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We are trying to deploy a self contained touch screen kiosk running Windows 7 and through much headache and hours of tweaking were able to lock it down rather well. The only remaining issue we are facing are the current usability issues with the On-Screen Keyboard popup.
We cannot permanently keep the keyboard displayed on the screen as the user could just close it and they have no way of opening it again. We configured it so that when the input field gets focus this tiny, barely noticeable blue bar appears on the left center of the screen. Only when you touch this bar does it pull out slightly to where it reveals what looks like the end of a keyboard.
The problem is that our users, to be as polite as possible, are technically challenged, so they will have no idea what that little blue bar means and will likely not notice it. The little pull out image of the right side of a keyboard is far and away better and I was hoping we could default when an input box gets focus for this to be shown instead.
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Morning Shots: Don't Laugh At People Who Really Care About Oscar Campaigns
We'll kick off this morning with a couple of items about Oscar campaigning. Deadline has this roundup of the "final stretch" of each campaign, confirming that even though most of the ten Best Picture nominees have no real chance of winning, they're determined to stay in the hunt until the end.
Meanwhile, Movieline looks at the grand tradition of awards prognostication, topping off its piece with the quite understandable headline, "Oscar Index: Okay, Everyone, Just Freaking Calm Down About The King's Speech."
The Smithsonian continues to acquire items of pop-culture significance, and this week, it was Farrah Fawcett's red swimsuit from her iconic late-'70s poster.
Fans of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert may be happy to know that both their Comedy Central shows have returned to Hulu, almost a year after they vanished from the site. There are also episodes of Jersey Shore (WHAT A RELIEF, not really), but only if you have Hulu Plus. New ones will apparently show up 21 days after their airdate. (Frankly, I'm most interested in news that they may have some old episodes of Viacom shows including The Real World. If you go back to the seasons when that show was interesting, I would watch the heck out of it.)
Also from the online streaming content world, Amazon is apparently circling Netflix and preparing to launch some sort of streaming-movie service — though it looks like they have no intention of shelling out the bucks Netflix does to stream fairly current movies, meaning it may be largely a service for watching older stuff.
"Avoid movies with big red fonts on their posters" is a cute idea currently circulating with a cute graphic, even though it's pretty easy to disprove it as a solid rule.
And finally: I am 100 percent on board with the observation made in this post that sprawling movies like Valentine's Day and the upcoming New Year's Eve are completely ruining Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon.
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A Summer of More School — and Growing Up
ISAAC: After driving across the country for days, I finally arrived home and pulled into the driveway.
No, not the home I grew up in in the San Francisco Bay area, but a shabby house in southeast Portland, Ore., that I was subletting with friends.
In the weeks before the winter semester ended, I had made a flash decision: I would disregard a well-paying job in the Bay area and instead take classes in Portland.
I tend to be a fairly prudent decision maker, but this was an exception. Going home and getting a job would have clearly been the rational choice; I would have padded my bank account, gained real-life experience and caught up with friends and family.
But as I walked into the house that day, I felt like I had made the right choice.
STEVE: "If I took classes this summer, could you help pay for it?"
That email from Isaac was the first hint of what he planned for summer break, and it took me by surprise.
"It depends," I responded, and I thought to myself: What is wrong with my son?
For one thing, Isaac had spent an intense year as a freshman in college. He'd taken a heavy class load, signing on for some of the toughest professors in courses like constitutional law and political philosophy, while holding down several campus jobs.
I'd expected him to take a much-deserved break from academia -- a summer to relax his brain a little, do something fun, snag an internship or maybe put some sweat into good old-fashioned manual labor. Was it really a good idea to study even more?
Another thing: I'd secretly hoped he would decide to spend part of the summer at home -- maybe even find a job here.
At home, Isaac could have saved thousands of dollars. More important, he could have reconnected with his brothers -- and perhaps even reconnected with his parents. Don't all parents just want their kid back? Plus, I could have worked on his Saab.
"It depends," I wrote when he asked again. "What will it cost and will your credits transfer back?" I didn't ask if it meant he wouldn't be coming home.
"He wants to do what?" asked a friend, incredulous that Isaac would choose to study still more after his freshman year. Her college-age daughter planned to come home for the summer to work. I felt a surge of envy.
ISAAC: College years are a transition period in the relationship between a child and parents; I'm caught in the gray area between childhood and adulthood. I live on my own, controlling nearly every aspect of my life, yet I'm still dependent on them for support.
During this period, I think it's important to try to deliberately separate yourself from childhood routines. Living on your own and being responsible for food, transportation and paying your bills -- not to mention experiencing the new culture of a different region of the country -- can be an effective part of this. It also makes it less likely you'll end up in your parents' house after graduation.
Frankly, it's one of the reasons I chose to go to college far from my home. There are plenty of great colleges in California, but I felt an urge to tear myself away from my geographic comfort zone and live away from family, old memories and familiar culture. So far, that decision has paid off in personal growth.
Yet every time I checked the shrinking number on my bank statement this summer while in Portland, or received a text message from an old high-school friend, I couldn't help but think: Am I taking self-reliance too far? I learned plenty in my classes, had fun exploring the neighborhoods of Portland and, for the most part, avoided being dependent on my parents. But the benefits of going home might have eclipsed these intangibles.
Still, I believe I made the right decision. Childhood was my parents' opportunity to have their influence, something that is inseparable from who I am. But the earlier I can move on from that stage of my life, the better. Breaking my dependence on them (at least partly) can only make it easier to develop as the individual I'm bound to become.
STEVE: "You should be proud of him," my friend, of whom I was envious, went on. "He'll come home again sometime."
And I was proud. Sure, I'd love to have Isaac at home. But, as Karen reminded me, I'd never moved home again for a summer after starting college. There were too many other options in life; college summers offered options to do exciting, daring and sometimes stupid things.
It gives a father pleasure when his son follows in his footsteps. It gives him even more pleasure when a son does something the father never could have, and I never could have studied all summer in my teens.
If Isaac is passionate about studying, then why not encourage him to spend the summer studying? He could do worse than spending the summer in one of the hippest cities in the U.S. studying.
In the end, Karen and I agreed to pay for Isaac's summer tuition if he paid room and board.
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|Sugar free tamarind flavored drink mix powder
|7 3⁄4 Ounce (2 Packages Of 0.26 Ounce Each, Such As Tamarindo, Divided)
|Brown sugar
|7 Tablespoon, divided
|1 Teaspoon
|Garlic powder
|2 Teaspoon
|Black pepper
|1 Teaspoon
|Crushed red pepper
|3⁄4 Teaspoon
|Cornish hens
|40 Ounce, thawed, split in half lengthwise (2 Of 20 Ounce Each)
|Sauvignon blanc
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (Redwook Creek)
|Soy sauce
|1 Tablespoon
|Chili garlic paste
|1 1⁄4 Teaspoon (Asian Type)
|Grated ginger root
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon (Divided)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
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|White sugar
|1 Tablespoon
|Olive oil
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|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs) (For Brushing)
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|Shredded carrots
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1.In a small bowl mix one (0.26-ounce) package tamarind-flavored drink mix powder with 1 tablespoon brown sugar, salt, garlic powder, black pepper and crushed red pepper for rub. Wash hens and wipe dry with paper towels. Rub hens with mixture, applying over and under the skin, and then place hens in a plastic storage bag. Let chill and marinade up to 3 hours.
