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found this one today, though it might be useful to people on here. Field collector and field number data Ralph has set up a WWW field number data service whereby you can enter a field number, e.g. "KK 2005", for a field collector's number for a plant, and details of the plant, where it was collected, and other notes will be returned to you. http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/Cacti/fieldno.html There is also a complementary WWW field collector data service whereby you can enter an acronym, e.g. "KK", for a cactus and succulent field collector, and the collector's name is returned to you, possibly with other notes. This service knows about more collectors than the field number service; it may also return useful general notes which help to interpret the results provided by the latter. http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/Cacti/collector.html Finally, there is a field number finder service where you may enter the name of a cactus or succulent species e.g. "Rebutia heliosa", and find field numbers corresponding to that species. http://ralph.cs.cf.ac.uk/Cacti/finder.html

when i was there i asked for 90 days and ended up overstaying, when i left the country i knew it was $1 us a day for every day you go over so for me it was like $15 for the extra fortnight i stayed, the guy at the border told me i could have got 180 days rather than 90, when i came back over the border i was just passing back through and only had a month anyhow so just got the 90 again so didnt test it, but from what i know 180 is cool, or like fenris said just go over the border for a day and come back.

just looking through ebay and found this, dont think it will sell for the price they want, well pretty sure it wont but check her out http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Super-RARE-COLLECTORS-CACTUS-Button-Cactus_W0QQitemZ170470585568QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Plants_Seeds_Bulbs?hash=item27b0d6b4e0#ht_500wt_1182 oh and check out this persons list, Grown wild outdoors they say but some interesting growth on their cacti so they might well be http://shop.ebay.com.au/cactus188/m.html?_nkw=cacti&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3911.m270.l1313&_odkw=cactgi&_osacat=0&bkBtn=

haha know that feeling all to well, but yeah im in the same boat, trying to save some money and not grow the collection and im sort of failing at both at the moment.

hey all, not long back from 5 months overseas and been checking out my cacti garden, some amazing growth it cool to not see somthing for 6 months then see them again, any how i have a couple of questions, but a few pics first the one on the right in this pic is not looking the best but not to worried nothing serious this one was unwell when i was given it, looking better on 2 of the heads now but the other has gone backwards whats up with this one, was fine when i left and now looks like this, quite confused by this one, has grown heaps but like this?? this was an accident involving a fire staff, very disappointed, 4 ribbed bridgesii, never mind though it lives on and this one what could have taken a bite from here, a bit confused again. and one more any one know which of the clones the penis plants are. all the best and cheers

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/almost-260m-worth-of-drugs-seized-in-2009-say-nsw-police/story-e6frfku0-1225827395466 Almost $260m worth of drugs seized in 2009, say NSW Police From: AAP February 06, 2010 ALMOST $260 million worth of illicit drugs were seized by New South Wales Police in 2009, including enough heroin for 24 million hits, new figures show. NSW Police Minister Michael Daley said the latest crime statistics showed police seized more than $191 million of cannabis and cannabis plants, $17.8 million worth of heroin, $14 million worth of cocaine and almost $32 million worth of amphetamines. The amount of heroin seized equated to more than 24 million hits, Mr Daley said. "Hauls such as this also hamper crime syndicates and help keep would-be drug users out of our hospitals," he said in a statement. "The fight against drugs isn't just one for law enforcement agencies to undertake - everyone in the community has a part to play. "If you know of any drug activity happening in your area, I strongly encourage you to alert your local police."

no more safrole from china or cambodia, i think we will see more of this in the coming years

they have been banned for about a year in tassie now, and what did it achive, more people getting their garden hoses stolen and chopped and people going back to using plastic bottles, garden hose, and foil cones, nice harm minisiation there folks, have to love pollies looking out for our health.

