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Turnbull government loses plot in worst week of its life
“Is ‘e an Aussie, Lizzie, is ‘e? Is ‘e an Aussie, Lizzie, eh?”, a catchy 1930s hit, could be the theme song of the entire 45th Parliament this week as three more MPs are exposed as dodgy double-dipping dual nationals under their Akubras, their RM Williams and their Drizabones. It’s like a masked ball. No-one is who they seem.
Barnaby Joyce, Fiona Nash and Nick Xenophon are all, in quick succession, revealed to hold dual citizenship.
It’s a shocking predicament. A government so over-invested on prizing citizenship, a government which has even added tough language tests and waiting periods in order to “accept the right people” as soon-to-be-Super Minister Dutton puts it, a government which fetishises the “priceless gift of citizenship” (akin to Tony Abbott’s “precious gift of virginity”) may be utterly undone by alien MPs who appear lax; blasé, even, over their own nationality.
Of course it’s all Labor’s fault, at least in the case of our iconic Deputy PM, bow-yang Barnaby, as Aussie as a dog on a tucker-box, last glimpsed succumbing to the spell of the water naiads of the Murray Darling Basin.
Barnaby goes to water. Panic grips the entire front bench. Pyne is petrified. What if the truth about Fiona Nash leaks? A fool-proof diversion is called for. A red kiwi conspiracy? Brilliant!
Turning crisis into catastrophe, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the Turnbull government sheds any last vestige of credibility with a Kiwis-under-the-bed witch hunt.
Labor is colluding with “a foreign power” to out Barnaby Joyce as a New Zealander. It’s a stroke of genius.
Our Foreign Minister channels her inner Trump. Bugger diplomacy: a stunt is much more fun. Reason flies out the window. Julie Bishop denounces Wellington, now the Pyongyang of the South Pacific. Howls down the Pig Islanders. She feigns paranoid madness in a cunning ploy to divert everyone from the Barnaby Joyce disaster.
Clearly there’s a conspiracy between the Bolshevik parties on both sides of the Tasman, she implies. Demon Bill Shorten’s “sneakiness, dishonesty and disloyalty” pipes up her PM, adding his own ostinato to the Kill Bill theme, make him the cause of every self-inflicted government catastrophe, ever. Heads nod. Sinodinos applauds.
“The Australian people elected the government,” Turnbull tells Coalition MPs on Tuesday. Applause. “Bill Shorten wants to steal government by entering into a conspiracy with a foreign power.” How low can he go?
Adding a clever bit of cold war era top spin, the PM claims ALP fifth columnists are “conspiring with the NZ Labour Party to undermine the position of the deputy prime minister and the government of Australia.”
Really? So the proper, patriotic thing to do would have been to collude to cover up Barnaby’s Kiwi paternity? It’s unclear how checking the facts could “undermine” the government unless it wanted to hide its illegitimacy.
The charge is as dishonest as it is absurd. How could Joyce’s “position” which stems from his own false declaration of nationality be further undermined? Could he be more compromised? Inquiries, moreover, were not made by Labor but by a reporter working for The Australian. Fairfax journalist Adam Gartrell was also asking questions.
Yet for Bishop, a class act, who shows no signs of snubbing mass-murderer Duterte, payback doesn’t stop there.
“I would find it very difficult to build trust with members of a political party that had been used by the Australian Labor Party to seek to undermine the Australian government,” Bishop sniffs Tuesday, upping the ante; clearly aiming to make a full-blown diplomatic incident out of her government’s desperately lame strategy.
“Forget the trans-Tasman friendship in 2017 – Australia is basically a bully,” says Jesse Mulligan, host of New Zealand’s The Project.
“Julie Bishop – when you say you’ll find it hard to work with New Zealand, what exactly do you mean? How much worse could it possibly get?”
Bishop has touched a raw nerve with New Zealanders who view the relationship as one-sided and who find it difficult to overlook evidence that access to citizenship and social security entitlements for Australians in New Zealand are not reciprocated in the treatment of Kiwis in Australia – before anyone brings up the summary deportation via Christmas Islands of Kiwis in Australia whom Peter Dutton doesn’t like the look of.
Trans-Tasman relations aside, for Laura Tingle, of The Australian Financial Review Bishop descends into a “whirlpool of hysteria and conspiracy theories that would do Donald Trump proud”. It’s disturbing.
Yet Bishop’s done the government a favour. Her stunt is more than enough to dispel any delusion that she might, somehow, be a “safe pair of hands’ or a potential replacement for a dead man walking at the head of a mortally wounded government, Malcolm Turnbull. Even the smitten Peter Hartcher says she’s “over-cooked” her bid.
Deputy PM Barnaby “Bow-yang” Joyce outs himself in the House of Reps. He has to. Labor asks a leading question. Media hacks are shocked. Not Ocker Barnaby, our best retail politician? A Kiwi dual national who has, for years, been impersonating a true blue, bush Aussie? No half measures either. Hands down, he’s got the part off pat.
Just listen to him some time. The Barnaby garble is New England’s – New Zealand’s answer to Bob Katter’s rant.
Baa-narby. Stop bleating about your Tamworth mother and grandmother, Baa-narby. You’re busted. On cue, a mob of MPs rushes to point the finger and snigger. Baa-Baa-arnby sheep noises erupt from Labor benches.
Yet things are so crook in the 45th parliament that even a ribbing is risky. Never know who’ll be next.
“Things are looking baaaaaaaa-d for Barnaby Joyce” tweets a snickering Nick Xenophon in RM Williams boot in mouth Schadenfreude of the week “that’s why an independent audit of all MPs citizenship urgently needed.”
Xenophon is visibly dismayed to learn he is a UK citizen and while he goes to some length to point out it’s through his father and a very rare blink- and- you’d- miss- it type of citizenship, his special pleading sits oddly with his decision not to resign.
He refers himself to a High Court which may not make a decision until October, a High Court which staffed by conservative black-letter judges which Turnbull oddly seems to believe will suddenly become progressives to suit his government. Joyce, similarly, seems unable to countenance anything but a favourable High Court decision.
Barnaby Joyce’s father, James Joyce – no less, hails from Dunedin, Edinburgh of New Zealand’s South, technically making his son a dour Kiwi by descent, a fact Joyce could easily have checked for himself but didn’t. It’s odd that he was never even curious. The complacency and the sense of entitlement is all his own – and his undoing.
Yet Joyce’s not the only 45th Parliamentarian whose inner voice told him not to bother. Fiona Nash can’t even bring herself to confess until the last-minute before the senate rises. Three Nats out of a total of 20 is a lot.
Is it chutzpah? Arrogance? Agrarian socialists never read the fine print? Something tells him he’s above all that?
Joyce receives a box of finest kiwi-fruit from gal-pal, puppy-lover, Amber Heard who tweets
‘When Barnaby Joyce said ‘no one is above the law’ I didn’t realise he meant New Zealand law.’
Yet Joyce won’t stand down. That’s something for others – such as his hated Greens to do. Listen to them moaning about how billions of litres of Murray-Darling water is rorted by big cotton irrigators and other National Party pals in direct contravention of the $13 billion Murray Darling Basin plan, a boondoggle which means that water paid for by taxpayers to protect the river ecosystem is, instead, subsidising local billion-dollar agricultural firms.
The notion of a Kiwi fifth column is no more absurd than the idea of leaving Barnaby Joyce in charge next week when the PM attends the Pacific Islands forum in Samoa, 4-7 September a nation with a history of resistance to European rule. Labor says leaving Joyce in charge is untenable and that it will not grant a pair for Turnbull.
But it’s about more than Barnaby. Into its regular, heady mix of state sponsored intolerance and paranoia, the government blends a swift Kiwi-kicking, a bagging of our ANZAC partners and post-colonial cousins-the soul mates we love to hate.
It’s a ritual attack, born of a complex mutual self-loathing, the cultural-cringing, sibling rivalry of two small nations upside down at the bottom of the world whose complex history is inextricably interwoven.
“Is ‘e an Aussie, Lizzie, is ‘e? Is ‘e an Aussie, Lizzie, eh?
Not only are we close, we may all now be Kiwi-aliens. According to the letter of section 44 of the Australian Constitution, no Australian is entitled to sit in Australian Parliament, given recent changes in New Zealand law.
As Sydney barrister Robert Angyal reminds us, Section 44 (i) of the constitution bars anyone “under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power” from serving in federal parliament.
“Under recent and little-noticed changes to New Zealand law, however, Australian citizens now don’t need a visa to live, study or work in NZ. Any Australian citizen is entitled to live, study and work there,” he says. All are thereby entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power.
“New Zealand law has made every Australian citizen incapable of being elected to, or serving in, the Australian Parliament. It’s not just Barnaby Joyce: It’s everyone,” he adds.
Doubtless this is something for The High Court to take into consideration. Lighten things up a bit. Certainly it will have to screen out the comments made by the Prime Minister that “it will find” that Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash can remain in parliament, an extraordinary prompting from the PM in parliament. Even if he is merely reflecting the Solicitor General’s view, it appears as if he is directing the judges to a favourable outcome.
The government redoubles its efforts to keep us in a state of perpetual hysteria; alert but no alarmed. There’s always pressing national security news on hand to divert us; feed our anxiety. By Sunday, the PM is talking up bollards and other anti-terror attack preparations while praising police for arresting three men who are currently in custody over an alleged arson attack on an Islamic Centre a year ago. Cutting edge anti-terror stuff.
It’s one of the weekly terror announceables which Laura Tingle recently warned us the government has put by.
