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The Virgin Islands Consortium Soraya Diase-Coffelt Interview – Video

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The Virgin Islands Consortium Soraya Diase-Coffelt Interview
As part of the Virgin Islands Consortium #39;s "Big Interviews" with the USVI gubernatorial candidates, we talk to Coffelt to find out what she intends to do if elected the next governor of the territory.

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Chinas coral poaching off Japan's islands on the rise

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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Publication Date : 24-10-2014

Coral poaching by Chinese fishing boats in waters around the Ogasawara Islands has been rapidly increasing.

Earlier this month, nearly 50 such vessels were spotted in the area, where they were believed to be searching for valuable red coral and other jewellery coral that inhabit the deep sea. Catches of such jewellery coral are regulated in China.

The Japan Coast Guard has been cracking down on coral poaching by Chinese fishing boats, some of which have entered Japanese territorial waters or Japans exclusive economic zone.

Few such ships were spotted on ocean waters earlier this year, according to the JCG. But since September, the number of Chinese fishing boats in such areas has surged, with confirmed sightings of at least 46 such vessels as of October 13.

The boats are believed to have started coming because the seas are calm at this time.

The coral live 100 metres or more below the sea surface and are commonly used in jewellery in China. Red coral is traded for 6 million yen per kilogram. According to the JCG, Chinese fishing boats have been poaching coral mainly in the East China Sea near Okinawa Prefecture. It is possible that they moved to waters around the Ogasawara Islands because law enforcement in the waters near Okinawa Prefecture was strengthened, the JCG said.

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Falcons face losing teen aces

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Nelson Marlborough Falcons players Atkin Kaua and Kevin Obed, both 18, will miss the last half of the ASB Youth League season as they are travelling back home to the Solomon Islands.

The Nelson Marlborough Falcons could be without Solomon Islands stars Atkin Kaua and Kevin Obed for the final five games of the season, with both players scheduled to return home next month.

The 18-year-olds, who study at Nelson College, have been two of the most exciting players in the Falcons squad, with Obed scoring twice in the first three games and Kaua providing most of the spark from midfield.

Both players have lived up to the high standards expected of them in their first season and Falcons coach Mark Johnston said the board was hoping to extend their stay by a month, until the end of the ASB Youth League season.

Obed and Kaua have flights booked to the Solomon Islands in the middle of next month because Obed needs to return home in order to renew his visa after spending two years in New Zealand.

"Our board have started the immigration process from New Zealand and if we can get that side of things squared away and get some money together to cover re-booking their flights it'd be amazing," he said.

"It's a tough one because I did know from the outset that this is the case and, if it turns out that they do go, then they will be missed because they have both been a huge part of what we're doing."

When asked what the duo add to the Falcons squad, Johnston said Obed is a player that can turn a game single-handedly.

"Players like that are one in a million. He certainly adds that X-factor that we haven't really had in the Falcons."

Kaua is a ball-playing midfielder, and in tandem with Bertie Fish, is the engine in the Falcons team. Johnston said he's got the full skill-set. "Atkin can bring players into the game. He can create a lot for other players as well. He's very tenacious and I guess he's more of an all-rounder."

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China's coral poaching rises

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Coral poaching by Chinese fishing boats in waters around the Ogasawara Islands has been rapidly increasing.

Earlier this month, nearly 50 such vessels were spotted in the area, where they were believed to be searching for valuable red coral and other "jewelry coral" that inhabit the deep sea. Catches of such jewelry coral are regulated in China.

The Japan Coast Guard has been cracking down on coral poaching by Chinese fishing boats, some of which have entered Japanese territorial waters or Japan's exclusive economic zone.

Few such ships were spotted on ocean waters earlier this year, according to the JCG. But since September, the number of Chinese fishing boats in such areas has surged, with confirmed sightings of at least 46 such vessels as of Oct. 13.

The boats are believed to have started coming because the seas are calm at this time.

The coral live 100 meters or more below the sea surface and are commonly used in jewelry in China. Red coral is traded for 6 million yen (S$70,823) per kilogram.

According to the JCG, Chinese fishing boats have been poaching coral mainly in the East China Sea near Okinawa Prefecture.

It is possible that they moved to waters around the Ogasawara Islands because law enforcement in the waters near Okinawa Prefecture was strengthened, the JCG said.