i have a couple of brugs in my garden and both my mun and my nan where like they are great, i want one, so i got some more for my mum and my nan, my nan has 3 now. i have seen some great btugs while ive been in peru and have taken a few pics, will post them at some stage. oh and the Brugmansia aurea fma. 'Culebra'. is amazing, my friend has one and i cant wait to get some cuttings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4htQy51gEJU classic

seeing these pics makes me excited to get home and check on my cactus, its been almost 5 months since ive seen them, i have my mum looking after them for me and she says that one of my grafts is pupping like crazy, one good reason to come home, but that one looks great, in tassie they dont tend to grow that quick but i can only hope.

im in peru now and these drums are great, im going to go back to boliva before i go home just to buy one, great sound and great fun to play with

great stuff, have you ever had a play with zbrush if not grab a copy and have a look, you can do some aswome stuff with it

i was in Pulcallpa a couple of months ago and didnt manage to meet him but met a spent some time with some of his students and saw some of his works, very sad news

hey all just a few pics i told a couple of people i would put up on here, i have some more just not on me now so i will upload some more some time soon these are all from a shipbo community called san francisco near pucallpa in peru, I spent a few days staying with a family there and bought a couple of paintings from them, here are some pics of some of their aya inspired artwork

mad im from burnie, i dont think i know her though, tassie cops and courts are a joke copared to the mainland they see small things as huge. again this is not the first person ive hard of in the area selling to undercover cops more than once either, they eem to be doing that at the moment, they come back multiple times some what scary realy

Hey all im currenty in south america and in peru atm, currenly in pucallpa, going to be going down river and hopfully making it all the way down to boliva, just wondered if any one had any suggestions for while im in the area, i want to go and see some cacti for sure and might even collect some seed if i can get away with it, and also hopefully going to be living with a tribe somewhere down river from here for a week or 2. if any one has any suggestions for things i should do while in the area im open to suggestions atm. muchas gracias and if i make it back for ega i will catch up with a few of you then

cheers for the reply, we went and spent a few days in a couple of differnt Shipibo commintys, i love their artwork, the aya paintings are out of this world, like alex grey but on a completly different level, it all worked out quite well, hooked up with some antropoligists who invited us to come and stay at a comunity that they go and visit so we went out there for a few days then got back to Pucallpa and meet some other people who work with the comunitys who printed out all sorts of info on where and how many people live in each one and gave us letters of reccomendation to be able to go and stay with them for free so we spent a bit of time in Shipibo comunitys, headed back into the mountains from the junlge now, went all the way up river (south) from Pucallpa to atalaya stopping at the occasional comunity along the way then went a bit further south before heading back inland and am now headed in the cuzco direction for an undetermind amount of time before hopefully crossing into bolivia, im not sure if i will make it to boliva this time around as ive been spending to long along the way in peru but if i dont make it then its a good excuse to do some work when i get back so i can come back over again. any how all the best and once again if i amke it back for ega i will talk to some of you then, but at the moment that is looking pretty unlikley, i am due to be back in aus 1 day before age but will more than likley change my flights and stay for a an extra month or 2 or untill i am broke an begging on the street or taking english speaking gringos on tours some where to make a little extra chash and stay that bit longer.

nice work, im in ayacucho at the moment and will more than likley be heading in the cuzco direction in the next few days i might pm you for some tips, sort of not looking forward to it because of the tourist bit, even where i m now is the first time in peru that ive seen groups of gringos sitting around in bars and restaruants and thats been a bit of a shock so im glad im here first to prepare. we just got a bus from huancayo and its the first time ive been on a bus with other tourists, all i wanted to do was get off and look at the thousands of cacti we where driving past, i got a few pics but all from a moving bus so not much good, i might try and make it back out that way and do a bit of walking though before i head to cuzco and try and put some pics up for some of you to look at.

