• For all our talk of greening the planet, carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, fueling climate change and creating catastrophic weather events. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • From the beginning of the period of researching and making The Regency Wardrobe (at the end of 2019) until early 2020 I took this piece of crochet to every appointment I had that might keep me waiting a few minutes. (stephaniesmart.net)
  • The Lemon-Scented Eucalypt is a favourite source of pollen for bees and is also used for structural timber in building. (tematapark.co.nz)
  • d) In the late 1990s the Milne-led Greens held the balance of power in a Labor minority government in Tasmania, producing a period of unprecedented social and economic reform: gun laws, gay law reform, a formal apology to the stolen generations, a vote for an Australian republic and profound environmental advances. (newmatilda.com)
  • The BBC documentary, Design Classics , said that the Shell logo would not make it through the 1990s because it was a more caring decade that demanded softer forms. (jyanet.com)
  • LAST MONTH, I gave the end-of-year address for the Australian Graphic Design Association s Victoria state chapter in Melbourne. (jyanet.com)
  • To assist with relief efforts for animals, donations canbe made to RSPCA Victoria and Wildlife Victoria . (greenlivingtips.com)
  • Even the bush fires are now part of the climate change feedback loop as they have ejected millions of tons of carbon dioxide untold volumes of heat into the atmosphere. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • These old sticks are of no good but to make fires," continued the first speaker, disdainfully kicking away the uprooted tree. (australianwomenwriters.com)
  • and after he had seen that the groom had brought her a bucket of water, and had been mindful to "tip" the man with Australian liberality, he remounted her deliberately, and rode quietly away, leaving the young lady in a state of justifiable exasperation. (gutenberg.net.au)
  • While many people relish American-made ice cream with deliberately foreign-sounding names, few people realize that the U.S. government restricts ice-cream imports to less than one-tenth of one percent of U.S. consumption. (jimbovard.com)
  • Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, for example, labeled those who made the connection between the blazes and climate change "raving inner-city lunatics" in an interview in November. (nbcnews.com)
  • And bad weather, especially the Australian drought, is probably related to climate change. (typepad.com)
  • a) He was born in England in 1957 to a British father and an Australian mother. (newmatilda.com)
  • Jack Drake was first introduced to the bush poetry of Banjo Paterson at age seven in 1957. (bushverse.com)
  • A magnificent wall torn down from the Memorial Temple of Rameses II in Abydos, Egypt, built of limestone and sandstone around 1250 BC, bearing precious hieroglyphs giving a detailed list of names of the kings and gods of Egypt in exquisitely carved cartouches also stands in the British Museum. (africaspeaks.com)
  • Temples which were plundered and destroyed by pre-Christian and pre-Islam kings and soldiers were always re-built and the gods were re-installed and worshipped again. (africaspeaks.com)
  • Much of the rest of the story is Raff trying to catch her eye, with more than one of his hapless attempts making me laugh aloud…like seeing if he can impress her with how fast he can ride his bike. (brucemperrin.com)
  • Marsden also knows what makes kids laugh. (karenkissane.com)
  • Likewise, the same people who sneered at the"failed utopian fantasy of so-called nation building" are now spending vastly more, per day, on the openly and avowedly utopian notion of building a modern, democratic Iraq from the ground up, than any combination of their predecessors ever tried to do in, say, the Balkans, or even Cambodia. (blogspot.com)
  • The Bush administration would argue that its actions in Iraq are the methods. (jyanet.com)
  • The rise of China and other emerging economies is the main force driving oil prices, but the invasion of Iraq - which proponents promised would lead to cheap oil - has also reduced oil supplies below what they would have been otherwise. (typepad.com)
  • So the company Farafena was born (the word means "African" in Bambara, Mali's national language), with the aim of creating a large market for fonio and other African food crops. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Likewise, if you have an investment which is failing to take into account climate risk, as large Australian companies that are well managed now do, superannuation funds might then consider your practices. (andrewleigh.com)
  • The land that makes up Te Mata Park was included in a large block purchased in 1862 by early farmer settler John Chambers (pictured right). (tematapark.co.nz)
  • Packer has of course bought a large bite of Ten and insiders reckon there's will be plenty of sport to go around the Aussie media landscape, should it get split up from Ten's digital channel OneHD. (gambling911.com)
  • But when circumstances forced her hand, she joins a minstrel she just met and his crass friend, tagging along in search of a miracle. (brucemperrin.com)
  • The quest for a political mechanism to force government to serve the people is the modern search for the Holy Grail. (jimbovard.com)
  • They introduced the Father by explaining a little bit about Don Fernando's life including his love of tennis, and the earlier legs of his trip to the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia. (opusdei.org)
  • What people need now is a little bit of sympathy, understanding and real assistance. (nbcnews.com)
  • And tell us a little bit more about this connection between neo-liberalism, and if it's correct, what's the connection between neo-liberalism and disaster capitalism? (therealnews.com)
