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The Scottish social housing sector has called on the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide clear and adequate information to assist those who will be most impacted by the forthcoming welfare reforms.
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"Housing associations and other social landlords are on the front line working with people who will be most impacted by the UK Government's welfare reforms. Yet so far the DWP has provided insufficient information to support housing staff to prepare for the changes and deliver vital information to their tenants.
"We are calling on the DWP to ensure that information is delivered to people affected in a clear and timely manner. The DWP needs to either communicate the changes to the public with immediate effect, or slow the implementation down to give the housing sector adequate time to prepare."
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Since Lucy had her serious allergic reaction to formula (cow's milk), I have gone completely dairy free (hopefully she'll grow out of it, but you never know)... although I am not finding it too bad (the lack of a decent hard chesse is a strain, though!), I wondered if anyone else has ever had to go dairy free and has any good recipes or tips?
My main one would be to use mustard in cooking where you would usually use cheese - I made a 'cheese free cheese sauce' by adding a good teaspoon of mustard powder to white sauce which was surprisingly nice!
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Lucy had a full-on anaphalactic reaction - she swelled up, went bright red, couldn't breathe and started choking within 5 minutes of having the bottle; we called the ambulance immediately!
She has, however, always had very dry, sometimes itchy skin with a touch of eczema, and I was considering going dairy free because of this before she reacted badly - her reaction just made my mind up completely in the end. I'm not too sure if going dairy free has helped her - she still has pretty dry skin, and I'm not sure whether it was the change in bath routines (we got rid of any bath products apart from ones prescribed by the doctor, and only put prescribed creams on her) so it could be that that has helped her skin rather than my diet, but I just wanted to make sure - in a little while, I might re-introduce something like goat's cheese back into my diet, just to see what happens.
I do have a friend who is wondering if her LO is dairy intolerant (which is different to a dairy allergy) - her baby has nasty, dark green nappies and tends to suffer from colic a lot. Eczema is also a very common sign of a dairy intolerance, as is tummy trouble and bad, painful wind. Babies with dairy intolerances also don't tend to gain weight very well, and they can be quite refluxy (which is why the doctors reckon Lucy's reaction might have been a one-off, because she doesn't have a bad tummy and has on the whole gained weight beautifully - her reaction was very, very unusual for a potential dairy allergy). As you can probably tell, I've done loads of research on this, but I'm no expert - if you're unsure, I would discuss it with your HV or doctor
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It is with sadness that I read "Police chief defends use of officers at final Mass" in a recent article by Natalie Sherman. These remarks were in response to the claim by some that the use of officers was "ridiculous and offensive."
From my perspective, I am grateful that Police Chief David Provencher had the foresight and wisdom to anticipate what might have been a tense situation and responded accordingly. I am also grateful that the officers assigned acted in the usual professional, competent and intelligent manner.
Each priest has the responsibility of leading the congregation in prayer. I know when I see a parishioner who is a police officer, fireman, or nurse in the congregation; I am pleased to know that if any emergency situation were to arise, it would be handled in a competent and professional manner.
Likewise I wish to congratulate Father Jack Oliveira for his example in obedience, patience and hard work in shuttering St. John's Church. This has taken a toll on him since no priest or bishop wants to close a church. I find it sad that people are quick to blame a priest or bishop for the closing of a church. It is people who close a church by not attending and, at times, not supporting the works and needs of the community.
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In this Year of Faith, it would be good if we all took stock of our relationship with God and how it is exercised. Faith is a relationship with a person. For Christians, it is a relationship with Jesus Christ. It is a relationship lived out in our prayer live and our caring for our brothers and sisters. It is not a relationship with a building.
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This year's Kelly J. Purcell Credit Union Memorial Fund Scholarship was awarded to Ashley Rooney, a student at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) who is slated to graduate in 2016 with a master's degree in political management.
L-R: Mark Kennedy, Director of the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) and Professor of Political Management; Ashley Rooney, political management graduate student at GSPM; Lucy Ito, Executive Vice President and COO of the California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues; and Bob Arnould, Senior Vice President of Advocacy for the Leagues
During the Credit Union National Association's 2014 Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC) in Washington, D.C. last week, Rooney addressed a group of California and Nevada credit union leaders, expressing what she feels is her call to public service, as well as a passion for the political process.
She was honored and humbled to receive the scholarship in memory of Purcell—one that will help her in this journey.
"This scholarship is very important," she said. "It will help me make a difference like Kelly Purcell did."