2. Prepare glaze: in a small saucepan, mix second package (0.26-ounce) tamarind-flavored drink mix powder with remaining 6 tablespoons brown sugar, wine, soy sauce, 1 teaspoon chili garlic paste and 1 teaspoon ginger root. Simmer slowly (uncovered) until mixture is very thick and has reduced to about 1/2 cup.
3. Prepare salad dressing: mix 1 1/2 teaspoons tamarind-flavored drink mix powder from third envelope, the remaining 1/4 teaspoon Asian chili garlic paste, the remaining 1/2 teaspoon ginger root, water, fish sauce, sugar and 1 tablespoon oil in a jar and chill.
4. Prepare salad: place spinach, carrots, mango and pecans on a serving platter and set aside.
5. Liberally apply oil to barbecue rack and turn on until hot. Drain Cornish hens and place skin side down on hot grill. Turn heat down and grill Cornish hens until nice grill marks appear on one side, then flip. Grill for a total of 30-40 minutes on both sides or until meat thermometer registers at 160° F. Bring tamarind glaze to a simmer and brush hens on all sides with it. Turn off fire. Let hens rest.
6. To assemble: drizzle salad with dressing on serving platter. Place hens on top and drizzle with any remaining wine glaze. Serve warm.
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Lymam's 2011 Homecoming week kicks off Monday, October 3 with the crowning of the King and Queen during the coronation at the Lyman gym at 5 PM. The newly crowned king and queen will bless the volleyball to be used in Monday's night match against Kadoka and also the football for Friday night's game against Philip. The dress-up day schedule is as follows; Monday – Disney Day Tuesday – Patterns Wednesday - Back in the Day Thursday – Class Colors Friday – School colors Tuesday will feature the girls powder puff football game at 6 PM followed by the boys volleyball match at 7:30 at the gym. Thursday an all-school pep rally will be held at the Presho gym at 2:30 PM. Friday middle and high school students will work on class floats from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. The parade starts at 2 PM from the Methodist Church parking lot. The Raider football team will host the Philip Scotties at 7:00 PM, but come early as the Lyman Booster Club will host a Tailgate supper from 5:30 - 6:30. The burning of the letters will start 10 minutes after the end of the football game. The Booster club will host a high school dance at the Presho firehall. To conclude the week, Lyman Cross Country runners will compete at Philip on Saturday starting at 10 AM MT.
Lyman High School seniors selected as candidates for 2011 Homecoming King and Queen are l-r; Haley Vik, Hunter Schindler, Leah Herman, Evan Smith, Sarah Muirhead and Stetsen Eriksen. The coronation ceremony will be held Monday, Oct. 3rd at 5 PM at the Raider gym in Presho.
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- Presho's Sidewalk Project presented to public
- Lyman Alumni Reunion set for July 30
- New members seated on School Board
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Read the program transcript of Chris Masters' report on the legacy of Joh Bjelke-Peterson, 'Beyond Bethany'.
Reporter: Chris Masters
Date: 03/03/2008
CHRIS MASTERS: Over the years "Four Corners" has travelled to Bethany many times. While the visits have not always been friendly we have been received with courtesy and hospitality.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): Ive often told the media, I said you write or you print what you like, it doesnt matter down here. Because even if I do try to tell you the story you seem to misrepresent it.
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): I have been speaking about life as the wife of the Premier, some of the places that Ive been to ...
(Excerpt from conversation between Chris Master and Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen):
CHRIS MASTERS (to Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen): How are you Lady Flo?
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: Alright, thank you. How are you going yourself?
CHRIS MASTERS (to Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen): Not too bad. Im Chris.
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: Thank you Chris, thats nice to see you. Thats very nice ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: And now were back because questions still loom large. For example: if Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was corrupt, why did he die in such poor financial circumstance?
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: And thats why, you know, I couldnt imagine why the people wouldve thought that Joh was a rogue, that Joh was corrupt; which it was proved he wasnt.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, speaking to press): I am innocent and these people in here couldnt prove otherwise. Didnt I tell you I was innocent?
CHRIS MASTERS (to John Huey): Looking back now, do you consider that Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was corrupt?
JOHN HUEY, FITZGERALD INQUIRY INVESTIGATOR: Yes. Yes, I do.
CHRIS MASTERS: And if his government was so corrupt, why do people continue to claim it was Queenslands best?
CARL TRAD (vox pop): I myself have not seen a leader like Sir Joh. If he wanted to do something, he went ahead and did it.
JOAN MCCONACHIE (vox pop): We had no poker machines, we had hospitals, we had schools. Thats three things I can think of, and things were running pretty good in Queensland when Joh was in.
CHRIS MASTERS: Twenty years on after 20 years as Premier, the 20-20 view of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and his legacy.
RUSSELL GRENNING, HINZE PRESS SECRETARY: We provided entertainment - bread and circuses really. I had a lovely time til Mr Fitzgerald came along. The wheels fell off.
(Excerpt from archive footage of Joh Bjelke-Petersen questioned by reporter at airport):
REPORTER: Is there any chance of Joh ever losing?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: No, not if you support me (laughter). Hello Bob, hello Bob, hello Bob.
WOMAN WAVING: Bye bye Joh.
(Car pulls away)
WOMAN: He's marvellous ...
(End of excerpt)
(On screen text: "Beyond Bethany"; "Reporter: Chris Masters")
CHRIS MASTERS: The story of Joh Bjelke-Petersen essentially begins and ends at Bethany. The account of the polio-stricken son of a Danish Lutheran pastor, leaving school at 13, living for 15 years in a cow bail, battling to build his own fortune and leading his State from the wilderness, is part of Queensland legend.
SIR LEO HIELSCHER, HEAD QUEENSLAND TREASURY (1974-1988): You had to know him. He had to trust you. But once that trust and that knowledge of him was in place he was more or less like a like a Dutch uncle.
SIR LLEW EDWARDS, QUEENSLAND LIBERAL LEADER (1978-1983): He was a charming man in day-to-day operations. He was a gentleman.
CHRIS MASTERS: The same stamina born of the farm was applied to his political career. Elected in 1947 he worked at gaining favours from colleagues who voted him their new leader when Premier Jack Pizzey died in office in 1968.
KEN CROOKE, BJELKE-PETERSEN ADVISER: He had a motto and it was a simple one. It was: say what you think, then do what you say.
(Excerpts from exchanges between press and Sir Joh):
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): Well general information for the public generally ...
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): This again disgusts me very greatly from time to time, in the context of which it is levelled at these people ...
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): If you've got a trendy (phonetic) stuck around your neck, you've got a millstone that's pretty hard to survive with.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): He who laughs last, laughs best, or something like that ...
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): You need to come back to Queensland to get educated (laughter). You're a real southerner, a real, well, I'd better not say any more.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): No, no, no, dont worry about it ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: His capacity for regularly mangling the language belied a skilful communicator.
SIR LLEW EDWARDS, QUEENSLAND LIBERAL LEADER (1978-1983): It was unbelievable. He shook hands with every person he saw, not met.
BILL ROBERTS, FAMILY FRIEND: Joh had the common touch.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Bill Roberts): Did it change over the years?
BILL ROBERTS, FAMILY FRIEND: Not really.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Bill Roberts): He was still the same person in the 80s?
