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Gaelic

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:49:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Old-fashioned and self-taught linguist died in Newfoundland

Newfoundland's last Gaelic speaker 'was like a man from an
earlier time'
Farmer and self-taught linguist, he lived in one of the
oldest houses in the province and used organic,
crop-rotation methods of the Old Country. His farm was the
last of 400 in the area
J.M. SULLIVAN

Special to The Globe and Mail

Tags: linguist, self-taught, newfoundland

Western Brook Pond in Newfoundland

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:38:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pageaday.com

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

Raisin Brown Rice Pilaf

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:36:46 GMT

clipped by: aleewade

Clip Source: www.tasteofhome.com

Raisin Brown Rice Pilaf

Michele Doucette of Stephenville, Newfoundland dresses up nutritious brown rice with onion, garlic, raisins and almonds in this flavorful pilaf.

SERVINGS: 6

METHOD: Other stovetop

TIME: Prep: 5 min. Cook: 70 min.

Directions:

In a large saucepan, saute onion and garlic in oil until tender. Stir in rice, raisins and cinnamon stick; saute until rice is golden. Add broth and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Discard cinnamon stick. Sprinkle with almonds. Yield: 6 servings.

Ingredients:

1 medium onion, chopped

1 garlic clove, minced

1 teaspoon olive or canola oil

1 cup uncooked brown rice

1/2 cup raisins or dried currants

1 cinnamon stick (1 inch)

2-1/2 cups vegetable broth

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted

Interesting bit of Canadiana.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:57:52 GMT

clipped by: Sweeneybird

Clip Source: www.yarnharlot.ca

NONIA isn't a wool shop, but stands for Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association. In 1920 there was a shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives in the outports of Newfoundland. The British government sent over some nurses to help the people (particularly women) in these really isolated communties. As is the way with governments

the funding for this health service was touch and go. The nurses came up with the idea that if they were to knit and weave stuff to sell, they could fund the program by themselves. They recruited women from all over Newfoundland, gave them wool and taught them to knit (if they didn't know already). The women knit what pleased them, and NONIA picked the knitting up, paid the women, and then sold the knitting to pay for more health care. It was without a doubt, one of the cleverest woman-helping-woman schemes ever thought up. The nurses kept their jobs, the women earned a little income, and everybody in the outports got health care.

Tags: knitting

Were Antarctica and North America Once Connected?

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:13:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

The continual shifting of continents has led to the theories that, as in the cases of Pangaea and Rodinia, many, if not all of our continents, were at one time or another connected. One particular theory evolving from this is the SWEAT theory, standing for southwestern United States and East Antarctica, which theorizes that the southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica.

One of the rocks that they picked up turned out to be, later, a very specific form of granite with, as Goodge describes it, "a particular type of coarse-grained texture." Chemical and isotopic tests conducted by the team in laboratories in the US revealed the boulder to have a chemistry "very similar to a unique belt of igneous rocks in North America" that stretches from what is now California eastward through New Mexico to Kansas, Illinois and eventually through New Brunswick and Newfoundland in Canada.

new rates

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:15:18 GMT

clipped by: rspencer8

Clip Source: www.tbs-sct.gc.ca

Appendix B - Kilometric Rates - Effective July 1, 2008

Table of Contents

Appendix B
Kilometric Rates

Effective July 1, 2008

Modules 1, 2 and 3
The rates payable in cents per kilometre for the use of privately owned vehicles driven on authorized government business travel are shown below:	Cents/km (taxes included)
— Alberta — British Columbia — Manitoba — New Brunswick — Newfoundland and Labrador — Northwest Territories — Nova Scotia — Nunavut — Ontario — Prince Edward Island — Quebec — Saskatchewan — Yukon	51.5 52.0 49.0 50.0 54.0 61.0 51.0 61.0 54.0 50.5 56.5 48.0 62.5

mileage rates

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:10:10 GMT

clipped by: rspencer8

Clip Source: www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Province or territory	October 1, 2007	January 1, 2008
Alberta	48.0¢/km	50.0¢/km
British Columbia	48.0¢/km	50.0¢/km
Manitoba	46.5¢/km	47.5¢/km
New Brunswick	47.0¢/km	48.5¢/km
Newfoundland and Labrador	50.5¢/km	52.5¢/km
Northwest Territories	56.5¢/km	57.0¢/km
Nova Scotia	48.0¢/km	49.5¢/km
Nunavut	56.5¢/km	57.0¢/km
Ontario	49.5¢/km	52.0¢/km
Prince Edward Island	47.0¢/km	49.0¢/km
Quebec	52.5¢/km	54.5¢/km
Saskatchewan	46.0¢/km	46.5¢/km
Yukon	58.0¢/km	61.0¢/km

Canadian woman's accent changes after stroke

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:17:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ctv.ca

Canadian woman's accent changes after stroke

Doctors and scientists say they will continue to monitor an Ontario woman who developed an Atlantic Canadian accent after suffering a stroke.

Two years ago Dore, went to the hospital suffering from many common signs of a stroke. She suffered partial paralysis and she had trouble speaking.

Therapy has helped her deal with many of the stroke's initial effects -- but what has remained is one of the stroke's strangest outcomes: it left her with a Newfoundland accent.

That wouldn't be out of the ordinary, if she was from the province. But the 50-year-old Windsor, Ont. woman told doctors she had never visited the region and didn't have relatives there.

She had no idea why her southern Ontario accent had suddenly transformed into one more at home in Atlantic Canada.

