mike carey

Almost five years ago, on 30 December 2019, a NSW Rural Fire Service truck being used fighting a fire near the Victorian border went to drive through what the driver thought was a simple wall of flames. There was no 'other side'. Instead, it was a fire storm that overturned the 10-tonne truck and killed Sam McPaul, a young volunteer firefighter whose wife was expecting their third child. What had killed him was a manifestation of fire-generated weather, a phenomenon the extremes of which, fire tornados, had first been observed in the massive 2003 Canberra fires that had destroyed 500 homes and killed four people. This Canberra event was one of several weather events that had been game changers, in what they represented, the science involved or the way in which emergency responses were organised. They are the basis of a new ABC podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. The ABC is also broadcasting them, and the Canberra episode, and specifically a description told by the driver of that truck almost 17 years later was what I woke up to on the radio this Sunday morning. There are six episodes of the podcast, with links from this page (there are links to another podcast series below these six): The Weather That Changed Us with Tyne Logan - ABC listen WWW.ABC.NET.AU Australia experiences all kinds of extreme weather from cyclones and fires to floods and heat. For those who lived... Nate Byrne is the breakfast weather announcer on ABC News TV, and something of a science geek. Here he is with a short video on fire tornados produced by the Bureau of Meteorology: And yes, that's his usual energy level as an announcer. And a news piece about the anniversary of that 2019 event: Five years on, honouring the fallen volunteer firefighters after Black Summer | About Regional ABOUTREGIONAL.COM.AU A memorial and pin oak-lined avenue of honour on a stretch of road that follows the Murray River, near Jingellic,…

Am I alone in thinking that @Vegas_Millennial knows exactly what he has read, understands exactly what the terms meant, and has a specific meaning in mind when he writes here? Or writes 'her'. How some others read the words he puts in his posts seems to miss his intentions in what he writes.

It is! Although I don't recall Sault Ste Marie being on the historic version of the Kangaroo Route. And interestingly, Makassar is more significant for first nations people in the Top End than places like Singapore that were on early versions of the route. When colonists arrived in the region around Darwin in the mid 19th Century, the local people already had a name for white people. It was (and still is) Balanda (or Ballander), which is derived form Hollander, and brought to them by Makassan traders and fishers.

I'm sure civility in your responses to @Cdog123 would always be appreciated, and not just by him, but also by other forum members. Note that the thread has now been moved to the Questions About Hiring forum from the Spa.

There's not really any need to delete it, it will just fade away if no one else posts anything to it. It may have some value as a point of future reference if anyone else were to search the forum for information.

I have to disagree. To start with, completely acceptable is not a subset of somewhat acceptable, they are separate subsets of the total group of people polled. This commentary is talking about one age cohort of the overall number of respondents, those aged from 18 to 29. 'That group' referred to this cohort, not the subset of it that thought his actions were somewhat acceptable. The 41% figure is the total number in that age cohort who made either of those two responses (it's additive of the 17% and 24% for the two responses). So yes, 41% of respondents aged from 18 to 29 thought his actions were either acceptable or somewhat acceptable. This was not a calculation where multiplication of percentages was relevant. If the premise of your 17% of 24% calculation had been correct, 4% would have not have been the proportion of all respondents who thought his actions were completely acceptable. It would have been the proportion of respondents who were both aged from 18 and 29 and found his actions completely acceptable. Perhaps the percentages of all respondents who shared that assessment is different, but that was not the point of the post that was made, nor were any relevant numbers cited.

Weird? I would have said 'normal'. But you laid it on with a trowel this time.

Oh, is it the first of April already?

So saying the link between cooking one's goose and ensuring failure is apt? (I still have memories of my 1979 Christmas attempt.)

In 2020, Dominique Pelicot, a man from a village in rural Provence was arrested for filming up women's skirts. In examining his phone and later his other devices the police uncovered 20,000 videos and photographs of men having sex with his comatose wife of 40 years, Gisèle (his then wife, it should be added). She had no idea that it had happened and police had to work out whether it would even be possible to tell her, with the trauma it might induce. They did tell her. Police identified 50 men who had raped Gisèle at Dominique's invitation. He had drugged her for that purpose over the years since 2011. The day he was arrested for filming those women in public, was the last time Gisèle saw Dominique until the trial. This week the court reached its verdict. All 51 men were convicted of rape and other crimes, Dominique was sentence to 20 years and the other 50 received gaol terms of 3 to 15 years. Gisèle had waived her right to anonymity and sat through the trial, a remarkable ordeal for her to endure, but in the process became something of a global cause célèbre. By rejecting anonymity she has reduced, at least for now, the some of stigma many women face as the victims of such crimes. It's to be hoped that Gisèle can retire into the quiet life she once led, in the knowledge that she was an inspiration to many women around the world. Or if she chooses, become an advocate for a cause that she unwittingly inspired.

No body said he was, the quote was 'If you truly believe that .. then ...' A world of difference.

I've noticed but I don't see the point of it.

Why are you posting this, it's not even Christmas yet!

Left field. Left-right out-field to be precise.

Timeless music (and other forms of art) can survive adaptation, style changes and the imagination of new performers. Purists gonna gripe, others will celebrate its new context.

Exactly!

True, but they worked that out hundreds of years ago (and directly in Europe not, I think, from observing native Americans directly). I seem to remember an account of Franklin or Jefferson bringing tomato seeds to the US from Europe as food plants, completing the circle as it were. Whether the idea of pizza developed with tomato or that was a later addition I don't know, I'm just happy it ended up being part of the mix.

It was 30° here today, quite the relief after a solid week in the high 30s, my car uses 6 or 7 litres per 100km, and yes it's a 200km drive from here in Tumut to Canberra. I'm 187cm tall but 8 inches is still 8 inches*. * When it's measuring rain, it's 200mm.

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You're absolutely right, and much of it, at least here, is contradicted by other posters. And looking back at the threads about you over the years, there has been a lot of non-gratuitous love for you here! I'm sure, having seen you comment here, there will be members checking, or rechecking your RM ad

'Class traitor' is an established term in revolutionary and socialist theory, and although originally used as a term for members of the 'working class' or whatever it's called in the society in question, it is also applied to members of the elite who are seen to take the side of the 'others' against them. Mangione readily fits that description.

'Bastardisation' is one way of looking at it, but there is another way to think about it. That is that a good recipe will be adopted and adapted, it happens here, and I'm sure it happens in the US. If a dish starts as the creation of one chef, it might have a claim not to be changed, but otherwise, in its home region, every cook likely has their own recipe for a local dish. Once a dish has been naturalised in another country, cooks will further adapt it. Some of them will have personal recollections, or a researched understanding, of what a dish was like before it emigrated, and some descendants of the people who also came from the same region will have personal opinions based on either the reality of what the original was, or their post-immigration history of what it became, and many will hold that their family recipe is the only authentic one. Once a recipe moves into the wider community, it will become a 'general idea' rather than a defined thing. If capsicums (bell peppers to y'all) and mushrooms fit into the 'general idea' then why not. In the bit you quoted, @Italiano said 'but generally it has ...' so that implies scope for some variation, even if those two ingredients are not part of the mix. Let a thousand flowers bloom!

Random, random, Qantas is acquiring a number of Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft from WestJet. Because of range limitations, they have to fly the long way, hence: