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Vikings: from ram-raiders to fishmongers

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:06:11 GMT

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Archaeologists and scientists have revealed that 1,000 years ago cod was traded extraordinary distances across Europe, from the Norwegian Arctic to England and the Baltic.

The research may force yet another revision of the image of the Vikings, from longship ram-raiders, to mainly traders and colonising farmers, to the fishmongers of Europe. Vikings in York were eating cod caught off the Norwegian coast.

The research, reported in this month's Journal of Archaeological Science, also shows the 1,000-year-old origins of the modern problem of declining fish stocks, as fishing grounds had to supply far more than a local market. The emergence of commercial fishing "may represent the point at which people started to have an impact on marine ecoystems," said James Barrett, of Cambridge University's archaeology department.

Tags: archaeology, vikings, europe, fish, trade, history

9FF GT9 Only 409 km/h

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:44:51 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes
clipper's remarks: How would the cop pull you over in this one...?

Clip Source: www.carblog.co.za

09 May
9FF GT9 almost breaks world speed record : 409 km/h

The current world record speed for the fastest production car was set by the SSC Ultimate Aero that topped at 255.83 mph which is 411.71 km/h. Recently the 9FF engineers tried to beat that with their modified GT9 but couldn’t do it. They only managed to make it run at 409 km/h at a track in Papenburg on 10th April.

9FF’s GT9 was based on the Porsche 911 GT3, but lower and longer. The interesting part is that the car has the engine in the middle (not the rear) for better weight distribution. Now that I mentioned the engine, the beast outputs 987 bhp from a 4L flax six twin turbo and a six-speed transmission.
Though they couldn’t beat the world record, 9FF guys can stand proud because they managed to take on the Bugatti Veyron which topped at 407 km/h. The GT9 however, is not as fast as the Veyron : 0 - 60 mph in 4.2 seconds.

Remarkable Rocks

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:10:35 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: flickr.com

Clouds Over The Earth, Earth Under Clouds

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:05:14 GMT

clipped by: Lubaska
clipper's remarks: 30 stunning pictures taken mostly from space

Clip Source: chamorrobible.org

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27. Earth Rises Over the Moon's Horizon, July 16, 1969
As Seen From the NASA Apollo 11 Spacecraft

1. Beautiful and Impressive View of a Storm Front, With Clouds – One Shaped Like a Long Tube-Ribbon – and the
Sky Painted in a Wonderful Mixture of Pink-Purple Tints, October 4, 2006

2. A Beautiful View of Huge Clouds Over Earth, August 20, 2007 at 22:17:35.634 GMT
As Seen From the International Space Station (Expedition 15)
Latitude (LAT): 51.3 · Longitude (LON):

3. Hurricane Gordon Over the Atlantic Ocean, September 17, 2006 at 18:15:36 GMT
As Seen From Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-115)

4. Rainbow-Colored Cloud, June 2, 2007
Norfolk, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA

5. Hurricane Isabel Over the Atlantic Ocean, September 15, 2003

6. A Detailed View of Hurricane Isabel's Cloudy Eye, Over the Atlantic Ocean

7. A Large Portion of Cloud-Covered Planet Earth Is Reflected In the Helmet Visor of NASA Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson, the
International Space Station (Expedition 15) Flight Engineer,

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The History of the Color Wheel

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:23:58 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there, the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles, and wheels the history.

A nice explanation for each color organization system at the source: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/05/08/history-of-the-color-wheel/

sweetfood's related clip: Unusual Color Wheels Found in Life and Art - http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6B376FCB-7F70-4E17-8147-84856276F53C/

Clip Source: www.colourlovers.com

The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk.

The First Color Organization Systems

Gautier’s color-printed picture accompanied one of his many anti-Newtonian publications about color theories. The band of color at the center imitates an illustration in Newton’s Opticks but “proves” Gautier’s assertion that all colors cannot be found in Newton’s spectrum of light.

Color tables expand the color bar, literally and figuratively. They offer a similarly recognizable display of information, but one that suggests interior relationships through size, shape, or placement of the colored areas.

Richard Waller’s Basic Chart

Schäffer’s Table

Mayer’s Color Triangle

An Early Eighteenth-century Color Wheel

Other Color Circles

Wilhelm von Bezold’s 1874

Color Wheel Basics

PRIMARY COLORS

SECONDARY COLORS

TERTIARY COLORS

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS

ANALOGOUS COLORS

Color Wheels in Life and Art

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Tags: color

Made Where..?

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:03:33 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes

Clip Source: graphics.jsonline.com

Jim Caviezel really walks his talk.....

