many thoughts of one life

1 parachute short

2011-07-21T21:16:00.001+09:30

I love some of the short sweet and amusing emails that pass through my inbox lately.

An aeroplane was about to crash; there were 5 passengers on board, but only 4 parachutes.

                                           The first passenger said, "I am President  Obama, the chosen one. The world needs me, I can't afford to die." So he took the first parachute and left the aircraft.


                                                                                 The second passenger, Julia Gillard, said, "I am the prime Minister of Australia and I am the smartest woman in Australian history, so Australia's people don't want me to die." She took the second parachute and jumped out of the aircraft.


The third passenger, Bob Brown, said, "I'm the leader of the Australian Greens and the nation needs my guidance and my boyfriend would miss me."   So he grabbed the parachute next to him and jumped


The fourth passenger, ex-PM John Howard, said to the fifth passenger, a 10-year-old schoolgirl, "I have lived a full life, and served my country the best I could. I will sacrifice my life and let you have the last parachute."


The little girl said, "That's okay, Mr. Howard. There's a parachute left for you. Australia’s smartest woman took my schoolbag!”

   Geronimooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo.....!!!

Canon EOS 600D

2011-05-15T11:53:00.002+09:30

Canon EOS 600D: “yahoo” or “who cares?”

Have you heard? Canon announced the release of its new Canon 600D. Are you excited about the new articulated screen, or kind of let down with the same y specs? Can you hardly wait to get your hands on the new Canon 600D or are you upset you just bought the 550D or the 60D?

What are your thoughts about this?

Is the introduction of the 600D going to ruin Canon?

Read on for the specs below:

Canon EOS 600D/T3i Announced

London, UK, 7th February 2011 – Canon today announces the launch of the EOS 600D –

A small, easy to carry Digital SLR (DSLR) that brings the fun back to taking imaginative pictures and makes it easier than ever. This camera brings aspiring photographers, outstanding pictures and simplicity of use together perfectly. The EOS 600D is leading the list of Canon’s entry-level EOS line. It tops the EOS 550D and the new EOS 1100D.

Thanks to the vast array of automatic shooting modes, it has never been easier to take Full HD video or capture spectacular photographs. Canon even included a Feature Guide to the user interface so you can learn about the camera as you use it, and improve your skills as a photographer. Your shooting is enhanced with the Speedlites, unrivalled range of EF lenses, and large assortment of accessories. With the EOS system your shots are perfect no matter where you are or what you shoot.

First-class image quality

The high-resolution 18 Megapixel (MP) APS-CCMOS sensor combined with the 14-bit DIGIC 4 processor make the EOS 600D the only choice for beautiful photographs with amazing detail and breathtaking HD movies. The EOS 600D captures the magnificence of a beautiful blue sky with all of its colour gradients. Natural images are captured in low light conditions with an ISO range of 100-6400 that can be expanded to a full 12800.

The EOS600D has a high-speed capability of 3.7 frames per second, perfect for taking pictures of children, pets or sports events. The 9-point Auto Focus system will let you shoot fast moving action with sharp detail. Add even better focusing with the ultra sensitive central AF Sensor and the added assurance of the best exposure with the iFCL Metering system and you can’t go wrong, even in poor lighting situations.

Easy shooting, amazing results

You can easily capture fantastic high quality pictures with the new fully-automatic Scene Intelligent Auto mode. You can focus on framing your picture while the Scene Intelligent Auto mode analyses the scene and automatically picks the optimum settings to get the picture. The Auto Picture Style fine tunes the colours while you focus on photographing the scene you want.

The EOS600D comes equipped with Basic+ that allows you to change the atmosphere of a scene by picking one of eight moods, including ‘warm’, ’cool’, or ‘intense’. It doesn’t matter if you are photographing portraits or landscapes, even macro pictures will be perfect with Basic+.

Simple, flexible, artistic

The Feature Guide makes the EOS600D perfect for new photographers. It helps you understand each key setting and the effect. You will learn about the camera while you use it.

You can also shoot overhead, at ground level or around corners with the EOS 600D’s

Vari-angle 7.7cm 3:2 ratio ClearView LCD. Rich on-screen detail is provided in 1.04 million-dot resolution, and the side-mounted hinge gives you the ability to comfortably and artistically shoot from a variety of remarkable angles. A smudge-resistant fluorine coating along with the three anti-reflection coatings ensure you can see the LCD clearly, wherever you are.

The EOS 600D is perfect for experimenting with different Creative Filters, permiting you to brand your own personality in your shots. The Fish-eye-Effect creates a barrel-shaped distortion similar to a fish-eye lens, and you can immediately turn a scene into a small-scale model with Miniature Effect.