Turnbull’s backing group is a nod squad of heavily-braided, shoulder-patched anti-terror cops, a riot of silver frogging and rank insignia all over the collars and the epaulettes of their black shirts and braid on the peaks of their caps. They are on hand to add laconic gravitas. Praise policing. They also update us on their bust.
One speaks of “male individuals” with that agonisingly indirect death-in-life depersonalisation so beloved by authorities, together with an arch coyness that is practically an anti-terror weapon in itself.
Not that the names are secret. Ever helpful, Murdoch’s Herald Sun published them in a law and order piece last year complete with illustrations of the Fawkner mosque which bears graffiti reading The Islamic State.
The definite article is troubling. Islamic State would look more less like a fit-up.
Everything is not what it seems, another cop not beating things up, tells us earnestly. “This is a really complex investigation.” “These are not just arson attacks – what we are going to allege is that these were Islamic State inspired arson attacks.” “… Designed to put fear into a particular group in the community.”
“It interferes with the whole process of social cohesion that we so heavily promote,” he adds, straight-faced.”
In reality, the Coalition continues to divide the body politic with its war on terror, its rabid nationalism and its cynical manipulation of our fear of the other. Elevating citizenship into a “cherished prize” also stokes division.
By week’s end “all bets are off” in “light of the deputy prime minister’s citizenship situation” declares a shattered Bob Katter. He will no longer guarantee Coalition support on supply and confidence. He’s offended, above all, by Turnbull’s failure to even adequately consult with him, as promised, let alone meet Katter’s needs.
“I wanted and need certain things. I wasn’t delivered certain things,” he says. By this, presumably, a cryptic Katter means The Hell’s Gate Dam on the Upper Burdekin river, Indigenous land title, and the Galilee rail project. He also wins Golden Litotes for incisive political understatement of the week when he says of the PM,
“This is not a decision-maker who has a lot of political acumen.”
Failing to deliver justice also is a government which clearly expects other dual nationals to step aside or resign while its own MPs may stay on while their cases are referred to the High Court. Turnbull’s own crowing over the “remarkable” failure of The Greens’ Scott Ludlum to check his dual citizenship hasn’t helped.
The hypocrisy and injustice of preferential treatment rankles cross-benchers.
An outraged Katter protests to Paul Bongiorno at “two sets of rules at work here: one for Matt Canavan, a less senior minister in the Nationals, and one for the number two in the Coalition government, Joyce.”
“I am quite frustrated with the Prime Minister” for retaining in cabinet Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Regional Development Minister Fiona Nash, adds Rebekah Sharkie.
Now Turnbull’s government risks losing its majority. Nick Xenophon Team MP, Rebekah Sharkie, MP for Mayo, also withdraws her support for the government, saying the PM needs to stand aside two of his team while The High Court deliberates on the eligibility of dual citizens Fiona Nash and Barnaby Joyce to be in parliament.
While by Sunday, nifty Nick the crypto-Liberal appears to tone down Sharkie’s threat, the Coalition’s majority is still uncertain. Even if it retains its dual citizens, can it stumble along all the way to October?
The path to this impasse reveals a government whose ineptitude is surpassed only by its gift for self-sabotage.
Along with its bungling of who should stay and who should stand down, must go its mismanagement of dual-Scot, Fiona-food-label Nash who is permitted to deploy delaying tactics which only further damage the government.
“As Senator Nash admitted, she has known since Monday that she was a dual citizen, yet waited until one minute before the Senate rose for a two-week break to inform the Parliament,” protests Labor Senator Katy Gallagher .
Labor is not bluffed. “We’ve never had a government before, ever since Federation, that has had to go to the High Court because they just weren’t sure if they had a majority,” says Tony Burke, in the best zinger of the week.
It’s a line which highlights how the reality of the government’s one seat majority dictates its special treatment of Joyce.
Not to be upstaged, professional attention-seeker, Pauline Hanson stages her own bizarre performance theatre by wearing a burqa to the senate, an act which earns her a powerful serve from Senate Leader AG George Brandis but which achieves her attention-seeking, anti-Muslim dog-whistling objective.
Brandis is open to criticism with his solely pragmatic concern that Hanson may alienate the Muslim community a first line of defence – “vital to law enforcement agencies”, although he does protest at her intent saying “to ridicule that community, to drive it into a corner, to mock its religious garments, is an appalling thing to do.”
Typically, Hanson dresses up her stunt in ways which further discredit her motives. “They’re spending $16m to put in more security because they’re worried about terrorism,” she smirks, ever eager to conflate burqa and terror.
Yet this is a misrepresentation. There was no security slip. She wears her senate pin. Hanson’s identity is checked by officials; she is granted access to her Senate seat because of who she is not what she was wearing. Whether or not she should have been permitted to take her seat given her clear intention to use the burqa as a cheap stunt is another matter. The same indulgence is not granted to other members who seek to bring in props.
Hanson’s not concerned with security, moreover, despite being happy to imply that Muslims are women-oppressing potential terrorists, a line not too far from some of Peter Dutton’s own remarks. Nor is she prompted to protest at any perceived subjugation of women by the garment. Rather, she is content to promote her own brand of toxic, mindless bigotry in the knowledge that any media attention at all can only help her publicity.
Never shy of publicity and not to be outbid by the crazy desperation manifest elsewhere in his government, Treasurer Scott Morrison makes his own magnificent contribution or debit entry, as Greg Jericho notes, by beginning the week accusing Labor of raising taxes and ending it with a bill to raise taxes.
Monday’s News Corp papers all obligingly relay his scaremongering that Labor’s taxes would cost the economy $167 billion based on Parliamentary Budget Office modelling, or so it seems, until Monday lunchtime.
“References in the media this morning to modelling being released today by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) are incorrect. The analysis reported in the media this morning was not conducted by the PBO”, ” the PBO’s Jenny Wilkinson says in a rare slapdown of the Treasurer.
As Chris Bowen notes ScoMo’s modelling fails to take into account Labor plans to cut income taxes for low and middle-income earners. Instead it is the quick and dirty scare campaign figuring favoured by Morrison in election mode. Could his attack of madness be taken as a sign an early election is being prepared?
Whatever his motive, the Treasurer ignores the electorate’s interest in reducing income inequality in Australia. Morrison remains fixated on the same shonky formulaic debt and deficit nonsense of the Abbott years.
Team Turnbull members may well now rue their Schadenfreude, their jeering and sanctimonious hypocrisy at the time yet The Greens did resign on discovering their dual citizenship. Set a benchmark. As the week concludes, the Coalition has succeeded only in conveying its desperation, its poor judgement and lack of moral compass.
Even should the High Court, somehow, decide to permit Joyce to remain, saving the Coalition its wafer-thin majority the verdict may not be known until October and in the meantime it has done itself irreparable harm both to its legitimacy and to its credibility.
And just how long can a nation can be distracted with national security announceables on bollard placement and breathless details of new charges being laid on last year’s arsonists?
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It seems fairly obvious that the LIB/NP Coalition want to destroy the senate. Their born-to-rule sociopathy demands full and complete control of government.
It all started this time with the double dissolution. That pesky cross bench had to get its comeuppance – didn’t it?
When that failed the legitimacy of cross benchers – and anyone else in their way – came under scrutiny. The government referred Bob Day to the High Court, even the fact that he voted with the government was not reason enough to hold off the wrecking party. Then Culleton, then the Greens senators. Does anybody really buy the story that barrister Dr John Cameron acted simply as a curious individual with no political agenda when he acquired documents [supposedly unavailable to the public] to investigate the citizenship status of both Scott Ludlum and Derryn Hinch?
When you play with fire you can get burnt. The fire in the senate not only singed one of their own – Matt Canavan – but it defied the laws of physics and jumped downstairs to the lower house, Barnaby Joyce must have been doused in an accelerant for that to have happened.
Am I wrong in thinking that this whole citizenship debacle was started by the LIB/NP soon after the double dissolution election failed to give them supreme power?
Not only wrong, but demented. Turnbull is politically stupid – why would he endanger an already precipitous position into fatal collapse of his government? The good news is that he will realise, finally, that the certainty of being swept from office by the zero Bill Shorten will cost him another $1,750,000 to replace another shortfall of small donations to the LNP. He’ll step down citing family or health reasons – who cares – for Julie Bishop who will smash the hapless Bill who up to this point was content to happily coast to a victory.
You clearly overestimate Julie Bishop’s popularity.
Last week was undoubtedly the worst week the Turnbull government has seen. The “Dual citizenship Affair” has seen the Coalition National Party leadership fall foul of Section 44 of Australia’s Constitution which has thrown the government into absolute bedlam:
Section 44 of the Constitution states:
44. Any person who -
(i.) Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power: or
(ii.) Is attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is under sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence punishable under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State by imprisonment for one year or longer: or
(iii.) Is an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent: or
(iv.) Holds any office of profit under the Crown, or any pension payable during the pleasure of the Crown out of any of the revenues of the Commonwealth: or
(v.) Has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the Public Service of the Commonwealth otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company consisting of more than twenty-five persons:
shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.
The Australian Electoral Commission reproduces the section in its Candidates Handbook, where it draws particular attention to s 44(i) and (iv). As to the nomination form, it advises that to give “false or misleading information”, or to “omit any information if omitting that information would be misleading”, is a criminal offence and that the “maximum penalty for this offence is imprisonment for 12 months”. It does not spell out that such a conviction could result in disqualification under s 44(ii).
