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It's time to deleverage. The best way to increase your cash flow is to decrease money going to unnecessary interest charges. Focus on paying off all debt that isn't tied to a mortgage. Concentrate on the loans with the highest interest rates first, likely those carried by credit cards, then focus on car loans, student loans, and any other non-mortgage related debt. Caution: moving debt between credit cards and other loan types is not deleveraging.
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A contaminated Snickers bar sent to its manufacturer had been laced with a substance similar to pest poison and could be harmful to children, NSW Police said today.
A scientific report on the chocolate bar, which was sent to Masterfoods along with extortion threats, couldn't identify the contaminant.
But analysis revealed the substance appeared to be similar to a number of commercial pest poisons, a police statement said.
Masterfoods recalled all Snickers and Mars Bars in NSW last Friday after the company received extortion letters claiming seven bars had been contaminated.
Police conducted an interim report after Masterfood received a letter and a contaminated Snickers bar.
"The interim report does state if consumption of a similar amount of the contaminant - as found in the infected bar - were to occur, then ill-effects cannot be ruled out in people of small body mass, such as children who are potentially the most vulnerable," the statement said.
"The contaminated Snickers bar is currently undergoing further analysis in NSW in an effort to positively identify the contaminant."
Police in NSW and Victoria were working to track down those behind the extortion threats.
Masterfoods regional president Andy Weston-Webb today welcomed the report which he hoped would help the police investigation.
"I'm very pleased the police have released details of the forensic report because it may help with the (police) investigation and could also assist doctors in dealing with inquiries," he said.
Masterfoods again warned the NSW public not to eat the popular chocolate bars after learning a 15-year-old boy suffered "flu-like symptoms" today after taking a bite of the Snickers bar he bought at Seven Hills railway station.
Mr Weston-Webb said the boy did not require hospital treatment and was now feeling fine.
"Someone at Seven Hills station saw him eating the bar and stopped him from eating it," Mr Weston-Webb said.
"He'd only had one mouthful."
The boy's illness comes after 19 people who had consumed the products had called the company's hotline complaining of illness over the weekend. Two had sought hospital treatment.
Mr Weston-Webb estimated more than one million chocolate bars had been returned the company since last Friday's recall.
He said Masterfoods would continue its efforts to remove any remaining products from sale in NSW.
"We are asking for the help of everyone in NSW - please let us know if you see a Mars or Snickers bar for sale at any retail outlet, including vending machines," he said.
Mr Weston-Webb said Masterfoods had stepped up its efforts to improve its multi-lingual customer hotline after reports of language problems with some retailers.
"There are 14 different languages spoken by operators at our call centre and we urge people to contact 1 800 85 85 02 to report any Mars or Snickers product still on sale in NSW," he said.
MasterFoods was still in discussions with food authorities as to how best to destroy the bars.
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Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (PBC) spreads the teachings of Buddhism accourding to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The center was established in New York in 1989 by Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. PBC includes over 20 centers in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Russia, as well as monastic institutions in the U.S. and India.
The on-going Dharma projects of Padmasambhava Buddhist Center are:
Padma Samye Jetavan: The Miracle Stupa for World Peace
Padma Samye Jetavan, was dedicated in 2004. It is located in Jetavan Grove in Shravasti, where Buddha Shakyamuni resided and taught for 24 years during the rainy season and performed many miracles for 15 days. The first miracle stupa was erected in commeration of these remarkable displays. However, due to tragedy and invasions, the original stupa was reduced to ruins.
It was the long time wish and lifelong vision of the Venerable Khenpos to restore the magnificence of this holy site. Rising 100 feet into the sky, the Great Miracle Stupa commemorates Lord Buddha's activities in this auspicious location, and is just 5 miles from the original stupa. Intended to last 1,000 years, the rebuilt stupa temple houses a large stone Buddha and is made of the finest materials available in India today.
Managed by one full-time resident monk and an Indian caretaker, the temple is open daily and is a pilgrimage and practice site for many Indians and tourists.
Padma Samye Chokhor Ling Monastery
Padma Samye Chokhor Ling is situated in the holy city of Sarnath, Varanasi, India, where Buddha gave his first teaching on the Four Arya Truths. Due to the significance of the site, the land for the monastery was purchased in 1972 according to the inspiration and blessings of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche. Construction of the monastery was begun in 1990 and officially inaugurated in 1995.
A traditional monastery and retreat center, it is home to 20 monks from Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan, ranging in age from 9 through 30. The education of the monks consists of learning the basics of reading, writing and grammar as well as study of the philosophical texts. The monks also learn English.
It is the wish of the Venerable Khenpos that it become a study and meditation center for their students and friends of the Dharma from around the world.
Orgyen Samye Chokhor Ling Nunnery
Orgyen Samye Chokhor Ling is the first Buddhist nunnery at historic Deer Park in SarnathIts four acres of land are peppered with fruit trees and flowers, and is a short walk from the monastery. Opened in March 2003, it reflects the Venerable Khenpo's commitment to provide equal educational opportunities for both women and men. At present, there is a two-story house, to which a new wing has almost been completed. This wing includes a shrine room, library, reading and study rooms, as well as better facilities for both the nuns and visitors.
The nunnery now houses 10 nuns, ranging in age from 14 through the mid-30s from Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkhim. The two senior nuns are from the same area as the Khenpos (in Tibet) and have both completed at least one traditional three-year retreat.
The education of the nuns is very similar to that of the monks. They first begin with the basics: reading, writing and learning the chants. They all receive a solid academic foundation including grammar, art and English, as well as philosophy and the principles of the Bodhisattva life directly from the Khenpo. But the nuns education also includes the extra component of extensive Chod practice, as they practice Chod every evening.
