Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy

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They say whenever you survive an accident you should buy a lotto ticket

Dubai plane crash survivor wins $1m in airport lottery > http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-11/du...ot/7718866

 

"An Indian man who survived a passenger jet crash-landing in Dubai is reportedly $1m richer thanks to a lottery ticket he bought at the airport."

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http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/olym...f423658c23


"What price success? How the Australian swim squad at the Rio Olympics is funded by us"
"IT HAS cost the Australian taxpayer $38 million to get our swimmers to Rio. With estimates the team could win eight gold medals, that works out to $4.75 million each.@

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, so no problem, we can blow $38m on mediocre swimming performances.

 

I guess that puts into perspective the complaints about the cost of other "Government" spending.

 

Put another way what do you get for $38m? A new hospital wing? :Shame:  :angry: 

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national...916f7c7293

 


"Another government super ‘raid’ provokes union
 


Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt has put the Labor government on collision course with one of the state’s biggest unions, as he defends accusations of again raiding public servants’ superannuation.


<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">The public sector union ­Together will lobby crossbenchers to defeat Labor legislation to allow Mr Pitt to alter the superannuation payouts to some long-­serving bureaucrats, under their defined benefit scheme.

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">State Actuary Wayne Cannon told a parliamentary committee that Labor’s proposed change would fix an “inequity” that could deny a small number of public servants up to $210,000 extra when they retired.

 

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Together Union secretary Alex Scott opposed the measure: “As a matter of principle, we never think any treasurer should ever be ­allowed to interfere in the superannuation of defined benefit scheme members."

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Well, see this is a bit complex - a public sector union is by definition paid for by the tax payer - including super contributions - so where should the authority to change the scheme, if necessary, lie with?

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nat...167aff6c21

 

 

Note that the murderer is described as french - no mention is made of his "ethnic or religious background" Clearly his Allahu  akbar cries indicate some sort of religious driver for his mad attack!

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Ice is a bigger threat.

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Speaking of cheap nasty stuff... "Viral subway cricket video was an elaborate prank" was about a woman releasing a swarm of crickets in a crowded train causing a panic and then someone pulled the brake which stranded the train on a bridge for half an hour.

 

The video in the article is hilarious > http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-li...2f3e2699f6

 

Guard Damm!

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Oldest fossils found in Greenland

The earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth has been found in rocks 3.7 billion years old in Greenland, raising the chances Mars also hosted life aeons ago.

The experts on Wednesday announced they've found tiny humps, between one and 4 cm tall, in rocks at Isua in south-west Greenland that they said were fossilised groups of microbes similar to ones now found in seas from Bermuda to Australia.

If confirmed as fossilised communities of bacteria known as stromatolites - rather than a freak natural formation - the lumps would pre-date fossils found in Australia as the earliest evidence of life on Earth by 220 million years.

"This indicates the Earth was no longer some sort of hell 3.7 billion years ago," lead author Allen Nutman, of the University of Wollongong, told Reuters of the findings that were published in the journal Nature.

"It was a place where life could flourish."

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago and the relative sophistication of stromatolites indicated that life had evolved quickly after a bombardment by asteroids ended about four billion years ago.

"Stromatolites contain billions of bacteria ... they're making the equivalent of apartment complexes," said Martin Van Kranendonk, a co-author at the University of New South Wales who identified the previously oldest fossils, dating from 3.48 billion years ago.

At the time stromatolites started growing in gooey masses on a forgotten seabed, the Earth was probably similar to Mars with liquid water at the surface, orbiting a sun that was 30 per cent dimmer than today, the scientists said.

Those parallels could be a new spur to study whether Mars once had life, the authors said.

"Suddenly, Mars may look even more promising than before as a potential abode for past life," Abigail Allwood, of the California Institute of Technology, wrote in a commentary in Nature.

The Greenland find was made after a retreat of snow and ice exposed long-hidden rocks.

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-ne...7a193b77be

Fascinating, if you're into that sort of thing

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Trump catches up to Clinton: US poll
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/09/03...kSGda1u.99

 

Heh Heh all those commentators and Current Affairs talking heads must be going back over their prouncements to minimise damage to their fragile credibility!!

 

Must be awful being an american voter having to choose the least worst candidate.