The Kelly J. Purcell Credit Union Memorial Fund was endowed in 2007 in memory of Kelly Purcell, a GSPM graduate (class of 2000) and California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues employee who tragically passed away in 2006. The fund was created by gifts from the Leagues and its member credit unions.
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The legendary doom masters from Indianapolis THE GATES OF SLUMBER return with "Stormcrow", an EP that may constitute the (premature) ultimate the surprise of the year. Sure, great quality material from a band like THE GATES OF SLUMBER never comes as a big surprise; actually someone could say that two are synonymous but "Stormcrow" came practically out of nowhere and this small disc surpasses any expectations.
If you thought "The Wretch" sounded too much like another great band then perhaps you will find that "Stormcrow" feels like the natural continuation of it…towards the right path. Sure, there are moments that the band reminds of SAINT VITUS but at the same time we get tributes to their own proud back catalogue especially the pre-"Hymns of Blood and Thunder" era. No, "Stormcrow" is not a senseless return to the old stuff; it is the beginning of something new and exciting, something that mix everything the band has learned all these years.
Bob Fouts' drumming is immediately recognizable and I am sure there is a great deal of fans who are more than excited with his come-back. However, what impressed me the most in this record is the sound of the bass, which is louder than ever, making "Stormcrow" as the heaviest collection of compositions the band ever released. Let's not forget to mention that "Stormcrow" packs some of the best guitar solos Karl Simon ever wrote. Finally, the lyrics seem more mature and it is actually the first time I felt they have a strictly allegorical orientation.
While most of the newer bands in Metal are struggling to release something average after a couple of albums, THE GATES OF SLUMBER at their thirteenth year existence, after three demos, four EP's, five full length albums and three split records, are able to release something that can easily turn into an all-time fan favorite. THE GATES OF SLUMBER is what is best in life next to crashing all enemies, seeing them driven before you and listening to the lamentation of their women…


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Citation: Ashwell, M.S., Sonstegard, T.S., Kata, S., Womack, J.E. 2002. A radiation hybrid map of bovine chromosome 27. Animal Genetics. 33(1):75-76. Interpretive Summary: A physical map of bovine chromosome 27 (BTA27) was constructed using a collection of 90 radiation hybrid cell lines. Each of these cell lines contains different parts of the bovine genome. By studying which cell lines carry the BTA27 markers, the markers can be ordered relative to one another. This map contains 19 markers; 17 were microsatellite markers and 2 were single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with genes known to lie on BTA27. This physical map was compared and found to be in general agreement with the marker order on the Meat Animal Research Center linkage map for bovine chromosome 27.
Technical Abstract: A 5000-rad radiation hybrid comprehensive map of bovine chromosome 27 (BTA27) is presented. The map contains 19 loci, consisting of 17 microsatellite markers and 2 single nucleotide polymorphisms within genes known to lie on BTA27. All markers are ordered with odds greater than 1000:1. The proposed order is generally consistent with the current linkage map.


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And the Intertubes brace for the shockwave. Mashable says the pair were in Minneapolis for the Internet Cat Festival. (Click each image to play the Vine video.)
And the Intertubes brace for the shockwave. Mashable says the pair were in Minneapolis for the Internet Cat Festival. (Click each image to play the Vine video.)
Love your blog Cute Overload! I need smiles and you give them so often.
OMG!!! My dream came true already!!! Grumpy cat and Lil' Bub side by side!!!!!
They just need Maru there and the interwebs might just EXPLODE from the kitty trifecta!🙂
Nah, the Tubes could not handle the load. Some Net backbone in like Australia or somewhere would drop, and that would be all she wrote.
It would be like dividing by zero…
No, divide by zero would happen when Grumpy meets Henri.
Aww they seem to like each other…or at least not hiss at each other. Hopefully Ms. Sauce and Ms. Bub enjoyed each other's company.
I just can't really comprehend how epic this is. I love these two!!
AWW😀 Tardar Sauce aka Grumpy Cat met up with Lil' Bub😀 They both seemed happy to meet each other😀
Poor Bub has no nose and can not breathe.
I (personaly )don't find an animal in distress cute.
Not sure what you mean here. Bub has a nose and can breathe fine. Her deformities are mostly in her dwarfism and her jaw size, but her owners say she can eat just fine.
Or something like this happens…
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I'm so glad those two found hooman family willing to embrace their uniqueness.
It's so cute how they sneef at each other.
