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LOBSTERCON2016! is less than 2 weeks away!
This will be the 16th year that I've hosted a Lobstercon weekend at Thomas Point Beach & Campground near Brunswick Maine. The 'official' dates are July 8, 9 & 10 but many Lobsterconners come early and leave late!
Check out the Lobstercon2016! link on the top left of page for full details.
The WORLD'S BIGGEST BUILDATHON was a resounding success!
The room wasn't quite filled to capacity as 248 WBB kits were handed out to the eager builders. I gave a quick rundown of the prep work leading up to the WBB event, set the timer and we were off! As expected, there were many builders who were having difficulties discerning the color bands or reading the tiny lettering on the caps. MANY had read my emails leading up the the WBB so there were lots of needle nose pliers and lighted pocket magifiers spread about the room. Those who missed the emails were usually within easy borrowing distance. About halfway into the build, it became apparent that some hooligan 68pf caps had snuck into the 220pf jar for a little rumble and never made it back to their clubhouse in the 68pf jar so there were a few kits kitted with two 68pf caps and one 220pf short. Unfortunately, I had a EXPRESS mail box sent the previous day with lots of spares for every part in the WBB but it didn't arrive in time to help solve the crisis. Fortunately, I had brought 350+ kits with me so I put a volunteer, Dennis from Kanga UK, on the job of stealing the 220s out of the spare kits to give to those who were 'heavy' on 68s and short a 220. That job went a little slowly until we got a volunteer with GOOD eyesight on the job and 220pf caps started flying out of the corner of the room. As WBB kits were completed and tested, we 'borrowed' those 220 caps to get the others built. There was pandimonium about but we managed to power through the problem and continue the builds. We did have 2 casualties from the tiny letering and parts but 246 WBB kits were completed, tested and declared working. So in 1 hour and 10 minutes, we has 246 of 248 WBB kits build, tested and declared working transmitters! I think that I can call that a success.....full report
I have TWO new kits: the TT2 40th Anniversary issue and the Sea Sprite . I also have a NEW kit building tool: A BRASS SET
The TT2 40th Anniversary issue is an updated version of the TT2 which meets current FCC regulations for harmonic suppression. It is a economical design yet still has lots of 'play value' and is designed so even new hands at soldering should have no problems completing the kit.
The Sea Sprite is a merging of the EZ Build Two Tinned Tunas concept with the Lil' Squall design. I took the Lil' Squall design, simplified it for single band operation and then laid it out in the 'normal' sized tuna can thereby having the added room for BIG pads, HEAVY traces and WIDE spacing making it as near 'builder proof' as the EZB Two Tinned Tunas kit has been! I also removed the band module hardware, making it single band operation, and changed the filter from a low pass to band pass filter. This should help with interference generated by SW broadcasters hanging around the 40m and 20m amateur radio bands. Also, it will be sold without the can for further savings to QRP builders.
Snack on some Dole pineapple (approx. 75 cents) while building either kit and you will have the perfect can for mounting the board when you have completed construction.
A BRASS SETcontains 4 small solid brass clamps which are easily installed along the edges of a circuit board under construction. The nifty little clamps then serve as a set of legs to keep the board stable while soldering the leads on the underneath side.
I have a special deal for the month of June, all three of the new items will be shipped FREE anywhere in the world! Check out the HOT LINKS for these 3 items at the upper left on my home page.
As of June 28, 2016...
Back order status: Only 5 back orders in my binder dating all the way back to last Sunday! I anticipate that all orders will go out the door tomorrow.
MePad and MeSquares panels are STILL in stock. Grayson Evans did a Thermotron seminar right before the WBB. MANY of his Powerpoint images showed a thermotron mounted to a MeTubes pad so he created a 'run' on MeTubes panels during Vendor night. I sold every panel I had...BUT I did mange to find a couple of panels in my shop cleanup campaign last week! Toroid EZ tools and SBSS solder bots are back on the shelf now as are the latest builder's tool: "A Brass Set" .
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Yerba mate (Rioplatense Spanish) or erva mate (Portuguese) (Ilex paraguariensis) is a species of holly (family Aquifoliaceae) native to subtropical South America in Argentina, southern Paraguay, southern Uruguay and southern Brazil. The infusion called mate is prepared by steeping the dried leaves in hot water rather than boiling water like tea or coffee. It is slightly less potent than coffee and much gentler on the stomach. Drinking mate with friends from a shared hollow gourd (also called a mate in Spanish, or cabaça or cuia in Portuguese) with a metal straw (a bombilla in Spanish, bomba or canudo in Portuguese) is an extremely common social practice in Argentina, Uruguay, southern Paraguay, the east side of Chile and southern Bolivia and Brazil. Its use has also been introduced into Lebanon and Syria, particularly among the Alawi and Druze minority. The flavor of brewed yerba mate is strongly vegetal, herbal, and grassy, reminiscent of some varieties of green tea, though the flavor is much stronger than green tea can achieve. Many consider the flavor to be very agreeable, however, it is generally bitter if steeped in water at boiling point and is traditionally made using boiling water combined with a little cold water. Unlike most teas, it does not become bitter and astringent when steeped for extended periods, and the leaves may be infused several times. Additionally, one can purchase flavored mate, in orange, raspberry, strong, and gentle flavorings.

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Bacterial Vaginosis - Exams and Tests
Your doctor may test you for bacterial vaginosis if you:
- Have symptoms.
- Are going to have a hysterectomy or surgical abortion. (Bacterial vaginosis increases infection risk afterwards.)
- Are pregnant and have symptoms.
