There is one thing to have a healthy distrust of an organization but it another matter to be paranoid to point where medication( or a tin foil hat) might be helpful which ever works..
Balancing trust is a hard one. We tend to look for what we think is comforting, and avoid what might disturb us. If people are internalising stuff of which they can't/don't/won't personally attempt validation, it becomes a self reinforcing cycle. But you have to have an acceptance of reports from outside your personal horizon ( time & space ) - otherwise you have trouble with the shape of the Earth, moon landings and the like. :-)
Quote:
Remember a person who is racist is a deluded.
I really was impressed with the movie 'American History X' as it showed how racism particularly is motivated/generated/perpetuated. It does start with the children. I had the good fortune to attend a primary school with kids from a huge range of backgrounds - this is 1960's Australia, where there was a huge flux of immigrants postwar. As kids we liked or disliked according to the usual children's criteria ( selfishness! ) but race wasn't one of them. So I grew up ( as most of my generation did ) quite relaxed about physical appearances, modes of dress, accents, mannerisms and the like. Thus I'm saddened when I hear if kids don't have that type of opportunity.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Thus I'm saddened when I hear if kids don't have that type of opportunity.
Cheers, Mike.
Sadly I never had the opportunity for a diverse upbringing not until I went to college. My saving grace was a sense of empathy instilled in me early on by my mom. I remember the racist nursery rhymes and jokes of my youth but early on I could not make the connection and played along with the rest of my friends. In the mid sixties I was in Grade 11 and required reading for English Literature was A Raisin in the Sun. It was like getting hit with a sledge hammer. Its a play of an African American Family trying to get a break in the South Side of Chicago. The big picture is how cultures clash and the minority tries to integrate into majority culture at the expense and loss of their own culture. I made the connection.
This unrelated..
I went to the monthly Natural History Society meeting here last week. A entomologist from university gave a talk about alien and invasive species. She was stressing how we (the government) will tackle a invasive species when their is a economic cost to their behavior. She is stressed that there is little research done on invasive species that cause no economic harm. For instance foreign honey bees are imported here to pollinate the blueberry crop. She found these bees are competing against the domestic bees for habitat. The domestic bees are in decline. The foreign bees have a affinity for pollinating non native plants and not the native plants. There is very little funding to carry her research further because at this time there is no economic cost associated with it. She ask what should be done.
Another example The native two spotted lady bug is in decline because it is be being pushed aside by the seven spot lady bug which is being imported illegally from the southern US by organic farmers to avoid pesticide ( The seven spot lady bug is furious aphid eater. (The road to hell is paved with good intentions). What is the fall out about this nobody knows.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Sadly I never had the opportunity for a diverse upbringing not until I went to college. My saving grace was a sense of empathy instilled in me early on by my mom. I remember the racist nursery rhymes and jokes of my youth but early on I could not make the connection and played along with the rest of my friends. In the mid sixties I was in Grade 11 and required reading for English Literature was A Raisin in the Sun. It was like getting hit with a sledge hammer. Its a play of an African American Family trying to get a break in the South Side of Chicago. I made the connection.
I never really understood what racism was, not having had personal exposure, until I read 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and saw the movie with Gregory Peck in early high school English class. It was a tale from another planet! Mind you, 'Macbeth' wasn't much easier ... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
This unrelated ..... what is the fall out about this nobody knows.
Oh heck, it was the Cane Toad for us! And rabbits ( nice n fluffy aren't they? ). And cats, sheep, cattle .....
And South American spiders, coming over on container ships ( they fumigate these in New Zealand ). We've got this really evil hybrid between one of them and the native Funnelweb spider. We had a chap in the CSIRO ( Struan Sutherland ) who tracked most of the venomous crew down here for many years. Developed anti-venoms. He fell off the perch in 2002 though.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) Nature strikes back. Two weeks ago my car was hit on the driver's door by a Swamp Wallaby firing out of the bush at me around dusk. It's built like a wombat, real heavy & solid but hops. Also has dark coloration so there's barely any visual warning. Bent the side intrusion bars within the door, it's at the panel shop as we speak. However it bounced off, got up, shook it's head and hopped away. We were both going fairly slow fortunately. No joke, I was left with an imprint on the side of the car shaped like the Qantas logo! :-) :-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
This unrelated ..... what is the fall out about this nobody knows.