Here is some information on Lil Bub which goes to show that she is a happy, healthy kitty who is under the watchful eye of her 'dude' as well as a vet: http://lilbub.com/about And it also explains how Lil Bub and her Dude are advocates for 'special needs' animals out there and how people shouldn't be afraid to take in those anipals who need a little extra eye kept on them.
All of which I think is beautiful.
Rock on Lil Bub and Tardar Sauce and you ladies show the world that just because you're born 'different' doesn't make you 'less'.
Grumpy Cat is my favorite.
Awww, the video stopped short of the two actually touching noses!
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Why the Coalition Will Have a Long Honeymoon
As James Forsyth points out, the coalition is having quite a honeymoon. In opposition, David Cameron was fond of saying that in the event of him getting to Number 10 any bounce would last about five minutes. The cuts that his new government would have to make would be so severe that public opinion would turn quickly against his administration. That is not how it looks now — and he has cover for his cuts in his alliance with Clegg. They can say that they have united to clean up the mess of the public finances.
The coalition is popular according to opinion polls and the national mood is for giving this new hybrid a chance. Barring some kind of shock event, the honeymoon will be a long affair. Why?
- The coalition appeals to British nontribalist instincts. Deep in the British psyche — or in a large part of the electorate — is a wish for politicians to bury their differences and cooperate in the national interest: "Why can't they stop all their squabbling and get on with sorting it out?" This nontribal party now has its first government since the war and it would take a great amount of provocation to convince people that they had been wrong to wish for it. "Give it a go" will be the sentiment, apart from amongst the most hardened Labour, Lib-Dem and Tory tribalists. The Queen — notional head of the nontribal faction — looked absolutely delighted the other day as young Mr. Cameron arrived at the Palace.
- The British are actually tired of hating their government. They will find a bit of optimism really refreshing. They don't usually expect to actively like those who govern them, but holding the governing class in such contempt for such a long period (from the Iraq war if not before) has become wearing. When Janet Street Porter is writing in the Independent on Sunday that it's wonderful and that these guys should be given a chance then you know something novel has happened.
- The personality of Cameron. Take ideology out of it and he always was going to be good at the business of being prime minister. On the mechanics of the job — making the political weather, speaking over the heads of party to country, delegation and deal-making — he's a natural. Now that this is apparent it will banish a good many of the doubts entertained by the voters he failed to convince on May 6.
- The eternal pragmatism of British elites. Across business, the city, chunks of the media and in the upper echelons of the civil service, the coalition will be seen as "the only show in town." There will be a determination to get behind the Cameron-Clegg arrangement and to bury, or dismiss, concerns over such stuffy old notions as the rights of Parliament, the constitution, etc.
- The grumbling Tory right is not — yet — organized against the coalition. In time, I suspect, it will coalesce around a core of 50 or so MPs and start to make specific criticisms and demands. Among the ranks of the new intake of Conservative MPs will probably be a future Tory leader of whom nothing has yet been heard — he or she will probably define themselves against Cameron. For now that looks a long way off, but remember that when Disraeli started agitating against Peel he was mocked. He got his man in the end with messy consequences. At the moment the Tory right is just a rabble making noises off.


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Winston - Cullman County Tornado - March 1, 2007
National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed storm damage near Arley. It has been determined that the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado has been rated an EF-2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with estimated maximum winds of 110-115 mph.
The tornado touched down near the intersection of County Road 41 and County Road 62, about 2 miles north of Arley. The tornado tracked northeastward, crossed Smith Lake, crossed County Road 77, and lifted just into Cullman County north of County Road 141. Several homes and barns were damaged along the path. One chicken house was totally destroyed and two others sustained major damage. Numerous trees were either uprooted or were snapped off. The tornado damage path was approximately 9.7 miles long and 100 yards wide at its widest point. The tornado was on the ground from 345 PM CST until 357 PM CST. A Tornado Warning was in effect for Winston County from 318 PM CST valid until 400 PM CST. All of central Alabama was outlooked for a High Risk of Severe Thunderstorms including the chance of violent tornadoes. A Tornado Watch was valid from 730 AM CST until 8 PM CST.
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1000Posted Monday, 3 May, 2010 - 21:09 by nythrix in
Yesterday the number of registered OpenTK users hit the 1K mark. Yes, there's some spambots in here as well, but that isn't going to stop us, now is it?
I am really looking forward to the OpenTK 1.0 final release. With its help I dare say we will hit 2000 before the end of the year.
Thank you for such a great toolkit and keep up the excellent job!