A: Yeah, he always took the teapot round.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, to press): Ive offered it to them a few times but of course each time and again last week they said, "No! Nobodys going to direct us what we're going to do, we're going to ..."
CHRIS MASTERS: Some of the artful feeding of the chooks was instinctive, some of it choreographed. A former chook turned Bjelke-Petersen media advisor, Allen Callaghan, was a pioneer of modern media management.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, to press): We have put it through our computers again and again by top people. People, very distinguished people. I wont give you their names because youll only torment them.
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY: He was a man who wasnt a polished speaker and remained in office for a record term. Then you had a polished orator like Whitlam who lasted three years, so oratorys not the be all and end all of being a politician.
(Excerpt from "Four Corners", 1974):
VOICEOVER: By plane its 30 minutes from Brisbane to Bjelke-Petersens cattle property of 600 hectares in the heart of Marlboro Country. Here its a health hazard to criticise their wealthiest squire.
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: The legend grew built it would seem on a partially rotting stump.
(Excerpt continued):
VOICEOVER: Today some say hes a millionaire. Certainly hes Australias richest Premier.
(End of excerpt)
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, speaking at function): I can still remember the main roads engineers later that day saying to me, "Florence, if he asks you to go out, you go, (laughter from the audience) because hes not married and hes got lots of money. (Laughter)
CHRIS MASTERS: The notion that Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a self-made millionaire with a commonsense approach to managing finance was not the complete truth.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen): So was he good at accounts?\
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: No, he didnt, he was very good at spending money, Ill tell you that. He'd buy aeroplanes and set them up and get the pilots and do all the organisation of it, but the, and the bills came in to us and we had to try and you know make sure everything was going alright.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, in cockpit): I sometimes refer to this plane as my flying office. It has taken me over 100,000 miles around Queensland in the last 12 months, visiting some hundred towns and cities.
CHRIS MASTERS: The move to politics withdrew the principal source of income - Joh himself.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen): So was he very wealthy?
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: No. Oh well, now he could, he was when he was running the bulldozers. But when he went in for the aerial spraying planes Im afraid any, lots of money that he mightve had went down the drain because out of all the years that he had them, for about 10 years, we had 16 crashes.
CHRIS MASTERS: One of the worst decisions he was to make concerned his own finances. Early in his period in Opposition Joh took a stand against the parliamentary superannuation scheme, proclaiming it a rort on the taxpayer.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Sir Llew Edwards): And he did he hold to that view?
SIR LLEW EDWARDS, QUEENSLAND LIBERAL LEADER (1978-1983): There was a suggestion made to me and I think to Sir Gordon Chalk that, would we as treasurers agree to it being backdated, and we didnt and he accepted that.
CHRIS MASTERS: In his earlier years as Premier, Queensland began to shed its Cinderella status. While the foundations for economic development had been constructed by predecessors, Bjelke-Petersen drove progress as he had done his bulldozer - with some help from his public service Treasury Chief, Leo Hielscher.
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): Joh wasnt that sophisticated and in a modern world, even at that time, you needed the Leo Hielschers. I think Sir Leo Hielscher is one of the unsung heroes of Queensland's economic development.
SIR LEO HIELSCHER, HEAD QUEENSLAND TREASURY (1974-1988): He was probably outstanding in his appreciation of what the objective was, where we had to be. And I say that in all sincerity because Im also going to say he didnt know very much about how to get there.
CHRIS MASTERS: Hielscher and his team worked on a formula to develop an electricity and rail network that would pay for itself.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archived footage): People are being taxed to the uttermost limits today...
CHRIS MASTERS: While others pushed back, Joh pushed forward, in 1976 honouring his pledge to abolish death duties - the rest of the nation following suit.
(Excerpt from television advertisement):
Music: South of the border, it gets worse each day. That's why hundreds a week make the break and move up our way ...
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Things are moving in Queensland. We've got lower taxes ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: And the people started to come.
(Excerpt from archive footage of Brisbane street):
VOICEOVER: Practically non-existent a few years ago, the motel is fast becoming a popular sight on Queensland's roads.
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: Concurrently tourism started to build, over time those state of the art Gold Coast motels reaching for the sky. And increasingly, flying above them was the inveterate aviator, Bjelke-Petersen.
BERYL YOUNG, BJELKE-PETERSEN PILOT (in cockpit, applauding as Sir Joh lands the plane): Thats a nine.
CHRIS MASTERS: Fellow ministers began to complain that spending so much time in the plane, his most influential advisor became his pilot, Beryl Young.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Beryl Young): Was that true?
BERYL YOUNG, BJELKE-PETERSEN PILOT: No, no. He doesnt really take advice (laughs). He takes on board your reaction to something that he might be planning. He might pass something past you to say, "What do you think of this?" But it wouldnt be advice.
(Excerpt from "This Day Tonight", 1970):
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: You might as well ask
REPORTER: Well could you silence your criticisers? Have you got any shares Mr Premier?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Well have I got any land? You could ask me also, have I got any Crown land that is held by the Crown ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: The blurring of probity, the line between public and private business, was a ghost that shadowed his entire career, in the early stages almost haunting him from office.
(Excerpt continued):
REPORTER: Im not trying to create any situation, Mr Premier...
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: No, no ...
REPORTER: Im asking you whether you maintain your attitude that what you did was right and proper and whether you will continue to hold shares in public companies?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: I havent done in this particular issue at all, as you jolly well know.
REPORTER: But you have held shares in companies that have had dealings with the public?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: If you are going to try and misconstrue it just for you own political propaganda youve got another thing coming.
RUSSELL GRENNING, HINZE PRESS SECRETARY: Mr Premier, thank you very much.
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS (to Sir Llew Edwards): Did he understand the concept of conflict of interest?
SIR LLEW EDWARDS, QUEENSLAND LIBERAL LEADER (1978-1983): I would be surprised if he understood it fully. I think that if it was good for Queensland then that was the predominant view.
(Excerpt from "Four Corners", 1977):
REPORTER: This company of which you hold 21,000 shares is tendering to your own government to supply coal.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Yes. Would you like to have a premier or a minister or a government that never owned anything, never did anything, never achieved anything? Is that the sort of person youd like to have?
(End of excerpt)
MIKE AHERN, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1987-1989): He was a fellow who had not a lot of formal education and so studies into the separation of power between the Parliament and the executive and the judiciary werent issues that hed studied very much at all. He knew how to do things.
(Excerpt from "Four Corners", 1974):
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: We set a course and once you set a course, once you say what you're going to do, you do it ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: Joh ran his State like a captain of a pirate ship. The standard he sailed under was his own.
In 1974 it was adjusted, the Country Party becoming the National Party and late that year scoring a record win, reducing Labor to a cricket team of 11.
The Nationals were not just challenging the relevance of Labor, but their own coalition partner, the Liberals. Joh was invading their heartland - principally Brisbane.
The Liberals were about as much a victim as Labor of the notorious gerrymander which made a vote for Joh worth twice the Labor vote and one and a half times the Liberal vote.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): You've got to have representation from all over Queensland ...
CHRIS MASTERS: Open dissent among some Liberals drew cries of disloyalty.
(Excerpt from "Four Corners", 1971):
REPORTER: How would you describe those rebels?
RUSS HINZE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER: I described them the other night, the way I believed that they, I thought they, my attitude to this type of thing, frankly I...