Your doctor can diagnose bacterial vaginosis based on your history of symptoms, a vaginal exam, and a sample of the vaginal discharge. Laboratory tests to detect signs of bacterial vaginosis may include:
- Wet mount. A sample of vaginal discharge is mixed with a salt (normal saline) solution after placing it on a microscope slide. The prepared slide is examined to identify the bacteria present, to look for white blood cells that point to an infection, and to look for unusual cells called clue cells. The presence of clue cells is one sign f bacterial vaginosis.
- Whiff test. Several drops of a potassium hydroxide (KOH) solution are added to a sample of vaginal discharge to find out whether a strong fishy odor is produced. A fishy odor on the whiff test suggests bacterial vaginosis.
- Vaginal pH. The normal vaginal pH is 3.8 to 4.5. Bacterial vaginosis usually causes the vaginal pH to rise above 4.5.
- Oligonucleotide probes. This test detects the genetic material (DNA) of bacterial vaginosis bacteria. Oligonucleotide probe testing is very accurate but is not routinely available in most labs.
The presence of clue cells, an increased vaginal pH, and a positive whiff test are enough evidence to treat for bacterial vaginosis.
Bacterial vaginosis may be found during a routine pelvic exam.
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Last Updated: March 12, 2014
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Showing excessive familiarity or friendliness: Arnold was very cheerful in a hail-fellow-well-met sort of way
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- He was unlike the moody Michael Angelo; unlike the gentle Raphael; unlike the fastidious Van Dyck who came long afterward; he was hail-fellow-well-met among his associates, though often given over to dreaminess.
- How about the continuous flow of hail-fellow-well-met vocals scrubbed free of messy traits like human pain and intensity?
- Behind the broadcaster's hail-fellow-well-met demeanour and bluster lies an extremely astute and clued-in individual, who meets criticism of his television style with quotes from Mark Twain.
convivial, sociable, outgoing, gregarious, companionable, friendly, genial, affable, amiable, congenial, agreeable, good-humoured, extrovert, extroverted, uninhibited;
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Aztecs, Inca, Maya-Pre Columbian CulturesThe aztecs main food source was maize which is a type of corn. Some other foods they ate were avocadoes, tomatoes, atole, tamales, and tortillas which is made from maize.In the aztecs culture chocolate was special for the warriors and nobility. They also had an alcoholic drink called octli and they only ate twice a day.
The mayans however ate three times a day, there food source was maize, beans, squash, chili and many foods with nutrition. There favorite source of protein were different types of beans. The mayans lived in places in mexico such as Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and other mexican states. The mayans spoke over 30 different mayan languages
Some emperors and kings of the incas were manco capac-the sun god, Sinchi roca, lloque yupnqui,Maita capac, capac yupaqui, inca roca, yahuar huacac, inca viracocha, pachacuti-inca yupanqui, tupa inca yupanqui, huana capac, huascar and atahuallpa
The mayas inherited many inventions for the olmec civilization. They were skilled in farming and clearing large sections in the rain forest.
Aztecs developed engineering architecture, art, math, and astronomy.
Incas had amazing skills in terracing, drainage, irrigation, and the use of fertilizers.
- The Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas were living in Central and South America long before the Europeans came here.
- They used methods like terrace farming to adapt to the mountainous region.
- Polytheistic
- Advanced math skills
- Calendars
- Social classes in a highly structured government
- Writing System
The mayas lived in Central America and in Mexico. Teotihuacan was not the capital of the mayas' culture but it was a large ceremonial center and city. It is home to the two largest pyramids in Indian history. They used their pyramids to worship the gods and have feasts. The mayas had basketball games, lasting for several days, in which the winner was sacrificed to god with their heart pulled out. Many maya sacrifices were extreme torture followed by decapitation with the occasional ripping out the heart. The mayas were a polytheistic society.
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The Aztecs also sacrificed humans to their gods and used ceremonial pyramids. They sacrificed more to the gods of war and the sun. The sacrifice's heart was torn out and offered to the gods. They sacrificed people to the sun because they believed the destruction of the earth would happen with the death of the sun and therefore they had to keep the sun healthy and happy.
After death the good go to the tropical paradise and the bad go to a cold, dark hell. Aztec religion emphasized the importance of sacrifices to entering the supernatural. Priests were celibate and self-sacrificing. They had a complex calendar full of ceremonies that help them communicate with the supernatural. They would hold celebrations in temples involving dances, songs, and processionals. Each god got their own special day.
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Incas lived in South America and the Andes. Incas spoke the quechua language. They used quipu to keep records. It was a series of knots along a string. The color and position of the knots served as a way to remember important occurances. They made buildings out of mortar and were extremely sturdy and tightly packed. Their creator god was called Viracocha. This god created the universe and protected the emperor. Inti was the sun god. Apu Illapu was the rain-giver. Mama-Kilya, the wife of the sun, was the moon mother and contolled women's menstrations. Inca religion was a mixture of animistic and nature worship resulting in a worship of the sun. Priests sacrificed white llamas to the gods and ate coca leaves to help them communicate, through ventriloquism, with spirits. Children were also another popular sacrifice. When you died if you had been good, "do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy", you would live in the warmth of the sun forever. If you had been bad in life you would go to live in the cold earth.
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1. to barely slip by something; a hidden act that was almost caught or an act that is unexpected. Used as 'to pull a gary'.
2. a name for a boy
2. a name for a boy
Dude 1: I failed my test with a 69 today...
Dude 2: Haha, I passed with a 70, and I didn't even study.
Dude 1: Dam u, u pulled a gary.
Hey, Gary, what's up?
Dude 1: I failed my test with a 69 today...
Dude 2: Haha, I passed with a 70, and I didn't even study.
Dude 1: Dam u, u pulled a gary.