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Socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie met up on Tuesday, January 5 to mourn the tragic death of their friend Casey Johnson. The "Simple Life" co-stars were devastated on Monday, January 4 when news broke that their childhood friend, heir to the Johnson & Johnson empire, was found dead at the age of 30 in her Los Angeles home.
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The Buffalo Sabres officially announced their preseason schedule Thursday, and revealed family-friendly prices for the three home games in First Niagara Center.
The home games will be Sept. 23 against Carolina, Sept. 26 against Toronto and Oct. 1 against Washington. All will be 7 p.m. starts.
The Sabres will open the exhibition schedule Sept. 21 at Washington, and will also travel to Toronto on Sept. 28 and to the preseason finale Oct. 3 at Carolina.
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The team also announced that the Aug. 25 date will mark the start of ticket sales for the USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game. It will be played in the arena on Sept. 25 and is likely to feature Boston University center Jack Eichel, expected to be one of the top two picks in next June's NHL draft.
Tickets for the Prospects Game will be $15 for 100 and 200 Level and $10 for the 300 Level.
Meanwhile, the Sabres appear primed to add another member to their coaching staff with word that former Ted Nolan aide Danny Flynn is leaving his post with Moncton of the Quebec League to join his former boss in Buffalo.
Flynn's move back to the NHL was reported Thursday The Q News, a website dedicated to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and by Halifax Mooseheads radio announcer John Moore.
Flynn, 56, is director of hockey operations for Moncton and served there as an assistant under Nolan in 2005-06, as well as with Sault Ste. Marie of the OHL during the 1990s and the New York Islanders in 2006-07. He is a former head coach of Moncton as well.
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Playing Devil's ADvocate here (an unusual position fo rme, as I'm usually crititcal of Amazon), is that really that bad? I have a Kobo Glo and the lighting effect looks pretty similar overall, aside from the fact that (with the default settings) Kobo smartly hid the blotchiness at the bottom by inverting it (creating a small black area with grey text on top of it for the page numbering). Amazon could copy Kobo's innovation (which really does do an amazing job at smoothing out the apparent lighting) with a firmware update for the Paperwhite.
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isn't that still more even lighting than you would have with an e-ink reader and an external book light?
And isn't it still better on your eyes at night than an LCD tablet? I personally don't care how white the screen is (not that Kobo has promised a white screen, perhaps I'd feel differently if I felt lied to); I don't read on an e-reader trying to mimic the paper experience, I read on an e-reader trying to have an e-reading experience.
Not in my experience. A good clip on like my MightyBrite casts at least as even of light as the doctored Amazon photos and way better eveness than the three actual PWs I've had. You really have to see the PW in person. Photos on the internet are not even close to the same visual experience.
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Another journey of self awareness and spirituality. Good lessons to be learned from all of her writings. Nice change of settings also with the ancient peoples of England.
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More than a million readers have followed Lynn Andrews on her journeys into the sacred mysteries of the Sisterhood of the Shields -- and this may be the most startling episode yet. Guided by Agnes Whistling Elk into a world of power and magic, Lynn Andrews enters the sacred Dreamtime and emerges as a young woman, Catherine, in medieval England. There she encounters Grandmother, the Woman of Wyrrd, who becomes her teacher -- a woman who offers to take Andrews's ordinary life and build it into a remarkable one full of power, goodness, adventure, and love. In this dazzling spritual adventure, Andrews tells the fascinating story of Catherine's introduction into the secrets of the Sisterhood, her initiation into its rituals and cermonies, her confrontation with death when she dishonors that tradititon, and her terrifying attemp to recover the soul she loses to a dark brooding man who enters her life. In The Woman of Wyrrd, Lynn Andrews reveals the many secrets she has learned about working with the energies of Mother Earth, restoring feminine power and potential, and ultimately tapping into a life without fear.
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On 2 Mar 2001, Thomas Graichen wrote: > Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> just updated the kernel on my ppc machine yesterday - worked all fine > >> so far ... that i tried the kio and kiocluster options on the ppc too > >> and ran into problems: as soon as i write to the fs it detects an io > >> error and shuts down ... thus a few questions: > > > I presume the same devices worked OK without kio, did they work OK after > > this shutdown? Hi, Do you have the error messages? AFAIK, kiobuf code is _not_ arch specific. > >> * am i right in assuming that the kio stuff does not contain any > >> arch specific parts so it should - in principle - work also on > >> the pcc which would leave endian or gcc issues as a possible > >> reason for the problem? > > > I think this is true, there are no os specific components, where you using > > ide or scsi? The ide kio code is specific to having dma turned on. So which > > combination was this? > > it's ide and dma turned on There are no arch specific components to the kiobuf code. Though, if you are using more than 1GB there may be an issue with highmem bouncing code in kiobuf I/O. How much memory do you have on your system? > >> * does anyone have an idea off-mind what might be the reson for > >> this? ... i'll turn on all the debugging options and see if i > >> get any more information out of it this evening i think > > > Chait may have some suggestions, but the specific hardware combination is > > the most interesting part of the equation right now. > > thanks - as said i waill (and can) do more testing this evening Error messages, if any, would help....I'll wait for the results from your tests. Cheers, -Chait.
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The usual response to my "situation" typically includes a gasp, a "WHAT?!" and other expressions of sheer horror. And what is so scandalous about me that warrants this reaction?
The usual response to my "situation" typically includes a gasp, a "WHAT?!" and other expressions of sheer horror. And what is so scandalous about me that warrants this reaction?
