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St Kilda

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:24:59 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Visit website for lots more - including how to visit, and working holidays with the National trust for Scotland.

Clip Source: www.kilda.org.uk

There have been people on St Kilda since prehistoric times, exploiting the rich resources of the sea, growing crops and keeping animals. It is not clear when the first settlers came to St Kilda, but simple stone tools found on Hirta suggest that Bronze Age travellers may have visited St Kilda from the Western Isles some 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. In the 1830s the Rev Neil Mackenzie found what were probably remains of burial cists in Village Bay. Excavations in 1995 revealed a possible burial structure dating from the Bronze Age.

Clip Source: www.kilda.org.uk

Watercolour of the village in 1831

Clip Source: www.kilda.org.uk

Islanders carrying their belongings to the jetty at the evacuation

Clip Source: www.kilda.org.uk

St Kilda is one of only 24 global locations to be awarded 'mixed' World Heritage Status for its natural and cultural significance. World Heritage List

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At 1400ft, Conachair boasts the highest sea cliffs in Britain.

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The archipelago of St Kilda, the remotest part of the British Isles, lies 41 miles (66 kilometres) west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.

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First Stage of Global Cooling During 2008/09

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:47:16 GMT

clipped by: amgumen
clipper's remarks: Mr. Dilley of Global Weather Oscillations has found seven different types of recurring gravitational cycles ranging from the very warm 460,000 year cycle down to a 230 year recurring global warming cycle. All of the gravitational cycles coincide nearly 100 percent with 2200 global warming events during the past half million years. This includes the earth’s current warming cycle which began around the year 1900, and the first stage of global cooling that will begin during 2008 and 2009.

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climate researcher David Dilley utilizes nearly a half million years of data linking long term gravitational cycles of the moon explain the recent global warming, rises in carbon dioxide levels, and for 2200 global warming cycles during the past half million years.

The gravitational cycles are called the Primary Forcing Mechanism for Climate (PFM), and act like a magnet by pulling the atmosphere’s high pressure systems northward or southward by as much as 3 or 4 degrees of latitude from their normal seasonal positions, and thus causing long-term shifts in the location of atmospheric high pressure systems.

a near 100 percent correlation between the PFM gravitational cycles to the beginning and ending of global warming cycles. Global warming cycles began right on time with each PFM cycle during the past half million years, as did the current warming which began 100 years ago, and it will end right on time as the current gravitational cycle begins its cyclical decline.

Barack Obama's "CHANGE"

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:12:10 GMT

clipped by: bambino101
clipper's remarks: I listen to a radio show host in the morning called Paul Gallo. He once explained what it is like to be "poor" in America"

1) Poor people in America usually have running water.
2) Poor People in America usually have electricity.
3) Many,if not most, poor people in America have cable/satellite television.
4) Many, if not most, poor people in America have a cell phone.
5) Many poor people in America have at least 1 or two, maybe even three cars.
6) Many poor people in America eat well - including junk food
7) Many poor people in America have jewelry,.

I think you get the picture. I personally have witnessed some of these "poor people" who usually have more stuff than I do.

Clip Source: www.americandaily.com

"Government is not a solution to our problem[s],
government is the problem." -- Ronald Reagan

Barack Obama is the most talked about, most media worshipped political celebrity of all time. He has received praise from Keith Olberman, German crowds , and a host of media outlets like ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.

However, the real Obama is yet to be exposed. Most, by now, know his ties to radical left wing "evangelicals" like Rev. Wright and some others who are associated with apostasy. He has ties to Marxists, and radical left wingers like George Soros and others who wish to "CHANGE" American society into some kind of socialist utopia where free handouts are passed around from the pockets of hard working Americans into the hands of "poor people".

I listen to a radio show host in the morning called Paul Gallo. He once explained what it is like to be "poor" in America"

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10 Cool Ice Cubes

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:20:04 GMT

clipped by: gilligan
clipper's remarks: Don't miss these, they're really creative!

Clip Source: www.thetoyzone.com

Welcome to the world of next generation ice cubes! 10 of the best drink accompaniments that any Eskimo would be proud of.