REPORTER: Will you tell us how you described them?
RUSS HINZE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER: I called them mongrels, bloody mongrels or something like that.
(End of excerpt)
WOMAN SINGING (at protest march, archive footage): We shall not be moved ...
CHRIS MASTERS: Johs hard line on other forms of dissent were even more divisive. In 1971 he declared a state of emergency to arrest anti-apartheid marchers. In 1976 he crushed student protests and in the following year banned street marches.
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): If I hadnt got arrested in the anti-Springbok marches I probably wouldnt have been that politicised to go into politics. Who knows?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (to police graduation, archive footage): I wish each of you well for the future and welcome you as the newest members of the Queensland police force.
CHRIS MASTERS: A useful ally in his politicisation of the police force was new Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, already a figure of scandal.
(Excerpt from archive footage, 1976):
REPORTER: Its been suggested that youve at some stage in your career been on the take, that youve been a bagman.
POLICE COMMISSIONER TERRY LEWIS: Well its certainly all foreign to me, the validity of this...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: In some quarters jaws dropped when former Inspector Lewis was jumped through the ranks with Johs endorsement.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Mike Ahern): So what was his biggest mistake?
MIKE AHERN, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1987-1989): Ive thought about that and Im pretty certain it was to do with the appointment of the rogue Commissioner for Police.
(Excerpt from police graduation ceremony, archive footage):
POLICE COMMISSIONER TERRY LEWIS: By your conduct within the community we will all be judged...
(End of excerpt)
MIKE AHERN, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1987-1989): Things changed dramatically and they went from bad to worse.
CHRIS MASTERS: Within the Government there was genuine disquiet about Lewis and corruption. The Commissioners close relationship with the Premier meant he could bypass the Police Minister.
RUSS HINZE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER (archive footage, to press): Theres nothing obviously in the report that would necessitate any steps being taken by me...
CHRIS MASTERS: When Russ Hinze was Police Minister in the early 1980s he knew more than he would say.
RUSSELL GRENNING, HINZE PRESS SECRETARY: They could not bear the sight of each other. Hinze was minister in name only. He had been made a fool of by the police, by officers subsequently shown to be corrupt. When they took him on a guided tour of the Valley to prove there were no brothels or illegal casinos its a, its a tourism technique ever since been refined by North Korea. Of course he knew there were brothels. Of course he knew there were casinos.
CHRIS MASTERS: While "the joke", as it was known, was secretly improving the income of select police, Johs personal wealth was about to take a serious hit. His family trust company Ciasom purchased for $1.5 million a property in central Queensland, "Ten Mile", for son John.
With the help of National Party trustee Sir Edwards Lyons $3 million in Swiss francs was borrowed to liquidate the first loan and supply working capital. This was done through the European Asian Bank which saw that assisting the Premier would open avenues in Queensland and, if refused, negatively affect business in the State.
Main Roads Minister Russ Hinze approved a $4 million upgrade of access to the property. The entrepreneur Alan Bond later supplied $400,000 in a defamation settlement which he described as commercial blackmail - the money used to service interest on the loan.
But for all the questionable help it did Joh no good. As interest rates soared so did the debt.
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: I dont know whether he always actually thought of the money part of the thing. He just knew what he wanted to do and that was what he wanted, you know. We wanted to establish John up there.
NEVILLE HARPER, QUEENSLAND ATTORNEY-GENERAL (1983-1986): With the weight of that on his mind, it must have had an influence on other decisions that he was making, quite unrelated. But I think wed all, all accept that if youve got a big problem of your own, its always there and certainly that turned out to be a big problem.
(Excerpt from "Four Corners", 1977):
MUSIC (at election event): Joh's the man, to keep us strong Joh's the man to ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: While personally his fortune was shrinking, politically it continued to surge. In his 20 years as Premier, Joh would double the National Party vote.
(Excerpt continued):
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: I make only one promise - more good government.
CHRIS MASTERS: The Party machine behind him became one of the most adept in the land, led by State President Sir Robert Sparkes.
SIR ROBERT SPARKES (archive footage, "Four Corners", 1977): We would have to be seen to be a party that was concerned with all issues and not just sectional issues.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Peter Beattie): Did you in any way model your own political profile on Joh?
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): I think some of the things that we learnt from Joh, and Im not going to pretend we didnt, I mean I was Secretary of the Labor Party and we were trying to rebuild the Party and they were very smart politically. I watched everything they did tactically and every time wed get beaten up we learnt from it.
CHRIS MASTERS: In 1983 Joh won again and in 1986 there was an even more emphatic victory. The Liberals were now decimated and their steadying hand lost.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, claiming election victory): Were going to have stable government for the next three years...
CHRIS MASTERS: The victory was another magnificent example of: be careful about what you wish for.
PETER MCKECHNIE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER (1984-1989): It did give us I think too much power at that point in time, and that, in the end, helped bring about our downfall.
CHRIS MASTERS: Before the election two crucial events were to occur that tolled heavily against Sir Joh and his party.
The first was when a Singapore businessman, Robert Sng, visited the Premier and handed him a brown paper bag. Sng, who was seeking approval for a hotel development, donated $300,000 to the National Party which was deposited in a new account established under the name Kaldeal.
JOHN HUEY, FITZGERALD INQUIRY INVESTIGATOR: I said to Robert Sng, "Well what did Sir Joh say to you when you gave him this large sum of money?" And he said, "All he said was, 'thank you, thank you, thank you'."
(Excerpt from archive footage, 1987):
REPORTER: You certainly have a warm feeling for Sir Joh. Do you believe he will be Prime Minister?
MICHAEL GORE: Youre asking for Michael Gores opinion? Absolutely.
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: The other was three months earlier in June 1986 when Gold Coast developer Mike Gore gathered a team together to, at this stage, secretly launch an audacious plan to put Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen in Canberra.
FRED MAYBURY, JOH FOR PM CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR: There were a number of senior shadow ministers in those days at Federal level keen to support it and put forward support that they would stand under the banner. However at top echelon, at top leadership it didnt transpire that way.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Fred Maybury): So these people, their identities will remain a mystery I take it?
FRED MAYBURY, JOH FOR PM CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR: Yes, some of them are still in Parliament and its up to them to make, to declare their support for the campaign at that stage.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Fred Maybury): And big business people like Kerry Packer, Lang Hancock, were they putting money in?
FRED MAYBURY, JOH FOR PM CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR: Kerry Packer was a supporter of the National Party. Lang Hancock was certainly a supporter of Johs.
RUSSELL GRENNING, HINZE PRESS SECRETARY (archive footage): I will become the Premier some day. Theres no doubt about it.
CHRIS MASTERS: According to insiders the plan was not just to make Joh Prime Minister, but Russ Hinze Premier.
PETER MCKECHNIE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER (1984-1989): The Joh for PM wasnt an initiative of the National Party. I believe it was an initiative of Russ Hinze and the White Shoe Brigade who got to Joh.
KEN CROOKE, BJELKE-PETERSEN ADVISER: I was stunned. Joh was one who would never shirk a challenge but I went in to him and he wanted positive people around him so I had to be positive but I said, "Do you realise what youre taking on? You leave this position as Premier and campaign for a seat in Federal Parliament? Theres you, theres Beryl, theres me. And what are we against - the whole Hawke Government?"
