming foods in their wholest form and avoiding as many processed and packaged foods as possible I feel better ethically that I am not supporting these huge corporations by not buying their products. Many people don't seem to make the connection when it comes to the fact that you are supporting everything these companies are doing by choosing to spend your money on what they are supplying. If we stopped supporting them then they would be forced to change to meet the demands of what the people actually want. It's just a matter of getting everyone to come together and understand this so the future of our food can be changed. And I definitely support everyone choosing to grow their own food! This is the best solution to the problem because then you can feed yourself and know what's going into your food. So bravo to everyone doing that!


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On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:13:56AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
There's also a general problem here, that needs attention and that
is you really shouldn't allow more ICMP error packets through than
you see normal connection packets. ie. one UDP packet out should
not allow more than one ICMP error message back in.
Technically, a single packet may cause multiple legitimate ICMP errors.
As per RFC 792, an ICMP redirect does not imply that the packet was dropped
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same packet.
Rate limiting the ICMP errors with a strict 1:1 ratio would break
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Since, as you explained, stateful filtering verifies the referred-to
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When you add lights to an axes, MATLAB® rendering software determines the effects these lights have on the patch and surface objects that are displayed in that axes. There are different methods used to calculate the face and edge coloring of lit objects, and the one you select depends on the results you want to obtain.
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Toasted Cumin Chicken Salad Pitas
Toasted cumin adds a nutty flavor to this traditional favorite. You can also serve it without the pita on a bed of lettuce with fresh tomato slices.
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 pita half)
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- Calories: 248
- Calories from fat: 23%
- Fat: 6.3g
- Saturated fat: 2.5g
- Protein: 24.8g
- Carbohydrate: 22.5g
- Fiber: 1.6g
- Cholesterol: 62mg
- Iron: 2.8mg
- Sodium: 423mg
- Calcium: 71mg
- 2 3/4 cups chopped cooked chicken breast
- 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
- 1/2 cup chopped seeded cucumber
- 1/3 cup sliced green onions
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1/4 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 3 (6-inch) pitas, cut in half
- 1 1/2 cups torn red leaf lettuce
- 1 cup chopped tomato
- 1. Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl. Combine sour cream and next 4 ingredients in a small bowl.
- 2. Heat a small nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add cumin seeds; cook 1 minute or until seeds become fragrant and pop, stirring constantly. Stir toasted cumin seeds into sour cream mixture. Add dressing to chicken mixture, tossing well to coat.
- 3. Line each pita half evenly with lettuce and tomato; fill each with 1/2 cup chicken salad.
- Note: If made ahead, cover and chill chicken salad until ready to serve. Assemble pitas just before serving.
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Toasted Cumin Chicken Salad Pitas Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Sandwiches
- CONVENIENCE: Portable/Picnic, Quick/Easy
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Poultry
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"The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in."
-Tehyi Hsieh
I've never been instinctively brilliant at business. You name it, and over my 20-year entrepreneurial career I very probably messed it up.
And yet, somehow, against all odds, I cashed out of my cleaning and restoration company and retired at the tender age of 38. How did I do it? More importantly, how can you find success in the cleaning industry?
Let me share with you "Steve's Top Ten List of Things He Did Right" (mercifully I won't take three issues to cover the topic). Many of these concepts I stumbled onto by accident, and some I did not recognize till many years later. I hope they will help you.
Keep your "living overhead" low. I'm not talking here about business expenses, even though keeping your business overhead down is incredibly important. The simple fact is, most Americans live higher on the hog than their salary allows. This may work if you have a stable job with great benefits and guaranteed salary increases to bail you out in the future. But high living will doom you due to the uncertain sales of your own small business, especially when just starting out. Sioux and I never (and I do mean never) used installment credit to buy consumer goods. We avoided the "instant gratification" message so popular today, and used the old-fashioned method of actually saving up for the new TV or refrigerator. When, after 16 years of marriage, we sold our business, much of our house was still furnished with garage sale finds (Shh. Don't tell anybody!).
Always be selling. It didn't matter where I was: restaurant, hardware store, neighbor's home or day care center. I would hand people my card and ask if I could give them a proposal for regular carpet care. In addition, I religiously dedicated one morning per week to calling on new commercial prospects.
Develop a commercial route. Sure, nobody likes the bad hours or the boring work (that's why, as soon as possible, you should hire employees for your night route. Some people actually enjoy this work.). But a regular contract commercial route gives your business a profitable financial base with regular cash flow that you can count on, especially if it is made up of lots of little regular accounts instead of one or two big ones (we cleaned the carpets in more than 80 bars, restaurants and other accounts every month).
Work insanely hard. This is not a business for the faint of heart or lazy of spirit. Carpet cleaning is hard, physical and at times brutal work. Add to it the mental uncertainty and emotional stress of owning your own business, and the workload can be crushing. Far too many carpet cleaners zone out and fall into the deadly trap of just "owning a job," which keeps you from being able to...
View yourself as more than "just a rug sucker." In other words, never be satisfied. Maybe Michael Gerber of E-Myth fame put it best, "Successful entrepreneurs are not distinguished by what they know. Instead, they are set apart by their burning hunger to know more." The deadly trap of the cleaning industry is our self-limiting beliefs, as in "I'm just a carpet cleaner." A fanatical desire for constant improvement, measured against your previous efforts, will propel you out of this negative quagmire.
Another big help is to associate with top quality people in our business, either through trade associations or on industry bulletin boards. (Go to www.i-boards.com/ics for one great example of a group of professionals all supporting each other on a bulletin board.)
