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Friday Nights @ OMCA
Oakland's popular weekly night market is back for a new year of fun and festivities! Join OMCA and Off the Grid on 10th Street every for a taste of local music, food, art, and culture! Savor California beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages around the Koi Pond at the Blue Oak beer garden. Enjoy half-price admission, live music, hands-on activities for kids, and extended OMCA Store hours. Bring the whole family to OMCA for a sampling of the best in Bay Area curbside cuisine!
What to expect on February 21:
- Local beer and wine specials in the Blue Oak beer garden
- Resident OMCA DJ Dotmatic spinning the hits in the 10th Street Amphitheater from 5 to 6:30 pm
- Family-friendly drop-in art activity: make your own mini hero figure, inspired Black History Month and the exhibition The Smallest of Worlds, from 5 to 8 pm
- All-ages Zimbabwean dance lesson led by Julia Chigamba of Destiny Arts Center in the 10th Street Amphitheater from 6:30 to 7 pm
- Live Afrobeat music by Fely Band in the 10th Street Amphitheater from 7 to 9 pm
- Final installment of OMCA-in-the-Headlines, a special discussion series in Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay, on the environmental and cultural impact of demolishing the original San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, with biologist Lauren Bingham of Garcia and Associates, Bill Howe, Lead Engineer in taking down the old span of the Bay Bridge, and Stefan Galvaz, District Branch Chief of the California Department of Transportation, from 7 to 8 pm
- A Snack Size Docent Tour, a fifteen-minute mini-tour led by a talented OMCA Docent to introduce you one of the Galleries—you won't know which until the tour begins!—meeting at the ticketing desk on Level 2 at 7:30 pm
- Extended hours in the galleries and special exhibitions
- Twelve gourmet food trucks from Off the Grid featuring the best in local cuisine
- #BayMotion Contest video screening and discussion by a distiguished panel of judges from 7 to 9 pm
Cost: Half-price gallery admission for adults, ages 18 and under are free. Admission for Members is always free. Cash bar. Prices vary for Off the Grid food trucks.
Transportation: OMCA is located one block from the Lake Merritt BART Station. Event parking is available at the Museum for a $5 flat fee after 5 pm.
Presented in partnership with Off the Grid: Lake Merritt @ OMCA.
Black History Month programs at OMCA made possible in part by generous support from Bank of America.
Makers and Tasters Series is made possible by generous support from Whole Foods Market.
Friday Nights @ OMCA is made possible by generous support from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.


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Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall was a wall built by the Romans across Britain in the 2nd century AD, to defend their northern frontier from Pictish incursions (an alternative theory is that is was not primarily a defensive structure but a tax barrier).
It stretched across northern England from Wallsend in the east to Bowness on Solway in the west, and formed the northern boundary of the Roman Empire, though a subsequent temporary northward advance took them as far as the Antonine Wall.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, much of the stone from the wall was taken and reused building local churches and abbeys, as well as housing and farmsteads. However, Roman remains exist at points along the route - including a substantial length in the central, upland section.
Hadrian's Wall, also called 'the Roman Wall', was a massive structure built across Britain from around AD 120 on the orders of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. It marked the Empire's northern frontier. It crossed from near the mouth of the River Tyne, on the East coast, to the Solway Firth in the West. It had 'milecastles' spaced at a distance of every Roman mile, and two small turrets between each of these. Later, large forts shaped like playing cards were also built at intervals along the Wall. Sections of the Wall are preserved (though not at the original height of around 20 ft), and forts like Housesteads, Chesters and Birdoswald are some of the most outstanding visible remains of the Roman Empire. The name of the last battle that King Arthur (allegedly) fought , Camlann, may derive from Camboglanna, one of the Roman fort names on the western part of the Wall.

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Isurus oxyrinchus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
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Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Rafinesque, C.S. 1810. Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Sanfilippo, Palermo.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2abd+3bd+4abd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Cailliet, G.M., Cavanagh, R.D., Kulka, D.W., Stevens, J.D., Soldo, A., Clo, S., Macias, D., Baum, J., Kohin, S., Duarte, A., Holtzhausen, J.A., Acuña, E., Amorim, A. & Domingo, A.
|Fowler, S.L., Dudley, S., Soldo, A., Francis, M. & SSG Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop participants (Shark Red List Authority)
Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) is an important target species, a bycatch in tuna and billfish longline and driftnet fisheries, particularly in high-seas fisheries, and is an important coastal recreational species. Most catches are inadequately recorded and underestimated and landings data do not reflect numbers finned and discarded at sea. Various analyses suggest that this species may have undergone significant declines in abundance over various parts of its range. A global assessment of Vulnerable is considered appropriate for this species on the basis of estimated and inferred declines, inadequate management resulting in continuing (if not increasing) fishing pressure, the high value of its meat and fins, and vulnerable life history characteristics. Although it is difficult to accurately assess the conservation status of this shark because it is migratory and caught in numerous poorly monitored fisheries worldwide, it is reasonable to assume that decreases may be occurring in those areas for which there is limited or no data.
Mediterranean Region
Several subpopulations of Shortfin Mako have been assessed separately for the IUCN Red List, however further data are required to determine whether individuals occurring in the Mediterranean constitute a subpopulation (based on the definition of "subpopualtion" as given in the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria). Recent investigations in the Mediterranean suggest that the western basin is a nursery area where bycatch of Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) from the tuna and swordfish fishery consists almost exclusively of juveniles. It is possible that this nursery area corresponds to the Eastern Central Atlantic population, which is affected by the swordfish longline fishery off the western coast of Africa and the Iberian peninsula. In other areas of the Mediterranean, the Shortfin Mako is caught sporadically. Reports from the Ligurian Sea show a significant decline since the 1970s. In the Adriatic Sea, Shortfin Makos were considered common at the end of 19th/beginning of the 20th centuries, but since 1972 there have been no records of this species reported despite a large increase in fishing pressure and introduction of new fishing gear to the area. On the basis of the absence of records of this species from some localised areas, evidence of large declines in others and captures of juveniles in a probable nursery area, this species is considered Critically Endangered in the Mediterranean, warranting focused attention and immediate action in order to preserve this species in the region.
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|Range Description:
|Shortfin Mako is a coastal, oceanic species occurring from the surface to at least 500 m depth and is widespread in temperate and tropical waters of all oceans from about 50°N (up to 60°N in the northeast Atlantic) to 50°S. It is occasionally found close inshore where the continental shelf is narrow. It is not normally found in waters below 16°C (Compagno 2001).
Summary of range
Western Atlantic: Grand Banks (Canada) to Uruguay and northern Argentina, including Bermuda, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Eastern Atlantic: Norway, British Isles and Mediterranean to Morocco, Azores, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, southern Angola, probably Namibia, and South Africa (west coast).
Indo-West Pacific: South Africa (east coast), Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius and Kenya north to Red Sea and east to Maldives, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Viet Nam, China, Taiwan (Province of China), North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia (Primorskiyi Kray), Australia (all states and entire coast except for Arafura Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait), New Zealand (including Norfolk Island), New Caledonia, Fiji. Central Pacific: From south of Aleutian Islands to Society Islands, including Hawaiian Islands. Eastern Pacific: USA (Southern California and exceptionally Washington), south to Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and central Chile.
In addition to the distribution given in Compagno (2001), Shortfin Mako may also occur from 20-50° between Australia and Chile, and to almost 60° Southeast of New Zealand (Yatsu 1995, M. Francis pers. comm. 2006).
Casey and Kohler (1992) suggest that the core distribution in the western north Atlantic is between 20-40°N, bordered by the Gulf Stream in the west and the mid-Atlantic ridge in the east (see Habitat and Ecology section for more details). Shortfin Mako in Atlantic Canadian waters represent the margins of the distribution of the population (Campana et al. 2005). In the eastern North Atlantic, it is presumed that the Strait of Gibraltar is nursery (Buencuerpo et al. 1998 and Tudela et al. 2005).
The area between 17° to 35°S off the coast of Brazil is an area of birth, growth and mating (Amorim et al. 1998). Pregnant females with near term embryos have been found there, but not females in early pregnancy stages (Costa et al. 1995, Costa 1994). The presence of this species in Uruguayan waters year round has been confirmed by the observers on board the Uruguayan tuna fleet. Although a few new borns were captured, no pregnant females have been found (Domingo pers. comm. 2008).