Sat, 10 May 2008 23:44:42 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: I found this to be a really interesting story...

Clip Source: www.catholic.org

TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) - Jim Caviezel, the star of the blockbuster film The Passion of the Christ, told an interviewer that he had been challenged by a friend who was not pro-life to live up to his professed pro-life convictions and adopt a disabled child.

The friend told Caviezel that if he did that, then he would change to the pro-life position. When Caviezel and his wife, Kerri, went to China to adopt not one, but eventually two orphans suffering from brain tumours, the friend reneged on the deal. Caviezel, however, said, "It didn't matter to me because the joy that we had from (Bo) - he's like our own."

The couple's first child, Bo, had been abandoned on a train, grew up in an orphanage until he was five and was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The Caviezels nursed Bo through his surgeries and he remains today at the centre of the family.

"You have no idea the blessings that you have coming" says Pro-Life Caviezel to parents considering adoption.

Tags: christianity, jim caviezel, celebrity adoptions, disabled children

3 suspended for not standing for Pledge of Allegiance

Sun, 11 May 2008 06:21:22 GMT

clipped by: reimers

Clip Source: www.startribune.com

Three small-town eighth-graders in Minnesota were suspended by their principal for not standing Thursday morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, violating a district policy that the principal now says may soon be reworded to protect free speech rights.

"My son wasn't being defiant against America," said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in northwestern Minnesota.

Brandt told the Forum newspaper in Fargo that Thursday's one-day in-school suspension, "was kind of dumb because I didn't do anything wrong. It should be the people's choice."

Kim Dahl said the "punishment didn't fit the crime. If they wanted to know why he didn't stand, they should've made him write a paper." She said her son has been declining to stand all school year, offered no reason for sitting and was not obligated to explain his actions.

The school's handbook says all students are required to stand but are not required to recite the pledge.

Baby Car Logos

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:33:30 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes

Clip Source: www.autounleashed.com

Baby car logos advertising campaign for Minichamps

We’ve seen some great advertising campaigns in the auto industry and we’ve presented you, in the past, some of those. Now here’s another one, from Brazil, which is really awesome and I bet your first reaction will be “Awww, that’s so cute!”.

The prints, which show “baby versions” of some popular brand logos, like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati or Jaguar were created by Brazilian ad agency Dentsu for Minichamps, a die-cast miniature model producer. And we must say they’re pretty funny, especially the Jaguar kitten, the Ferrari horsey or the Lamborghini calf.

Check out the rest of the images after the jump.

Photo Gallery: Baby Car Logos Advertising Campaign

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U.S. soldier fulfills his mission of getting Iraqi girl new legs

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:56:45 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: One day, Falcon, a New Yorker from 1st battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, asked her what she wanted. He expected her to ask for a toy. "I'll get you anything you want," he recalled saying.

"I want legs so I can walk to school," she told him. One day she planned to be a doctor. School was important to her.

It was a daunting request. The family was too poor to pay for expensive prostheses. The travel alone to an equipped clinic would be too expensive. Her father is unemployed and ill.

So Falcon, who admits he wasn't sure about the Iraq war, wasn't sure he was making a difference, decided he'd get Shahad her legs.

He went to his commander, to his chaplain, to anyone who would listen. The quest was frustrating and took months of pleas. He threatened to walk away from the Army if he couldn't give Shahad legs.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon , 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba , north of Baghdad , when he saw Shahad Abbas . The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood.

Falcon couldn't just walk on, so he stopped to talk. He came back the next day and the day after that, then every day for six months, bringing her toys, gauze for her legs, a new wheelchair. Anything she asked for he would bring.

In a war that Falcon no longer really understood, Shahad became his mission. So when she asked for legs, that became his mission, too.

On Friday his dream and hers came true, just three weeks before he's scheduled to leave Iraq . Shahad was fitted with prosthetic limbs in a U.S. military-funded clinic in Baghdad that normally provides artificial limbs for wounded members of the Iraqi security forces.

"We created a bond, and I didn't need a translator to interpret the bond we had," Falcon said.

Tiger Temple

Sun, 11 May 2008 17:17:26 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: When ex-Deputy Manager of the RSPCA Stubbington Ark, Karen Earp, read about the Tiger Temple in a magazine, she wanted to know more.

Research on the internet showed that the temple not only takes in orphaned cubs found by villagers or rescued from poachers at border control, it has now become a conservation project with a breeding programme. Several cubs have been born at the temple and there are plans for future generations to be returned to the wild - although donations are needed to fund this project.