Toy Camera Effect, Grainy B/W and Soft Focus offer additional options that give you the ability to experiment with your pictures in many different ways.

Capture stunning detail with EOS movie

Clearly capture your memories with Full HD (1080p) movie mode. The dedicated movie shooting mode lets you switch between stills and HD video instantly. You can also bring in distant subjects using new Movie Digital Zoom function. The Movie Digital Zoom crops the centre of the sensor from 3x to 10x while still maintaining Full HD quality, perfect for capturing wildlife when in the wild.

Video Snapshot gives you the ability to take more engaging videos. It lets you take two, four, or eight second video clips, making segments that are short, easily edited and much like those used in most TV programs. The clips are saved in the Video Snapshot Album, as they are taken, where they are combined to make one movie. You can upload soundtracks to add, right on the camera. When done you can watch the finished product right on the camera’s LCD. Or you can put view it on a HDTV with the built-in mini HDMI connector.

The EOS system – unrestricted creativity

The EOS600D grows with you. As your photography skills improve there is an unrivalled selection of EF lenses and a vast array of accessories available as part of Canon’s EOS product line. There are over 60 lenses that you can add to your camera bag. Macro lenses for extreme close-ups, wide-angle lenses for grandiose landscapes, and telephoto lenses to bring those distant shots up close and personal.

Using Canon’s range of Speedlite flashes and the EOS 600D’s Integrated

With the Speedlite Transmitter, you can experiment with various lighting choices, or use your flash off-camera to give your subject or scene a completely different look and feel. The Easy Wireless function lets the camera take care of the complicated settings while you concentrate on perfectly framing and lighting your scene.

Introducing the new EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II

Making its debut with the EOS 600D the EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II – is a new kit lens that provides first-rate performance for beginners. Its lightweight construction makes it easy to carry, and Canon’s acclaimed optical Image Stabilization also minimizes the risk of blur. Photographers are able to use shutter speeds 4 stops slower while still maintaining a blur-free shot. The EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II will succeed the existing EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS in Canon’s lens line-up.

EOS 600D – key features:

18-megapixel CMOS sensor

Scene Intelligent Auto mode

Full-HD EOS Movie

On-screen Feature Guide

3.7fps continuous shooting

Wide-area 9-point AF

1,040k-dot vari-angle 7.7cm (3.0”) screen

Basic+ and Creative Filters

Feeling Unappreciated Lately ?

2011-05-06T17:59:00.004+09:30

Feeling Unappreciated Lately ?

The next time you feel that nobody loves you,

no one cares, or that no one ever notices you,

think of this guy:

Things Got Ya Down? Well Then, Consider These . . ..

In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in

the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 am,

regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the

doctors and some even thought it had something to do

with the super natural.

No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths

occurred around 11:00 AM Sunday, so a worldwide

team of experts was assembled to investigate the

cause of the incidents The next Sunday morning,

a few minutes before 11:00 AM all of the doctors

and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to

see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon

was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses,

prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the

evil spirits Just when the clock struck 11:00, Pookie

Johnson , the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered

the ward and unplugged the life support system so

he could use the vacuum cleaner.

Still Having a Bad Day?

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the

Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.00

At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively

saved animals were being released back into the

wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers.

A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them

both.

Still think you are having a Bad Day?

A woman came home to find her husband in

the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a

dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running

from his waist towards the electric kettle.

Intending to jolt him away from the deadly

current, she whacked him with a handy plank

of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Up to

that moment, he had been happily listening to

his Walkman.

Are Ya OK Now? - No?

Two animal rights defenders were protesting

the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse

in Bonn , Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand

pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken

fence, stampeding madly. The two helpless

protesters were trampled to death.

What? STILL having a Bad Day?

Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough

postage on a letter bomb. It came back with

'Return to Sender' stamped on it. Forgetting

it was the bomb; he opened it and was blown

to bits. God is good!

There now, Feeling Better ? I am.

religious bra ??

2011-04-24T20:52:00.002+09:30

Do you need a laugh??
What Religion is Your Bra?

A man walked into the ladies department
and shyly walked up to
the woman behind the counter and said,
I'd like to buy a bra for my wife. '
'What type of bra?' asked the clerk.

'Type?' inquires the man, 'There's more
than one type?'
' Look around,' said the saleslady,
as she showed a sea of bras in every
shape, size, color
and material imaginable.
'Actually, even with all of this variety,
there are really only four types of bras
to choose from .'
Relieved, the man asked about the types.
The saleslady replied:
'There are the Catholic,
Salvation Army, Presbyterian,
and the Baptist types. Which one would you prefer?'