Highest abundance is reported in the western Mediterranean and mako are rarely reported in eastern waters (Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmara). Recent investigations suggest that the western basin is a nursery area (Buencuerpo et al. 1998). It is possible that this nursery area is from the eastern central Atlantic population, which is affected by the swordfish longline fishery off the western coast of Africa and Iberian peninsula. Two Shortfin Makos a few months old were reported in the western Ligurian Sea as bycatch of the swordfish longline fishery (Orsi Relini and Garibaldi 2002). They are not reported from the Black Sea. In the eastern Adriatic Sea, Shortfin Makos were reported as common a century ago (Katuri 1893 and Kosi 1903), recent publications consider it to be rare (Milišić 1994, Jardas 1996). Soldo and Jardas (2002) report that there have been no records of Shortfin Mako in the eastern Adriatic since 1972.
Eastern North Pacific
There are comparatively few records of pregnant females, especially in the eastern north Pacific. However, there are a large number of juveniles and young of the year fish in the southern California Bight indicating that it is a nursery area. In summer, the Southern California Bight is home to a large population of Shortfin Mako sharks (Klimley et al. 2002, Holts and Kohin 2003). Abundance surveys and fishing reports indicate that juvenile mako sharks appear in the Bight in spring when water temperatures rise above 16°C and may depart from the area in fall when water temperatures decline.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Algeria; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina (Buenos Aires, La Pampa); Australia (Ashmore-Cartier Is., Australian Capital Territory, Coral Sea Is. Territory, Lord Howe Is., Macquarie Is., New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia); Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil (Bahia, Brasília Distrito Federal, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo); Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada (British Columbia, Newfoundland I, Nova Scotia); Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile; China; Colombia (Colombia (mainland), Colombian Caribbean Is.); Congo; Cook Islands (Cook Is.); Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Croatia; Cuba; Curaçao; Cyprus; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador (Ecuador (mainland), Galápagos); Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea (Equatorial Guinea (mainland)); Eritrea; Fiji; France (Clipperton I., Corsica, France (mainland)); French Guiana; French Polynesia (Marquesas, Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is.); Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Gibraltar; Greece (East Aegean Is., Kriti); Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras (Honduran Caribbean Is., Honduras (mainland)); India (Andaman Is., Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Nicobar Is., Orissa, Pondicherry); Indonesia (Bali, Jawa, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Papua, Sulawesi, Sumatera); Iran, Islamic Republic of; Ireland; Israel; Italy (Italy (mainland), Sardegna, Sicilia); Jamaica; Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Nansei-shoto, Shikoku); Kenya; Kiribati; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Liberia; Libya; Macao; Madagascar; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak); Maldives; Malta; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius (Mauritius (main island)); Mexico (Baja California, México State, Veracruz, Yucatán); Micronesia, Federated States of ; Montenegro; Montserrat; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar (Coco Is., Myanmar (mainland)); Namibia; Nauru; New Caledonia; New Zealand (Antipodean Is., Chatham Is., Kermadec Is., North Is., South Is.); Nicaragua (Nicaragua (mainland), Nicaraguan Caribbean Is.); Nigeria; Northern Mariana Islands; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Portugal (Azores, Madeira, Portugal (mainland)); Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico (main island)); Russian Federation (Central Asian Russia, Primoryi); Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Solomon Islands (Santa Cruz Is., South Solomons); Somalia; South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, North-West Province, Western Cape); Spain (Baleares, Canary Is., Spain (mainland), Spanish North African Territories); Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Taiwan, Province of China (Taiwan, Province of China (main island)); Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United Kingdom (Great Britain, Northern Ireland); United States (Aleutian Is., Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaiian Is., Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington); Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (Venezuela (mainland), Venezuelan Antilles); Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Western Sahara; Yemen
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – northwest; Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – northeast; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – western central; Pacific – southwest
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|Range Map:
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|Shortfin Mako contribute some 9.5-10% of the pelagic sharks caught by Spanish longline fleets (targeting sharks and swordfish) in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Mejuto et al. 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007).
Shortfin Mako in the north and the south Atlantic constitute genetically distinct groups (Heist et al. 1996). Casey and Kohler (1992) hypothesized from tag-recapture data that western north Atlantic makos form a separate population from those in the eastern Atlantic although limited intermixing is possible as shown by crossings to the Azores and Europe. Mitochondrial DNA data indicate separation of female makos between the western and eastern north Atlantic, but a lack of differentiation in nuclear DNA suggests male mixing across the north Atlantic (Heist et al. 1996, Schrey and Heist 2003). For fishery assessment purposes, mixing between the western and eastern North Atlantic is considered minimal.
Mature males were occasionally caught in the western English Channel in the 1960s and 1970s but are now rarely encountered (J. D. Stevens, pers. comm.), suggesting possible range contraction in the north-east Atlantic.
Analyses of catch per unit effort (CPUE) from US pelagic longline fishery logbooks reported that Isurus spp. may have declined by about 40% in the northwest Atlantic between 1986 and 2000 (Baum et al. 2003). A more recent assessment of observer data for the same fishery found a similar instantaneous rate of decline of 38% between 1992 and 2005 (Baum et al. in prep). A similar analysis of the same dataset and species grouping that restricted the areas of analysis to account for unbalanced observations, resulted in an overall decline of 48% from beginning to end of the time series (1992-2005; Cortes et al. in press). A 2004 ICCAT stock assessment workshop reported that stock depletions for north Atlantic Shortfin Mako are likely to have occurred based on CPUE declines of 50% or more. Demographic model results varied widely, with one approach suggesting present stock size is about 80% of virgin level, and another approach suggesting reductions to about 30% of virgin biomass (1950s) (Cortes et al. in press).
In the South Atlantic, the magnitude of decline appears to be smaller than in the north Atlantic and the stock size appears to lie above MSY, although only one modeling approach could be applied to the available data and assessments results were more uncertain than for the North Atlantic.
For both north and south Atlantic populations, uncertainties about demographic parameters and catches, and the uninformative nature of available catch data indicate that further analysis is necessary to properly delineate stock status. If historical Shortfin Mako catch is higher than the estimates in this report, the likelihood of the stock being below the biomass at MSY will surely increase (ICCAT 2005). A standardized catch rate index from the commercial large pelagic fishery off Canada suggested a decline in the 1970s and stable abundance since 1988 (Campana et al. 2005). However, the analysis did not have the statistical power to detect anything less than a severe decline and these sharks represent the margins of the population. The most heavily fished areas lie outside of Canadian waters. The median size of mako sharks in the commercial catch has declined since 1988, possibly indicating a loss of larger sharks (Campana et al. 2005).
Off Brazil, the highest and lowest catches of shortfin mako from Santos longliners were 235 and 29 t from 1971-2001. The CPUE and average weight decreased from 4.5 to 4.1 kg/1,000 hooks and 60 to 37.3 kg respectively (Amorim et al. 2002). About 20 t/yr were caught by gillnetters in southern Brazil between 1993-94 (Jorge Kotas, pers comm, CEPSUL-IBAMA, Brazil). The unstandardised CPUE in the Uruguayan longline fleet was low and stable (average 35 kg/1,000 hooks) from 1983 to 1998 and has increased steadily to 2004 (185 kg/1,000 hooks), lower in 2005 (90 kg/1000 hooks) (ICCAT data). According to Mourato et al. (in press), based on the landings records and logbooks from the Sao Paulo fleet operating off Southern Brazil, the standardized CPUE for the period 1971-2006 was fluctuating but showed a slight decline. In contrast, the standardization of the CPUE of 29 years in the Brazilian tuna longline fleet showed a slight upward trend (Hazin et al. in press). In Uruguay, the total captures oscillated through the years, mainly in low values (8 to 21 tons per year), and reached maximum values in 2003-2005 (up to 200 tons per year) (Domingo 2002, Domingo et al. 2008). The standardization of the mako shark CPUE in the Uruguayan pelagic longline fleet for the period 1981-2006 show a slight increase between 1989 and 2003, and a decreasing trend towards 2006 (Pons and Domingo in press).
In the Mediterranean, "Tonnarella" (tuna-trap) catches in the Ligurian Sea from 1950 to the 1970s show a rapid decline and eventual disappearance of the Shortfin Mako (Boero and Carli 1979). Landings data from Maltese waters for 1979-2001 (data from the Maltese fishery department) shows a decline although the fishing pressure was not changed. Historically described as common (end of 19th/beginning of 20th century), Soldo and Jardas (2002) report that there have been no records of Shortfin Mako in the eastern Adriatic since 1972. Since 1998, there have been few records of mako sharks from the central and eastern Mediterranean (A. Soldo pers. comm.). Previously, the species was considered common throughout the Mediterranean.