(Excerpt from "Four Corners", 1987):
REPORTER: If your supporters win today Sir Joh, what happens next?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: If we win? You say if?
REPORTER: You think there's no question about you winning today?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: It's finished, it's all over long ago.
MAN (partially quoting campaign shirt that he's wearing): On the eighth day, Joh created the earth, or Queensland.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Queensland is the earth!
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: The National Party was trapped. Although privately opposed, Sir Robert Sparkes backed the campaign rather than publicly split the party.
SIR ROBERT SPARKES (archive footage): Ultimately the Premier will be leading the thrust into Canberra.
CHRIS MASTERS: But split the party is exactly what the campaign would do in that it sought to usurp the Federal Coalition leadership of John Howard and Ian Sinclair. Almost a year to the day from when it began, it ended in Sydney. While Joh sat on his plane a team led by Robert Sparkes spoke to John Howard who put his forthright case.
JOHN HOWARD, THEN OPPOSITION LEADER (archive footage, 1987): He will go down in history as the great wrecker of the conservative side of politics; not a man of vision and achievement but a man who for his own selfish power desires, with no basis of any policy or principle, is prepared to embark upon a wrecking course.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, to press): Well its been an interesting day. Lovely to see all you dear people...
CHRIS MASTERS: Later that day at the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne support fell away.
KEN CROOKE, BJELKE-PETERSEN ADVISER: Well left almost unsaid, they felt that everything that should be in place was not there and they werent ready to make a decision to climb on board.
FRED MAYBURY, JOH FOR PM CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR: Unfortunately I suppose history shows that it was the Joh PM campaign that stopped the Liberal/National Party winning that Federal election and I think theres a lot of belief in that, but my firm belief is that they were never going to win that election.
(Excerpts from television news stories, 1987):
VOICEOVER: Some of the "Four Corners" allegations involve material published repeatedly in the Queensland media and steadfastly ignored by the State Government.
VOICEOVER: The Premier said "Four Corners" was always trying to rubbish him and he didnt pay them any attention.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: I have complete and utter confidence in our Police Commissioner and police force.
BILL GUNN, QUEENSLAND POLICE MINISTER: Theres been a series of police ministers that have this hanging over their heads and its not going to hang over my head I can tell you. Im going to go out and I'm going to get it done.
(End of excerpts)
CHRIS MASTERS: The next great disaster for Joh was the Fitzgerald Inquiry, striking a month later when formal hearings began into concerns of systemic police corruption.
Police Minister Bill Gunn, sick of the recurring allegations and Commissioner Lewis direct line to the Premier, had called for a Commission of Inquiry to be headed by Brisbane lawyer, Tony Fitzgerald.
PAUL CLAUSON, QUEENSLAND ATTORNEY-GENERAL (1986-1989): Joh of course wasnt happy, and I can always remember he said that, "You know, if you lift up a piece of tin, youll find one of two things under it, Bill," when he was talking to Gunn and myself out at Roma, "and that would be a snake or a dead cat."
CHRIS MASTERS: Joh had failed to manage not just the police but his own Party. Sir Robert Sparkes and Johs new mentor Sir Ted Lyons were at odds.
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY: He was starting not to listen. Hubris seizes all politicians and we also know the old Chinese maxim: absolute power lasts for 10 years, as a few people keep finding out. I think at the end he had stopped listening to contrary advice.
CHRIS MASTERS: Top Level Ted Lyons, as he was known, was also conducting a running battle with the man they called the Minister for Everything, Russ Hinze. The Government became a colander of leaks. Lyons resigned as Chairman of the TAB after details of his betting records found their way to Russell Grenning who spoke to his boss Russ Hinze.
RUSSELL GRENNING, HINZE PRESS SECRETARY: I didnt tell him what they were because I didnt want him in the position because the Premier would certainly say, "Russell did you know about this?" And he could say honestly to the Premier, "No I didnt." And I arranged for them to be leaked.
CHRIS MASTERS: Even more than Bjelke-Petersen, Russ Hinze embodied the main character flaw of the Government.
RUSSELL COOPER, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1989): Yes, a very good minister and regardless of whats happened and gone before, the way he approached his job, Main Roads Minister, Local Government Minister, Racing Minister, he got things done.
RUSSELL HINZE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER (archive footage): Well Im saying Im not a developer, Im a farmer.
CHRIS MASTERS: Fitzgerald inquirers would find Russell Hinze had received as much as $4 million in loans from developers.
JOHN HUEY, FITZGERALD INQUIRY INVESTIGATOR: They must have had a dozen briefs of evidence of corruption, you know amounts $50,000, $100,000, $200,000, all going to Hinze for various re-zonings he used to do.
RUSSELL GRENNING, HINZE PRESS SECRETARY: One has to think about the mindset of the era, you know, he would get to know developers, you know, and theyd get projects approved and Fred or Harry or Bills a good bloke and, you know, hell lend me a few bob to do this, and it was all sort of, were all mates.
(Excerpt from archive footage of reception, 1983):
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Id better look at some of the rooms upstairs. My goodness me theyre beautiful arent they?
RUSSELL HINZE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER: They got them up here by the dozens, these beautiful females. Where do they get them from?
MALE VOICE: Not the ABC I hope?
RUSSELL HINZE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER: Under the cabbage patch?
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: Process was disintegrating. The can do system was no good for the developers who missed out.
JOHN HUEY, FITZGERALD INQUIRY INVESTIGATOR: By handing over cash they got a favour from the Government, which wasnt afforded to Kern Corporation or Watkins.
CHRIS MASTERS: The Kaldeal account set up by Ted Lyons to assure Johs financial clout within the party received close to $900,000.
CHRIS MASTERS (to John Huey): Any evidence that that the money was used by Sir Joh for his personal interests?
JOHN HUEY, FITZGERALD INQUIRY INVESTIGATOR: Well as I understand it and I have seen through the Kaldeal records, no.
Joh: Do you want me to just touch the top of it? There. Dont break it off.
CHRIS MASTERS: Disquiet was growing in Cabinet. It reached a kind of peak when Joh pushed for approval of another Brisbane development promoted as the worlds tallest building.
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY: Well the process was just a very bad one. There was a good process and then all of a sudden it was all scrapped and this new developer was imposed and one of the characters was a Korean company and some of those characters that were associated with it would never stand up to the probity audits.
CHRIS MASTERS: According to Mike Ahern, opposition to his will on this project triggered a leadership crisis.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage, 1987): The party needs Joh Bjelke-Petersen for a mighty long time yet. Therell be no challenge to Joh Bjelke-Petersen as long as Joh Bjelke-Petersen wants to stay here.
CHRIS MASTERS: By refusing to meet his ministers and debate his leadership, Joh sealed his fate.
PAUL CLAUSON, QUEENSLAND ATTORNEY-GENERAL (1986-1989): It got to a point where youd roll up for Cabinet and wed be standing around saying, "Well we wonder whos going to get the bullet today?" And that was just a lunatic situation and it was unsatisfactory and consequently people had to move against him.
CHRIS MASTERS: Joh sought to sack the ministers he saw standing in his way. His advisor Ken Crooke counselled otherwise.
KEN CROOKE, BJELKE-PETERSEN ADVISER: And he turned to me and looked at me and he said, "Ken Ive trusted your advice all down the years and I appreciate your coming to give it to me today but," he said, "on this occasion, I think youre wrong."