It's not because I'm a martian or that I don't know who Justin Bieber is - It's because I am a perfectly happy, perfectly single, 28-year-old Valentine's Day virgin.
To this day, I have yet to have a special someone to mark this romance-filled day with. Well--other than myself--that is.
How has this happened? It's a combination of being perpetually single, not desperate to be in a relationship and a little bit of a personal choice. Most of my 20s thus far have mostly been centered on one thing: me . Finishing school, starting a career, moving to Manhattan - all were goals that didn't involve a guy or a relationship.
I've met many single women who find themselves solo during Valentine's Day and face this time of year with a bit of jealousy, rage and resentment towards couples, love and anything V-Day. I, on the other hand, have adopted a more unconventional single girl's way to mark this occasion. By fully embracing Valentine's Day and celebrating myself, my family and my friends!
I don't let my single status get in the way of being wrapped up in all the love that's in the air. So each year, I make it a point to find a positive way to mark the day- pints of ice cream, Chinese take-out and rom-com marathons not included.
Some ways I celebrate include:
Lookin' good: Dressing up for work, putting on an extra layer of mascara and facing the day with my hot single self.
Planning a special meal: Fixing myself a nice dinner and eating off of my good plates. Saving nice dinnerware for just special occasions is a travesty. Any day of the year is a good day to treat yourself well. Valentine's Day is no exception, so enjoy a nice home cooked meal, by yourself or with friends, on your good plates. I've learned how to stop being lazy, stop ordering take-out, and using real plates like an adult.
Mailing loved ones Valentines: I strategically mail Valentines to my mom and friends to arrive right on V-Day. I usually include a lovey-dovey card and the absolutely expected and required piece of chocolate. If I'm feeling extra cute, I'll craft my own Valentines for a personalized touch.
By celebrating my Valentine's Day virginity, I've learned how to be content with my singledom during a time when it seems like everyone is married or in relationships. It's easy to feel like I'm the only single person out there! But by learning how to love myself and those important to me, I know I'll be ready for when Mr. Right finally shows his face.
Note to my future husband: You better like Valentine's Day.
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Readers who appreciate literature, or who would like to increase their knowledge of it would do well to read, Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books by Wendy Lesser. It is a companionable guide to books where Ms. Lesser shares her opinions and musings of particular works and authors This book might also be of interest to book club members who would like to develop their analyzing skills. Ms. Lesser opines that character is part of plot and asks if the character is persuasive.
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Broadcast: 03/09/2003
Authors in history debate
Joining us for another skirmish in the ongoing history war is Stuart MacIntyre, whose book was launched today. He is the Ernest Scott Professor of History at Melbourne University and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Evatt Foundation. And, to debate him, is Keith Windschuttle, most recently the author of 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History - Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847."
Compere: Tony Jones
Reporter: Tony Jones
TONY JONES: Well, joining us for another skirmish in the ongoing history wars is Stuart McIntyre, whose book was launched today, as we've just seen.
He's the Ernest Scott Professor of History at Melbourne University and a former member of the executive committee of the Evatt Foundation.
And to debate him is Keith Windschuttle, most recently the author of 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Van Diemen's Land, 1803 to 1847'.
Both are in our Melbourne studios.
Thanks for joining us.
TONY JONES: Stuart McIntyre, in launching your book, Paul Keating has made another scathing attack on John Howard and his view of history.
Is that a reflection, I wonder, of what your book is about?
STUART MACINTYRE, HISTORIAN: Well, I think he's responding to my book and the views were his.
His views were that we deserve a better history than the one we're getting and that we're diminished by the attempt to suppress alternative views.
TONY JONES: But are we seeing once again the intersection of politics and history?
It seems as if we're stuck with two competing camps in Australian history.
That would be the Keating camp, in political terms, and the Howard camp?
STUART MACINTYRE: Well, I adopted the term "history wars" for my book partly because that's a description of the campaign that's being waged, but I don't think that wars are a particularly good way of resolving issues and one of the problems is that they polarise alternative views into right or wrong or good or bad and do very little justice to the variety of history that's actually practiced.
TONY JONES: But what do you think about that idea that there are two camps on different sides of Australian politics represented by Keating on one side and Howard on the other?
STUART MACINTYRE: No, I think that our histories are much more various than that.
TONY JONES: There isn't any question though, is there - the PM has been one of the key voices on one side of this debate?
You've set that out yourself?
STUART MACINTYRE: Undoubtedly, yes.
One of the key moments in the history wars that I describe - the speeches that John Howard gave in 1996 where he condemned what he called the pernicious re-writing of Australian history.
One of the problems, I think, one of the images that the history wars use is that history is fixed and final and can't be questioned and can't change.
TONY JONES: Keith Windschuttle, let me bring you in.
There's no question that you're one of the history warriors.
Do you find yourself in one or the other of these political camps?
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE, HISTORIAN: Well, I think Stuart's attempt to caricature the history debate as being either pro-Keating or pro-Howard is really fundamentally wrong.
My views about Aboriginal history in particular long surpass the Howard Government.
I believe the orthodox story up until the year 2000 - the traditional story that there was a great deal of violence.
I said that Charles Rowley's book, 'The Destruction of Aboriginal Society' was one of the great works of Australian historiography and what changed my view in 2000, in that year - it had nothing to do with the Howard Government.
It was that I got suspicious about the orthodox story and I decided to do some archival investigations and that was when I saw that the whole thing couldn't be sustained by the evidence.
TONY JONES: I think it's probably fair to say - and I will bring Stuart McIntyre back in - that he didn't suggest it was confined to two camps.
He said something rather different.
STUART MACINTYRE: No, I was resisting that proposition.