I just had mine fixed up in lima for 50 sols (25 dollars) took about 2 hours but i might still hit you up when i get back to melb. and wax is a no no imo, not worth it a bit of patience is all it takes

Caffeine the Australian 'drug of choice' http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25936850-421,00.html By Brenden Hills, The Sunday Telegraph August 16, 2009 * Coffee the nation's "top addiction" * 63 per cent are sleep deprived AUSTRALIANS are more addicted to caffeine than to any other substance, with research showing many people enjoy the equivalent of four cups of coffee a day. Experts say the ritual morning coffee is the nation's top addiction, beating vices like problem gambling, alcohol and illicit drugs - "ice'', cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin. A University of NSW National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) spokesman said the average daily caffeine intake was 240mg - equal to four cups of coffee a day. Research by Hudsons Coffee showed three in five NSW residents consumed two-to-four cups of coffee daily. Sleep deprived Performance coach and nutritional researcher Andrew May said caffeine consumption was fuelled by people using coffee as a social lubricant and a short-term cure for the symptoms of sleep deprivation. Around 63 per cent of Australians are sleep-deprived and, because we're so busy, the first thing we cut out is sleep,'' he said. "But when we wake up tired, the first thing we do is buy a coffee on the way to work. "But it is an addictive substance and the more we have it the more we crave that hit, so we have it more.'' Gambling less NDARC research showed 19 per cent of Australians smoked tobacco or cigarettes on a daily basis, while the 2004 National Drug Strategy found up to 20 per cent of people over 30 smoked cannabis daily and up to 25 per cent smoking it weekly. More than 8 per cent of Australians, or 1.3 million, consumed alcohol each day, while heroin (1 per cent), ecstasy (3 per cent) and cocaine (1 per cent) had smaller numbers of frequent users. A spokesman for Clubs NSW said its research showed that just over 1 per cent of the population had a gambling addiction - a substantial fall from the 1999 level of 2 per cent. "It's a surprising figure because you hear about problem gambling so much people think it's at really bad levels, but it's actually better than it's ever been,'' the spokesman said.

Poisonous weed found in grocery salad http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25927761-13762,00.html By Caroline Copley Reuters August 14, 2009 * Salad had something that looked like rocket * But it was actually a poisonous weed * Hard to tell them apart, store says A CUSTOMER shopping at a discount supermarket store in Germany found stems of a poisonous weed in mixed salad bags, triggering concerns about potential health risks, the store said. Traces of senecio vulgaris or common groundsel, that can cause extensive liver damage if ingested in large amounts, were discovered by a customer with a specialised knowledge of plants in a Plus store in Hanover, northern Germany. "It's hard for laymen to tell the difference from rocket," said a Plus spokeswoman. "We immediately took all affected bags off the shelves." Samples were sent to the University of Bonn for testing, which detected more than 2500 micrograms of poison - 2500 times more than the recommended daily allowance - in 150 grams of salad, German media reported. Consumer affairs minister in Rhineland-Palatinate, Margit Conrad, warned shoppers to be vigilant. "Not everything that looks like fruit and vegetable is edible," she said. "No one should eat plants or parts of plants that have an unusual taste."

hey kenny i can go you halves in that if you like, i would love a cutting from that one as well.

that and ebay generally have them edit, sorry had a quick look and no one seem to be selling them on ebay at the moment, got some there from a health food type shop a year or so ago but by the looks none at the moment.