In the eastern north Pacific, tagging studies have been carried out by the California Department of Fish and Game (Anon. 2001), and more recently by the National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center (Holts and Kohin 2003, Holts et al. 2004). Using a consistent sample size of 28 sets of 200 hooks during each of eight years (1994-1997, 2000-2003), CPUE data showed a slight decline (Holts et al. (2004); y = -0.0696x + 1.0982, R2 = 0.5107). However, it does not appear to be sufficient to warrant serious concern about the population. The large horizontal (primarily north-south along the coastline, but with some inshore-offshore movements) (Holts et al. 2004) and vertical (up to ~500 m) (Holts and Kohin 2003, Sepulveda et al. 2004) movements of Shortfin Makos, a behaviour that could make them more or less available to the gear spatially but not necessarily indicating a population decline. Likewise, for males and females, there appeared to be a slight increase in the average size caught over the same eight years (y = 1.8368x + 112.38, R2 = 0.3751). This, combined with the CPUE changes would suggest that the biomass indices had not changed. The variability among years in CPUE can also be attributed to inter-annual oceanographic and climate changes, especially water temperature (http://www.pcouncil.org/hms/hmsback.html). Thus, although there are no precise or accurate population estimates, it appears that the population of shortfin makos in the eastern North Pacific has been relatively stable. (Taylor and Holts 2001, PFMC 2003).
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|Habitat and movements
The Shortfin Mako is an active, offshore littoral and epipelagic species, found in tropical and warm-temperate seas from the surface down to at least 500 m, seldom occurring where water temperature is <16°C (Compagno 2002). It is probably the fastest shark and is among the most active and powerful of fishes. Like other lamnid sharks, the Shortfin Mako is endothermic using a heat-exchanging circulatory system to maintain muscle and visceral temperatures above that of the surrounding seawater allowing a higher level of activity (Carey et al. 1981, Bernal et al. 2001). This shark occurs well offshore but penetrates the inshore littoral just off the surf zone in some areas such as parts of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa where the continental shelves are narrow. Off South Africa, shark meshing data suggests that this species occurs in clear to turbid water in water temperatures from 17-22°C. In the western north Atlantic it occurs in a similar range of temperatures, and only moves onto the continental shelf when surface temperatures exceed 17°C. In the eastern north Pacific, juveniles range into southern Californian waters and tend to be seen and caught near the surface. They appear to use these offshore continental waters as nursery areas (Taylor and Holts 2001). It was previously thought that they stay near the surface above 20 m depth, in waters between 20-21°C, seldom descending into cold subsurface waters below the thermocline (Holts and Bedford 1992). However, this has been challenged by more recent tracking studies (summarized below).
Results from a large tagging study in the western north Atlantic show that Shortfin Makos make extensive movements of up to 3,433 km with 36% of recaptures caught at greater than 420 km from their tagging site (Casey and Kohler 1992). However, only one fish crossed the mid-Atlantic ridge suggesting that trans-Atlantic migrations are not as common as in blue sharks Prionace glauca. Klimley et al. (2002) tracked three shortfin makos near La Jolla, California, for several days, and their movements were mainly offshore from the surface to 50 m. Holts and Kohin (2003) deployed pop-up archival tags on eight makos (118-275 cm TL) in June-July 2002 for 2-4 months. Pop-up locations ranged from 20-911 km from deployment locations. The sharks utilized near-shore and open-water areas off California and Baja California roughly between 23-43°N and out to 125°W. While the records indicate that greater than 90% of the time was spent above 50 m, several sharks showed a diurnal pattern of vertical excursions to beyond 200 m during daylight hours. Sharks frequently dove into water less than 10°C. These data demonstrate the range of habitats utilized by mako sharks and begin to shed light on their daily and seasonal behaviours. Sepulveda et al. (2004) found that seven tagged juveniles stayed near the surface at night, and went as deep as 200 m, mostly during the day. In addition, stomach temperatures were measured, indicating feeding occurred during the daytime, with meals taken during a dive causing stomach temperatures to drop noticeably.
Life History Parameters
The Shortfin Mako reaches a maximum size of about 4 m (Compagno 2001). Initial age and growth studies in the western north Atlantic suggested that two pairs of growth bands are laid down each year in their vertebral centra, at least in young shortfin makos (Pratt and Casey 1983). However, recent evidence using marginal increment analysis in Mexico (Ribot-Carballal et al. 2005) and bomb radiocarbon (Campana et al. 2002, Ardizzone et al. 2006) indicates that the alternative hypothesis (one pair of growth bands per year; Cailliet et al. 1983) is valid. Age at maturity has been determined recently in several populations, including New Zealand (7-9 years for males, and 19-21 years for females Bishop et al. (2006)), and the western north Atlantic (eight years for males, and 18 years for females (Natanson et al. 2006)). Longevity has been estimated as 29-32 years (Bishop et al. 2006, Natanson et al. 2006).
There is a large difference in size at sexual maturity between the sexes. In the northwest Atlantic, males reach maturity at about 195 cm and females at about 265-280 cm (Pratt and Casey 1983, Stevens 1983, Cliff et al. 1990). In New Zealand, males mature at 198-204 cm and females at 301-307 cm (Francis and Duffy 2005). Compagno (2001) reports males mature between 203-215 cm, reaching a maximum size of 296 cm, and females mature between 275-293 cm, reaching a maximum of almost 4 m.
The Shortfin Mako is ovoviviparous and oophagous, but what little is known of its reproductive cycle indicates the gestation period is 15-18 months, with a three year reproductive cycle (Mollet et al. 2002). Litter size is 4-25 pups (possibly up to 30, mostly 10-18), which are about 60-70 cm long at birth (Garrick 1967, Compagno 2001). There are comparatively few records of pregnant females. Among 26 shark species, the Shortfin Mako has an intrinsic rebound potential (a measure of its ability to recover from exploitation) in the mid-range (Smith et al. 1998). The annual rate of population increase is 0.046 yr-1 (S. Smith pers. comm.) Cortes (2002) calculated a finite rate of increase (lambda) of 1.141 (1.098 to 1.181 95% CI, r = 0.13) and the average reproductive age as 10.1 (9.2 to 11.1 95% CI) years.
The diet of Shortfin Makos has been reported to consist mainly of teleost fishes (including mackerels, tunas, bonitos and other scombrids, anchovies, herrings, grunts, lancet fishes, cod, ling, whiting and other gadids, salmon, yellowtails and other carangids, sea basses, porgies, swordfish) and cephalopods in studies from the northwest Atlantic and Australia (Stillwell and Kohler 1982, Stevens 1984), while elasmobranchs were the most common prey category from Natal, South Africa (Cliff et al. 1990). A daily ration of 2 kg/day (based on an average weight of 63 kg) was estimated for makos in the northwest Atlantic (Stillwell and Kohler 1982). Large makos (over 3 m in length) have very broad, more flattened and triangular teeth, perhaps better suited to cutting large prey than the awl-shaped teeth of smaller individuals (Compagno 1984a). There are several anecdotal accounts of makos attacking and consuming Broad-bill Swordfish Xiphias gladius. It also eats sea turtles, dolphins, salps and occasionally detritus (Compagno 1984a).
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Use and Trade:
This is one of the most valuable shark species for its high quality meat. The meat is utilized fresh, frozen, smoked and dried-salted for human consumption; the oil is extracted for vitamins; the fins used for shark-fin soup; the hides are processed into leather and the jaws and teeth are used for ornaments (Compagno 2001).
Big-game sports angling for mako sharks is widespread, e.g. New Zealand, South Africa and California - see Threats section above for more information.
Makos have become the subject of ecotourism diving in recent years, with most of the mako dive sites being off southern California from the Los Angeles Basin to San Diego, but with sites also in South Africa and the Maldives (Compagno 2001).
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The Shortfin Mako is an important species for pelagic longline, drifting or set gill nets and on hook-and-line fisheries wherever it occurs, particularly from nations with high seas fleets (Holts et al. 1998), because of its relatively high abundance (9.5-10% of pelagic sharks caught in Spanish long line fleets (Mejuto et al. 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007) and high quality meat. It is taken as a bycatch from tuna and swordfish longline fisheries worldwide, with carcasses and fins being retained. Big-game sports angling for mako sharks is widespread, New Zealand and South Africa being traditional places for offshore sports fishing. The International Game Fish Association lists the shortfin mako as a record game fish. In the 1980s mako angling became popular in the USA off southern California, with numerous anglers involved and mako tournaments rivaling competitive angling for marlin (Compagno 2001). Recreational fishing has also been reported in the Mediterranean, although there are no official data (A. Soldo pers. comm.).