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: I'm sorry Stuart, but your book doesn't.
Your book in fact divides people into goodies and badies and the goodies are those who support Paul Keating and the bad historians are the ones who you claim support John Howard.
TONY JONES: Well, Stuart McIntyre, the very term "history wars" comes from an attack in the early 90s.
Newt Gingrich assaulted the Smithsonian Museum for their exhibits.
We now seem to be seeing echoes of that here in Australia with the National Museum of Australia.
STUART MACINTYRE: Well, I think that one of the features of the history wars, which are international, although they're always argued in terms of the unique virtue of a particular nation, is that cultural institutions become very important and the display of our country's history in the museum is of considerable interest to the Government.
The distinctive thing about the National Museum is an unprecedented interference by members of the council, appointed by the Government, into the professional activities of the museum staff.
TONY JONES: Keith Windschuttle, you bore heavily into this debate.
It seemed, from your point of view, the National Museum of Australia represented where Australian history was going wrong?
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: I think that's true.
I made two critiques actually.
One was about the accuracy of a number of the exhibits.
I also argued that the overall themes of the museum were based on the '70s radical politics of gender, race and class, of feminist history, gay liberation, Aboriginal radicalism and environmentalism radicalism.
And the whole idea that Australia has been built up by people who are now dismissed as dead white males, but people who in fact founded the wealth on which we all lived, that is, who established agriculture, industry, mining, those people get no treatment in the museum which is any way favourable.
In fact, they're regarded as kind of a vermon that arrived after 1788 along with the rabbit, the common starling and the fox.
TONY JONES: Stuart McIntyre, the critique is, I suppose, that that museum is about social history, it's about the people, rather than the agents of history as Keith Windschuttle has put it in his writings.
What do you say to that?
STUART MACINTYRE: I think the museum is much richer than that and I would invite the viewers to go along and visit the museum, as many people have.
It's a museum of material culture and it's also a museum of contemporary history and it's populated by a large number of Australians.
TONY JONES: Keith Windschuttle?
You make the wider point, the broader point, I suppose, that historians, as you would see it, are out to make a political case.
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: Well I think historians have in fact betrayed their profession over the last couple of decades.
It's no secret that the left controls history in Australia, that most of the humanities departments are themselves left dominated and history itself is by far the worst.
And what that's meant is that leftest radicalism has defined history teaching in Australia.
It's a bit rich for Stuart to say his critics have the op ed pages of the newspapers.
That's about all his critiques do have.
Most people who criticise this don't work in universities because they're not employed.
If they seek to do research projects they don't get funded, they don't get any support from the people who control our funding, which, as Greg Melleuish quite correctly said, is Stuart and his friends.
So the outlets for a conservative critique of this whole left-wing agenda are very few and far between.
TONY JONES: Stuart McIntyre, what do you say to that?
STUART MACINTYRE: Well, that's nonsense.
My own history department at the University of Melbourne has about 30 staff members.
I haven't asked the politics of many of them and I don't know the politics of many of them, but I do know that they span the spectrum and the suggestion that only research projects of a particular political viewpoint are funded is wrong and is slanderous.
TONY JONES: Keith Windschuttle, you have been accused yourself in that book of lacking objectivity, of having political motives indeed and of trying to undermine Aboriginal land rights, of trying to say there's no such thing as Terra Nullius.
How do you respond to that criticism?
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: On the question of objectivity, my whole project has been to show that the historians' claims in their books and footnotes are not matched by what's in the archives.
In some cases, they've invented sources.
Now that's a very serious charge.
I've documented it fully.
There's now been one major book - Robert Mann's last week and Stuart's touches on it today - and quite frankly they haven't answered my charges.
TONY JONES: Stuart McIntyre, let's address the catalogue of errors and mis-statements which Keith Windschuttle does put forward.
You've written yourself that history is a discipline with rules of argument and evidence.
Would you agree that in setting out a series of major errors, within contemporary historical works, that he's actually done a service to history?
STUART MACINTYRE: Yes, I think that the most important contribution that Keith Windschuttle has made, I think, in the history wars is that he is someone who has gone into the archives and is challenging the interpretation of the evidence, and that's perfectly legitimate.
I think it's regretful - TONY JONES: He's actually challenging the evidence itself isn't he, not just the interpretation?
He's saying there have been mis-statements, errors of fact, and indeed he's arguing that some of these historians have actually fabricated evidence?
STUART MACINTYRE: I don't think there's any evidence of fabrication.
Errors of fact are pointed out by James Boyce in large numbers in Keith's own work.
He, for instance, points out that Keith misunderstands the dates of publication of a French expedition as the dates of the expedition itself, which is sort of an elementary howler.
TONY JONES: Keith Windschuttle?
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: That's the most minor issue that anyone could possibly raise.
In fact I corrected that long before I ever heard from James Boyce.
I corrected that in a revised edition of my book.
The time that a French exploration came into Van Diemen's Land has nothing to do with what happened to the Aborigines.
I've actually found historians, like Henry Reynolds, changing the words of Governor Arthur in Tasmania to make it look as if the town of Hobart was under threat by guerrilla warfare.
Reynolds also claims that both Perth and Brisbane were under threat by Aboriginal guerrilla warfare too.
These are bogus claims that when you actually look at the statements - and Reynolds himself has now admitted he changed the words of this - then the original archives don't show what the historians are claiming.
In Tasmania, we now have Aboriginal activities who say that the arrival of the British was like an invasion of the Nazis.
There was genocide in Tasmania.
Now, even some people, like Henry Reynolds, agree with me there was no genocide, but others, like Lyndal Ryan, claim there was genocide.