Oh heck, it was the Cane Toad for us! And rabbits ( nice n fluffy aren't they? ). And cats, sheep, cattle .....
And South American spiders, coming over on container ships ( they fumigate these in New Zealand ). We've got this really evil hybrid between one of them and the native Funnelweb spider. We had a chap in the CSIRO ( Struan Sutherland ) who tracked most of the venomous crew down here for many years. Developed anti-venoms. He fell off the perch in 2002 though.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) Nature strikes back. Two weeks ago my car was hit on the driver's door by a Swamp Wallaby firing out of the bush at me around dusk. It's built like a wombat, real heavy & solid but hops. Also has dark coloration so there's barely any visual warning. Bent the side intrusion bars within the door, it's at the panel shop as we speak. However it bounced off, got up, shook it's head and hopped away. We were both going fairly slow fortunately. Left me with an imprint on the side of the car shaped like the Qantas logo! :-) :-)
:-)
I am lucky I haven't tangled with a moose so far.. at any speed your vehicle is a write off.
I learned an interesting and obvious fact during that meeting. Our island was heavily glaciated during the last ice age. So all our species are alien species
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Just saw a commercial on television for a resort in the Bahamas where you basically can swim in an aquarium. I wish I had enough money to send anybody who want to go to a zoo or aquarium, a free trip to the sarengeti, or the great barrier reef,
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Just saw a commercial on television for a resort in the Bahamas where you basically can swim in an aquarium. I wish I had enough money to send anybody who want to go to a zoo or aquarium, a free trip to the sarengeti, or the great barrier reef,
Over here in Busan, you can swim with the sharks in the aquarium.
Your donation to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal has helped families to farewell loved ones with dignity and survivors to find temporary shelter, and is now helping them to rebuild their homes, communities and lives.
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Your ongoing support
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Bushfire survivors on the road to recovery
The Advisory Panel has begun to see a shift in priority needs which means that larger community rebuilding projects can now begin. Covering every community affected by the bushfires, including those in Gippsland, your donation is helping to rebuild and re-establish towns and villages.
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On behalf of the people whose lives you are helping to rebuild, thank you again for your generous support.
RE: There is one thing to
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Balancing trust is a hard one. We tend to look for what we think is comforting, and avoid what might disturb us. If people are internalising stuff of which they can't/don't/won't personally attempt validation, it becomes a self reinforcing cycle. But you have to have an acceptance of reports from outside your personal horizon ( time & space ) - otherwise you have trouble with the shape of the Earth, moon landings and the like. :-)
I really was impressed with the movie 'American History X' as it showed how racism particularly is motivated/generated/perpetuated. It does start with the children. I had the good fortune to attend a primary school with kids from a huge range of backgrounds - this is 1960's Australia, where there was a huge flux of immigrants postwar. As kids we liked or disliked according to the usual children's criteria ( selfishness! ) but race wasn't one of them. So I grew up ( as most of my generation did ) quite relaxed about physical appearances, modes of dress, accents, mannerisms and the like. Thus I'm saddened when I hear if kids don't have that type of opportunity.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Thus I'm saddened
)
Sadly I never had the opportunity for a diverse upbringing not until I went to college. My saving grace was a sense of empathy instilled in me early on by my mom. I remember the racist nursery rhymes and jokes of my youth but early on I could not make the connection and played along with the rest of my friends. In the mid sixties I was in Grade 11 and required reading for English Literature was A Raisin in the Sun. It was like getting hit with a sledge hammer. Its a play of an African American Family trying to get a break in the South Side of Chicago. The big picture is how cultures clash and the minority tries to integrate into majority culture at the expense and loss of their own culture. I made the connection.
This unrelated..
I went to the monthly Natural History Society meeting here last week. A entomologist from university gave a talk about alien and invasive species. She was stressing how we (the government) will tackle a invasive species when their is a economic cost to their behavior. She is stressed that there is little research done on invasive species that cause no economic harm. For instance foreign honey bees are imported here to pollinate the blueberry crop. She found these bees are competing against the domestic bees for habitat. The domestic bees are in decline. The foreign bees have a affinity for pollinating non native plants and not the native plants. There is very little funding to carry her research further because at this time there is no economic cost associated with it. She ask what should be done.
