 |
 |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| Articles about Sharks |
| Landlord, loan sharks harrassing tenants | | 2008-06-05 14:32:43 | | There are two posters pasted outside this four-room flat.
The one on the left, written in Mandarin, is addressed to ‘Mr Ah Long’, telling the loan shark that he has gone after the wrong guy.
The other is in English and is for the occupant’s landlord, condemning him for allegedly borrowing money from loan sharks.
The loan shark [...] | | By: Singapore News | | |
| | | How to catch sharks (shark fishing) | | 2008-06-03 04:11:53 | | As I have previously posted, shark fishing is not really my thing. Where I live sharks are considered something of a pain when reef fishing, but I understand that sharks are a very popular targets in other parts of the country and indeed the world.Catching sharksThe key to catching sharks can be found in one word chum (also called berley or ground bait) and lots of it. Sharks have relatively poor eyesight, but one of the best senses of smell of any animal. A large majority of a sharks brain is dedicated to smell and research suggests sharks can find food by smell alone from kilometers away. Some popular forms of chum for shark fishing is tuna chunks, small baitfish, tuna oil, chicken. Some people blend/mince all their fish frames up into old milk cartons and freeze the mixture to use. Best results are usually found when an angler creates a chum slick, which usually includes mixtures of fish oil and fish bits added to the slick in a consistent manner. Chum can directly be thrown into th | | By: The Ultimate Fishing Blog | | |
|
|
|
| | What Do Great White Sharks Eat | | 2008-03-30 07:24:57 | | I have a real fascination with sharks and I have written quite a few posts about sharks which you can have a look through here - index of shark posts. I also promised more "fact" posts so I thought that I would combine the two to put together todays post.Great white sharks are the biggest and most well respected of the sharks. They are a fierce predator and many stories have been shared at the local pub about the close encounters with these awesome animals. They are aggressive animals and the sight of a great white shark feeding is an unforgettable experience.What do Great White Sharks EatGreat white sharks locate their prey with smell and sound and they can smell their prey from kilometers away. Great white sharks typically stay below their prey and ambush them, taking them by complete surprise. Great white sharks are carnivorous (meat eater) and feed on animals with high fat content. Primarily the great white sharks diet is made up of :fishtunastingrayssmaller sharksporpoisesdolphins | | By: The Ultimate Fishing Blog | | |
| | Foundation vs. Sharks | | 2008-03-17 09:55:00 | | Up to the last weekend, I had the opportunity to go to two concerts in copenhagen area.One of the concerts I attened, was one that I really had looked forward to, due to my rising interest in that peticular bands evolving universe of dark and cracked tales.It was the release party of the band "Said The Shark"'s new album "Silly Kings", held at Loppen in Christiania at thursday the 13. of march.I have already seen one other "Said The Shark" show, when my own band "Late Night Venture" had the pleasure to share stage with them at Hildesheim in germany. One really good show, that I enjoyed a lot, but due to us playing a bit later that night, didn't have the focus enough on the "Said The Shark" show.But what they did this thursday, was a bit like what they did there in Hildesheim. They set up a mood by having a visual appearance on stage that is at one time very playful and casual, but at the same time also very aesthetic and out of this world. A bit like being invited to a party in the ou | | By: Late Night Illusions | | |
|
|
|
| How to Avoid Swimming With The Health Insurance Sharks - The Health Insurance Pyramid Revealed! | | 2008-03-09 06:34:00 | | Health Insurance Salesman can sometimes make it seem like swimming with the sharks is a picnic! You get bombarded with messages on the tv and internet telling you that their particular insurance company is in fact the secret to all your health insurance prayers. In this article I help you to swim through those shark infested waters and reach the other side with your health and wallet intact.[ health , insurance , online ]Health Insurance Salesman can sometimes make it seem like swimming with the sharks is a picnic! You get bombarded with messages on the tv and internet telling you that their particular health insurance company is in fact the secret to all your prayers, and that if you go with them you could be hit by 76 different diseases simultaneously and still be covered. Hey. It's possible that cover exists. I am an optimist after all ;) But in reality searching for affordable family, individual or group health insurance can be a long drawn out affair. And the three steps of findin | | By: Insurance-Health. | | |