And we parted on that note on good terms as always. And a day or so later he sacked a number of ministers and that immediately turned huge numbers against him.
CHRIS MASTERS: Peter McKechnie, a strong Joh supporter, was accused of disloyalty.
PETER MCKECHNIE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER (1984-1989): And I said, "Well, you dont think Im disloyal." And again he put his arm on my shoulder and said, "Not disloyal Peter, just not loyal enough."
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY: I said, "The National Party wont be happy with this process," and he said, "I am the National Party."
CHRIS MASTERS: As Joh began to lose his own Partys support he countenanced a deal with the devil - in the form of the ALP, speaking to Labor Secretary Peter Beattie about a deal to share power.
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): Yeah, very telling. And its also telling because people around him wanted him to survive. Theyd invested a lot of effort and a lot of money in him and they couldnt see anyone beyond him. See they didnt see Ahern in the way that Ahern should have been seen.
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY (archive footage, 1987): Now the discussions with the Premier are centred upon seeking his resignation and if that is not possible then obviously Parliament will have to be called to satisfy the various constitutional issues which are there...
CHRIS MASTERS: On November 27, 1987 Mike Ahern, a university educated, Catholic moderate, became the new leader. Joh continued to refuse to resign, staying on in his suite in the executive building.
RUSSELL GRENNING, HINZE PRESS SECRETARY: The omnipresent, all-powerful Premier of Queensland had barricaded himself in his office. It was bizarre and Russ went to the door and banged on the door. Joh wouldnt open the door and Russ was bending down, talking to him through the keyhole with tears running down his face, saying, "Joh, come out mate, its all over."
CHRIS MASTERS: Five days later on December 1, Sir Joh resigned.
(Excerpts from archive footage of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen speaking to press, 1988):
REPORTER: How do you feel? How are you feeling Sir Joh?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Super. I am going to be a free man for the first time for 40 years.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: It's not a matter of handling. Its a matter of telling whats correct and true...
(End of excerpts)
CHRIS MASTERS: A year to the day later he would enter the box before the Fitzgerald Inquiry. The evidence he gave about the money received from Robert Sng would lead to a charge of perjury against him.
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY (archive footage, 1988): Well be implementing the Fitzgerald recommendations lock, stock and barrel...
CHRIS MASTERS: New Premier Mike Ahern represented not just new leadership but new government. In a move that still shocks, Ahern committed to the all-embracing Fitzgerald reforms, in doing so precipitating his own demise and lasting enmity within his Party.
RUSSELL COOPER, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1989): Well I dont think it was good in that no-one knew what was in the Fitzgerald report, what were the recommendations to be, so really how can you say well implement them lock, stock and barrel if you dont even know whats in there?
CHRIS MASTERS (to Mike Ahern): So do you regret your declaration that lock, stock and barrel, the reforms would be implemented?
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY: It was done deliberately at the time.
(Excerpt from archive footage, 1989):
VOICEOVER: For Tony Fitzgerald QC, the day began with the presentation of his report to Premier Mike Ahern. Inside ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: Mike Ahern says the reason he locked his Party in is because he had heard that Sir Robert Sparkes was planning to stall implementation.
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY: I was very angry to think that when this report came down it be referred to some committees, and some lawyers would have a look at it, and over a six month period or something theyd find reasons why you couldnt do this and do that.
What was required was an absolute undertaking to do it and then whatever came along afterwards, my leadership was changed, didnt matter.
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): What do I think about it? I think it was pure guts, pure guts. I mean, I have enormous admiration for Mike Ahern. Every time Tony Fitzgerald wanted an extension of his power, he was given it. Now that was Ahern actually giving more power to cut his own throat.
RUSSELL COOPER, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1989) (archive footage, 1989): Im a very progressive person. Ive got a lot to do. Ive got a lot of initiatives to announce.
CHRIS MASTERS: Russell Cooper replaced Mike Ahern and in December 1989, Wayne Goss replaced Russell Cooper, Labor returning to government after 32 years.
WAYNE GOSS, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1989-1996) (archive footage, 1989): December the 2nd, 1989, is the end of the Bjelke-Petersen era. (Cheers from the audience.)
CHRIS MASTERS: A young Director-General of the cabinet office, Kevin Rudd, took to the task of rebuilding governance with enough zeal for him to be dubbed Dr Death.
NEVILLE HARPER, QUEENSLAND ATTORNEY-GENERAL (1983-1986): I dont know how much is known of this but so many public servants were just put away into a hole. The whole of my personal staff were put in a basement room not even with a typewriter.
WAYNE GOSS, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1989-1996): There had to be change. The public service had to go through the reforms that had occurred elsewhere in Australia. Now we did it quickly but if you are going to get it done youve got to get on with it.
(Excerpts from archive footage of Sir Joh walking down street, followed by press, 1990):
WOMAN: We're with you Sir Joh!
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Good on you!
WOMAN: All the way from the Gold Coast.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Oh, lovely, thank you.
WOMAN 2: Hello darling, Sir Joh ...
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Oh, hello there.
WOMAN 2: God bless you (kisses him). You're the best man ...
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: The way the conservatives saw it, Labor was taking its turn to politicise the public sector and exact revenge. In 1990 the perjury case against 79-years-old Sir Joh was launched by an independent prosecutor.
KEN CROOKE, BJELKE-PETERSEN ADVISER: I knew him to be an honest man. I could see what the public reaction was, the mere fact that somebody appeared to be charged with having about a bad memory, being an old man.
(Excerpt continued):
REPORTER: Youve obviously got some supporters here Sir Joh.
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Yes, yes.
REPORTER: What do you say to them, Sir Joh?
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN: Well I just say they cant live without me.
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: The Government had refused financial support to Sir Joh to cover legal representation, which added further strain. There had been trouble meeting payments on the loan for his sons property which was eventually sold.
WOMAN (playing the piano and singing, Sir Joh listening): He led us to dignity, and he broke the spoiler's hand ...
CHRIS MASTERS: The Joh fan base raised some money to assist. Some of the lawyers worked pro bono. Others were not paid, but the costs still mounted enough for Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen to raid her own superannuation.
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: If I hadnt had that superannuation Joh and I wouldnt have had a bit to live on. If theyd have been able to take the whole lot we wouldnt have had anything to live on.
CHRIS MASTERS: While Bjelke-Petersen had experienced and reputable counsel representing him in court, his backroom team was made up in part of a later to be struck off suburban solicitor and two former police officers.
HONOURABLE BILL CARTER QC, CARTER INQUIRY (1993): I think its the enormous paradox in the whole matter. Here you had the high profile Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, an iconic Queenslander. The whole of his reputation was on the line. one wouldve thought that he wouldve sought out the most competent lawyers, and he selected people who not only were inexperienced but barely competent to do the task.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Bill Carter): But they pulled it off.
HONOURABLE BILL CARTER QC, CARTER INQUIRY (1993): Through the processes that they devised, yes.
CHRIS MASTERS: In October 1991 the Joh jury famously split 10-2 and the charge was abandoned..
SIR JOH BJELKE-PETERSEN (archive footage): I am innocent and these people in here couldnt prove otherwise. Didnt I tell you I was innocent?
