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Post by jack on Jul 11, 2011 3:02:08 GMT -6
Gidday
Really I suppose we should be really excited about this sorta madness creeping accross the earth, because it just must be a sign that we are really living in the last days.
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Post by jack on Jul 10, 2011 2:13:51 GMT -6
Gidday
So by the sound of it, it is for real. My heart weeps for the Land of the Free. But we just caint ignor it cos that sorta thing is like cancer and it's spreading right through out the who;e world.
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Post by jack on Jul 9, 2011 3:00:51 GMT -6
Gidday I just find this very hard to believe but it is reported in several news media.  A Michigan resident is facing up to 93 days in jail for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard, MyFoxDetroit.com reports. Julie Bass, of Oak Park, Michigan was first given a warning followed by a ticket and now she is being charged with a misdemeanor for her simple front-yard garden. "I think it's sad that the City of Oak Park that's already strapped for cash is paying a lot of money to have a prosecutor bothering us," Bass told FOX 2's Alexis Wiley. The city is claiming that the garden violates a city code which states that front yards must consist of suitable, live plant material to which Bass responds, "We think it's suitable." "They say, 'Why should you grow things in the front?' Well, why shouldn't I? They're fine. They're pretty. They're well maintained," Bass told the station. "I could sell out and save my own self and just not have them bother me anymore, but then there's no telling what they're going to harass the next person about," continued Bass. A pretrial is scheduled for July 26 and a jury trial could be next. Read more: www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/08/michigan-resident-faces-3-days-in-jail-for-vegetable-garden/#ixzz1Rb3FQWr0 |
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Post by jack on Jul 5, 2011 2:33:01 GMT -6
Gidday
And from way doown here I wish you all a blooody beauty.
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Post by jack on Jun 29, 2011 4:38:01 GMT -6
Gidday  I think he was just on a vacation after seeing enough of Antarctica, he decided to see some more of the big wide world. I also saw it on the news. Poor little guy. he just come over to visit. Jack, how far is New Zealand from Antarctic? It's about 4000 kilometres, like a long way to swim and only a coupla small islands to stop and rest on. Here is the latest news on him. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10735219 |
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Post by jack on Jun 28, 2011 4:20:23 GMT -6
Gidday First we have an old wether sheep now a bloody bird of all things. Are we totally mad as a nation. We must certainly be different Eh! A young Emperor penguin took a rare wrong turn from the Antarctic and ended up stranded on a New Zealand beach — the first time in 44 years the aquatic bird has been sighted in the wild in the South Pacific country. Image: A ranger watches an Emperor penguin on Peka Peka Beach, New Zealand Richard Gill / AP Ranger Clint Purches watches the Emperor penguin on Peka Peka Beach. Local resident Christine Wilton was taking her miniature Schnauzer dog Millie for a walk on Peka Peka Beach on the North Island's western coast when she discovered the bird Monday evening. "It was out-of-this-world to see it ... like someone just dropped it from the sky," Wilton said. "It looked like 'Happy Feet' — it was totally in the wrong place," Wilton said, referring to the 2006 animated musical featuring a young penguin who finds himself far from home. Conservation experts say the penguin is about 10 months old and stands about 32 inches high. Colin Miskelly, a curator at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, said the bird was likely born during the last Antarctic winter. It may have been searching for squid and krill when it took a wrong turn. Emperor penguins are the tallest and largest species of penguin and can grow up to 4 feet high and weigh more than 75 pounds. Their amazing journey to breeding grounds deep in the Antarctic was chronicled in the 2005 documentary "March of the Penguins," which highlighted their ability to survive the brutal winter. Advertise | AdChoices Miskelly said Emperor penguins can spend months at a time in the ocean, coming ashore only to molt or rest. He doesn't know what might have caused this particular one to become disoriented. Miskelly said the penguin appeared healthy and well-fed, with plenty of body fat, and probably came ashore for a rest. Eating wet sand However, Miskelly said the penguin would need to find its way back south soon if it were to survive. Despite the onset of the New Zealand winter, the bird was probably hot and thirsty, he said, and it had been eating wet sand. "It doesn't realize that the sand isn't going to melt inside it," Miskelly said. "They typically eat snow, because it's their only liquid." However, he said the bird was in no immediate danger from dehydration because Emperor penguins can also drink salt water in the summer. rise Peter Simpson, a program manager for New Zealand's Department of Conservation, said officials are asking people to stand back about 30 feet from the creature and to avoid letting dogs near it. Other than that, he said, officials plan to let nature take its course. Simpson said the bird could live several weeks before needing another meal. The last confirmed sighting of a wild Emperor in New Zealand was in 1967 at the southern Oreti Beach, Simpson said. Miskelly, the curator, said the bird appears to weigh about 22 pounds — healthy for its age, but only about one-third of the weight the penguin would need to reach before it could survive a breeding cycle on the Antarctic ice. |
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Post by jack on Jun 26, 2011 0:43:16 GMT -6
Gidday
Sure is beautiful stuff but unfortately down here it grows so rampant that it is considered a noxious weed in most places.
