Friday 25 April 2014
*********************Anzac Day 2014*********************
1st Battalion troops at Lone Pine, Gelibolu,
8 August 1915
8 August 1915
Lone Pine Cemetery,
Gelibolu, Turkey, 1920
Horace Thomas Dalton,
of Cleveland, Queensland,
Volunteered during the last year of The Great War as an 19 year-old
and saw service in Egypt
Died 1956 and buried in Ipswich, Queensland
William Reginald Rawlings,
of Purnim, Victoria,
Father William Rawlings and mother Bessie Rawlings,
Private 8 Rifles 29th Battalion,
Enlisted in March 1916, Killed in action, France August 1918,
Posthumously awarded the Military Medal
of Cleveland, Queensland,
Father Thomas Dalton and mother Elizabeth Dalton nee Parker,
Trooper 11th Light Horse Regiment,Volunteered during the last year of The Great War as an 19 year-old
and saw service in Egypt
Died 1956 and buried in Ipswich, Queensland
of Purnim, Victoria,
Father William Rawlings and mother Bessie Rawlings,
Private 8 Rifles 29th Battalion,
Enlisted in March 1916, Killed in action, France August 1918,
Posthumously awarded the Military Medal
*Images found at Australian Government websites and www.abc.net.au
Thursday 24 April 2014
Parr Family of Wise County Texas win $2.9 million in case against Aruba Petroleum for adverse effects of mining & gas production activities
In 2011 Aruba Petroleum was taken to court by Robert and Lisa Parr of Wise County, Texas and on 22 April 2014 this family was awarded $2.9 million based in part on this claim:
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[Parr – 11th Amended Petition in Parr et al. v. Aruba Petroleum Inc., case number CC-11-01650-E, in the County Court at Law No. 5 of Dallas County, Texas] Click on images to enlarge
The 5 to 1 verdict included $275,000 for the Parr’s property loss of market value and $2 million for past physical pain and suffering by Bob and Lisa Parr and their daughter, $250,000 for future physical pain and suffering, $400,000 for past mental anguish.
The Dallas County jury did not find Aruba’s conduct was abnormal and out of place for its surroundings but said it did take intentional steps to cause substantial interference with the Parr family’s use of its 40-acre homestead.
On its website today Aruba was still making many of the same exaggerated
claims that the Australian gas industry makes:
Clarence Valley Council trialling live streaming of meetings
Clarence Valley Council has made a positive move going some way towards addressing transparency, access and equity issues by committing itself to a 12 month trial, live streaming its committee and ordinary monthly meetings via http://mixlr.com/clarence-valley-council.
Council is intending to use the free basic version of the Mixlr live audio platform. There is an iPhone app available for Apple and Android devices.
Live streaming will commence in May 2014.
In 2011 57.8% of Clarence Valley households had a broadband Internet connection according to profile.id.com.
Council will be able to see the number of online “guest” listeners at each live streamed meeting, so residents and ratepayers need to patronise this service regularly to ensure it continues.
For the estimated 44.2% of households without broadband connection, the issues remain of access to alternate monthly council meetings held approximately 46 kms apart and the distances some residents have to travel in a 10,441 km2 local government to attend these meetings.
NSW North Coast Nationals: one meme says it all
Wednesday 23 April 2014
Only an estimated 10 per cent of all marine life caught ends up on dinner plates
Ensia.com:
April 2, 2014 — What percentage of all the marine life caught by industrial fishing operations ends up on our plate? Ninety percent? Seventy-five? Fifty? Not even close. Try just 10 percent. The rest is simply discarded as bycatch — the unwanted fish and other marine creatures caught during commercial fishing operations. And we’re not just talking fish. The “other marine creatures” includes everything from whales and porpoises to turtles and albatrosses.
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