Now totally befuddled,
the man asked about
the differences between them.
The Saleslady responded,
'It is all really quite simple.'

The Catholic type supports the masses;
The Salvation Army type lifts the fallen;
The Presbyterian type keeps them staunch

and upright;
The Baptist type makes mountains out of

molehills.

Have you ever wondered why

A, B, C, D, DD,

E , F, G, and H are the

letters used to define

bra sizes?

If you have wondered why,

but couldn't figure out

what the letters stood for,
it is about time you became informed!

{A} Almost boobs.
{B} Barely there.
{C} Can't complain.
{D} Dang!
{DD} Double Dang!
{E} Enormous!
{F} Fake.
{G} Get a Reduction.
{H} Help me, I've fallen
and I can't get up!

They forgot the German
bra:
Holtzemfromfloppen

don't fall for Lestex solutions part 2

2011-04-12T17:28:00.002+09:30

response from consumer Affairs:

AGD:OCBA-CAB Metro

to me

Hi Tony,

Thank you for your email.

It appears that what you have described is a scam, as our office has received many reports of similar scams. I would strongly advise you not to respond.

The details above have been noted and recorded on our complaints database system.You may also wish to contact the ACCC Scam Watch, who look into overseas scams. Please find link below.

http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/694011#h3_103

I thank you again for bringing this matter to our attention.

Regards

Grace M

Cosumer Affairs Officer

don't fall for lestex solutions

2011-04-11T13:01:00.007+09:30

I will let you know more about my research into this company as more information is returned from my inquiries

will keep you all posted.

This is a email i received after a job email inquiry I asked for more information from them then I have received a few days later another email containing 2 forms one a contract for the job and one a application form which is really dodgy not professional at all. I assume this is a scam I know of one other person in Queensland that has received the same job and we have been in contact with each other over twitter it seems the address is also bogus I rang the phone number provided but it went straight to a voice mail.

I also have contacts on twitter that are in the profession of promotion, that travel occasionally to US for work and have never heard of the company. I can do some more research and I have attached the emails I received from them containing the forms also below. When I asked for more information I just received the same email resent in different text colour, I suppose this is to keep track of how many times I have requested information. I have not downloaded the forms for fear of key trackers but I have viewed them. The website is well built and seems to be professionally made which is not hard to do these days

Regards

Tony

from	info@supportlestex.com
to		tony moyse <moyzie01@gmail.com>
date		Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:53 PM
subject		Required Forms.

hide details Apr 6 (4 days ago)

Good Afternoon!

We are grateful for such a prompt answer and we hope that our cooperation will be enjoyable and effective.

Following information and Documents Requested;

In order to operate successfully on the market we need a limited number of agents.
They will be able to accept, process them and send transfers from our clients.
will save our time and help to avoid many problems to speed up the processing of orders.

In order to avoid misunderstanding several days before the transfer our manager will call you and notify about the transfer.
The amounts of deals do not usually exceed 5000 AUD.

The attached files contain the contract and the form for essential elements.
After you have sent us signed documents it will take us 1-2 days for approval and distribution of your work schedule and 24 hours to get step-by-step instructions about your new job.

To start to work you have to fill and sign the special document specifying your requisites. Later, the information will be included into our data base and used for making transfers.
One of our managers will help you in your work. He will contact you by telephone and e-mail; therefore it is important for you to provide correct information.

In order to start your work, please hurry up to finish the last stages.

1. Fill in your data in the Application form
2. Sign up the contract
3. Prepare the scanned image of your Driver’s License or Passport. (You may also use a digital camera/web camera)
4. Send everything to: info@supportlestex.com

Note:
Please, fill in the forms accurately and double check filled data. After your approval by manager you can start your work.

You can find a lot of useful information on our site - http://www.lestexcorp.com

We take our cooperation seriously and will inform you about all events in time.

I am here to help you and I will do my best to help you get along with this.

We are looking forward to hearing from you. We believe we will justify our hopes.

Best Regards,
J. Vien
Lestex Solutions
United States: (858) 939-9269

links to forms removed

correctional services could learn a lesson or two

2011-04-11T08:32:00.003+09:30

If you agree, send it to parliment.
If not, just go away

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well..........

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!

Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the CountySupervisors said okay.

The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dog S off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows.

The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we got him. Cost us $78.

The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals.

I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand.

He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the holidays and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the prison.