| | Where do sharks live | | 2008-03-05 20:56:49 | | Sharks hold a certain fascination for many people and I have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of people visiting my shark posts so far. I have been watching some of the shark week on the discovery channel lately and I thought I would share some of what I have learned.Where do sharks live?Contrary to popular belief sharks are only found in 30% of the world oceans making 70% shark free. However, most coastal areas will be home to at least one species of shark. Research shows that sharks cannot live in water deeper than 1500 meters and this makes them susceptible to overfishing.Great White Sharks are found in almost all coastal waters with temperatures from 12 and 24° C. There are large concentrations in Australia, South Africa and California.Tiger sharks can be found close to the coast in almost all tropical and sub-tropical waters and will sometimes stray into temperate and cool waters.Mako sharks are found in almost all tropical and temperate waters worldwide.Interesting shark | | By: The Ultimate Fishing Blog | | |
| | A Sharks Love (100th post) | | 2008-02-04 19:57:04 | | I really can't believe it - 100 posts already and my interest hasn't wained! I am actually enjoying it more now than when I first started. One of the best things about blogging is the contacts you make and the info for todays post was sent to me by one of these contacts (thanks jon)Sharks LoveThe French Magazine "Le magazine des voyages de pêche" in its 56th edition, brought up an amazing news: An astonishing love story. "Arnold Pointer a professional fisherman from south of Australia set free from a certain death a big female White Shark that was caught in his fishing nets. Now the fisherman has a problem: He says: "It's been 2 years and she doesn't leave me alone. She follows me everywhere I go and her presence scares all the fishes. I don't know what to do anymore." It is hard to get rid of an almost 17 feet long shark since the White Sharks are protected by the wildlife conservation, but a mutual affection established between Arnold and "Cindy". Arnold Says: "Once I stop the boat | | By: The Ultimate Fishing Blog | | |
| | Swimming With The Sharks | | 2007-11-19 09:28:47 | | Anyone who knows me knows that I’m an adrenaline junkie. I’ve bungee jumped from a 201-foot tower (A.J. Hackett in Las Vegas, NV), tried indoor skydiving (Flyaway Indoor Skydiving in Las Vegas, NV), did a 1200-foot parasail (Xtreme Parasail in Oahu, HI), and pushed cars to their absolute limits (Bob Bondurant School of High [...] | | By: Leave The Office Behind | | |
| | Roenick Defies Critics, Geritol Addiction, Scores Two Goals For Sharks | | 2007-10-06 06:17:00 | | photo courtesy of Richard Lam/APJeremy Roenick still hasn't gotten the memo. He's too old to still be playing hockey in the NHL. Everybody seems to understand this but him.On the same night that fellow AARP member Bill Guerin scored three assists for the Islanders, Roenick led his new team, the Sharks, to a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks by scoring two goals. Both were against Roberto Luongo (the most perfect goaltender in history, EVER), in case the significance hasn't yet set in for you. The goals were Roenicks' 496th and 497th overall. If he were to score three more, he would become only the third American-born player to reach the milestone of 500, following Joe Mullen and Mike "don't call me Willa's bitch" Modano. Retirement communities around the country are no doubt rooting hard for Jeremy. | | By: Dear Lord Stanley | | |
| | Prickly Sharks | | 2007-08-13 18:40:00 | | Until remote cameras were invented, no-one had ever seen the mysterious Prickly Shark in it's own deep-sea environment. This is a shark that lives way beyond human dive range, but recently scientists have discovered them in shallower water. Prickly Sharks live in the Pacific Ocean at depths between three-hundred and thirteen-hundred feet, well out of reach of the average diver, but recently scientists have found them in much shallower water, in an underwater canyon at the head of Monterey Bay off the central coast of California.Monterey Bay is well known for it's marine life. The food-rich upwellings from the nearby underwater Canyon support an ecosystem that sustains creatures like harbour seals, sea lions, thousands of pelicans and, of course, the famous sea otter. But it's the only place in the world where Prickly Sharks have been seen at depths of less than 300 feet. Although it's large enough to cause a lot of harm, the Prickly Shark seems a little sluggish and it appears that you can approach them safely even so it's going to be dangerous diving. It's not just the depth, the cold, or the fact that the dangerous six-gill shark has been seen with the Pricklies. Just two days before the filming crew were in the area a Great White was seen right here.The sharks come up here at night and then during the daylight they are moving off shore into deeper water and we don't know yet whether that is associated with light or whether light is correlated with a mating activity or a feeding activity and that is really what we are up here to find out. Are they up here to feed or are they up here to mate?That big eye is sensitive to the dim light of the deep ocean. No wonder it only comes up during the hours of darkness, these are probably extremely bright conditions for it. Shark skin is usually rough, but tiny spines make this shark even more so. Sharks like these are very tolerant of pressure changes, because they lack the swim bladders and other gas spaces that | | By: NHNZ Images | | |