Never know that "it can't be done." I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a well-respected carpet cleaner at an ASCR convention way back in the late 1970s. He said, "I sure would like to buy a truckmount, but everyone knows you need at least a 100,000 population base to support one." I didn't have the heart to tell him that we had just ordered our second truckmount due to not being able to keep up with our booming business...with a total market base of 30,000 people.
Diversify financially. Almost by accident, I bought a home many years ago. Then I bought another one without selling the first one. Then I bought a warehouse, etc. Now our rental income from our paid-off properties provides Sioux and I with a comfortable retirement. You may not choose to invest in real estate. That's OK. But never keep all your eggs in the one basket that is your business. Always pay yourself first by investing a percentage of your sales - off the top - outside of the business.
Try to make a Cheerleader out of each and every customer. Our entire advertising, marketing and promotional budget for the last year I was in business was 2.8 percent of sales. It could have been zero and I'm not sure that we would have seen any fall off in sales. Why? We made Cheerleaders (customers who were so delighted they constantly promoted our company to everyone they knew) on a consistent basis through the actions and the attitudes of our employees.
Just stubbornly hang on. As I look back over the years much of my success was just because I was too stubborn (stupid?) to know I was beat. So I just plowed on and outlasted the bait-and-switch operators, the demanding, cheap customers and the unethical adjusters. These folks usually just move on, due to their own life problems, and you're still plugging away! Of course, to hang in there over the years, you must...
Get the support of your family. Being successful does entail sacrifices, some of which inevitably fall on your family. Your family may choose not to work in the business. That's OK. But you can't handle the constant emotional drain of a complaining and/or overspending spouse (on the few occasions when Sioux would grumble about the demands of the business, I would gently remind her, "Honey, wasn't it nice to go to the grocery store and not have to make sure of the balance before you wrote the check?). On the other hand, this is a two-way street.
You need to own the business, not the other way around. Yes, I know I said this was a Top Ten List. But No.11 is too important not to be included. I have to confess that, especially in my early years, I had limited success with this concept of being balanced in business. And, certainly, owning a business is much more than a 9-to-5 job. But do try and set limits on how much the business intrudes into your private family life. Focus on your life goals and how your company can help you achieve them. Far too often we compromise on our personal and family commitments due to the demands of our business. Just say no!
Treasure the time you have with your loved ones. For me, the challenge was not so much the physical time away as the constant emotional burden of waiting for the phone to ring with the next business disaster! Maybe the best philosophy is to follow the advice an old doctor once shared with me: "Live life with a vengeance." My guess is that would include not fretting about your business 24-7.


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I am as big a Buckeye fan as most. I expect to win against Dayton (I hope) but I keep getting "blasted" by the inconsistency of this years hoopsters so no more predictions. I WILL be yelling and screaming for more wins but it is up to the boys to keep the "good" consistency throughout the tournament. GO BUCKEYES!!
I hope Chris Green gets things in order (since I am from Toledo) and I will be a fan.
I think someone from _ichigan did it!
Reminds me of a guy named "TATUM" ?
Its time for "Q" to really step up!
Boy am I glad BT has achieved his dream of being a Buckeye! Great kid turning into a Great man. I am especialy impressed with your major. It will serve you well. GO BUCKEYES (thanks coaches for snaging this one)
I like em all BUT I would love to see an all black uni with scarlet, white & silver trim. Chrome plated helmets, just one time, maybe against _ichigan State (most boring uni's). I am old enuff to remember Paladin :) and he made black popular along with Johnnie Cash.
I was actually expecting more offense at the end of GAME but we seemed to go to sleep. Thank you "football GOD" for the last play of that game. We can't afford to go to sleep against MSU at any time. GO BUCKS 100%
I love reading 11W and all the stuff about Nat. Champs but most people spend there time degrading all the other teams near us(even if its true). I am only a believer in one thing, just beat meat-chicken. All this talk means nothing if we got upset by the muskrats (or what ever they are? who cares?) Once that mission is successful then Alaliyah to what ever else happens. Lose to them due to bad weather or what ever and we become very quiet. GO BUCKS!!
Just BEAT _ichigan Badly!
Which movie (I missed that), I'm from Toledo and want to see if I know her (or her mother)?
FUNNY darn video! It took me quite awhile to regain my composure. Then I tried to open my beer with my eye sockets (it still stings a little).
All this wonderful conversation about QB's. No QB contravercy! Right! I wonder what would be said if the #3 QB got a little play time (and did well)? I'm enjoying it and would go to football heaven if we had 3 good ones. I love a great debate.
I feel the same as most of you (who took my toy?). But zip it! The judge will enter his verdict after a couple more practice sessions (games, joke). We need to be ready by 9-28-13. The first real game that starts the season. Coaches & players need to do there thing until then. If we fall down then it will matter for now a +20, +30, +40 who gives a s**t. GO BUCKEYES!
All this first game stuff is cool but means nothing. There is only one thing that counts, and I heard its possibly that it could happen twice this year(?), I just want to BEAT MEAT-CHICKEN no matter how many times we face them! (then Alabama).
I am a BIG Buckeye fan from Ohio but never got to experience life in Columbus. I luv my beer and by this poll I wish there was a youtube of all these neat sounding places. Go to work kids!
Thanks for the update on M / W soccer. I love football, both kinds, keep it up. I coached my son & daughters youth soccer teams for ten years and got the "soccer bug". Thanks
Is it possible all three could be in the same play and scare the s___ out of the DB's?
IT IS DEFINITELY "Beer Thirty". Barkley needs therapy!
we always hit a lul and then go like hell (I hope)
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How to create chkdsk and defrag batch file
I have a lots of windows 2000 professional users, and I need to create an bath file run chkdsk first then defrag after that,
Does any one how to run the scripts for this.
My users they have no local administrator right, they are just regular users.