Fisheries for Shortfin Mako exist or existed in the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, off Cuba, in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean, off southern California, and in the western and central Pacific (Compagno 2001). This is also a target of pelagic swordfish fisheries in the Atlantic and Pacific (Mejuto et al. IBID).
Despite the role of Shortfin Makos in worldwide pelagic fisheries, catches have been poorly reported to FAO. Catch data are incomplete, and the extent of finning in high seas fisheries is unclear. Brazil, New Zealand and the United States reported very small catches (2-76 t) to FAO from 1987-1997 (FAO FishStat Plus database 2000). Although it is difficult to accurately assess the conservation status of this shark because it is migratory and caught in numerous poorly monitored fisheries worldwide, it is reasonable to assume that decreases may be occurring in those areas for which there are limited or no data (Castro et al. 1999).
Shortfin Makos have been caught in large numbers particularly on the high seas in pelagic longline fisheries, but also in other commercial pelagic fisheries and recreational fisheries. The first longline fisheries were prosecuted by Japan in western equatorial waters beginning in 1956 (Uozumi and Nakano 1996). The fleet expanded rapidly in the 1960s, and covered almost the entire Atlantic by the late 1960s (Bonfil 1994), including the areas currently fished by the American fleet. Throughout the Atlantic, the fleet landed mako sharks and fins (Nakano 1993). In the US and Canadian pelagic longline fisheries, Shortfin Mako is one of the most commonly caught sharks. The index of abundance in the commercial longline fishery off the Atlantic coast of US has shown a steady decline (Cramer 1996) and other reports on declines are now available (Baum et al. 2003, Baum et al., in prep, ICCAT 2005, Cortes et al. in press: see Population section for details). As for recreational fishing, Casey and Hoey (1985) stated that the recreational catch of Shortfin Makos along the US Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico in 1978 was 17,973 fish weighing some 1,223 t. Between 1987 and 1989, the catch was about 1000 t/year (Casey and Kohler 1992) taken by longline and gillnet in the Southwest Atlantic (see Population section). Shortfin Mako shark is a high value bycatch of pelagic longline fisheries on the Atlantic coast of Canada and therefore retained (Campana et al. 2005).
In 1989, Bonfil (1994) estimated that 5,932 Shortfin Makos were caught by Korean longliners in the (mainly equatorial) Atlantic and that 763 t of makos were landed in the Spanish swordfish fishery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Mejuto (1985) noted that 304-366 t of mako shark was landed by longliners operating from northern Spain in 1983-84. More recently, shortfin mako sharks have comprised about 7% (~2,500 t) of the total catch of the large Spanish pelagic longline swordfish fleet in the Atlantic (Mejuto et al. 2005). Munoz-Chapuli et al. (1993) estimated that some 4,500 makos/year are landed from a longline fishery based at Algeciras, southern Spain (given an average weight of 20 kg this would represent about 90 t). The landings of Shortfin Makos as bycatch from the swordfish fishery of the Azorean fleet also showed a decrease (Castro et al. 1999). Shortfin Mako landings reported to ICCAT from Portuguese surface longline fisheries in the north Atlantic averaged about 698 t during 1993-1996 and 340 t for the period 1997-2002. Off Namibia, the large pelagic fisheries caught an estimated 123 t in 2001, 399 t in 2002 and 393 t in 2003 by means of pelagic longline. The 2001 catch is an underestimate as many boats grouped different shark species as "sharks" (MFMR catch data). Domingo (2002) records high catches of Shortfin Makos by the Uruguayan fleet in the early-mid 1980s (to a maximum of 144 t in 1984), followed by much lower catches (10-20 t/annum) in the 1990s. This does not necessarily reflect stock abundance because changes in the distribution and depth of fishing operations and rising mean temperature of water masses in the area had also occurred.
It has been estimated that in the early 1990s, the Spanish longline fleet caught approximately 750 t/y of Shortfin Mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea (Bonfil 1994, Compagno 2001). The Brazilian longlining fleet based in Santos landed between 13.3 and 138.3 t annually between 1971 and 1990 (Costa et al. 1996, Compagno 2001). Despite increasing fishing effort during this period, the CPUE of Shortfin Makos has remained relatively stable with an initial slight decreasing trend followed by a slight increasing trend (Compagno 2001).
No complete data are available for the northeast Atlantic, but the species is taken as a bycatch of the pelagic fishery. The area around the Strait of Gibraltar is considered a nursery area for central Atlantic Shortfin Makos and most specimens caught are juveniles. This area is heavily fished by the swordfish longline fishery off the western coast of Africa and Iberian peninsula. There is also evidence that Shortfin Makos are becoming increasingly targeted in the western Mediterranean. EU vessels fishing for small pelagic species off the western coast of Africa are also known to take significant elasmobranch bycatch, including Shortfin Makos in unknown numbers.
Reports of "Tonnarella" catches in the Ligurian Sea from 1950 until the 1970s show a rapid decline and eventual disappearance of the Shortfin Mako (INP 2000). Recent investigations of the shortfin mako bycatch from the swordfish longline fishery in the western basin show that catches from this fishery consist almost exclusively of juveniles. It is likely that the western Mediterranean is a nursery area for the eastern Central Atlantic population Soldo and Jardas (2002) report that there have been no records of shortfin mako in the eastern Adriatic since 1972 (where they were historically common).
Even though driftnetting is banned in Mediterranean waters, this practise has continued illegally (WWF 2005). The Moroccan swordfish driftnet fleet in the Alboran Sea operates year round, resulting in high annual effort levels (Tudela et al. 2005). Even though sharks are a secondary target or bycatch of this fishery, some boats deploy driftnets 1-2 miles from the coast where the chance of capturing pelagic sharks is higher. The catch rate for Shortfin Mako is nearly three times higher in boats actively fishing for sharks (from 0.6 to 1.9 N/fishing operation and 0.06 to 0.14 catch per km net). Both annual catches and mean weights of shortfin mako have fallen as a result of fishing mortality in the Moroccan driftnet fishery, illustrating the likely impact of this illegal fishery on stocks in the Alboran Sea and adjacent Atlantic (Tudela et al. 2005).
Megalofonou et al. (2005) reported 321 specimens caught as bycatch in tuna and swordfish fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea. Of those, 268 specimens were caught in Alboran Sea, 42 in Balearic Islands area, three in Catalonian Sea, while only eight specimens were caught in central and eastern Mediterranean area, e.g., Levantine basin. Furthermore, most of caught specimens were juveniles, with only a few large specimens from Levantine basin. Of 595 specimens caught in south Spain waters all of them were immature juveniles (Buencuerpo et al. 1998). Reports from the Ligurian Sea show a significant decline since the 1970s (Boero and Carli 1979).
Estimates of mako bycatch in various gillnet fisheries in the north Pacific are given in Bonfil (1994). Bycatch in the Japanese salmon fishery in 1989 was about 15 t, and about 63 t was taken in the squid fishery in 1990. In the Japanese large-mesh driftnet fishery in the South Pacific, about 286 t of Shortfin Mako was caught in 1990. The Spanish pelagic longline fishery for swordfish and sharks is expanding rapidly in the Pacific. Shortfin Makos comprise about 5% (~600-700 t) of the total catch of this fleet (Mejuto et al. 2007).
Reported average catch rates for Shortfin Makos vary from 0.3-3.4 sharks per 1,000 hooks (Stevens and Wayte 1999). Stevens (in press) used stratified catch rates in conjunction with fishing effort and average weights to estimate a catch of 4,100 t caught by high-seas longlining in the Pacific in 1994. Longline fleets take about 100-200 t from around New Zealand each year (Ministry of Fisheries Science Group 2006) and about 100 t were taken in Australian EEZ waters by Japanese tuna vessels each season (Stevens and Wayte 1999).
A coastal driftnet fishery for juvenile Shortfin Mako shark developed during the late 1970s in California; landings reached 242 t in 1982, fluctuated between 102-278 t from 1983-91 and declined to less than 100 t after 1991 (Holts et al. 1998). An experimental coastal longline fishery targeting makos took between 50 and 120 t annually during 1988-91 before the fishery was closed. Bycatch will continue to be an issue in the drift gillnet and longline fisheries until effective measures are developed which reduce the bycatch to close to zero (Crooke 2001). Although makos are not targeted in these fisheries, they are kept as the third most valuable species. The Shortfin Mako shark was taken by the high seas shark and swordfish drift longline fishery, which developed between 1991 and 1994 (Taylor and Holts 2001) outside the US 200-nm Exclusive Economic Zone prior to its closure in spring 2004. A small portion of the catch was landed in California with annual landings ranging from 9,523 to 128,116 pounds between 1991 and 1999.