Hey, Gary, what's up?
by sheesus June 04, 2009
nice guy. conservative but can also be liberal at the same time. Respects parents. Love of family and friends. Generous person to those who suffer. Religious. Male name given to guys born from the 1940's to 1990's. Gary is very smart. Outgoing. Very brave. Gary's come from good families and usually have proper up-bringing. Gary's always have money. Hard workers, wealthy. Gary's always win. Gary is cheap and will tell you he has no money after winning a million dollars the night before and make you pay for his meal. Gary's fight dirty and will pull down any obstacle or enemy. Don't make Gary mad, stay on his good side.Acts stupid on purpose so others think they have the upper hand but at last minute Gary flips the card table when you turn around and all the cards are on his side. Don't play cards with Gary. lucky in every way. Always gets what he wants. Strong body by nature. Others jealous if they knew how great he really has it. Gary is the black horse at the races that you weren't paying attention to but ultimately wins. Gary's are hung like horses also. Big brave balls. Control freak sometimes. Bossy. Spicy sex life, knows how to please. gets too many women pregnant. Gary is a cool cat to know. Women love Gary and see only his good personality traits. Men like Gary because he helps them get laid and covers for his buddies. In an emergency, Gary is the hero of the day. Gary bailed me out of jail once so now he's my friend for life. Gary lives in Chicago and eats pizza.
Gary Busey, Gary Cooper, Gary Sinese,
by MickeyMickeyursofine June 22, 2013
A good looking pair of tits.
Opposite of "Douglas's"
Opposite of "Douglas's"
Person 1: " How come your'e not dating Melissa anymore?"
Person 2: "She has some pretty f*cked up teeth"
Person 1: "yeah but did you see those Garys?"
Person 2: "She has some pretty f*cked up teeth"
Person 1: "yeah but did you see those Garys?"
by Chateau Bob September 04, 2010
A person who originates from Gibraltar, who lives in a tree house with the apes under the big blue god. They can only speak Gibraltarian and do not know what pork is.
Lizzy: What's that up in the trees?
Sophia: Oh that's just a Gary.
Sophia: Oh that's just a Gary.
by Canters December 02, 2011
The most awesome man alive, has no trouble walking down the hallway in boxer shorts. Legendary man you can't help but love.
He is such a Gary.
by HIMforever May 22, 2011
a slang term for extasy
1. got any garies la?
2. can u get gary?
2. can u get gary?
by bleach42 October 27, 2007
A man who is "good people".
"Gary, you are good people."
"Sydney, ...... you're good people."
And then laughter. :D
"Sydney, ...... you're good people."
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Variable responses of hawkmoths to nectar-depleted plants in two native Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae) populations
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Pollination success of deceptive orchids is affected by the density and distribution of nectar providing plant species and overall plant density. Here we extended the framework of how plant density can affect pollination to examine how it may promote the success of plant intraspecific cheaters. We compared hawkmoth behaviour in two native populations of Petunia axillaris, where we simultaneously offered rewarding and manually depleted P. axillaris. We asked whether pollinator foraging strategies change as a function of plant density and whether such changes may differentially affect nectarless plants. We observed the first choice and number of flowers visited by pollinators and found that in the dense population, pollinators visited more flowers on rewarding plants than on nectar-depleted plants. In the sparse population, such discrimination was absent. As we found no differences in nectar volume between plants of the two populations, the observed differences in plant density may be temporal. We reason that if differences were more permanent, an equivalent of the remote habitat hypothesis prevails: in a sparse population, cheating plants benefit from the absence of inter- and intraspecific competitors because pollinators tend to visit all potential resources. In a denser population, a pollinator's optimal foraging strategy involves more selectivity. This would cause between-plant competition for pollinators in a pollinator-limited context, which applies to most hawkmoth-pollinated systems. We propose that nectar-provisioning of plants can be density-dependant, with cheaters able to persist in low density areas.
KeywordsPollination Nectar Density Mutualism Cheating Petunia
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- Variable responses of hawkmoths to nectar-depleted plants in two native Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae) populations
- Journal
Arthropod-Plant Interactions
Volume 5, Issue 2 , pp 141-148
- Cover Date
- 2011-06
- 10.1007/s11829-011-9122-y
- Print ISSN
- 1872-8855
- Online ISSN
- 1872-8847
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Keywords
- Pollination
- Nectar
- Density
- Mutualism
- Cheating
- Petunia
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- Authors
- Anna Brandenburg (1) (2)
- Redouan Bshary (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Institute of Plant Science, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013, Bern, Switzerland
- 2. Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Emile Argand 13, 2009, Neuchâtel, Switzerland


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Ugly Mongrel: Racism and aggressive nationalism
Incidents on public transport… at the football...
Racial violence lurks under the surface of friendly Aussie acceptance. Does it put the multicultural project under threat?
Despite the success of integration, prejudice continues to animate the public conversation. And episodes such as the Cronulla riot of 2005 illustrate that there's a dark side to national pride.
Nevertheless, no society likes to think of itself as bigoted or intolerant, and very few Australians actually believe in racial hierarchies. So, how much of problem is racism in Australia? Some argue that it is most commonly subtle and ambiguous. Others describe it as accidental or casual. Then there are those who say that sensitivities around racism stifle free speech.
Is it the law, or society at large that is best able to limit racism and promote civility? And if you encounter racism as a victim or a witness, what can you do about it?
Tim Soutphommasane: Hello, Tim Soutphommasane here. This week, the ugly side of our Mongrel Nation: racism and aggressive nationalism.
Actuality – Melbourne bus incident
Male passenger: Everyone on the bus wants to kill ya! And you'll have to get off the bus eventually, bitch.! You worked that out yet?!
[Smashing of glass.]
Another male passenger: Close the door and drive off.