However, the research also revealed allegations that the tigers are drugged, have teeth and claws removed, are vegetarian and spend all of their time in cages that are too small. (Before you continue reading, you should know that all of these allegations proved to be completely unfounded and are obviously uninformed. Teeth and claws not removed and firmly in evidence, not vegetarian, caged some of the time in large spotless cages and absolutely NOT drugged.)

Clip Source: www.tigertemple.co.uk

We thought we would start our site by putting up some of our favourite photographs.

There are several hundred to go through, so this page may change.

As a visitor to the temple you will be able to pat the tigers and have your photo taken with them.

A lucky few may have their photo taken with a tiger�s head in their lap.

We were so lucky to be able to get many of our photographs because we were working with the tigers and living on temple grounds.

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"Can't" is a state of mind

Sun, 11 May 2008 06:05:18 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: Very inspiring father-son team. I got a little teary-eyed after the article.

Clip Source: www.gainesville.com

Rick Hoyt cannot walk

he climbs mountains

tears through finish lines at triathlons

speeds through marathons

treks thousands of miles

Rick Hoyt cannot talk

Since birth, cerebral palsy has robbed him of the ability to control the majority of his muscles and limbs, including his vocal chords

his father, Dick Hoyt, has pushed, pulled and carried Rick, a quadriplegic, across more than 900 finish lines

six Ironman competitions

66 marathons

26 Boston Marathons

45-day consecutive bike ride across the country

When Dick runs, he pushes Rick in his wheelchair. When Dick cycles, he pulls Rick in a seat-pod attached to the front of his bicycle. When Dick swims, he hauls Rick behind him in a dinghy. When Dick mountain climbs he carries his son, who weighs about 115 pounds, on his back.

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at age 67, Dick continues to race weekly with Rick

"I keep training and competing because (Rick) gets so much happiness out of it, and I get happiness just seeing him happy," Dick said.

Clip Source: www.thatsfit.com

"can't" is just a state of mind

Tags: family, father, son, hoyt, sports, health, cerebral palsy, marathon, ironman, inspiration

Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:51:28 GMT

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Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.

Recently, university teachers have swapped student term papers for assignments to write entries for the free online encyclopedia.

"The vast majority of Wikipedia entries aren't very good," said Beasley-Murray, but said the site aims to be academically sound.

To reach its goal of academic standards, said Wikipedia's web site, it set up an assessment scale on its English-language site. The best encyclopedia entries are ranked as "Featured Articles," and run each day on the home page at http://www.wikipedia.com.

Of more than 10 million articles in 253 languages, only about 2,000 have reached "Featured Article" status, it said.

In May, three entries created by nine students in the course became the first student works to reach Wikipedia's top rank.

Tags: wikipedia, web

Court backs artist over naked goddess

Sun, 11 May 2008 06:03:04 GMT

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Clip Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Criminal charges levelled against India's leading living artist for an allegedly obscene depiction of a Hindu goddess have been quashed in a ruling that says religious extremism risks pushing the country into a "pre-Renaissance era".

Maqbool Fida Husain, 92, a Muslim who has been dubbed "the Picasso of India", was served with seven private criminal complaints by Hindu groups for the painting Bharat Mata (Mother India), a work representing the nation as a nude woman. The Delhi High Court judged that the picture, for which Mr Husain has apologised, carried no religious content and could not be construed as offensive.

Akhil Sibal, Mr Husain's lawyer, told The Times that the ruling was an important step, "ensuring artistic freedoms are not made victims at the hands of extremists".

Tags: goddess, art, artist, hindu, muslim, religion, legal

Rational Recovery - No "Higher Power" necessary

Sun, 11 May 2008 08:18:04 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: substance-abuse-recovery.suite101.com

1. Admit you have a problem. You do not have to admit to being powerless over alcohol. You do have to admit that you have a problem and that you want to change

2. Determine your allies as soon as you make the decision to quit. Who is in your life that will support you in your decision? Surround yourself with the people in your life that will assist you in your decision to quit

3. Make a commitment. Don't be afraid to imagine yourself sober for the rest of your life. It is true that you take one day at a time

You also need to have emotional acceptance that it is a good thing that you will not ever be drinking again

4. Avoid the labels. It is not necessary to announce to everyone that you are an alcoholic, or a recovering alcoholic. Share your victories with your allies

Know that you do not have a disease, and you are not sick-

it's o.k. to simply say, "no thank you

Avoid situations that will lead to being pressured for a drink

Spend time with your allies

Be gentle with yourself