The present status of the shortfin mako shark in state and federal waters off California is not known but is of some concern (Taylor and Holts 2001). This is mainly because adult mako sharks do not frequent California's coastal waters. A possible threat to the mako population off California and in the eastern Pacific would be the potential for over-development of fisheries within the coastal nursery. Therefore, continued efforts to monitor the Shortfin Mako shark juveniles are needed.
Makos have long been prized game fish along the east coast of the U.S. (Taylor and Holts 2001) (see Threats section). In the mid-to late-1980s, estimates of the number of California angler trips for sharks grew ten-fold from 41,000 to 410,000 annually: the principal target being Shortfin Mako. After the increase during the 1980s, the sport fishery has stabilized at a relatively high level. Total annual landings (sport and commercial) peaked in 1987 at 464,308 pounds and again in 1994 at 394,792 pounds. In both cases, landings declined rapidly in the two years following the peaks. Currently, commercial passenger fishing vessels run fishing trips on a regular basis from nearly all ports in southern California.
In Chile, the only target fishery for shortfin mako is a spring-summer longline fishery off the northern coast (Acuña et al. 2002). In Ecuador, there is evidence that catches of Shortfin Makos have declined from a high of 2,000 t in 1994 to lows approaching 100 t in 2000 and 2001 (Herrera et al. in press).
Off California, early juvenile shortfin makos were targeted by a short-lived experimental drift longline fishery and are a welcome bycatch in the driftnet fishery for swordfish (Cailliet et al. 1993, Compagno 2001). Up to 475 t of Shortfin Makos were taken jointly by these fisheries in 1987, and although CPUE did not show a declining trend there, concerns over the heavy exploitation of immature fish prompted the closure of the experimental longline fishery in 1992 (O'Brien and Sunada 1994, Compagno 2001). Total bycatch of shortfin makos in the former high-seas driftnet fisheries in the North Pacific in the early 1990s was estimated at about 360 t/y (Bonfil 1994, Compagno 2001). This species is apparently very common in the tuna fisheries of Indonesia: unconfirmed reports indicate that landings of shortfin makos from Indonesian waters attained 5 200 t in 1995 and that the estimated potential is about 16 000 t/y (Priyono 1998, Compagno 2001).
Indo-West Pacific
This species is taken by tuna and shark longline fisheries in Indonesia (White et al. 2006) and throughout many areas of its range in the Indo-West Pacific. Pelagic fisheries have operated in the Indian Ocean for more than 50 years; Japanese long-liners in the eastern Indian Ocean since 1952 and in the western region since 1956. Russian, Taiwanese and South Korean vessels have fished there since 1954-1966 (Gubanov and Paramonov 1993). The Spanish swordfish longline fishery, which also targets sharks, is also active across the Indian Ocean (ICCAT 2006). Sharks are targeted in several areas, including off India where they are captured on using hook and line and in large mesh gillnets, which are among the worlds largest (Anderson and Simpfendorfer 2005). Finning and discarding of carcasses has also been reported, especially in offshore and high seas fisheries (Anderson and Simpfendorfer 2005). A recent review of fisheries in the Indian Ocean (Young et al. 2006) reported that sharks in this region are considered fully to over-exploited. Its distribution overlaps many intensive pelagic fisheries in this area. Although species-specific catch data are not currently available from this region, given the declines observed where it is heavily fished elsewhere, declines in this area are inferred based on continuing high levels of exploitation.
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A vast improvement in the collection of data is required and effective conservation of this species will require international agreements. Fishing pressure must be considerably decreased through reduction in effort, catch limits, measures to enhance chances of survival after capture, when released and possibly through the implementation of large-scale oceanic non-fishing areas. Closed areas can only be effective if overall fishing effort is reduced, rather than merely displacing effort outside of the closed area (Baum et al. 2003).
The Shortfin Mako is listed as a highly migratory species under the 1995 UN Agreement on the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (UNFSA). The Agreement specifically requires coastal and fishing States to cooperate and adopt measures to ensure the conservation of listed species. To date, there has been little progress (see http://www.unclos.com for further details). Also of relevance is the FAO International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (IPOA-Sharks) which recommends that Regional Fisheries Organisations (RFOs) carry out regular shark population assessments and that member States cooperate on joint and regional shark management plans. This is of particular importance for species such as shortfin mako whose stocks are exploited by many State on the high seas. Steps are being taken by some RFOs, such as ICCAT, to collect species-specific data on pelagic sharks. To date two RFOs, ICCAT and IATTC, have adopted finning bans, as have several range states (e.g., Canada, USA, EU, Australia, Brazil etc.). More are likely to follow suit.
A recent shark stock assessment (ICCAT 2005) reported that the overall volume of catch reported to ICCAT does not represent the total removals of sharks and that the data are also very limited with respect to the size-, age- and sex- composition of the catch. It is noted that improvements in the ICCAT shark database can only be achieved if the Contracting Parties increase infrastructure investment into monitoring the overall catch composition and disposition of the catch of sharks and by-catch species. The workshop recommended larger monitoring and research investments directed at sharks in particular and by-catch species. The group also identified a number of research activities that could provide for improved advice on the status of these species. This situation applies to all RFOs and is included here as a standard that needs to be applied internationally.
In 2004 ICCAT requested that management recommendations for this species be developed in 2005 for consideration by the Commission (ICCAT 2004), so far without effect. In the fall of 2008, ICCAT and the ICES Working Group on Elasmobranch Fishes (WGEF) plan to assess shortfin mako jointly. In 2007, at the data preparatory meeting of ICCAT's Shark Sub-committee, it was emphasized that the contribution of CPUE and historical catch data by the member countries would be very important for the stock assessment of this species to be made at the 2008 meeting.
Northwest Atlantic and western central Atlantic
Canada and the USA have shark management plans (NMFS 1993; Joyce 1999). In the US, this species is included in the Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan (FMP). The 1995 Fisheries Management Plan for pelagic sharks in Atlantic Canada established precautionary catch levels of 100 t for Shortfin Makos in the longline pelagic shark fishery. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) recently assessed Shortfin Mako in Canada as "threatened". It has undergone a Recovery Potential Assessment and it is being determined whether the species will be placed on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act. License limitation, a ban on finning, restrictions on gear, area and seasons, by-catch limits and restrictions to recreational fishers permitting hook and release only were also implemented (Hurley 1998). Since 1993, shark fisheries in Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters in the US have been managed under the Fishery Management Plan for Sharks of the Atlantic Ocean. The plan set commercial quotas for 10 species of pelagic sharks at 580 t dressed weight annually, with recreational bag limits also applied.
Within the north Atlantic and Mediterranean this species has been identified as a high priority for management. Anonymous (2003) suggested that a collaborative stock assessment should be carried out in the future.
The draft action plan for the conservation of cartilaginous fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (Anonymous 2002) highlights that the Shortfin Mako, along with other large pelagic sharks (whether as target or bycatch), urgently require measures to ensure their sustainable management in the Mediterranean.
On the west coast of the US, declines in the coastal driftnet fishery taking thresher and shortfin makos led to management actions in 1985. Management now comprises of limited entry, mandatory logbooks, and specific time-area closures. An experimental longline fishery targeting Shortfin Makos was terminated (Hanan et al. 1993, Holts et al. 1998). Bag limits for recreational take of makos in California were introduced in 1991. The draft Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan (PFMC 2003) indicates that the shortfin mako population is not overfished and they have set a harvest guideline of 150 t off California, Oregon and Washington. US west coast based longline fishing for swordfish is currently prohibited and expected to reopen in the fall of 2005 under new restrictions. The Hawaii based swordfish longline fishery recently reopened with restrictions aimed at preventing turtle mortalities. New Zealand included shortfin mako shark in its Quota Management System in October 2004.
In Chile, there are gear regulations for the shortfin mako artisanal fishery and since 2002 fishing areas and register of boats in the National Marine Service is required, the access to the fishery is also regulated (E. Acuña pers. comm.).
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Same old Scabby naked
It's Filthy Scab Pamela Anderson in New Zealand walking down the runway for Richie Rich. And somehow her tit popped out. Oh and her ass too.
They call it fashion.
This is fashion???
Scabby is supposedly broke. Apparently she's $1.2 million in the hole after renovating her house last year. The contractor claims she hasn't paid her bills so he's filed a lien on her property. Been saying it for years: Scabby's on the hustle. And she blows through her money.
We Canadians act like she's some kind of f-ckin' hero. Next time someone starts clapping and screaming for Scabby at a public event, would a slap in the face be wrong to restore their senses? Civic duty.
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Whoa, nice.
I remember 2001 also, which was also attract so much attention. People were burning flags, an Armenian movie Ararat was banned.
There are many countries which recognize genocide, but France is about taking it to a new level with convicting those who advocates otherwise. Some political parties here brought some law drafts to assembly for accepting France's actions in Algeria as genocide for retaliation, which is also totally ridiculous.
I wasn't serious but here people talking about boycotting French originated products.
Have you heard about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature..._aRVKM-I#t=27s
She seems offended.
I have to remove you from my friend list, sorry I'm saying goodbye to all my French friends.
Haha :P ok well done the eiffel tower, arc de triumphe, notre dame, champs elysee, sacre coure, montmartre, mmmm probably a bit more cant quite remember everything!
hey just wondering do you have any suggestions on things to do in Paris? Like less popular things. I've been twice before so have been to all the touristy places, and just looking for some places more off the beaten track?
Of all times, I was damn close once to use that strategy (had it as a plan), but the date got cancelled.
That's the only scary good thing about me though.
It seems impossible to find your first post with available search conditions. You gotta give me some keywords
Thanks again, yep, that's what I wanted! I usually don't care for such things, but I feel like I owe you a friend request at the very least .
No man - no problem.
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Address: 80 Upper Street, London N1 0NU
Tel: 020 7359 3399
Nearest Tube station: Angel
Ratings (out of 5 *)
Price: below £15 pp
Service charge: 10%
Taste: ****
Service: ***
Ambience: **I've got this unwavering belief about food and that is that the enjoyment of it depends on a great deal other than the amount of care put into preparing it, the freshness of the ingredients and even the pedigree of the chef preparing it.
I'm sure you can attest to how a fantastic dinner can be spoilt by a rude waiter, a noisy toddler bawling in the next table or simply the fact that you just had a bad day. That's why I'm always a bit sceptical when I read about reviews that are a tad extreme. Morgan M is a case in point. We left the one Michelin star restaurant feeling more than disappointed at the sorbet theme meal.
That said, it often helps when you don't actually know much about the cuisine itself. That way, you wouldn't have any preconception of how the food should be prepared and focus on whether the dish set in front of you actually tastes good. People have been telling me that Giraffe's Malaysian laksa taste good ("It is the best laksa I've ever tasted in my life," the person who has never set foot in Southeast Asia told me). Well, I guess my sole issue with Giraffe's laksa is that it is served with green curry, which doesn't quite taste like green curry. Anyway, just in case you are wondering, the point I'm trying to make here is that so long that you like a particular restaurant or dish, don't let the purists get to you. But just in case, check out the what the purist recommends as well.
I know as much about Indian food as I know about Russian cuisine. Well, other than the roti prata that I have back home, I am not really into Indian food. In fact, I have more Indian food in London for the past three years than I have all my life back home (not counting the pratas of course). I made no secret that I like Gufaa and Feanor was aghast when he knew about that. He pointed me to Masala Zone, a couple of doors down Islington Upper Street.
Now, I'm a fan of Masala Zone and am not ashamed to flaunt it.
One thing about coming from Singapore is that I tend to equate spiciness with chilli. If it ain't hot, it's ain't spicy. That, of course, can't be further from the truth. Indian cuisine has got this knack of packing different degrees of spiciness all within a single dish.
Masala Zone's Delhi samosa chaat (£4.50) is a case in point. This 'street food' looks deceivingly simple with mainly yogurt, tamarind chutney and a heavily spiced warm samosa packed with peas, raisins and nuts. Go on the yogurt first, dip into the tamarind chutney before digging into the samosa to get the full flavour.
Masala Zone offers a £9 lunch set that comes with a chicken thali with a starter (I went for the samosa). The butter chicken curry that comes with the thali though spicy is hardly (chilli) hot but that suited me just fine. Love the papadoms and chutney that came with it though the cabbage and potatoes was a bit bland.
Wife thought that the chapatti was too floury and I agree. But it was handy polishing off the chick pea curry. Then again, you might want to go with rice instead of chapatti if you can't handle the flour.
Interestingly, the service staff is much warmer during dinnertime. It might be that there was only one lady serving the entire restaurant during lunch and she seemed rather harried. On a separate note, you wouldn't want to leave visiting the loo till the last minute though. It takes some navigating through a red hued corridor, one wrong turn and you might end up in the back lane.
Monday, 8 November 2010
Masala Zone review - Islington Indian cuisine in full spice mode
Address: 80 Upper Street, London N1 0NU
2 comments:
- Su-Lin said...
I quite like Masala Zone too! It opened while I was a student and all my Indian friends recommended it.
Giraffe is pretty grim, isn't it? Well, their burgers are alright but I was so let down by a terrible huevos rancheros and now you tell me their laksa is with GREEN CURRY?!
- November 10, 2010
- C K said...
The funny thing is that Giraffe at Angel Islington is quite popular with mothers as there's a baby changing room, which is always convenient. Other than that, I see no reason why people would frequent there. Seriously.
Yep, Masala Zone comes heavily recommended by my Indian pals as well. Do you know of any other good Indian eating places in London?
- November 11, 2010


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Chicken in a duck in a turkey - that's a Christmas feast!
VEGETARIANS, look away now.
Nothing screams carnivore Christmas excess quite like a turducken.
That's a de-boned chicken, stuffed into a de-boned duck, all wrapped up in a de-boned turkey.
The three-bird roast is this festive season's biggest triple threat to your stomachs, your arteries and probably your oven.
Warana butcher Liam Richards, of Mick's Meat Barn, has sold about 15 of the poultry behemoths, which sell for $100 each and take up to four hours to cook.
"We've been doing them for a couple of years and every year we do a couple more," he said.
"People want them because they've got lots of people coming around. They'll get a ham and a turducken if they've got 20 or 30 people coming.
"It is five kilos of pure meat - you need a lot of people to eat it.
"And they taste sensational."
Mr Richards said the turduckens took a "fair bit of mucking around" to make, but were worth the indulgence.
"We're famous for doing things differently and I like them," he said.
"I reckon they are a fantastic idea. They are a bit different and something people can treat themselves with.
"We've got turkeys, ducks and chickens here, so it's only a matter of putting them together."
Mick's have sold about 80 turkeys this year and more than 1000 hams.
Mr Richards said anyone wanting a turducken should order fast to secure what is sure to be the star of the Christmas table.
- According to National Geographic, the Turducken was invented in 1985, by brothers Sammy and Junior Hebert at their family butcher in Louisiana.
- Between the family's four butcher shops, more than 10,000 turduckens are sold every year. But there are earlier references to a similar roast.
In 1807, a French cook was inspired by the ancient Romans to cook an "incomparable roast" featuring 17 different birds.


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Hi all,
I'm fairly new to kiteboarding and would like to get some kites and a board now that I can ride upwind. I found a kiteboarding calculator here - is it accurate? http://jimbodouglass.blogspot.ca/2011/0 ... lator.html
I'm 6', 165-170lbs, and will be kiting in Squamish and Toronto area. Squamish is around 15-25kts, where Toronto is usually under 10kts. My instructor's usually been putting me on a 10m with a 150 bidirectional board in Squamish and it's worked well. Haven't yet kited in Toronto.
I recognize these are two really different situations, so any recommendations for equipment for each area?


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Piloting a wide range of aircraft, players engage in aerial dogfights and dangerous fighter missions across the major theaters of war during WWII. New to the genre, Combat Wings introduces leading-edge multiplayer features allowing players to challenge each other in different multiplayer modes including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Racing, Team Racing, Bomb-Target Hunting, Mission Survival, and Fleet Escorting.
Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WWII delivers an action-packed aerial combat experience on the Nintendo Wii. Players assume the role of one of four pilots taking on the Axis alliance during four different air campaigns, including the intense Battle of Britain, the war in Africa, the Eastern Front and the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
With more than 20 types of aircraft from both sides of the conflict -- from the fabled P-38 Lightning and Britain's Spitfire to the feared Messerschmitt 109 and Japanese Kate -- players take on the same missions as WWII pilots, ranging from bombing runs and dog fights to manning defensive positions such as a gunner on a bomber or anti-aircraft site.