During 2017, an exceptional number of cases have arisen under s 44. Most have arisen in the Senate, where the government does not have a majority, and two non-government senators have resigned. A few cases have arisen in the House of Representatives, threatening the government’s one-seat majority. A rash of cases, mostly concerning s 44(i), have emerged during July and August and with all-party support they are being referred by the Parliament to the High Court of Australia as Court of Disputed Returns. One challenged minister has stood aside from ministerial duties and will not vote before the High Court decision in his case; others, including ministers, are refusing to step aside pending a High Court decision.
In view of the number of eligibility cases that have been or may be identified, on 17 August 2017 Senator Cory Bernardi of the Australian Conservatives called for the Parliament to be prorogued (suspended) until the High Court has clarified the situation and any by-elections required have taken place.
On 18 August, the Labor Opposition proposed to the Prime Minister that the challenged ministers who have not stepped aside from their position must do so owing to Constitution s 64, which requires that nobody can serve as a minister for more than three months unless they are a member of the parliament; ministerial decisions taken by somebody who was not validly occupying ministerial office would themselves be invalid.
(i) Allegiance to a foreign power
Subsection 44(i) has generally been interpreted by the High Court of Australia as meaning that persons with dual citizenship are not permitted to stand for election and that a person must take “reasonable steps” to renounce their citizenship of the other country. Its interpretation has been difficult. There is the preliminary awkwardness that the Constitution itself does not require a member of the Parliament to be an Australian Citizen, although Constitution s 42 does require members to swear an oath or affirmation of allegiance to the monarch; however, Australian citizenship has been made a statutory condition of eligibility for election.
During 2017 there have arisen several cases of possible breach of s 44(i), and in two cases, Australian Greens Senators Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters, the member has resigned from the Parliament. Many members, including those who have been referred to the High Court – Liberal National Party Senator Matthew Canavan, One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, Deputy leader of the Nationals and Senator Fiona Nash, and Nick Xenophon Team leader and Senator Nick Xenophon. – have had their cases referred to the High Court of Australia, through the Court of Disputed Returns. Nationals leader and MP Barnaby Joyce was also been referred to the High Court after the New Zealand Government confirmed that he was a citizen of the country. Every reference to the High Court, both those by the Senate and that by the House of Representatives, has had all-party support.
Howard government Minister Jackie Kelly also fell afoul of Section 44 in 1996 so the coalition should have been aware, perhaps the “born to rule” arrogance of the LNP has made them lazy, too lazy to check their candidates, and now the question must be asked if the legislation they have collectively passed is invalid, depending on the decision of the High Court? A joint parliamentary committee should be immediately formed to review all past legislation, especially under the Turnbull government to decide whether or not it will remain valid.
Julie Bishop is popular in Western Sydney – which is where elections are won (or lost). Unlike Turnbull, Julie Bishop isn’t terrified of anyone living West of Double Bay.
She’s tough, articulate, physically fit, energetic, has a good sense of humour, a good international profile – plus, dare I say it… has more than a bit of sex appeal.
Like I said, you clearly overestimate her popularity.
Havanaliedown, however a contra opinion might be J. Bishop..stuffed up numerous times on the international stage such being called in for a “please explain” by the Indonesian High Commissioner, seems clueless about diplomacy preferring to try to bully rather than negotiate. And of course sex appeal is so very important for women to possess, after all it’s MEN who are going to judge you. However, since you’re judging female politicians by this criteria my husband’s opinion is, “She has all the sex appeal of a roofing nail”. I personally find J. Bishop, arrogant, completely lacking in skills necessary for international diplomacy, thinking instead that The Frock and being able to wiggle her rear end in a tight Amani skirt is all that it takes. Always the bridesmaid never the bride, don’t expect any more of Bishop, she peaked long ago.
BREAKING NEWS: It’s official! The LNP will now and forever be known as The Liberal Multinational Party: or The LIMP party for short!
Good one, Dave. ?
I recall a Canberra journalist saying how Bishop (formerly known as Julia Gillon) , behind her tough political persona was in fact incredibly stupid and ill-informed.
Some have not forgotten her compassionate legal advice to the asbestos industry to stall proceedings until suffering miners die.
Her main problem is that when she’s mounting an argument she doesn’t know when to stop and eventually goes over the top, as well as her blatant hypocrisy when making personal attacks.
She’s known as “the cockroach” within her party because she has survived a number of party leaders and remained deputy.
I doubt she will ever become leader because she will be a constant reminder of past failed governments.
Carol, let’s not forget how she upset China and her latest effort in damaging our relationship with NZ.
Not even her sex appeal could save her.
There’s more here.
Indeed Michael, it takes a rare talent to create an international incident with New Zealand.
It’s pretty obvious what you’re doing while havanaliedown …
Sex appeal…? Which Bishop? One is known for her whip, the other for her stare.. Passion for punishing, that’s more like it…
Great piece. Love your work, David Tyler.
it shows the power of media hype because it is ludicrous to put the slimy xenophou, joyce or nash onto the same page as ludlum and waters. The former are Australian born and, unless they have done a canavan, are not dual citizens whilst the latter were born overseas and needed to denounce birth and become Australian.
The high court will decide that a foreign country cannot over rule australian birth and declare patrilineal descent the joke it is. Although. I love the thought that macho men in Australia could be dual citizens because of daddy’s birth.
Barnaby being a bastard of a pollie makes me wonder if anyone is certain whether their dad was their dad?
Julie want to do a julia and rid herself of a pm. She is nearly as nasty as michael-ia, Sophie and the rabbott. Unfortunately her affected stare is tto ridiculous.
wam, Michaelia makes Margaret Thatcher to look like a seductress…
Julie Bishop is all facade and no substance. She swans her way around the world “living the dream”, having her photo taken at socialite events and doing magazine shoots. She has two approaches – dolly bird flirting or death stare.
From February 2009,…..
Julie Bishop stepped aside as shadow treasurer. She moved after losing the confidence of her colleagues in the treasury role. In return for stepping aside voluntarily, Ms Bishop will remain as the Liberal Party’s deputy leader.
The change was revealed on Saturday by the Herald, which reported deep dissatisfaction in Liberal ranks with Ms Bishop’s performance.
After resisting moves to oust her, Ms Bishop jumped before being pushed.
One must be a resident of New Zealand for 5 years to be eligible to apply for citizenship, so I think Robert Angyal is being a tad overdramatic.
Yes. There’s less to Julie Bishop than meets the eye – apart from her $600,000 Glorious Bishop -never ask where the money really came from -Chinese sponsorship – and the way as a lawyer she was able to protract legal cases so asbestosis claimants died before their cases were settled.
A beacon of inhumanity, compassion-bypass, materialism and all the other loathesome, grasping, selfishness that Liberals value under the banner of individualism.
Helvityni: So does ms Bishop! Even all the face lifts cannot make her look any less like a large block of aluminium!
Michael Taylor: As always we agree!
The cockroach with the sex appeal of a roofing nail.
Gafaw, Gafaw, Gafaw
S G B
PS – sex appeal, haveanaliedown, have you gone blind, that woman makes me want to reach just looking at her. When she opens her mouth I expect to see bile coming out and giess what, I do.
There is only one woman I can think of as worse and that is that Cash woman. Now theres a piece of work!
And let’s not forget, Julie appointed that charlatan Bjørn Lomborg to her foreign aid innovation group as well as the Abbott government giving him $4 million to set up some shonky climate change denying centre at UWA.
And she took her boyfriend to work to sit at the official Australian table at the UN summit in New York. Surely that spot could have been more productively filled by a diplomat or public servant?
It is impossible for any moral person to either trivialise or ignore the pertinent fact that Bishop was once part of a legal team doing its utmost to prevent dying asbestos victims from receiving rightful and much needed compensation. Regardless of the professional irrelevancy of her highly debatable ‘sex appeal’ in performing her ‘political duties’ – most men and women I speak with liken her to a rapidly aging, overdone buzzard – she wholeheartedly subscribed to the inhumane stance of a company which in 1977 stated ‘even if the workers die like flies they will never be able to pin it on CSR’.”
It says so much about Australia’s current political system that a toxic, malignantly pernicious cretin such as mesothelioma Julie would ever be seriously considered for the Prime Ministership let alone receive public support for such a travesty.
And how could anyone forget Bishop’s pet project – (we won’t talk about the massive cuts to Australia’s foreign aid-yet)
(Drum roll) – Yes It’s her “gorgeous little funky, hipster, Googly, Facebooky-type place”.
It even has a $6300 (bling?) ping-pong table and three bean bags costing $590 each. Absolute bargain. No-one ever regrets buying quality.
It’s not an indulgent affectation – it’s a “$140 million agency with a brief to disrupt traditional aid processes and to identify inefficiencies and savings across the workforce.”
An excellent article.
Waiting on the High Court’s decision… should be interesting…
[has more than a bit of sex appeal]
I’ve heard rumours that Abbott thought so to. Me – I’d one night stand her with enough alcohol.
[She has two approaches – dolly bird flirting or death stare]
That is remarkedly accurate.
The list of felonies against Julie Bishop is as long as it is damning. Very well summarised on this thread by sharper minds than mine. Bishop is a gun for hire who will do and saying anything to help the LNP retain it’s currently tenuous grip on power. Her conduct deserves full condemnation. It’s disingenuous and hypocritical among other things.
However, to stephenb2014, can I say does the critique need to descend into derogatory and quite vicious comments about Bishop’s appearance? There is a level of discourse targeting female politicians – irrespective of their political persuasion – that is undoubtedly vicious and sexist. It’s fuelled by and further fuels misogyny. We saw this ugliness in the days of the Gillard government when her appearance and gender were constantly under attack using a similarly ugly tone to the one being used here.
