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Australian MPs suggest Australia and New Zealand unification

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

A committee of Australian MPs have suggested that Australia and New Zealand become a single nation in the future. The suggestion follows an investigation into harmonising the countries’ legal systems.

The two countries are separated by 1900 km (1200 miles) of sea. Australia has a population of 20 million, while New Zealand has a population of 4 million.

Prior to 1901, New Zealand was considered one of the seven British colonies of Australasia, six of which united to form Australia in 1901.

The committee, which had representatives from both sides of Australian politics found that there were close ties between the two countries. People are free to move between the two countries without visas and there is a high-degree of co-operation between governments. The committee’s report said “While New Zealand ultimately chose not to join the federation, it is still included in the definition of the states in the Australian constitution.

“This historical context forms a backdrop to the closeness and breadth of the relationship between Australia and New Zealand today.

“While Australia and New Zealand are, of course, two sovereign nations, it seems to the committee that the strong ties between the two countries – the economic, cultural, migration, defence, governmental, and people to people linkages – suggest that an even closer relationship, including the possibility of union, is both desirable and realistic.”

Chairman of the committee, Peter Slipper said Australia now wished for another committee to be established to look at integration between the two nations in the future. Such a committee would be poised to look at monetary and national union.

The committee acknowledged that despite legal harmonisation being relatively easy, the merger of the two countries could be difficult. “The committee is also mindful that the harmonisation of laws is very much the art of the possible. Thus the merger of Australia and New Zealand or the progression to a unitary system of government in Australia, however desirable, might not be easy to achieve,” the committee’s report said.

The suggestion has received a cold reception in New Zealand. New Zealand’s citizens have regularly rejected suggestions that their country be part of Australia, a sentiment echoed by Prime Minister Helen Clark. Mrs Clark said she had no intention of placing the proposal on the government’s agenda.

“It won’t be on our agenda 105 years later”, she said.

New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, Winston Peters dismissed the proposal calling it a case of “parliamentary adventurism”. He said despite the two countries close relationship, the two countries were too geographically separated. “New Zealand is 1200 miles (1900 km) away from Australia and that’s 1200 reasons why I don’t go along with that committee, nor will New Zealanders,” Mr Peters said.

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Benefits Of Ginkgo Biloba In Hair Growth Properties &Amp; Side Effects

By Dr. Paul Smith

Today every one is concerned with hair loss/hair fall. There was a time when we would associate hair loss with the older generation of men but the scenario is completely different today almost everybody is suffering form hair thinning, baldness and hair loss, and we have no one to blame.

Suffering from poor quality hairs or facing hair loss, well there are several different reasons that culminate in this process. Skin disease of scalp, unhealthy diet, Genetics, pollution, poor scalp circulation, Androgen hormone, repetitive use of hair dyes, hair gels, shampoos, mousses and also the extensive use of hair creams, styling gels, hair perming, iron rod curling and other new up markets trends all in the long term result in damaging the hair and in certain condition damage beyond repair.

All is not lost and we should explore option to reduce hair loss.

By using hot & cold hydrotherapy the process of hair loss could be halted substantially such as been shown in various researches also herbal usage helps too, here in Ginkgo Biloba is very important. At the time DHT gets in sync with hair follicle that’s the time when follicle starts to live under a shorter growth cycle.

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In simple terms it converts into a thinner hair for every new grown one and therefore it stay on for lesser time as it is fragile than earlier ones, ultimately hair follicle discontinue producing hair. In people where there exists poor circulation of blood to scalp area the roots turn weal automatically.

The more we expose our hair to the air particles and pollution the more it shall be degraded and continue to fall and break. In such scenario Ginkgo Biloba can act as the perfect answer for hair loss.

China being the widely acclaimed origin Ginkgo Biloba is in use for the past five centuries, while western nations have extensively accepted it’s tree extracts from past twenty years. When special ingredients are extracted from Ginkgo Biloba it gives blood fresh impetus to circulate properly.

The root cause of some diseases are because body cannot circulate blood as required by the body, to treat this herbal remedies are good option and Cayenne pepper and Ginkgo Biloba are fore runners in herbals.

Cayenne helps strengthen heart thus leading to pumping blood to the deepest corners of human body, whereas Ginkgo Biloba raises blood circulation to & from all parts of human body and importantly to brain also. With the help of Ginkgo Biloba extracts blood circulation improves a lot thus diseases like hair loss, Reynaud’s phenomenon and thrombosis can get rectified.

