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The Moment by Margaret Atwood

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:40:48 GMT

clipped by: jessieee

The Moment

The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,

and say, I own this,

is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave

and you can't breathe.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.

Margaret Atwood

tuna quotas...08

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:41:32 GMT

clipped by: tiddley66

Clip Source: www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

2008 Inshore Fleet Shares and Quotas of Bluefin Tuna
Fleet	Inshore fleet %	2008 Allocation	2008 Quota*
Prince Edward Island	30.02%	147.97	150.22
Newfoundland and Labrador	12.84%	63.29	72.00
Gulf New Brunswick	7.81%	38.54	42.54
Quebec	5.09%	25.04	26.54
Gulf Nova Scotia	11.27%	55.55	53.64
Southwest Nova Scotia	21.70%	106.96	137.99
St. Margaret’s Bay	11.27%	55.55	66.63
Total	100.00%	492.89	549.57

Rare Textiles From Honduras Ruins Suggests Mayans Produced Fine Fabrics

Mon, 05 May 2008 13:43:41 GMT

clipped by: Beholder
clipper's remarks: "Textiles conservator Margaret Ordoñez, a professor at the University of Rhode Island, spent a month at the site in 2004 examining 100 textile samples found in a tomb, and since then she has been analyzing tiny fragments of 49 samples she brought back to her lab to see what she could learn from them.

Analyzing these ancient textile samples is a complex and laborious process, particularly because the remnant samples are so small.

Ordoñez pulled out about 30 plastic containers the size of a film canister, and inside each was what looked like a rock or bit of compressed mud about an inch in diameter. Within each piece were flecks of what only an expert could tell are tiny fragments of fabric.

Handling each piece very carefully so it doesn’t crumble, Ordoñez uses a stereomicroscope to examine the yarn structure, the fabric structure, and the finish on each sample."

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

The tomb, one of three excavated by archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania, was of a woman of high status who was buried during the 5th century.

What was most amazing was that there were as many as 25 layers of fabrics on an offertory platform and covering pottery in the tomb, and they all had a different fabric structure, color, and yarn size, so it’s likely that the tomb was reopened – perhaps several times -- and additional layers of textiles were laid there years after her death

One fabric in particular had an especially high thread count – 100 yarns per inch – which Ordoñez said is even considered high for modern textiles. “It speaks to the technology they had at the time for making very fine fabrics. It’s gratifying that we’ve been able to document that the Mayans were quite skillful at spinning and weaving.”

Tags: maya, textile

Lenin swims away!

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:04:36 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Done for a Hungarian film production on Margaret Island in Budapest. Talk about deserting ship!

Clip Source: englishrussia.com

Lenin Swims Away

When the old Lenin becomes unwanted he just swims away…

Tags: lenin, hungary, margaret island, budapest, russia, humor

The 5 Ballsiest Con Artists of All Time

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:43:59 GMT

clipped by: spherepet

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

The 5 Ballsiest Con Artists of All Time

By Kristi Harrison

Let's give the devils their due. Yeah, they've screwed over thousands of innocent people. But some of them had balls the size of hot air balloons and for that, we must salute them.

Charles Ponzi

Charles 'The Ponz' Ponzi is, quite simply, one of the greatest swindlers in American history

#4.

Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn is king of the Muppet-Showesque monstrosities known as faith healers.

#3.

The Fox Sisters

Kate, Margaret and Leah Fox were leading proponents of the Spiritualist Movement of the Nineteenth Century

#2.

Gregor MacGregor

Gregor MacGregor made his fortune and reputation in the early 1800s when he convinced hundreds of investors that he was the prince of the fictional country of Poyois

created a guidebook detailing the geography and abundant natural resources of his island off the coast of Honduras

downfall

believed what they were peddling

#1.

Frank Abagnale

faked his way as a university professor, lawyer, pilot and doctor

millions to repay

Tags: con artists

Rhode Island Says No To Gay Couple Divorce

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:35:06 GMT

clipped by: LikaStarr
clipper's remarks: Why is this making the news? Don't we already know that states which don't allow gay marriage also don't allow gay divorce because it is already not recognized in the state?