Can we as intelligent people critique the poor performance, the ineffective policies based on self-interest, the utter hypocrisy and exploitation for nefarious purposes of our political system by LNP politicians such as Bishop without resorting to these below the belt, sexist attacks that are a particular brand of vilification reserved exclusively for women? Because I, for one, am tired of it.
Men determining how f#ckable they find a woman – not exactly unusual. On another thread the word ‘bra’ was used which tied up a group of males competing for the best ‘boob’ pun.
I cannot know for sure, but I am willing to bet that Julie Bishop wouldn’t go near JimHaz et al, drunk or sober…
fa, et al
My unreserved appology, I had not seen it as mysogenistic, but now it has been exposed,
I am sorry
S G B
I take your point. This attitude may not be unusual but it doesn’t make it any less okay. If we’re ever going to change the prevailing sexist culture in this country we have to start challenging the ‘usual’ and saying not any more.
I’ve seen women reduced to sexual stereotypes all my life. Every woman has felt the reductionist effect of being objectified. And how quickly that can turn to aggression and abuse when she fails to come across. I don’t like that feeling and I don’t like what it says about a woman’s place in society. If we’re ever going to change this we need to start with the language used when talking about socially prominent women no matter the field of endeavour, no matter how we feel about them personally, including women whose behaviour is unconscionable, i.e. Julie Bishop, Cash, other women in the LNP some of whom have been given their marching orders such as Sussan Ley and Bronwyn Bishop. My attitude has always been critique the behaviour rather than the gender.
diannaart, I do have a sense of humour, just not on this particular topic. I didn’t see the ‘bra’ thread and maybe that’s a good thing. ?
I will stop hijacking this thread now because the conversation was about David Tyler’s brilliant article on the egregious conduct of Julie Bishop, Barnacle Joyce et al.
stephengb2014 Thank you. Accepted.
Just saw comment by jimhaz after posting my last comment. Exhibit A. The defence rests.
Thank you for your replies.
I try to be patient, as I have learned and been burned before, but Jimhaz’s comment was the final straw for me. No woman, not even the Julie Bishops of this world deserve that sort of claptrap. There is enough, already, upon which to judge this woman;does it have to be because she happens to be a woman as well?
You’re good value David Tyler
Do we have a new moderator at AIMN?
[Just saw comment by jimhaz after posting my last comment. Exhibit A. The defence rests]
Groan. I try not to let the Thought Police types bother me.
They are the bane of the Left. No apologies from me.
I was meant to be the person today, helvityni, but I fell asleep (for three hours).
That type of response is predictable from someone who has zero respect for women. I doubt you’ve ever apologised for anything in your life. Nor do I care. Women can survive perfectly well without apologies from misogynists. And we have, for centuries. And we will continue to succeed in this world despite the best efforts of Neanderthals to disempower us. Fortunately your type is in the minority. Many good men out there who ‘get’ it.
Michael, you are a good and fair moderator, no complaints… It’s just that some people here have started casting aspersions on innocent well-meaning commenters, and also commentators, like Rossleigh.
It will drive people away from AIMN, what on earth has stephengb2014 ever said to be reprimanded by another blogger…Even friendly humorous banter seems to be out of bounds…what next…straight jackets…?
If we can criticize male politicians, why not females in same positions,,
We can and do criticise male politicians for their failures, and we should be able to do the same with female politicians without discussing their “f#ckability”, helvityni.
helvitnyni – Is that a thinly veiled attack on women commenting here who don’t appreciate sexist remarks? stephengb2014’s remarks – for which he’s apologised – were mild compared to lowbrow comments posted by jimhaz. Yet you seem okay with those comments. Are you?
Here is a sample:
“The cockroach with the sex appeal of a roofing nail.”
“… that woman makes me want to reach (sic) just looking at her.”
“[has more than a bit of sex appeal]
I’ve heard rumours that Abbott thought so to. Me – I’d one night stand her with enough alcohol.
[She has two approaches – dolly bird flirting or death stare]
That is remarkedly accurate.”
And I notice your comment earlier also comes under the heading of sexist:
“Michaelia makes Margaret Thatcher to look like a seductress…”
helyitnyi – When was the last time you compared two male politicians unfavourably in the context of seduction?
As a woman I am not okay with these comments, even if I despise Julie Bishop’s behaviour, which I do.
Your attempts at excusing sexism are what will drive people away from this forum, not women standing up against critical, vicious comments based on looks and sexuality that are worlds apart from the way we critique male politicians.
And perhaps you can fight your own battles rather than enlisting the help of moderators. Calling out sexism and misogyny is not grounds to censor a person, although perfectly legitimate according to the prevailing Australian culture of course.
Because there’s nothing worse than a woman who stands up against this type of behaviour, right? Loud-mouthed ball-breaking Feminazis need to be silenced at all costs, right?
helvityni, thank you for your lovely compliment.
This sort of behaviour can also drive people away if we over-moderate. It’s one of those things that puts us in ‘no win’ situation. Sometimes when we have stepped in, it has only served to add fire to the situation and has made it worse.
The best form of moderation is self-moderation. In that regards we are lucky here. Top marks to our commenters for that.
There’s words, meanings – both intended by the writer and then given by the reader – and often there’s lots of slippage. But it can even cause wars. And at many levels.
fa, your point has been made. We can all move on.
diannaart: I agree with what you’ve said.
“We can and do criticise male politicians for their failures, and we should be able to do the same with female politicians without discussing their “f*ckability”, helvityni.”
But we don’t. And that’s the difference.
Roswell: is that your way of telling me to be quiet and go away? I am responding to a comment that was directly having a go at my contributions here today.
I rarely comment on this forum. It’s the case that every single time Julie Bishop or MIchaelia Cash hit the headlines these type of vicious comments emerge. Without fail. And as a woman I am tired of them.
Yet I need to “move on”? Nothing to say about the sexist comments here? They’re okay by you, are they?
fa, I didn’t say that you need to move on. I said we can all move on.
Everybody else has.
Not entirely true. I moved on at 2.30pm. But others have since responded addressing me directly. The conversation about sexism in the way we critique our female politicians has officially ended. How unusual. Congratulations to those offended. Another successful shut down.
Thank you and goodnight.
Well some of us do discuss their ‘f*ckability’ fa, as a woman, I certainly have felt my skin crawl and my stomach heave at certain photos of Abbott – especially those of him wearing nothing but his budgie smugglers which clearly outline his less than impressive wang. The way he licks his lips – seriously creepy. I have always equated Abbott with his sleazy, creepy personal looks and demeanour, and believe that a lot of his failures are directly linked to his lack of sex appeal.
And believe me, he’s not the only male politician which leaves a nasty image in my mind. The thought of getting down and dirty with Brandis makes me want to take a very long, very hot antiseptic shower, let alone having any erotic inklings towards the equally non lust inspiring, unattractive, sweaty, badger faced Christensen.
Bishop – with much help from strategists and publicists – has attempted to reinvent herself as uber stylish, alluring and sleek. There is absolutely no harm in seeing through that obvious ploy and commenting upon it.
It is human nature to check those in public office out, and in doing so, my friends and I have enjoyed many a laugh.
By the way, David, an outstanding article.
I don’t think in those terms when discussing politics. Full stop. It’s counterproductive. Being a woman or a man makes no difference. It’s still counterproductive.
As Roswell suggested I am moving on. Because this vein of discussion just detracts from the substance of this article, which was sharp and informative. And that’s the point rather than the “f#ckability” of our politicians.
I had to leave for a while – might’ve said a few home-truths and that will never do. It is bad when some males feel they can say, do and behave how they want without any respect for the feelings of other men and women. And of course they do not ever apologise – why should they? That’s life, right?
At least we can recognise the men from the males and the women from the females, truth may not solve anything, but it is better than ignorance.
Michael I do not have the luxury of good enough health to continue to fight.
Jimhaz – you win.
So behaviour (broadly defined) is completely out of one’s control? Nothing to do with one’s socialisation? Nothing to do with choices made? It’s behaviour found across all societies and cultures? And therefore we are all simply prisoners of human nature? Just askin ..
There as so much more going with this article that hasn’t been discussed. Somehow it’s been hijacked by issues regarding Julie Bishop. I regard myself as a feminist. I have always fought for feminist ideals and I might add that one of my ancestors was Emmeline Pankhurst and she would have been horrified by Julie Bishop. She would have thought the whole mesothelioma horrid debacle was a complete anathema to the values that feminism holds.
This article is not about the Bishop’s gender but it is about her agenda but so much more as well.
Also this article, brilliantly written, explores how this govt cannot and will never succeed. It’s another demonstration of chaos. It’s about how this govt seeks to boost the terrorist propoganda. It’s about the govt caught up in its own arrogance is unable to see what the people really think.
Human behaviour regarding the sociological effects of clinical sexual objectification is a huge issue which I have neither the time nor inclination to discuss in any real detail here.
Yet, I will say that it is an insipidly banal but seldom asserted fact that we human beings are in fact objects. Men and women both! True story. Admittedly, humans belong to a subcategory of objects that are also subjects, but that does not contradict the fact that we humans are objects and if you are in any doubt, please get up, go into your bathroom and look into the mirror. Therefore, if we treat someone as an object, we are not treating them as something that they are not; we are treating them in accordance with just one of their aspects.
As always the great middle class remains the last citadel of toxic traditionalism, and disappointingly it is here that the double standard of morality shows itself most prominently.
ceridwen66 re the nature of your specific response. Your choice? Or that of someone who was bound by human nature?
(Much I could respond to. But perhaps we might start with the basics – as advanced by you re human nature.)
ceridwen66, I note from your profile that you claim to be an anarchist? A result of human nature or a free choice you made? And if you claim that it’s a result of human nature, then why are there so few anarchists?