Another example The native two spotted lady bug is in decline because it is be being pushed aside by the seven spot lady bug which is being imported illegally from the southern US by organic farmers to avoid pesticide ( The seven spot lady bug is furious aphid eater. (The road to hell is paved with good intentions). What is the fall out about this nobody knows.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
RE: Sadly I never had the
)
I never really understood what racism was, not having had personal exposure, until I read 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and saw the movie with Gregory Peck in early high school English class. It was a tale from another planet! Mind you, 'Macbeth' wasn't much easier ... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: This unrelated .....
)
Oh heck, it was the Cane Toad for us! And rabbits ( nice n fluffy aren't they? ). And cats, sheep, cattle .....
And South American spiders, coming over on container ships ( they fumigate these in New Zealand ). We've got this really evil hybrid between one of them and the native Funnelweb spider. We had a chap in the CSIRO ( Struan Sutherland ) who tracked most of the venomous crew down here for many years. Developed anti-venoms. He fell off the perch in 2002 though.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) Nature strikes back. Two weeks ago my car was hit on the driver's door by a Swamp Wallaby firing out of the bush at me around dusk. It's built like a wombat, real heavy & solid but hops. Also has dark coloration so there's barely any visual warning. Bent the side intrusion bars within the door, it's at the panel shop as we speak. However it bounced off, got up, shook it's head and hopped away. We were both going fairly slow fortunately. No joke, I was left with an imprint on the side of the car shaped like the Qantas logo! :-) :-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: This unrelated
)
:-)
I am lucky I haven't tangled with a moose so far.. at any speed your vehicle is a write off.
I learned an interesting and obvious fact during that meeting. Our island was heavily glaciated during the last ice age. So all our species are alien species
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Hey! We're coming up to
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Hey! We're coming up to 100,000th message on the boards .... who will post it? :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Hey! We're coming up to
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Is there a prize??
Snow flurries today..
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
Just saw a commercial on
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Just saw a commercial on television for a resort in the Bahamas where you basically can swim in an aquarium. I wish I had enough money to send anybody who want to go to a zoo or aquarium, a free trip to the sarengeti, or the great barrier reef,
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
RE: Just saw a commercial
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Over here in Busan, you can swim with the sharks in the aquarium.
Kathryn :o)
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I appreciated this and it was
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I appreciated this and it was good to donate..
Dear Charles,
Your donation to the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal has helped families to farewell loved ones with dignity and survivors to find temporary shelter, and is now helping them to rebuild their homes, communities and lives.
The extraordinary response truly demonstrated the power of humanity. Red Cross raised an unprecedented $378 million that was placed into a Trust Fund with an independent Advisory Panel established to determine its allocation. State and Federal Government donations, plus 100% of interest earned being returned to the fund, added a further $8 million, resulting in $386 million available for the people and communities affected. No deductions have been made for administration costs, including expenses associated with this email.
Our immediate response
Following the Victorian bushfires, over 1,000 Red Cross people worked in relief centres registering more than 22,000 people affected so that worried families and friends would know they were safe. Red Cross served 200,000 meals to evacuees and emergency services workers and provided over 5,000 first aid treatments. It was due to the support of our regular donors that Red Cross was able to quickly respond to this crisis.
Your ongoing support
To date the Appeal fund has made 18,234 payments to affected individuals which accounts for close to 75% of the total fund. All funds have been, and will continue to be, directed to the people and communities affected, with no deductions for administration costs. Grants worth approximately $321 million have now been made available.
Bushfire survivors on the road to recovery
The Advisory Panel has begun to see a shift in priority needs which means that larger community rebuilding projects can now begin. Covering every community affected by the bushfires, including those in Gippsland, your donation is helping to rebuild and re-establish towns and villages.
For further information please visit the Department of Human Services. I also encourage you to click here to read the complete supporter update on our website.
On behalf of the people whose lives you are helping to rebuild, thank you again for your generous support.
Yours sincerely
Robert Tickner
CEO
Australian Red Cross
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There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold