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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think Somalia as well ?

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.

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

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.

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 :

Put your clock forward one hour. :saufen2:

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. : )

LMAO , and exactly how did you stumble across that one Rimbaud ?

ABC Online [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1492423.htm] PM - Thursday, 27 October , 2005 18:49:09 Reporter: Tim Jeanes MARK COLVIN: Hemp is used to make clothes, paper and environmentally-friendly plastics, but is Australia ready to accept the hemp plant as a food? That's one of the issues as Australian and New Zealand Food Standards ministers meet in Sydney tomorrow. The last time the issue was considered, the politicians felt that legalising hemp as a food would send a confusing message about drugs. Tim Jeanes reports. BRANDT TEALE: So I'm just going to put a little teaspoon of hemp oil in with the hot milk, give it a bit of a stir… (sound of teaspoon hitting cup) TIM JEANES: Tasmanian Brandt Teale reckons his Hempuccino is a healthy alternative to the traditional cappuccino. But there's just one problem. BRANDT TEALE: Yummy Hempuccino, I've just got to tip it down the sink now. TIM JEANES: The problem is the Hempuccinno contains hemp oil, which is illegal as a foodstuff. Mr Teale is the Managing Director of the Tasmanian Hemp Co-op, which is among groups lobbying for change at tomorrow's Australia New Zealand Food Standards meeting. He says hemp's properties as a food, including its high levels of Omega-3, means Australian consumers are being denied. BRANDT TEALE: You can go into the supermarkets throughout the UK, throughout America even – the land of zero tolerance – and buy hemp food bars, hemp nuts, hemp ice creams, hemp drinks. It's really quite widely used and Australia's lagging behind. TIM JEANES: In 2002, ministers at the Food Standards meeting rejected hemp as a foodstuff, saying its approval could send a confused message about the acceptability of cannabis, one form of hemp. Mr Teale says the argument defies logic, given 90 per cent of hemp has no drug qualities. He says it will satisfy your munchies, not give you the munchies. BRANDT TEALE: You would have to roll up a joint the size of a telegraph pole and inhale it in one breath and get a headache. It is literally a non-drug crop. TIM JEANES: A similar point is made by Phil Warner, the Managing Director of Queensland-based Ecofibre Industries. He says Australia, particularly regional Australia, is missing out on a valuable new industry. PHIL WARNER: We are not a drug lobby organisation. Now we're not talking about marijuana leaves in salads here, we're talking about a hemp seed product, where an agricultural group that is interested in building infrastructure in Australia for value adding and creating jobs and employment out west. Simple as that. TIM JEANES: Mr Warner says he's increasingly frustrated at the attitude of various government departments. PHIL WARNER: It's really the spin-doctors within these Government departments and for the various ministers who sort of say, "Ooh look, this is a bit touchy, we might be seen to be doing something wrong here." When in reality, 90 per cent of the public know that there is a big difference between industrial hemp and marijuana. TIM JEANES: A Federal Government spokesman this afternoon said the Commonwealth hasn't changed its stance on the issue, but that doesn't mean the change won't be made, as the vote includes state and New Zealand ministers. One state that is highly supportive of the move is Tasmania, which has a climate ideal for growing high quality hemp for food. The State's Health Minister David Llewellyn says he's confident there'll eventually be acceptance of the product. DAVID LLEWELLYN: It's a matter of perception of the word "hemp". What I need to be able to convince ministerial colleagues is that this isn't the drug marijuana, it is a distinct product that is not dangerous, that has a very valuable use and we ought to be able to use it. MARK COLVIN: Tasmanian Health Minister David Llewellyn, ending that report from Tim Jeanes. Interesting isn't it? Historically, hemp had a major military or naval use, because it was used to make ropes for the ships, which the British navy brought the settlers here and the convicts, and so it may well have been one of our very earliest introduced species. © 2005 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Copyright information: http://abc.net.au/common/copyrigh.htm Privacy information: http://abc.net.au/privacy.htm

Inteligent design in my opinion is just a product to get around the seperation of religion and state in the US . As religeon can't be taught in public schools they have found away around this by dressing creationism up as science , and trying to inroduce the concept by stealth. Having said that, it was not my intent to flog a dead horse , i was more interested in discussing the idea of accepting two conflicting ideas as both being correct and true. Can a truely scientific approach to thinking accept spirituality and be comfortable with it ?

Don't get me wrong he's not my pastor , it was a discussion we had over a dinner we were both at. So apo i would be right in saying you have no problem in entertaining two conflicting ideas at the same time ?

Wednesday Oct 26 19:55 AEST Researchers have developed an organic pesticide that can control deadly locust swarms in Africa, reducing the need to use traditional insecticides that harm the environment, a senior scientist said. Last year West Africa's worst locust infestation for more than a decade wreaked havoc and worsened food shortages in some of the world's poorest nations, causing major damage to grain crops across a region where many are subsistence farmers. Such swarms could now be prevented from forming by spraying juvenile locusts with a scent, or pheromone, taken from adults, scientist Christian Borgemeister told Reuters in an interview, citing tests carried out in Sudan "with very promising results". Spraying breaks up the groups, or bands, young locusts live in and exposes them to predators, said Borgemeister, director general of the non-profit International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), based in Kenya. "It destroys the bands. The insects are highly stressed. They suffer high natural mortality and fall victim to many natural enemies like birds," he said. Borgemeister said the pheromone was environmentally friendly and cheap to develop, and its use alongside other, more expensive insecticides could reduce the amount of those insecticides used in efforts to kill locusts. The organic pesticide can also be used on its own, he said. The major element in the pheromone was phenylacetonitrile (PAN), he said. "The beauty of a combination of PAN and conventional insecticide is that you reduce the concentration of the insecticide more than four-fold," Borgemeister said. "Traditionally in outbreak situations of locusts, they are controlled by insecticides. Insecticides are hazardous to the environment ... cause mortality not only in locusts but other insects," Borgemeister said. His organisation is testing the pesticide with support from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the US Agency for International Development and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Borgemeister said the pesticide had been registered for testing in Sudan and he planned to do more extensive trials that could enable it to be authorised for use in about a year's time. "We hope that in a year from now we will be able to provide PAN (for public use) and to recommend PAN in combination with either a soft dose of insecticide or a significant reduced dose of Green Muscle fungus (a biopesticide) for locust control," Borgemeister said. ICIPE plans to commission a company to manufacture the pesticide when it is approved for public use. "We're developing something, and then we are handing it over as a public good," Borgemeister said. Part of ICIPE's research is to explore any possible side effects of the pheromone on other organisms. Borgemeister said these would be minimal. "We believe as scientists, since this is a pheromone, the chances that this will have detrimental side effects on other organisms are close to nil," Borgemeister said. ©AAP 2005