Awww, and I only missed it by 3. Congratulations, great work!
Heh, I was keeping an eye out for this, but Nythrix beat me to it! :)
I let it be for about a day or so but since no one reacted I went on with it. I probably should've sent you a notifying PM :)
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Tim Blair
–, Monday, January, 14, 2013, (1:06pm)
Radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir were upset with reports last week that their leader, the euphoniously-named Sheik Ismail Al-Wahwah, had called for Australia to be ruled by Muslim law.
Under a Wahwah-style government, according to reports, alcohol would be banned, an Islamic strict dress code enforced and languages other than Arabic outlawed in schools.
This was the Hizbies' cue to call a Wahwambulance.
"Ismail al-Wahwah did not mention Australia at all in his lecture, a fact evident to anyone who watches the excerpts of the lecture on the basis of which the claim was made," the group wailed. "The lecture – the complete recording of which will be up on our website soon – was about the establishment of the Caliphate in the Muslim World. At no point was any vision for Australia presented."
Well, let's check exactly what Wahwah said in his pre-Christmas lecture, which formed the basis of those reports.
"That is the duty of the caliphate – to implement Islam internally and carry the light of Islam to the rest of the world," the Sheik declared. "How? Not with flowers."
Key words: "The rest of the world." The last time we checked an atlas, Australia was a part of that world. Therefore Wahwah's wishes apply just as much here as they do anywhere else. Wahwah is pedalling caliphate crap, plain and simple.
(By the way, no flowers and no booze? Dates with this bloke must be a delight.)
Another local caliphate fan also emerged recently, courtesy of international monitoring organisation The Middle East Media Research Institute. Former Catholic Musa Cerantonio spoke at Islamic venues in Sydney and Melbourne late last year.
"Re-establishing the Islamic state is eventually going to be a military matter, and it is a matter that concerns a large part of the Islamic nation," Musa, raised in Victoria, said.
"The Taliban, may Allah grant them victory, they are the heroes of the Islamic nation these days. These are men. "
Lucky for them. If they were women, they'd be pelted with rocks and have acid thrown in their faces.
"They are the men of this Islamic nation today, the Taliban, may Allah grant them victory. You don't find anyone like them on the face of this earth."
For which we can all be deeply thankful. Peacemaker Musa continued:
"The answer to Palestine is not by holding hands with the infidels. It's not by pleading to the UN to accept Palestine as a nation. The answer is, as the Prophet said, to fight the infidels until the religion belongs to Allah. The primary goal or strength that we are going to have is in physical warfare."
This infidel-hatin' hatey hate speech surely won't be permitted much longer under Nicola Roxon's proposed language laws. Surely.
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Just more loudmouths, these Hizbies. Nothing at all to worry about, they are @1% of Australia's population and by and large huddle together in their suburbs like sheep in a pen. They are all easily identifiable and most of the gobbiest are on the files of the security services anyway. Push comes to shove? Us vs Them?
No contest, over before it starts.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:14pm)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:18pm)
Yes PF - gun ownership is back up to pre 1996 levels. But it seems the only automatic weapons are in Lakemba, Punchbowl, Bankstown, Guildford and Merrylands.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (04:08pm)
And when they start up something like the AIP ... Australian Islamic Party ... a get a couple of candidates up to hold the balance of power, like the Greens or the "Independents" Oakeshott and Windsor? It'd be power via the ballot box.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (04:20pm)
Yes, PFoNE, if it's only a case of us and them in Oz, then as you say, no contest.
Trouble is, if push comes to shove, they might well call for help from their fellow religionists in our region - with a total of somewhere around 280,000,000.
This redneck has no problem with the dysfunctional areas of Sinny and Melbum becoming caliphates.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:21pm)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:49pm)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (07:17pm)
Quite so!
Except for one small problem, the gerrymander. For every one regional electorate there are about 10 inner city ones. The 'luvvies' and their bureaucracy have rigged the system. A great example was when the 'Cheshire Cat', Peter Beattie promised the people around Greater Brisbane water to the distress of the farming community of the Mary Valley. It was a 'Win - F.U.'.
So in the future when the inner city tells you to face Mecca you will have to jump to it.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (08:13pm)
I just wonder where all the - ahem - 'asylum seekers' will head to then, once the entire world is one big grovelling, caterwauling basket case?
