<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Spain hit by plague of blood-sucking black flies : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</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>25347</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25347/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Spain hit by plague of blood-sucking black flies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Only two to three millimetres long, the fly is much smaller and harder to spot than most mosquitoes, but its voracious bite sent more than 2,000 people to hospital last year in Catalonia alone. Its vigorous jaw, which releases a cocktail of chemicals, can produce allergic reactions.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>60</score><crdate>6/27/2007 6:27:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-27T06:27:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14119</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14119/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Black Google Portal]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Black Google Portal is easier on your eyes and saves energy.  All search results are displayed on google.com with a black background and light text.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>24</score><crdate>3/25/2007 4:26:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-25T16:26:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51729</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/51729/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Black People Love Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[In response to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/humor/l/51640/2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">2many's post.</a><br/>Johnny calls me &quot;da man!&quot; That puts me at ease. It makes me feel comfortable, because I am Black and that's how Black folks talk to one another.]]></description><comments>13</comments><score>469</score><crdate>2/22/2008 3:07:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-22T15:07:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59022</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/59022/1/</url><title><![CDATA[DIVERSITY TRAINING: How To Talk To Black People]]></title><description><![CDATA[Apparently, some bright minds out in Oregon have made a committee to help isolated white people talk to black people in a civilized manner.<br/><br/>This <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/102971/detail/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> This spoof lesson video,</a> however, makes light out of the fact that there are people who are still coping with the changes associated with racial integration.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>-8</score><crdate>4/20/2008 2:23:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-20T14:23:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7210</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7210/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Black Keys]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Black Keys are a blues band out of Akron, OH who have a distinctly gritty sound that is refreshing in todays over-produced industry.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>19</score><crdate>12/7/2006 10:11:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-07T22:11:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29147</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29147/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Black is the new...Black?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Right now, the colour black, or &#8220;Kuro&#8221; in Japanese, is surprisingly enjoying widespread popularity in Japan. A trend so strong that we could even find an oh-so-hip black toilet paper.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>116</score><crdate>7/27/2007 2:49:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-27T02:49:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59589</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59589/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Black supporters react to primary]]></title><description><![CDATA[I wouldnt normally have posted this but the reactions shocked me and worried me alot. 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Everybody flea!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new plague which jumps from rats to humans has been discovered by scientists. Fears are growing that increasing numbers of brown rats - the most common kind in Europe - are carrying a strain of bacteria that can cause serious illness in humans from heart disease to infection of the spleen and nervous system.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>116</score><crdate>11/25/2008 12:08:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-25T12:08:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>82234</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82234/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Detect Matter Torn Apart By Black Hole]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have used two different telescopes simultaneously to study the violent flares from the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. They have detected outbursts from this region, known as Sagittarius A*, which reveal material being stretched out as it orbits in the intense gravity close to the central black hole.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>158</score><crdate>11/18/2008 11:52:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-18T23:52:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36672</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36672/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Some Black Holes May Not Be Black, But Rather 'Naked Singularities']]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black. Finding such an unmasked form of what physicists term a singularity &quot;would shock the foundation of general relativity.&quot;]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>204</score><crdate>9/25/2007 11:16:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-25T11:16:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54040</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54040/1/</url><title><![CDATA[And for those of you watching black and white, that's the one behind the yellow.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly 35,000 people in the UK are still watching TV on black and white sets, based on licences sold.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>213</score><crdate>3/12/2008 8:32:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-12T20:32:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>24621</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24621/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Green, Oolong, Black - The Legendary Teas]]></title><description><![CDATA[A native of China and one of the oldest medicinal herbs, camellia sinensis is a tall evergreen shrub that blooms with white followers that resemble dogwood roses. This is the shrub that started the legend of tea in 2737 B.C. when the fresh leaves fell into the boiling water of Chinese Emperor Shen Nung, the father of Chinese medicine. Today, there are more than three thousand species of the shrub that yield hundreds - if not thousands - of varieties of the most popular teas in the world - green, oolong from leaves that are mildly fermented; and black, the most pungent of the teas, comes from fully fermented leaves.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-41</score><crdate>6/21/2007 7:10:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-21T07:10:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40618</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40618/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Study confirms supermassive black holes produce powerful galaxy-shaping winds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Supermassive black holes can produce powerful winds that shape a galaxy and determine their own growth.  The RIT team has, for the first time, observed the vertical launch of rotating winds from glowing disks of gas, known as accretion disks, surrounding supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>223</score><crdate>11/4/2007 11:43:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-04T23:43:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4452</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4452/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Supermassive black holes  about to get much brighter!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spitzer Space Telescopes show that the vicinities around the black holes could be backing up with excess matter - the black holes just can&#8217;t consume it fast enough to clear the space. When this happens, the matter heats up, and releases a tremendous amount of energy.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>1</score><crdate>10/26/2006 1:04:12 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-26T01:04:12+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>