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January 31, 2012
H. John Caulfield, retired Chief Scientist at Alabama A&M University Research Institute and an OSA Fellow Emeritus, died on 31 January 2012. He was 75.
Caulfield was noted for his pioneering contributions to the fields of holography and information optics. He popularized the field as curator of exhibits and through his numerous articles for the general public, most notably a 1984 National Geographic cover story, "The Wonder of Holography," that was read by more than 25 million people.
Born 25 March 1936, Caulfield received his BA in Physics from Rice University (1958) and his PhD in Physics from Iowa State University (1962). While working at the Texas Instruments Central Research Laboratory, he was inspired by a talk on the new field of holography given by Emmett Leith, the inventor of off-axis holography. Caulfield's ensuing career focused on holography, metrology, and coherent optics. From 1985 through 1996 he served as founding director of the Center for Applied Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Later he became Distinguished Research Professor at Fisk University and Chief Scientist at Alabama A&M University, both historically black universities, where he worked with students to introduce them to the excitement of research.
Caulfield wrote 41 book chapters and more than 250 refereed journal papers on holography and related fields, edited 14 books, and held a wide range of patents. He was a Fellow of the OSA and SPIE, and he received numerous awards and honors during his 50-year career, including the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award, President's Award, and Governors' Award. In 2005 he was awarded the SPIE Gold Medal, that society's highest honor, in recognition of his numerous contributions to holography, imaging, optical computing, optical logic and his numerous inventions including, but not limited to, local reference beam holography, coherence gated imaging, generalized matched filters, optical linear algebra, fuzzy optical metrology, artificial color, and passive conservative interferometric logic gates. Byte magazine named Caulfield as one of the 63 most influential people in computers; Fortune magazine called him a pioneer in Optical Computing, and Business Week called him "One of America's 10 Top Scientists" for his work in Image and Signal Processing.
Caulfield's colleagues remember him not only for his many important technical contributions to the field, but also for his continual efforts to bring people together, to establish collaborations, to facilitate networking for himself and for others, and for honoring others more than himself. It is noteworthy that of his 250-plus refereed papers, virtually all were written with coauthors. He made a point of his networking. "I am walking the halls talking with people," he would explain to conference attendees, making it clear that he considered networking to be every bit as important a part of his activities as listening to technical talks.
Caulfield was a devoted husband and father who took great pride in the work of his wife Jane and daughter Kim. Together, they raised sheep for many years at their Far Out Farm in Cornersville, Tennessee. The family will hold a memorial gathering at the Baptist Church in Cornersville, TN, on 18 February 2012.
A tribute from Caulfield's colleagues will appear in an upcoming issue of OPN.
If you would like to make a memorial donation to the OSA Foundation in honor of H. John Caulfield, please visit www.osa-foundation.org/give.
John was one of the fathers of coherent optics and an inexhaustible resource of new and original ideas. His hundreds of publications encompass a wide scope of subjects. His initial interests in coherent optics spread out into signal processing, computing, vision, brain research and many other areas. It was always a great experience and pleasure working with him and being inspired by his enthusiasm and optimism. We all lost a great scientist and a good friend who will be missed by many of us.
Joseph Shamir
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Dept.
John was a fixture at OSA and SPIE meetings. You could always count on him being there, and on his upbeat and positive outlook on his field and on life in general. He was extremely generous to others - he was one of the most frequent nominators of candidates for Fellow status and for various awards of both societies. I hadn't realized how much I will miss John's presence until I heard of his passing; all of us who knew John well will miss him for years to come.
Joseph W. Goodman
1992 OSA President


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Each year, Marian University invites well known Franciscans to campus to cultivate the Catholic and Franciscan intellectual traditions. Talks are open to the public.
One of the most unique aspects of the "Rebuild My Church" program is the annual pilgrimage to Assisi. Members from the Marian University community have an opportunity to deepen their personal relationship with God through visits to the major sanctuaries associated with SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi. Pilgrims lives are enriched and transformed through participation in rituals, prayers, Eucharistic celebrations, historical visits, and lectures. By journeying through their life stories, these two saints help us to "fix our gaze on God."
The program's goals are threefold:
Four faculty/staff members are chosen in the spring semester each year to make a pilgrimage in October to walk in the footsteps of Francis and Clare. Faculty and staff members chosen represent a wide spectrum across the campus.
Four students are chosen each spring to make a pilgrimage in late December and early January. Marian University students join students from other Franciscan colleges and universities in Assisi to deepen their understanding.
In the Jewish and Christian traditions, one place where a person encounters God is in doing the works of justice. Liberation theology offers us the insight that while working for social justice, people experience and discern the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. For more than 15 years, Marian University has promoted service learning as a way to continue discerning one's calling.
Each year Marian University holds a vocation fair which includes over 50 religious organizations. Religious participants come to campus to share their life experiences with students. It also gives students an opportunity to learn more about the various religious charisms in their search for a more meaningful life.

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Possibly because it's Black History Month (US/Canada), I'm seeing a burst of Facebook discussions among my black friends on that old favourite: why do black communities underperform others? Various economic, education and health metrics still demonstrate large gaps between black and other populations, and inevitably people wonder why. The old white supremacist explanation – that black people are simply biologically inferior – has gradually faded from grace in recent decades, although this idea is often still hinted at.
Discussion among black people tends to swing between blaming others (it's caused by racism/colonialism/the aftermath of slavery/etc.) and blaming themselves (why don't black people invest in each other like Indians and Jews seem to do?) Meanwhile, many white liberals tend to blame racism and colonialism while simultaneously showing an almost colonial lack of faith in black societies to sort out problems for themselves.
It appears to me though that the truth is better, and the outlook more optimistic than any of these viewpoints might consider. I admit that I long supported the "white guilt" viewpoint. The Caribbean Londoners I grew up with undoubtedly suffered greatly from racism and police brutality. They also lagged far behind white people in educational achievement and economic success. There was an obvious correlation between race and disadvantage; many people (me included) therefore assumed that one was the cause of the other. But of course, assuming causation from correlation is the oldest mistake in the book.
It was my own black friends who helped set me straight on this, pointing out that they had escaped council estates, made careers and raised stable families, despite experiencing persistent racism. From their micro-perspective, the difference was clear: those whose families valued literacy and education succeeded. Those who came from families that placed little value on education did not.
The disparities between different racial groups should cast doubt on the idea that racism causes communities to fail. In the 1930s, Jews faced immense prejudice. They were also mostly economic migrants, and lacked capital. And yet many – including both of my grandfathers – opened businesses and moved out of the East End ghetto into the suburbs.
The Caribbean immigrants who began arriving in the late-1940s did not follow the same pattern of success as the Jews. But the East African Asians who fled Uganda in the 1970s did. The Pakistanis who came later did not do so well. But the West Africans who came in the 1980s and 1990s did better.
What kind of "racism" is so selective? When Indian and Chinese children do better in school than whites, but Pakistanis and Bengalis do worse, how can anti-Asian racism be blamed? And now, West Africans (mostly from Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone) outperform white children but children originating in the Caribbean do not. How can this be explained by anti-black racism? In short, it can't.
I attended the "blackest" school in the UK, where around 75% of the kids were first or second generation immigrants from the Caribbean. While some of the Caribbean migrants had come from educated, middle class homes, the majority didn't. Many of my school friends left school with scant literacy and no qualifications. Many of their parents too were semi-literate, having come from rural island communities to take up work as bus conductors. Today, I still have friends in their 40s and 50s who have limited literacy.
This generation of black Londoners faced savage racism in the 1970s and 1980s, especially from the police; they also were excluded, by their lack of qualifications, from universities and well paid jobs. It was easy to combine the two things in folklore: to say that Babylon (the Rastafarian word for the white power structure) would never offer opportunities to black people. This was easy to believe. I believed this. To add to the confusion, black British people compared their position to that of black Americans and South Africans. This was deeply inaccurate; Britain never had racial segregation laws or traditions to overturn. The racism may have been superficially similar, but the political reality was incomparable.
But when, starting in the 1990s, many West African immigrants breezed into universities and professional jobs, it became clear that this racial model of British society was wrong. I had to question my own beliefs, forged among the afro-centric viewpoints I absorbed in my teens. When a Nigerian friend graduated as an accountant and invited me to her awards ceremony, I saw a new British reality. Expecting to see a line-up dominated by Jews and Indians, I instead saw Chinese, Nigerian and Ghanaian graduates collecting their certificates.
So does the black British community have a problem? The question is meaningless. There is no coherent black community. Grouping people together based on their skin colour is nonsensical, and indicates a racist world view. The key deciding factor in a person's economic success in the UK is their level of literacy and education. It turns out that working class black people originating from the Caribbean have far more in common, economically, with white British people than they do with those of West African origin. The same applies to those immigrants from rural Pakistan versus those from urban India.
This doesn't mean there isn't a problem with racism – this is still alive and well, and the rise of UKIP reveals a strong xenophobic streak in British society. For black parents wondering how to give their children the greatest chance of success, the answer is the same as for any other parent: teach them to read and write young, to behave at school, and to develop a thirst for lifelong learning. And most of all, tell them that the colour of their skin is no excuse for failure.


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If you've read my waffle for the past 9 and a half years (seriously, that is how long I've been blogging. That is scary.) you'll know how I'm not big on perfection. Perfect spaces, perfect people, perfect things - they are not real to me. Add a little wonkiness to a house, some mess to the waves of someone's hair or a few tell-tale signs of age on items and they become more interesting to me. And usually more beautiful. Recently I read about Kintsugi - a Japanese art form that sees damaged items repaired with gold (or silver). Rather than throw away broken crockery or smooth over cracks in rendered walls, the imperfections are highlighted with gold leaf and sealed with lacquer, creating an interesting feature of a home or allowing a favourite plate to continue dishing out your meals - with a little bling on the side. The method humanises things - giving them some attention, patching them up and letting them continue on their merry way rather than just giving up on them at the first sign of a breakdown. It's giving even the most ho-hum items a history, a story and a chance to shine. It's such a sweet sentiment in this throwaway world, and because I love gold leaf - and maybe because Marie Kondo and her whole "socks have feelings too" craziness has rubbed off on me more than I thought - I had to try it out on some damaged things I had around the house.
First up: the small wooden bowl Steve found in the water on one of our walks a few years ago. It was green and gooey on one side and stunk like goodness knows what, but we thought it might clean up ok. So we soaked it and scrubbed it and it did clean up beautifully - but it was cracked in several places. So in went the size, and in went the gold leaf. It's certainly not the neatest follow-the-line I've ever done, but that's the whole point about this method: imperfections can be beautiful, and the wonkiness just gives it even more character. I love the glimmer on the rustic wood - I could never tire of that combo!
Next, I hit up the kitchen cabinet where my Nana's dishes were. The pink floral plate was part of a few sets my grandparents bought many decades ago for my mum's wedding. I had a full set once - complete with tea cups and saucers - and accidentally threw the wrong box on the charity pile (and managed to keep a whole bunch of unwanted crap on the keep pile instead! Eek!) so I only have a few pieces left. I knew there was a big chip out of one of the side plates, so a few minutes later that chip looked a whole lot chipper (sorry) with its new gold coat - especially since the plate is gold-rimmed. I also blinged up a few op-shop pieces - several chips in a little star candlestick and the tiniest crack in a milk-glass bowl.
I actually thought that was all I had when a few nights later I decided to try my hand at making a wooden spoon out of a piece of driftwood and a lino-carving tool. Obviously, neither of these things are going to work as well as, say, proper wood and a real wood-carving knife. But I wanted to see what it was like to do before I invested in a proper knife and so had a play. It was strangely addictive - I drew a shape, cut and carved with the rounded lino tool (and yes, cut myself several times) and in an hour or so had a pretty cool shaped spoon. Except a knot was right where the rounded end of the spoon was and soon became a hole! And then, while wondering when I should quit it on the handle - SNAP! I wondered too long so the whole thing broke. I originally threw it on the compost, but decided to keep my very first attempt at spoon carving because I really enjoyed doing it - even if it was never going to be able to be used as a spoon, was not even close to smooth and had a hole in a crucial part of it. Steve glued it together for me and I gave it the gold treatment. Now, rather than just being a weird unfinished, holey, broken wooden spoon, it's got a story, a history and a little bit of prettiness about it. I love that!
It's kind of an addictive idea - I can't help look around the house and see other imperfections I'd love to highlight somehow: holes in the floorboards from old knots, cracks in the concrete driveway... I'm completely in love with both of these ideas, above, from the
I read about kintsugi. The art form is not just about gold leaf, but also patching things with similar materials but in different shapes, colours or patterns - such as adding the odd patterned tile in a bathroom wall of solid colour tiles. It really is giving the less-than-perfect aspects of a home some time in the spotlight to shine. And who doesn't like that occasionally?
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KinKat necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Naturally Mothers
We believe that nurturing and supporting Mothers is the key to creating a world we would all love to live in. Afterall, who else has the influence that mothers do?
'Naturally Mothers' is a developing online resource and mentoring program for mothers who are having difficulties negotiating the first few years of their children's lives, and those mothers who simply want to enjoy the experience a whole lot more.
The aim is create a welcoming community space for mother's to express their feelings, feel supported, learn about emotional development for their children and themselves – and most importantly, to have fun.
When mothers feel good, their children develop so much easier.
The program and resources are predominantly online, with face to face workshops and support services being developed and rolled out over the next year.
*Naturally Mothers is the first stage of a broader brand, that will include: Naturally Fathers, Naturally Grandparents etc. The tag line for the group is "Baby Steps, Global Reach"
Our philosophy is that by making one small change today, we can change for the better, the world we all live in.
Our target audience is predominantly first time mothers, whose children are around the 9 - 16 month age group, and who have probably been quite successful in their careers prior to having children....but find being a mother more difficult than they expected. (hhmm, isn't that every mother?)
They are also more interested in natural ways of being, and would like to be more environmentally friendly in everything they do.
We are seeking ideas and combinations for a logo and/or a brand icon that would serve the following purposes:
1. Need to be unique, identifiable and together with the 'Naturally Mothers' name, have a reasonable prospect of being trademarked internationally (this is absolutely critical)
2. Should be easily transferable across media (ie web, print, b&w)
Brief for Brand Icon:
We feel it is important that everything we do is 'reality tested'. So, we would like to include throughout our site, and perhaps as part of our branding, an icon or character that implies 'tested and approved by real mothers'. A bit like the 'like' button on Facebook. Ideally, this icon should complement the logo & logo colour, or be used as a branding logo by itself.
Brief for Logo:
1. Should be feminine
2. Prefer simple flowing lines
3. Needs to work easily on a website banner – not take up too much banner space
4. Could incorporate the business name
5. Ideally incorporate a 'Naturally' element* (not essential)...without losing the distinct identity of the mothers program
6. Please see jpg of original web header, for colour guide.
*A logo / part logo that ties each of the programs together in a 'mother brand' (naturally) would be ideal. Other entities could be differentiated by a colour change for example.
Prize for Logo $150
Prize for Brand Icon $100
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Deutsche Welle , 11/13/2012
Few countries can boast income inequality quite like Brazil. Now, current research shows that the incomes of low earners in Brazil have risen rapidly. But, will the improvements really help the country's poor?
The perception that social inequality has been declining in Brazil can now be backed up with data. A study from the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), a Brazilian institution that works closely with the national government, shows a rapid retreat in economic disparity over the last 10 years. Inequality is now at its lowest point since census data began in the 1950s, the researchers say.
During the period between 2001 and 2011, income levels for Brazil's poorest increased much faster than for the richest. The poorest 10 percent of the population nearly doubled their income during that time, while the richest increased their earnings by just one-sixth.


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Hi! I guess I'll start this thing. I've been here at DV for around 2 years... was in other groups before though. I remember joining when I saw MU was interested in translating Shimizu Reiko stuff, and the rest is history. Let's see... the last drama that sticks to my mind is Dae Jang Guem and one of my fav manga is Tenshi Nanka ja Nai, so go read it!
hi, can i post here?
anyway, i'm a member of
, a new hosting site and i've been a manga reader for more than 10 years now. i've been a fan of Dragonvoice for a year now. i don't have irc, but i'm eternally grateful to all http download hosters in the world, and that means you guys! my fave mangas are HanaKimi, Kanata Kara, FMA and Fruits Basket.
Hi! My name is Jennifer and I don't think I'm really a part of any group. Um, I'm gonna go to high school next year (I'm really excited!) and um, I have a lot of different manga I like!! Dragon Voice is one of my favorite sites!!
Hi people. I haven't really read manga until recently, and now I'm really into manga, more so than anime now. I got introduced to manga through anime from finding out that most animes are based off of mangas. I like many different types of manga although currently I like shoujo more than shonen. I'm not apart of any scanlation group, although I try to do my part by offering a few chapters for download on my fserv. If anyone wants to talk, just PM c_k on irchighway.
Current manga obsessions:
Skip Beat, Koukou Debut, Never Give Up, Ouran Host Club, Eyeshield 21, Airgear, Beauty Pop, B.O.D.Y., Kakumei no Hi, Yoroshiku Master, Princess Princess, Family Complex (and so many more...too many to list!)
Currently watching:
Monster, Bleach, Ouran, REC, xxxHolic, waiting for Tsubasa S2
name's ice.
female...age XX T-T double digits...o the agony.
i love reading/drawing manga
i'm in a project w/ a friend of mine as of now
i wasn't ever into reading unreleased manga until...late 2005.
now...i'm just plain addicted. =p
i am krn-american...Christian.
i play the violin.
currently in love w/ mr. darcy of pride and prejudice...haha.
of course, yul is in my heart too...haha XD
i'm really interested in psychology. especially jungian.
any kind of music is my passion (w/ the exception of most rap and most country)
i'm an arts student...i like my drawing.
i love history...and hate science. T-T
i'm a writer/reader...so i guess i'm quiet?
i'm definitely an introvert.
i love folding paper stars and crane eggs.