I think you'll find it's your article that would be the target of Roxon's laws, not his speech. Australia is the land where minorities rule.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:24pm)
In the Real world where Football, peace be on it, and not religion, a pox be on its house and all who live in her. I declare that Collingwood, long may it be derided, peterdaicos!. And let cricket, neverplayahorizontalbattoawdeballoutsideoffstump be for ever the summer sport, Gozonta.
It is my wish and understanding, gong gong pootin pootin , that the MCG remain forever the shrine, ding ding whatchoutfortrams, for all time.
self appointed grand poobah, brinbringanswerthat.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:27pm)
Tim, Tim, Tim.
The proposed "language laws" are to protect victims against nasty white conservative views. It's not possible to be racist, sexist, misogynistic, bigoted or <insert specific>-phobic unless you read Bolt or Blair.
BTW, "Wahwah is pedalling caliphate crap, plain and simple." - brilliant.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:33pm)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (04:10pm)
BTW, "Wahwah is pedalling caliphate crap, plain and simple." - brilliant.
Pedalling? Timbo ... peddling, perhaps.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (05:49pm)
"Pedalling" - stet. Very Islamic; it's all in the Koran, specifically Surah 128 (the "Puncture Repair Kit" surah), which relates the night journey of the Prophet (pbuh) from Mecca to Medina on a Raleigh, accompanied by his wife on a wee pink tricycle.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (08:14pm)
Wahwah is pedalling caliphate crap
It's a muso joke.
Tue 15 Jan 13 (10:41am)
Wahwah pedal?? Very tenuous ...
When will the bleeding hearts start to take these haters for their word?
They so clearly do not want peaceful coexistence, they want to rule by force. Will the west wake up in time ...
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:41pm)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (10:42pm)
The bleeding hearts think that they can use Islam as a cudgel to beat about the head and neck of those nasty Western religious types. Then they think they can "modernize" Islam to their liking!
But in this case, when you lay down with dogs, you get up without your head.
Tue 15 Jan 13 (10:28am)
Quite so. Everything Hitler did was spelt out in Mein Kampf, but no one took him seriously. It's not like he was being subtle about what he believed and intended. Same deal today with these clerics.
What does he mean "re-establishing the islamic state"? Since when has Australia been muslim?
And with the hatred the left have for christianity, the safe bet is that they'll be the useful idiots that allow the camel's nose into the tent.
One country. One law. Freedom to choose your religion, and freedom to change your religion. Freedoms that would be denied you under sharia.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:44pm)
Tue 15 Jan 13 (09:59am)
The meaning of: "re-establishing the islamic state"-
We are all born Muslim. Only due to our misguided parents who 'have been led astray' we are Christians or Jews, and since Islam is the only true, the 'original' religion, we don't convert, we 'revert'.
The same with the Islamic state:
Only the caliphate with strict sharia implementation is legitimate; everywhere else the infidels must be removed from holding the reigns of power.
All the world and everything in it belongs to allah and his prophet (or profit, if you prefer.)
The property of the slain infidels is 'booty' and so are their wife's and daughters.
How come that's not common knowledge?
What a bunch of loonies!
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:47pm)
What did the Fairfax groupies say about the speech - anything?
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:51pm)
***"The Taliban, may Allah grant them victory, they are the heroes of the Islamic nation these days***
'Heroes', who boarded a bus and shot schoolgirl Malala in the head.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (01:53pm)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (03:24pm)
Byron, a very good question...so, where are the brave media asking this (amongst many) very same question of the caliphate,taliban loving Wah hi Haha?
Mon 14 Jan 13 (04:46pm)
Let's not forget that the Taliban (misogyny in its most evil form) is also made up of "foreign fighters". Many are Arabs, especially Saudis, Libyans, Egyptians. A small number of British, Uzbeks, Chechens and other Central Asian islamists. Also the odd idiot Australian.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (05:10pm)
Yes. It takes a real man to do that sort of heroic thing.
So let me see if I've got this right.
I'm an infidel.
So that hate speech is directed at me and every other Australian that disagrees with his thoughts of world domination by his religion.
The man's a fool.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:04pm)
Who'll cry racist first?
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:05pm)
The Islam-Infidel war drags on to its inevitable and bloody conclusion.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:17pm)
Tue 15 Jan 13 (06:53am)
In THIS country there can be only one conclusion.
Think about it, I'm sure they do, which is why they do so much gobbing off. In Australia, mouthing off is all they've got.
Since the fatwah on Christmas was issued there have been several instances of increased Islamist agitation. That Hizb Ut-Tahrir is to the fore is no surprise. In fact, one of the main focal points of their 2010 Calipha Conference was the nuts and bolts of using 'lawfare' against Australia. What amazes is how many seem not yet to have comprehended the reality. Although thoroughly and completely Islamist, very few seem to take them at their word.