Ginkgo Biloba fastens blood flow to important peripheral part of human body along with fine capillaries thus directly affecting scalp parts. Blood carries oxygen with it so if there is more blood flow there is automatically more oxygen supply, oxygen brings more nutrients with it and all in all essential vitamins E & A give a new lease of life every time to the scalp.

Once all these important supplies start reaching the human scalp there is bound to be hair repair and growth will find enough supplies to grow again. What we all want is our hair to look healthy, silky and bouncy, don’t we!

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Woman finds human finger in bowl of chili at Wendy’s restaurant

Thursday, March 24, 2005

San Jose, California — A woman eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant bit into a chewy bit that turned out to be a human finger. She immediately spat it out, warned other patrons to stop eating, and upon recognizing the object as a finger, vomited.

“I’m more of a Carl’s Jr. person,” the 39-year-old Las Vegas woman, Anna Ayala, told Knight Ridder. She said this incident was her first visit to a Wendy’s restaurant. Ayala described how she found the finger, “Suddenly something crunchy was in my mouth,” she continued, “and I spit it out.”

According to Devina Cordero, 20, after Ayala found the finger, she ran up to her and Cordero’s boyfriend and said, “Don’t eat it! Look, there’s a human finger in our chili.”

“We went up to the counter and they told us it was a vegetable,” Cordero continued. “The people from Wendy’s were poking it with a spoon.”

The restaurant is located at 1405 Monterey Highway, just south of downtown San Jose.

Wikinews reporter David Vasquez drove his car up to the drive-thru menu and found that chili was still on the menu, at a price of US$1.19 for a small serving. He also witnessed workers unloading supplies from a semi-trailer truck in the restaurant’s parking lot, and carting them into the back door of the establishment.

According to Ben Gale, director of environmental health for Santa Clara County, the finger did not come from any of the employees at the restaurant. “We asked everybody to show us they have 10 fingers and everything is OK there,” he said. The found portion of the finger likely belonged to a woman because of its long and manicured fingernail, also found in the food.

Officials seized the food supply at the restaurant and are tracing it back to the manufacturer, where they believe the finger may have gotten mixed in with the raw ingredients used to prepare the chili. The restaurant’s operators were later permitted to re-open after preparing new chili prepared from fresh ingredients.

As this story was filed, there was no mention of the incident on the Wendy’s corporate web site. Wendy’s issued a statement through a spokesman.

“Food safety is of utmost importance to us,” said Wendy’s spokesman Joe Desmond. He referred to the incident as an “unsubstantiated claim.”

“We are cooperating fully with the local police and health departments with their investigation. It’s important not to jump to conclusions. Here at Wendy’s we plan to do right by our customers,” Desmond said.

According to county health officials, the unfortunate woman who bit into the finger is doing fine, despite her initial reaction. Officials also noted that the finger would have been cooked at a high enough temperature to destroy any viruses.

The Santa Clara county medical examiner reported that the finger had a solid fingerprint, although investigators did not say if a search of fingerprint databases would be performed to find the owner of the finger.

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Bus crash in Victoria, Australia injures twenty, some critical

Thursday, July 24, 2008

A bus crash in Victoria, Australia has injured at least 20 people, two of whom are listed as critical. One victim is reported to be still trapped in the wreckage.

The accident occurred between a bus and a semi-trailer on the Princes Highway in the Traralgon area around 10:50am AEST. The La Trobe Valley Busliner bus was traveling east when it collided with the back of a heavy haulage truck.

Those critically injured are being airlifted to a hospital in Melbourne. Others are being transported by Ambulance to La Trobe Valley Hospital in Traralgon.

SES crews are on scene, along with St. John Ambulance and fire crews.

The eastbound lanes of the highway have been blocked by police and traffic is being diverted.