How can I create an scripts run in Slient mode, even they are not login to the system, the machine is on, but no one login yet.
Thank you for all the help
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I'd recommend looking into the Scheduler Service. You can schedule events to occur when users are not logged on and you can specify the credentials to be used.
If you have AD, a startup script may do the trick.
Admin Script Editor has a packager that can run scripts with alternate credentials like this, but you'd need to kick it off somehow (like a logon script.) http://www.adminscripteditor.com/editor
Here is what I use:
REM Prepare Disk
:: defrag c: drive
defrag.exe c:
:: check disk
echo y|chkdsk /F /I /C
Your deployment will vary. With Altiris I just hide the dialog. I follow that with a reboot task to start the chkdsk. If you use some other method then just script a shutdown -r -f in there at the end.
I thought you need to do chkdsk first before you do defrag, also can I use my deployment server create an batch file bondule like this
:: check disk
echo y|chkdsk /F /I /C
REM Prepare Disk
:: defrag c: drive
defrag.exe c:
Thanks for the help.
I was just saving myself a reboot. I don't know if it matters. If you reverse them you will need to stick a power management task in the middle to initiate the reboot for chkdsk to start. Yes just paste that into the DS under a job. If you choose to chkdsk first you will need to make 3 tasks:
CHKDSK part
DEFRAG Part
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1500-1528 Mowry Avenue is a 15 minute walk from the Fremont - Daly City Daly City and the Fremont - Richmond Richmond at the Fremont stop.
This location is in the Cherry/Guardino neighborhood in Fremont. Nearby parks include Shinn Historical Park, Shinn Memorial Park and Centerville Community Park.
Nearby schools include Parkmont Elementary School, California School for the Deaf-Fremont and New Horizons School.
The closest grocery stores are Whole Foods Market, Smart & Final Extra! and Namaste Plaza.
Nearby coffee shops include Panera Bread, Frodo Joe's Petit Cafe and Starbucks. Nearby restaurants include Chipotle Mexican Grill, Pieology Pizzeria and Just Falafel.
1500-1528 Mowry Avenue is near Synnex Headquarters.
There are excellent bike lanes and the terrain is flat as a pancake. 1500-1528 Mowry Avenue is bikeable, there is some bike infrastructure.


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FAU capital improvement Florida Atlantic University student union breezeway
You might say Florida Atlantic University has received a nearly $5 million holiday bonus.
State officials recently notified the university it will receive $17.5 million in construction dollars, up from $11.7 million projected last spring. And FAU is wasting no time figuring how to spend it, with plans to expand the student union and make improvements to the breezeway area on the main Boca Raton campus. It will a also add lighting to recreational fields on the Jupiter campus.


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What the big money's buying in 2014
Wall Street's money managers expect US stocks to keep rallying through the new year and bonds, gold and commodities to slump. But should you bet with them, or against them?
What does 2014 hold for financial markets? The world's biggest money managers are making some bold bets for the New Year, according to a new survey.
The big-money crowd is gambling that stock markets will keep soaring in 2014, that the U.S. dollar will rise, and that bonds, commodities and gold will continue to slump, according to the latest survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which conducts perhaps the most authoritative survey of world money managers.
A net 54 percent of these asset managers remain "overweight" stocks in their portfolios, as they bet that markets will keep booming even following a thumping performance this year.
Meanwhile, a remarkable 64 percent remain underweight bonds, despite this year's sharp fall in prices and rise in yields, which ought to make bonds more attractive. Fears predominate that as the global economy continues to recover from the long economic slump and central banks scale back their support for the bond market, long-term interest rates will rise further and bond prices will fall.
A net 31 percent also enter 2014 underweight commodities, one of the most bearish readings on the asset class that the survey has found since it began asking about the asset class in 2006.
Money managers also remain bearish about gold, even though it has tumbled sharply in price this year, which ought, again, to make it relatively more attractive. On the contrary, the overwhelming majority of money managers told the survey that they believe the U.S. dollar is undervalued.
The survey gets even more interesting when you get down into the details. Money managers are huge bulls on technology stocks, despite a huge rally this year which has lifted the Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) about a third, breaking 4,000 for the first time since the dotcom crash early last decade.
"Global tech is the most popular sector among investors by far," reports Bank of America Merrill Lynch, adding that among those polled, a net 48 percent were overweight technology stocks in their portfolios. It is the second-highest reading in nearly a decade's data.
Money managers are also betting that bank stocks will continue to rally as the global economy gets stronger.
Among the regions, money managers are huge bulls on Japan, where the net overweight is at near-record levels, and strongly bullish of U.S. and European stock markets as well. On the other hand, they are bearish about emerging markets, with a net 10 percent underweight the region. Brazilian stocks are especially unpopular, according to the survey.
Maybe I am excessively cynical, but the most interesting aspect of these surveys is how often money managers, in aggregate, turn out to be wrong. It's not always the case, but it frequently is: The assets they hate the most often turn out to do the best, and those they like the most often turn out to do badly.
One case in point: Last year in this very same survey, these managers were collectively very bearish on Japanese stocks. But for the year to date, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index is up more than 45 percent, making it one of 2013's biggest success stories.
There is more than irony involved in this. These money managers move the markets: Bank of America Merrill Lynch polled 237 people who, between them, manage $655 billion worth of investments. And so if they all love a particular stock or asset class, they have already driven the price higher with their investments. The reverse is true for anything they hate.
Adding to the phenomenon is the managers' homogeneity. They all tend to read the same analyses. Their number-crunchers and asset allocators were all trained in the same business schools and rely on the same data and analytical techniques. As a result, they often think the same things.
