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Excellent to hear the Pixies at the end

Perspective 15 November 2005 - Rachel Bloul [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective...es/s1506927.htm] I have carefully followed the various accounts of the recent riots in France as well as talked to friends & family there. What has been fascinating is the way in which interpretations wildly diverged while reflecting the preoccupations of the writers. The US media were sharply divided between those who saw in these riots a French version of their own race riots and those who used them to reinforce their position (whatever that was) on the war against terrorism, and the way to deal with Muslim populations in the West. In the UK, the press was particularly interested in judging the failure of the ‘assimilationist’ French policies & comparing them with their own multicultural approach. The Australian press generally gave little space to the whole business, being pre-occupied with the new security measures proposed by the Howard government. It did mention the superiority of the Australian multicultural approach and various French failures re unemployment and racism. However, may I mention that during the 2 weeks of violence –on a scale that Australia has never seen- the French police never did shoot, much less shoot to kill, the insurgents? But these were not exactly race riots a la USA. Only young men, very young men, most of them under 20 yrs old, burned & destroyed public buildings, schools, buses, shops & some 6,000 plus cars without ever looting 1 loaf of bread. These were not community clashes with demands for the recognition of a specific collective identity a la multiculturalism. The youth’s standard claim was: “We are French too! Why are we not treated as French?” In other words they wanted equality, liberty (from constant, humiliating police controls) and solidarity.(in the form of jobs) How very French of them, indeed! Certainly, most rioters were the children of post-colonial immigration. Marginalized, angry, irresponsible, violent, but French, youth, unable to trust the empty promises sent their way at elections time by a political class all too used to forget them when business is as usual. They are also children living in depressing circumstances, in run-down, oppressive council housing in what French administrators call the ‘banlieues enclavees’, a fancy appellation to denote high density building, hastily -& badly- constructed outside of the reach of easy public transport, and often with very little infrastructure. These children can see even more depressing futures looming, especially since the Chirac government suppressed funding to many NGOs & other communities initiatives. They reacted as frustrated and angry children in blind, mostly self-destructive, violence. They did not riot in the ‘beaux quartiers’, they burned their neighbors’ cars, their cousins’ schools, their own sporting clubs, the slow, too infrequent buses their mothers take and so on. Watching French TV, one could see the anguished faces of their parents and other adults (of all ethnicities Blanc Black Beur [White, Black, Arab] as French say), surveying burned remains, and organizing fairly early onward citizens’ nightly watches, supporting each other in common effort to limit the escalating costs of juvenile rampage. These parents, while they often understood, did not support their own children’s violence.. Finally these were male children, a fact worth stressing. Certainly the riots were a response –more than 20 years in the coming to unemployment, poverty, discrimination, police harassment and so on. These circumstances are infuriating enough in a consumer society where TV ads ceaselessly invite you to buy and publicly flaunt monetary success, the only success that it seemingly recognizes. What needs to be said is that these infuriating circumstances victimize male ethnic youths even more than their sisters. Certainly joblessness is high in the suburbs. Joblessness however is also often a specifically ethnic male youth joblessness. Young ethnic males also make up a disproportionate part of the prison population. And so, when I viewed banlieues youth taunting riot police in almost ritualized fashion, dancing up close, screaming, throwing stones and running away or standing in small groups watching hopeless efforts to extinguished fires, no I did not think 1st of Islam, or even multiculturalism. I thought of the Parisian working-class revolts of 1848 and of “The Miserables”. Guests on this program: Rachel Bloul School of Social Sciences ANU Producer: Sue Clark

The explanation i heard was that his virus is just a slow on set and he has a dormant version that may take 30 years to develop into full blown AIDS , at the present he may still have minute traces present in his system but only tests will tell and he is uncooperative.

Would these be cuttings or seeds ?

Earwigs are good as well , when working on orchards we would buy tubes of predator mites to eat the red mites (two spotted mites ?) then put them out and hope they established , trouble is it was all for nothing if you had to spray. Can't remember who supplied the predator mites but i would check with an ergonomist that deals with fruit trees as they won't be hard to get.