Key Features:
- Pick-up-and-playability. Explosive arcade action alongside advanced physics and painstaking recreation of actual events and aircraft creates an experience that's easily accessible but hard to master;
- All aircraft are based on authentic models and all combat missions are representative of actual WWII engagements;
- Accessible behind-the-aircraft view means the gameis not a sterile simulation, but an advanced air combat arcade shooter;
- Fun, dynamic battles offer a wide variety of action and most importantly targets to destroy – any given battle will combine dogfighting, escort missions and ground assault;
- Multiplayer aerial deathmatch provides players the chance to test their mettle against human opponents;
- Single-player game modes include Free Flight where players can choose a plane and roam over faithfully created environments, and Dogfight where players can pit their wits against up to nine AI-controlled opponents.
- Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WWII weaves a compelling narrative into action taken from the pages of history, pitting pilots against massive odds in some of the most iconic battles of the age.
- Each of the four campaigns introduces multiple characters – both on your side and the enemy's – creating the ties that help you fight for your comrades, and the added incentive to hunt down your foes.
- Battle Of Britain: Fresh from training, you have arrived at an airfield on the coast of England in time for the epic showdown with the Luftwaffe during the Battle Of Britain. Together with your wingmen, you will rise through the ranks by defeating relentless German bomber raids and terrifying V-1 flying rockets.
- North Africa: Playing as a veteran, you and you two wingmen will fight above the desert of North Africa, supporting the British Eighth Army in its conflict with the Afrika Korps. The trio will encounter fierce dogfights over besieged Tobruk, sink German convoys on the Mediterranean Sea, and support Montgomery's armored offensive at El Alamein.
- The Eastern Front: As a young Soviet pilot you will help halt the Nazi invasion of your homeland during the desperate defense of Mother Russia. As you prove your skills in the cockpit, you will experience the turning of the tide and soon will be taking part in the final push to Berlin.
- The Pacific: Arriving at Midway Atoll immediately before the Japanese attack, you will be thrust straight into the action as you attempt to fend off the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy and its fearsome carrier air wing. With your wingmen, you'll fight savage dogfights and take part in devastating assaults on the fleet.
- Combat Wings fully supports PS Move for PlayStation 3 and allows for fluid, intuitive motion control to place the player right into the heart of the action.
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*1/2 (out of four)
Truth: My lifelong Cubs fandom doesn't make me biased against "Don't Stop Believin'," a documentary about the new-ish frontman for massive '80s rock band Journey, whose iconic song became the theme for the 2005 World Series champion White Sox.
What I am biased against, however, are music docs that tell less than half the story. It happens a lot. Recently, "Katy Perry: Part of Me" purported to take an inside look at the backstage heartbreak of the candy-cane and cleavage princess and delivered only fluff (and cleavage). Similarly, "Don't Stop Believin' " chronicles the members of Journey discovering Filipino singer Arnel Pineda on YouTube and hiring him full-time about five years ago. Of course there's inspiration to this only-in-the-Internet age story, a 21st century, real-life version of Mark Wahlberg's rise in "Rock Star." That Pineda grew up poor and eventually was homeless on the streets of Manila makes his eventual stardom that much sweeter.
Yet the way director Ramona S. Diaz interviews only those closely tied to the band and constantly tries to assert the wisdom of adding Pineda, you'd think "Don't Stop Believin'" were made by a member of Pineda's family. The film glosses over any tough details, from the late-'90s departure of longtime Journey singer Steve Perry to Pineda's problems with drugs and alcohol before he joined Journey. How does he feel about audiences who spout racial epithets, or that he had to give up his original voice to sing another artist's songs? Or that it never seems like he's truly integrated into the band, merely a guy who shows up for gigs and gets thanked by the real members?
No idea. Other than tiny complaints about traveling and battling illness, Pineda's all smiles, as if the film has passed through a publicist before hitting theaters. "Don't Stop Believin' " includes Pineda stating, "I'm living a fairy tale right now" but completely loses track of his friend and biggest fan who uploaded Pineda's work to YouTube and is thus partially responsible for the Journey singer's gig. Rather than shade the story, Diaz thinks screaming fans and Pineda's newfound opportunity to meet Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley backstage is happy ending enough.
Because clearly Journey's just as popular now as they ever were and will be around forever …
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Welcome to Slate's first "Gallery." To supplement our regular art criticism, Slate is introducing a monthly feature that will showcase art we think is worth taking a look at. The slide show will be selected by Mia Fineman, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum who writes regularly for Slate. (We'll have some guest curators, too.) This gallery will be wide-ranging, but we're hoping to emphasize exciting new video and digital art—the kind of art that is hard to reproduce in print magazines. Take a look and see what you think.
Edward Burtynsky, the Canadian photographer whose
Over the past 25 years, Burtynsky has photographed rail-cuts in the mountains of British Columbia, oil fields in Southern California, copper mines in Utah, marble quarries in Italy, and the Day-Glo residue of nickel-mining in Ontario. He has traveled to India and Bangladesh to document the toxic process of ship-breaking (dismantling decommissioned oil tankers to salvage scrap metal). Most recently, he chronicled the construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China, a project that destroyed 11 cities and displaced 1.2 million people. (This work is the subject of his forthcoming book, Edward Burtynsky: China and a solo show at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York, opening Oct. 6.)
Judging from these subjects, you might get the impression that Burtynsky is an environmental activist. In fact, his position on the moral and political implications of his work is studiously neutral. He doesn't point fingers or call for change; instead, he accepts industry's exploitation of the land as the inevitable result of modern progress. "We have extracted from the land from the moment we stood on two feet," he said in an interview in the exhibition catalog. "The entire 20th century has been a revving up of this large consumptive engine. It's not a question of whether we are going to stop consuming. It's not going to happen … "
Burtynsky's large-scale color photographs are unabashedly beautiful—but are they too beautiful? Do these images aestheticize the ruined landscape, encouraging us to accept the devastation of the land with equanimity? Or does their beauty seduce us into looking at things we'd prefer to ignore, forcing us at least to acknowledge the destruction we've wrought? Every time I look at these photographs, I come up with different answers to these questions—which is part of what makes Burtynsky's work so compelling.
Slatehas gathered these images to let you decide for yourself. Click here to view a slide show of Burtynsky's photographs.
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The Cisco Clean Access Agent is part of the Cisco Network Access Control (or NAC) network security solution that will provide you with a secure and clean network environment by preventing infected and vulnerable machines from joining the University's network. At the same time, it will provide necessary directions and help pages for machines that do not pass the security requirements. UTHSC has implemented the use of the Cisco NAC and Clean Access Agent to make your network experience productive and secure. The Clean Access Agent ensures that any computers connected to the network have sufficient virus protection and system updates installed. Users who want access to the network must pass these checks to get online.
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LIFE on the Northern Rivers seems to suit investigative journalist Kerry O'Brien.
"It's like no other place I can think of in Australia," O'Brien told the audience at Byron United's business breakfast yesterday.
But he has been surprised by our persistent sub-tropical rain.
"You've got to take the bad with the good and I do quite like the rain," O'Brien laughed.
The discussion between O'Brien and radio's Phil Daly gave insight into Australia's most trusted current affairs interviewer.
And when it comes to the modern media it's clear O'Brien has a dim view of the 24-hour-news cycle.
"The question is, is the news of a higher quality? No. Is it more superficial? Yes," O'Brien said.
"I suspect deep down we are less satisfied with what we're getting."
In his 46 years as a journalist, O'Brien has interviewed everyone from Nelson Mandela to Margaret Thatcher and Bette Midler.
But he said his favourite person to interview was politician John Button and that interviewing President Barack Obama was a breath of "fresh air" in comparison to Australian politicians.
He also discussed war reporting and said reporters embedded with US troops in the second Gulf War failed to cover the civilian side of the story.
"To me it felt eerily like war as entertainment," O'Brien said.
He also recalled the pressure of being one of around 500 correspondents trying to upload vision of the US invasion of Grenada.
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Water can assist with improving mobility, flexibility, balance and strength, and decrease pain. A physical therapist prescribes exercises for each patient/client and the exercises are performed in a therapeutic pool heated to 87 degrees. An access ramp allows easy entrance into the pool where a wide variety of resistance equipment is available for use. This unique pool features a movable floor which changes the depth of the water from 0 to 7 feet.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nancy Pelosi, head of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives, said on Tuesday she still believes a U.S. debt default can be averted.
Emerging from talks with President Barack Obama at the White House, Pelosi skewered House Republican plans to vote on legislation that would change Obama's healthcare law and said a Senate plan is preferable.
If House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner proceeds with a vote on the House Republican plan, said Pelosi, he will need to pass it without any Democratic votes whatsoever. House Republicans believe they can pass the plan without Democratic votes.