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2006 U.S. Congressional Elections

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Contents

  • 1 Issues
  • 2 Campaigns turn nasty
  • 3 Polling Problems
  • 4 Summaries by state
  • 5 Alabama
  • 6 Alaska
  • 7 Arizona
  • 8 Arkansas
  • 9 California
  • 10 Colorado
  • 11 Connecticut
  • 12 Delaware
  • 13 Florida
  • 14 Georgia
  • 15 Hawaii
  • 16 Idaho
  • 17 Illinois
  • 18 Indiana
  • 19 Iowa
  • 20 Kansas
  • 21 Kentucky
  • 22 Louisiana
  • 23 Maine
  • 24 Maryland
  • 25 Massachusetts
  • 26 Michigan
  • 27 Minnesota
  • 28 Mississippi
  • 29 Missouri
  • 30 Montana
  • 31 Nebraska
  • 32 Nevada
  • 33 New Hampshire
  • 34 New Jersey
  • 35 New Mexico
  • 36 New York
  • 37 North Carolina
  • 38 North Dakota
  • 39 Ohio
  • 40 Oklahoma
  • 41 Oregon
  • 42 Pennsylvania
  • 43 Rhode Island
  • 44 South Carolina
  • 45 South Dakota
  • 46 Tennessee
  • 47 Texas
  • 48 Utah
  • 49 Vermont
  • 50 Virginia
  • 51 Washington
  • 52 West Virginia
  • 53 Wisconsin
  • 54 Wyoming
  • 55 American Samoa
  • 56 District of Columbia
  • 57 Guam
  • 58 Virgin Islands
  • 59 Sources

As of 10:00 p.m EST November 8, 2006, the Democratic Party is projected to have gained control of both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in the 2006 United States general elections. MSNBC projects that the Democrats now control 234 seats in the House of Representatives, 16 more seats than the 218 needed to control the House of Representatives as all 435 seats were up for election. In the Senate, where the balance of power is closer, one-third of all seats were up for grab. As of 10:00 p.m. EST, AP and Reuters were projecting that the Democrats had picked up all six seats they needed to retake the Senate, including the seats of incumbents Rick Santorum (Penn.), Lincoln Chafee (R.I.), Jim Talent (Missouri), Mike DeWine (Ohio), John Tester (Montana), and Jim Webb (VA). The Tester victory by less than 3,000 votes was projected at approximately 2 p.m. EST after the State of Montana announced the results of overnight recounts. Democrat Jim Webb has prevailed in that race by slightly more than 7,000 votes, though his opponent has not conceded and a recount may still occur.

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Flooding in Nakhon Sri Thammarat

Friday, December 16, 2005

Moderate flooding has hit the province of Nakhon Sri Thammarat in southern Thailand. Moderate to heavy rain persists in the area, further exacerbating the flooding conditions. The northeast monsoon has intensified the flow of rainfall-laden air from the Gulf of Thailand. Torrential rains have been plaguing the nine southernmost provinces of the country for nearly two weeks and further downpours are forecast for later this week.

Thung Song District in Nakhon Sri Thammarat province is experiencing waist-high floodwaters in downtown shopping areas. Transportation has ground to a halt in affected areas. In Songkhla Province, the government has called for steps to be taken to prevent further flooding of the commerial district of Hat Yai. Rail tracks have been lifted in some areas to permit flood waters to leave the city, and the Thai Navy has been ordered to take part in relief efforts.

In Muang District of Nakhon Sri Thammarat, many roads have been closed and sandbags are being deployed to help affected businesses. Schools throughout the province have been closed because of flooding conditions. Other provinces, including Phattalung, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Trang, Sukhothai and Satun have experienced similar problems with high tides and heavy rain paralysing much of the region.

The Meteorological Department of the Thailand Ministry of Information and Communication Technology issued a weather advisory concerning the flooding, “People in the lower South and navigators in the Gulf of Thailand should exercise caution and small boats should stay from December 15 until December 18.” It is reported that this has left some tourists stranded on smaller resort islands in the Gulf of Thailand.

Across the border in Malaysia, three are reported to have died and over 10,000 been evacuated as a result of the flooding.

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Australia men’s national wheelchair basketball team beat Japan 80-49 in final game of pool play

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Homebush Bay, New South Wales —Last night, the Australia men’s national wheelchair basketball team beat Japan 80–49 in their final game of pool play at the Rollers & Gliders World Challenge taking place at at the Sport Centre at the Sydney Olympic Park and are through to the first place match.

The contrast between the two teams was seen in their wheels: almost every Australian player had a four wheeled chair that gave them increased stability while every single Japanese player had three wheels, which gave them great maneuverability. Japan played the aggressor throughout the match, with several players aggressively blocking with wheelchair on wheelchair contact. Both sides were loud, chanting defense, defense, defense when their side was on that side of the court.