another interesting one http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/...our-brains.html In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect”. He describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness. Without warning, he says, a feeing of bliss, timelessness, and connectedness began to overwhelm him. He describes becoming instantly and profoundly aware that each of his constituent atoms were connected to the fragile planet he saw in the window and to every other atom in the Universe. He described experiencing an intense awareness that Earth, with its humans, other animal species, and systems were all one synergistic whole. He says the feeling that rushed over him was a sense of interconnected euphoria. He was not the first—nor the last—to experience this strange “cosmic connection”. Rusty Schweikart experienced it on March 6th 1969 during a spacewalk outside his Apollo 9 vehicle: “When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing. That makes a change…it comes through to you so powerfully that you’re the sensing element for Man.” Schweikart, similar to what Mitchell experienced, describes intuitively sensing that everything is profoundly connected. Their experiences, along with dozens of other similar experiences described by other astronauts, intrigue scientists who study the brain. This “Overview Effect”, or acute awareness of all matter as synergistically connected, sounds somewhat similar to certain religious experiences described by Buddhist monks, for example. Where does it come from and why? Andy Newberg, a neuroscientist/physician with a background in spacemedicine, is learning how to identify the markers of someone who hasexperienced space travel. He says there is a palpable difference in someone who has been in space, and he wants to know why. Newberg specializes in finding the neurological markers of brains in states of altered consciousness: Praying nuns, transcendental mediators, and others in focused or "transcendent" states. Newberg can actually pinpoint regions in subjects' gray matter that correlate to these circumstances, and now he plans to use his expertise to find how and why the Overview Effect occurs. He is setting up advanced neurological scanning instruments that can head into space to study--live--the brain functions of space travelers. If this Overview Effect is a real, physiological phenomenon—he wants to watch it unfold. Newberg's first test subject will not be an astronaut, but rather a civilian. Reda Andersen will be leaving the planet with Rocketplane Kistler. She says, that as one of the world's first civilian space adventurers, she is more than happy to let Andy scan her brain if it can help unlock the mystery. Why do astronauts all seem to experience a profound alteration of their perceptions when entering space, and will it happen for Rita and the other civilian explorers as well? After decades of study and contemplation about his experience, Ed Mitchell believes that the feeling of “oneness” with the Universe that he and others have experienced is a consequence of little understood quantum physics. In a recent interview with writer Diana deRegnier of American Chronicle, Mitchell explains how the event changed his life and his entire perspective on the world and how each of us fits into the grand scale of the cosmos. “Four hundred years ago. the philosopher Rene Descartes came to the conclusion that physicality, spirituality, mind and body belonged to different realms of reality that didn't interact. Now, that served the purpose to get the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals so they could disagree on material things with the church and without the fear of being burned at the stake. So that ended that, but it did cause, for four hundred years, science to consider consciousness and mind a subject for philosophy and religion and not a subject for science. Now, one of the things that happened, in the 1940s, was the mathematician, physicist, Norbert Wiener (MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the first time really defined information as the negative of entropy, and entropy as the idea of the universe is running down and wastes energy. But, Wiener defined information as the negative of entropy, and that's wonderful but it didn't go far enough.” Mitchell says that in an attempt to fill in some of the missing gap, the 2008 revised edition of his book The Way of the Explorer explores the largely ignored science of human consciousness. Using what he calls the “dyadic model” he outlines the “two faces” of energy. “Instead of being two separate things, it's the energy as the basis of our existence in matter. And, it’s the basis of our knowing and information,” Mitchell explains. “We had not had, in science, a definition of consciousness. The only definition of consciousness from the dictionary is that at its basic level it is awareness. Consciousness means to be aware, and then we have different levels of consciousness depending upon how complex the substance is. It has been demonstrated many times over in laboratories that basic awareness is demonstrable at the level of plants, at simple bacteria, at simple life forms. This is done with Faraday cages. It's shown that this information at this deep level, at the quantum level, can transcend electromagnetic theory. And, now we're getting into quantum physics and we don´t want to go there at this point. But it's a very fundamental notion that awareness is at the very basis of things.” Mitchell believes that perhaps both the theologians and scientists have missed the mark. “All I can suggest to the mystic and the theologian is that our gods have been too small; they fill the universe. And to the scientist all I can say is that the gods do exist; they are the eternal, connected, and aware Self experienced by all intelligent beings.' In response to DeRegnier questioning whether or not Mitchell believes in the idea of God, he responds that while he does not believe in the traditional “grandfather figure” version of God, “we do have great mystery about what is the origin of the universe, how it came to be. There's a great deal of question as to whether the big bang is the correct answer to the way the universe arose, and under what auspices and conditions. I don't think we have the full answers to that yet. Hopefully in due course we'll be able to find a much better way to describe all this.” But while Mitchell does not claim to know how to perfectly interpret his experience, he is certain that it was a glimpse into a largely ignored reality: People, places and things are all more closely connected than they sometimes appear. He also mentions the need for better stewardship of our precious planet. “The great thinker Buckminster Fuller, philosopher, now deceased but for a goodly portion of the twentieth century, pointed out at the beginning of our space exploration that we are the crew of ‘space ship earth’. But we 're a crew of mutiny and how can you run a space ship with a mutinous crew?” Posted by Rebecca Sato