So if the available numbers would lead conventional analysis to suggest, that say, frozen concentrated orange juice futures are going down, then almost all of these people will reach that conclusion. They will all pull their money out of FCOJ, and the price will collapse. But at that point the price may fall too far, and reflect even more pessimism than is justified.
The man who oversees the survey, Bank of America Merrill Lynch investment strategist Michael Hartnett, is well aware of these implications. He points out that contrarian investors will bet against the big-money crowd, especially when it makes really big bets on one direction.
If you're a contrarian, here are the bets to make for 2014. Scale back your exposure to U.S. and European stocks. Slash your holdings of Japanese stocks, technology stocks and banks to the bare minimum. Meanwhile, raise your bets on emerging markets (especially Brazil) and commodity and natural resource stocks. And hold plenty of bonds, and a little gold.
You pays your money and you takes your chances, as they say.
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Thanks for the Holiday chuckle MSN!
New Year Prediction,
DOW will go over 17,000
3% growth rate
Un-employment below 6.5%
Fed will continue taper
NSA will still be watching you in the shower, but people will get use to it.
Oil will flood the markets from Mexico and Iran, but prices will some how stay up.
And Miley Cyrus will have a wardrobe malfunction at some point.
RepubBuster, we should hope that at the very least Obamacare covers mental illness as some 150,000,000 Americans suffer from it,and the illness is called liberalism.
Liberals claim Bush was destroying the nation with 300 billion deficits. Obama himself said and I quote .... taking out the credit card from the bank of China, driving up the national debt, which we will have to pay back. It is unpatriotic ......" And then their man comes into office and runs deficits four time as large, single handedly adds more debt to the nation than all prior Presidents combined and the mental disorder does not allow a single liberal to acknowledge any of the lies, hypocrisy, and reality of any of what was just said in this post, let alone acknowledge the reality of Obama's 17 on its way to 20 trillion debt.
What is that if not a mental disorder?
And furthermore, the liberal disorder does not acknowledge that there will be a day of reckoning for all of this. Mostly, because the mental disorder does not allow the infected individuals to believe that one of their own can be responsible for disaster.
Money Managers only knows one thing, trying to convince everyone to Buy, regardless of whether they should or not. 2014 won't be any different towards what they tell you. Nor 2015 or 2016, etc. Meanwhile smart money has been locking profits, continually.
I think the best stock is Jersey's, and maybe Holsteins, They seem to give more milk. I was raisedon a dairy farm so I feel as I may be an expert on stocks.
However, we also raised pigs, and a few beef cattle too. We farmed in the beginning with teams of horses, however we finally bought a new John Deere tractor.
Early years, we had a coal cook stve, and a Round Oak heat stove. We had coal oil lamps and finally got electricity, boy that was nice.
You asked about stocks and I knew you would want to know how I learned so much.
"The big-money crowd is gambling that stock markets will keep soaring in 2014, that the U.S. dollar will rise, and that bonds, commodities and gold will continue to slump, according to the latest survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which conducts perhaps the most authoritative survey of world money managers."
A) Merrill Lynch was bullish on stocks in 2007-08, right up to the day they failed.
B) Merrill Lynch bought Subprime Mortgage Wholesalers days before they crashed.
C) Bank of America is a terrible bank that hasn't restored since TARP.
D) Any IDIOT who thinks bonds, commodities and metals are slumping but stocks are under-priced, should contact me immediately... I've got some lots of Jupiter going for bargain prices... unmarked bills only please.
E) Feel free to respond with the name of ANY publicly-traded business platform with: ample well paid personnel who buy what they make, has internally-cultivated management paid consistent with the personnel, isn't overrun by administrators, financiers, lawyers and bookkeepers instead of able and competent operations people AND has refused to gamble in the markets, stockpile fiat money and doesn't have a "special" stock for senior executives that takes possession of all of the assets in the event THEY fail.
The DOW will be half today's price by March 31 and half that by June 30, 2014. The nation will be at war and the most common weapon of mass destruction will be a duct-taped glass ceiling boob chucked off an ivory tower with bitcoins glued to his head making like a missile.
MAN has been here before, boobs. Read your history. It's typically the chapter just before wars.
"The big-money crowd is gambling that stock markets will keep soaring in 2014, that the U.S. dollar will rise, and commodities and gold will continue to slump."
It's the basic Wall Street credo – Anything paper or virtual is priceless, anything real is worthless.
Go ahead, I dare you to believe it.
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New .wine online domain set to be uncorked
The 'legs' of a glass of wine reflect onto the working surface of a destemming machine at Tres Sabores Winery September 25, 2009 in St. Helena, California - by Justin Sullivan
The Internet's chief regulator has reaffirmed its plan to allow the new "top-level domains" ending in wine and its French language equivalent, vin.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said that, following a 60-day review, it found no problems with the process that gave preliminary approval in March to the new domains.
An ICANN statement said that in the process for launching new domain names that began in 2011, "parties with standing were afforded the opportunity to file formal objections... In this case, no such objections were filed against .vin or .wine."
The board also said there was no basis to claims that ICANN violated its bylaws in the process.
In recent months, several European governments and wine industry groups have protested the plan, while the US government has stood in favor.
Wine industry groups in Europe, California and elsewhere keen on defending appellations with valuable reputations such as Bordeaux or Napa have complained the new domains could harm them.
Wine makers also fear having to pay to register their names at websites in the new online terrain solely to stop online addresses from being used by imposters or in ways that could spoil reputations.
Three French government officials last week asked the European Commission last week to block any new .wine and .vin extension without protection for geographical origins such as Bordeaux or Napa.
The letter said the process has become "emblematic of Internet governance that is out of control."