Tim Soutphommasane: That was from an incident in Melbourne last November. It all started when a passenger, Fanny Desaintjores, began singing in French while travelling on a suburban bus. The episode does make you wonder: how would you have responded if you were the victim or a witness to this racist abuse? Racism continues to exist in Australian society; the subject still triggers heated debates about discrimination and free speech. But for those who encounter racism first-hand, sometimes the only response is to take a stand.
Jeremy Fernandez: I was taking my 2 year old daughter to day care. I catch the bus all the time.
Tim Soutphommasane: In January 2013, ABC newsreader Jeremy Fernandez came to the defence of his daughter - another child had been harassing her from the seat behind. What he didn't count on was the response of the other child's mother.
Jeremy Fernandez: This woman's temper took off like a shot when I challenged her. And then it expanded out to the racial stuff. And at that point, she went for what she perceived, I think, to be the most shameful aspect of me. I think she looked at me and thought, 'You're brown-skinned. You should be ashamed of that. I'm going to call you by the colour of your skin.' And she swore at me – and I'm going to take that bit out – but she said, 'Why don't you go back to where you came from? Go back to your own country.' And at that point, the moment she uttered those words, I thought, 'I am staying here until the end of my journey; I am not going anywhere.' And there are some days when you think - most days in fact, when you hear those things on the TV, or on the radio, or in person – most days you just let these things pass. It's not worth the trouble to pick a fight over it, or to make a stand on principle. This was not one of those days for me. There was an element of self-respect in it, to stay put and make a stand for my own sense of integrity. And this was a day when I just didn't feel like turning the other cheek and walking away.
Tim Soutphommasane: While such incidents happen every day, they have been attracting more public attention, thanks to mobile phones and YouTube. But how widespread is racial prejudice, discrimination and violence? Is Australia a racist society or not? Professor Kevin Dunn, of the University of Western Sydney, is leading a research project about Australians' attitudes to racism.
Kevin Dunn: Well, our research gets used by people on both sides of the debate. There are those people who use our data to show that Australia is a racist country. And there are those people who use our data to show that it is not. And, of course, Australia is both. There is racism in Australia: we know it because 20 per cent, well 17 per cent in fact tell us they have experienced racism in their workplace. About 27 per cent have experienced race hate talk themselves. And about 86 per cent of Australians, almost 86, would agree that there is racial prejudice in the country as well. So most people acknowledge that. But almost the same figure, about 87 per cent of Australians value cultural diversity – they think cultural diversity is a good thing. And only about 1 in 10 Australians would be racial supremacists, would believe that some races are superior and some are innately inferior.
Tim Soutphommasane: But any notions of racial hierarchies are no longer really current. Today's racism tends to be couched in more cultural terms.
Kevin Dunn: Then there is the so-called new racism, which is more about intolerance of groups and assertions that groups don't fit, or that they're culturally incompatible, or are otherwise alien in some way. And this sort of intolerance is deeply driven by stereotypes and by generalisations which circulate in the media and which you'll hear in social settings and the rest of it.
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Ted Bullpit: Bloody wog! Chucking food all around like it grows on trees! Give us that, you deviated little dago! Just knock it off. Knock it off, Mr Smarty Olive Cruncher. [Laughter] It's all very well for you … Listen, wog, it's all your fault! Barges in here, marries me daughter, drinks me beer … Don't be stupid, wog! There's no other place for the gourmet of Goanna Heights! [Canned laughter and applause] Bloody wog!!/FX
Tim Soutphommasane: Ted Bullpit from the 1980s TV sitcom Kingswood County, getting stuck into his son-in-law Bruno. Sometimes racism doesn't have to be direct or explicit to wound those on the receiving end. According to Ghassan Hage, a professor of anthropology at the University of Melbourne, what's distinctive about racism in Australia is its "tangential" character.
Ghassan Hage: You don't look somebody in the face and say "I'm the superior race; you're the inferior race". No, you kind of like, mutter, 'What are you doing here?', or you make a joke. But what's interesting is you put someone in the position where you're trying to inferiorise them. But at the same time, that person can't say, really, that you are. And that's the reaction I've always picked up from immigrants who came in the '50s and '60s, that they felt racialised but they never had people who were racist to them, in your face. It was kind of like, 'What the hell? I feel strangled here, but there's no one really that I can get hold of to say, "Stop doing this to me".'
Tim Soutphommasane: Earlier this year, one incident highlighted another dimension to racism.
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Reporter: …the Swans celebrating their first MCG win over Collingwood in 13 years. But the victory was overshadowed by an alleged racist taunt involving Goodes in the dying minutes.
Adam Goodes: Yeah, look, I'm pretty gutted to be honest. You know, come to the boundary line and to hear a 13-year-old girl call me an ape./FX
Luke Darcy: …I couldn't think of anything worse I'd like to do.
Eddie Maguire: What a promo that is for King Kong? Get Adam Goodes down for it, you reckon?
Luke Darcy: No, no …
Tim Soutphommasane: If there was something that this revealed, it was that something can be racist even when there's no malicious intent. Accidental or casual racism can still inflict injury. This is because the harm of racism lies in how it belittles someone, how it makes you feel like a second-class citizen. Senator Penny Wong is the Federal Minister for Finance. Born in Malaysia, she moved to Australia when she was eight years old.
Penny Wong: As an adult looking back you tend to conflate a few things. I suspect I conflate in my memory the loss of the sort of food I was used to eating, and the rhythm of life in Malaysia. I found coming here pretty difficult.
Tim Soutphommasane: Did you encounter racism growing up in Australia during the late '70s?
Penny Wong: Of course. Yes, of course I did. Where I went to school was an area where I was the first Asian at the school and I was probably the first Asian that some of the children there would have seen. And, as always, there are a few people who have pretty terrible attitudes. And, unfortunately, they took them out on me.
Tim Soutphommasane: Some people say to complaints about racism or reflections about racism that it's just something that is encountered by all immigrants when they arrive in a country, and that it's a part of life. What would you say to such people to explain what it feels like to be subjected to racism?