Just thought I'd point out the new series is on Monday nights on SBS . Quite possibly the funiest TV show on at the moment IMO. :D

Hunts become hunted in Byron Bay Mark Buttler and Jane Metlikovec 01nov05 FOOTBALL and media identity Rex Hunt has vowed to use the courts to get even after being bashed by a gang of 15 teenage thugs. Bali safer than Byron, says Hunt Hunt and son Matthew were victims of a brutal anti-tourist street attack at Byron Bay on the New South Wales north coast. The gang told them visitors were not welcome, then attacked the pair in front of Hunt's wife, Lynne, and Matthew's girlfriend, Jodie Petrusov. The cut and bruised Hunt, a former policeman, said he was horrified to see members of the gang kicking Matthew's head as he lay on the ground. "I thought, they are going to kill my son. It was lethal kicks to the forehead," Hunt told the Herald Sun. "It was like animals on the nature channel on Foxtel." After jumping in to help his son, blows were rained on Hunt and his scalp was slashed with what he believes might have been a piece of glass. "It was a calculated, random attack. Everyone knew their part," he said. "The frightening thing is, the leader was 14." The Hunts and Ms Petrusov, in town for a wedding, had just left a hotel after a brief drink when they were approached by the group. Mrs Hunt said the group were not ferals, and launched Friday night's attack after being told they should be at home. "They were well-dressed, good-looking young boys. They said, `we don't like tourists'. "They kicked the living tripe out of Matthew. "He could have lost an eye. They could have broken his jaw. "They didn't know who Rex was. When they found out, they laughed." Renowned fisherman Hunt said he eyeballed one of the teens when the bashing was over. "I said, `I'll never forget you, Moptop'. "He said, `we asked you to leave nicely'." Hunt said he was grateful for the Fat Club diet and exercise program he went on with 3AW colleagues last year. "Had I not lost that 20kg, I would have been gone," he said. Hunt said police told him there was nothing they could do because of the offenders' age, and no complaint has been filed. Hunt said he would visit his solicitor on Wednesday to take legal action against the boys' parents. "Even if you live in a tent, I'll take your tent off you," Hunt said. "I want to do this for all the families being run out of this area. "You'd expect kids like that to be at home being supervised." Ms Petrusov said at least 15 youths armed with bottles and skateboards were involved. "I heard them say: `You tourists should f--- off'," Ms Petrusov said. "Then they said: `We'll show you what we do with tourists', and I turned around and saw Matt on the ground getting kicked in the head." Ms Petrusov said she panicked, took off her stilettos and ran to Matthew's side. "By then there were about 15 of them around him and Rex, and I just started hitting them as hard as I could with my shoe," she said. The bashings ended only when onlookers ran to help the pair. Ms Petrusov, a nurse, cleaned and bandaged a gash on Hunt's forehead and took Matthew, 28, to hospital. He has severe bruising to his back, bruises on his shoulder and a black eye. "The nurses at the hospital told me the bashings are happening all the time," she said. Matthew lost his diamond earring, necklace, and some money. "It is just disgusting," said Ms Petrusov, sporting bruising on her legs. "They are targeting tourists for the fun of it and it is so dangerous in Byron Bay right now." privacy terms © Herald and Weekly Times http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...255E661,00.html

Tonite SBS 10:00 pm , well worth the watch . Mockumentary about dance /rave culture.

Don't know why i did it , but i bought a half bottle of Southern on a whim. It's been along time since I've drank Southern so imagine my surprise when i read the bottle and it said : 30% alcohol and Made in Ireland Now i could swear it used to be the same alcohol content as the rest of the spirits , and it was made in the USA.