(Crowd cheering)
CHRIS MASTERS: A later inquiry conducted by Justice Bill Carter found the selection process had been manipulated by the ex-police officers acting alone, helping to put Joh before a jury led by Young Nationals member, Luke Shaw.
CHRIS MASTERS (to Bill Carter): How important to the outcome was the presence of Luke Shaw?
HONOURABLE BILL CARTER QC, CARTER INQUIRY (1993): Oh I think in the final result it was critical. So long as Luke was on the jury there was effectively no chance of a conviction against Sir Joh.
CHRIS MASTERS: In Queensland, the jury remains divided on Joh and comparative records of governance.
(Excerpt from news story, 1990):
VOICEOVER: Don Lane will be eligible for home detention in early February. Brian Austin could be out by April. The other jailed former Queensland minister Leisha Harvey is appealing her sentence.
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: Four of Johs ministers were jailed for minor offences and Labor has also had its scandals.
PETER MCKECHNIE, NATIONAL PARTY MINISTER (1984-1989): The ministers that went to jail, unlike the ones that have gone in recent years in the Labor Party, werent sex offenders or anything like that.
(Excerpt from news story, 2007):
VOICEOVER: Gordon Nuttall put on a brave front as he made his way to court.
(End of excerpt)
CHRIS MASTERS: Concerns persist about government relations with big business and developers. A former Labor Health Minister is before the court, charged, like the late Russ Hinze, with receiving loan moneys from a major businessman.
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): Every one of the people, including some of my, all my former ministers were either referred to the CMC for investigation by either me or one of my director-generals. We have changed this State. It is honest.
KEN CROOKE, BJELKE-PETERSEN ADVISER: I guess Fitzgerald added layers to the bureaucracy in different ways so that the judgements that would be made about his history are made at a time when premiers and ministers could make decisions and indeed were charged with making decisions and therefore processes, sure, had to be followed, but processes werent as long and as expensive as they are today.
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): Thats code for saying, lets rip down Cloudland at midnight. Lets not worry about the heritage values. Youve got to get it right. Its balance. Its not process. Its balance.
CHRIS MASTERS: When he became Premier, Peter Beattie continued to resist appeals to compensate the Bjelke-Petersen family, but in 2005 after Johs death and in the face of angry opposition he granted a State funeral.
PETER BEATTIE, QUEENSLAND PREMIER (1998-2007): One of the things that I think weve got to learn from politics and learn from the Joh years, Joh could be very generous but he could also be very mean. I wanted to make the point that if we are going to continue to grow in an open, transparent way like Queensland now is, youve got to forgive and forget.
CHRIS MASTERS: These days out at Bethany the sweeping paddocks have retreated to cluster close to the homestead.
JOHN BJELKE-PETERSEN (speaking to guests, driving through the country): When I had heard that the farm was having to get sold or the banks were selling us up back in the mid-90s I went and cut and carted as many posts as I could, and I think I ended up ...
CHRIS MASTERS: John Bjelke-Petersen provides tours and accommodation to travellers.
JOHN BJELKE-PETERSEN (speaking to guests at picnic table): Now I got some of these scones here that Mum became famous for. Would anyone like to try some?
CHRIS MASTERS: His wife now makes the pumpkin scones.
LADY FLO BJELKE-PETERSEN: All I know is that the change that they brought about was an absolute disaster for Queensland as far as the National Party was concerned.
CHRIS MASTERS: One legacy is the serious depletion of the Queensland National and Liberal parties and a dominant Labor Party. Another is recognition that government cant work without integrity.
ALLEN CALLAGHAN, BJELKE-PETERSEN PRESS SECRETARY: If corruption is accepted then the community cant have democracy - its not government by the people, its government by the cheque book.
CHRIS MASTERS: While the image of the captain of the pirate ship, the leader defying process, retains bold appeal, Johs very defiance of process is what ultimately sunk him.
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Fifty-six percent of people are against the healthcare overhaul and 44 percent favor it, according to the online poll conducted from Tuesday through Saturday.
The survey results suggest that Republicans are convincing voters to reject Obama's reform even when they like much of what is in it, such as allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26.
Strong majorities favor most of what is in the law.
A glaring exception to the popular provisions is the "individual mandate," which forces all U.S. residents to own health insurance.
Sixty-one percent of Americans are against the mandate, the issue at the center of the Republicans' contention that the law is unconstitutional, while 39 percent favor it.
"That's really the thing that has come to define the (reform) and is the thing that could potentially allow the Supreme Court to dismantle it if they decide it's not constitutional," Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson said.
In good news for Republicans at November's congressional elections, 45 percent said they were more likely to vote for a member of Congress who campaigned on a platform of repealing the law, versus 26 percent who said it would make them less likely, the survey showed.
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Support for the provisions of the healthcare law was strong, with a full 82 percent of survey respondents, for example, favoring banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
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Opposition among independents has been growing. In a survey conducted in April, two weeks after the Supreme Court heard the case, 63 percent of them opposed the measure, and 37 percent favored it.
"Republicans have won the argument with independents and that's really been the reason that we see the majority of the public opposing it," Jackson said.
Republicans have dominated the political message on healthcare with calls to "repeal and replace" the law, condemned by conservatives as a government intrusion into private industry and the lives of private citizens. It passed in March 2010 with no Republican support in Congress.
Mitt Romney, the likely Republican presidential nominee, has promised to repeal the law if he defeats Obama, although he has not offered a plan of his own. Obama, who says he modeled the measure on a healthcare plan Romney passed as governor of Massachusetts, has defended it.
Obama critics - some from within his own party - have also questioned the president for focusing on healthcare reform early in his term instead of doing everything he could to fix the struggling U.S. economy.
Democrats back the measure as an effort to improve the lives of Americans and essential to control spiraling costs that are undermining the country's overall economic health. Healthcare expenditures in the United States neared $2.6 trillion in 2010, over 10 times the $256 billion spent in 1980, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A good portion of the opposition to the healthcare law is because Americans want more reform, not less of it.
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Seventy-one percent of Republican opponents reject it overall, while 29 percent feel it does not go far enough, while independent opponents are divided 67 percent to 33 percent. Among Democratic opponents, 49 percent reject it overall, and 51 percent wish the measure went further.
"If you add the people that oppose it because they think it doesn't go far enough, you get a majority of Americans, so it doesn't mean that healthcare reform is dead," Jackson said.
There was party division in Americans' view of the individual mandate. Overall, 61 percent of Americans oppose requiring all U.S. residents to own health insurance. Among Republicans, the percentage rose to 81 percent, and it was 73 percent among independents. But a majority of Democrats - 59 percent - favor the individual mandate.
The survey of 1,043 Americans was conducted from June 19-23. The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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I just installed your plugin. When I click on the "YInstagram" logo, I only get a white page. I somehow don't have access to the "Settings" or "Display Options". Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks
I wanted to note that I tried this with the current version of WordPress as well as the last version. I made sure to install it on two different accounts and demo via Chrome and Safari. No luck either way.
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I also see only a blank page for settings. I have the latest version and the problem appears with Chrome and Firefox.
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I have wpecommerce if that means anything. I'm going to try deactivating some plugins to see if that helps. Let me know if anyone finds anything
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Omg how cute they are!! <3 Their blushing faces, so lovely
Oh gosh please tell me this is what i think it is
Blush-i-blush cuteness!
Thank you for the page!
Thank you for the page!