My critics have now walked away from the charge of genocide.
They are not defending it in any way, shape or form, and so I take that as conceding that my charge there was no genocide in Tasmania, is now established.
I think Stuart really should recognise that.
It's not just a few mistakes that my critique has pointed out, it's actually the basic message of the whole story.
TONY JONES: Stuart McIntyre, can you bring you in there.
You've actually made the point that it is for the historians who have been criticised to respond for themselves.
I know that you've written this book, 'History Wars', these allegations that are made by Keith Windschuttle are central to those history wars in recent times, have you gone through the footnotes and catalogues and the detail that he's set out to look at whether those historians, those key contemporary historians got a lot of their facts wrong?
STUART MACINTYRE: Yes, I have.
I read his book carefully and I read the responses carefully.
I think it's clear that some of the footnotes that Lyndal Ryan used were mistake.
I think that's a long way short of showing fabrication and I think that Keith Windschuttle has lumped together a large number of historians into a single school with a fairly reckless disregard for what they were saying and I think his history is poor history.
It's a history that's lacking in any historical empathy about an episode of occupation and dispossession that was traumatic and tragic in its consequences and I wish he would concede that.
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: Can I just say, Tony, Stuart criticises me in his book as lacking compassion.
The responsibility of the historian is not to be compassionate, it is to be dispassionate.
It's to stand above current political squabbles and aims and objectives and to try and get at the truth.
What the historians of Aboriginal Australia have done is they've taken sides in disputes.
They've supported one faction over another.
They've taken a political charge that Australia has this deep shame at the root of its history and have tried to make it into a big political case.
TONY JONES: Keith Windschuttle, can I just interrupt, we're nearly out of time, but I want to just put to you the words of Sir Anthony Mason.
This is in the forward to Stuart McIntyre's book, I should add.
"At the end of the day there can be no denial "of the fundamental proposition that the indigenous people of Australia "were dispossessed against their will of much of their traditional lands.
"The extent of the force and the violence "that accompanied that dispossession is a matter of historical research and debate, "but the fundamental proposition remains unshaken."
Do you accept that at least as a correct statement?
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: No because what happened was not against their will.
If you actually look at the relations between blacks and whites in Australia, most Aborigines - this is certainly true in Tasmania in the first 20 years - they were overawed by these strange new people, they were intrigued by their society, fascinated by their technology, they wanted to know about what they had.
It's only very much later in the case in Tasmania where there was any violence.
In most of the mainland the level of violence was extremely low, was individual squabbles.
The idea that there was some frontier warfare or Aboriginal resistance where the will of the Aboriginal people was thwarted by these invaders is a mythological construct.
TONY JONES: Stuart McIntyre, a final comment on that if I can.
It appears that even that basic statement by Sir Anthony Mason is not acceptable.
STUART MACINTYRE: I'm surprised by that because it seems clear the result was dispossession and it goes back to my argument about historical empathy.
It's not a question of what side you take in a contemporary political debate.
It's putting yourself in the shoes of someone else and imagining what it was like and there's a complete failure of that basic historical process in Keith's work.
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: Well, I'd argue that in fact is just what I have done.
That putting yourself in the Aborigines' eyes does not see the arrival of the British in the late 18th century as invaders at all.
TONY JONES: Alright, I'm afraid that's where we'll have to leave it.
We have run out of time for the debate.
Thank you very much to both of you, Stuart McIntyre and Keith Windschuttle, for joining us tonight.
STUART MACINTYRE: Thank you, Tony.
KEITH WINDSCHUTTLE: My pleasure.


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School Counselors Chris Zacha and Erin Howard lead a mother-daughter pajama night intended to discuss social issues with young girls in Calabasas.
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Once a playground for Saudi princes and visiting diplomats, the ancient courtyards of the El Badi Palace in the centre of the medina in Marrakech are the opulent setting for the Puro Desert Lounge Weekend.
The courtyard will be filled with tents, carpets, pillows, torches and performing artists ... with a soundtrack provided by a rather impressive cast. Brian Ferry and Felix "Basement Jazz" Buxton are taking the Friday night, with Coldcut and Gilles Peterson doing the duties on Saturday.
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Festive Jaén, Andalucía
On October 18, the town of Jaén holds its annual festival, the Feria se San Lucas celebrated with a series of dances and horse-led processions around the town's vast Renaissance cathedral.
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Five-star hostelling, Donegal
The Irish Youth Hostel Association has just opened a five-star hostel at the foot of the Donegal's highest mountain, Errigal. A five-star hostel doesn't mean quite the same as a five-star hotel, but it is pretty darn nice, and pretty darn reasonable.
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Apparently there's a festival going on in Munich some time in October. Most of the town's normal accommodation is booked up months in advance but there are some smashing outdoor options, usually the last to fill up. The Tent is a backpacker institution, where hordes of travellers sleep in bunks (€10.50 per bunk) in a huge marquee under the light of giant Japanese lanterns.
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The 17th Prague Autumn International Music Festival comes to a close on October 1, rounding up a three-week classical music extravaganza. Nightly concerts take place at the neo-Renaissance Rudolfinum Concert Hall, with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra playing Beethoven and Vaughan Williams on Friday September 28, and the Köln Symphony Orchestra playing Strauss and Sibelius on Saturday 29. Miss Sophie's is a suitably refined boutique hostel, with doubles from £45, or dorms from £10.
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· Westonbirt (01666 880220, forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt) adults £7, children £2, open daily until dusk. lodgefarm.co.uk (01666 505339) doubles from £60.