ABC Online Fungus threatens wild Wollemi pines. 04/11/2005. ABC News Online [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1498126.htm] Last Update: Friday, November 4, 2005. 4:17pm (AEDT) More than 290 Wollemi trees propagated from the original forest were recently sold for an average of $3,700 each at auction. (Reuters) Fungus threatens wild Wollemi pines A dangerous rot has been detected in 65-million-year-old Wollemi pines in the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales. Conservationists and scientists have been working for more than a decade to preserve the rare pines, the location of which is a closely-guarded secret. Dr Tony Fleming, head of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in New South Wales, says rangers have discovered a fungal infection within the pine forest. "We identified what looked like a potential fungal infection of one of the trees," Dr Fleming said. "We took a series of samples of soil and vegetation material, and from one of those samples we've identified the root rot fungus - phytophthora cinnamomi." Dr Fleming says the fungus can be very serious. "Phytophthora is the micro-organism that's implicated in eucalypt die back in Western Australia and other die backs that occur around the place," he said. "It can be fatal to plants. "Fortunately in this case, we think we've identified it early, so we can take some steps to try and contain its spread within the site and try and do some treatments to contain it within the tree that seems to be affected." Dr Fleming and his team are not 100 per cent sure how the rot was introduced to the forest, which is in the Blue Mountains several hundred kilometres west of Sydney. Dr Fleming says it could have been carried into the park through watercourses further up the catchment. He says it might also have been tracked in by people who should not have been there. "I can't believe it would be deliberate. Surely no one would do that," he said. "It's much more likely that it's just through ignorance of what they were doing." The small patch of pines is so precious that park rangers take extreme hygiene precautions when they enter the forest. "We've tried to maintain a veil of secrecy over where these plants are, because of the risk of this sort of thing happening," he said. "But we do know from evidence at the site and from one or two articles that have been published over the years that some people are aware of where the site is." Auction The discovery of the fungus comes shortly after 292 trees propagated from the original forest were sold for an average of $3,700 each at auction. The pines were sold by Wollemi Pine International, which is a company set up to protect the trees' future. The company's Sally McGeoch says the rot justified the strategy of commercialising the pines as an "insurance policy" against the wild trees dying. "The auction obviously created a lot of interest, but there has been a lot of interest for the 11 years or so since it was discovered," she said. "That's obviously why it was so important to propagate these trees and make them available, so as to minimise pressure on the wild population and people wanting to go and visit." Wollemi Pine International will sell off a second lot of smaller pines in April of next year. © 2005 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Copyright information: http://abc.net.au/common/copyrigh.htm Privacy information: http://abc.net.au/privacy.htm

Ok so now I'm comfortable with the idea that even though i believe evolution to be the truth there is room for a creator. I also believe all faiths to be true (as all roads lead to Rome) it seems to me that all faiths are equally as right as they are wrong as neither side can be proved . Islam , Hindu , Buddhism ,Christianity , fire starting shamanism , Peyote church , Scientology etc.... all equally right , all equally wrong , depending on situation you find your self in. What is important to me is religious tolerance , no one should be persecuted for their beliefs , no matter how wacky they may appear. I also feel the respect of others beliefs is equally important , for if we don't respect the choices others have made then we are no better than the missionaries of last century trying to convert the native peoples of their indigenous beliefs.

I have always considered evolution to be the most logical explanation for life. Recently while debating Intelligent design V evolution with a local christian pastor , i admitted to being a spiritual person. He then went on to point out the paradox i was in as on one hand i believe there is a spiritual part of my life and on the other hand i consider science to be the truth , with no room for spiritual ideas. This confused me. Piage set out the stages of intellectual development in children, and in the final stage a sign of adult thought patterns was to be able to accept two conflicting ideas as being true and correct. So am i right to accept the paradox , as Piage says' i should and not worry about it or should i make a decision to make up my mind as to what is true ?

From my experiences working with plants on a large scale , it is like 'organic factory work' if you don't think that's for you stay way from wholesale type operations as it is not as romantic as it may seem from the outside. My advice would be to stay at school and head down the academic path , we could use more sympathetic researchers in this area.

When i was at primary school , girls were the keepers of the rhymes. They used to stand facing each other and slap hands in an increasing elaborate way , while reciting these rhymes. Being a boy at the time i was not privvy to the rhymes but i'm sure i can remember some if i try.

I think Somalia as well ?