Ew this page. I feel like I barley improved when I look at the difference between this and the next.
Uw look at their faces! So freaking cute. I wanna read this all but i have no idea where the first page is haha.
Really? Its in the description.. Is the link broken or anything?
Naw i figure it out X) i read all the pages you have up so far and i gotta say, i really love them. These doujinshi's are in my top five! You stick with their personalities and not make them extremely out of character. Which i really like! Its more believable this way. I've always liked Naruto and Sasuke. Your art makes me want to catch up on the show ^u^ great poses btw! Even the backgrounds are amazing!
Oh god, thats a huge reason why I dont really read other peoples doujinshis. They make the characters act so...weird! It makes me feel extremely uncomfortable.. Especially when I see Sasuke smiling or laughing. It makes my eyes bleed.. Sasuke doesnt smile or laugh. If anything he would give a quick annoyed smirk, or go "Hmph.." as a tiny laugh of relief. Nothing like " HAHAHA! WOW NARUTO I LUFF YOU." ARGGGFFF! Why don't people see how weird it is?! UUAAAGHHHHHHHHHH *Head explodes with blood everywhere*
Yeah i was just reading one where Sasuke was saying all this embarrassing stuff and acting like a spaz about it. The person drew him so well too. It was a shame it wasnt really Sasuke. I had to stop reading it when they made Naruto way too cool. So thanks again for staying true to their characters. Haha yr reply made me laugh too X)
This looks really good Keep it up!!!
the faces are beautiful as ever once again <3
It's cool how you show us little pieces of sasuke's face like his mouth or his eyes so that during a dramatic part and you draw the whole thing its like "HO CRAP! Sasuke is hot! and awesome! The feels!" Seriously smart, and very suspenseful. Basially, I love the way you position the characters in the panels. It's interesting and a lot better than just looking at everyone face-on. And I know you're not gonna finish this one, but thanks for making it anyways!
Thanks! I have no promises that this one will continue, but about 2 weeks ago I did start the 3rd page of this. Havent picked back up on it though..creating comics arent difficult, its just the lack of imagination and inspiration for me to continue them. Also making the ideas and coming up with a plot is hard..I never plan it out I just go along with it.. :c
Yeah i hear ya. I actually started making my own comic not too long ago, and still havent finished it ... its hard. But dont give up just yet!! Inspiration might pop upwhen you.least expect it. Then you'll be able to make the next page
Post moorrreeeee pleeeeeeeeease..
Oh man! It was just getting good!
tehehe they are cute
More PLEASE?
Oooh I can't wait to read!!!! Big smilez ....
;~; please continue this!!! You said the next page was in progess ;w;
Yeah it is..but then things got in the way and once I looked back at the page I decided to start it ALL over again for the 3rd time. (Because it was stupid) Its extremely irritating, I should probably remove the update from the description.
Funny thing about being an artist. You tend to be your worst critic. Something you think is stupid, changes are we're all going to love and go gaga over lol XD
I apologize but I have no idea what should happen next so it sorta died a long time ago. But thank you!
I'm so in love with the way you draw Sasuke, he's cool and smexy and yet so serious and he keeps his dark side, it's so great x)
more please
Omg...I love this! You need another <3
I know, people are asking for it while others are asking for the Konohigh school pages at the same time. I did start planning and inking the 3rd page of this though..
Oh Jeez, I want to say "Thank you!" But its like saying "Thank you for being jealous of me!" ..I know EXACTLY how you feel in this situation, I was there many years ago. I feel bad now, If I could I would give you my hands :c
... dude if you did i'd look like frankenstein. XD
it's not that i'm bad at drawling...but comics are like a whole other story, yeah know? Plus I don't have time to make them (but for whatever reason I ALWAYS have time to write a fan fic XD)
Yeah I understand, but its the opposite for me..my parents are always like "Why do you have this ,such times for video games and not homework?" I hate it when they say that! I just unusually like to do whatever makes me the most happiest. Maybe its because writing your fan fics is a lot less harder and faster? ( Drawing comics can take forever sometimes..)
Please make another <3
I just started working on page 3 yesterday. Im not sure when it'll be out but Im trying my best to finish it. Theres just a lot going on in life atm..Thank you for your nice comments!
Waiting for this NaruSasu :3
Nice blush!
i love it!!!!!! can you send me a link to the fanfic?
Sure once I find it again. Someone else wanted the link too.. x_x I havent stopped to actually search.


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1 a : marking typically the subject of a verb especially in languages that have relatively full inflection <nominative case> b : of or relating to the nominative case <a nominative ending>
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Middle English nominatyf, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French nominatif, from Latin (casus) nominativus nominative case, from nominare; from the traditional use of the nominative form in naming a noun
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The Latin word nomen, meaning "name," and its form nominis give us the root nomin. Words from the Latin nomen have something to do with names. To nominate is to name someone as a candidate for election or for an honor. Anything nominal, such as a position or office, exists in name only. A noun or pronoun in the nominative case is in the form that names the subject of a sentence, for example the pronoun I.
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NC House gives final OK on budget
Published: Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 4, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
RALEIGH The state House completed work early Friday on its version of the North Carolina government budget for next year that emphasized public schools and small businesses but chose to wait until later on how to handle a potential $500 million shortfall if extra Medicaid money doesnt materialize.
The House voted 63-49 in favor of the $18.9 billion budget shortly after midnight. It came after a long day Thursday when the chamber debated for more than six hours and considered more than 30 amendments before giving the plan initial approval by a narrower margin.
Fridays session was over in less than 10 minutes with no debate. The state constitution required two votes on separate days because some annual taxes were being renewed.
The votes mean House Democrats will start working next week to eliminate budget differences with counterparts in the Senate who approved its own budget two weeks ago.
The Senate plan focused on protecting the University of North Carolina system. The House emphasized public schools. Both chambers gave tax breaks to small business, although by different methods.
Negotiators want to get a final budget to Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdues desk before the new fiscal year begins July 1. They havent passed a budget on time since 2003.
Every year I say we plan to be out of here June 30, said House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman, D-Davidson. I hope we dont have too much time posturing between chambers and lawmakers can get the budget done on time, he added.
Democrats said it reduces spending by 3.5 percent compared with the plan already in place for the coming fiscal year.
The bottom-line figure for the House plan is less than the Senate plan approved two weeks ago and the one Perdue presented in April.
Still, Republicans argued that the spending is actually higher than what Perdue is on track to spend this year because she held back on money to narrow a revenue shortfall. None of the Republicans present voted for the bill Thursday or Friday.
We think that they fall far short for what we need to do to prepare for next year and what we think will be a protracted strained economy, said Minority Whip Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg.
Next year, federal stimulus money runs out and temporary income and sales tax increases will expire.
Four Democrats joined the Republicans in voting Thursday against the bill.
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Other Human Beings
The author argues that a metaphysical view of persons cannot be separated from those attitudes which are expressive of a recognition that another is a person. He rejects the idea that the first person point of view is the key to what is of value in our thought about persons and the closely linked idea that the third person world is the world of the physical sciences. He suggests that the philosophical mind/body contrast continues to play a seriously distorting role in discussions of the nature and value of persons and, in particular, of their identity through time. What is needed is an acknowledgement of the tangible, persisting "human being" - a being with a distinctive bodily form having its own distinctive kind of value - as a fundamental feature of our thought.
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