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The themes/skins differ vastly, I cannot find a "red" (my trade mark) suitable to date. Just bare with the move, all will be sorted.
Cheers - Durbs
LINK TO NEW BLOG
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Funeral Aust Idol - Levi Kereama
Hundreds at funeral of Australian Idol star Levi Kereama
By Anna Caldwell October 09, 2008 01:49pm
HUNDREDS of friends, relatives and fans have turned out today for the funeral of Australian Idol star Levi Kereama.
Family members including Kereama's brothers and sisters spoke at the funeral at Karawatha in Logan City, Queensland, and fellow Idol star Guy Sebastian wiped away tears as he sang Amazing Grace in tribute to his friend.
Sebastian told mourners of the good times he shared with Levi, and how the talented singer was his closest friend on Australian Idol.
An invitation to the funeral urged those "whose lives Levi touched in anyway, to help celebrate his life".
The singer's body was found outside a Brisbane high rise at the weekend.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Risking Our Kids
Risking Our Kids
8:30pm Tuesday, 07 Oct 2008 Documentary
This "Risking Our Kids" on the ABC tonight is a very interesting program. Professor Fiona Stanley (a WA woman and first trained in medicine) IMO is a must see. What I like about the program, the focus was not just on "white" kids, but included "aboriginal" kids also. Stanley says, the difference between both in urban and non-urban should not be a problem.
Anyway I'll put a link up, across the gamut, social, medical, educational and good old parenting now by a younger generation of parents with young ones. I actually respect and admire this Prof Stanley for her ability non medical (although from that profession) to possess such great insight IMO. She was a parent herself and busy in medicine in the past.
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"Risking Our Kids
8:30pm Tuesday, 07 Oct 2008 Documentary CC G High Definition
Risking Our Kids marks the beginning of ABC's new Future Makers series of documentaries.
Increasing childhood rates of diabetes, respiratory disease, behavioural disorders, obesity - and one in four children with mental health problems - lead former Australian of the Year, Fiona Stanley to warn that the next generation of Australians could have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
But this is 2008. Australia is awash with cash. Shouldn't our children be the healthiest kids in history? Child health expert, Professor Fiona Stanley believes they are not.
Following Fiona Stanley and her team of scientists from their cutting edge laboratories to remote Aboriginal communities and into increasingly wealthy but unhealthy homes around Australia this film builds the case for what is being called the "the modernity paradox". Can it be that our contemporary western lifestyle is delivering a toxic physical and social environment in which children are growing up sick?
After a lifetime of ground-breaking scientific study into the condition of the nation's children, Fiona Stanley passionately and eloquently explores the alarming, measurable health effects of the way we now bring up children. These are not problems without solutions, but, she says, effective action needs political and community will right now."
LINK
I hope many Aussie viewers here caught the program, runs for 1 hour. (Well here in the Eastern States)
This "Risking Our Kids" on the ABC tonight is a very interesting program. Professor Fiona Stanley (a WA woman and first trained in medicine) IMO is a must see. What I like about the program, the focus was not just on "white" kids, but included "aboriginal" kids also. Stanley says, the difference between both in urban and non-urban should not be a problem.
Anyway I'll put a link up, across the gamut, social, medical, educational and good old parenting now by a younger generation of parents with young ones. I actually respect and admire this Prof Stanley for her ability non medical (although from that profession) to possess such great insight IMO. She was a parent herself and busy in medicine in the past.
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"Risking Our Kids
8:30pm Tuesday, 07 Oct 2008 Documentary CC G High Definition
Risking Our Kids marks the beginning of ABC's new Future Makers series of documentaries.
Increasing childhood rates of diabetes, respiratory disease, behavioural disorders, obesity - and one in four children with mental health problems - lead former Australian of the Year, Fiona Stanley to warn that the next generation of Australians could have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
But this is 2008. Australia is awash with cash. Shouldn't our children be the healthiest kids in history? Child health expert, Professor Fiona Stanley believes they are not.
Following Fiona Stanley and her team of scientists from their cutting edge laboratories to remote Aboriginal communities and into increasingly wealthy but unhealthy homes around Australia this film builds the case for what is being called the "the modernity paradox". Can it be that our contemporary western lifestyle is delivering a toxic physical and social environment in which children are growing up sick?
After a lifetime of ground-breaking scientific study into the condition of the nation's children, Fiona Stanley passionately and eloquently explores the alarming, measurable health effects of the way we now bring up children. These are not problems without solutions, but, she says, effective action needs political and community will right now."