Talk-back dutifully discussed these incidents and even interviewed "experts" and protagonists. The wash-up was as predictable as it was post-9/11 – these views don't represent "moderate Islam"; there was even a statement by an afternoon 2GB stand-in that "real Muslims" should and would totally reject such hard-line "interpretations". After all, they just want to live a simple Australian life, right?
This smacks of an ignorance that is, these days, unforgiveable in journalists who claim some level of understanding and insight into the Islamist agenda.
There has been NO REPUDIATION of any Islamist action ever in Australia which carried any clout beyond the tame Australian media and there never will be because virtually every Islamist demand has a foundation in either Koran, Haddith or Surrah. NO Muslim cleric or spokesperson would ever repudiate these various fatwahs or demands because to do so would be to speak against the word of Mohamed or Allah. We know the fate of those who attempt such.
Since 9/11 – (as a convenient starting date) – there have been many calls for Islam to moderate itself, to rid itself of its more violent, misogynistic and hateful aspects. To date, there has been no such moderation..
And please, take Hizb et al at their word - they aren't making this stuff up.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:19pm)
Give them their own caliphate. Five hundred hectares equidistant between Kalgoolie and the SA border with closed borders and no diplomatic recognition
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:47pm)
Did Talal tell all the Talibabies about us?
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:48pm)
Careful, Tim. You may cop a Wahwah knee.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (02:49pm)
The lecture – the complete recording of which will be up on our website soon – was about the establishment of the Caliphate in the Muslim World. At no point was any vision for Australia presented.
Obviously he's referring to an Islamic Caliphate in every country EXCEPT the one he lives in.
Mon 14 Jan 13 (03:22pm)
Been dragging on in fits and starts for about 1.5 millenia!
Mon 14 Jan 13 (04:42pm)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (08:51pm)
And they are still stuck 1.5 millenia behind us and want to drag us back. Blue Heeler is right. They aren't making this stuff up.
and now for Tal to tell us how wrong we heard the plain english (with aussie accent)
Mon 14 Jan 13 (05:19pm)
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In the article entitled "Gallstones in Children" by Seidler and Brakeley (The Journal, May 25, p. 2082) no mention is made among the etiologic factors of the hemolytic anemias—spherocytic ictero-anemia in whites and sickle cell anemia in Negroes. While by no means common, neither are these conditions extremely rare, and they should be borne in mind whenever gallstones are encountered in children. In fact, the case reported by the authors has many features which strongly suggest the presence of sickle cell anemia. A 10 year old Negro girl with a six year history of recurrent boutsof jaundice and abdominal pain who is said to have had rheumatic fever at the age of 4 years and has experienced intervals of fever and arthralgias since and who complains now of anorexia and weakness presents the classic historical background of sickle cell anemia. The notations that she appeared to be
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First, it might help to know about our friend Aesop: Aesop was a slave who lived in Greece in mid-sixth-century BC. He was known for retelling tales based on animals. Each tale had an ending that emphasised some moral attribute (or shortcoming). We have taken the liberty of adding a bit to each tale to suit our means. The real tales can be found in many compliations at bookstores, public libraries, or online. There are even some cartoons on Youtube as well as virtual books available.
There is a stoplight (not to be mistaken for a yellow caution light) in Versailles. It is located at the junction of Highways 5 and 52. From the stoplight, head West. on the left will be the entrance to the VERSAILLES CITY PARK. Park at the gravel lot next to the basketball court.
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The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveler crossing a bridge onto a rock walkway. "I know a way to decide which is stronger, " the Sun said as the traveler took the right-hand fork in the path, "Whichever of us can make the traveler take off his coat will be declared the strongest."
The wind looked down at the traveler strolling along the path. "I'll go first." he said. So, as the traveler crossed another bridge, the wind began to blow as hard as it could. But the harder the wind blew, the closer the traveler held his coat about him. Finally, at the tallest evergreen tree, the traveler took shelter, stepping over the creek and huddling close to the trunk. Soon the wind gave up in despair.
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"Kindness effects more than severity" the Sun said.