Chocolate festival, Perugia
For a week in October, Perugia becomes the chocolate capital of the universe. The Eurochocolate Fair is in the city's historic centre, which transforms itself into a huge open-air pastry shop for the assembled gluttonous hordes.
Events include exhibitions, open chocolate laboratories, banquets, cooking classes ... and the edge-of-the-seat finale: the Eurochocolate Awards. The family-run Casa sul Lago is 10 minutes away from the sugar rush, on the banks of Lake Trasimeno, with doubles from €30pp pn.
· October 12-21, eurochocolate.com, lacasasullago.com
Europe by bus
If you book before September 30, Busabout is offering two-for-one on a number of escapades this autumn. The Three Day Italian Adventure takes in the Amalfi coast, Sorrento, Capri and Rome and will cost £115 for two people, including entry to Pompeii.
For something a little longer, the Greek Island Flexi-hopper is a nine-day jaunt around Mykonos, Paros, Santorini and Ios, for £159 for two, including all ferries and transfers.
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Land & Water Australia invests, through this Innovation Call, in research projects to achieve the more sustainable use and management of Australia's natural resources. We invite innovative research proposals that address any of the following;
- Practical cost-effective techniques, suitable for emissions trading, for accounting for fluxes of greenhouse gases through agricultural and native terrestrial ecosystems, with a focus on soils.
- Impacts of climate and atmospheric change on vegetation water-use and recharge for the principal native vegetation classes of Australia.
- Improving the rigour and relevance of the metrics used in market-based instruments designed to allocate funds to natural resource outcomes.
- Social impacts of irrigation adjustment in the Murray Darling Basin in emerging policy and water markets.
Full guidelines and short application
forms are available from http://www.lwa.gov.au/Apply_for_Funding/Innovation_Call/indexdl_8805.aspx
Conversations about Science
This is a new resource soon to be freely available for all schools to access. They were originally designed to allow indigenous learners to engage with western science. We hope they achieve that and more. Our early support of these with teachers shows they have a more general use. When teachers use the graphics provided (copyright free), they can construct their own conversations about topics and ideas of interest to their location and context.
It is
expected that this resource (in hard copy and digital from) will be available,
at no cost, at CONASTA '08 and ASERA '08.
This material has been developed as part of the Australian School Innovation in Science, Technology and Mathematics Project, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training as part of the Boosting Innovation in Science, technology and mathematics Teaching (BISMT) Programme.
Primary Connections Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives
The Primary Connections: linking science and literacy project is pleased to announce that the exemplary curriculum unit: Plants in action Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives will be available in mid-June. The Indigenous Perspective Framework and supporting resources are currently being developed for the website.
The Indigenous Perspective Framework, which is based on national research findings and collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups, cultural consultants, Indigenous education and linguistic experts aims to accelerate science and literacy learning outcomes for Indigenous students and increase non-Indigenous students' and teachers' awareness and understanding of Indigenous perspectives. (Primary Connections gratefully acknowledges the contributions of those involved with development of the Indigenous Perspective Framework.)
For more information about the release of the Plants in action Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives unit and the Indigenous Perspective Framework go to: www.science.org.au/primaryconnections/indigenous.htm
Cultural Studies of Science Education
We are pleased to announce Springer is currently running a special promotion to provide readers with free access to all issues of our journal Cultural Studies of Science Education. You have free access to the articles in Online First, the first two volumes of CSSE, and the first two issues of Volume 3. Almost 3,000 pages can be downloaded as PDF files during this trial period.
Many of the articles
will be of great interest to science educators, including almost 300
pages of dialogue about conceptual change theory in relation
to sociocultural theories for science education. These
articles are presently in Online First and in the next day or so will become Volume 3, Issue 2. Also, a special issue focusing on Indigenous Knowledge is available in Online First and in the next three months will
become Volume 3, Issue 3. Other
articles available address science education and globalization and urban science education. By the way, if you missed getting a copy of
the NARST History you can download a PDF version from
Volume 3, Issue 1.
However, this offer is available for a limited time only. You can access articles from now until June 6, 2008 by clicking on this link http://www.springerlink.com/content/1871-1502
If you are interested in continuing to learn more about future CSSE issues, we invite you to sign up for a free service with Springer which automatically sends you a free alert when a new issue of the journal is made available. With this email alert, you will always abreast of the latest publications in CSSE. This service is easy to sign up for on the CSSE home page http://www.springer.com/education/journal/11422 Conveniently, Springer provides a check box for you to decline any additional advertisements so you will only receive a single announcement, once per quarter, when the newest issue comes to press.
We also would like to remind readers to check out the CSSE BLOG where we highlight a different article from each issue and invite readers to engage in a scholarly dialogue with author(s) and others readers around sociocultural topics in science education. You can access the BLOG articles and post your responses at http://blogs.springer.com/csse
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Gosh. With all this strum und drang around Interview and Brant Publications and what not, TI just wants to pop in something from the TV Party series and bask in that Early 80's moment when the underground was underground and Glenn O Brien was young, luscious and unburdened. Here's the back story...TV party was a public access show on Manhattan cable where the leading lights of the New York underground romped in near-public view in this kind of psuedo-talk show.
Or in Mr O Brien's words "I guess it was punk TV. We were anti-technique, anti-format, anti-establishment and anti-anti-establishment. We liked to break all the rules of good broadcasting. Sometimes we'd just sit around and say, " Well, what should we do now?" Sometimes we sat there and did nothing. They say dead air is the kiss of death in broadcasting but we liked it. Sometimes we would sit perfectly still like a tape on pause but it was life."