LINK
I hope many Aussie viewers here caught the program, runs for 1 hour. (Well here in the Eastern States)
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Bali Bombers 'To Die by End of Year'
THE three Islamic militants on death row over the 2002 Bali bombings will be executed by the end of the year, a report said today.
No final date has been set for the execution but prosecutors have received key paperwork allowing it to go ahead, attorney general's office spokesman Jasman Panjaitan was quoted as saying by news website Detikcom.
Jemaah Islamiyah militants Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra face a firing squad over the nightclub attacks on the resort island of Bali which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
"It's not in writing yet when they will be executed, but what is certain is that it will be this year,'' Mr Panjaitan said.
Prosecutors had earlier put plans to execute the bombers before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan - which ended this week - on hold, citing bureaucratic delays.
The bombers on Wednesday promised ``retribution'' if they are executed.
"The people who will execute us, if they do this execution they will be cursed by God,'' bomber Mukhlas said at the island prison off southern Java where they are being held.
"If the execution is carried out, that will constitute the biggest criminal act because they will be killing holy warriors.''
LINK
The Bali Bombers do not need death, they need to be locked up rotting away in some cell FFS. And why has it taken authorities so long to put these dickheads under the firing line? I'm sure for some of the victim's families, this could not come soon enough.
The victim's families grieve forever while the bombers have big grins.
No final date has been set for the execution but prosecutors have received key paperwork allowing it to go ahead, attorney general's office spokesman Jasman Panjaitan was quoted as saying by news website Detikcom.
Jemaah Islamiyah militants Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra face a firing squad over the nightclub attacks on the resort island of Bali which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
"It's not in writing yet when they will be executed, but what is certain is that it will be this year,'' Mr Panjaitan said.
Prosecutors had earlier put plans to execute the bombers before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan - which ended this week - on hold, citing bureaucratic delays.
The bombers on Wednesday promised ``retribution'' if they are executed.
"The people who will execute us, if they do this execution they will be cursed by God,'' bomber Mukhlas said at the island prison off southern Java where they are being held.
"If the execution is carried out, that will constitute the biggest criminal act because they will be killing holy warriors.''
LINK
The Bali Bombers do not need death, they need to be locked up rotting away in some cell FFS. And why has it taken authorities so long to put these dickheads under the firing line? I'm sure for some of the victim's families, this could not come soon enough.
The victim's families grieve forever while the bombers have big grins.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
US Senate Approves $700 bln Financial Bailout
By Daniel Trotta and Richard Cowan
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry late on Wednesday that political and financial leaders called crucial to averting economic catastrophe.
The bill is aimed at reinvigorating worldwide credit markets and interbank lending that had frozen up while overleveraged financial institutions staggered under the weight of failed mortgages.
Amid warnings that failure to act could plunge the country into a depression, the Senate voted 74 to 25 in favor, sending the measure to the House of Representatives, probably for a vote on Friday.
However, the Senate vote failed to energize markets in Asia, with stocks lower on Thursday morning and Treasuries up as investors grew increasingly worried that recession looms and pressure built on central banks for an interest rate cut. The dollar gave up early gains.
"The plan will improve the financial position of the banking system but will not stop a recession," Dariusz Kowalczyk, chief investment strategist at CFC Seymour in Hong Kong, wrote in a note. "We expect a short-term bounce for stocks and commodities but as global recession takes hold, both will see new lows. Treasuries and the dollar should fall on rising fiscal deficit."
Attention now shifts to the House, which had rejected a similar measure on Monday, sending global markets into a tailspin. In response, congressional leaders added two sweeteners to the bill -- a tax cut and extended federal protection for bank deposits -- that could turn "no" voters into supporters.
U.S. President George W. Bush praised Senate passage of the package and urged the House to quickly do the same.
"With the improvements the Senate has made, I believe members of both parties in the House can support this legislation," Bush said in a written statement. "The bill the Senate passed is essential to the financial security of every American," he said. NB> to continue, click link below.
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My personal prediction was that this Republican (US) bailout, would basically, out of financial necessity for the United States, need to be passed through the Congress to essentially alleviate a total blowout of the credit and share markets. The time span and due deliberation passing the bill already was having the "ripple" effect on our country Australia.
I had posted some of my comments at another forum, but a couple of posters (maybe with small share investments) said it would never go through and it was a whole joke. Ha, life moves on! It's still my view that for the Republicans (Mc Cain et al) ever to be re-elected, without this bill's legislation the right side of American politics would be hard up being re-elected.
THE HOUSE OF REPS STILL NEED TO PASS THIS BILL.
Further it also caused interesting remarks from both Kevin Rudd (Aus Prime Minister) and Malcolm Turnbull, the newly voted in Liberal Coalition leader.
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