Yup, he was re-elected last year with 83% of the vote...
Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. He's kind of a 'Git-R Dun' kind of Sheriff.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO..

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.

THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona ) who created the 'Tent City Jail':
**He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them..
**He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. **Took away their weights.
**Cut off all but 'G' movies.
**He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.
**Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

**He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails, so he hooked up the cable TV again.....BUT only let in the Disney channel and the Weather channel...

**When asked why the weather channel, he replied, "So they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."

**He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

**When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't The Ritz/Carlton....... If you don't like it, don't come back."

More On The Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports:
About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their PINK SOCKS.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the TENTS for 1 year. "It's inhumane.."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic.. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates, "It's 120 degrees inIraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff!

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers' money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

amazing holes !!!!

2011-03-26T08:19:00.002+10:30

1.. Kimberley Big Hole - South Africa

Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1097

metre deep mine yielded over three tons of diamonds before being closed.

2. Glory Hole - Monticello Dam, California

This is the Glory Hole at Monticello Dam, and it's the largest in the world of this

type of spillway, its size enabling it to consume 14,400 cubic feet of water every

second. A glory hole is used when a dam is at full capacity and water needs to

be drained from the reservoir.

3 Great Blue Hole, Belize

This incredible geographical phenomenon known as a blue hole is

situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize.There are numerous

blue holes around the world but none as stunning as this one.

4 Sinkhole in Guatemala

This photo is of a sinkhole that occurred February 2007 in Guatemala.

It swallowed two dozen homes and killed at least three people.

5. This is the famous Rat Hole in Canberra ...

It is capable of swallowing Millions of Tax Payers Money annually, never to

be heard from again! It is reputed to contain at least 400 ar$e "holes".

Pasta Primavera

2011-03-01T21:06:00.006+10:30

Pasta Primavera

You can substitute the prawns for chicken or pork if you are not too keen on prawns
1 Pound Large Shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 Shallots
3 Cloves Garlic, minced
8 Ounces Mushrooms, sliced
1 Red Bell Pepper
1 Pound Asparagus, ends trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces
Handful Fresh Basil, chopped
Handful Fresh Parsley, chopped
1 Pound Fresh Linguini (I used half regular and half spinach linguini)
1 Cup Chicken Stock
Parmesan Cheese, for garnish

Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook pasta per the package directions until almost al dente. While pasta is cooking, drizzle a little bit of olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat, add shallots and garlic and cook until just tender. Next add the mushrooms, bell pepper, and asparagus, and continue cooking until almost tender. Add the basil, parsley, shrimp, pasta and chicken stock. Cook until pasta is al dente and shrimp is cooked through, just a few minutes more. Serve with a sprinkling of parmesan cheese.

2011-02-26T20:17:00.001+10:30

GADDAFI VOWS TO FIGHT AS OPPOSITION CLOSES IN

2011-02-26T11:50:00.004+10:30

I thought this was a really interesting post by the reuter news group it seems that history is repeating itself. So I wanted to post it here I know it is a long read but interesting

via 7yahoo

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi vowed to "crush any enemy" on Friday, addressing a crowd of supporters in Tripoli as Libya's popular uprising closed in around him.

"We will fight if they want," the 68-year-old leader declared after a day of clashes all over the capital between security forces and crowds of protesters, which Gaddafi's opponents said had left some districts in their hands.

With eastern Libya already under opposition control after a week of unrest, protesters held the centre of Zawiyah, west of the capital, a witness said, and laid makeshift defences to fend off government forces after successive fierce attacks.

The United States, whose calls for restraint have fallen on deaf ears, said it was preparing sanctions against Gaddafi and was not ruling out military action.

The U.N. Security Council also drew up sanctions including an arms embargo, travel bans and freezing top officials' assets, and threatened Libyan leaders with indictments for crimes against humanity.

But the international community has struggled to keep up with the pace of protests which have already swept away the authoritarian rulers of Egypt and Tunisia this year.

Gaddafi's own people seemed close to forcing him from power.

A string of other towns were reported to have fallen to the opposition, although Gaddafi retained the defiance he has often displayed against the West over more than four decades.

"Get ready to fight for Libya, get ready to fight for dignity, get ready to fight for petroleum!" he urged the crowd of thousands in Tripoli's central Green Square, threatening to open military arsenals to his supporters and tribesmen.

"We can crush any enemy. We can crush it with the people's will," he said, shouting and waving his fists.

FIGHTING IN TRIPOLI

Residents said parts of Tripoli, apparently the last major stronghold of the man who took over Libya in a 1969 coup, were already beyond his control.