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But US officials earlier this year said giving special rights to the domains to wine groups or regions could set a dangerous precedent and that ICANN was in no position to determine if a website was operating in "bad faith" with respect to wine designations.
"It would be ill-advised for ICANN to attempt to define bad faith behavior related to the use of geographical indications... when the world's experts have been unable to do so for years," the US letter said.
Assigning new websites for wine still could take some months.
Because three companies have applied as the registrar for .wine, they will be given until January 2015 to reach an agreement on a joint effort or to make financial arrangements before ICANN sets an auction.
For .vin, only one company applied to be the registrar, US-based Donuts Inc., which will now be allowed to move forward with ICANN in a process that typically takes several months.
Opening the Internet to domain names that go far beyond .com, .net, .gov and .edu has been heralded by Web overlords at ICANN as the biggest change to the Web since it was created.
More than 100 new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) have cleared hurdles to reach registries, such as Donuts.
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Zooplankton feeding by corals underestimated
Research by marine biologists from Wageningen University has shown that feeding on zooplankton by scleractinian corals has been greatly underestimated.
Research by marine biologists from Wageningen University has shown that feeding on zooplankton by scleractinian corals has been greatly underestimated.
Scientists from Taiwan and Israel have found that octocorals are important reef builders. This exciting discovery makes us rethink the very nature of coral reefs.
Epizoic coral flatworms have been found to compete with their coral host for zooplankton. This finding is in agreement with the theory that symbiotic coral flatworms are parasitic.
Small polyped stony corals are often believed to simply rely on strong lighting and dissolved nutrients. But even these corals capture significant amounts of plankton.
|The Coral Triangle - Oasis of life
|Written by Alex Rose, M.Sc.
The Coral Triangle is the only place on Earth that rivals the biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest in both species richness and environmental importance. This article will cover the amazing biodiversity in this part of the world, some of the unique and important creatures that live there, and the importance of protecting this environmental treasure.
About the Coral Triangle
The Coral Triangle covers approximately 2.3 million square miles of ocean and encompasses six countries in the Indo-Pacific: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. An unbelievable amount of biodiversity is condensed into less than 1% of the world's ocean surface area: The Coral Triangle (CT) is home to one-third of the world's coral reefs, 75% of known coral species (~600 species of corals), nearly 3,000 species of fish, half of the world's seagrass and marine mollusk species, 75% of known mangrove species, six of the world's seven species of marine turtles (green, hawksbill, olive ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, and flatback), and more than 22 species of marine mammals.
Figure 1: Map of the Coral Triangle. (Image: Google Earth/Tim Wijgerde).
The Coral Triangle has been an evolutionary hot spot due to the combination of light, high water temperature, and strong, nutrient-rich currents from the collision of the Pacific and Indian oceans. The seasonal influx of nutrients from these deep ocean upwellings along with equatorial sunshine and warm seas results in an abundance of phytoplankton and zooplankton. This provides nourishment for corals, fish (larvae) as well as migrating giants like manta rays and whale sharks. The presence of coral reefs and mangrove forests buffers the effects of storms and tsunamis on coastal communities of the Coral Triangle. The abundant resources of the Triangle directly support the livelihoods of 126 million people as well as benefiting millions of others worldwide. The total annual economical value of natural habitats in the Coral Triangle including coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass beds is an estimated US $2.3 billion. Not to mention the ever-growing business of ecotourism, as well as the multi-billion dollar tuna industry that is directly supported by the spawning and nursery grounds of the Coral Triangle, making it even more obvious why their protection is paramount. Many commercially important species of fish inhabit these waters, making them an ideal place for local people to live and work.
"An unbelievable amount of biodiversity is condensed into less than 1% of the world's ocean surface area."
Coral Triangle Species
The commercial fishing industry of the Coral Triangle generates US $3 billion in income annually and supports millions of people in many costal villages. Coral reefs, mangroves and seagress beds are crucial breeding grounds for many marine creatures, including several commercially important species such as yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, skipjack tuna, Napoleon wrasse, and bumphead parrotfish. Without these nurseries for large pelagic fish species, there would be nowhere for adults to spawn or for the fry and juveniles to grow and eventually reproduce, making the continued existence of these species impossible.
Figure 2: A group of Amphiprion clownfish scurrying around in their host anemone (Heteractis magnifica, photograph: Alex Rose).
The Coral Triangle is also known for its incredible array of creatures that are endemic to the area. Some of the most unique and unbelievably-coloured animals are the nudibranchs. Nudibranchs, meaning "naked gills" (Latin nudus, naked, and Greek brankhia, gills), are bilaterally symmetrical gastropods that are often poisonous and exhibit aposematic colouration to deter predation. They are hermaphroditic and typically carnivorous; most nudibranch species have extremely specialised eating habits and consume one or a few species of sponges, hydroids, corals, anemones, flatworms, tunicates, barnacles, or even other nudibranchs. There are nearly 1400 species of nudibranchs and sea slugs, collectively called opisthobranchs, that have currently been identified in the Indo-Pacific region. These beautiful creatures seem to have utilized every colour in the spectrum of visible light to decorate their flamboyant bodies.
Figure 3: A nudibranch, Chromodoris annae, cruising along coral rubble in the Philippines in search of a sponge to eat (photograph: Alex Rose).
There are many species of mantis shrimp that inhabit the Coral Triangle, but eight of them are endemic to the region. Stomatopods are fascinating creatures with amazing eyesight and an incredibly fast attack strike. They can range in size from 2 cm (about ¾ of a inch) to over 30 cm (1 ft) in length, but most mantis shrimp species which inhabit the Coral Triangle are extremely large. For example, the stomatopod Lysiosquillina lisa which is commonly found in the Philippines can grow to a length of 25 cm (10 inches) or more. It has huge spearing claws, as opposed to smashing claws, that allow it to eat fish larger than itself.