Penny Wong: Well, I don't think people should try to diminish what prejudice feels like. And any of us who have been the victim of racial abuse, it's a deeply disrespectful experience and particularly when you're young it's a very confronting experience, which, you know, you have to work through. How do you not internalise it, when people say things which are very hurtful?
Tim Soutphommasane: As a teenager growing up in Queensland during the 1990s, writer Benjamin Law certainly had to work through questions of race and identity.
Benjamin Law: I was in high school at the time and there would be One Nation cars that would come to school, because the parents of children at our school were One Nation candidates or huge One Nation supporters. And I remember it really changed the tone of conversations in the schoolyard at the time. So, like, I was one of very few Asians at my school and one of very few Asians students in my year level, and so I would bring this up in conversation at school and say, 'Well, when Pauline Hanson talks about Asians forming ghettos, and not assimilating, she means people like me, she means people like my family.' And they'd look at me baffled as if seeing me for the first time. They said, almost as consolation, 'Oh, don't be silly, Ben. We don't see you as Asian.' And at the time, because I was just a teenager, you sort of weirdly, perversely take that as a compliment – that they don't see you like all the other Asians. But then later you think, well, if you don't see me as Asian, which I clearly and obviously am, what do you see me as? You can't see me as…Latino, can you? So it did definitely - that rise - it gave people a shift in consciousness, the way they talked about race. And in a much more brutal way I saw family friends of mine bashed up, in situations that you could very clearly label race hate crimes.
Tim Soutphommasane: On RN this is Mongrel Nation - the story of Australian multiculturalism. I'm Tim Soutphommasane. This episode: racism and nationalism.
Racism in Australia has moved on, in some respects. Since September 11, 2001, there has been one group of Australians who now feel they are the likeliest targets of racism. Sahar Dandan is a consultant with the Lebanese Muslim Association in Sydney.
Sahar Dandan: When you hear Muslim, you hear terrorist. You see a religion that you disagree with. You see women that are oppressed. So all these stereotypes and all these images that you are bombarded with, you know you see us as terrorists, it's very hard to overcome that, and I can understand that there is almost this brainwashing of the non-Muslim community with painting all Muslims with the same brush. That's not only unjust but it's not going to contribute to an inclusive community. And as soon as we see Muslims as 'the other', we've now put a barrier between us to communicate.
Tim Soutphommasane: These stereotypes of Muslims, is this something you detect when you go out with your family when you go out to public places and spaces?
Sahar Dandan: Yes, definitely. People take a look at you, observe you from a distance, and then they start whispering or you know they just – you get this feeling. It's never something concrete. You know, I get on a bus and the bus driver starts speaking louder to me, for instance, because obviously he thinks I can't speak English. But I don't understand the loudness. It's just, like, I need a bus ticket. So it's interesting, I haven't had that many incidents where it's been directed at me personally, but there's been a few and they've been very confronting for me because I don't identify myself as 'the other'. I just identify myself as myself.
Tim Soutphommasane: Do you find that there's a different dynamic when you're in a group? When you're in a group with larger numbers, say, when you're with your extended family somewhere? Is there a different vibe that you detect?
Sahar Dandan: Definitely. There's almost like a fear that you're now this huge number of people. We used to have picnics with hundreds of people, simply because I come from a large family and we used to be at Balmoral beach, at Mosman, because we lived on the north shore of Sydney. So we would go to these parks for picnics or whatever and you could see that people were fearful, that their kids were kind of huddled closer to them. They would try to be as far away from us as possible. I mean, I don't know if it's the huge number or whether or not it was because we had headscarves on, but there was that issue and it was pretty consistent. So you saw it consistently, throughout all the places we used to hang out as a family.
Tim Soutphommasane: It's not only in public places where anxieties about Muslims are rehearsed. It's also done in the privacy of living rooms and backyards; often, very nice living rooms and backyards. Social researcher, Rebecca Huntley.
Rebecca Huntley: I've had concerns voiced to me in very wealthy, leafy suburbs of many cities in Australia. They just say it differently.
Tim Soutphommasane: How is it different?
Rebecca Huntley: Well, I'll give you an example. I was in a group last year – wealthy, educated women who were in a book club in Canberra. Beautiful house. And they were talking about the fact that there was going to be a mosque built quite close to them, just a couple of streets away. And they were all very concerned. And one woman said, 'You know, it would be so much nicer if it was a Buddhist temple because the Buddhists are known for being quiet and lovely and peaceful people, whereas the Muslims tend to be violent.' Anyway, the next week, I was in a group in Mount Druitt, in Sydney's western suburbs. A lot of guys, tradies, very similar discussion but it was like, 'They're going to build an f-ing Islamic school down the road; bloody towel-heads; bloody terrorists.' But interestingly the conversation turned. One guy said, 'Do you want to send your kid there?' And he went, 'Nah!' 'So why do you care if they're building a school and what's the difference with the Catholics, who wouldn't let us go to their school when we were kids?' 'I suppose you're right.'
Tim Soutphommasane: Any survey of racism, though, reveals that one group experiences it in a systemic way, distinct from immigrant communities. Leanne Townsend is the CEO of the New South Wales Reconciliation Council.
Leanne Townsend: A way of looking at it is institutionally, so when you talk about schooling systems, when you talk about health systems, then you can have an indirect experience where people who are employed within those structures don't really have the skill or understanding of how to work effectively with other cultures, including with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. And I know because I've experienced this myself. One of the school teachers I had in class, for example, automatically put me into the reading group for the remedial readers. Because she made the assumption that I wouldn't be able to read as well as other young people in the classroom, without testing that ability. So, having some of those assumptions and stereotypes, impacting without that person understanding that. And then there's the direct experience of racism, which is the sort of people who are calling you names, who are actively precluding you from being able to have the freedoms or rights that other people may have, based on something that you can't change.