  • GREGORY WILPERT: One of the key aspects of your argument, at least what I can glean from it, is that neo-liberalism, which aims to privatize everything, to turn everything over to market forces, is behind disaster capitalism, as an ideology. (therealnews.com)
  • Ellie deeply struggles with the legally and morally questionable things she has been forced to do during the war, and she thinks often about the Hermit. (vumc.org)
  • Those inner struggles and reversals perhaps become a bit overused toward the end, but overall, we come to know Madge quite well. (brucemperrin.com)
  • What made you bow that gentle head? (bushverse.com)
  • Then he got friendly with Dr Bowman, who was the head of the Australian Agricultural Company. (science.org.au)
  • It turns out to have been Innes Willox, the head of the Australian Industry Group, who also said that, if there had been a regulatory impact statement for this bill, then it would not have survived. (andrewleigh.com)
  • In response to former Australian Industry Group head Heather Ridout's intervention on behalf of AustralianSuper, we had the Statler and Waldorf of attacks on superannuation-the members for Goldstein and Mackellar-come out and put in the media shockingly personal attacks on Ms Ridout. (andrewleigh.com)
  • And you made it without putting my head into a frame, as the photograph-man does! (australianwomenwriters.com)
  • Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" is an Australian rock song written by Doc Neeson, John Brewster and Rick Brewster, and performed by their group, the Angels. (wikipedia.org)
  • c) Before entering Parliament he was director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, a group supporting continuation of the British monarchy. (newmatilda.com)
  • The group requested a meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help the government make plans to mitigate the impending crisis. (nbcnews.com)
  • The group decides to try to fight back against the occupying forces and rescue their loved ones. (vumc.org)
  • James White arrived with sheep for the Australian Agricultural Company back in 1824-1825 and he stayed with them for a few years. (science.org.au)
  • So then, why did liberalism turn its back upon the military, which pummeled Hitler, staved off Stalinist monsters, pioneered equality, and remained the one force standing decisively between us and any possibility of Big Brother? (blogspot.com)
  • I asked the Australian audience to cast their minds back to the late 1980s with the Shell logo. (jyanet.com)
  • We need to pray for each other, to understand people's worth with their virtues and their talents, to rejoice in the good of others, and to make their difficulties and sorrows our own. (opusdei.org)
  • More than 400 years ago, a Dutch merchant ship captain was late making a left turn and accidentally came across the place that now bears his name. (australiantraveller.com)
  • Some folks thought I was too harsh on the late George H.W. Bush in my USA Today oped and on my Twitter comments . (jimbovard.com)
  • The U.S. Agriculture Department convened a task force that spent months studying ice-cream quotas. (jimbovard.com)
  • This European Respiratory Society (ERS) task force was formed to provide an expert consensus for the management of incidental findings which can be adapted and followed during implementation. (bvsalud.org)
  • and Saunders admitted he had often thought that the bit of country just there would make a first-rate picture, particularly when the hills looked purple, and the sun shone on the water as it did then. (australianwomenwriters.com)
  • In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" was ranked number 11. (wikipedia.org)
  • And now is the time to focus on the response that is being made. (nbcnews.com)
  • For the first time, someone who isn't white could soon be running the White House - making Tuesday's vote even more historic. (blogspot.com)
  • Jeb Bush Should Face Facts: It's Time to Drop Out - Jeb, this isn't working. (memeorandum.com)
  • Is it time for Jeb Bush to drop out? (memeorandum.com)
  • Hundreds of women in land-locked Mali are harvesting the diverse potential of ancient plants and working with visionary entrepreneur Oumar Barou Togola to create a market for them. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Tomorrow, When the War Began is a young adult novel by Australian author John Marsden, published in 1993. (vumc.org)
  • By putting women at the centre of our society, by building the infrastructure around women, this world would be a very different place," he says. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Her world is one built on superstition and religious intolerance, where women are wenches, little more than a man's possession. (brucemperrin.com)
  • The tabloids might have been miffed to see ITV commentator Clive Tyldesley snubbed a bit this World Cup, but there's a few people out in Doha who are glad of the break. (popbitch.com)
  • At such times, one or more of the figures would come out of character and speak with wisdom beyond their years, making the story feel a bit artificial at that point. (brucemperrin.com)
  • The forces from the future only want recruits who are destined to die before 2051 so they don't encounter another version of themselves. (vumc.org)
  • e) His second Cabinet, sworn in on 22 June, contains 11 women, a record for any Australian state or federal government. (newmatilda.com)
  • The women have created an income that enables them to be independent and educate their children. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Neeson recalled that he first heard the response at Mount Isa in 1983 and was "a bit shocked. (wikipedia.org)
  • The song and its response have become an iconic part of Australian culture, such that the song may be played by any band anywhere in Australia with the chant sung by whatever crowds are present. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under the "free trade" Bush administration, the Agriculture Department still has a phobia about foreign ice cream. (jimbovard.com)