Figure 4: A large spearing mantis shrimp in the Philippines, patiently waiting in its burrow to capture a fish (photograph: Jeni Tyrell).
One of the most amazing creatures that can be found in the Coral Triangle is the Flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi). This amazingly colourful cephalopod grows to a maximum total length of 12.5 cm (5 inches), hunts fish and crustaceans for food, and has toxins in its skin and musculature. It is currently the only known toxic cuttlefish; its toxin is as potent as that of the deadly Blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena). These creatures also have the ability to rapidly change colour. They can do this by utilising extremely high densities of skin pigment cells (chromatophores and leucophores) and reflective cells (iridophores). Two hundred pigment cells per square millimeter of skin allow the Flamboyant cuttlefish to produce many different colours and patterns in rapid succession, in order to communicate with conspecifics, camouflage themselves from predators, or warn intruders of their toxicity.
This melting pot of biodiversity contains many creatures that exist nowhere else in the world as well as commercially valuable species that are found throughout the world's tropical waters. In the coming years, it is extremely important that the Coral Triangle is protected from further damage and allowed to recover from many years of neglect and abuse. Forty percent of the Coral Triangle's coral reefs have been lost over the last forty years and the resilience of the Coral Triangle is beginning to diminish as a result of many anthropogenic changes, some of which will be discussed in the next section.
Figure 5: A Flamboyant cuttlefish in a shallow seagrass bed near Apo Island, Philippines (photograph: Alex Rose).
"There are many issues threatening the existence of the Coral Triangle as well as its people, such as global climate change, ocean acidification, sea level rise, unsustainable coastal development and fishing practices."
Saving the Coral Triangle
The Coral Triangle is a place of unmatched biodiversity, beauty, abundance and importance that has unfortunately not garnered the respect it deserves. There are many issues threatening the existence of the Coral Triangle as well as its people, such as global climate change, ocean acidification, sea level rise, unsustainable coastal development, and unsustainable fishing practices including over-fishing, high levels of bycatch, and blast and poison fishing. Fortunately, steps are being taken by the governments of the Coral Triangle nations to protect this part of the world against abuse and destruction.
Following are some of the primary issues that are detrimental to the survival of the Coral Triangle:
1: Climate change is directly responsible for a rise in sea-surface temperature in the Coral Triangle, which is significant enough to cause increased frequency and severity of coral bleaching events. One of the most devastating coral bleaching events occurred during the 1997-1998 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which damaged or destroyed nearly 20% of the coral reefs in Southeast Asia.
2: Ocean acidification is the result of increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere being absorbed by the ocean causing a decrease in pH. A slightly more acidic pH results in the dissolution of the skeletons of calcifying organisms such as hermatypic (reef-building) corals, shellfish, and many species of algae. This could have dramatic negative effects on the composition of oceanic ecosystems and the existence of coral reefs.
3: A sea level rise of as much as 50 cm in the next forty years is predicted from current scientific data. This would result in loss of land, the inundation of coastal water supplies and increased damage from storms due to the lack of a coastal buffer.
4: Extremely high population densities and growth rates have fueled the rapid development of coastal areas in unsustainable ways. Coral reefs and mangroves have been removed to make way for the rapid expansion of urban and agricultural activities along the coastline; coral reefs have also been mined to make cement building materials to expand cities. Unchecked coastal development has also led to extreme pollution from agricultural runoff and sewage.
5: Overfishing currently occurs at approximately 64% of reefs in the Coral Triangle. With ever-increasing local and international pressure to take more from the sea, many fisheries already have or are threatened by collapse. A major issue associated with overfishing other than the taking of too many fish, is bycatch. Bycatch refers to all the animals caught accidentally, which often includes other fish species (common and endangered), turtles, sharks, marine mammals, and sea birds. Some methods of fishing such as trawling and long-lining result in bycatch rates of 50% or more with the unwanted animals tossed back into the water dead or dying. Blast and poison fishing also threaten about 50% of the Coral Triangle. Blast fishing utilizes explosives to stun fish while poison fishing makes use of potassium cyanide to impair or kill fish prior to collection. Both of these methods are extremely destructive to coral reefs and all their inhabitants.
Figure 6: The effects of blast fishing on a reef in Indonesia (photograph courtesy of NOAA).
While these numerous issues may seem insurmountable, it is absolutely essential that this place of biological wealth is preserved. Measures are currently being taken, such as the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI), to address the problems of climate change, unsustainable development and fishing practices, pollution, poverty, and loss of important coastal ecosystems, and to put in place an action plan to save the Coral Triangle and its people.
It is encouraging to see the leaders of the six Coral Triangle nations come together to sign a commitment to protect their invaluable marine resources and the well-being of their citizens. Unfortunately, many of these problems reach much farther than just the Coral Triangle. The waters of the world are seeing the ill effects of global climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, unchecked population growth and coastal development, overfishing, illegal fishing and high rates of bycatch. These global problems cannot be solved by one small group of nations uniting to fight for a better future, but by many world leaders following the guidelines put forth by the Coral Triangle Initiative to ensure a better future for the people of the world and our future generations.
"The Coral Triangle is a place of remarkable diversity and immeasurable importance and is considered top priority for conservation along with the Amazon, Arctic, Galapagos Islands and Madagascar."
The Coral Triangle is a place of remarkable diversity and immeasurable importance and is considered top priority for conservation along with the Amazon, Arctic, Galapagos Islands and Madagascar. Continued research and education foster an understanding of these amazing places as well as an appreciation for their role in the biodiversity and sustainability of our planet.