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If that racist runt Trump wins I'll immediately sell all my bloo chips and super will be firmly locked in as cash

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The Panthers

 

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/n...1473709063

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Julie Bishop makes a bold fashion statement in a pair of shorts > <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/julie-bishop-makes-a-bold-fashion-statement-in-a-pair-of-shorts/news-story/ec2da693a431f2a95c5fed1928749f3c" title="External link">http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/julie-bishop-makes-a-bold-fashion-statement-in-a-pair-of-shorts/news-story/ec2da693a431f2a95c5fed1928749f3c</a>

 



 

Her name is Julie, she was a showgirl

But that was thirty years ago, when they used to have a show

Now it's a disco, but not for Julie

Still in dress she used to wear

Faded feathers in her hair

She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind

She lost her Brendon and she lost her Tony

Now she's lost her mind

 

 

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If you're talking about the swing era woodpecker yeah I know it.

 

The other song was Barry Manilow, Copacabana

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LOL I was never all that "serious" in the first place.

 

The assertion that Abbott supporters were somehow more informed than non Abbott supporters needed a response.

 

Dunno who PC Left is. Is he a cop or something?

 

For the record, prior to 2007 most of my votes were Liberal. Never voted for Keating or Latham.

 

Workchoices changed all that. I can happily rule out voting Liberal again for that reason alone.

 

Anyway that's for another thread

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World Peace Day: 17 18 inspirational quotes about peace > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/world-...out-peace/


1. "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures." - John F. Kennedy


2. "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." - Nelson Mandela


3. "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein


4. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.


5. "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." - Winston Churchill


6. "There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts." - Mahatma Gandhi


7. "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha


8. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." - Mother Teresa


9. "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." - William Ewart Gladstone


10. "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one" - John Lennon


11. "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace" - Muhammad Ali


12. "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." - Desmond Tutu


13. "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi


14. "Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism." - Benazir Bhutto


15. "Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa


16. "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Soldiers usually win battles and generals get the credit for them. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pri
cks that precede cannon shots." - Napoleon Bonaparte


17. "It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

18. "Y'all stay beautiful!!" - Aloysius

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World Peace Day: <del>17</del> 18 inspirational quotes about peace > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/world-...out-peace/

1. "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures." - John F. Kennedy

2. "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." - Nelson Mandela

3. "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein

4. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." - Winston Churchill

6. "There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts." - Mahatma Gandhi

7. "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha

8. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." - Mother Teresa

9. "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." - William Ewart Gladstone

10. "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one" - John Lennon

11. "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace" - Muhammad Ali

12. "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." - Desmond Tutu

13. "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

14. "Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism." - Benazir Bhutto

15. "Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa

16. "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Soldiers usually win battles and generals get the credit for them. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pri
cks that precede cannon shots." - Napoleon Bonaparte

17. "It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

18. "Y'all stay beautiful!!" - Aloysius

Nice post - apart from point 18!!

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Nice post - apart from point 18!!

Haha, no worries.

 

How's the holiday?

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Haha, no worries.

 

How's the holiday?

Short and sweet!


Our ny hotel was 10 streets away from the bomb.

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Cripes :o

 

Did you go to the WTC site by any chance?

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Baby born with DNA from 3 people > http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-ne...53511d98d3

 

Scientists say the first baby has been born from a new technique that combines DNA from three people.


The goal is to prevent the child from inheriting a serous genetic disease from the mother.


The birth of the baby boy is revealed in a research summary published by the journal Fertility & Sterility.


Scientists plan to make a fuller presentation at an October meeting.


The magazine New Scientist said the baby was born five months ago to parents from Jordan.


The technique involved removing some of the mother's DNA from an egg, and leaving the disease-causing DNA behind.


The healthy DNA was slipped into a donor's egg, which was then fertilised.


As a result, the baby inherited DNA from both parents and the egg donor.

 

< click the pic for the vid >

 

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Cripes :o

 

Did you go to the WTC site by any chance?

 

 

 

 

Yes

 

It's almost compulsory I reckon, deeply moving place!!!

 

Also visited the Intrepid museum - it's an aircraft carrier moored in the Hudson river where that plane came down.

 

Well worth the look - includes the Space Shuttle Endeavour, a Concorde and international fighter planes.

 

My mate - an american - once flew F4's (Phantoms) off a carrier during the Vietnam war. They had one on the flight deck that I snapped and sent to him.

 

But, no matter how much you enjoy another place coming home is definitely the go!!!!! :Hug:  eace:  :wacky:  :clap: