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Calculating an average of 200 sharks per boat, "our estimates are that as many as 2,000 sharks may have been killed," Bessudo said.
The sanctuary covers 8,570 square kilometres of marine environment that provides a habitat for threatened marine species – in particular sharks. Divers have reported sightings of schools of more than 200 hammerhead sharks and as many as 1,000 silky sharks in the protected waters, one of the few areas in the world where...
Bessudo, a marine biologist, has spent much of her career in Malpelo and fighting to preserve the unique marine environment there.
But the high concentration of sharks in Malpelo and the remoteness of the marine sanctuary draws illegal fishing boats from nearby nations which trap the sharks, strip them of their fins, and throw them back into the water. Shark fin soup, considered a delicacy of Chinese cuisine, can fetch £63 per bowl in a Hong Kong ...
Colombia's navy sporadically patrols the waters and maintains a small outpost on the 1.2 square kilometre island, which is 36 hours from the nearest port. At the time of the reported shark finnings, however, no navy ships were nearby.
Once the report of the finnings were made public, the navy dispatched a ship to the area and on Sunday reported the seizure of an Ecuadorian fishing boat, caught with an illegal catch of 300kg, including sharks and other species.
At the same time, Colombia's foreign ministry took up the issue with the Costa Rican government, which vowed to co-operate to help stop the practice by ships registered under its flag.
In a communiqué, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said it "energetically condemns" the reported finning and said it would prosecute if the participation of Costa Rican flagged ships were involved. At least three of the ships were identified by their names: the Marco Antonio, the Jefferson and the Papante.
• This article was amended on Wednesday 19 October. The original mentioned "hammerhead, Galápagos and whale sharks", and "the Marco Antonio, the Jefferson and the Andy". These errors have been corrected. The unit of measurement has also been changed from metre to kilometre for the island.
DEAR ABBY: I am 26. My mom recently got my boyfriend sent to jail. We met six months ago. After a month, he started verbally abusing me, which progressed to physical abuse. Each time I was sure I was about to die.
He is now locked up for kidnapping, false imprisonment and aggravated assault. Mom had had enough of hearing about the abuse and took matters into her own hands. I didn't want her to call the police because I don't feel jail is right for people except killers.
I understand she wanted to protect me because I kept going back, but now I cry every day worrying about if he is safe in jail and wondering how he's feeling. Everybody around me is saying I don't need to worry about him because he didn't care about how he made me feel. I think it's heartless to say that.
When he got arrested, I was in awful pain with my neck and back, but all I could think about was him. People are telling me I need counseling, but I don't think it will help, because at the end of the day I will still think about him and worry about him.
DEAR HARD TIME: I believe you are a good and nice person, but you are also one who is very mixed up right now. If you think your abuser loved you, you are mistaken. Men who treat women the way he treated you not only don't love women, they don't even LIKE them. Had your mother not done what she did, you could be dead.
If you want an example of what love is, love is doing something to help your daughter, knowing it may alienate her forever, but doing it anyway to save her life. I'm pleased you have agreed to counseling because you need it very much. After you have gone for a while, your emotional dependence on your abuser will dissip...
DEAR ABBY: Five months ago, my husband and I suffered a miscarriage. We had been trying to have a baby for six years, and we were over the moon excited. We waited 12 weeks to tell any friends or family, but we ended up having complications and losing our little one at 22 weeks.
DEAR CHANGING: Please accept my sympathy for your loss. The most appropriate way to handle these intrusive and insensitive questions (and comments) would be to tell them exactly what you told me in the last sentence of your letter and repeat it as necessary.
The Tea Project, running in Chicago through mid-April, combines audience participation and performances to tell the stories of Guantanamo Bay prisoners. We’ll talk about the project with co-curator Amber Ginsburg, Larry Siems, editor of Guantanamo Diary and Aliya Hussain, advocacy director at Center for Constitutional ...
In Novel Sounds, scholar Florence Dore is interested in how a mass cultural phenomenon like rock 'n' roll can help illuminate realities about institutionalized high culture.
Is a Wasted Day the Same as a Lost Opportunity?
Patricia Hampl explores the intersection between wandering, leisure, and the power of the imagination in this thoughtful memoir.
The artists and writers of Paris' Left Bank brought scandal and controversy in their time. In so doing they shaped the artistic and intellectual milieu of the modern world.
Mary Poppins, Mrs. Gamp, Egyptian deities, a Japanese umbrella spirit, and a supporting cast of hundreds of brollies fill Marion Rankine's lively history.
There's something characteristically English about the Royal Society, whereby strangers gather under the aegis of some shared interest to read, study, and form friendships and in which they are implicitly agreed to exist insulated and apart from political differences.
Two recently translated works -- Lydie Salvayre's Cry, Mother Spain and Joan Sales' Uncertain Glory -- bring to life the profound complexity of an early struggle against fascism, the Spanish Civil War.
Did the Victorians deal with their rapidly changing society better than civilization today is dealing with equally new dizzying discoveries?
I read After Kathy Acker cover to cover—which is more than I can say of any book written by Acker herself.
Twenty stories of mixed signals, strange lands, and one-night stands in America and beyond.
Sam Shepard somehow managed to incorporate (and yes, transcend) virtually every cliché of Americana, distilling it into his own, unique persona.
Shawn Fogel (Golden Bloom) releases literary-inspired EP as Brothers in Yarn.
Why "jeepers creepers" should be more profane than any word you (still) can't say on television, why it isn't, and why that matters.
Edgar Allan Poe endures as an artist who made his life's work a deeper than healthy dive into the messy engine of human foibles, obsessions, and misdeeds.
In charting the cities of human fancy, Darran Anderson has created the opposite of an atlas.
If Sjöberg's stylistic tics are an impediment to real investigation, they at least provide an aesthetic pleasure all their own.
This anthology is meant to study two of the most lively artistic fields on the planet, and yet it's bogged down by articles of no great substance and no great joy.
The Insignia portfolio contains lower-priced disk array, replication and backup products designed for small and midsized businesses.
EMC on Feb. 6 introduced Insignia, its new line of refurbished hardware and software products specifically tailored toward small and midsize businesses.
The Insignia portfolio features lower-priced and downsized disk array, replication, and backup and recovery offerings for SMBs to more easily manage and share storage within their increasingly complex storage environments.
Building on its successful SMB-focused partnership and development with Dell, EMCs Insignia includes that joint ventures crown jewel: EMC Clarion AX Series disk arrays.
Priced at $5,500 and tacked with a maximum capacity of 6TB, the AX Series storage array can consolidate and allocate RAID storage across multiple computers and servers for either Fiber Channel or iSCSI storage environments. The product is currently available.
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EMC tweaked its EMC VisualSRM (storage resource management) 1.7 SMB Edition tool from its enterprise-class predecessor by limiting its capacity to 2TB and focusing the product solely on Microsoft Windows environments, said Larry Zulch, vice-president and general manager, EMC Insignia, for Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC.
The automated storage management product costs $995. The product will be ready later this quarter.
EMC Storage Administrator for Exchange SMB Edition has been added to Insignia, with the aim of helping SMBs simplify storage administration, migrate data as part of upgrades and offer failover capabilities for their Microsoft Exchange Server deployments.
Supporting only EMC Clarion AX100 Series, the product costs $1,995 and is currently available.
For Insignias EMC Retrospect, EMC is using point-in-time restore and encryption technology pulled from its acquisition of Dantz Development Corp. in October 2004.
Version 7.5 of the disk-to-disk backup and recovery software is available and priced between $399 and $1449.
In many ways the beginnings of EMC Insignia began with the acquisition of Dantz. Insignia features a great deal of Dantz employees, executives and technical expertise. In fact, Zulch is the former CEO of the company.
"SMBs have very similar storage needs as larger companies. They have to deal with customer lists, transactions, inventory, etc., but they have to do it with lesser resources," said Zulch, who added that EMC defines SMBs as businesses with revenues of $25 million or less.
"Theres no question that there are products [available today] that would meet the requirements of SMBs, but theyve been too expensive and too complex. It cant just be cheaper and it cant just be simpler."
Rounding out Insignia, EMC Replistor 6.1 SMB Edition is currently available for $995 per node. The replication product supports up to two servers and Windows-only PCs for disaster recovery, failover and copy purposes.
In terms of collaboration, EMC eRoom SMB Edition will be available later this quarter for $995. The bite-sized product only supports up to 10 users.
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Charles King, principal analyst for Hayward, Calif.-based Pund-IT Inc., said Insignia is on the right footing to help EMC launch its SMB aspirations on its own into an area where many SMB specialists may have said the storage giant wasnt well prepared for in the past.
"If EMC wants to play seriously [among SMBs], they have to do what every other SMB-focused storage vendor does and work with many partners, and thats something thats very familiar to them with their enterprise offerings," said King.
Since the realities of competition for SMBs requires aggressive vendor pricing, King said EMC must find ways to endure an environment where profits are not as high to successfully respond to customer demands, while moving products at much lower prices.
King said Dell should be among EMCs partners to benefit the most from Insignia, and the formation of the new product line should have no impact on the newly extended relationship between the two companies.
The upcoming fifth instalment in the Terminator series is to titled ‘Genisys’, according to the franchise’s iconic star Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger is due to reprise his role in the new film, which is not due for release until 2015, and he spilt the name of the new film via his Instagram page as he thanked the cast and crew after production of the reboot had finished earlier this week.
"Hasta la vista, baby. I want to thank the cast and crew of @TerminatorGenisys for a fantastic shoot," the 67 year old star said. He also mooted a release date of July 1 next year for the new movie.
The former Governor of California has not appeared in franchise since Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines back in 2003. Though the film is directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World), recent news suggested that James Cameron, director of the first Terminator film back in 1984, is loosely involved with Genisys.
MORE: James Cameron linked with the new Terminator movie.
The new film also stars Jason Clarke and Emilia Clarke (no relation) as John and Sarah Connor, as well as Jai Courtney and former 'Doctor Who' actor Matt Smith. Some of those involved have commented on how smart the script for the new film is, indicating that it’s going to at least be better than the Christian Bale-sta...
The unusual title could well be a reference to a new high-tech manufacturing corporation or some kind of apocalyptic event, being a portmanteau of the words ‘genesis’ and ‘system’, like Cyberdyne and Skynet in previous instalments. It would certainly fit well with the existing mythology of the series.
Abigail Morrell may only be 11 but she already knows about the impact of low milk prices on her family’s dairy farm and is so concerned she has written to the Prime Minister asking for help.
The youngster dreams of one day running the farm at Killinghall, Harrogate, together with her elder brother, but is becoming increasingly fearful the business, which has been in the family for generations, will find it more and more difficult to survive in the current climate and she may not get the chance to lead the ...
Her letter to Number 10 has already received a response, with Prime Minister, David Cameron, even adding a hand-written note at the end of the typed response telling the 11-year-old: “Yours was such a good and moving letter.
“We will try and help this vital industry,” he tells her.
Abigail’s father, Mark Morrell, yesterday spoke of his and his family’s pride in her determination to take the message to the very top: ”We are really proud of her.
“She wants the opportunity to be able to run the farm with her brother but the problem is will we still have a farm?
“We have had 18 months of low milk prices,” he said and at the same time his costs had not fallen, putting him and many others in a perilous position.
Mr Morrell says he knows he is lucky to do a job he loves but hopes by speaking out people will support British farmers. The family’s plight has not escaped Abigail’s attention.
“I love my cows, all 261 of them,” she says in her letter to the PM.
She adds: “My dad keeps talking about how much the price of milk has dropped and he is very upset because he says he is not getting enough money to pay our bills.
Processors have blamed overproduction of milk in the UK, and in other European countries, since the abolition of quotas last year which controlled the volume of milk produced in EU member states. Price cuts have left many farmers with difficult decisions, with many making a loss and considering their future in milking.
Mr Morrell says his family is planning to travel to London join a march to 10 Downing street organised by Farmers for Action on March 23 to highlight the importance of the farming industry.
Downing Street’s response to Abigail’s letter includes an acceptance about the need for “better labelling for British dairy products” and encouraging “business-minded young people” into agriculture. It also said the Government was helping find new global markets for UK dairy.
Up to three Yorkshire dairy farmers are quitting the industry on average every single month.
