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Well, for those that are interested.... i have been a bit creative lately. Firstly... I made a pencil holder. Well, technically i didn't 'make' the bamboo pencil holder, i only decorated it. I glued some pictures to some clear glass tiles, and then inlaid them into the box, and viola! I also made some pendants with the same glass tiles. I was thinking I can use the pictured tiles for mosaic too maybe. The pendant colors look a bit washy in the photo, but they are actually quite bright. I have also been doing some Jade carving... I made another mushroom, and turned it into a keyring. I carved a twist pendant. And my favorite carving of all so far ...is a miniature mortar and pestle All these pieces look so much better in real life. My daughter wants me to carve her a four leaf clover...so that is likely to be the next carving.

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I've been attending some of these hearings in sydney and watched fiona patten, paul dillon, alex wodak, the young lawyers assn, DoAG and a few others. Missed monica by a few minutes though I have the feeling the enquiry is seriously looking at a major overhaul and is very much considering the new NZ model. Quite exciting really. Will post more details on all this soon - just got home from my latest trip and need to catch up a bit. It's a slow-moving process anyway. It seems to be crystallising as a fight between the mining industry and the rest of the community.

Grafting does have its advantages..... These 2 pics are exactly 20 months apart.

cacti, love pots and many plants (orchids for instance) flower best once they become a little bit pot bound. I wouldn't be in a rush to re-pot it, cacti flowers are beautiful.

Im thinking yes. but why have it just for mycology when you could do it for cacti, pharmacology and other things and plants?

recent craze over cathinones just goes to show...all of this could have been avoided if there was just a controlled market for fresh khat. Authorities have created their own reality.

"If he's 'on drugs' then he must be delusional" said the shrink, as he wrote another script.

I gotta be honest here, it’s becoming really hard for me to logically justify my life long belief of people having the born right to ingest whatever substance they want. It’s simply just disgraceful, hearing how some of these ‘legal high junkies’ are abusing these substances and fucking it up for people who are capable of basic common sense! I got people on another forum, telling me how there tolerance is so high, they need to smoke like 5 cones in are row, of a highly addictive incense blend which is ‘at least’ 5 times more potent than the strongest weed I ever smoked! But that’s the least of it, you also got people happily shovelling unknown dangerous chemicals up their noses without a single thought of there own welfare. I’m calling it now! This shits about to become epidemic, which will make the US crack epidemic of the late 80’s look like a complete joke. WTF is wrong with society, when people aren’t even capable of looking after own physical health?!!!! Like seriously. Let’s face it, we are living in a society, which is a cesspool of feebleminded dimwits!

Yes....safe for the workplace . I like to dabble a bit with different materials and make stuff. The latest material of choice is Jade stone. A friend sent me a Jade amulet which they had made, and straight away, i got the carving bug. I bought most of the rough Jade from eBay and I bought a Dremel, a few diamond tipped bits and some emery paper of various grades... and that was it. Jade comes in many shades, from dark to light. I like the dark Jade which looks black, but when cut thin enough and held up to a light scource, you can see that it is actually green. I find carving very therapeutic and i have spent many hours outside, like in a trance, carving stone. I have made friendship bracelets and anklets for kids, keyrings, pendants , and a few other bits and pieces. I didn't photograph all my work before i gave it away, but here is a taste of what i have made . I will add to this thread as i make new stuff . . Other stuff i have made was a 'trip simulator' AKA , a Kaleidoscope, made from brass. Then, not to forget the Native American style flute that i have already posted here at SAB, but adding it to my 'Show and Tell' thread . http://www.shaman-au...te&fromsearch=1 A bit rustic, but i enjoyed making this stuff, and that's all that really matters. I think i would enjoy doing a mosaic, like a mushroom or something. Amz EDIT: the pics have gone higgldy piggldy, but it was tricky trying to get them to all line up . * shrugs.

Well, it's not really a forest, but my small collection is growing steadily. I'll try to keep a selection of amateur cacti porn coming in over the summer months, enjoy! Here's some Cereus peruvianus crests I painstakingly collected today. I'm still pulling out tiny splinter thorns from my hands / arms which feel like a pincushion; but it was worth it in the end The owner said the mother plant is 20+ yrs old, what a beauty.

I’m convinced the NZ governments proposed policy regarding legal highs, will just be the equivalent to the US marijuana tax act of 1937. Hope I’m wrong though. The mining industry only employs like 2% of Australia’s work force. But they contribute about 35% of Australia’s total exports, they are also a $200 billion industry and make up 6% of Australia’s total economy. In other words, they own your arse! Especially if you’re from QLD or WA. Also, there’s a lot of single young men working in the mining industry that are earning over 100 grand a year, which is the perfect recipe for extreme drug abuse. The mining corps just likes to give the appearance that they have a drug free work force. In reality every miner I’ve ever meet on my travels were major alcoholics and never worried too much about taking drugs. As long as they didn’t do drugs 48 hours before work, the saliva tests won’t detect anything and they usually all get tipped off weeks before they get urine drug tested anyway. Since it would be too expensive for the mining companies to get rid of half their work force. So most of it’s just for appearance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ

First thing you need to do is find out what award you are employed under. If you are employed by a large company I would presume they are a PTY LTD company which should put you under a national award. All of the information on the awards can be found here http://www.fairwork....es/default.aspx As far as what you are entitled to. Your employer had every right to send you home if you were unfit for work and as your injury was not work related then it is up to your employer to make the decision to allow you to work on light duties but you must understand that if you are back at work and not able to carry out you duties then it costs the company as it has to pay you at the full rate. The award that you are employed under will tell you what leave your entitlements are and I would approach your employer again regarding using any leave that you have owing. Before making any statements to your employer about what is or isn't within your employment rights make sure you know exactly what your rights are. Cheers Got