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Bad governance and politics and PNG's lost decade
June 2 2012 at 6:10 PM
Andrew Anton Mako (currently at ANU)
Bad governance and politics and PNGs lost decade
Written by Andrew Anton Mako on April 12, 2012
Source: Parliamentary Committee Secretariat
In the last 10 years, PNG has experienced unprecedented, high economic growth. However, that decade can be seen as a wasted decade of missed opportunities for the resource-rich country. There is little to show on the ground in terms of tangible development. Most major towns of the country have faced dramatic fall and deterioration of public infrastructure and government services. For example, Madang which was once affectionately called beautiful is now dirty and is witnessing a rise in criminal activity. One can only imagine what the situation is like in the rural areas where more than 80 percent of the countrys population lives. Public services and infrastructure are collapsing, and the rural population is being affected the most. PNGs Human Development Index (HDI) continues to fall it was positioned 153 out of 187 countries in 2011 by the UNDP. Corruption remains a huge development hurdle for PNG, and in 2011 PNG was ranked 154 out of 182 by Transparency International.
I am from a very remote village deep in the Highlands of PNG. In the last fifteen years, the single health center, the primary school which I attended as a boy, an airstrip that brings supplies to the village, and agricultural extension services have all closed down, and shrubs are now growing on a new road which was built in the late 1990s to connect my village to the nearest town. The 10,000 plus people in that part of the country are literally struggling each day. That is the grim situation of most parts of rural PNG.
On International Womens Day this year at ANU, Dame Carol Kidu spoke about one aspect of PNGs decade-long record economic growth and the opportunities the country has missed to improve the lives of the people the deterioration of the national health system broadly, and the appalling state of maternal health and child mortality in particular in rural PNG. A key cause of this, as Dame Carol pointed out, is the lack of effective leadership and management at all levels of government local, provincial and national.
At a public lecture organized by ANUs National Security College in March 2012 titled Papua New Guinea: Where to Now? three experts on PNG affirmed that political issues, especially the struggle among political leaders and their cohorts for power in government has had a direct and negative impact on PNGs socio-economic conditions. This mismatch between PNGs record economic growth and the fall in governance and basic public services are symptoms of the so-called resource curse or the paradox of plenty.
Because people in rural areas see that they have been neglected by their elected leaders and that basic services do not reach them through the normal process, their attitude towards the government and its public service machinery have dramatically changed. To most, the government is now a cash-cow to milk. This could explain why people who live along the Highlands Highway continue to claim huge sums of compensation from the government before they allow it to fix the highway after a landslide, for example. This is also part of the reason why people continue to vote along their kinship ties rather than along political party lines.
This shift in the mindset of the people is being compounded by the increase in resource projects in the country. As the government seems to have failed its own people in providing basic services, the people, especially the landowners from the resource projects, see the resource projects, and the compensations and royalties they provide as a quick and easy way out of poverty and to catch up with the rest of the country. However, without financial literacy and proper cash-management skills, most go on a spending spree on goods such as flashy vehicles. Although there is now a long history of such improper use of resource funds by landowners (Porgera gold mine landowners are a case in point), the lesson has not been learned.
The government, especially at the provincial and the national levels, seems to care little of such issues, as they are pre-occupied with the competition to be in government and control the huge resource rents (the excess mineral revenues, in particular) the country earns. Indeed, there has not been any major economic policy or reform enacted in the last ten years to turn the countrys fortunes into tangible development which could improve the countrys low HDI and poor governance and improve the lives of the common people in rural areas.
If history and what is currently happening in PNGs politics is any indication of the future, I doubt that this will change in the next twenty or thirty years. Many people, including myself, were hoping the recent change in government would at least start to turn things around. However, observing the events which have unfolded since the change in government makes it clear that PNG continues to go around in a political circle. It seems that the country will not break out of this circle until after the next election at the earliest, and perhaps not even in the next decade unless there are fundamental political reforms. The resource rents will increase when the LNG project starts production, and it will continue to undermine effective governance as greedy politicians compete for power and control over the rents. Unless there is a radical change in the political landscape, things will not change at all for the better.
PNG needs better laws (better than the Organic Law on Political Parties and Candidates) which, for example, could constrain the number of political parties. This will lead to stability in government so the government of the day can feel secure that it will be in power for at least the foreseeable future until the next election, and concentrate on turning the proceeds of economic growth into real development. If it means making provisions in the national constitution to achieve such radical reforms, so be it. Along with such political reforms, the existing checks and balances need to be further strengthened, and importantly the bill to establish an Independent Commission Against Corruption should be passed.
