Fearless cookiecutter shark taking on great whites, UF scientists find
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Recently, scientists unveiled the first photographic evidence that a cigar-shaped shark less than 2 feet long — known as the cookiecutter shark — bit one of the oceanic giants 10 times its size — the great white shark.
Yannis Papastamatiou, a marine biologist in the division of ichthyology at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, was one of the authors of a study published in the January issue of the journal Pacific Science, which describes the cookiecutter shark's bite wound near the mouth of a great white found in the waters off Guadalupe Island in the Pacific.
The cookiecutter shark, named for its characteristic bite that is unique among sharks, scoops out a neatly round piece of flesh from its prey.
Source: Gainesville Sun
Fayetteville City Council looks to assert more control over Public Works ...
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As if playing a game of chess, the Fayetteville City Council has been methodically moving its pieces into place.
In December, the council picked two people to sit on the Public Works Commission's board that it believes will be sympathetic with the city's plans to consolidate part of the utility.
For years, some council members have complained that the PWC has gotten too big and too arrogant. They say it often does not listen to the council's wishes. A fiefdom, some council members have privately called the PWC. An empire owned by the city that is flush with $80 million in reserves.
Monday, the council members are expected to approve a resolution outlining the need for PWC consolidation and, as City Manager Ted Voorhees wrote last month, "to clarify where the authority of the PWC begins and ends."
Source: Fayetteville Observer
Why NBA Is Now More Popular Than MLB
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Why would people want to sit through a three to four hour baseball game when they could be watching two to three hours of an up and down basketball game?
Major League Baseball has to do something to speed up it's pace of play or else it will continue to lose fans. Some games drag on with pitchers taking forever to get set, frequent mound visits, pitching changes and a batters constantly stepping out of the box.
These elements really drag down the excitement of baseball games. In the NBA you know you're going to get a shot every 24 seconds, in baseball you may get one pitch in that time. There's a big difference.
Even being at a baseball game is a tedious task. Don't get me wrong, I love going to the ballpark on a warm summer night, but following the game there is a hard at times.
Source: Bleacher Report