You do realise that human nature is a universal concept in which there is a set of characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and behaving, that all human beings have in common right? Although we exhibit myriad individual and cultural variations, humans possess idiosyncrasies, quirks and characteristics that distinguish and categorise us as a species. At the risk of being labelled a hard determinist, I believe the search for freedom itself – individual and collective – is an intrinsically human endeavour.
Tom Wolfe penned a piece called “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died”, in which he wrote: “since consciousness and thought are the entirely physical products of your brain and nervous system, what makes you think you have free will? Where is it going to come from?” For many people, the concept of free will is simply a social construct, a matrix if you will. The great anarchist Bakunin went further saying that natural laws constitute our being, our whole being, physically, intellectually, and morally: we live, we breathe, we act, we think, we wish only through these laws.
Just for the record, I don’t ‘claim to be’ an anarchist. I AM an anarchist. Most people with an inherent interest in peace studies and social justice issues possess a desire to see the destruction of corrupt, grasping governmental and authoritarian systems. Actually, we’re not really rare at all.
To get back to the article I pose a question regarding the resignations of Ludlum and Waters, who did the honourable thing without hesitation. If Joyce, Canavan and the latest casualty Xenophon are somehow given a free pass to stay on in their respective Parliamentary positions what happens to Scott Ludlum and Larissa Waters? Because it seems highly unfair to Australians that we lose two talented Senators yet others clearly motivated by self-interest rather than what’s appropriate according to law are permitted to stay. If anything this debacle clearly shows who the honest and honourable politicians are as opposed to those motivated by self-interest and a sense of entitlement.
If successful in their aims, will anarchists use a sewerage system? Electricity? Anarchy baby!!!
The man who put the word “anarchy” on the popular culture map, through a jaunty little ditty – John Lydon – is now a property developer and Brexit and Trump supporter… when he’s not doing butter adverts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSE-Iy_tFY
God bless ‘im
I apologised for seeming to be a misogynist.
I did not apologise so that you could keep using me, as a kicking board.
I did not say sorry only to be quoted, by you to score points, which actually has embarrassed me again.
Sure I am not as articulate as you seem to be and yes my forefinger can’t spell either but I feel you have taken advantage of my apology and my ignorance to apply, what seems to me to be nothing more than a hatred of men.
Yes I am still sorry for my comment but I believe that in accepting an apology you are obligated to really accept not just pretend.
Now if you want to take of piece of me – go ahead – but I think you have busted your credibility.
Yes I am no longer embarrased – I’m hoppin mad (sic) yes I know what sic means
S G B
Oh my! The statist refrain! All together now! Who will build the roads if we don’t have government?!?
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle. Johnny Rotten was as much anarchist as Muddy Waters was punk.
Pretty vacant alright.
It’s OK, SGB. We all know that you never intended to offend anybody. You apologised, nonetheless, which is an admirable thing to do. It takes guts.
I concur with Roswell – it takes guts to apologise.
For the record, criticising some men does not mean the critic hates all men.
I agree with fa – what will happen to Waters and Ludlum if those who refused to step down are found by the High Court to be “innocent” and permitted to remain in office?
If the two admirable Greens cannot return to their jobs – does this mean the double standard, employed by the dominant, wins yet again?
SGB – Never be embarrassed by what makes you inherently you or about the things which you think, say or write. Some paragons of self proclaimed morality and virtue will judge/complain/whinge to and about you no matter what.
Overturn those barrels of tar and kick aside the sacks of feathers, if one must be embarrassed, it is far better to be embarrassed about the things we don’t say and of not being who we actually are!
Enjoy your day
As I understand it, Ludlum and Waters sought legal advice. Apparently, the opinion provided was that they were in breech of the relevant section and presumably not eligible to be Senators. They apparently accepted that legal opinion and resigned without waiting for the High Court to make a ruling. That might have been a mistake. Legal opinions are just that – legal opinions. Nothing more, nothing less. And while it seems to me that the opinion provided is sound it’s not to be equated or confused with a decision made by the High Court.
On the other hand, Joyce et al received a different opinion (from the Solicitor General) and are prepared to wait and see what the High Court rules. History shows that High Courts (in Australia and elsewhere), with fresh faces, made different rulings over time. Indeed, sometimes they overturn completely, the rulings made in an earlier era. That’s what Turnbull and Joyce et al are hoping for.
If Turnbull and Joyce are granted their wishes by the High Court, where does that leave the Greens senators? Or is this not about justice but, more simply, winners are grinners?
diannaart, I don’t think that the High Court will be kind to Turnbull and Joyce – why should it? Can’t see that favours are owed.
The Separation of Powers concept is generally not held in high regard in Australia – what with the same actors being both members of the Legislature and of the Executive. Yet the Judiciary is not so inclined. Judges can become quite precious if the other powers attempt to play on their turf. And some do make that effort. Take Dutton as an example. He has nothing but contempt for the judiciary and is unrelenting in his pursuit for more powers that properly lie with the judicial arm.
Recently, there were other Ministers who made derogatory remarks and only backed down at the last minute. Judges have long memories when is comes to ‘slights’ – real or imagined. And most importantly, they tend to hold politicians in very low regard. Thus politicians begin with a significant handicap. Turnbull’s prediction of how this would end, won’t help either. That Joyce et all are trying to tough it out and seem to be defying previous decisions won’t go down too well either. But who knows
That The Greens were somewhat circumspect will only add to the limits the Judges will feel. Also. so members of the High Court have reputations for being conservative. They are not judicial activists. Strict, narrow interpretations please.
You make sense, but we both know “sense” need not apply in the post-truth age.
Be interesting to know the verdict. Either way, I suspect the Greens resignation will be allowed to stand… Waters and Ludlum are gone.
I suggest you take it up with agitator helvityni.
I did accept your apology. I am not a pretender.
However, what I don’t accept is the attempt to shoot the messenger because the message is distasteful. The comments I reproduced were to illustrate what the inappropriate sexist comments were and the reason why several women in this group found them inappropriate. I didn’t name names, I merely reproduced the comments in inverted commas.
The person agitating and trying to enlist help of admins to silence legitimate commentary was helvityni. So again I suggest you take it up with him/her.
If someone is having a go at me I have every right to defend myself, unless I’ve done something wrong, in which case I will apologise.
I have done nothing wrong. Pointing out sexism is not wrong. I hope that more people have the courage to start doing this without fear of retribution because it’s what the world needs. We need to call it out so that we can change the prevailing culture which is a toxic one for women in a myriad of ways. And if someone crosses a boundary in this or any forum then it’s to be expected that one or more people will point that out. I did and other women here did also.
I suggest it’s a lesson in thinking carefully before hitting the ‘post comment’ button.
I hope this is an end to the matter. Because I will not be responding on this topic again.
And a note to admins. Despite greatly appreciating the AIMN I find this forum aggressive and unwelcoming, in particular to women. There are people commenting here that feel it’s legitimate to steer the discussion off on completely unrelated tangents that have zero to do with the actual article, make lowbrow offensive comments that they believe they shouldn’t be challenged on, and then attack repeatedly the people who call them out on their poor behaviour. And I’m not referring particularly to stephengb2014 when I say this.
As a result I am going to limit my participation here. Because life is too short for this type of ugliness. I’ve personally had enough. Because it is BS. Congratulations to the agent provocateurs. Mission accomplished.
diannaart, if you get a traffic ticket and pay the fine – (usually) it’s all over. In a sense you’ve pled guilty. If you want to reject an initial accusation, it’s best not to agree and then attempt to disagree sometime later. But we are not talking about traffic tickets. There’s much more important principles involved. Decisions that will, in all probability, last for a very long time.
But I can’t see how the two Greens will come back anytime soon. More’s the pity.

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Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has vehemently scolded former President John Dramani Mahama over some recent comments he is purported to have made regarding Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.
Former President John Mahama is reported as saying the Akufo-Addo government has embarked on a borrowing spree to cushion Databank.
Mr. Mahama reportedly accused the government of using Databank, where the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is a co-founder, to collect the borrowed monies with an aim to keep the bank operational and prevent it from collapsing.
Kwamena Duncan has debunked the claims by Mr. Mahama.
According to him, the former President's comments are born out of pure hatred for the Finance Minister.
Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Kwamena Duncan said ''former President Mahama has intense hate for especially the Finance Minister'' and this is why he makes such statements about him.
The Regional Minister held that the Finance Minister is a man of integrity serving Ghana effectively.
''When you ask me about my number 1 Minister, I say it's Ken Ofori-Atta.''
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Sunday, April 6, 2014
The search for Richard III the King's grave
Another book about the recent discovery of the body of King Richard III beneath a Leicester car-park. This one is written by Philippa Langley, screenwriter and member of the Richard III Society, and historian, Michael Jones. In alternating chapters the story of the discovery of the body and subsequent identification is interwoven with an account of the life and times of Richard III, including later depictions of his character by the Tudors and other non-admirers. Photographs and maps add to the story. The book provides a readable account of events that occurred in the fifteenth century. The recent discovery of the King's grave has provided additional information about the events and the man himself.

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The Presidential Commissioner for the United Nations (UN) and congressman, Miguel Pizarro, explained that the delay in the payment of the $100 to the health personnel is caused by processes in conjunction with the American treasury to generate confidence, guarantee transparency and avoid questioning about the use of the resources.
“This is the first time we will have direct disbursement of resources, different from the mechanisms of international agencies. This has had a delay that although it is unjustified for the final beneficiary, I think it gives us a tranquility in the process that we will appreciate in the end,” he explained during an interview with journalist Sergio Novelli.