| | Thrashing Thresher Sharks | | 2007-06-25 21:49:00 | | This pelagic thresher shark, is from the island of Cebu, in the Philippines. Life here can be a real struggle, and too often, nature comes off second best. It's the last place one would expect to find a rare species of shark. Pelagic thresher sharks are occasionally caught in isolated parts in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, but a resident population has recently been discovered in Philippine waters. They're a pelagic species, which means that they roam the oceans. At Cebu, there's an undersea mountain where they're found all year round. From the large size of those eyes it is immediately obvious that this is the type of animal that hunts in deep water or hunts at night.Threshers perform spectacular leaps out of the water, but you've got to be lucky to catch one on film. They are very approachable at this particular sea-mount and not the least bit aggressive. Males are about eight to ten feet long, with big eyes and big long long tails. That tail is almost half the length of the entire body of the shark. There are a lot of theories about what it's for. Some say it actually used it for stunning prey, but it could equally well be used to herd them. Whatever the reason, that long tail creates a lot of downward thrust. So to balance that, the thresher has long pectoral fins to give some lift.It's taken a little while to understand why the thresher's are attracted up to the surface from the depths. This area is a bit of a cleaner station and what's happening is that the thresher sharks are coming in and they're circling around this cleaner station. These little fish are coming up and picking parasites off the big predators like the thresher sharks. That's probably one of the reasons why they're here. One of the things that has protected the threshers so far is their preference for the unlit depths. The sharks can probably go 500 feet and deeper.Thresher sharks are not the only animals that use these cleaner stations. Manta rays are also coming | | By: NHNZ Images | | |
| | Prescription Drugs Found in Florida Sharks | | 2007-06-07 03:49:00 | | Sharks in one Florida river are getting a dose of human medicine, and now scientists want to know if it's a prescription for trouble.Scientists recently found traces of prescription antidepressants, cholesterol-lowering drugs and synthetic estrogens in the blood of young bull sharks in the Caloosahatchee River on Florida's southwest Gulf Coast.This summer, they'll study the issue more widely. On Friday, scientists with Mote Marine Laboratory fished for bull sharks as part of research to find out what drugs the sharks encounter most and whether the doses are large enough to alter how they behave and reproduce.The sharks come into contact with treated waste water which includes traces of the medications previously identified as the cholesterol-reducer Lipitor, various antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft, synthetic estrogens used in birth-control pills, and anti-inflammatory drugs such as Celexa.The Caloosahatchee receives treated wastewater from several sewer plants and passes b | | By: Full Time Income From Home | | |
| | Big Sharks with Tiny Teeth | | 2007-06-04 18:18:00 | | In one of the March postings, a great white shark was shown leaping up out of the water, with teeth bared, ready to chomp down on hapless prey.However, not all sharks have huge teeth, though all do have sharp teeth. This whaleshark is no exception as it has about 300 rows in each jaw. But each tooth is a minute single hooked cusp, which are pretty much harmless.The super large mouth, opens and water rushes in, and along with it a wide variety of planktonic and nectonic prey, including small crustaceans, small schooling fishes and occasionally on tuna and squid. Unlike other filter feeders it does not rely on forward motion for filtration, the act of opening the mouth is enough to force water over the filtering screens of the gill slits.Every summer, hundreds of these sharks gather off the coast of Western Australia, at a place called Ningaloo Reef. At 160 miles long, Ningaloo is the second largest living thing in the world after the Great Barrier Reef. Although isolated, it's become a favourite jumping from boat into destination for people wanting to the water dive with a living monster. These huge creatures are protected by Australian law, so divers can look but they can't touch. In normal tourist situations you are not allowed to have more than about 10 people in the water at once and they can't get any closer than 10 feet from the shark.These still are taken from NHNZ Images collection of film and video, which are available for purchase in your production | | By: NHNZ Images | | |
| | Peer-to-peer lending or social loan sharks? | | 2007-05-09 09:22:50 | | First off thanks to Grant for pointing this BBC article out to me. Before I joined him for a smoke-break yesterday (even though I don't smoke) I'd never heard of social lending.