Monday to Friday at 5:55pm (6.55pm in WA) and Tuesday to Friday at 4:55am Print-friendly version Dr Jill Engelmann Friday 21 October 2005 Topic: The Good Oil Program Transcript Here’s a statistic to take your breath away. At least 155 million kids worldwide – about 10 percent of all children - suffer from being overweight or obese. Countries like the US lead the way with a staggering 30 percent suffering from overweight or obesity. We in Australia are not far behind. These aren’t just plump children who’ll grow into large adults. These are children who look forward to a future shaped by a set of symptoms the experts are calling metabolic syndrome – a combination of conditions like diabetes, raised cholesterol and high blood pressure being found more and more to effect adults who suffered childhood obesity. Prevailing thinking has us reducing consumption of all fats, particularly those saturated fats derived from animal sources. This belief, the ‘lipid hypothesis’ is based on a theory put forward in the late 1950s by Ancel Keys. Researchers have spent the last fifty or so years disputing his findings and creating their own theses. One group, however, was never confused. Vegetable oil and food processing industries immediately saw profit in the ‘lipid hypothesis’, and set about demonizing traditional, and in many cases natural foods, in favour of their heavily processed products. Lets go back a little, before Dr Keys came up with his theory, and lets go to the US for some stats. Before 1920 coronary heart disease was rare and most people were slim. During the next forty years the incidence of heart disease soared. Now heart disease causes at least 40 percent of all U.S. deaths. As we already know, the incidence of obesity has skyrocketed. From approximately that same period, 1920, to 1970 and at the same time as highly processed vegetable fats were successfully promoted as healthful, the proportion of traditional fats in the American diet fell from 82 percent to 62 percent. Butter consumption fell from 18 lbs per person per year, to 4 lbs per year. While saturated fat consumption fell, the percentage of vegetable oils as margarine, shortening and refined oils, denatured and chemicalized, increased about 400 percent. Consumption of sugar and processed food increased about 60 percent. Who’s the villain in this story. Animal fats? Or is the villain hydrogenated oils and processed foods? Remember when pasteurization of milk was first established as necessary to good health? Did you know heat alters milk’s amino acids, locking away the proteins that make milk so healthful? Heat application allows the unsaturated fatty acids to become rancid over a shorter period. Heat destroys vitamins. And to complete the process of destruction, heat also destroys all enzymes in milk - the enzymes needed to help the body assimilate calcium. And, by the way, that’s how pasteurized milk helps you gain weight. It’s certainly difficult to believe the good news food they’ve being feeding us for the last fifty years might actually be killing us. It’s already common knowledge that natural foods can work miracles with ADHD children. If natural foods are so beneficial, would they benefit the obese elderly? A recent and simple study was developed to find out. 25 very overweight or obese adults, most in their 60’s, were documented over a 17 week period. All participants began with a full medical check up. Health problems included diabetes, depression, high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides, urinary tract infections, fibromyalgia and gout. All gave up processed foods. Instead they ate fresh natural foods including ‘unhealthy’ butter and raw milk. The test subjects took cod liver oil and magnesium and a dessertspoon of organic coconut oil before each meal. They also engaged in moderate exercise. So what did happen to these 25 elderly people at the end of their 17 weeks as guinea-pigs. Again, they were given a full medical check up. Weight loss ranged from several kg to 18 kg. Most were able to discontinue all drugs. Notably, dangerous triglycerides had normalized, something no other eating plan had been able to achieve. It’s not rocket science – but it works. Fresh nutrient dense foods and moderate exercise can change lives. It means we can stop this obesity epidemic now.

I live in a tourist town , the saying is "your not a local until you've got a relative in the cemetery" I wonder how many of these kids have relatives in the cemetery ? This just smacks of elitism , Byron bay is becoming the play ground of the rich , with little regard to the vibe that made it so special to those that experienced it for what it was. The kids were bored skaters from what i can read into the article , maybe Byron has to turn into a mainstream town so it can deal with its' mainstream issues ? NB: For what it's worth i don't read the Hearald Sun , it was my brother that brought the article to my attention. I agree with Torsten , the Hearald Sun is basically tabloid media based on sensationalism so read it with an open mind until you find your own account of the facts.