"I think Tripoli is in uprising," said one man in the city centre. "When you go to Green Square you find it full of Ga
ddafi supporters. In the other areas, they went out after Friday prayers and they are demonstrating against Gaddafi."

"In some areas it was contained and in some other areas they are ... firing in the air to try to disperse them."

Al Jazeera television said two people had been killed and several wounded by government forces in heavy shooting in several districts. Another channel, Al Arabiya, said seven people had been killed.

Protesters controlled some roads to the city so people from towns nearby could join the fight for the capital, a Libyan in Europe in contact with relatives in Tripoli told Reuters.

"They will try to march to Gaddafi's palace. I think there could well be a Ceausescu scenario," he said, referring to the shooting of Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife by the army after a summary trial in December 1989.

A former ally of Gaddafi has said he would go down "like Hitler" after World War Two rather than surrender.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said "thousands" may have been killed or injured by Gaddafi's forces in the uprising, and called for international intervention to protect civilians. One Libyan medical charity was quoted as saying 2,000 had died in Benghazi alone.

Washington, having evacuated Americans from Libya, said it was closing down its embassy. Gaddafi, once branded a "mad dog" for backing global militants, had recently found a cautious welcome in the West, which has sought access to its oil.

Witnesses in Zawiyah, an oil refining town on the main coastal highway 50 km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, fought off government forces on several nights, according to witnesses who fled across the Tunisian border at Ras Jdir.

"There are corpses everywhere ... It's a war in the true sense of the word," said Akila Jmaa, who crossed into Tunisia on Friday after travelling from the town.

REBEL CONTROL

Other reports say Libya's third biggest city, Misrata, 200 km (120 miles) east of Tripoli, was also under rebel control.

Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam said his forces were holding back in Zawiyah and another western town, Misrata, and hoped to negotiate a peaceful outcome with the "terrorists" by Saturday.

He said earlier his family had no intention of leaving.

"We have plans A, B and C. Plan A is to live and die in Libya. Plan B is to live and die in Libya. Plan C is to live and die in Libya," he told Turkey's CNN Turk television.

A Tripoli resident who asked not to be identified told Reuters in an email that pro-Gaddafi forces had opened fire on hundreds of people in the Janzour district in western Tripoli who began a protest march after Friday prayers.

Hadar, a businessman who declined to give his full name, told Reuters by telephone: "I saw two men fall down and someone told me they were shot in the head."

Ali, another businessman who declined to give his full name, told Reuters by phone that he was standing with a cr
owd near a mosque on a road leading to Green Square.

"They just started shooting people. People are being killed by snipers but I don't know how many are dead," he said.

The World Food Programme said first-hand accounts from people fleeing the violence indicated shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies, exacerbated by port closures.

OIL FACILITIES

Prosecutor-general Abdul-Rahman al-Abbar became the latest senior official to resign, and told al Arabiya he was joining the opposition. Libya's delegations to the Arab League and the United Nations in Geneva also switched sides.

State television said the government was raising wages and food subsidies and ordering special allowances for all families, a late bid to enrol the support of Libya's 6 million citizens.

Gaddafi's four decades of totalitarian rule have stifled any organised opposition or rival political structures, but in the east, ad hoc committees of lawyers, doctors, tribal elders and soldiers appeared to be filling the vacuum left by Gaddafi's government with some success.

There was little sign of the radical Islamists whom Gaddafi has accused of fomenting the unrest.

Instead, in Benghazi, the "Feb 17. coalition" was cleaning up, providing food, building defences, reassuring foreign oil firms and saying it believed in a united Libya.

Ar
my and police in the eastern city of Adjabiya told Al Jazeera that they too had gone over to the opposition and a man back from the Western Mountains region about 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Tripoli said three towns there were also no longer under central control.

Libya supplies 2 percent of the world's oil, the bulk of it from wells and supply terminals in the east. Abdessalam Najib, a petroleum engineer at the Libyan company Agico and a member of the February 17 coalition, said the rebels controlled nearly all oilfields east of Ras Lanuf.

But industry sources told Reuters that crude oil shipments from Libya, the world's 12th-largest exporter, had all but stopped because of reduced production, a lack of staff at ports and security concerns. A company source at Ras Lanuf said operations there had shut down.

A Reuters reporter saw that the other main terminal, Marsa el Brega, was in rebel control, with soldiers securing the port.

Benchmark Brent oil futures were steady at around $112, after a Saudi assurance that it would replace any shortfall in Libyan output brought prices back from Thursday's peak of nearly $120.

The U.N. Security Council was expected to vote on the sanctions proposal next week, although Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for quick action. "The hours and the days ahead will be decisive for Libyans," he said.