Hey everyone and welcome! ^^ Hope you'll enjoy your stay here~~
@white_queen: wow, that's cool~~ then I can consult you about all the interesting korean stuff! *fufufufuf* I'm also interested in psychology ^^ I wonder if I shouldn't have studied that instead of what I'm currently studying for... *too much MATH!* I love drawing too, though haven't done that for almost a year I think... just haven't had the time <____< *really needs to practise* What do u usually draw? I usually draw manga stuff but I dun make drawing portraits of ppl, though I'm just an amateur I think I usually manages to capture the most distinguishing features of the person in question ^^;;;; *so that u can kinda figure out who the model is if you know him/her*
Ah, paper stars~~ I learnt how to fold them over a year ago while staying in Hong Kong during winter vacation ^^ *still got some left* Never folded or even seen paper crane eggs before o___0_________________Thanx to Joanne Kuang for the awesome avatar!
im desert rose (of course not my real name ).. 19 yrs old.. i live in new zealand.. umm.. im half singaporean, half english..
im really into manga and manhwa.. ive managed to use up my entire 40gb ext harddrive with manga alone..
i just started getting hooked on korean drama as well since i watched goong out of curiosity..
umm, im studying arts in uni rite now and i absolutely cannot draw or do math
@mangauniverse: haha, interesting korean stuff...? if you want to compare opinions about anything, I'm up to it. I warn you, I'm still an amateur in psychology. Haha. currently, my history teacher is my main feed of information...he's also a psychology teacher and sometimes teaches psych to our class...haha^^;; so i often pester him with my questions. Math...I think is actually fun. haha T-T I'm such a nerd...haha. well, i like being timed w/ equations and things like that.
i draw anything my teacher wants...haha. he assigns us projects that give us freedom to distort it to our liking. in my own time, i like to do photo realism, manga, and pen/ink design. i'm trying out print making...which is not successful so far...^^;;
perhaps i'll show you some crane eggs through a picture...when i have enough ^^;;
@desertrose: welcome welcome. ahh!! halfie!! (good thing) which side has more influence on you, do you think? hahahaha. hard core reader, eh? what's it like in new zealand? i have never seen pictures or anything. please do entertain me w/ an accurate description.
yes!! power of korean drama!! if you'd like some title recommendations, you must watch "my sassy girl" (it's a classic), at least a few episodes of "all in", "full house", and "lovers in praha".
hope you enjoy your stay.
hey everyone! i'm Michelle..i don't really know why but i'm suddenly interested in reading manga scanlations..haha^^ ppl usually know me as the korean crazed aka shinhwa lover...i'm really into korean music and other stuff..i'm hoping to get to know u all better..let's be friends!..*note* i like this site! _________________credits & thanks to: hyesungstory@shinhwachangjo
thanks for the avatar
I already wrote up there a while ago, but I'll write some more here now!! I'm Korean too, but I've never lived there before, although because all of my family lives there, I visit almost every summer! I used to really like origami and stuff, but I started really disliking it after I had to teach it in a class a while ago because everyone was my age and didn't listen to a word I said!! I started reading manga/manhwa maybe about a year ago because I used to kinda like some anime shows when I was little, I also liked to watch Korean dramas with my cousins when I was visiting them. I guess that's it for now
Hi, just wanted to drop by for a sec...
My hobbies are drawing, learning Chinese, watching anime, reading manga...
My fav. DV manga are: Penguin Revolution, Yoroshiku Master, Beauty Pop, B.O.D.Y., Ai Baby.
Hi! Im known as Rin online. 17 turning 18 years old. Been playing online games since 2 years ago while reading manga, watching anime and studying japanese. I just got my o lvl result last month and i'll be going to KL to study Pre-U course before i could jump into a certain U in japan. I fall in love with anime ever since i was 6-7 years old. It was when my brother and sister drag me to watch sailormoon s. Fall in love with manga since 9. All my siblings love anime as much as I do. My interests are manga, anime, visual kei band especially dir en grey,speaking in japanese fluently and the colour red .
@Rin no Rekka: Wow! You can speak Japanese fluently? And English! Cool!!
I can kinda speak Korean good... I think, I don't know a lot of long words, but I can read and write in Korean! Just a little... ok a lot slow So I'm like I kid in being able to talk and stuff in Korean
Jennifer: you're korean! lucky u! it doesn't matter that u don't know much korean writing and stuff but you're KOREAN!! i wish i was korean too..but unfortunately i'm not..i'm asian though..just not korean..i'm really into korean stuff..i'm trying to learn to read and write korean now which isn't improving a bit..it's harder than i thought..i also love korean dramas! well yea here's jus a little more about me._________________credits & thanks to: hyesungstory@shinhwachangjo
thanks for the avatar
Originally posted by lee_jennifer92:
@Rin no Rekka: Wow! You can speak Japanese fluently? And English! Cool!!
I can kinda speak Korean good... I think, I don't know a lot of long words, but I can read and write in Korean! Just a little... ok a lot slow So I'm like I kid in being able to talk and stuff in Korean
No no. U misunderstand~~ Its in my interest to speak jap fluently. It means im still not able to. I can speak in simple not so polite jap that i pick up from anime. But its not instant, I have to think 1st before I speak. Ooh, nice~!
Originally posted by lee_jennifer92:
@Rin no Rekka: Wow! You can speak Japanese fluently? And English! Cool!!
I can kinda speak Korean good... I think, I don't know a lot of long words, but I can read and write in Korean! Just a little... ok a lot slow So I'm like I kid in being able to talk and stuff in Korean


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On the so-called catflap, Gareth Morgan's conversation firestarter - because sometimes, "when the fail is so strong, one facepalm is not enough"
Gareth's speech to our 2012 conference was a doozy. A cautionary tale of the "green extreme", on how "tub-thumping activism" was giving conservation a bad name, he rounded off by telling a 14 year old girl (a guest of ours, who stood up and bravely, passionately challenged him in front of a room of 300 people) that her question was "pathetic" - and somewhere in the middle of it all, offered this:
"2. … polarization of views on conservation - if you're pro-conservation you're anti economic growth. This needlessly alienates huge numbers of people from conservation that should be our constituency."
"Considered conservationists need to have the courage now to disown publicly this behavior," he said, and ensure that those responsible for it were marginalised.
So! - while in some ways I think more oxygen is the last thing we need here - naturally, in the Herald again today, Morgan added a bit more fuel.
He wants cats neutered, belled, registered and micro-chipped. He wants to withdraw the social licence for free-range cats, like smoking.
What he also said, and has said and written repeatedly, was (my emphasis):
"I think that people should deploy cage live-traps to capture cats that stray into their back yard, box them and leave them on the doorstep of the local authority. Only this way will we force councils to wake up and bring the same policies in here so we can eradicate strays and unregistered cats."
So that's ... a pre-emptive illegal licence to cat haters and vigilantes, then, to snatch people's currently unregistered pets, and transport them in a way that's bound to create its own risks of escape, and a rise in the numbers of strays? A breach of animal welfare codes (unnecessary distress to the cat), and a criminal offence?
"To be clear, I have never and will never advocate killing people's pets or placing outright bans." Jolly good. But here in the Atlantic, responding to the question "What is your plan to eliminate the NZ cat population?" - his reply: "to educate the public and have them carry out the action".
Gareth's playing politics. He wants something moderate, if we're lucky; he's flying a kite for something extreme.
For better or worse, he's started a predator-free New Zealand debate. Yay! I wish it were PFNZ we were debating, not cats! I agree with him: "some of the debate has been pretty facile" - chiefly, the information on his own website.
But there's no use (my friend and former colleague Nicola) whining about how the results of this are "frankly disturbing" - rambling about how some of your best friends are cats, etc. He threw a grenade, and lit a fire - he is the grenade, his own wee self-contained incendiary device. Not much cause for complaint about the results, and Gareth sure isn't complaining.
What we've also got is a sort of low-grade civil war in which - redubbing his own words to our conference - "if you're pro-bird, you're anti-cat". And what's really disturbing here is the lack of policy smarts about it.
Having found your problem, is the response well-targeted? Is it a proportional response? Benefits vs costs?
From the people who weren't Gareth, we learned what those of us with cats already know: there's no basis to vilify all cats. Not all house cats are hunters (I'm not offering this on my own observation, although this is also true). Even among those who are, overall, imperfectly, it probably works out:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Killer-cats-Does-the-science-back-up-the-claims/tabid/817/articleID/284155/Default.aspx reporting very nicely on this: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03014220709510087?noFrame=true&&
Secondly, cats aren't dogs. It never got more facile than that analogy, and extrapolating from it: cats mustn't be allowed to wander on to anyone else's property - therefore, kept inside. They're cats! Look here: illegal, possibly (opportunity to express natural behaviour, need for exercise), quite apart from stupid, and downright cruel. The cat can see and smell and hear that there's something outside and loves being out there, just like you.