Tim Soutphommasane: There does exist a legal framework for combating racism. The Racial Discrimination Act has been in force since 1975. Since 1995, its scope has extended to racial vilification. The Act makes it unlawful to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or group of people on the grounds of race, colour or ethnic origin. But what is the relationship between multiculturalism and racial discrimination legislation? David Rolph is associate professor at the University of Sydney Law Faculty. He says there is a relationship.
David Rolph: Yes, and in some of the judgements and in some of the extrinsic materials, you do see a quite overt recognition of that. And so, if we have a multicultural society as we do, and you know one of the ways that multiculturalism has to operate is to ensure a level of civility in public debate and discourse. If that doesn't actually occur naturally, then the law might be needed to intervene – to ensure there is that level of amity and civility.
Tim Soutphommasane: But some believe that such regulation of civility goes too far. In 2011, such concern gained a new focus in the form of Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt, who was found to have breached the Act. Bolt had written that some "fair-skinned Aboriginal people" were motivated to identify as indigenous in order to advance their professional careers.
Andrew Bolt (archival 2011): This is a terrible day for free speech in this country. It is particularly a restriction on the freedom of all Australians to discuss multiculturalism and how people identify themselves.
Tim Soutphommasane: Andrew Bolt after the Federal Court's ruling in his case. Not everyone is convinced that legislation is necessary.
Nick Cater: It seems to me that almost every case of unpleasant racist behaviour can be dealt with by some other statute, or even better by some social sanction.
Tim Soutphommasane: Nick Cater is the chief opinion editor of The Australian newspaper.
Nick Cater: I think we need to almost de-stigmatise racism and just think of it as another form of impolite boorish behaviour. When someone says something that's out of line, there are usually things in the social structure that bring them back into check. You know if you've given an off joke, you know it. I mean, you can do it to the Irish and sometimes they can get very jumpy, and you think probably I shouldn't have made that joke. So I think it's the level at which that should occur. The idea of diagnosing this sort of almost pathological condition of racism, I think is an over-reaction. Many of us, all of us, if we think about it, have got our own little prejudices. But racism is absolute condemnation of somebody's moral character and I think that's going too far.
Tim Soutphommasane: When do you think someone is no longer entitled to the benefit of the doubt? I mean, when do they cross the line and enter into territory that is distinctively uncivil and which merits the description of 'racist'?
Nick Cater: Well, I think you've got to get into white supremacist territory or the equivalent on the other side. Which is there. Now let's not blind ourselves to that. You know, within some of our own ethnic communities there's a deep racial hatred, if not for white people, then for one another. So it can be there. But it's really got to cross over into quite violent, quite nasty activity, and that really is very, very rare in Australian society.
Tim Soutphommasane: Others agree that the charge of racism is used to shut down any criticism of multiculturalism and immigration. According to sociologist Katherine Betts, it reflects a political correctness among university-educated social elites.
Katherine Betts: Probably this is, for many, it's a sincerely held belief. But it's also the kind of belief that if you don't endorse it in the circles in which they – and I – move, can cause people to raise eyebrows. So that's what political correctness, when it's been criticised, is about: conforming to appropriate ideas that are endorsed by the people in the social circle in which you move. So that's what I mean when I say that certain attitudes towards multiculturalism and towards the immigration program have ideological aspects to them. They serve as a badge of belonging.
Tim Soutphommasane: This dimension of political correctness and its relationship with multiculturalism – do you think political correctness has stifled debate about immigration in recent decades?
Katherine Betts: Oh, certainly it has, certainly it has. It's still very hard to talk about it. I mean, if you look at the way this debate about the level of the 457 visas and whether or not Australians are missing out on jobs because of the 457 visas, immediately when that topic is raised, it produces accusations of racism and dog-whistling. People say, 'Oh, my goodness me, we've found another racist, we've found a whole pack of them.' This is not very helpful.
Tim Soutphommasane: Going back to the racial discrimination legislation. Is it helpful to regulate speech concerning race? Does it stop people from speaking their mind? Well, critics don't always mention that current laws do in fact provide an exemption based on free speech. That's to say, you can still say things that may offend and insult. You just need to be able to defend it as being in the public interest and in good faith. In the case of Andrew Bolt, it was the good faith that was missing.
You're listening to Mongrel Nation - the story of Australian multiculturalism. Tim Soutphommasane with you on RN.
The Bolt case did underscore one thing. Eliminating prejudice and discrimination can't be done by legislation alone - it's ultimately a test for citizens and society. And in recent times, the test has grown sterner. Because racism today has about it a new potency – that of aggressive nationalism.
Cronulla actuality (archival 2005):
Man: Anyone can come down here, I mean, we let anyone come down here. But once they start acting like idiots, we'll get together and say, 'Get away.'
Another man: Like seriously, how do we know that they're not going to gather up every Saturday or Sunday? How can we feel safe to go there?
Another man: This is the best day I've ever seen in Cronulla in the five years I've lived here.
Tim Soutphommasane: By accident, cartoonist Pat Grant found himself in Cronulla on the afternoon of the riot, which took place there in December 2005.
Pat Grant: At that stage it felt like an Australia Day picnic. It was so, sort of, calm and benign that we thought, we were like, 'Oh, this must be some kind of regular thing down here. This must be some event.' And so, there'd be a bunch of kids who looked like they were of uni student age, sitting on a blanket, eating cheese and drinking beer. And then you sort of sit down and ask them, [they say] things like, 'We just want to come down and show who we are. You know, the Lebanese and all that, they fly their flags on their cars and stuff like that. We're here to fly our flag.' It seemed harmless to me at the time. It seemed like an Australian pride picnic. If they want to do that, then that's fine. Not my thing.