Pizarro informed that the selection of the company’s platform, which will be the digital wallet used and the selection of the mechanism, was decided to be done in conjunction with the U.S. Treasury in a format of various stages that can be audited. “We prefer to lose the margin of public opinion, but guarantee 100% transparency of the mechanism for transferring resources to health professionals”.


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Local iwi Ngāti Awa is rallying around victims' families of the Whakaari eruption.
This morning about 200 people gathered at Te Mānuka Tūtahi marae for karakia and an update on the operation.
There were families of two employees of White Island Tours, which is owned by Ngāti Awa. As well, some families of those unaccounted for on the island from overseas, were there.
Hayden Marshall-Inman and Tipene Maangi have been identified as two of the four guides who were on yesterday's tour out to the island.
Media weren't able to attend the karakia, organised by Ngāti Awa, but waiata could be heard from the marae and people could be seen consoling each other.
Following kaumatua, Te Kei Merito spoke about how it was a time to share and embrace each other.
"It's very difficult to describe the essence of the environment that prevailed within the house. Obviously those who are here have gathered, to remember, to mourn and to seek information of those still on the island."
Police gave an update of the operation and Mr Merito said they all came together under this cloud of mourning.
"[They were] quite devastated as you would appreciate. There were Ngāti Awa staff affected and we still don't know the results of those who are still on the island, on Whakaari."
He said Ngāti Awa is offering its manaaki and any support they can.
A Ngāti Awa leader confirmed a rāhui has been placed on the island after the fatal eruption.
Whakatāne District Council pou tikanga Pouroto Ngaropo performed a rāhui ceremony early this morning.
Mr Ngaropo said the rāhui covers the island and the waters around it.
"The rāhui is going to protect the island, the ocean, those who are there, their families and all those who are carrying out important work at the moment."
The marae, Te Manuka Tūtahi, is open to those who need it.


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Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:26:10 -0800
The Seattle Mariners will not trade SP Hisashi Iwakuma despite interest from multiple teams. General manager Jack Zduriencik went so far to say he had no ideas where the rumors were coming from and that he was not going anywhere.
Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:55:59 -0800
Several teams have expressed interest in trading for Seattle Mariners SP Hisashi Iwakuma. The Boston Red Sox have reportedly had internal conversations about him.
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:07:21 -0700
Seattle Mariners SP Hisashi Iwakuma's 2015 option for $7 million was exercised Thursday, Oct. 30. His option was actually vested based on his on-field performance in 2014. He went 15-9 with a 3.52 ERA in 28 starts after missing the first month of the season.
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:17:48 -0700
The Seattle Mariners hold a club option for next season on SP Hisashi Iwakuma, and general manager Jack Zduriencik confirmed this week that the team will exercise that option. He called the decision a "no brainer."
Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:57:43 -0700
Seattle Mariners SP Hisashi Iwakuma (back, groin) was pulled from his start against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Friday, Sept. 26, for precautionary reasons. He had been bothered by a sore back and groin in his previous starts but checked out fine.
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:19:08 -0700
Seattle Mariners SP Hisashi Iwakuma is 2-3 with a 9.12 ERA in his last six starts after getting knocked around by the Houston Astros Sunday, Sept. 21.
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:43:44 -0700
Seattle Mariners SP Taijuan Walker is likely to start against the Houston Astros Friday, Sept. 19, which would mean an extra day of rest for SPs Chris R. Young and Hisashi Iwakuma. Walker has given up just two runs and 10 hits in 9 1/3 innings in three relief outings since being called up Sept. 1.
Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:05:58 -0700
Seattle Mariners SP Hisashi Iwakuma (calf) is fine after he dealt with a cramp in his calf during the game Tuesday, Aug. 19.
Fantasy Tip: It looks like Iwakuma should not miss a start because of the minor injury. Owners should continue to have him in their starting lineups.
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:53:11 -0700
Seattle Mariners SP Hisashi Iwakuma allowed just four hits with no walks over eight scoreless innings while posting a season-high 11 strikeouts in a win Tuesday, Aug. 19, against the Philadelphia Phillies. Since July 1, Iwakuma is 7-2 with a 1.63 ERA, 65 strikeouts and four walks in 72 innings over 10 starts.
Fantasy Tip: Iwakuma has emerged as a fantasy must-start in all formats this season. Iwakuma, Felix Hernandez and Chris Young have been the best trio of pitchers in baseball this season.
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:10:59 -0700
Seattle Mariners SP Hisashi Iwakuma is 6-2 with a 1.83 ERA since Tuesday, July 1. Iwakuma is starting Tuesday, Aug. 19, against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Fantasy Tip: Iwakuma is a must-start arm in all seasonal formats. You'll have to pay up for Iwakuma in daily games tonight, but it is a very favorable matchup. The Phillies rank 28th in the league in wOBA against right handed pitchers.


TYPE: Two-seat lightplane.
PROGRAMME: Launched 1981 with objective of producing first all-composites light aircraft in Australia; single-seat POC (proof-of-concept) aircraft now displayed at Power House Museum, Sydney; construction of two-seat preproduction prototype Eagle X started fourth quarter 1987; first flight (VH-XEG) second quarter 1988, with 58 kW (78 hp) Aeropower engine, replaced later by 74.5 kW (100 hp) Continental O-200; 200 hour test programme, meeting all original design criteria, completed by October 1988; plans for 1989 production start aborted; component manufacture began March 1991; production prototype (PPT1/VH-XEP) made first flight 6 November 1992; weight-restricted certification by Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA) 21 September 1993; European JAR-VLA certificate not awarded at that time and aircraft consequently redesigned with changes including IO-240-B engine; increased span and chord on foreplane and mainplane flaps; redesigned and repositioned wing cuffs, with leading-edge extension outboard; vortex generators and repositioned horizontal stabiliser.
Series production in Australia, as Eagle X-TS, launched August 1993; first flight (VH-AHH) 23 October 1993 and first customer delivery December 1993 (VH-FPO to Department of Conservation and Land Management in Western Australia). Initial production in Australia only, but using some components manufactured by Eagle Aircraft (Malaysia) of which Eagle Aircraft Pty Ltd was a wholly owned subsidiary. First aircraft completed from Malaysian components (VH-PMI, c/n MA 00001) made maiden flight 27 March 2001. In December 2001 it was announced that production was moving to Malaysia and operations in Australia were being run down; this was achieved in late February 2002 and type certificate revised to show change of manufacturer on 28 February 2002.
First Series 150 (converted production prototype VH-XEP) rolled out August 1997; certified on 13 November 1997 by CASA to JAR-VLA standards at MTOW of 640 kg (1,411 lb); this certification also valid in Malaysia.FAA certification achieved 11 February 1999, followed by New Zealand approval in mid-1999; also approved in Thailand; JAA certification expected in 2002. First night VFR instrumented aircraft certified and delivered in December 2000.
CURRENT VERSIONS: Series 100: Retrospective designation of former Eagle X-TS; production completed. Total of 10 built, of which five converted or undergoing conversion to Series 150 by late April 1998.
Series 150: Current production version, designated 150A with IO-240-A engine and 150B with IO-240-B. Engines have same maximum power of 93.2 kW (125 hp) but B version has increased mid-range power of almost 29 per cent to 69.4 kW (93 hp) and is 3.7 per cent quieter than A model. Available in Basic, Training and Executive variants, as below. US production devoted to 150B version only.
Basic: Standard Series 150 version; as described.
Training: As Basic, with addition to tachometer, turn co-ordinator, directional gyro, digital clock, cockpit internal lighting, transponder, nav/com/VOR, navigation and landing lights and Eagle external pinstriping and decals.
Executive: As Training, plus GPS moving map display, mainwheel spats, leather upholstery, cabin heater, baggage bins, sun visor and chart pocket.
Eagle ARV: Optionally piloted surveillance version (Aerial Reconnaissance Vehicle), co-developed by CTRM with BAE Systems Controls of California, which supplies complete modification kit including flight management system, sensor payload, datalink and ground control station. First three-aircraft system delivered to Royal Malaysian Air Force in late 2001.
CUSTOMERS: Ten Series 100/Eagle X-TS built, including two for Malaysia (c/n 0003 and 0005) and one for John Ronez in USA (c/n 0010); five conversions (c/n 0002/3/5/7/8) to Series 150.
Series 150 operators include: Aerostaff (one), Australian Flying Training School (one), DTIL New Zealand (one), Guernsey Aviation USA (two), HGL Aero of Kansas, USA (28), Horizon Airways (one), International Aviation and Travel Academy USA (two), Malacca Flying Club Malaysia (three), Perak Aero Club Malaysia (one), Phoenix Aviation (two), Royal Queensland Aero Club (two), Tanjung Flying Club (one), Troy Aviation (one) and Victoria Civil Aviation Academy (three).
By January 2003, production (including Eagle X) totalled 46 in Australia (including two prototypes) and three in Malaysia. Two delivered to USA in 2002.
COSTS: Basic Eagle 150B US$119,000. Training US$124,400, Executive US$129,500 (all 2000). Total maintenance cost US$9.98 per hour over 2,000 hours' utilisation (2003).
DESIGN FEATURES: Intended primarily for ab initio training, recreational flying and surveillance. 'Tri-surface' configuration, with high-mounted mainplane, large low-mounted foreplane, and tailplane. Stall strips on foreplane ensure that it stalls before the mainplane.
Mainplane of tailored Ronez aerofoil section, thickness/chord ratio 16 per cent; no sweep; no dihedral.
FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual. Slotted ailerons on mainplane, elevators on tailplane, and rudder, all with normal manual/mechanical actuation. Aileron travel +25 to -20°; elevator +25 to -24°; rudder ±23°. Pushrods on ailerons and elevators, cables on rudder. Electric pitch trim (tab in starboard elevator), manual roll trim; rudder tab. Electrically actuated single-slotted flaps on foreplane (full span; travel 0 to 35°) and mainplane (part span; range of travel +3° up to 38° down). Leading-edge stall strips, vortex generators and fences on mainplane, stall strips on foreplane. Flap and airflow control systems designed to achieve low stalling speed with relatively high wing loading, to provide good ride quality in turbulence.
STRUCTURE: Except for metal engine mounts and flight control rods, Eagle 150 built entirely of composites, with 90 per cent of structure bonded/assembled by EAM. Wings, fuselage and all control surfaces are Nomex honeycomb or high-density foams, sandwiched between multiple layers of carbon fibre; Kevlar reinforcement around wing leading-edges and shoulder of mainplane; cockpit is impact-resistant capsule of multilayered Kevlar and carbon fibre; carbon fibre spars. Entire structure uses Eagle-designed vinylester resins for strength/longevity/impact resistance and to minimise 'wet environment' problems inherent in standard epoxies.
LANDING GEAR: Non-retractable tricycle type, with glass fibre/epoxy self-sprung main legs and oleo nose leg. Choice of Cleveland or McCreary 5.00-5 wheel on each unit, with optional speed fairings. Cleveland hydraulic single-disc brakes on mainwheels. Castoring nosewheel, size 11x4.00, with Chensin tyre. Minimum ground turning radius 5.21 m (17 ft 1 in). Brakes applied by pressure on rudder pedals. Twin landing lights in nosewheel fairing.
POWER PLANT: One 93.2 kW (125 hp) Teledyne Continental IO-240-A or IO-240-B7B flat-four engine (see Current Versions above); respectively driving a McCauley 1A135BRM7054, 1A135CRM7057 or 1A135DRM7057 two-blade fixed-pitch metal propeller. Trials with MTV-7-D/175-112 three-blade propeller under way in early 2001. Fuel capacity 102 litres (26.9 US gallons; 22.4 Imp gallons), of which 97 litres (25.6 US gallons; 21.3 Imp gallons) are usable. Oil capacity 5.7 litres (1.5 US gallons; 1.3 Imp gallons).
ACCOMMODATION: Two seats side by side with Y-shape control column operable from either seat. Adjustable rudder pedals. Bubble canopy hinged at front and opens upward. Four-point safety harnesses. Hat shelf and two baggage compartments.
SYSTEMS: Hydraulic system for manual brake actuation only; 12 V DC electrical system with 60 A alternator.
AVIONICS: Standard avionics suite as described below. Optional equipment as detailed under Current Versions. Night VFR package also available.
Comms: VHF com, intercom and ELT standard.
Instrumentation: ASI, altimeter, tachometer, oil pressure/temperature gauge, fuel pressure gauge, fuel quantity gauge, voltmeter/ammeter, OAT gauge, magnetic compass, pitch trim indicator, engine hours meter and flight hours meter.


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In September 2017, I had a chance to visit Porto, Portugal. It’s a beautiful city–Portugal’s second largest after Lisbon–known for its bridges and port wine. I didn’t sample their wine, but I explored the city and saw all its majestic bridges! I did that while riding on a bike.
Rent a bike in Porto, Portugal
Renting a bike in Porto is easy. I simply opened Google Maps on my phone and searched for bike rental shops. After reading reviews and comparing costs, I decided on going with Biclas & Triclas, which is on the bank of the Douro River. I was able to rent a bike online, specified the pick up time, and showed up there the next day. Sweet and easy!
Get a Map and Ask for the Best Places to Visit
Pablo, a friend who also attended the same meeting I was in decided to join me. It made the exploration doubly fun. Before setting off, the owner of Biclas & Triclas briefed us on the nice places to visit, where to get lunch, and where the bike paths were. We hit the road and went to the general direction of the city. There was no uphill pedaling for us. It was all flat roads as long as you stay on the paths near the river and along the beach.

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Abilene Christian center Friday surpasses 1,000 points for Wildcat basketball career
Sixty percent in Abilene
Sixty percent of McMurry’s games this season will be in Abilene. Twenty-one games are scheduled at Walt Driggers Field with three more at Hardin-Simmons.
The War Hawks are looking to improve on last season’s 13-25 record. McMurry kicks off the season Feb. 8 hosting Schreiner in the opening of a three-game set.
Howard Payne will take its first-ever trip to Hawaii to open its season. The Yellow Jackets have five games in three days Feb. 1-3 against Division II Hawaii Pacific.
It will double as a teaching trip as one of the professors will travel with the team and teach a class on Hawaiian culture and history. Also, there are reportedly 30 alumni living in the Honolulu area so there will be an alumni event as well.
HPU’s roster includes six Big Country players – brothers Seth and Kory Owen from Brownwood; Trace Evans and Tristan Horton from Early; Seth Heupel of Stephenville, and Collin Davis of Comanche.
Twenty members of Cisco College’s ultra-successful 2018 team have moved on to the professional ranks or they are listed on rosters of four-year colleges.
Michael Berglund was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays and Matthew Willrodt by the Seattle Mariners. Going Division I were Wylie grad Mack Mueller, Baylor; Michael Hoehner, Texas A&M; Garrett Cobb, Texas Tech; Nico Garza, New Mexico; Anthony Dominguez, Texas-Arlington; William Hollis, Texas State; Cole Ballinger, Arkansas-Pine Bluff; Alex Palmer, Joseph Sgambelluri, Derek Wells and Hunter King, Stephen F. Austin, and Johnny Gonzales and Ryne Edmonson, Houston Baptist.
Also, Justin Fragale, Lee; Tyler Garcia, Northwest Oklahoma State; Ryan Kotulek, Lubbock Christian; Garrett Frazier, Hardin-Simmons, and Trace Evans, Howard Payne.
When Abilene Christian senior Jalone Friday reached the 1,000-point career mark in a win over Northwestern State, it gave the Wildcats three players in their current starting lineup currently in four figures.
Friday joined Jaren Lewis and Jaylen Franklin as ACU (16-3, 5-1) continued its memorable season.
Reyna at 30
Standing 5-foot-7, Skylar Reyna lacks the size of more than 90 percent of frontcourt players on any level. And yet that doesn’t stop the McMurry junior from being a double-double machine.
In the War Hawks’ loss to Howard Payne, Reyna went off for her 11th double-double of the season and 30th of her career. Reyna leads McMurry in scoring (13.1) and rebounding (9.7).
What a difference one season makes.
The HSU women (12-6, 6-4) entered this week with seven games remaining and already had doubled last season’s win output.
The Cowgirls are averaging 67 points per game with just one girl – Taylor Gaffney (13.8) – scoring in double figures. However, HSU has eight other women averaging better than five points per game. The Cowgirls have won seven of nine at Mabee Complex where their next three games are scheduled.
Prock enjoying success
Joshua Prock had a tough act to follow at Howard Payne when he followed national championship-winning coach Chris Kielsmaier as head of the Lady Jackets.
Like Kielsmaier, Prock used his success at HPU (108-31 in five seasons) as a springboard to Division II and Eastern New Mexico. The Greyhounds struggled for three seasons but have turned things around in the past three seasons including this year as they entered the week 12-4, 7-1 and unbeaten in seven home outings. EMU is tied for first in the Lone Star Conference.
Taking aim at 100
Mark Cumpian is set to begin his third season as head coach at Tarleton State, and it is quite possible that the Howard Payne graduate will earn his 100th career win before the calendar turns to March.
That’s because the TexAnns, 85-33 in his first two seasons, have 22 games scheduled in the first 23 days of February. The opener is set for Feb.1 with TSU to face St, Mary’s at Conroe. The TexAnns, who were a sterling 22-1 at Stephenville last season, have their home opener Feb. 19 against Texas A&M International. They have 21 games scheduled at home this season.
Pena paces War Hawks
McMurry senior Jerick Pena placed second in the 100-yard backstroke and third in the 200 backstroke to pace the War Hawk men to a fourth-place finish in the Colorado College Classic. Pena also notched a seventh in the 100 butterfly.
The McMurry women were sixth in the regular-season final meet. The men and women will compete Feb. 13-16 at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships in San Antonio.
ACU men go 2-1
Abilene Christian’s men posted a 2-1 record, notching wins over Azusa Pacific and Pepperdine before being blanked by No. 9 Texas A&M.
Josh Sheehy, Nikolas Moceanu, Riley Tran and Sebastian Langdon all posted 2-1 singles records for the Wildcats. Sheehy was named Southland Conference Men’s Player of the Week.
The Abilene Christian women found success at the Indiana Winter Invitational.
The Wildcat doubles teams of Sarah Eleanor Adams-Nini Memishishi and Autumn Bellow-Illeana Mocciola each went 4-1. Additionally, Mocciola was 2-0 in singles.
TRACK AND FIELD
Eastham earns honor
Hardin-Simmons junior Jessica Eastham was named ASC Field Athlete of the Week.
Eastham ran 1:03.49 to finish 17th at the Red Raider Invite.


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Do you remember the candy you ate as a kid like Wax Lips, Candy Buttons, Wax Bottles, Candy Cigarettes and other candies from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.Some of it is still around and you can still buy it depending on your age. But some others have long been gone or taken off the market through no reason other than it just isn’t popular anymore.
Let’s take a look back and see what candy was popular in the decades past.