European diplomats said the European Union was likely to agree its own sanctions early next week.

But NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO members had not yet discussed trying to impose a no-fly zone to protect rebel-held areas from air attacks.

(Additional reporting by Alexander Dziadosz, Tom Pfeiffer and Mohammed Abbas in eastern Libya, Ali Abdelatti in Cairo, Amena Bakr in Riyadh, Michael Georgy on the Tunisian border, Stephanie Nebehay and Robert Evans in Geneva; Writing by Kevin Liffey and Philippa Fletcher; Editing by Andrew Roche and Alastair Macdonald)

Jails and Nursing Homes.- The way it should be....

2011-02-17T12:08:00.001+10:30

Here's the way it should be:

Let's put the seniors in jail and the criminals in nursing homes.

This would correct two things in one motion:

Seniors would have access to showers, hobbies and walks.
They would receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical
treatment, wheel chairs, etc.

They would receive money instead of having to pay it out.

They would have constant video montering, so they would be helped
instantly... if they fell or needed assistance.

Bedding would be washed twice a week and all clothing would be ironed
and returned to them.

A guard would check on them every 20 minutes.

All meals and snacks would be brought to them.

They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose.

They would have access to a library, weight/fitness room, spiritual
counseling, a pool and education...and free admission to in-house
concerts by nationally recognized entertainment artists.

Simple clothing - ie. shoes, slippers, pj's - and legal aid would be
free, upon request.

There would be private, secure rooms provided for all with an outdoor
exercise yard complete with gardens.

Each senior would have a P.C., T.V., phone and radio in their room at
no cost.

They would receive daily phone calls.

There would be a board of directors to hear any complaints and the
ACLU would fight for their rights and protection.
The guards would have a code of conduct to be strictly adhered to,
with attorneys available, at no charge to protect the seniors and
their families from abuse or neglect.

As for the criminals:

They would receive cold food.

They would be left alone and unsupervised.
They would receive showers once a week.
They would live in tiny rooms, for which they would have to pay
$5,000 per month.

They would have no hope of ever getting out.

"Sounds like justice to me!"

Grange Twilight markets

2011-02-15T09:09:00.000+10:30

Typical Politicians

2011-02-13T12:06:00.002+10:30

A farmer named Bill was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Scotland when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust..

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the farmer, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

Bill looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo .

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the farmer and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bill.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the boot of his car.

Then Bill says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Member of Parliament arn`t you", says Bill.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the farmer. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of pounds worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep...

Now give me back my dog.

Lechon Kawali

2011-02-02T12:53:00.004+10:30

Estimated cooking time: 50 minutes

Makes 2-4 servings

Lechon Kawali Ingredients:

1 1/2 lbs pork liempo (pork belly)
3 garlic cloves, crushed
2 laurel leaves (bay leaves)
1 teaspoon peppercorns or 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
salt
water, for boiling
oil (for frying)

Dipping Sauce:

3 tablespoons soy sauce
5 tablespoons vinegar
1 shallot, minced or 1 small onion, minced
1 garlic clove, minced
chili peppers (optional)

Lechon Kawali Cooking Instructions:

Cut the pork belly into serving pieces then combine with the garlic, peppercorn,laurel leaves, salt and water in a pan.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 35-45 minutes or until skin is tender.
Drain, cool and air dry.
Deep-fry liempo pieces in batches until golden brown and blisters appear on skin.
Mix all the sauce ingredients and serve lechon kawali while it’s hot.

Adelaide has a real relaxed atmosphere

2011-02-01T13:45:00.003+10:30

after a scorcher of a day on monday the city has a real relaxed atmosphere and we lay back it sounds like there is more strange weather to come this year a humid summer they are saying as a result of la nina in the northern waters of australasia.

Hope you enjoy this video

good intentions

2011-01-13T14:16:00.005+10:30

you know I have blogged about twitter before and I am regularly there you can follow me if you like just post your username below and I will check you out there.

That's not what this one is about though.

You know how some things about people just stick in your mind like someone's mannerisms the way they sniff all the time, their eyes, the car they drive or the color clothes they wear. Well there is a colour purple and when ever i see purple things it always reminds me of a person not in a creepy/stalker way but amusing kind of "Hah! purple mmm wonder what's happening on twitter?"

I have followed a young lady there @lilithia, she has a good heart I think and she does well with her singing and lots of blogs about the interwebs. If you know lilithia she loves purple and has shown that lots in pics about the place on twitter. The pics are great, being some part of photography enthusiast I have a flickr acc. http://www.flickr.com/photos/moyzie01/ there cruising around often you get little sidebar suggestions of people you might know,

there was this in the sidebar and I saw purple and logged on to twitter as I clicked the purple image there in the middle. After reading a few tweets and saying morning to my tweeples there I went back to the image and oops I dont think that Stef would wear that outfit

LOL !!!!

Easy Chicken Recipe

2011-01-09T08:33:00.002+10:30

Easy Chicken Recipe
Here is a chicken recipe that also includes the use of popcorn as a stuffing -- imagine that. When I found this recipe, I thought it was perfect for people like me, who just are not sure how to tell when poultry is thoroughly cooked, but not dried out. Give this a try.
4 - 5 lb. Chicken
1 cup melted butter
1 cup stuffing
1 cup uncooked popcorn
Salt/pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Brush chicken well with melted butter salt, and pepper. Fill cavity with stuffing mixed with popcorn. Place in baking pan with the neck end toward the back of the oven.
Listen for the popping sounds. When the chicken's arse blows the oven door open and the chicken flies across the room and lands on the table, it's done and ready to eat.
And you thought I couldn't cook...

twitter spam bots (twats)

2010-12-28T12:40:00.008+10:30

Hey, peeps I started a twitter account about a year ago. It was just a try and see attitude I had and a year and over 200 followers later I'm still there. For a social site it works well and it seems the following it has, has grown immensely.

" in March 2010 there are 50 million Twitter accounts. However, most of its 50 million accounts merely follow other users rather than posting their own messages. 73% of Twitter accounts have tweeted fewer than 10 times according to a new report from Barracuda Networks, a Web security company. As of December 2009, only 21% of Twitter account holders were what Barracuda defines as "true users," meaning someone who has at least 10 followers, follows at least 10 people and has tweeted at least 10 times."

Yahooanswers.com

I love the contact short and sweet lol short and not so to the point from time to time. I have joined a social club there we have meetups every now and then usually just a BBQ, drinks and having a chat with friends. It's been great with a Christmas BBQ recently and more events coming this new year, #socadl is the crew.

As fantastic as it is, it seems that there is a marketing binge that is happening.

Spam bots as they are known and beginning to be unliked by more and more people.. The social aspect is drawing marketing people to the site and as I saw on boxing day 2010 there was a column I follow #worldofwarcraft from 10am onwards for at least 3 hours solid there was bot spamming and re-tweeting each other I got sick of it after that time and deleted the column. In the mainstream tweet of all people I follow there is a growing hatred towards bots spamming. quite often unsuitable unrelated things and bringing back bad memories for one tweeter a child lost and was reminded by a spambot.

There is one thing that we can do is block and report for spam. The marketers will one day peter off but this boom that they think is happening is doing nothing but annoying people and putting people off the social site. I think twitter as a whole is worth the time to spend only 140 characters on a little note. it's entertaining informative and a great way to meet new people. I've found so many little spots and places locally to visit share and help others with things they ask.

Don't get me wrong marketting has its place on twitter and I follow a few wineries and shops that tweet. they tweet regularly and not just spam a link and post it 50 time in a couple of minutes to annoy the crap out of people that its posted to. I think the business that i follow have my respect from the way they carry themselves and respond to real peoples tweets

some of the columns and tweeters I follow that you might like to follow

#adelhills

@K1byTheHardys

#glenelg

#adelaide

@prakky

@shaicoggins

@y7news

@monnie

@cateP36

@adamliaw

So there's a sample of the 200 odd people I follow and they are a fun bunch.

I know I know I didn't forget the 2 most entertaining fellows I follow lol and thats

@peteski_au

@Beer_Fingers

spam bots beware we are blocking and reporting for spam!!!!!!

stick your spam where the sun don't shine because we are sick of the unrelated unnecessary shit that you think we want to buy, that we already have because we are talking about it..

signing out

@moyzie01

a Passion renewed

2010-10-24T19:28:00.005+10:30

It's been a long time and re-learning photography is fun and

I am really learning a lot of different ways.

I had once a Canon T50 with a 18-200 macro lens and a 50mm lens.

Then I got divorced and the ex got the lot including the house lol.

I put up with the P&S digi cams which I'm not knocking believe me,

they are fantastic little cams (pentax M40), I've owned one for years.

Now just recently I have purchased a canon 550D, it's put a whole new

definition to taking a photo for me again. Learning how to

handle a digital camera is a fun and not so hard to do thing

the principles are all still the same with a couple of new things too.