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Post by jack on Jun 25, 2011 2:30:49 GMT -6
Gidday
Down here we trim all leaves up to the bottom truss of fruit so that the light can get to the fruit to help ripening. The old leaves become quite hard and apparantly they don't do much good at all.
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Post by jack on Jun 14, 2011 3:09:01 GMT -6
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Post by jack on Jun 14, 2011 0:29:10 GMT -6
Gidday
For sharing or shearing or both.
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Post by jack on Jun 11, 2011 1:07:06 GMT -6
Gidday
Looks like a frost here tonight.
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Post by jack on Jun 10, 2011 3:48:10 GMT -6
Gidday
Yep sure was. And that is a hellava lot of wool too when you consider each wool fibre was only 25 microns thick.
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Post by jack on Jun 9, 2011 4:25:12 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey mate that aint a goofy movie but it is all dinkum fact.
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Post by jack on Jun 8, 2011 3:25:05 GMT -6
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Post by jack on May 24, 2011 2:24:42 GMT -6
Gidday Well I would get anywhere near that stuff. I just don't trust liars. Anyway, take a read of this and do your own research. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& (NaturalNews) For years, biotechnology companies have been making lofty, unsubstantiated claims that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are the cure for world hunger, and that without them, people will starve to death. But according to many agricultural scientists and researchers, such claims have absolutely no basis in reality, and are nothing more than deceitful marketing. One researcher from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently compared the nonsensical industry rhetoric in favor of GMOs to giving cigarettes away free to children -- in other words, claims that GMOs are the answer to world hunger are nothing but a ploy to hook farmers and consumers into taking the deadly bait. Biotech mouthpieces and their media lackeys routinely hail GMOs as superior to conventional and organic crops because they say yields are better, less pesticides are needed to grow GM crops, and GM crops can be grown more densely in a given area than alternatives can. But is any of this actually true? To date, GMOs have not surpassed conventional or organic crops in terms of yields. And since 1996, which is right around the time GMOs were first introduced, pesticide use in the US has increased by nearly 400 million pounds (http://www.naturalnews.com/027642_g...). On the other hand, a recent United Nations (UN) report explains that eco-farming, which uses natural growing methods rather than chemical- and GM-based methods, has actually boosted food production much more significantly than any GM methods have. "Today's scientific evidence demonstrates that agro ecological methods outperform the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production where the hungry live -- especially in unfavorable environments," said Olivier De Schutter, a UN Special Rapporteur, at a recent presentation. "To date, agro ecological projects have shown an average crop yield increase of 80 percent in 57 developing countries, with an average increase of 116 percent for all African projects. Recent projects conducted in 20 African countries demonstrated a doubling of crop yields over a period of three to ten years." In truth, GMOs have failed in virtually every category of supposed benefit -- they simply do not live up to the industry hype. And besides offering no benefit or improvement upon natural growing methods, GMOs are also a significant threat to both environmental and human health. There are no credible safety studies that have ever been conducted proving that "Frankencrops" are safe or beneficial (http://www.naturalnews.com/031951_G...). Learn more: www.naturalnews.com/032492_GMO_biotech.html#ixzz1NFx1GTgP |
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Post by jack on May 20, 2011 3:00:10 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey that looks pretty bloody good Eh!