  • Antony is an independent Australian journalist, documentary-maker and blogger, who has written for the BBC, The Nation and the Washington Post. (therealnews.com)
  • Weiss described Australians as a relaxed and friendly bunch, whereas in fact we are mostly standoffish, unadventurous, early-to-bed bores. (thebaffler.com)
  • But, in fact, it's actually wonderful for business: corporations can make money from the detention, or other areas like that. (therealnews.com)
  • Towards the end of the hour-long talk comes the part that makes them realise he's on their side: the role of status in story-telling. (karenkissane.com)
  • These funny little creatures got their name after European Settlers heard their blood curdling screams and growls emitting from the bush and thought that they were surrounded by demons! (happygoducky.com.au)
  • I won't read it in French because I know we have interpretation pipeline is of immense value to the federal government because, on services, so I'm sure they're able to catch all of it--they're nodding to the Liberal side, they will be unable to meet the promises made in me over there. (who.int)
  • As we travel from one end of the isle to the other, we pass broad leaf grasses with tropical leanings, khaki bushes sprouting clusters of banana-shaped leaves and yellow baubles of colour, hinting at the mass of wildflowers to come. (australiantraveller.com)
  • GREGORY WILPERT: Two of your blurbs on your book, the one by Naomi Klein and by Jeremy Scahill, essentially say that your book continues where Naomi Klein's book, "The Shock Doctrine", leaves off, and actually you make this argument more or less in the introduction of your book, as well. (therealnews.com)
  • 8. Most current Australian federal political party leaders are fairly new in the current job. (newmatilda.com)
  • When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong - their families are gone. (vumc.org)
  • In exchange for a few billion dollars, governments are forced to raise taxes, cut all social programs and subsidies, and above all, give US and other western companies unlimited acces to their economies, banking systems and resources. (blogspot.com)
  • The Tanglu project is now a proud member (licensee) of the Open Invention Network (OIN), which build a pool of defensive patents to protect the Linux ecosystem from companies who are trying to use patents against Linux. (techrights.org)
  • However, according to the book, "Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe", by Antony Loewenstein, corporations and companies are finding ways to make more and more money out of disasters. (therealnews.com)
  • Although it is a famous audience chant in Australian rock music history, the exact origins of it are lost. (wikipedia.org)
  • I believe the failure of the Left to notice or speak out about this vital issue makes them complicit in it. (blogspot.com)
  • This then was bag one but I was left with my original bit of crochet unused. (stephaniesmart.net)
  • c) In April 2012, he signed an agreement with CSC Jinling Shipyard in China to build an exact replica of the Titanic. (newmatilda.com)
  • The drawsting top remained very popular however as did variously shaped bases made of thick paper that were covered with fabric and trim or embroidered or painted upon. (stephaniesmart.net)
  • all while wondering if we were being diplomatic to someone who didn t understand diplomacy, then being forced with a very difficult decision. (jyanet.com)
  • According to Claire Buchan, spokeswoman for the trade rep, "The president has not made a decision on this, and there is not a deadline. (jimbovard.com)
  • They also discover that communication and transportation have been disrupted, making it difficult for them to get help or information about what is happening. (vumc.org)
  • Australia continues to be home to some of the world's hottest gambling, casino and entertainment news, and this bush tucker bag jam packed news update is no different. (gambling911.com)
  • Earlier in the year JP and Stokes clashed, when Stokes made a hostile raid on 'Our James' Consolidated Media Holdings, but both gents have moved forward. (gambling911.com)
  • The audience responded with the chant while Australia's then commander of the INTERFET forces in East Timor, Peter Cosgrove, East Timorese spokesman Jose Ramos Horta and Roman Catholic Bishop Belo were in attendance. (wikipedia.org)
  • And it's true: the Australian environment is merciless. (thebaffler.com)
  • On May 5 of this year, President Bush sent a letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission demanding an ice-cream investigation. (jimbovard.com)
  • Upon retirement, White was made an honorary fellow of the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering (formally the Division of Telecommunications and Industrial Physics) (1990 - 2008). (science.org.au)
  • I am Neville Fletcher and I am interviewing Guy White for the Australian Academy of Science. (science.org.au)
  • But I spent all of my holidays up in the bush. (science.org.au)
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger made much of it in his attacks on Gov Gray Davis of California was he ran for the office: California had out-spent itself. (jyanet.com)
  • Because the crochet form was certainly not giving me the appearance I wanted I decided to begin instead a piece of quilling for the base of the frame and to make a cardboard base for the bag that reflected the shape and colours of this quilling (instead of the blues and yellows of a blue tit). (stephaniesmart.net)
  • The ITC made a report on Aug. 28 to the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, which is responsible for forwarding it to the president. (jimbovard.com)
  • says Bill Muehlenberg, vice-president of the Australian Family Association and recipient of complaints from outraged parents. (karenkissane.com)