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The weather station on the Cedar Key dock hit the big one Tuesday morning as a line of storms moved through Levy County clocking winds gusting up to 91 miles per hour.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission host a webinar and two public meetings to gather input on the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council's "Path Forward" document and Florida's restoration projects.
The webinar is at noon Tuesday, Feb. 26, and registration information can be found here.
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning until 8 p.m. for Levy County and surrounding areas.
A 90-year-old Levy County man is dead after contracting eastern equine encephalitis, according to the Levy County Health Department.
A new state-funded "safety corridor" in Cedar Key for bicyclists and pedestrians is in the works along State Road 24, though the public is in disagreement on just how and where the corridor should be built.
A conspiracy of Black Skimmers was spotted - and photographed - last week in Cedar Key. The Black Skimmer is the only bird species in the United States that has a larger lower mandible than upper mandible, according to the National Audobon Society. Black Skimmers breed along Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Massachusetts and Long Island to Florida and Texas and spends winters north to southern California and Virginia; also in Central and South America. Preferred habitats include sandy or gravelly bars and beaches, shallow bays, estuaries and salt marsh pools.
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The Cedar Key Arts Center has issued a call to artists for its March show of three dimensional works.
All entries must be original work by an artist and works must be delivered to the Arts Center Gallery by Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 5 p.m. All pieces must be cleaned and ready to display (with accompanying hardware and specific instructions). There is a $5 entry fee with a limit of three submissions per artist.
Prizes of $100, $50, and $25 will be awarded based on originality and artisanship.
Windy days and windy nights – that seems to be this week's routine.
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Well-prepared venison doesn't need much more than a little salt and pepper, we know, but now and then a marinade can give an extra flavor boost to our favorite meat.
By Alan Clemons, Southern Managing Editor
Marinades should not mask the meat's flavor. Chef Scott Leysath told me that years ago and he's right. If your meat – game animal or domestic – has a whang that you believe needs to be masked by a marinade or rub then you probably should reconsider eating it. Marinades are enhancers, not hiders.
One thing a good marinade can do is help break down the fibers of the meat. Acids do this, such as those found in orange juice or pineapple juice. The enzymes do a little number on the meat fibers, and whatever other things you include in the marinade – soy, fresh herbs and so on – then can be absorbed a bit easier.
Fresh herbs … use them if possible. This includes fresh garlic. Get a garlic press and get busy. I don't mind using the minced garlic in a jar because it's convenient, but there's something about freshly minced, sliced or diced garlic. Grow your own herbs and you'll have rosemary, thyme, mint and other great ones to use.
Ben Sobieck, our D&DH Online Community Manager, whipped up a venison marinade Thursday consisting of pineapple, soy sauce, ginger and jalapeno peppers. That's it! The photo with this post shows the simplicity; marinades don't have to be fancy or have a ton of ingredients.
Here are a couple of other quick and great marinades from our cookbook, "We Kill It We Grill It":
2 Day Veni Marinade(Submitted by Debra Grutzius) 1/3 cup soy sauce 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 Tbsp ground ginger 1 garlic clove 2 bay leaves 1/2 cup pineapple juice 2 pounds venison steak
Combine all ingredients and allow venison to marinate for at least 48 hours. Then cook on the grill to desired doneness.
Lenaye's Must-Make MarinadeVenison 1/2 cup soy sauce 1/2 cup Cajun garlic sauce 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar (can use white vinegar, too) Juice of 1/2 lemon 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp chopped garlic 3 Tbsp brown sugar 1 Tbsp Montreal Steak Seasoning 4 green onions, chopped
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Could you share how to post large images with the link to other photo site step by step? Thanks.
Hasselbladfan, this camera is slow to write to the memory card (one could probably say very slow), and you just have to get used to it and live with it. Those of us who have used other Sigma foveon cameras have already gotten used to it; this wasn't anything new. But the quality of the images from the DP2M leaves us very ready to tolerate the slow pace. One feels very fortunate to have this camera in hand. --Barbara
Been printing with Epson ABW lately....I am close to making the plunge and converting my Epson 3800 to Piezographic inks by Cone Color....anyone gone this direction??Handheldf7.1iso 1601\320thFoveonic
Over the last 10 years, I've taken over 2000 images in this location, averaging around 70 per trip. Today, I got less than 30. Fumbling with controls, the use of manual focus and waiting for the camera to be ready for the next image were major contributors to this result.
I sure wish that LR4 supported the camera's raw data.
This forum thread is about the DP2Merrill and not the DP2. You're only missing the point that the DP2 and DP2 Merrill are two entirely different cameras and LR4 doesn't support the Merrill.


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I would take a development team that frequently lost over a minor pro team that consistently won any day of the week. I would argue that the day-to-day challenges are a tad harder for them in Utica but I think the hard lessons learned with the ice time will serve them better in the pros. The real challenge is for them to maintain and build their confidence - which is a saw-off between either case whether you're winning but barely playing or losing but playing a ton. Oklahoma kicked some ass during the lockout with the kids down there, but where's Edmonton now?herb wrote:In Chicago it seemed like the Wolves lack of interest in playing our young guys affected at least partly the development of guys like Schroeder, Kassian, Archibald and Mallet who were given limited roles or bumped down to the ECHL. In Utica, the shitty team I'm sure has made things harder for our prospects.
Hopefully next year, with the likely additions of Fox and Gaunce, as well as continued improvement in net from Ericsson and Cannata, the team can be more competitive. Maybe we should hope for an early exit by the Erie Otters so these guys can get to Utica this season!
Getting more prospects onto the farm (Fox, Gaunce and the college kids) can only help even if only to foster some competition for call-ups and give a better gauge on who's growing on the farm regardless of the score. Times like these I wish we could get some of these overagers into the 'A' already.


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Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages and Literatures A. Henry Bova passed away on Aug. 23, 2013, in Fitchburg, Wis. He was 77.
Known as "Hank" to Beloiters, he was a professor of French from 1965 to 2001 and helped establish and maintain a number of international exchange programs, traveling to France, Germany, Switzerland, Morocco, Tahiti, Brazil, and Chile on behalf of the college. He was deeply involved in Beloit's study abroad program in Rennes, France, which he directed for many years. In addition to teaching French, he taught German and Italian language and literature. His fields of study included 17th century French literature, comparative literature, and literary criticism. He earned a B.A. degree from Alma College, and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bova held a number of prestigious fellowships during his career, including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Among his other notable achievements at Beloit were his efforts to introduce Francophone women authors of color to Beloit's curriculum in French literature and to develop and advance computer-enhanced methods for teaching languages.
"Hank was one of the most witty, learned, and unpretentious colleagues I'll ever have the privilege of knowing," says Tom McBride, Keefer Professor of the Humanities. "When I posted news of his death on Facebook, former students were overflowing in memory, and praise, of his devotion to French civilization in the classroom."
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The latest issue of VMAN was released a few days ago and it has two, bright covers. Models Jake Madden and CJ Hancock pose in fab suits from designers Calvin Klein and Givenchy and the covers are brilliantly fresh- perfect for the economic moan-athon we are currently suffering!
CJ and Jake are the joint winners of the VMAN and Ford Model Search and from these debut covers it looks like they will go far.
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Even this deep into the era of IP and design reuse, it's been my thesis that things are not quite as far along as many in the industry would like you to believe. With that attitude in hand, I spoke with three different companies in the IP space who disagree, although they admit issues still remain.
You can read my conclusions below from what they had to say, or you can read the original interviews and draw your own conclusions …
* Hal Barbour, CEO at CAST
* Warren Savage, CEO at IPextreme
* Bernd Stamme, Marketing Director at Kilopass Technology
Where things stand …
* IP is a reality: Over the last 10 years, the reluctance to buy IP has subsided, because third-party IP is better than ever, and the companies that sell it have come to see themselves principally as product companies, not services companies.
* Lots of different types of IP: Vendors are selling processor cores, standards-based busses, mixed-signal blocks, back-end design blocks, software blocks, drivers, foundation IP, etc., or any combination of the above.
* Standards and tools: Various wrapper standards and IP integration tools are easing the burden of using IP in a design.
* NIH still a reality: Concern still lingers, often without basis, that if I didn't design it myself, I shouldn't bank my product and my job on somebody else's design bit.
* Risk Aversion still a reality: Buying IP is still not great for the highly risk adverse, people who need to guarantee a block is interoperable, meets required specs, and has been sufficiently deployed to work out the bugs. (more…)