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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has ordered three systems worth about US$1 million that will automatically spread information on the Internet.
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What is thought to be a home-made explosive device went off in Ingushetia’s capital of Nazran around 12:30pm Moscow time on Monday. Local police report one of the three injured is in a critical condition.
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[Big Gay Al]

The Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) has an enormous range. They live in all of the oceans of the world, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Mediterranean, except for the most frigid. Loggerheads favor coastal habitats but can have been known to travel far out to sea as well. They spend all of their lives in saltwater or estuarine habitats, except for a short time when the females come to land to lay their eggs. One of the features that distinguish the Loggerhead turtle as unique is the fact that there are no gender differences until the Loggerhead reaches adulthood. Another interesting feature of the Loggerhead turtle is that the female Loggerheads will often travel thousands of miles in order to lay their eggs at the same beach at which they were hatched. They do this with the help of a substance they have in their brains, magnetite (an iron compound), which allows the Loggerhead turtles to feel the magnetic field of the earth.

The Loggerhead turtle is an omnivorous reptile with a life span of 47-67 years. They range in size from around 31 to 49 inches (around 78 centimeters to 124.5 centimeters) and weigh around 170 to 315 pounds (around 77 kilograms to 142 kilograms). They feed on sea cucumbers, barnacles, crabs, shrimps, horseshoe crabs, sea urchins, conchs, fishes, octopuses, sponges, whelks, star fish, sea anemones, floating egg clusters, insects, flying fish, squids and jellyfish. Although the young have many predators, as do the eggs, once a Loggerhead becomes an adult their size limits their chance of becoming prey except to larger marine life such as sharks, parrotfish, monk seals, moray eels and killer whales.

The population of Loggerheads has declined by over 50% which makes the Loggerhead turtle an endangered species. Declining populations are due to the development of coastlines and beach disturbances by people such as cleaning, artificial lighting (discourages nesting and makes it hard for hatchlings to find their way to the water), fishing, driving and pollution. They are also hunted for food by some cultures as well as for their shells. High speed boat propellers are another killer as is the swallowing of trash such as fishing lines and plastic bags. Another cause of death is when Loggerheads get caught in fishing nets and drown for which the leading killer are shrimp and fish nets.

Conservation groups are trying to implement laws that will save Loggerhead turtles and get them off the endangered list.


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[Carl Culture]

About Katrin:

German-born photographer Katrin Koenning currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Much of her work investigates intricacies of the ordinary and everyday, and is concerned with questions of place and belonging. Her work has been shown at international photography festivals such as Noorderlicht, Delhi Photo Fest, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Reportage, Voies Off, HeadOn and the Gijon International Photojournalism Festival.

Katrin has exhibited widely, and her work has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, GUP Magazine, Der Spiegel Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine and DeepSleep Magazine amongst others. She has won a number of awards including an IPA Award, the Troika Editions Format Exposure Prize, the HeadOn Portrait Prize Critics’ Choice Award, a Julia Margaret Cameron Award, a National Geographic Award, and the APJ Award for Most Outstanding Documentary Photography. In 2011, Katrin was voted Australia’s Top Emerging Documentary Photographer and selected as an artist for Hijacked III: AUS / UK.

Her series “Transit” documents people on journeys. She says, “While travelling, you hear laughter and bits of stories in amongst the monotonous sighing of the train or the mourning sound of an aching ship. Mostly, you hear silence. By fate, destiny or chance, strangers are thrown together for a short while, forced to share an intimate space. There is a quiet comfort in sitting back and watching the world fly by.”







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Aaron Hughes has been encouraged by Fulham's start to the season and is confident they can enjoy a good campaign.

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Tony Pulis is not losing any sleep over the rivalry between his Stoke City side and Arsenal.

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