Of course when your guests were the likes of Debbie Harry, Jean Michel Basquiat, Teri Toye and Steven Meisel (in a legendary "makeover" session you must see to believe) and Klaus Nomi , then mad things were bound to happen. Start your collection with the Halloween Show (October 30th, 1979). You'll be hooked I assure you!


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As to its style, the Christian year is calm and grave in tone, and subdued in colour, as beseems its subjects and sentiments.
What the Christian year was in religion to us Scott was in history.
The plan is exceedingly good; the seasons of the Christian year are admirably marked by suitable contemplations.
The festivals of the Christian year also affected the older observances.
She wore a cross and beads round her neck as her only ornament, and knew the Christian year by heart.
The Moslem religious year consists of twelve lunar months, and is eleven days shorter than the Christian year.
The Christian year, upon which his literary position must mainly rest, was published anonymously in 1827.
It was in 1827, a few years after he settled at Fairford, that he published the Christian year.
In the Christian year one perceives an influence which Newman strongly felt.
The motto of the Christian year seemed to be inwoven into his life and character.


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Whispers is a fan novel by Chrono_Ryono, hosted on FiMFiction and featured on Equestria Daily.. It was originally posted as a one-shot short story called As Night And Day, and several months later (with the posting of chapter 2) was expanded into an ongoing story with As Night And Day reworked as its first chapter.
Set a thousand years before the series begins, it follows the story of Arcanus - a well-mannered, isolated student of Princess Celestia - as he goes on to learn what's really important in life.
The story is unfinished and marked as such, but its update schedule barely qualifies as a schedule, despite the author's prior statements to the contrary.
The story is written in third person limited perspective, but dips into brief moments of omniscience on occasion. Its tone is not particularly dark, but it definitely lacks the humourous touch of the show proper.
Early one morning, Princess Celestia dismisses her senior magic class for a one week break, and invites Arcanus - her prize student - to a private audience in her chamber. After some brief small talk regarding his study progress, they confide their family-related stress issues in each other, just in time to learn that Luna is "throwing another tantrum" by keeping the moon locked in the sky.
Celestia and Arcanus go together to confront the princess of the night, only to discover she has transformed into the wicked Nightmare Moon by the use of some unidentified dark magic tome. All attempts at civility fall flat, forcing Celestia to fight with her sister. A vicious battle ensues, with Celestia eventually emerging victorious and using the Elements of Harmony to banish her sister to the moon.
Exhausted and emotionally drained from the ordeal, Celestia reveals the real reason she wished an audience with the colt. She tells him that an immortal's life is an unfulfilled one. She can never live out her days with friends or even a lover. She will live beyond his lifetime, and the lifetimes of his furthest descendants, knowing what she did to her sister. She believes he should experience the joy of the here and now, and asks him to study the magic of love for both their sakes.
Arcanus returns home to Canterlot and relays the news to his mother Lady Silvermane, eventually bringing up his new assignment. Despite finding it utterly hilarious that her son's been issued a royal decree to find a girlfriend, she agrees the idea has merit and they get to work.
A brief time skip (roughly three months) passes, and Arcanus attends a debutante ball for the upcoming Lady Stella at his mother's advisement. He meets with his friends Aurora and Moonthistle, an enigmatic duo in his mother's eyes, who catch him up on the latest goings on in their class before egging him on to chat up Stella. Despite his nerves, Arcanus succeeds in making a good first impression on the lady, and later staggers his way home in a state of drunken bliss where he spills the beans to his amused mother.
The story is set in the time of Nightmare Moon and thus lacks any of the present day cast with the exception of the immortals. However, the author has stated that the mane six will eventually be featured, so a large time skip is expected to occur in the future.
Arcanus is a unicorn colt, "modestly" built, with an "ash-grey coat and a short, neatly-kept black mane." Very similar to his eventual successor Twilight Sparkle, he is the princess's favoured student, displaying a keen intellect and eagerness to learn coupled with a lack of social skills or interest in developing them. So far, the story seems to be following his life in general, and his development (again, similar to Twilight) is a large part of it.
Moonthistle is a unicorn filly with a "cheery smile of unshakable enthusiasm, deep-blue mane held together in a moon-shaped clip, verdant green coat and gorgeous obsidian eyes." Although she is also a student of the princess's senior magic class, she is outright stated to be a laidback socialite. She appears to have a fondness for innuendo, is implied to be bisexual, and has an obvious crush on Arcanus.
Aurora Borealis is a golden-eyed unicorn filly that "shines with a scarlet coat, sporting a lengthy, unstyled crimson mane that touches the floor." She has a history of athletics, apparently once holding the title of Red Mare - the fastest gallop in the kingdom. However, she plays down her accomplishments and carries herself rather self-consciously, in stark contrast to her best friend Moonthistle. She is hinted to have resentment issues and an inferiority complex toward her (as yet unseen) older sister Belphegor.
The story passed the requirements to be featured on Equestria Daily, but doesn't enjoy a great deal of traffic. Nonetheless, it appears to be fairly well-received among its small readership.


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Bats that hibernate together may go extinct altogether, ecologist suggest, due to an ongoing fungal plague.
White-nose syndrome, caused by the fungus Geomyces destructans, has killed roughly 5.7 million North American bats since its 2006 discovery in a New York state cave.
In the current Ecology Letters journal, ecologists led by Kate Langwig of Boston University, and Marm Kilpatrick of the University of California, Santa Cruz, report more gregarious bat species suffer more severely from infections of the fungus and that two bat species look headed for extinction. White-nose syndrome spreads from bat-to-bat, infecting hibernating ones and sapping their reserves over winter. Many end up leaving caves during winter to hunt for food, dying in the cold of starvation.