It depends on how big the flower buds and how fast that plant is growing and when you want the flowers, I think. If the buds are really big, and it's growing pretty fast, then I would leave it in the current pot, and feed it, as well as seasol if you have any (if you don't, I highly recommend it for stressed plants). If the flower buds are tiny little marble-sized things, I think you can definitely repot it without disturbing the buds, but the repotting will have to be very delicate (rootball very gently broken up, no harsh ripping huge chunks off) so that the plant doesn't get root shock, and this will delay the flowering, perhaps even until next year if the plant doesn't get re-established quick enough. So if you have no other buds forming, repotting it might give the other plants time to catch up. haha

Stem looks alot like S. Hamatus

Back in 2003, Oxford professor Nick Bostrom suggested that we may be living in a computer simulation. In his paper, Bostrom offered very little science to support his hypothesis — though he did calculate the computational requirements needed to pull of such a feat. And indeed, a philosophical claim is one thing, actually proving it is quite another. But now, a team of physicists say proof might be possible, and that it's a matter of finding a cosmological signature that would serve as the proverbial Red Pill from the Matrix. And they think they know what it is. According to Silas Beane and his team at the University of Bonn in Germany, a simulation of the universe should still have constraints, no matter how powerful. These limitations, they argue, would be observed by the people within the simulation as a kind of constraint on physical processes. Full size So, how could we ever hope to identify these constraints? Easy: We just need build our own simulation of the universe and find out. And in fact, this is fairly close to what the physicists are actually trying to do. To that end, they've created an ultra-small version of the universe that's down to the femto-scale (which is even smaller than the nano-scale). And to help isolate the sought-after signature, the physicists are simulating quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which is the fundamental force in nature that gives rise to the strong nuclear force among protons and neutrons, and to nuclei and their interactions. To replace the space-time continuum, they are computing tiny, tightly spaced cubic "lattices." They call this "lattice gauge theory" and it is subsequently providing new insights into the nature of matter itself. Interestingly, the researchers consider their simulation to be a forerunner to more powerful versions in which molecules, cells, and even humans themselves might someday be generated. But for now, they're interested in creating accurate models of cosmological processes — and finding out which ones might represent hard limits for simulations. To that end, they have investigated the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (or GZK cut-off) as a candidate — a cut-off in the spectrum of high energy particles. The GZK cut-off is particularly promising because it behaves quite interestingly within the QCD model. According to the Physics arXiv blog, this cut-off is well known and comes about when high energy particles interact with the cosmic microwave background, thus losing energy as they travel long distances. The researchers have calculated that the lattice spacing imposes some additional features on the spectrum, namely that the angular distribution of the highest energy components should exhibit cubic symmetry in the rest of the lattice (causing it to deviate significantly from isotropy). "In other words," write the arXiv bloggers, "the cosmic rays would travel preferentially along the axes of the lattice, so we wouldn't see them equally in all directions." And that would be the kind of reveal the physicists are looking for — an indication that there is indeed a man hiding behind the curtain. And what's particularly fascinating about this is that we can make this measurement now with our current level of technology. As the researchers point out, finding this effect would be the same as 'seeing' the orientation of the lattice on which our own universe is simulated. That said, the researchers caution that future computer models may utilize completely different paradigms, ones that are outside of our comprehension. Moreover, this will only work if the lattice cut-off remains consistent with what we see in nature. At any rate, it's a remarkable suggestion — one that could serve as an important forerunner to further research and insights into this fasinating possibility. The entire study can be found at Physics arXiv. http://io9.com/59505...uter-simulation

piss off jabez, with your random"i'm just travelling around mang" type of wordly niceness goodness, yet delivering the severing blow to the temple "comments you deliver. it's probably you that did it

Some of the thai adeniums are pumping out the flowers, hoping for some seed pods. And an interesting Astrophytum hybrid with a nice big flower.

This photo was so impressive I had to help you out:

You should try getting it to grow dreadlocks....

OK today is day one operation molest Gymno flowers lol It wasn't pretty, I have very poor technique lol The G ragonesei went mad and all the flowers pretty much opened today. So this whole plant I will try and cross with the G mihanovichii "rubra" as nothing else is ready. I have another ragonesei that looks like will be flowering with the baldianums so that will be interesting. This "rubra"doesn't exhibit the brightest flower but has some excellent pink and purple in it so a cross of the two should produce a couple interesting plants. The rubra pollen hasn't really come in today that well but hopefully it will before the ragonesei flowers are exhausted. Will keep you posted.

Oh sure, light, darkness, hot & cold all play specific roles, but what made my trichs literally explode with flowers this year? Why not last year? Or the year before? Even this last winter was warmer than normal. Late winter, early spring rains were the same as previous years. The only defining difference between this year and all previous years was I paid attention to weather reports of impending thunder showers and went out & hoed up the ground around my trich plants & then tossed out liberal amounts of bone meal. & then let the rains soak it in. I did that at least twice in the early spring this year. I've already had one full flush of flowers, yet new buds & flowers continue to form. pic taken 7-20-12, t. peru, some flowers were crossed w/ juuls giant. pic taken 9-1-12, same plant viewed from the opposite side This is just one of 6 or 7 varieties that continues to pump out new buds & flowers.

Have to boast here and say, I am the very proud owner of that little loph carving ( and it is the best keyring evaaaaa ) And my friend 'the birdman' seriously loved his feather carving amazonian ! Beautifull heartfelt work right there ! big up's to ya ! keep on carving -tipz