I guess Gareth imagines we would redesign all our houses, thus archly setting in place prohibitive barriers to cat ownership. It might suit his own worldview and $50 million, but it won't ever be mine, and needn't be New Zealand's.
Thirdly: in calling for cat owners to be responsible, trust them to be responsible. Educate people, if anyone's still listening; I got over being shouted at in a very stupid way on about Wednesday morning. Even if not all kills come home, trust owners to know which of their pets are the hunters. Remember: for every bird saved by a bell on that cat, so is a rodent.
Gareth's argument is in there, you just have to get past the cloud of insults ("crazy cat ladies", "loony 'cat rights' advocates") and obfuscation to find it.
If one goal and huge selling-point of a 'predator-free' NZ (deliberate use of inverted commas) is to bring kiwi, saddlebacks, weka, kokako, lizards, (wetas?) back to your place, cats which hunt will hunt what is there, and a lot of thankless painstaking work will be ruined (the "Zealandia's the biggest cat food factory..." argument).
So yep, fewer cats would be better - and, you might think, eradicating ferals and stray cat colonies, not domestic cats at all, could be a good place to start.
This is just what he wrote, in the Herald (see above).
On registration and micro-chipping, imagine if - now you've got people's attention - you cut out the stupid, and put it like this.
Humanely trapping and/or euthanasing feral and stray cats will help predator-free; helps wildlife; also help make your own cat safer, because those populations fight and carry lethal disease (and btw, lobby the SPCA on stray cat colonies). We can't trap them where people live, and guarantee your own pet will be kept safe, unless it's identified and registered. So if you love your cat, and want him to have a good life - registering's a good idea.
The thing with Gareth is, ironically, a bit like the cats - even when he's being a pain in the arse, he's half on the side of the angels.
Nothing and probably no one else could have made this opportunity for the whole country to talk for a week about predator-free NZ. The trouble is, we didn't really - and in a way that's just as well. Because if Gareth keeps going like this, with every reason to think that he plans to ("the idea was to galvanize a public reaction, that has been achieved. Stage II will be released in the next month and will wind up the ante..."), in the end he'll do a lot of harm to his own credibility, and the whole cause.
Claire Browning is a Forest & Bird conservation advocate. This post is done in her personal capacity - as a former policy wonk, who is both a voice for nature, and cat owner.


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Surrounded by farmland at an Iowa facility for troubled youths, Gervontae Burgess' circumstances could hardly have been more different from those in his violent Baltimore neighborhood. Brad Knight, Burgess' football coach, remembers a bright young man with a broad smile and a desire to help others.
"Gervontae was one of those kids who soaked everything in. He wanted to be a great teammate and wanted to learn," said Knight, who coached Burgess at the Clarinda Academy. "My worry was always that when they went home, we were going to throw them right back to the wolves."
Burgess did come back, and he soon found himself locked up multiple times. Last weekend, the 20-year-old was one of eight people fatally shot across Baltimore. He died Saturday in a Pennsylvania Avenue shooting that also killed a 49-year-old woman.
Police scrambled Monday to stop the violence after a weekend in which 20 people were shot — the city's worst outbreak in years. Monday evening was marked with yet another shooting, this time with two men injured by gunfire in the Shipley Hill neighborhood. That shooting was reported about 8:20 p.m. near the intersection of Hollins Street and South Catherine Street in Southwest Baltimore.
As City Council members decried the bloodshed, Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts visited the site of an East Baltimore quintuple shooting that took the life of Donyae Jones, an 18-year-old woman.
In his first public appearance since the shootings, Batts took a brief stroll through a block of Kenwood Avenue and embraced Joanna Harvell, who said she was Jones' mother-in-law.
"I'm scared to come out the door. I'm in fear for my grandkids to come out here," Harvell said. Her son, Anthony Harvell, said he was married to Jones and his life would never be the same. "She was the only girl I ever loved. I feel like I'm dead, too."
Gregory Stewart, 51, who lives one block south, said he appreciated the police visit to his neighborhood but wondered whether the violence would spur any lasting change.
"In two, three weeks when they drop back, it'll be the same situation," he said.
After the weekend, a total of 110 people had been slain in Baltimore this year, and homicides were up 10 percent compared with the same time last year. In Washington, by comparison, there have been 38 homicides in 2013.
"For us, this is a concern," Batts told reporters on Kenwood Avenue. "This is a spike. We will respond to the spike and be assertive about it."
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who is attending a conference in Las Vegas, said in a statement that the "this weekend's senseless violence will not diminish our resolve to target repeat violent offenders, gangs and illegal guns."
Flanked by police commanders from across the city, Batts said he was working with federal and state partners to crack down, including an increased role for the city sheriff's office. He said he met with City Council members last week and that they are "very supportive, very happy with the job we're doing."
But downtown, City Council members were questioning police Monday. Councilman Brandon Scott, who represents Northeast Baltimore, called for a hearing to look into the weekend's shootings, saying he wanted to make sure the Police Department was prepared for an upward trend in summer violence.
He said he was holding the department to the standard of 2011, when Baltimore saw a 30-year low in homicides.
"If we're not at 2011 numbers, then we're failing," Scott said. "As of right now, we're failing. Why aren't we having the success we had in the past?"
City Councilman Carl Stokes said he took exception to statements by police officials who said they were generally satisfied with this year's crime statistics. He said he spoke to many residents who were also upset by those statements.
"I really have no words," Stokes said. "I am as stunned as my community."
Councilwoman Helen Holton, who represents Southwest Baltimore, said residents are fed up with the violence and the inability of city government to quell it.
"We have low morale. People don't believe in the vision of this city," she said. "The citizens aren't buying into the plans for the future. There's a sense of people throwing their hands up the in air in total frustration."
Five of the weekend victims were shot in a four-block stretch of Northwest Baltimore, and police officials said the incidents appeared to have little in common beyond their geography.
On Monday, Virgil Martin wore work gloves, work boots, sunglasses and a floppy camouflage hat as he raked up trash on the sidewalk and gutters outside the Private Stock Social Club, a gray, windowless building at the corner of West Belvedere and Arbutus avenues.
He lives on the block, and at about 1:30 a.m. heard the shots and began filming on his cellphone camera from his second floor window as more than a dozen police cars arrived. The officers would find three men wounded by gunfire.
"They need to start some chilling and stop the killing," he said. "They're shooting each other over nothing."
As he picked up trash, Martin said the city doesn't seem to want to invest in the area. Martin has lived in the neighborhood since 1968. Teens and young men have nothing to do, he said. There are no jobs. Budget woes have closed some of the city's recreation centers. He said officers need to get out of their cars and get to know residents.
A half-block away, Angela Simonson spoke through a screen door about the apathy that seems to surround the block, where residents feel resigned to the violence. She said she heard 13 shots Sunday night.
"What are you going to do? I'm not used to it, but you have to be, living here," she said.
A handful of houses down, two homicide detectives studied a fresh memorial that had sprung up, with candles still burning in the hot sun near the carport of a boarded-up house. It was where Omar Shorter, 32, was killed about 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
A crime scene technician waved a green metal detector around the shrine, then stopped to look closer in the grass.
"I found a bullet," he said.
In another shooting in the area, 53-year-old Claude Nelson was shot dead in the 5200 block of St. Charles Ave. He joined Jones, Shorter, Andre Witherspoon, 27; Danquel Darden, 37; Maurice Taylor, 37; and 49-year-old Joyce Alston — who was shot along with Burgess — among the weekend's dead. At least one other victim was listed in critical condition.
At Clarinda Academy in Iowa, Burgess stood out to Knight as one of his more coachable players. "He spent more time trying to help players around him than maybe himself," Knight said. "He wanted to win, but he understood there was more to it."
Knight coached at Clarinda Academy until last year. He called Clarinda, which describes itself as a residential foster care facility for at-risk youth, a "prep school for kids who had made bad decisions in their past."
Youths came from across the country, but Knight said there were a high number of youths from Flint, Mich., and Baltimore, and they were some of the most personable kids. They were also the ones he worried about the most.
He once accompanied a student who was returning to Baltimore. "I've been a lot of places and never been uncomfortable," he said. "And I was uncomfortable."
Court records show Burgess got in trouble once back in Baltimore. First it was minor things, like trespassing and playing dice.
In May 2012, police said, "concerned citizens" called to complain about men selling drugs in the alleys and vacant buildings of the 1500 block of N. Monroe St., according to charging documents. Police on the scene said they observed Burgess handing out heroin gel caps to several people while another man collected money from them.