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Post by jack on May 15, 2011 4:09:55 GMT -6
Gidday
That is not the only cure either, but most are already suppressed. I followed through on that link and the of from it till I came to several links to pages that had been taken down or currantly unavailable.
I wonder why?
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Post by jack on May 11, 2011 0:22:41 GMT -6
Gidday
Hey, the news we are getting down here don't sound too good you poor people living near your big river. Is any phorum members being flooded out?
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Post by jack on May 7, 2011 16:54:29 GMT -6
Gidday
It shouldn't matter at all cos down here we will leave them out in the suin till the sprouts are real thick and have lots of tiny roots on them and the spuds themselves get totally green.
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Post by jack on May 6, 2011 17:46:57 GMT -6
Gidday
Well I suppose what we normally say is to dry them, but not in the sun iffin it's spuds, cos it don't take long for them to start to go green.
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Post by jack on May 6, 2011 2:27:12 GMT -6
Gidday
Thanks, just a different word so I didn't understand.
I thought they may have been sick. Yeah Right!
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Post by jack on May 4, 2011 4:30:05 GMT -6
Gidday
Why would you "cure" spuds? Carrots and parsnips will keep for months stored in dry sand so why would you cure them.
Please explain what do you actually mean by cure?
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Post by jack on May 1, 2011 0:29:44 GMT -6
Gidday
And we have had a very wet summer with not enough sun and temperatures that have been up and down like a whores draws and down more than up too.
My garden is nowhere near good for going into a winter.
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Post by jack on Apr 28, 2011 2:07:39 GMT -6
Gidday Sure as hell from down here things don't look too good up there:- ************************************************************ A tornado moves through residential areas in the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Photo / AP Expand A tornado moves through residential areas in the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Photo / AP A wave of tornado-spawning storms swept the US South, splintering buildings across hard-hit Alabama and killing 72 people in four states. At least 58 people died in Alabama alone, including 15 or more when a massive tornado devastated Tuscaloosa. Eleven deaths were reported in Mississippi, two in Georgia and one in Tennessee. States of emergency were declared in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Oklahoma, and governors called out the National Guard to help with rescue and clean-up operations. The National Weather Service had preliminary reports of more than 110 tornado touchdowns in 24 hours. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10721931 |
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Post by jack on Apr 25, 2011 2:48:21 GMT -6
Gidday Well down here we are a bit different especially when it comes to Easter bunnies. We just have way too many bunnies so some places organis bunny hunts like this. www.odt.co.nz/your-town/alexandra/157574/winning-team-make-kill-1664Row upon row of dead rabbits covering Pioneer Park in Alexandra on Saturday bought satisfied smiles to the faces of Central Otago farmers, reinforced with the news the pest population had been culled by 22,904. The occasion was the 20th anniversary Great Easter Bunny Hunt, and thousands of people gathered to see the 24-hour hauls collected by the 47 teams. The Beige Brigade Wolfpack team, from Southland, won the contest, bagging 1664 bunnies on a Luggate farm. Captain Jason Gerken said the secret of the team's success was that it carried out the hunt like a military operation. "We kept going for the full 24 hours, with hunters always ready to shoot." Mr Gerken, a ferret contractor for the Animal Health Board, said the team was made up of "friends, friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends." It had a good support crew, which included three cooks, ensuring no time was wasted. The top 10 teams scored their high tallies on Luggate, Lake Hayes, Matakanui, Tarras, Bendigo, Queensberry, and Waikerikeri Valley farmland. Rabbits were the focus, but pigs, hares, stoats, ferrets, turkeys, pigeons and even a goat featured in the spoils displayed by teams. The hunt recorded its first injury, with a 54-year-old Chatto Creek man who fell from a truck while shooting at Lake Hayes. "He broke his ribs, punctured a lung and will be in Kew Hospital for about a week and he