Were in the process of bring workers out here from South Africa and the UK as there is a shortage out where we live. We use this department and up until now they have been very helpful and easy to deal with.If you are looking to make the move you are on the right track.

Yes, he was wrong in what he did. Did he know it was a death sentence if caught with over 15gs' of heroin in Singapore ? I would not be surprised if he was ignorant to that fact . Possibly that is why he was sent via there (you notice i wrote sent , as i believe he was doing under the direction of others) in the first place , who would be brave enough test it out ? Should he die for his crime ? As despicable as Heroin is , no he should not die. But watch this space as it's only just warming up , there's still nine young Australians in Indonesia awaiting a similar fate.

Put your clock forward one hour. :saufen2:

I drink a 600ml banana smoothy every morning and call it breakfeast , i use the full cream milk too They were there , they were just called naughty boys.

T after reading your site , what year was the clean up of :

I carry Artemether tablets when in the tropics. Call me a cynic but pharmamcutical companies put the fear of god into us and say we need to take Doxycyline (SP?) or Larium (SP?) when anywhere near the tropics. I won't take Larium as I'm mad enough with them and my experiences with Doxycyxline has been less thn pleasent , (photosensative skin in the tropics is no fun at all). So my solution , avoid the mosquito at dawn and dusk and if you do get malaria treat it with Artemether and try to get home ASAP. This approach works fine for me in PNG and the Asia Pacific region , but ulimatly the choice is yours to make. Nomeclature: Offiial name(Chinese Phonetic): Haojiami pian English: Artemether Tablets. The drug is mainly composed of Artemether. The chemical name is (3R,5aS,6R,8aS,9R,10S,12R,12aR)-decahydro-10-methoxy3,6,9-trimethyl-3,12-epoxy-12H-pyronal [4,3-j]-1,2-ben-zodioxepin. Molecular Formula: C 16 H 26 O 5 Molecular Weight:298.4 Description: White tablets. PHARAMCOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY: Animal pharmacodynamics showed that the drug is a strong schizonticide. Parasitemia clearance occurs rapidly with stable efficacy after adimistration. It is also effective against chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum malaria. Acute toxicity studies on animals showed that a LD50 of Artimether in mice of a single i.g. vadimistration is 895mg/kg ; in rats , the LD50 of a single i.m. injection is 597mg/kg.This proves the toxicity of Artemether is quite low. PHARMOKINETICS: The drug is absorbed rapidly and completely after oral administration with the plasma half-life of about 13 hours.It is widely distributed in the body with the highest level in the brain and followed by the liver and kidney.It is mainly excreted in the feces with a part in urine. INDICATIONS: Antimalarial drug. For the treatment of all kinds of malaria including chloroquinine-resistant P. falciparum and Plasmodium viax malaria. USAGE AND DOSAGE: The drug is for oral administration. Once daily for 5 consecutive days. The initial dose for adults is 200mg(4 tablets) , followed by 100my (2 tablets) each time from the second to the fifth day. The dose for children or overweight patients should be decreased or increased on the basis of individual weight or under the docotrs perscription. ADVERSE REACTIONS: Clinical dosage exhibits slight adverse reactions.A transient low fever and reticulocytopenia may occur in individual cases. Slight rise of SGOT and SGPT may occur in individual cases. Arrhythimia may occur in rare cases (such as ventricular tachycardia) CONTRADICTIONS: No PRECAUTIONS: The drug shuold be used with caution in patients vomiting severly; For the first aid of critical malaria, Artemether Injection preferred. PREGANCY AND LACTATION: It should be used with caution in the first trimester of pregnancy since some foetus absorbtion has been observed. DRUG INTERACTIONS: Studies and reviews in the litriture demonstrated that the active substance of Artimether had no interactions with other drugs on decreasing theraputic effects and increasing toxicity and side effects in human bodies. OVERDOSE: Although no case of overdose has been documented , in case of accident , symptomatic treatment is recomended under the instruction of doctors. RATIFICATION NO: (97)WYZZ X-102(2) This information has been taken from the box i have here and in no way should be relied apon with out getting your own advice. : )