Figure 7: A trawling boat in the Indo-Pacific fishing for orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus. There is one orange roughy in the top lefthand corner. (photograph courtesy of RightBite program, John G. Shedd Aquarium).
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M., Areki, F., Kosaka, R. A., Tewfik, A., Oliver, J. 2009. The Coral Triangle and Climate Change: Ecosystems, People, and Societies at Risk. WWF Australia.
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Letters to Catherine: First Night on Myst Island
Catherine my love,
I remember the day we first fell upon the beaches of our freedom. At the time, I thought you were this world's creator; it was beautiful, intricate, and perfect. I should have realized then that it was not your style. You were always one to be fantastically obscure, to take the mind to places unimaginable by most. The twists and strange, yet wonderful details of your thoughts were always portrayed in your writing. At the time of our arrival however, none of this mattered. We were free from danger, free of Gehn, and we were alone. I fell in love with you that first night on the island. I did not realize it at the time, but when I held you in my arms as we overlooked the moonlight, eerily still in its reflection upon the ever moving waters, that this was the defining moment of my feelings for you. We were warm, we were safe, I was delivered from a great weight that had been following me most of my life, and all of yours. Could I have been drawn to you through these associations? Perhaps initially, but now my feelings began to rest in you specifically. I was, from that moment, devoted to you. My inhibitions were swept away as the sand I covered my feet with between approaching waves. Logic and worries of emotional injury were willingly cast aside; I would accept any repercussions of my feelings for you. Regardless of how things turned out, all that mattered to me was the girl in my arms on that beach written just for us. I hope to see you again soon, and I must continue to help the inhabitants of the Mechanical Age. The Black Ships are continuing to pose as a threat, despite the additions to the fortress.


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Watching Beautiful Creatures
It reminds me of a book that I have read but I am not sure. Hmmm. Awesome sweet flick by the way. Good night. at Ligot Residence – View on Path.
Listening to Of the Night by Bastille
You never fail to amaze me Bastille. Subtle beat yet defeaning lyrics. – Preview it on Path.
Listening to Tsunami by DVBBS & Borgeous
Your beat is so amazing. EDM fanatic since high school. Eat, sleep, rave, repeat! – Preview it on Path.
Watching Gnomeo and Juliet
Star-crossed lovers on a different scale. Saturday afternoon awesomeness. – View on Path.
: I have to reblog this. NOW. #EYEGASM
(Source: iftadwascool, via itsneilcarlo)
Watching Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers
Foods gone wild. Watching this flick with the bulilits. #BataBATUTA – View on Path.
Watching Brave
Finishing the flick before going somewhere. Will not end Sunday here in my room. – View on Path.


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BMX film-maker Rich Forne steps in front of the camera and dazzles everyone with his crazy wall riding skills:
Three Romanian heavy metal fans dip their long hair in paint and whitewash the walls by headbanging to death metal music. Either to sell some Duraziv paint or to combine fun with something practical. Doesn't look very efficient, though.
This is Pete…he REALLY loves to chase laser lights.


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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill.--Einstein
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The strangely color-free New York of the small screen
Heh. Pretty funny.
You know, I've heard a lot of people misunderstand the criticism of shows like Friends. They either point to random extras of color as proof of the show's diversity. Or they defend the existence of a close-knit group of white friends. Both of these arguments miss the point.
It is really hard to reside in a major metropolitan city in 2011--a Chicago, a New York, a Los Angeles--and not have any meaningful interaction with people of different races and ethnicities. This is a fact (and a joy) of everyday city life. And people of color are more than just window dressing in The Big Apple; they are a majority. A 2005 to 2008 American Community Survey found the white population of NYC to be less than 50 percent. The percentage of non-Hispanic whites: 35 percent. African Americans represent 25 percent of the community. Latinos: 27 percent. Wikipedia says 36 percent of the NYC population is foreign-born. And so, it seems strange that a show set in this highly-multicultural city would make the choice to eliminate substantial portrayals of people of color. That is what happened--creators of Friends (and Sex and the City and Seinfeld and other shows) made the choice to present a whitened city drastically unlike reality.
Why is that? What possible good excuse can there be for choosing to make Dominicans and Puerto Ricans and Haitians and African Americans and Koreans (*poof*) disappear? And why do TV show creators so often make this choice? Why does True Blood's Shreveport, La., seem to include white people, vampires and werewolves, but none of the black folks who, in real life, make up more than 50 percent of the city?
Show creators find brown people so unfit for TV or unimportant that they will take an iconic American city that people of color help to make great and scrub us from the landscape deliberately. And viewers defend this erasure or don't notice it. People choose this fantasy--a world where brown folks scarcely exist--which tells us...What?...that they are uncomfortable with a reality that is quite different indeed. That's the rub.
14 comments:
- liz said...
Due to a different problem that I had with "Friends" and "Seinfeld" (they never lock their doors), I never watched long enough to see that they had no people of color in them.
- January 11, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- Kinitra said...
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- January 11, 2011 at 4:25 PM
- Kinitra said...
Well done, Tami. What I also find troubling is the creation of these awesome world of fantasy where everyone is white. I understand the Tolkien influence, but damn. For example, I am incredibly interested in that new HBO series, Game of Thrones, but it baffles me that this author (and the producers and every other person involved with the project) is okay with creating a world where no POC exist. Really? Is Nordic and Anglo-Saxon culture THAT fascinating? What about all these other peoples that were kicking Europe's butt in terms of development and technology during the Dark Ages? Ugh.
Finally, I know you love vampires (have you read that LA Banks series, yet?) but what has really started to irritate me with True Blood is the lack of vampires of color. Are you telling me that my home state of Louisiana, with all the people that were sexually mixing down there (willingly and unwillingly) there is not one Native or Creole or formerly enslaved Caribbean vampire? Not one? Once they brought on that supposed Queen who was lily white (I'm of the opinion that no one is lily white in Louisiana) I was done.