Having been fed this piece of information I returned to my desk and went digging for more. Aside from the obligatory Wikipedia article, I also took a look at two of the more prominent social lending networks – Zopa and Prosper.
Essentially social lending, or peer-to-peer lending, aims to circumnavigate the necessity for a bank. A networking site, such as the two mentioned above, creates a community of money seekers and lenders. Both sites are founded on the same basic principle – people post the amount of money they're looking for, the rate at which they want it and how long they'll take to repay it. Lenders are then able to bid to the borrowers, ensuring a competitive marketplace.
To ensure that these network sites don't just degenerate into a meeting place for loan sharks and their despera | | By: Top-notch South African eMarketing blog | | |
| | Galapagos sharks | | 2007-05-07 23:11:00 | | Galapagos sharks are so little studied because they are only found in remote places like the Islands they're named after, the only twist is, this is not the Galapagos Islands, but Midway Atoll.Midway Atoll is a Pacific atoll that lots of us are familiar with, but it's been pretty well off limits to all but government and military personnel for about the last sixty years. Just like you'd guess from its name, Midway Atoll is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, half way between the US mainland and Japan. That geography makes it a strategic outpost.Because public access has been restricted since the war, Midways reefs have grown a healthy population of Galapagos sharks and now that Midway has opened up to tourism, more people are going to meet these sharks than ever before.The Galapagos belongs to a branch of the shark family called whalers. They mainly eat small fish and squid, but they are known to have killed at least one diver in the Virgin Islands.The Galapagos shark is a kind of unusual shark in that it has a very odd distribution. Where it is found around the oceanic islands in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic but yet they are so scattered there is not a lot of information known about them.You can tell them from grey reef sharks quite easily because Galapagos have a ridge of skin running along the back between the first and the second dorsal fins. Galapagos also have less of a black line on the trailing edge of the tail fin.Galapagos sharks have excellent vision, and their other senses make them very alert to prey in light or darkness.Like most other sharks, their acute sense of smell means they can hone in on a scent from hundreds of yards away. Their snouts have pits filled with tiny sense organs called ampullae of Lorenzini. These can detect the tiny electrical field of nearby prey, helping them hunt for fish in the dark. They can even detect something like a stingray buried under the sand. That electrical sense works fine at short range, say abo | | By: NHNZ Images | | |
| | Silverbacks, Tiger Sharks Win in IFL | | 2007-04-07 11:33:00 | | The Quad Cities Silverbacks (1-1) and Seattle Tiger Sharks (0-2) remained in contention for the International Fight League postseason, as each squad put together 4-1 victories tonight in front of a crowd of 5,308 at the Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, Ill. Also, Jeff Curran, fighting at lightweight, submitted Kevin English with a guillotine choke at 1:12 of round two.
Quad Cities | | By: The EvilMaster Report | | |
| | Sharks and Ducks battle it out | | 2007-04-05 23:32:00 | | Last night the San Jose Sharks and the Anaheim Ducks played a gritty, playoff-like game that had a fight. The fight was between Ryane Clowe and Shawn Thornton. It started because Thornton hit Sharks' captain Patrick Marleau and Clowe came right over and dropped the gloves. Thornton then dropped his gloves and they tie each other up and both try and throw rights. They continue to try and throw punches, but both look exhausted. I give this one a draw. Watch the YouTube video of this fight below.Ryane Clowe vs Shawn Thornton | | By: NHL Hockey Fights | | |
| | Cash Advance Loans: Loan Sharks In Disguise? | | 2003-03-07 04:05:00 | | You have seen them on the corner and in the poorer parts of town with names like "Quick Cash", "Quick Loan", "Payday Loans", "Car Title Loans". They are starting to sprout up all over the country and will soon rival Starbucks for sheer number of locations.
They are the new trend in predatory lending practices but still manage to fly under the radar of regulation in most states. They don' t
| | By: Article Today | | |
|
|
| |
 |
|
| |
| |
|
 |