phoned me today from his hospital bed to check how his team-mates were going, " event convener Dave Ramsay said. A spokesman from Animal Welfare group Safe, Hans Kriek, criticised the event yesterday and was reported as saying the hunt did more to incite cruelty than control the pest animals. "He's entitled to his views, but he's clearly never seen the devastation wrought by rabbits in this area, " Mr Ramsay said. "We think we're doing something to tackle the rabbit problem and I think the majority of views, especially those of farmers, are in our favour." Demand was so high for the Alexandra Lions-organised event this year that 16 team places had to be balloted. Fox Gallagher (17), Isaac Boyce (12) and Keegan Blackadder (16), all of Christchurch, were members of the Erabbicator team. Although it only despatched 307 rabbits, 66 hares, two possums and two stoats, the event was still worthwhile "as a fun boys' weekend away", Keegan said. "It all goes back to the caveman days - that whole hunter-gatherer thing," Tina Dooley, of Oamaru said. Part of the support crew for Bob's Bunny Busters, she said most of the women in the crew took on the role of "picker-uppers" - "so the menfolk can get on with their hunting thing". Ravensdown Cunning Dozen captain, Graham Geary, of Mosgiel, said his team tally was 229 rabbits and a couple of turkeys and stoats. "That's a bit of a disappointment and the block we were shooting, we think that cocky has got any rabbit problem well under control. "But still, being here is better than being at work and we'll be back next year." The rabbit corpses in the park were picked up by the Alexandra Scout group, which carries out the task as a fundraiser. The animals are broken down for compost. www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2010/04/thousands_of_dead_rabbits_carpet_pioneer_park_in_a_8673488934.JPG |
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Post by jack on Apr 24, 2011 2:43:12 GMT -6
Gidday
Down here we have had a realy poor summer but plent rain to keep the grass growing but too cold for much of the garden so no corn harvested at all.
That sure is a lot better than tornadoes and those Texas wild fire though.
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Post by jack on Apr 22, 2011 21:51:08 GMT -6
Gidday
Yeah me too. Down here we have heard that ewe up there have had a pretty bad twister season too. I hope no members have been blown to bits.
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Post by jack on Apr 16, 2011 1:44:28 GMT -6
Gidday
1- What zone/state do you garden in?
Otago, New Zealand. Right next to the Pacific Ocean but I need to garden as if it were cool mountain climate because the wind off the sea can drop temperatures so low so fast.
2- Why do you grow a vegetable garden?
For safe food, for value and affordable food, for healthy food and for fun
3- What do you like the most about your vegetable garden?
It feeds me. And I love food. And being able to eat food outa me own garden almost all year round.
4- What do you hate most about your vegetable garden?
The occasional cold wind off the sea and it aint big enough.
5- What is your main crop?
Food. Broccolii, carrots, parsnips, silver beet, and food.
6- What do you find to be the most difficult task to do in your garden?
Keeping up with the weeds.
7-What do you find to be the most enjoyable task to do your garden?
To be working in the soil with the sun on my back ans the sounds of the sae and the birds in my ears.
8- Do you share your produce with family and friends?
Yes. Of course.
9- Do you grow everything from seed or buy starter plants?
Bitta both.
10- Does everyone that comes to visit HAVE to tour the garden?
Nope. I don't like to skite, especially about the amount and size of things, like my weeds. Besides, I do most of my composting the way God set it up to be done, on the soil, like I just drop the weeds and tops or outside leaves where I pick me vegies from.
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Post by jack on Apr 4, 2011 1:43:57 GMT -6
Gidday
Yeah we do have some fairly deep lakes. Waikaremoana being the deepest in the North Isaland at 256 metres deep. And Lake Wakatipu in the South Island is about 1097 metres deep. These lakes all have very clean water.
But alas, some of our more shallow lakes would not be too good though.
The high phosphorous content would be not so bad for a garden but the old nasty murcury would definately not.
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Post by jack on Apr 3, 2011 3:02:23 GMT -6
Gidday
What is the quality of the water in your lakes. That would be the thing to check out, otherwise the bigger the lake the better the weed would be.
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