Burgess was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison, with all but about three months of the sentence suspended. On Jan. 9 of this year, he was arrested and charged again with selling drugs and resisting arrest and had an open warrant at the time he was killed for violating his probation.
Knight remembers who Burgess was, and who he could have become. He called the death "devastating."
"I will remember the enormous smile on his face every day," Knight said.
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Christina Lindberg and Reiko Ike Get Naked
I absolutely love this film but I have one little quibble with it - I've always thought Reiko Ike was too "soft" for this role. Don't get me wrong, I think she does an outstanding job at naked swashbuckling and ass kicking. It's just that I wonder if someone "leaner and meaner" (although she does look pretty damn lean in that bottom picture) might be more convincing: someone like Meiko Kaji (who would never agree to it because of the nudity) or Reiko Ike's pinky violence co-star Miki Sugimoto. Or maybe I just think Meiko and Miki are hotter.
Anyway here's a video from Sex & Fury with Christina Lindberg and Reiko Ike featuring a lot of the sex but not so much of the fury.
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13 comments:
- The Angry Lurker said...
......and Japanese nuns.....I need a moment or two!
- February 29, 2012 at 7:49 AM
- Bersercules said...
Thats the problem with nudity in movies, most people have issues against it and it makes it hard to get the right actress for the job!
Looks like a fantastic movie though! Definetly gonna check this out!
- February 29, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- Bonjour Tristesse said...
This is one I've never heard of before, but that last picture would make the perfect poster for my movie room.
- February 29, 2012 at 10:32 AM
- Henry said...
Mmmm, I'm in it for Reiko.
- February 29, 2012 at 11:05 AM
- meandmythinkingcap said...
- February 29, 2012 at 12:43 PM
- Jay said...
....slow clap...
- February 29, 2012 at 4:08 PM
- Gryt said...
That whip scene was pretty intense
- February 29, 2012 at 4:29 PM
- D4 said...
Dude. I don't know WHAT it is, but I can't help but grin when that music comes up. Whipping the shit out of this chick? I'm almost laughing. Mute it and suddenly it's serious business.
- February 29, 2012 at 4:47 PM
- Electric Addict said...
very sensual, the whipping was intense
- February 29, 2012 at 7:16 PM
- Bonafide Jones said...
Sweet I own this movie. I was a little disappointed in it, but it was my first pink film so maybe that's why. I'm going to watch it now.
- March 1, 2012 at 12:21 AM
- That Bastard From Bellingham said...
Can't post a comment.
Hands are busy.
See you next post.
- March 1, 2012 at 3:22 AM
- Phil Perspective said...
Christina Lindberg!! That is all.
- August 18, 2012 at 11:09 PM
- Phil Perspective said...
I should also add that Marie Liljedahl was something special too. Both quit acting way too soon.
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James Bond (Daniel Craig) wears a Barbour "X To Ki To" Beacon Heritage Sports Jacket in the movie SkyFall. The jacket can be spotted on the cover photo of Bond on Set: Filming SkyFall and very briefly in the SkyFall trailer. Bond wears the jacket in Scotland, where it fits well in the environment, especially together with his Anderson Wheeler double rifle and Aston Martin DB5. Director Sam Mendes said that he wanted a 1960s feel in those scenes, and the Barbour jacket adds to this look.
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There seem to be two versions, with a small difference in button placement: the jacket as seen in the film has the two buttons near the stomach area placed closer together, but some jackets have all buttons placed at even distances.
The production of this jacket is limited and it has sold out fast everywhere. The jacket has become one of the most sought after pieces of Bond clothing.
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In July 2013, Barbour launched a new jacket, which is almost identical to the Limited Edition X To Ki To, but it's called the Dept. B Commander jacket (a clear reference to Commander Bond). This new jacket has "Barbour Dept B" written on the left pocket and it doesn't come with the removable hood or flap. The jacket is still available as the Beacon Sports jacket, modelnr MWX0007.
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If you have an official Barbour store nearby, I would recommend paying it a visit and fit the jacket. I bought my Barbour Dept B Commander jacket at End Clothing (USA and UK/EU). Great service and fast delivery. I have heard positive feedback from fans in the USA, Canada, Denmark, Belgium and the UK.
For USA, UK and EU fans Aphrodite 1994 (use coupon JBCJ10 for 10% discount) offers the best price (£399 / €485 / $526.68). The jacket is also available at End Clothing (£399 / €485 / $728, available in US/UK/EU/World).
Please note that you might have to pay about $100 custom taxes when the jacket is ordered from international websites, but many people have received the jacket without having to pay anything extra, making this a very good deal. Canadian fans beware, I heard from a fan in Canada that he had to pay close to 190CAD import taxes, so make sure you calculate that as a possible extra cost in your final price.
Update December 2013: the jacket is now called "Beacon Sports Jacket" again on the Barbour website, but is the same as the Commander (therefor different from the original X To Ki To, read comparison here). The latest modelnumber of the jacket is MWX0007OL71.
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Read a comparison between the Commander / Beacon Sports and the To Ki To jacket.
On eBay there are sometimes a few jackets on offer, usually for more than the original retail price.
The official, original Barbour price of this jacket was £399 (approx. $630 or €485).
Bond's Scotland outfit
With the Barbour jacket, James Bond wears Crockett & Jones Islay boots, N.Peal blue wave cashmere sweater and All Saints Corduane Iggy pants. The scarf is probably from Tom Ford.


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Until recently the only quick and easy option for using RTLSDR was with WINSDR and HDSDR with the EXTIO plugin from spench.net. This has all changed now and all you need is the very nice, fast and open source SDR#. It natively supports RTLSDR hardware (along with FUNCUBE and the audio card) and is much kinder on the CPU than the others. It also has code to deal with the so called DC spike so that you don't see it.
You may converse directly with the author "prog" and others on IRC at Freenode on channel #sdrsharp.
When you plug your RTL device in for the first time, Windows may request a driver or automatically install a driver from Microsoft - this is OK as it will be replaced in the next few steps using Zadig. Don't install the software on the CD that comes with the device.
Note that you will need to run Zadig for every USB port you use an RTLSDR dongle in as Windows seems to only apply this driver to the port in question at the time.
Note that if you insert the dongle into a different USB port you may have to use Zadig again. It seems that you can change which driver is loaded depending on the USB port used. So you could use one USB port for RTLSDR and another port for using the dongle to watch DVB-T with the supplied Windows application.
Download sdr-install.zip and unzip it. Double click on the
install.bat file in the newly created
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You might find on occasion when re-running
install.bat to update SDR# that it doesn't seem to get the latest version. In this case you will need to clear the cache in IE as shown here.
Once the script has completed it will have downloaded the latest SDR#, the latest RTL driver from Osmocom (and enabled use of RTL-USB) and Zadig and put them in a new
sdrsharp directory.
If you haven't already run Zadig to set up your RTLSDR dongle for use with SDR# for the first time follow the Zadig instructions above (skipping the step to download Zadig) to configure the correct USB driver.
Once the the WinUSB driver is installed you are ready to run SDR# with the
RTL-SDR/USB input device.
SDRSharp.exe and you should see the following window (note these are fairly old screenshots).
You should now see an orange waterfall display in the bottom half and a dancing blue spectrum in the top half. By clicking and dragging on the blue spectrum you can conveniently change the frequency. In the example below I have dragged the spectrum and centred on an FM station. All going well you should hear the audio coming out of the PC speaker.
The Osmocom RTLSDR utilities include the program
rtl_tcp. This allows you to run the dongle on one PC (be it Windows or Linux) or an embedded ARM/MIPS board and pump the ADC data over a TCP connection to another computer running a compatible client such as SDR#. A guide to starting
rtl_tcp is here. In SDR# use the frontend called
RTLSDR / TCP and configure the host IP address that the
rtl_tcp server is running on. The localhost address 127.0.0.1 works too if the dongle is on the same machine as SDR# and for some reason you don't want to use
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Our research and development work in Autoimmune and Inflammatory Diseases focuses on proteins that modulate key pathogenic mechanisms in these diseases. We are developing the recombinant protein atacicept for autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This innovative compound blocks the two immunomodulatory factors APRIL and BLyS. They are important for the survival and the proliferation of lymphocytes that trigger an abnormal immune reaction against the patient's own normal tissues.
SLE is a chronic, autoimmune disease that mainly affects women and is an area of great unmet medical need. We are currently enrolling patients into a Phase II/III clinical trial with atacicept in SLE. In the second half of 2009, a competitor published positive data from two Phase III trials in SLE involving a BLyS-targeted compound administered intravenously. These results are encouraging for us since atacicept targets not only BLyS but also APRIL, and is administered by subcutaneous injection, which is more convenient for patients than an infusion.
In 2008, we discontinued a Phase II/III study in lupus nephritis (LN), a particularly severe form of kidney failure, owing to infections that were probably the result of significant disease activity coupled with the concomitant use of several immunosuppressive medications. Having evaluated the trial data, we are now adjusting the clinical development plan for atacicept in lupus nephritis.