- January 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Tami said...
You know I feel the same way about urban fantasy. I don't get why in a fantasy world, writers still can't get past basic biases surrounding race, gender, sexuality, ability, etc.
Funny you ask about LA Banks. That's the next series on my list. I'm reading it in concert with two of my friends. I'll let you know what I think. I'm excited to read them!
- January 11, 2011 at 8:09 PM
Good post. This reminds me of Jet when they had the TV listings and would highlight the black actors appearing in them. Not sure if they still do that. I'm guilty of thinking this is the norm because I grew up in an isolated, small white town, so my life was like Friends until I went to college. You raised a good point about the high population of minorities in major cities. Once you're classified as other its a hard mold to break.
I have a friend who's 15 years older than me and she says she remembers when everyone got excited when they saw a black person on TV. Now it's 2010 and I guess we're still supposed to get excited about the black extras on Friends. Gotta love progress. :)
- January 11, 2011 at 11:12 PM
- Kinitra said...
Awesome! I usually write as k8dee, I think I was one of a few people who recommended that series. I've used it to teach some of my courses. Give it time, the first book is a bit clunky b/c it set up so mythology, but a lot of series with a heavy mythology do that (which is why I am trying to get back into Fringe, but the lead actress is just dead in her eyes and bland in her lack of facial expression).
- January 11, 2011 at 11:47 PM
I enjoyed the video, but was frankly surprised to see that there had been so many black characters as extras. As a person who watched that show somewhat regularly for a while (I know, I know, but I didn't have cable), it's interesting to me that I don't remember a single one of these characters of color. To me that just further proves your point--that small roles of this sort do nothing to dilute the overwhelming whiteness...
yes, they never lock doors. somehow they "don't have any money" and yet they live in the largest apartment in NY I have ever seen and are well dressed to boot. Oh, and supposedly they all have jobs, except that they are _always_ home. disconnected from reality in so many ways...
- January 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- RVCBard said...
What I also find troubling is the creation of these awesome world of fantasy where everyone is white. I understand the Tolkien influence, but damn.
You tellin' me.
- January 12, 2011 at 1:12 PM
Kinitra, some of the civilizations in GoT are POC. Jason Momoa is of Native American and Native Hawaiian ancestry (as well as German and Irish), and the Dothraki people (of whom his character is one) are meant to be POC, so they aren't whitewashed. Also, a family that won't be in the first season, but will show up later in the series is the Martell family, who are described as olive-skinned, with dark hair and dark eyes. True, that still leaves a lot of white people, but your charge that George R.R. Martin created a world without POC is just not factual.
- January 12, 2011 at 1:21 PM
- Sarah said...
I think that the problem you're identifying could be helped by prime time TV shows hiring writers of color. I'm sure there are many talented writers of color out there looking for work.
I'm fairly comfortable assuming that it's a general trend for white writers to be hired more often, especially for prime time television slots. In that case, perhaps they (white writers) feel unqualified at writing parts for characters of color without projecting their own stereotypes? It goes along with the general unease and avoidance in American politics and media of talking openly about race.
Perhaps my interpretation is a bit generous? Maybe the lack of representation of people of color on tv has a lot more to do with what you suggested, in that, "Show creators find brown people so unfit for TV or unimportant that they will take an iconic American city that people of color help to make great and scrub us from the landscape deliberately. And viewers defend this erasure or don't notice it."
I really hope that's not the case :/
Do show creators also have control over who they hire to do writing? Are the characters written as being specific races when they're written as characters in the first place? If so, there should be more working tv show producers of color, and so on.
- January 12, 2011 at 4:10 PM
- Kinitra said...
@ Anonymous.
Thanks for the information. I am not familiar with the series, and I have an interest in it. It appears smart with a lot of political maneuvering and set in a fantastical world. All the promos (of the tv series) show a serious centering on whiteness. Thanks for making me better informed. I'm more inclined to give it a chance. I also like Peter Dinklage [sp?]. I have loved him ever since In Bruges...
- January 12, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Tami said...
I'm not sure that I completely buy that shows hire all-white casts because their writers are white and they are sensitive to writing accurately about POC. If this was a concern, then, well, they could hire more writers of color. That's sort of like saying "We've been woefully biased in our hiring and now we can't possibly have POC on screen because our writing about them will be woefully biased."
Plus, Hollywood has not shown a particular sensitivity to not offending POC (or anyone else for that matter) with TV portrayals.
- January 12, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Yes! (To the post; I can't watch the video yet because I'm at work.)
One of the interesting (in a *lolsob* kind of way) is Grey's Anatomy. That show started with four out of nine main characters being POC (and three of those four were "bosses"), but over the years have added so many white characters the somewhat even (especially in comparison to other shows) balance has been completely demolished.
- January 12, 2011 at 6:49 PM
@Kinitra, (same anon from earlier, my name's Sara :-)
I'm glad you'll give it a chance. The book series is really wonderful, with multi-faceted characters and an exceptional story-line. GoT also has some of the best female characters in a fantasy series that I have ever seen, and Tyrion (the character played by Peter Dinklage) is just a really cool character. I really hope that when they do the casting for the Martell family that they will cast characters who look like what's described by Martin in the novels, but of course, what casting persons do isn't necessarily going to follow the author's intent. I have high hopes that they will, though, because the casting they have done so far is pretty spot on with what I imagined. I guess we'll see. I can tell you, though, from a die-hard fan of the novels, the show looks amazing.
- January 12, 2011 at 7:01 PM