The first quarter was closely fought, with Japan racking up 5 by 5:54 left in the first. They successfully took a lead of 17–16 by the end of the first quarter. They were unable to hold the lead, with Australia holding a 40–24 lead at the end of the first half. Australia’s lead at the end of the third was 61–34. While Japan increased their total points in the fourth quarter, they failed to defend against Australia who continued to answer back basket for basket for the game to end 80–49.

Australia plays in the first place match later today. Their London Paralympic campaign starts on August 30 against South Africa.

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Yahoo triples its quarterly profit on strong advertising revenue

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Yahoo!, the world’s favorite Internet destination, reported $373 million in net income for the three month period ended December 31. Revenues were $1,078 million for the fourth quarter of 2004, a 62 percent increase compared to $664 million for the same period of 2003. “We are attracting more and more users to Yahoo!’s network of services and driving their usage deeper with more relevant products and services. This deeper usage is the real magic behind the surpassing of our financial objectives,” explained Susan Decker, the company’s chief financial officer.

  • Revenues excluding traffic acquisition costs (“TAC”) were $785 million for the fourth quarter of 2004, a 54 percent increase compared to $511 million for the same period of 2003
  • Gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2004 was $691 million, a 56 percent increase compared to $443 million for the same period of 2003
  • Operating income for the fourth quarter of 2004 was $235 million, a 149 percent increase compared to $94 million for the same period of 2003
  • Operating income before depreciation and amortization for the fourth quarter of 2004 was $327 million, an 84 percent increase compared to $178 million for the same period of]] 2003
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The first rule of an accessible garden is that you cannot garden if you cannot get there. An accessible garden has paved areas, a wide ramp to areas at different levels if you use a walker or wheelchair, raided beds, a sitting area, container plants if all the plants are not in the raised beds, a kneeling bench if you will be kneeling, and sturdy handrails. Doors to the garden should be at ground level or a wide ramp should lead from the house to the garden.

Water should be readily available in the garden. It is ideal to have faucets in the immediate garden area. If there is no faucet, pull a hose to the garden and leave it there. You can also have a barrel of water from which to fill watering cans, although this would only be for spot watering. A drip system can be supplemented by watering from a watering can but watering the whole garden with a watering can is too tedious to be worthwhile.

There can be a number of hazards associated with steps in the garden.

Treads that are too narrow. Treads should be at least 11 inches wide.

Nosings that protrude can be a tripping hazard.

Open risers can also cause tripping

Smooth surfaces can be very slippery when wet. Attach indoor/outdoor carpet or pieces of rubber mat to the steps to make them safe

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Loose or lacking railings. Make sure there is a sturdy railing. 30 to 34 inches above the ground is best for most people but have it installed at the height that suits you best.

Ideally gardens for people with physical limitations should be all one level and on smooth surfaces. If that is not possible a ramp can be built from one flat area to another.

Ramp slope should be no more than one inch of rise for 12 inches.

Ramp width should be at least 36 inches wide.

Ramp surfaces should be non-skid. Textured concrete, bricks, rough wood or crushed gravel are good ramp surfaces. Pea gravel, smooth wood or smooth concrete are not as good.

Garden paths should be wide at least 30 inches or wider. Gates should be at least 42 inches wide.

The path surface should be firm and even. Hard surfaces can be expensive and you will probably need to have someone install them for you, but they are safe and comfortable. Gravel is less expensive however wheels tend to sink into it and can be hard to walk on. You can modify a gravel path by covering it with indoor outdoor carpet. Hard-packed soil is cheap, but it is usable only in dry weather.

Storing tools in the garden makes the work much easier. If the tools are handy you will be able to get more work done before you need to sit and rest.

To make gardening easier:

Know your soil. Fill your raised beds with improved garden soil and grow only plants that can tolerate the native soil where you have not improved the soil

Know your climate. Grow plants that are adapted to the conditions in your area.

Limit lawn area. If you cant mow it can be expensive to pay someone to keep up with a large expanse of grass.

Use disease and insect resistant plants. It is better to avoid problems in the first place than to have to fight insects and disease.

Keep garden tools and supplies within reach.

Locate your garden near a water source.

Mulch to control weeds.

Start small. Dont try to transform the whole yard at once.

Stop often to sit and enjoy.

About the Author: Lynn Doxon holds an MS in Horticultural Therapy and a PhD in Horticulture from Kansas State University. She worked for several years as an Extension Horticultre Specialist at New Mexico State University. She continues teaching horticulture in an online course at

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