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Thanks Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Not only have you have successfully killed the beloved paper book but now it appears you have taken out the bookshelf that once carried those books.
If IKEA's design habits are any indication of whether the industry is going, the long-whispered death of books may have finally come.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Swedish furniture-maker is preparing its popular BILLY bookcase with shelves that can carry everything but books.
The new bookcase -- if we can still call it that -- will debut next month with deeper shelves meant to display ornaments and coffee-table items instead of books.
IKEA is reportedly already pushing glass cases for its bookshelves in anticipation of customers wanting to house more than just decorative books on those shelves.


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High Energy, Fun, Culturally Enriching, and a Great Cardio Workout.
Bhangra is one of the happiest and most exuberant form of movements that originated in the Punjab region of North India. If you have ever gone to an Indian wedding and witnessed people bouncing joyfully in circles, shrugging their shoulders, and laughing endlessly, you have experienced Bhangra. This class teaches basic Bhangra movements that are combined together into an energetic routine that ends up being a great cardio workout. The format is done in a way where steps are broken down in every class so even if you can't attend classes sequently you are able to pick up the steps and enjoy the class! We call it a happy workout!
Check out a little glimpse of the energy!
Ages: 13 & up (unless accompanied by an adult)
What to wear: Any workout type clothing or whatever you are comfortable dancing in; Bare feet or with shoes
Rates: $13 drop-in single session
$55 for 5 classes (expires 1 year from purchase date)
$80 for 8 classes (expires 1 year from purchase date)
You can pay in person in class via cash, check, or credit card
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In recent years a 'sustainable seafood movement' has thrived. Consumers, retailers and seafood processors have started asking questions. The first step has been to demand transparency. As retailers started developing sustainable seafood purchasing policies they requested more accountability. They asked for sustainable seafood that has not been caught with destructive fishing techniques such as bottom trawling, and fish that does not come from overfished stocks.
This section of the Greenpeace website provides a quick insight into the history of overfishing and how we came to the current state of the oceans. It creates an overview over some of the main problems. It helps retailers and seafood processors to understand what a sustainable seafood purchasing policy is and how to develop one. Last but not least, with the Greenpeace "international seafood red list", it lists 20 fish species at very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries ('red-listed') and explains the rationale for red-listing them. The international red list highlights key species companies should take action on as a first step in moving towards sustainable seafood purchasing policies.
We can all act to protect our oceans from overfishing, and from destructive fishing and farming practices by carefully choosing the seafood we buy.
If you have found a sustainable source of one of the species on the red list, ensure that it is clearly labelled, and information about its sustainability can be checked and confirmed easily.
Be as cautious when buying certified seafood as with any other seafood.
Make sure your sustainable seafood policy is accessible to your customers in your stores and online.
Promote the more sustainable seafood you sell.
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Ensure that your suppliers provide full traceability of their products as a minimum requirement.
Encourage change by lobbying politicians who represent you, and by supporting organisations that advocate marine reserves.
These are species that are commonly sold in supermarkets and that have a high risk of being unsustainable.
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This will give you more chance of choosing more sustainable seafood products. Check out your national Greenpeace website to find out if your supermarket has been scored on its seafood sourcing policy. Also check the supermarket's website to find out if it has a policy.
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As a general rule, try to choose local species caught by lines, pots or traps. For oily fish such as sardines, herring, and anchovy, those caught in purse seine nets can be the best choice.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Stephen Morris threw two first-quarter touchdown passes, and Miami took advantage of Florida turnovers during four red-zone opportunities on the way to knocking off the 12th-ranked Gators, 21-16, on Saturday.
Duke Johnson added a 2-yard touchdown run with 3:29 left to make it 21-9 Miami (2-0), which has won four straight games for the first time since 2008 and will almost certainly return to the AP Top 25 on Sunday for the first time since 2010.
Jeff Driskel threw for a career-best 291 yards and had a 21-yard touchdown pass to Solomon Patton with 2:08 left for the Gators (1-1), who lost three fumbles, had two passes intercepted and were stopped once on downs. Driskel also ran for a touchdown. But Driskel also turned the ball over twice in the fourth quarter.
No. 2 Oregon 59, Virginia 10
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- De'Anthony Thomas ran for 124 yards and three touchdowns, Marcus Mariota threw for two touchdowns and ran 71 yards for another score and No. 2 Oregon started fast and manhandled Virginia, 59-10.
The Ducks (2-0), who gained a school-record 772 yards last week in beating Nicholls State, looked capable of doing it again against a Virginia defense that hoped to keep the Cavaliers in the game. Oregon finished with 557 yards and did all its scoring while possessing the ball for just 21:25.
Virginia (1-1) got a very early look at what it was up against as Mariota dropped back on a third-and-5 in the game's opening series, then bolted up the middle untouched, going 71 yards for a touchdown. After 1:51, the Ducks were on their way to their 16th consecutive victory on their opponent's field, the longest streak in the country.
No. 3 Ohio State 42, San Diego State 7
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Kenny Guiton took over when Braxton Miller left with a sprained left knee, running for one touchdown and passing for two on Saturday while leading No. 3 Ohio State to a 42-7 victory over San Diego State.
Miller watched the last three quarters from the sideline after being sandwiched between two tacklers on the Buckeyes' seventh offensive play. The Buckeyes (2-0) didn't need him.
Guiton, who helped save Ohio State's 12-0 season a year ago, had the most playing time he's ever had in a game. He set career bests with 19 of 28 passing for 152 yards and 83 rushing yards.
It was another disappointing outing for the Aztecs (0-2), who lost 40-19 to FCS Eastern Illinois at home in their opener.
No. 4 Clemson 52, South Carolina State 13
CLEMSON, S.C. -- Tajh Boyd ran for a touchdown and No. 4 Clemson returned two interceptions for scores for the first time in program history in a 52-13 victory over FCS opponent South Carolina State.
Boyd accounted for five TDs a week ago and became a prime Heisman Trophy contender as the Tigers (2-0) defeated No. 11 Georgia 38-35.
In this one, Boyd scored Clemson's first touchdown and played only a half against the Bulldogs (0-2) before finding a spot on the Death Valley sidelines next to offensive coordinator Chad Morris. That was more than enough, though, for Clemson to move to 27-0 all-time against FCS teams.
Cornerbacks Martin Jenkins and Darius Robinson each had pick-6 scores to help the Tigers to a 38-7 lead by halftime.
Backup Cole Stoudt had three touchdown passes, two to reserve Germone Hopper, in the blowout win.
Boyd finished 14-of-23 passing for 169 yards.
No. 5 Stanford 34, San Jose State 13
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Tyler Gaffney ran for 104 yards and two touchdowns in an impressive return after playing baseball in the minors last year, leading Stanford to a season-opening 34-13 victory over San Jose State.
With career-rushing leader Stepfan Taylor in the NFL now, Gaffney made sure the defending Pac-12 and Rose Bowl champions kept the ground game going strong. The Cardinal scored on their first three possessions and forced prolific passer David Fales to toss short passes for little gain.
Kevin Hogan threw for 207 yards and two touchdowns for Stanford in front of an announced sellout crowd of 50,424 — the largest since 50,425 showed up for Southern California in 2008. Stanford has won nine straight games.
The Cardinal's vaunted defense sacked Fales four times, held San Jose State (1-1) to 35 yards rushing and never lost its physical prowess. Fales completed 29 of 43 passes for 216 yards and a touchdown with one interception.
No. 7 Texas A&M 65, Sam Houston State 28
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Johnny Manziel threw for 426 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another score in less than three quarters to give Texas A&M a win over Sam Houston State, 65-27.
The Heisman Trophy winner played about a quarter more than he did last week when he sat out the first half for A&M (2-0) serving a suspension for what the school called an "inadvertent" violation of NCAA rules involving signing autographs.
The Aggies' suspension-depleted defense was burned for several big plays by the Bearkats, the FCS runner-up the last two seasons, in the final tuneup before next week's rematch with No. 1 Alabama.
Timothy Flanders had 170 yards rushing with two scores and a TD catch for the Bearkats (1-1).
Texas A&M's Mike Evans had a career-high 155 yards receiving, Tra Carson ran for 51 with two touchdowns and Ben Malena had 68 yards rushing and a score.
No. 9 Louisiana State 56, Alabama Birmingham 17
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Zach Mettenberger passed for an LSU single-game record five touchdowns, receiver Odell Beckham Jr. scored one of his four touchdowns on a 100-yard field goal return, and the Tigers overwhelmed UAB, 56-17.
LSU coach Les Miles also decided to end running back Jeremy Hill's benching in the second quarter of the second game of the season. Hill, who was arrested last spring for landing a punch outside a bar, scored on a 3-yard run on his first carry.
Mettenberger finished 16 of 19 for 282 yards and was not intercepted. Beckham's 136 yards and three TDs receiving were both career highs. He led LSU (2-0) with 331 all-purpose yards.