And then we're walking south and then somebody handed us stickers. And they were printed on fluoro coloured paper, just cheap sticker paper and the person who had handed us these stickers was clearly from an organised racist group. You know, the sticker I got handed said, 'The White Race: Australia's Most Endangered Species. Let's preserve it.'
Things are starting to get a bit more uncomfortable and the key moment for me was when I looked around and I realised that, oh no, everyone's drunk. Like, these carefully worded platitudes that I had heard maybe an hour and a half earlier had suddenly become overtly racist, drunk expressions. Then, we were like, 'OK, this is getting ugly.'
Thinking about all that stuff in retrospect, you have a small community, who are very good at defending their local turf. And for this fleeting moment, these few hours in an afternoon, the battle for the local suddenly shouted out into the national debate. And the battle for the beach that day became the battle for Australia. And that's why that particular event has changed the discussion. And a lot of people sat up and had a look at what happened at Cronulla that day and went, 'OK, we need to talk about Australian-ness, we need to talk about what that means and who has claim to it and who doesn't.'
Tim Soutphommasane: The Cronulla Riot did, of course, illustrate the dark side of national pride. Yet loving your country doesn't have to mean beating your breast or telling others to love it or leave it. If you are to consider patriotism a virtue, not a vice, then maybe it also entails responsibilities to your fellow citizens. Not least, when it concerns racism. Senator Penny Wong.
Penny Wong: We need to remember, all of us, that if we are silent in the face of prejudice, we participate in it. As an ethical decision, a decision not to do something is as value-laden as a decision to do something. So if we stand by and watch somebody be abused, and don't respond in some way, we are actually participating in it. Some people might say that sounds like a hard line – I'm certainly not suggesting that people put themselves at risk, but I don't think we should close our eyes to the ethical content of a decision to ignore someone being abused in a public place.
Tim Soutphommasane: Practically speaking, what can you do when racism happens? Professor Kevin Dunn.
Kevin Dunn: Well first of all, Tim, if you are a witness to racism, you ought think very carefully and quickly about what you feel safe doing. But you don't have to confront in an aggressive way the protagonist. There are all sorts of other things you can do. As many people are doing, you can record the incident. That is a form of action. You can report the incident. So get on the phone and ring someone in authority, ring the transit police, whatever the case may be. You can wait until after the incident and then show empathy to the victim – make it clear that you don't agree with the protagonist. You can just stand up, walk, and stand in between the protagonist and the victim, and do nothing else but just be in the way. You can support other people who get up and make that declarative statement. So there's a whole range of things that people can do. It's about what you feel comfortable doing, and it's about knowing what you can do.
Tim Soutphommasane: Debating racism will always be difficult. After all, no society likes to think itself as bigoted or intolerant. For the most part, Australia does well: we have proven ourselves to be an accepting and tolerant society. But racism does exist, and there is a new troubling edge. Any multicultural achievement, then, remains incomplete. We have come a long way, but there is still some way to go.
I'm Tim Soutphommasane. Mongrel Nation is produced by Amanda Smith. And you can stream or download this program from the RN website. Next week on Mongrel Nation, the very literal task of nation-building: the challenge of a Big Australia.
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Comments (12)
Martin :
28 Jul 2013 6:08:09pm
i welcome people of others races and cultures. i am one myself. what i find intolerable is the Americanisation of our language and culture. is this wrong for me to feel this way! should i welcome the twang in the accents of teenagers and the redefining of our language and customs. am i xenophobic for wanting to preserve the individual Australian identity which I have come to love. the French are known for their liberal attitudes, yet they protect their language and culture by law. are they ignorant bigots, or are they patriots who preserve their culture while welcoming the diversity from others. maybe this is material for another program.
Pamela :
29 Jul 2013 5:07:33pm
We already have our own Aussie nasal 'twang' which is rather cringe-worthy and downright embarrassing.
28 Jul 2013 6:51:43pm
As a colonial settler nation, Australia is probably slightly more racist than 'non-colonial' nations. However, the real problem in Australia in recent times is not the fairly common underlying racism, it is the stirring up of racism for political gain by those in the highest offices in the land. John Howard put us on this diabolical path.
Barry :
29 Jul 2013 11:01:53am
Certainly agree. Even applying for jobs if you have a accent or foreign sounding name you have less of a chance of getting a interview let alone a job.
Doesnt matter how much study or qualifications you have you are put at the bottom of the list.
Adam :
29 Jul 2013 10:40:29am
Unfortunately racist incidents are becoming more common nowdays. Mt wife was racially abused twice in approx three years in public areas for no apparent reason than the colur of her skin.
Both time the language used was filthy,loud, racist and threatening and on both occasions people just walked by and said nothing. I have talked to other newer migrants to this country who have also experienced these sort of incidents.
Pamela :
29 Jul 2013 4:47:31pm
I'm a descendent of people from Scotland and Ireland who came here in the 1800's but unlike so many others in this racist country, I still don't consider myself a 'true' Australian as I have white skin. True Australians do not. I have no time for jingoists.
However, at the risk of this sounding like one of those 'I'm not racist but…' people; Moslems are not a race; it is a religion. You might as well be saying 'Catholics'. Exactly where on the map would I find 'Moslemia'? The problem is violent religions that call for beheadings and 'Death to the Infidels'. Call it 'religionist' if you like but it is not racism.
Jan :
30 Jul 2013 7:39:00am
A interesting area of reading is
"Sectarianism in Australia." Many of the racist things said about newer migrants echo many of the things said about Irish Catholics in the past. Its very sad that nothing changes in peoples attitudes towards newer Australians.
jane :
12 Aug 2013 1:53:39pm
@ Pamela - 'I still don't consider myself a 'true' Australian as I have white skin. True Australians do not.'
