Confirmed: Arcade Fire and Superchunk ‘Change Rocks’ early-voting rally for Barack Obama at the Town Commons, Friday afternoon, May 2. Note: The event is not on Obama’s travel schedule.
From the official press release:

RALEIGH, NC – Senator Barack Obama’s campaign today announced two concerts to headline the campaign’s One-Stop Early Voting drive. Featuring Arcade Fire and Superchunk, the “Change Rocks” concerts in Carrboro and Greensboro will highlight the campaign’s effort to encourage One-Stop Early Voting at college campuses and other locations across the state.

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View a chart showing the decline in great sharks and increase in their prey

Fewer big sharks in the oceans led to the destruction of North Carolina’s bay scallop fishery and inhibits the recovery of depressed scallop, oyster and clam populations along the U.S. Atlantic coast, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science.

A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by the late world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has found that overfishing in the Atlantic of the largest predatory sharks—such as the bull, great white, dusky and hammerhead sharks—has led to an explosion of their ray, skate and small shark prey species.

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