1. Bone Chiller Cubes

2. Jazz Ice

3. Jewel Cubes

4. Chocolate Ice Cubes

5. ICE with a slice

6. Hans Solo Carbonite ice cube

7. ICE Cube Kebab

8. Ice Cube Shooter Glass

9. Tetris Ice Cubes

10. LEGO Ice Cubes

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Does John McCain think Women are that stupid?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:29:36 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Do women care more about having a token example on any ticket over finding a woman who won't support a women's right to choose?

Someone who has limited experience?

Blacks won't vote for Obama just because he is black, and women won't vote for women just because of token gender.

I hope we are all SMART enough to look at the issues beyond race or gender.

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Tags: politics, women, abortion, guns, mccain, women are smarter than this

Jon Stewart Speaks Truth to Media Power

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:54 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Jon Stewart, Fox News Trade Barbs

Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News as "an appendage of the Republican Party."

Wearing a gray T-shirt and a healthy stubble, the "Daily Show" host told reporters that Fox's fair-and-balanced slogan is "a (expletive) you to people with brains" and that only "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace "saves that network from slapping on a bumper sticker . . . Barack Obama could cure cancer and they'd figure out a way to frame it as an economic disaster."

Tags: jon stewart, faux news

Do animals understand death? Do humans?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:05:20 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "One example is famadihana - the turning of the bones - a traditional ritual carried out by the Malagasy people of Madagascar. Every seven years, the dead relatives are exhumed from the family tomb, re-wrapped, and danced around the tomb."

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

Do animals understand death? Do humans?

While reading the papers this morning my eye was caught by the striking images of Gana, an 11-year old gorilla living at Munster zoo, Germany, holding her dead baby aloft.

According to all the news stories I've read, this photo demonstrates that she is grieving - feeling the same emotions as we would in these circumstances. Really? Or is this just rampant anthropomorphism?

But others have argued that foisting human emotions onto animals is unscientific. Just because animals sometimes behave like us does not mean that the same complex cognitive reasoning underlies these behaviours.

It seems to me that the question here is not do animals experience grief, so much as do they understand death? And, while I'm on that subject, do humans even understand death?

Science tells us that death is pretty much the end of the story in terms of human experience. But there are plenty of examples of human behaviour that seem to fly in the face of this.

Look Closely, Doctor: See the Camera?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:50:30 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: Psychiatrists say that other movies whose characters are living in a unreal world or being watched by malevolent forces, including “The Matrix,” “Edtv” and even the film based on George Orwell’s “1984,” have come up in conversations with psychotic patients. But the premise of “The Truman Show” (“What if you were watched every moment of your life?” according to a promotional blurb) is strikingly similar to what patients describe as their own experiences.

Reinforcing their beliefs is the fact that in the movie, Truman is right about being watched and recorded at all times. Every other character is part of the conspiracy.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Look Closely, Doctor: See the Camera?

Psychiatrists say that some psychotic patients have identified with the main characters in “The Truman Show,” and “The Matrix.”

PSYCHOSIS in the 21st century looks something like this: You think your every move is being filmed for a reality television show starring you, and that everyone in your life is an actor.

Or you think you are under intense surveillance by an army of spies, whom you refer to as the “www people,” as in the World Wide Web, and they wiretap your furniture and appliances.

Those thoughts are from three case studies of what psychiatrists interested in the intersection of mental illness, culture and society are calling, respectively, Truman Show delusion, Internet delusion and climate change delusion; all of them a window, through madness, into the modern world.

With Internet delusion, patients typically incorporate the Internet into paranoid thoughts, including a fear that the Web is somehow monitoring or controlling their lives

Body Language a Sign of Truthfulness

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:51:59 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

As more politicians get ready to hit the stage during the presidential nominating conventions, they should be cautious about what they say -- and what they don't. Body language can speak volumes.

"When you see someone purse their lips, that's a typical male response to choke back emotion," he said. "It was good and genuine."

For those who plan to watch speaker after speaker take the podium, Hartley and other public speaking analysts said there are several cues one can look for when trying to determine the truthfulness of politicians.

Politicians Should Listen to Their Mothers: Pointing Is Rude

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The Other Pitfalls of Public Speaking

Patti Wood, a public speaking expert who has analyzed speakers for more than 25 years, warns viewers that political conventions are notorious for being some of the hardest-speaking engagements to analyze because of the charismatic nature of those who headline the events.

