<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>For sea lovers, a final resting reef : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/business/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>61677</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61677/1/</url><title><![CDATA[For sea lovers, a final resting reef]]></title><description><![CDATA[About 45 feet <b>beneath</b> the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches.<br/><br/>The <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?https://www.nmreef.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Neptune</a> Memorial Reef, which opened last fall, is seen by its creators as a perfect final resting spot for those who loved the sea.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>210</score><crdate>5/13/2008 12:42:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-13T12:42:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61363</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61363/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sleeping With The Fishes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Neptune Memorial Reef is seen by its creators as a perfect final resting spot for those who loved the sea. They hope that one day the reef will cover 16 acres and have room for 125,000 remains.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>428</score><crdate>5/10/2008 11:43:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-10T23:43:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>77163</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/77163/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ancient underwater reef found in Australian outback]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 650-million-year-old underwater reef, 10 times higher than the Great Barrier Reef, has been discovered in the middle of Australia's outback. The ancient reef, formed nearly 100 million years before the first known animal life evolved, is the only one of its age in the world.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>219</score><crdate>9/22/2008 9:06:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-22T09:06:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19340</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19340/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Famous Caymans coral reefs dying, scientists say]]></title><description><![CDATA[To coral reef-driven tourism industries like those of the Cayman Islands, there could be a greater cost in ignoring climate change than fighting it.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>21</score><crdate>5/7/2007 9:27:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-07T09:27:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19601</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19601/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Healthy Reefs Hit Hardest by Warmer Temperatures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coral disease outbreaks hit hardest in the healthiest sections of the Great Barrier Reef, where close living quarters among coral may make it easy for infection to spread, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have found.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>42</score><crdate>5/9/2007 10:06:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-09T10:06:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20138</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20138/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Barrier Reef wins top tourism award]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE Great Barrier Reef has taken out one of world tourism's most coveted awards. The reef - the world's largest living organism - was voted the best destination by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) as part of its Tourism for Tomorrow awards, at a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, overnight.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>48</score><crdate>5/13/2007 11:28:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-13T11:28:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20355</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20355/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Colleges offer on-campus resting places]]></title><description><![CDATA[College campuses, including Notre Dame and Chapman University in Orange, Calif., are offering burial plots for alumni and faculty.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>44</score><crdate>5/15/2007 12:54:42 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-15T00:54:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16372</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16372/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Great Barrier Reef: finding Nemo]]></title><description><![CDATA[This first heady plunge into the Barrier Reef is enough alone to call it great, but its greatness also extends some two thousand kilometres from the tip of Papua New Guinea right down the coast of Queensland almost as far as Brisbane.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>58</score><crdate>4/14/2007 10:05:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-14T10:05:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>33221</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33221/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Glass Sponges discovered on reef in Washington State]]></title><description><![CDATA[The sponges are so rich with marine life that scientists call them &quot;a kindergarten or living hotel.&quot;<br/><br/>More on <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://starbulletin.com/2007/08/24/news/oceanwatch.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> glass sponges here</a>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>188</score><crdate>8/26/2007 7:09:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-26T19:09:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10945</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10945/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Idea of making reef from tires backfires]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four decades later, Florida now considers removing up to two million tires]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>87</score><crdate>2/16/2007 3:34:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-16T15:34:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58189</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58189/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Police harassment on the steps of the Thomas Jefferson memorial ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of about 20 people headed down to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial for some flash mob fun. To celebrate  Jefferson&#8217;s birthday, they would meet on the steps of the memorial, dance for about 10 minutes, and leave.<br/><br/>Instead they were arrested with no explanation given to them or to the parties asking about them. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=8312" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">via</a>]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>263</score><crdate>4/14/2008 11:38:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-14T11:38:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>77459</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/77459/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of New Reef Creatures Found in Australia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Previously unknown shrimps, worms, scavenging crustaceans, and spectacularly colored soft corals were identified at the tropical sites during a study led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>216</score><crdate>9/24/2008 10:08:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-24T10:08:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61860</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61860/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Shrimp can see beyond the rainbow]]></title><description><![CDATA[A giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef can see a world beyond the rainbow that is invisible to other animals. Mantis shrimps, dubbed &quot;thumb splitters&quot; by divers because of their vicious claws, have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, capable of seeing colors from the ultraviolet to the infrared, as well as detecting other subtle variations in light.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>481</score><crdate>5/14/2008 9:58:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-14T21:58:20+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>