Darren Reaves and Jamarcus Nelson each had touchdowns in the first half for UAB (0-2).
No. 11 Georgia 41, No. 8 South Carolina 30
ATHENS, Ga. -- Aaron Murray threw for 309 yards and four touchdowns, Georgia's beleaguered defense finally came up with a stop, and the Bulldogs defeated South Carolina, 41-30, for an early edge in the Southeastern Conference East.
Coming off a 38-35 loss at Clemson, Georgia could not afford another defeat if it wanted to remain a serious contender for a national title.
Murray took care of that, turning in one of the best games of his career. The fifth-year senior capped his stellar day for the Bulldogs (1-1, 1-0 SEC) with an 85-yard touchdown pass to Justin Scott-Wesley with 13 minutes remaining.
The defense made sure it stood up, stuffing Mike Davis on fourth-and-goal from inside the 1.
Davis led the Gamecocks (1-1, 0-1) with 149 yards rushing on 16 carries.
No. 8 Louisville 44, Eastern Kentucky 7
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Teddy Bridgewater threw for 397 yards and four touchdowns, and eighth-ranked Louisville routed Eastern Kentucky, 44-7, on a day the Cardinals' defense just missed a shutout for a second straight week.
Linebacker Preston Brown had two sacks for Louisville, and Calvin Pryor had an interception as Louisville limited Eastern Kentucky to 76 yards total offense in the first half.
The Cardinals (2-0) needed the defensive plays. Following the noon kickoff, Louisville settled for a pair of field goals from John Wallace after turnovers gave the offense short fields. The Cardinals also settled for a third field goal in the third quarter despite reaching Eastern Kentucky's 4.
Bridgewater hit his first five passes to continue his strong start on the season and for his Heisman Trophy candidacy. He tossed TD passes to Damian Copeland, two to DeVante Parker and Gerald Christian while connecting with eight different receivers.
No. 13 Oklahoma State 56, Texas San Antonio 35
SAN ANTONIO -- New starter J.W. Walsh completed his first 10 passes, finished 24-of-27 passing for 326 yards and four touchdown throws as No. 13 Oklahoma State beat UTSA, 56-35.
It's the fourth start for the sophomore Walsh, his first this season after a quick relief performance for Clint Chelf last week. With his speedy start against a Roadrunners team entering its season of football, Walsh led the Cowboys (2-0) to touchdowns on five of six first-half possessions.
UTSA (1-1) tied the score 7-7 when Kenny Bias scored on a 6-yard run with 4:22 left in the first quarter. But Walsh scored from 4 yards out in the second quarter and the Cowboys led 35-7 at halftime.
Walsh left with six minutes left in the third and the Cowboys up 42-7. Eric Soza threw three TDs in the fourth quarter and finished 24 of 41 for 308 yards, with three interceptions.
Brigham Young 40, No. 15 Texas 21
PROVO, Utah -- Taysom Hill led a big night on the ground for BYU, rushing for 259 yards — second-most in school history — and three touchdowns to help the Cougars beat Texas, 40-21.
Hill was masterful in guiding the team's new read-option offense as the Cougars (1-1) rolled up 550 yards rushing, eclipsing a 55-year-old team record. It's also the most yards rushing Texas (1-1) has ever allowed.
The elusive Hill scored on runs of 68, 20 and 26 yards. He came close to breaking BYU's single-game rushing record of 272 yards, a mark set by quarterback Eldon Fortie in 1962.
Jamaal Williams had a career-high 182 yards and Paul Lasike added 87 along with a score.
David Ash threw two TD passes to Mike Davis and Joe Bergeron had a short TD for Texas.
No. 16 Oklahoma 16, West Virginia 7
NORMAN, Okla. -- Brennan Clay had a career-high 170 yards rushing and Oklahoma overcame a second-half quarterback switch to beat West Virginia, 16-7.
The Sooners (2-0, 1-0 Big 12) scored the game's final 16 points after trailing 7-0 in the first quarter. Freshman quarterback Trevor Knight threw a pair of third-quarter interceptions, leading to junior Blake Bell taking over in the fourth.
Clay finished with 22 carries, leading an Oklahoma offense that had 316 yards rushing and topping his previous best of 157 yards against Iowa State in 2012.
Paul Millard was 21-of-42 passing for 218 yards for the Mountaineers (1-1, 0-1), whose lone score came on a 75-yard touchdown run by Dreamius Smith in the first quarter.
No. 17 Michigan 41, No. 14 Notre Dame 30
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Devin Gardner threw four touchdown passes, including a victory-sealing connection to Drew Dileo with 4:18 left, and the dual-threat quarterback wearing No. 98 to honor Tom Harmon ran for a score to lead No. 17 Michigan to a 41-30 win over No. 14 Notre Dame in front of an NCAA-record crowd of 115,109.
The Wolverines (2-0) had a pair of 14-point leads, but the Fighting Irish (1-1) refused to get routed.
Notre Dame pulled within a TD early in the fourth quarter when defensive end Stephon Tuitt made a diving interception in the end zone.
Kyle Brindza made a 40-yard field goal with 9:15 left to pull Notre Dame within four points.
The Irish were called for pass interference twice on the ensuing drive and Gardner later took advantage with a 4-yard TD to Dileo. Tommy Rees threw a second interception with 1:29 left.
No. 19 Northwestern 48, Syracuse 27
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Trevor Siemian threw for 259 yards and a career-high three touchdowns, Kain Colter passed for a touchdown and ran for one, and No. 19 Northwestern pounded Syracuse, 48-27.
Tony Jones added a personal-best 185 yards receiving and a 47-yard TD, and the Wildcats (2-0) racked up 581 yards in all. They also intercepted Syracuse's Drew Allen four times on the way to an easy victory.
How easy?
They scored the game's first 20 points and led 34-7 at the half after collecting 387 yards, with their quarterbacks picking apart Syracuse (0-2).
They each completed 11 of 12 passes in the first half, and Colter seemed to be fine after suffering a concussion early in last week's win at California. He was 15 of 18 for 116 yards and ran for 87 yards.
No. 21 Wisconsin 48, Tennessee Tech 0
MADISON, Wis. -- Melvin Gordon ran for 140 yards and a score, and No. 21 Wisconsin's overpowering defense got its second straight shutout in a 48-0 win over FCS school Tennessee Tech.
Joel Stave was 24 of 28 for 219 yards and three touchdowns, while defensive back Darius Hillary set the tone early by forcing a fumble that set up a score for the Badgers (2-0).
The early-season tuneup went about as well as could be expected for first-year coach Gary Andersen, who's breaking in a new 3-4 defense in Madison.
Wisconsin had no problems against the Golden Eagles (1-1), whose spread offense got outmuscled by the bigger Badgers. Tennessee Tech coach Watson Brown could have used a few players from younger brother Mack Brown's team at Texas.
The brightest spot for Tennessee Tech may have been punter Chad Zinchini, who had a career-best 70-yard boot in the third quarter.
No. 22 Nebraska 56, Southern Mississippi 13
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Stanley Jean-Baptiste and Ciante Evans returned first-quarter interceptions for touchdowns and No. 22 Nebraska made quick work of Southern Mississippi in a 56-13 victory.
Taylor Martinez threw for three touchdowns and Ameer Abdullah ran for two more for the Cornhuskers (2-0), who now turn their attention to next week's home game against No. 18 UCLA.
Jean-Baptiste jumped in front of Rickey Bradley Jr. just as Allan Bridgford's pass arrived on the third play of the game and ran it back 43 yards.
Evans put the Huskers up 21-3 with the first of his two interceptions, catching a ball tipped by Tyre'oune Holmes and going 22 yards to the end zone.
It was a solid rebound for a Nebraska defense that surrendered 602 yards in a 37-34 win over Wyoming last week. The Golden Eagles (0-2) lost their 14th straight, the longest losing streak in the FBS.
No. 23 Baylor, 70, Buffalo 13
WACO, Texas -- Bryce Petty threw for 338 yards and two touchdowns, Lache Seastrunk ran for 150 yards with three scores and Baylor's first-team offense had 576 total yards in only 11 minutes with the ball as the 23rd-ranked Bears beat Buffalo, 70-13.
The starters for the Bears (2-0) had eight touchdowns in their nine drives. The only non-scoring driving was when they had the ball at the end of the first half.
Baylor finished with a school-record 781 total yards and topped the 69 points scored a week earlier in what had been the most for the Bears since 1929.
Alex Neutz had six catches for a career-high 197 for Buffalo (0-2).
Petty completed 13 of 16 passes, and two of his incompletions were balls caught but ruled out of bounds. He also ran for a score.
No. 24 Texas Christian 38, Southeastern Louisiana 17
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Trevone Boykin led three straight scoring drives after starter Casey Pachall left with an injury game, and No. 24 TCU pulled away from Southeastern Louisiana, 38-17.