1920’s and before there was
- Beemans and Black Jack chewing gum
- Animal Crackers
- Candy canes
- Candy corn
- Anise candy drops
- cinnamon candy drops
Do you remember horehound candy? Those drops were supposed to help sooth your throat. I still see them today in certain pharmacy’s around the area.
In the 20’s and 30’s there were BB Bats. These were taffy pops and had flavors of banana, strawberry, chocolate and peanut butter. Bit O honey and Black Cows were introduced in this era. The later was a slow poke dipped in a chocolate covering. If you don’t know what a slow poke is, it’s basically caramel suckers. They were the best cent candy because they would last all day.
The 30’s had Big Cherry which is a mound of milk chocolate sprinkled with peanuts that contains a whole cherry in a rich creamy center. Today we call them Chocolate covered cherries!
Ahhh, those crazy 1940’s were when the bubble gum cigar became popular. So did candy cigarettes and bazooka bubble gum. Dots and smarties and jelly rings were the penny candy of this era.
The Fifties and Sixties brought us more than Rock N Roll. Do you remember candy you ate as a kid? Was it any of these:
- Turkish Taffy
- Beer nuts
- Black Jack taffy
- Bubble gum cigarettes
- candy necklace
- Astro Pops
- Banana Splits
- Cherry Sours
- Fruit Stripe Gum
Those 50’s & 60’s were wild! They came up with some pretty bizarre candies. But along came the 1970’s. The classic rock era had Blow Pops and Appleheads, small candies that tasted like apples. There was candy charm bracelets and Gobstoppers. Smiley face gumballs and grapeheads and poprocks. Sounds like some fun candies!
The 80’s had some interesting candies as well. Do you remember:
- Big League Chew
- Bubble Tape
- Gummy Bears
- Sour Patch Kids
Into the 90’s were Warheads and Sour Punch and gummi cola bottles and gummi hot dogs. Bubbaloo liquid filled cherry gum became really popular.
Do you remember this episode of Lucy:
Were any of these candies you ate as a kid on this list?


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Monday, 30 May 2011
A use for my lentil flowers?
It was during my photo session yesterday, taking pics of my Artisan clay necklaces shown here, that I glanced over to see my lentil and dagger flowers on the bead table. "I wonder...", my thoughts went. Could I use the flowers as embellishments on pendants? Like the ones in front of me. Have to try it out.
So what do you think? Try not to focus on the necklace chain, loose threads or the colours as it's just a matter of taking what I had right there and then. Maybe I now have an idea for my flowers other than just making rings or tiny brooches/pins (or stitching them to a garment of some kind)? I know it's not an original idea -- that's not what I'm looking to hear, but I hope it might be a nice idea, worth pursuing.
The green flower is a bit big for this particular pendant. The dagger versions -- using 8 or 11 mm small daggers -- look more proportionate: a focal point without overwhelming the pendant. Unfortunately, I can't show how it'd look with 8 mm daggers as I still can't find my apricot and bronze flower. I do hope it's not in the trash after all...
Don't ask me how I'm going to attach the flower. Haven't figured out any details yet. After all, I must find some new pendants as this one is already being used in a finished necklace. I have a lot of beads, but not many pendants so I'll have to see if there are any in my stash that would look nice with a flower perched on them. Ideally the pendant should be somewhat neutral in order not to compete with the flower as the focal point, but still decorative enough to enhance the flower.


Now Playing @6Music tracklist August 26, 2011
Florence and the Machine returned this week with the first fruits from her sophomore album. Steve Lamacq had the world exclusive play of What the Water Gave Me on Tuesday afternoon, just before the track was uploaded to YouTube. Since then more than one million people have viewed it online.
Bombay Bicycle Club’s album was made available to stream on Spotify this week so we played one of the album tracks from that. And of course, how could we not play the collaboration between James Blake and Bon Iver – Fall Creek Boys Choir – to say that hasn’t been everywhere this week would simply be a lie!
The guest bloggers we have on this week come in the shape of The 405 and Beats and Beyond – frankly it was a pleasure having them and they picked some stonking tracks.
Florence and the Machine – A Kiss With a Fist
* The Weeknd has made the latest in his series of mixtapes available to download. Called Thursday you can get it from his official website.
* Steve Jobs has announced his resignation as CEO of Apple. He will hand control of the company over to Tim Cook with immediate effect, but will still remain as chairman of Apple’s board.
* Bjork will be recognised for her Outstanding Contribution to Music at the inaugural Independent Music Awards this November.
* And James Blake and Bon Iver released their collaboration, Fall Creek Boys Choir, onto YouTube.
Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk
#Now Streaming – See the blog
Bombay Bicycle Club – Your Eyes
#Blogging – The 405
Active Child – You Are All I See
Florence and the Machine inspired playlist part 1
Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love
Candi Staton – You’ve Got the Love
Dark, Dark, Dark – Daydreaming
Ladyhawke – Back of the Van
Bat For Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do
Beirut – Postcards from Italy
*The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, I’m With You, became the first LP ever to be made available to stream in full on iTunes. Out on Monday, the band will play a gig the following day which will be beamed live to cinemas across the world.
* New material from Horrors’ front man Faris Badwin’s side project Cat's Eyes emerged this week – head over to Pitchfork to have a listen to two new tracks.
* Details of Summer Camp’s fan funded (via Pledge Music) album, Welcome to Condale, are up at God is in the TV Zine.
* Tokyo Police Club have embarked on an ambitious new project which will see them cover ten songs from ten different years, and releasing one to a different blog every 24 hours. They’ve enlisted the help of M83’s Morgan Kibby for the first – Moby’s South Side’ from 2000 – which is now available now on Entertainment Weekly.
* Tom Waits’ has a new album called Bad As Me which will be released on October 25th – title track is up on YouTube.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Zero
* Wilco covering Nick Lowe’s I Love My Label is up now on YouTube.
* The trailer for Martin Scorsese’s two-part documentary on Geroge Harrison has been doing the rounds before airing in October.
* A video with OK Go and The Muppets – its going to be good isn’t it!! Check out The Muppets Theme Tune on YouTube now.
* The album came out this week and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks also put out the video for No One Is (As I Are Be) on the New York Times website.
* DJ Shadow’s latest video for I’m Excited features Afrikan Boy on vocals while wearing a mixture of hospital, World War Two and bed-time attire. You can watch it now on YouTube.
#Blogging – Beats and Beyond
The Whip – Movement
Florence and the Machine inspired playlist part 2
The xx ft. Florence and the Machine - You've Got the Love
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
Sukarita - Judy Tzuke
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of


ALEA investigating eight traffic fatalities over July 4 weekend
By WVUA 23 Digital Reporter Kyle Hamrick
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is investigating eight traffic fatalities and eight boating crashes that occurred over the July 4 holiday weekend, between midnight Friday, July 1 and midnight Monday, July 4.
The road-related accidents happened in Calhoun, Escambia, Lawrence, Lowndes and Tuscaloosa counties. Two of the six individuals traveling in vehicles were not wearing seat belts, and a motorcyclist and a pedestrian round out the eight total fatalities.
Troopers also arrested 46 individuals for Driving Under the Influence.
The eight boating accidents occurred on Lay Lake, Wilson Lake, Lake Harding, Smith Lake, Lake Guntersville and Lake Martin, and resulted in two minor injuries.
Nine boaters were arrested for Boating Under the Influence.
“Forty days ago, our Agency launched the ‘101 Days of
Summer Safety’ campaign, encompassing a variety of safety measures to ensure Alabama’s roadways, waterways and beaches are safe for Alabama citizens as well as visitors throughout the summer,” said ALEA Secretary Hal Taylor in a statement.
The multi-platform initiative partners with local first responders and agencies to emphasize safe practices while traveling, boating and enjoying fun summer activities.
Authorities investigated seven traffic and marine-related fatalities the first weekend of the program’s launch, between Friday, May 27 and Monday, May 30.
The “101 Days of Summer Safety” campaign ends on Labor Day, September 5.
For ALEA’s tips to keep you safe, head over to their website.


Bike & Pedestrian
The Evansville Region has numerous bike and pedestrian routes and most of the region’s buses have bike racks on the front. Bike routes are marked with signs or roadway markings. Evansville and Henderson also have a bikes share program with 11 stations, where riders can rent bikes by the hour. For more information, check out the website for the Evansville Trails Coalition, Warrick Trails, and Upgrade Bike Share.
Evansville Trails Coalition: bit.ly/evansvilletrails
Warrick Trails: bit.ly/warricktrails
Upgrade Bike Share: bike.zagster.com/upgrade


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Gold and Silver
Anonymous Gift, 1992
Five pairs of silver spiral earrings, two with palmette decoration, and an elongaded bead.
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This week's session:
Present Reality LP Edition
You’re invited to join us for a new “LP” edition of, In the Studio With Michael Card. Get out your Bible and turn up the stereo as we present the entire “Present Reality” project. Hear Michael perform songs like, “Know You In the Now”, “Could It Be”, “Distressing Disguise” and many more. Learn as we hear the background behind the writing of the songs from this pivotal project based in the truths found in the New Testament. Enjoy listening and be ready to be challenged to make the message of Christ a present reality in your life when you join us this week, In The Studio with Michael Card.
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Play Free Icecream game which is known as Fruit Ice Cream. This is a simple game, especially for little girls. The aim is only learning how to decorate Ice Cream. Many kids have tried this game in different ways but now it’s your turn. Decorate the Icecream in an ideal way. Choose the unique and different method and use your skills. You can also use different toppings on it. Do whatever you like and want to have on ice cream in real. Play Ice Cream Tower games also.
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