The average price paid to the farmer per litre of milk in February 2014 was 33.95p - now, it is in the lower 20s. Any price below 30p is said by dairy farmers to be a smaller return than necessary to cover their cost of producing the milk in the first place.
The Syrian crisis has cost the lives of nearly 250,000 people, displaced nearly half of the population, and sent 4.6 million Syrian refugees into neighboring countries. The United States has taken in approximately 2,500 Syrian refugees since 2011, and the Obama administration announced that it plans to admit an additio...
On Friday February 19, the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings hosted a conversation with recent Syrian refugees on their experiences of forced migration, resettlement, and integration in the United States. Robert McKenzie, visiting fellow for the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic Wor...
This event was the latest in a series of Foreign Policy at Brookings events focusing on the Syrian refugee crisis and the U.S. and international community’s response.
A Pakistani neuroscientist facing trial on charges that she tried to kill military officers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan erupted in a Manhattan courtroom and accused a witness of lying on Tuesday, as testimony began in her federal trial.
The neuroscientist, Aafia Siddiqui, 37, was ushered out of the courtroom after her outburst, in which she also said that she had been locked in a secret prison since her arrest. She is charged with shooting at Army officers and F.B.I. agents while being detained in Afghanistan in July 2008.
Ms. Siddiqui, who is said by intelligence officers to have ties to Al Qaeda, was taken into custody in the city of Ghazni after she was found loitering outside a provincial governor’s compound with suspicious items in her handbag, including a book called “Anarchist Arsenal,” according to an indictment.
Her remarks on Tuesday came within minutes after the first witness, Capt. Robert Snyder Jr. of the Army, was called to the stand in Federal District Court. He said Ms. Siddiqui’s purse contained handwritten notes about a “few ounces of radiation material” and a list of New York landmarks — the Empire State Building, Wa...
While she was being detained, prosecutors say, Ms. Siddiqui, who has biology and neuroscience degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, grabbed an M4 rifle that an interpreter had left leaning against a wall and fired at least two shots toward the agents and officers who were there...
No one was hit, and a soldier returned fire, hitting Ms. Siddiqui in the torso. She has recovered from that wound.
But defense lawyers said there was so much confusion that night in the room where she was being questioned that it was hard to tell for sure what took place.
“What we expect to show is that there are very different versions of this story,” said Charles Swift, a defense lawyer, in his opening arguments. The items from Ms. Siddiqui’s purse were not credible as evidence, defense lawyers suggested, because they were sloppily handled.
Another prosecution witness, John Threadcraft, said under cross-examination, “I would say at least three people touched the items,” which were later left unattended in a truck.
Mr. Threadcraft, who was then a liaison officer with the Army, testified that the contents included papers with words like “dirty bomb,” “bioweapons” and “Ebola.” “I remember something that looked like a fuse, a cigarette on a cord,” he said.
Ms. Siddiqui has had several outbursts in previous court appearances, raising questions about her competency to stand trial. But the judge presiding over her case, Richard M. Berman, ruled in July that Ms. Siddiqui “has a rational as well as a factual understanding of the proceedings against her” and could assist with ...
The President and First Lady addressed over 3000 service men and women in a Fort Bragg airplane hanger Wednesday, a day before the hand over of power in Iraq. There was a sense of excitement and anticipation in the air from completing their mission and at the prospect of being home for the holidays. Among the troops th...
BHO may have a real Christian Conversion and throw his Pastor of 20 years, under the bus.
Maybe Farr-akan will explain it to him.
In another indication that the Titans’ quarterback job is Jake Locker’s to lose, coach Mike Munchak said today that if Locker continues to do through the rest of the preseason what he has done so far, he’ll beat out Matt Hasselbeck for the starting job.
Locker played better than Hasselbeck in the preseason opener, although neither quarterback was great. Munchak said he wants to see Locker get the Titans’ first-string offense into the end zone on Friday night against the Buccaneers.
Locker has never started an NFL game, while Hasselbeck has 147 regular-season starts in his career. But Munchak said he doesn’t think Locker’s lack of experience is an issue.
Locker will get his first preseason start on Friday. And it’s sounding more and more like he’ll get his first regular-season start on September 9.

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