Tags: language, body, public, speech, politics

McCain "Thank God liberals don't shoot people"

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:22:11 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: Unconfirmed Sources political satire and news story parodies as represented above are written as satire or parody. They are, of course, fictitious.

Clip Source: www.unconfirmedsources.com

McCain "I'm safe Democrates don't try to murder their polical opponents."

DENVER, Colorado (Ucs News) --Responding to reports of white supremacist "meth heads" planning to assassinate Barack Obama in Denver, Arizona Senator John McCain stated he was grateful that "All liberals are cowards that hate guns." and the he feels "perfectly safe."

The Obama campaign offices in St. Paul Minnesota were also attacked. When police arrived to the scene, officer found two large plate glass windows and a glass door completely smashed out and paint splattered on the outside and inside of the building. A campaign worker was in the basement at the time of the incident, but was unhurt. Police believe the Obama campaign office was targeted because of its Democratic affiliation.

McCain campaign has largely been free of the death threats and violence that have plagued is challenger Barack Obama.

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McCain picks history's least experienced VP candidate

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:58:06 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Under investigation for abusing the power of her office. Has no foreign policy experience; governor for 20 mos., formerly small-town mayor. She'll have to debate Joe Biden.

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Ready to Lead?: McCain taps Alaska Gov. Palin as VP

The choice is problematic for McCain on a number of fronts.

Palin is the least qualified and experienced running mate in the history of the office, having served a total of 20 months in office.

The contrast between her and McCain could not be greater.

Does anyone really want Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency should McCain become unable to serve?

Although known as a reformer, Palin is a product of the corrupt Alaskan political machine, and is even under criminal investigation herself for abusing the power of her office.

Can she possibly face off against Joe Biden on any issue?

She pronounces “nuclear” like George Bush.

She supports Obama’s energy plan, all but undercutting the one supposed strength she brings to the ticket.

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Robotic Exoskeleton Allows a Paralyzed Man to Walk - inspirational!

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:40:00 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "ReWalk consists of motorised leg supports, body sensors and a back pack that contains a computer and rechargeable batteries. Users still need crutches to help with balance. To move, the user picks a setting with a remote control wrist band – “stand”, “sit”, “walk”, “descend” or “climb” – and then leans forward, activating the body sensors and setting the robotic legs in motion"

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Robotic Exoskeleton Allows a Paralyzed Man to Walk

A man who was paralyzed below the waist 20 years ago is walking again, thanks to a robotic “exoskeleton” that moves his legs and can even navigate up and down hills. The inventors of the device, dubbed the ReWalk, say the experimental technology can give paraplegics a psychological boost through renewed mobility, and can also help people avoid medical problems caused by long-term wheelchair use.

One of the first paraplegics to test out the device is Radi Kaiof, a former Israeli paratrooper who has been paralysed for the last 20 years following an injury during his service in the Israeli military. He says the device has changed his life. “I never dreamed I would walk again. After I was wounded, I forgot what it’s like. Only when standing up can I feel how tall I really am and speak to people eye to eye, not from below” [BBC News].

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

ReWalk by Argo - A Life Regained.

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Muppet Show to return to TV after 27 years

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:59:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The Jim Henson-created characters may be on their way back thanks to a new Disney Film.

In the movie, written by Forgetting Sarah Marshall star and writer Jason Segel, the Muppets reunite to save their studio with one last variety show.

Should the film go well, it opens up the possibility of a television programme, also written by 28-year-old Segel.

A source said: "Jason is a massive Muppets fan and is seen as the man to finally bring The Muppet Show back to TV.

"It will obviously have all its old fans but Jason's comedy is hugely popular with youngsters so it will open it up to a whole new audience."

The source added: "If the movie script is popular Jason will write the TV series too. He is already coming up with ideas for it."

In the original series, Kermit, arguably the world's most famous frog, was the show's stage manager, attempting to keep order amidst the chaos, while being pursued by Miss Piggy.

Tags: muppet, muppets, show, kermit, miss piggy, hiyaaah!

Fractals Galore

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:33:09 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.colourlovers.com

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Great excerpt from Obama's speech

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:19:34 GMT

clipped by: lp97702

Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.

So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.

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