Development will also require a radical shift in the mindset of the people. Voter-education is crucial so that people start to vote along party lines instead of voting their village chiefs or their in-laws, who will return their favour when they are in parliament. These would be radical departures from the status quo, but ones that would have lasting positive impacts on politics, governance and the socio-economic development of PNG.
Other reforms will not have teeth at all, including economic reforms. The head has to move in the right direction. Effective and stable leadership has to be set in place first. With the type of political system PNG currently has, including the large number of parties (more than 40 political parties have been registered to go into years election, for example), there is no way PNG will have a stable government, even after the 2012 national election. And with the huge resources rents up for grabs, the political tussle to be in power will not lessen, and the people will continue to be neglected.
Andrew Anton Mako is a postgraduate economics student at the ANU Crawford School. Prior to that, he worked at PNGs National Research Institute, and at the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat.
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Albert Tobby says:
May 24, 2012 at 11:37 am
Just last week I drove up the National Highlands Highway from Madang to Banz in the newly created Jiwaka Province (formerly Western Highlands Province). I visited several feeder roads to the remote villages in parts of Simbu Province and Eastern Highlands Province (EHP). My observation is in agreement with Andrew that the past ten years of high economic growth at the macro level has not trickled down to the micro level. Many rural villages and some urban dwellers in PNG are struggling at the fringes of deteriorating infrastructures. The state of the national Highlands Highway which is the main economic lifeline of two- thirds of the nations populations is deplorable. Some section of the roads are virtually impassable. It makes me wonder: what has happened to all the economic growth trumpeted in ADB, ANZ and BPNG reports? Alas, the 10 million Kina District Support Grant given to each MP each year for five years. Some MPs like the Speaker of Parliament Hon. Jeffery Nape have been MPs for 2 consecutive terms (10 years).
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David from afar
Re: Bad governance and politics and PNG's lost decade
June 3 2012, 4:53 AM
Most scapers here, despite supposedly being elite (they're not) and educated (they're not) think that government is also a cash cow which candidates should milk, then providing lollies to the voters.
This is a very good article!
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Bad Governance and politics and ONGs lost brain cells
June 5 2012, 10:58 AM
Yeah and maybe somebody should study the lack of brain cells in the PNGian head!
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Re: Bad Governance and politics and ONGs lost brain cells
June 6 2012, 7:17 AM
Thanks for your comments, Mr Anti-PNG aka Daniel Collins of Cairns.
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Not-elite and uneducated
Re: Bad Governance and politics and ONGs lost brain cells
June 7 2012, 9:54 AM
David from afar,
Your comments seethe of the typical arrogance of the child of PNG politician thief who got away with it and now lives broad.
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Re: Bad Governance and politics and ONGs lost brain cells
June 7 2012, 6:41 PM
Would you say the same thing about the original author of the article since the 'David from afar' fellow says he agrees with that article??????
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Not-elite and uneducated
Re: Bad Governance and politics and ONGs lost brain cells
June 8 2012, 12:19 PM
Not sure what answer your looking for as I also with the article.
What I do not agree with is with all scapers being tarred with same brush.
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Publication Acceptance Date: April 1, 2008
Publication Date: April 15, 2008
Citation: Silva, M.V., Van Tassell, C.P., Sonstegard, T.S., Matukumalli, L.K., Schroeder, S.G., Gasbarre, L.C. 2008. MAPPING QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI ASSOCIATED WITH PARASITIC INFECTION USING 50K SNP CHIP IN ANGUS BREED. BARC Poster Day. Technical Abstract: QTL for parasite indicator traits in cattle are ideal targets for study of marker assisted selection; however the phenotypic data and available resource populations were not optimal for reliable QTL identification. Fecal egg count (FEC) values, which are used to measure resistance to nematodes, are not "normally" distributed and logarithmic transformations fail to properly normalize this data in most cases. FEC data recorded for 410 animals between 1992 and 2003 from the BARC Angus herd were transformed using log and an extension of the Box-Cox transformation to approach normality. In preliminary analysis to estimate the position and variance components of the QTL, 221 microsatellites markers were genotyped across 29 chromosomes and QTL detection was done using QxPak. QTL for Box-Cox transformed FEC was on chromosome 6 at 5% chromosome-wise significant P-value. For raw and log transformation FEC data, no QTL were found. These results indicate that after transforming data by the Box-Cox procedure the QTL mapping were more exact. The results of this analysis will be compared to those done using an association analysis with genotypes from 49,559 SNPs genotypes generated from the Bovine50K SNP chip. Supported by USDA ARS CRIS Project No. 1265-31000-098-00D.