But the reward that I get is satisfaction of showing people and friends

something that you enjoy doing.

the look on peoples faces when they see a image that either impresses

or amuses them is enough

You know finally it's taken years and hard slog saving but i finally

got another SLR a digital SLR. I have to say wow it has blown me

away the quality and the clarity of photos that can be created.

singing out

Moyzie01

so here we are after a year on

2010-08-01T11:28:00.005+09:30

Well here she is at last it's been a while now peeps and I see lots of changes in a year but the bulk of our online friends are still here with us. We are having a big couple of weeks at the moment, nanay is over from England and friends from Sydney. So it has been hectic but fun at the same time baby is having fun too so many new faces for her.

Being a year on now from my last post here the results as most of you would know by now is that we had a beautiful little girl. Her name is Nakiesha and cute as ever as you can see lol. this one is from when she first arrived in Australia.

Neri and baby are settling in well now they have been here for about 6 months now. Neri is still getting used to all the little differences here in Australia the way shops work and no wet market just up the street. Hehe also there is a favorite phrase with her and a friend that also moved to Australia here "can you spell that please" the difference in pronounciation of words is a little different lol we always laugh at that one.

Being winter also is a bit of a shock to Neri it is a cold winter here in Adelaide this year and also very wet from the last couple of winters. So we are still at one of mums houses kind of supervising the students in the house. One day we will have enough money saved up to get our own house so we are getting on our feet and settling in together well my friends

see you next time

oooo baby !!!!!!!

2009-07-06T18:58:00.002+09:30

you know when you see babies around and wonder what your baby will look like!!!

I have a partner and we are expecting our baby!!!!!

boy or girl you ask ??

just wait and see LOL!!!!!!

But seriously you wonder don't you will the baby have my nose or the wife's cheeks? My lips and her eye's ? but you know the most amazing thing is that you can wonder all you like and have the most technologically advanced ultra sound 3d pictures and see what he/she looks like. No one knows ultimately who that person is, what personality the baby will have. That is part of life they way you are brought up the love your family has for you and the surroundings you have when you are growing up.....

So as you can guess we are having a baby with just 3 weeks to go I am getting excited

OOO YES I AM!!!!!!!!

Talagaaa!!!!

goodbye cruel word my radjio clock died

2009-05-16T19:07:00.001+09:30

oh my head hurts today

2009-05-16T08:25:00.002+09:30

This is why I didn't show up for work yesterday. I was cleaning out my wife's grandpa's cellar and found 12
bottles of his home-bottled grape wine under the steps.
My wife told me to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink, or else.
I agreed to do the unpleasant task.

I withdrew the cork form the first bottle and poured the contents down the sink,
with the exception of one glass, which I drank. I extracted the cork from the second bottle,
did likewise, and drank one glass, just to check the taste to see if the old fellow knew his wine making.
He did.

I then opened the third bottle, and poured it, too, down the sink,
but not until drinking one full glass to check the purity. It was very good.
did this, also with the fourth bottle. One glass for myself, and the rest down the sink.

I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next, and drank one sink out of it and threw the rest down the glass.
I pulled the sink out of the next glass and poured the cork from the bottle, then corked the sink with the glass,
bottled the drink and drank the pour.

When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand, counted the bottles, corks,
glasses and sinks with the other, which were 29, and as the house came by I counted them again,
and finally had all the houses in one bottle, which I drank.
I felt so foolish that I couldn't go upstairs and congratulate my wife to tell her what a great winemaker
her grandpa was. I will do that after climbing the basement steps the next time they come by.

you ask what is ANZAC day ?????

2009-04-23T06:46:00.001+09:30

What is Anzac Day?
Anzac Day - 25 April - is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first nationally significant military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during WW1. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs and the pride they soon took in that name endures to this day.

Why is this day so special to Australians?
When war broke out in 1914 Australia had been a federal commonwealth for only 13 years. The new national government was eager to establish its reputation among the nations of the world. In 1915 Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula to open the way to the Black Sea for the allied navies. The plan was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul), capital of the Ottoman Empire and an ally of Germany. They landed at Gallipoli on April 25, meeting fierce resistance from the Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated after both sides had suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. News of the landing at Gallipoli made a profound impact on Australians at home and April 25 quickly became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who had died in war.

What does it mean today?
Australians recognise April 25 as an occasion of national commemoration. Commemorative services are held at dawn, the time of the original landing, across the nation. Later in the day ex-servicemen and women meet and join in marches through the major cities and many smaller centres. Commemorative ceremonies are held at war memorials around the country. It is a day when Australians reflect on the many different meanings of war.Edit Post Hide Post