I am gay and also support gay marriage but it is ridiculous to expect this of a state that does not recognize gay marriage. If you were able to go to MA in the first place for marriage then you should go back for the divorce.

This is even more ridiculous when considering the fact that the couple were never legally married in their home state anyway.

However, had Rhode Island decided to grant the divorce - that would have been real news!

Clip Source: www.eyewitnessnewstv.com

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's Supreme Court says a lesbian couple who married in Massachusetts cannot get divorced in their home state.

The 3-2 split decision came yesterday.

In the majority opinion, Justice William Robinson III says that the General Assembly has not given the Family Court the power to grant divorces for same-sex couples.

Cassandra Ormiston and Margaret Chambers wed in Massachusetts in 2004 after that state became the first to legalize same-sex marriages. The couple filed for divorce last year in Rhode Island, where they both live.

Lawyers for the women had said they should consider only whether Rhode Island could recognize a valid marriage from another state. Opponents of same-sex marriage said granting the divorce would create a slippery slope.

Tags: gay marriage, supreme court, divorce

The Rising Shore-Roanoke

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:21:57 GMT

clipped by: lost colony searcher
clipper's remarks: Read an excerpt here:

http://www.risingshoreroanoke.com/FirstDaysOnRoanoke.pdf

Clip Source: www.risingshoreroanoke.com

They sailed to the edge of the world ...

Here is the story of THE LOST COLONY told by two women who sail from London to the wild American shore in 1587. Elenor Dare is daughter of the governor and mother of the first English child born in North America. Margaret Lawrence is her servant. Both struggle bravely, angling against each other, to discover and grasp their dreams.

This was the very first English attempt to establish a foothold in the New World. Historically, the expedition's governor sailed back to London for supplies and returned three years later to find no trace of the hundred colonists he'd left on Roanoke Island. Their fate remains a haunting mystery.

Tags: lost colony, roanoke, john white, eleanor dare, virginia dare, new world

Scientific consensus

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:22:42 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks:

One must ask, "How in the world did university researchers come to conclusions that defended this outrageous affront to society?" A look back at the research concluded that the researchers adjusted their outcomes to support the theory of those paying for the research.

Clip Source: www.washingtontimes.com

"Global Warming" had a precursor in capturing the hearts and minds of the world. Michael Crichton, in his novel "State of Fear," brilliantly juxtaposes the world's current political embrace of "global warming" with the popular embrace of the "science" of eugenics a century ago. For nearly 50 years, from the late 1800s through the first half of the 20th century, there grew a common political acceptance by the world's thinkers, political leaders and media elite that the "science" of eugenics was settled science. There were a few lonely voices trying to be heard in the wilderness in opposition to this bogus science, but they were ridiculed or ignored.
Believers in eugenics argued that we could improve the human race by controlling reproduction. The most respected scientists from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other bastions of intellectual rigor retreated to a complex on Long Island named Cold Spring Harbor. Their support came from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman fortune working with the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, State and other agencies.
The "science" was not lacking important public supporters. Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson were enthusiastic believers. The theory won approval of Supreme Court justices, leaders in higher education and Nobel Prize winners. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was one of the most vocal adherents. She established the first "birth control" clinic in 1916.

Tags: global warming, climate change, science, politics

Alternative Energy, Tesla-style

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:11:47 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Just finishing a great Tesla biography by Margaret Cheney -- pick it up if you get the chance.

Clip Source: www.teslasociety.com

Above: Transmitting Tesla Tower and Laboratory built in 1901-1905 by Stanford White, famous architect and Tesla's friend. Located in Wardenclyffe, Long Island. This was to be the first broadcasting system in the world. Tesla also wanted to transmit electricity from this Tower to the whole globe without wires using the Ionosphere. The source of the transmitted electricity was to be the Niagara Falls power plant.

Tags: tesla, alternative energy, energy