"Bats clustering together during hibernation obviously plays a role in the contagion," Langwig says. "That's likely bad news for the most social ones."
So far, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that bat species in 19 states have been detected with the syndrome, as far west as Missouri and as far south as Alabama. In the new study, Landwig and colleagues looked at sociability and mortality among six affected species: Big brown, Eastern small-footed, Northern long-eared, Indiana, Tri-colored and Little brown bats. Prior to 2006, all of their populations were increasing.
The study looked at bats hibernating in caves in New York, Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts from 1979 to 2010, with little brown bats the most common.
"From our analysis, things look really bad for two species, Indiana bats and Northern long-eared bats," Langwig says, given mortality rates and limited reproduction rates. An endangered species, the Indiana bats have continued to hibernate together in clusters that appear to leave them more likely to suffer infection, the team finds. More solitary, the Northern long-eared bats appear "particularly susceptible" to the infection, she says.
Remarkably, little brown bats appear to be roosting in more solitary fashion since the onset of the syndrome, the paper suggests, which may mitigate against extinction. Two other bat species, Eastern small-footed and Big brown bats, are not increasing their population size but appear to be holding steady. Tri-colored bat populations also appear more stable.
"I think this is a good study, looking at population trends with more rigor than past ones, but we have to be cautious because we do not have complete data on these species from prior to the onset of white-nose syndrome," says Jeremy Coleman of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The study examines cave conditions, suggesting that drier, colder caves may see less bat mortality, perhaps due to the fungus preferring warm or moist settings. "One real thrust of many studies is on the applied side, looking for cave conditions that may help (bat) survival," Coleman says.
Along those lines, The Nature Conservancy has announced it will erect an artificial bat hibernation cave in Tennessee to provide bats a haven from the fungus and test out approaches to treating the syndrome. "That is a really promising approach, where researchers can do a lot of research in an artificial setting that we can't do in a cave or even a mine," Coleman says.
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Police seize explosive material shipment-A A +A
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
POLICE have seized a shipment of bomb-making component aboard a passenger bus in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, the police said Wednesday.
Zamboanga Peninsula police information officer Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca said the bomb-making component was intercepted around 7:30 a.m. Monday at the bus terminal in Sindangan town, Zamboanga del Norte.
Huesca said this came about after the police in Sindagan town have received a text message from an informant about the shipment of "suspicious flour" by a female passenger aboard a passenger bus.
The passenger bus came from Dipolog City, the capital of Zamboanga del Norte, en route to Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay.
Huesca said the shipment turned out to be a nitrate component, which is being used to make improvised bomb, weighing at least nine kilos.
Huesca, however, said the owner of the cargo was not arrested since she disembarked from the bus in the village of Dohinob, Roxas, Zamboanga del Norte.
She boarded the passenger bus in the village of Galas, Dipolog City.
Investigation further showed that the female passenger paid P20 fare for the cargo to be brought to the bus terminal in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay, Huesca said.
The cargo was supposed to be picked-up at the Ipil bus terminal by someone, Huesca said. (Bong Garcia)
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Sheffield Raspberry Jam
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 from 18:20 to 20:30
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Sheffield's Rapsberry Pi-oneers meet on the last Wednesday of every month. Doors open at 6:20pm, sparks fly from 6:30pm.
Come along to learn more about Raspberry Pi technologies, show'n'tell your inventions, work on projects together and share skills.
On Twitter, follow @guru or the #raspi hashtag.
Directions to the GIST Lab, a creative community collaboration space operated by the GIST Foundation in partnership with the Showroom Workstation, are here.
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Two Major Government/Security Conferences Announced
The second annual Homeland Defense Training Conference™: Homeland Defense — Forecast and Outlook: A One-Day Conference on the Outlook of U.S. Homeland Security will take place March 16 at The Executive Conference Center in Arlington, VA, and FOSE 2004 will take place March 23-25 at the New Washington D.C. Convention Center.
The Homeland Defense Training Conference's goal is to discuss what has happened in the past year and to prepare U.S. government and industry for the changes that will come about in the coming months. The conference will discuss what new initiatives are planned to 2004 and beyond; what changes are to be expected this year; what policy decisions will drive homeland security in 2004 and beyond; and what the outlook and forecast is for federal, state and local spending.
Those who should attend include federal systems integrators and solutions providers; state and local domestic preparedness teams; U.S civil agencies with a charter to support homeland defense; computer and information systems security infrastructure executives; FBI and secret service agents; capital and state police; National Guardsmen and the Department of Defense; all federal uniformed police and public safety personnel; specialists in WMD, Chem-Bio, and HazMat response; public health and medical services; metropolitan medical response teams; industry partners assisting federal, state and local organizations and security professionals.
A tentative list of speakers includes: Brig. Gen. Stephen Reeves, executive officer, Chem-Bio Defense, DoD Joint Program; Col. Andrew H. Cohen, deputy director, NORAD and U.S. Northern Command; Lauren Jones Shu, senior analyst at INPUT; Tom Davis, director, strategic planning, General Dynamics; Barry West, CIO, FEMA; Congressmen Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Sherwood Boehler (R-NY), both on the U.S. House Select Committee on Homeland Security; Kathryn Smith, Office of Management and Budget — Homeland Security Division; Bob Spieldenner, Virginia Department of Emergency Management; Mark Magee, deputy staff director, House Select Subcommittee on Homeland Security; Dr. David Bolka, Depatment of Homeland Security — Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA); Peter Tenhula, director, spectrum policy task force & deputy chief, wireless bureau, FCC; and RADM Davis Blez, U.S. Coast Guard.
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