"I can remember it happened from the very first day," Dore told CTV News. "As soon as I had the stroke, my voice changed."

Open Season on Canadian Water

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:37:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "What Canadians need to know is that this year, from March 2008 to March of 2009, eight lakes are going to be subject to being put on Schedule Two, which is just about every mine that is going ahead this year is looking around, looking for the nearest lake to dump its waste into.”

Un. Frickin. Believable!

Time for this government to fall! C'mon, Dion, DO SOMETHING!

Clip Source: www.cbc.ca

Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites

Lakes are in B.C., Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, NWT and Nunavut

Bush pilot Doug Beaumont and environmentalist Jim Bourquin fish on Kluela Lake, downstream from the planned dump site for the Red Chris gold and copper mining project in northwestern B.C.

16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland

Environmentalists say the process amounts to a "hidden subsidy" to mining companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish habitat.

Under the Fisheries Act, it's illegal to put harmful substances into fish-bearing waters. But, under a little-known subsection known as Schedule Two of the mining effluent regulations, federal bureaucrats can redefine lakes as "tailings impoundment areas."

That means mining companies don't need to build containment ponds for toxic mine tailings.

Tags: canada, water, environment, business and industry

Titanic Life Jacket To Go On Sale in New York

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:12:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reuters.com

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship will go under the hammer later this month in New York, Christie's auction house said on Wednesday.

The cork-filled life preserver -- still largely intact, but stained and torn in parts -- was thought to have been found by farmer John James Dunbar on the Halifax shoreline after the passenger ship sank off Newfoundland.

The liner sank during its maiden voyage from the British port of Southampton to New York in April, 1912 when it hit an iceberg, causing some 1,500 people to die.

Christie's, which estimated that the life preserver would sell for $60,000 to $80,000, sold another Titanic life jacket last year in London for $119,000.

Maritime specialist Gregg Dietrich said there was still huge public interest in Titanic memorabilia as the sinking of the ship, which had been billed as unsinkable, caused such a loss of life and was one of the first world-wide news events.

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans

Wed, 28 May 2008 01:27:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is something to wonder about...

Clip Source: environment.newscientist.com

It's the basement apartment like no other. Life has been found 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea floor, at temperatures reaching 100 °C.

Fluorescent staining highlights living cell in green (Image: Erwan Roussel)Enlarge

The discovery marks the deepest living cells ever to be found beneath the sea floor. Bacteria have been found deeper underneath the continents, but there they are rare. In comparison, the rocks beneath the sea appear to be teeming with life.

John Parkes, a geobiologist at the University of Cardiff, UK, hopes his team's discovery might one day help find life on other planets. He says it might even redefine what we understand as life, and, bizarrely, what we understand by "age".

Parkes has been hunting for deep life for over 20 years. Recently, he and his colleagues examined samples of a mud core extracted from between 860 metres and 1626 metres beneath the sea floor off the coast of Newfoundland.

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans

Sun, 25 May 2008 18:02:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They found simple organisms known as prokaryotes in every sample. Prokaryotes are organisms that often have just one cell. Their peculiarity is that, unlike any other form of life, their DNA is not neatly packed into a nucleus.

Clip Source: environment.newscientist.com

It's the basement apartment like no other. Life has been found 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea floor, at temperatures reaching 100 °C.

Tags: life, sea, ocean

Life reaches deeper beneath the seabed

Sat, 24 May 2008 02:05:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Many people don't realize that a greater proportion of life om Earth is beneath the surface, Either the surface of the land, or the bottom of the sea.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Alister Doyle

Signs of life have been found at a record depth of 1.6 kilometres beneath the seabed, say researchers

The findings could help in the search for extraterrestrial life but could also complicate plans to bury greenhouse gases deep beneath the seabed, which has long thought to be devoid of life

The discovery of microbes in searing hot sediments under the Atlantic seabed off Newfoundland

doubles the previous depth record of 842 metres, say scientists in today's issue of the journal Science

microbes were found at 1,626 metres below the seafloor in cores of sediment 111 million years old and at temperatures of 60 to 100°Celsius

Professor John Parks from the University of Wales

calls for better assessment of how the newly-found microbes might react to carbon dioxide buried in the seabed

The newly-discovered microbes are prokaryotes

they lack the nuclei possessed by

all animal and plant life

Sediment beneath the seafloor is thought to contain as much as two thirds of all earth's prokaryotes

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:57:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is a whole world of life that is quite content with its lot.

Clip Source: environment.newscientist.com

Fluorescent staining highlights living cell in green (Image: Erwan Roussel)Enlarge

It's the basement apartment like no other. Life has been found 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea floor, at temperatures reaching 100 °C.

Tags: geobiology

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Gaelic

Western Brook Pond in Newfoundland

tuna quotas...08

Raisin Brown Rice Pilaf

Directions:

Ingredients:

Interesting bit of Canadiana.

Were Antarctica and North America Once Connected?

new rates

Appendix B - Kilometric Rates - Effective July 1, 2008

Appendix B Kilometric Rates

mileage rates

Canadian woman's accent changes after stroke

Canadian woman's accent changes after stroke

Open Season on Canadian Water

Lakes across Canada face being turned into mine dump sites

Lakes are in B.C., Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, NWT and Nunavut

Titanic Life Jacket To Go On Sale in New York

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans

Life reaches deeper beneath the seabed

Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans

Appendix B
Kilometric Rates