The JCG has stepped up security by introducing several large patrol vessels. On Oct. 5, it arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that entered Japan's territorial waters, which extend up to 22 kilometers from the coastal and territorial lands of Japan, on suspicion of violating the law on regulation of fishing operation by foreign nationals.

On Oct. 16, another Chinese captain was arrested for operating a vessel within Japan's exclusive economic zone, an area stretching about 370 kilometers from Japan's shoreline.

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Election 2014: New faces vying for Islands Trust seats

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Four fresh candidates from Gabriola Island will be contending for two spots on the Islands Trust council in the upcoming civic election.

Chris Bowers, former editor and publisher of The Flying Shingle newspaper; Melanie Mamoser, an environmental protection officer with the Ministry of Environment; Heather Nicholas, a library assistant at the Gabriola Island library and Peter Phillips, a former Islands Trust bylaw enforcement officer will have their names on the ballot.

The Islands Trust is an organization of local governments governing islands in the Salish Sea, including Gabriola and Salt Spring Islands.

Bowers, Mamoser, Nicholas and Phillips are four of 38 candidates that are vying for 24 Islands Trust trustee positions.

Our island communities are usually very engaged with local elections, said Linda Adams, chief administrative officer of Islands Trust, in a press release.

Sheila Malcolmson, a current trustee and board trust chairwoman, will not be seeking re-election as she recently received the federal NDP nomination for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith riding. Trustee Giselle Rudischer will not be seeking another term, either.

The Islands Trust chairperson and vice-chairpeople are elected by trustees. That vote is expected to take place at the trusts inaugural meeting in December.

For more civic election coverage, go to http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/municipalelection.

General voting day for Nanaimo and other municipalities across the province is Nov. 15.

reporter@nanaimobulletin.com

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Thigh Bone DNA Helps Narrow Down When Humans, Neanderthals First Intermingled

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Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online

Genetic analysis of DNA obtained from a 45,000-year-old modern human thigh bone has allowed researchers to narrow down the time frame in which mating first introduced Neanderthal genes into the human gene pool.

An international team of experts including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Harvard Medical School in Boston report in the latest edition of the journal Nature that interspecies mating first took place between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago.

The thigh bone studied by the genetics team was discovered in Siberia, and Dan Vergano of National Geographic noted that it is the oldest modern human bone discovered that far outside of Africa and the Middle East nearly twice the age of the next oldest, a 24,000-year-old fossil belonging to a boy that died elsewhere in the northern Asian region and whose genome was sequenced in 2013.

Study author and genetics expert Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute told Vergano that it was really exciting to have a really high-quality genome sequence of an early modern human that is this old, and that by using DNA from the bone to analyze the mans genetic map, they were able to find that he had roughly 2.3 percent Neanderthal genes. By comparison, modern men and women typically have about 2.1 percent Neanderthal DNA.

After its discovery, the bone reportedly changed hands multiple times before reaching the Max Planck Institute. Once there, the samples remarkably well preserved DNA enabled researchers to extract a genome sequence that Harvard University said was significantly higher in quality than most genome sequences of present-day people generated for analysis of disease risk.

Carbon dating and molecular analysis had revealed the sample belonged to an individual who lived 45,000 years ago and lived on a diet that included plants or plant eaters, as well as fish or other aquatic life forms. The genome sequence further revealed the individual, who has been identified as the Ust-Ishim man, was a modern human and, more specifically, a member of one of the most ancient non-African populations.

The morphology of the bone suggests that it is an early modern human; that is an individual related to populations that are the direct ancestors of people alive today anthropologist Bence Viola, who analyzed the bone, confirmed in a statement Wednesday. This individual is one of the oldest modern humans found outside the Middle East and Africa.

The sequenced genome was also compared to those of present-day humans of over 50 different populations, and it was found that the Ust-Ishim bone originated from a man who is more closely related to present-day non-Africans than to Africans. For that reason, the researchers conclude that he is among the first people to have left Africa and traveled to Eurasia. In addition, his genome was found to be somewhat equally related to both East Asians and to those that lived in Europe during the Stone Age.

The population to which the Ust-Ishim individual belonged may have split from the ancestors of present-day West Eurasian and East Eurasian populations before, or at about the same time, when these two first split from each other, explained Svante Pbo of the Max Planck Institute. It is very satisfying that we now have a good genome not only from Neandertals and Denisovans, but also from a very early modern human.

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