Pachall appeared to injure his left arm or wrist at the end of a running play late in the second quarter. Boykin ran 16 yards on the next play, and Jaden Oberkrom ended the first half with a 46-yard field goal that put the Horned Frogs (1-1) ahead 17-14.
Boykin completed a 29-yard pass to Brandon Carter on the first play of the second half, and Carter finished that drive with a 5-yard scoring run. Then Boykin threw 27 yards to Josh Doctson for a 31-14 lead.
Bryan Bennett had 132 yards passing and another 132 rushing for the Lions (1-1), who had never scored more than 10 points in five games against BCS teams since bringing back football in 2003.
Washington State 10, No. 25 USC 7
LOS ANGELES -- Andrew Furney kicked a 41-yard field goal with 3:03 to play, and Washington State got its first victory at the Coliseum in 13 years.
Damante Horton returned an interception 70 yards for a tying score in the final seconds of the first half for Washington State (1-1, 1-0 Pac-12), and he made the clinching interception with 2:18 to play in the Cougars' first win over the Trojans anywhere since 2002.
Dom Williams took Connor Halliday's third-and-long screen pass 49 yards to the USC 30 with 5 1 2 minutes left to set up Furney's tiebreaking kick.
Horton then picked off Max Wittek's pass to finish off USC (1-1, 0-1), which received loud boos throughout its Pac-12 opener.
California 37, Portland State 30
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Freshman quarterback Jared Goff passed for 485 yards and two touchdowns to give coach Sonny Dykes his first win at California while leading the Golden Bears to a 37-30 win over Portland State on Saturday.
Goff completed 31 of 58 attempts and was 19 yards shy of breaking the school's single-game passing record. He became the first Cal quarterback since 1996 to throw for 400 yards or more in back-to-back games.
The two teams combined for 1,169 yards of total offense and 54 first downs. There were 42 plays of 10 yards or more, including four that went 50 or longer.
DJ Adams rushed for 139 yards and two touchdowns for Portland State (1-1).
Vincenzo D'Amato added two field goals for the Bears, who face four ranked teams over the next six weeks including back-to-back games against No. 3 Ohio State and No.2 Oregon.
Boise State 63, Tennessee Martin 14
BOISE, Idaho -- Joe Southwick threw five touchdown passes as Boise State pounded overmatched Tennessee Martin, 63-14.
Boise State (1-1) rebounded from its worst defeat in eight years, a 38-6 loss at Washington last week that knocked them from the Top 25.
Tennessee-Martin (1-1), an FCS team from the Ohio Valley Conference, could do little to stop Boise State's hurry-up offense.
This was the first meeting between the programs, and the longest trip west Tennessee-Martin has made for a football game.
Boise State, which has won 12 consecutive home openers on the blue turf at Bronco Stadium, led 49-7 at halftime. They substituted freely in the second half.
Tennessee-Martin fell to 1-15 against FBS programs in its history, beating Memphis last season.
Southwick, who was pulled from the game early in the second half, completed 17 of 25 passes for 234 yards. He was not intercepted.
Michigan State 21, South Florida 6
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Shilique Calhoun scored on a fumble return and an interception return, enabling Michigan State to overcome another poor offensive performance in a 21-6 victory over South Florida on Saturday.
The Spartans (2-0) rotated Connor Cook, Tyler O'Connor and Andrew Maxwell at quarterback, but their offense contributed only one touchdown. The defense has scored four of Michigan State's six TDs this season.
South Florida (0-2) was routed in its opener by McNeese State, and the Bulls couldn't get anything going offensively Saturday. Bobby Eveld was 6 of 25 for 66 yards with a fumble and an interception.
Michigan State's offense finally scored in the fourth quarter when Jeremy Langford ran 2 yards for a touchdown. That drive was only 33 yards after a short South Florida punt.
Illinois 45, Cincinnati 17CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Nathan Scheelhaase passed for 312 yards and four touchdowns to lead Illinois to a surprise 45-17 victory over Cincinnati.
The Illini (2-0) went up 21-0 in the second quarter and survived a Bearcat rally to stay undefeated.
For the Bearcats (1-1) the loss was made worse by quarterback Munchie Legaux's injury. He left in the fourth quarter on a cart with what appeared to be a serious leg injury. Details were not immediately available.
Scheelhaase threw to 11 different receivers. The biggest catch was Steve Hull's 22-yard touchdown late in the third quarter. It capped a 99-yard drive and put Illinois up 28-10.
That drive was set up by Legaux's fumble on a fourth-down play at the Illinois goal line. It was first ruled a touchdown but a review revealed Legaux fumbled after a hard hit by Earnest Thomas.
Legaux was 17-31 for 237 yards and a touchdown.
Tennessee 52, Western Kentucky 20
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Justin Coleman and Cameron Sutton returned interceptions for touchdowns Saturday as Tennessee scored after each of Western Kentucky's five first-quarter turnovers in a 52-20 victory.
Western Kentucky (1-1) turned the ball over five times in a span of six snaps during the first quarter, turning an early 3-0 lead into a 31-3 deficit.
The Football Bowl Subdivision record for consecutive turnovers forced by a defense is seven straight series. Florida State had four fumbles and three interceptions in its first seven possessions of a 42-13 loss to Florida on Oct. 7, 1972.
Western Kentucky quarterback Brandon Doughty threw five interceptions, including Coleman's 23-yard touchdown return and Sutton's 36-yard score. Brian Randolph picked off two Doughty passes in the end zone.
Marlin Lane rushed for 97 yards and one touchdown for Tennessee (2-0). Rajion Neal ran for 74 yards and three touchdowns.
Western Kentucky's Antonio Anderson rushed for 111 yards.
Penn State 45, Eastern Michigan 7
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Christian Hackenberg threw for 311 yards and a touchdown, and Zach Zwinak and Bill Belton each ran for a pair of scores, leading Penn State past Eastern Michigan, 45-7.
Hackenberg went 23 of 33 and overcame a shaky start to lead Penn State (2-0) to a win in its home opener. He connected with Allen Robinson for a 45-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter that helped put the game away. He set a Penn State mark for yards passing by a freshman.
After the running game never got going in the season opener vs. Syracuse, Zwinak broke through for a pair of short scores. Belton added a 51-yard touchdown run in the fourth and had 108 yards rushing. Akeel Lynch added a 27-yard score in the fourth and also had 108 yards rushing.
Penn State's Sam Ficken set a school record with his 14th straight field goal, a 39-yarder that closed the first half.
Eastern Michigan (1-1) scored off a fumble to avoid the shutout.
Utah State 52, Air Force 20
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Chuckie Keeton matched his own school record by throwing for five touchdowns, including three in the third quarter, and Utah State routed Air Force, 52-20, to give Aggies coach Matt Wells his first win in the school's Mountain West Conference debut.
Keeton completed 32 of 40 for 360 yards passing, the fifth time in seven games he has thrown for at least 300 yards dating to last season. Keeton also threw for five touchdowns as a freshman in a 63-19 win over Wyoming in 2011.
Each of Keeton's scoring passes went to a different receiver.
Joe Hill and Joey DeMartino each added short touchdown runs for Utah State (1-1, 1-0 Mountain West), which made the move to the new conference from the Western Athletic Conference.
Jaleel Awini had a rough outing in his first career start at quarterback for Air Force (1-1, 0-1).
Navy 41, Indiana 35
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Keenan Reynolds rushed for 127 yards and three touchdowns, leading Navy to a 41-35 season-opening victory at Indiana.
The Midshipmen (1-0) played almost flawlessly, finishing with 444 yards rushing, no turnovers, five penalties and only three carries for negative yards.
Navy has now won 20 games over BCS foes since 2003 — the most of any non-BCS school in the nation during that span.
For Indiana (1-1), it was a huge deflation after a 73-35 victory over Indiana State.
But as the Hoosiers continued to score, the defense was confounded by Navy's ground game and never even forced a punt.
Navy scored on its first three possessions, taking a 17-0 lead. Reynolds scored on runs of 1, 2 and 1 yard as the Midshipmen fended off Indiana's rallies.
Ball State 40, Army 14
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Keith Wenning passed for two touchdowns and 325 yards and Ball State defeated Army, 40-14.
Jamill Smith had 83 yards receiving and a score. Wenning was 23 of 32 passing.
On the Cardinals' first drive, Willie Snead caught passes of 11, 15 and 13 yards. Horactio Banks, who had two touchdowns and 51 yards rushing, had a 7-yard rush and later a 10-yard run to tie the game at 7-7. On the next drive, Smith scored the go-ahead TD on an 8-yard reception to make it 14-7.
Ball State's Scott Secor kicked a career-best 47-yard field goal to give the Cardinals (2-0) a 17-7 lead.
Larry Dixon, who had 107 yards rushing and two scores for Army (1-1), broke away for a 71-yard run to give the Black Knights the lead 56 seconds into the game.
Army's Angel Santiago had 49 yards on 3-of 11-passing and an interception.


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