So, just to be clear, you're saying that to be a true Australian you must have skin of a particular colour? Isn't that a bit racist?
I don't think that the way to foster a more accepting and inclusive society includes limiting national identity to one racial group or another. If we're ever going to move past this nation-of-tribes mentality that plagues Australia now, we're going to need to embrace national identity in the same way that the Scottish National Party (SNP) does.
That is, seeing it as a cultural and social phenomenon that is completely separate from race or ethnicity.
Standard issue Australian multiculturalist policies(as prescribed by Castles, Cope, Kalantzis etc) reinforce the mistaken notion that race, culture and nationality are identical and unchanging - and will be for countless generations into the future. Most of the issues identified with multiculturalism in Australia have more to do with this fundamental flaw in the philosophy than anything to do with the supposed wide-spread racism of 'white' society.
Monica :
30 Jul 2013 11:40:45pm
I was born in Uruguay and have been here since 1969. I don't begrudge anybody else that comes to this beautiful country. However, people, including myself, fear certain races or religions (if you prefer). Fears that possibly stem from the recent spate of drive-by & revenge shootings, the perceived oppression of women (that flies in the face of women who have been fighting for equality since the 1960's), terrorism, the threat of the possibility of sharia law being imposed on us in the distant future etc etc. It's easy to dismiss all this as generalising and say "Oh you're being racist". To be politically correct one shouldn't even say these things. But these are REAL fears. Why aren't these fears being addressed? Stifling these feelings from being expressed & discussed in the name of political correctness does not help people to understand & accept.
Joseph :
02 Aug 2013 1:48:33pm
Racism has been so much of Australian history. The white Australia policy finished in 1972 but attitudes didnt change in certain sectors of society.
Qiwi :
13 Aug 2013 7:32:23am
I have fair to tan skin, of mixed Polynesian and White background, tall but medium build.
I have lived in New Zealand and Europe and travelled extensively around the world for work, pleasure, family and friends.
I am no poster boy for the non-White cause (if there is such a thing) but I have never experienced the kind of aggressive and blunt racism I have here, and, often in the most unexpected situations (e.g. indie music festivals, walking down main streets with my non-White, tan skinned wife). It has stuck me to the core. I don't think I'll ever love this country (how can something you love treat you so badly). It makes me feel like a 'weather' and economic refugee.
I've racked my brain for reasons. The generational legacy of the White Australia policy - apartheid in drag - is the main one. The Australian love of the outlaw and disdain for formality (and the class, hierarchy and staid civility that can mean). The Australian obsession with competition and winning at all costs. The harsh, unforgiving nature of the environment. The absence from or tokenism of the Indigenous in popular culture and everyday life (and lack of sheer numbers of Aborigines and their multiplicity preventing a united front). The large, open spaces and distances - on the edge of civilisation. The 20+ years of economic growth and 'not wanting to share' - 'drawing up the draw-bridge'.
'Mateship' supposedly rounds off these hard edges. It hasn't for me. Skip across the Tasman if you want to actually experience real ANZAC, Indigenous and multicultural friendship. Or maybe just visit the Australian periphery of the small, SA, Tas, etc.
It's only going to get better in this Asian century, but I'm afraid I probably don't have the patience to wait. I'm going to mine I can from this country and get the hell out.
The tragedy is that we're not allowed to call it out, loudly, for what it is. I nation of Whites thrashing about senselessly while the non-White world floods, drowns and overtakes them.
It's not gonna stop, until you wise up.
John :
13 Aug 2013 2:16:34pm
Qiwi@. Certainly agree with everything you say. You only have to scratch the surface in Australia and the racism and agressive behaviour comes to the surface. What always seems bizarre to me is how politicians and media harp on how unracist and caring Australia is. Maybe they should get out into the suburbs and cities of Australia and see the amount of bigoted fools that are around.


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Dr. A. Carlo Guadagno and his energetic staff at West Kendall Chiropractic Center realign spines with manual manipulations, the Graston technique, and advanced equipment, demonstrating an attention to detail that earned Dr. Guadagno the Bradley Timpf Award for Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year. During each chiropractic exam, West Kendall's team consults with patients about aches and pains in English, Spanish, or Italian before helping adjust herniated discs. Along with adjustments, the crew also provide clients with BMI assessments to determine organ function, along with sport-injury treatments that help improve performance—including MRT, Graston, and Kinesiology taping.


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A senior stylist at Hair Co, Miss Meyer was judged first out
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If Miss Meyer wins there she could be off to Brazil to
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Originally from Roxburgh, Miss Meyer tried out hairdressing
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She did her apprenticeship at Hair Co in Mosgiel and five
years later she is still there working as a senior stylist.
Hair Co owner Jan Gow was delighted Miss Meyer had done so
well and supported her 100%.
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Switch + Andrea Martin – I Still Love You (Star One Remix)
Star One is a DJ and Producer from the Kent/London area of the Uk and is very infulenced by the UKG and Bassline genre's of music and this comes across intheir mixes, remix's and bootlegs.
There isnt much o know about Star One at the minute but i am hoping to hear more from them and i am guarenteed you will hear some more work from these guys soon, here on KB Promotions.
Hopefully even getting an interview from them, exclusive for you KBP followers.
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GARDEN GUY: Effective composting
Ihave been trying for years to compost. It's not working. It usually takes too long, sometimes it smells and I never get a nice product like you buy in the packages. I even went to a workshop and received a large black bin to do my composting. Even that doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?
There are a few important principles to know about composting that will make life a little easier.
By following some simple rules, you can speed up the processing time and produce good compost in one month to six weeks. Some 'experts' can even turn a pile of garden waste into nice compost in as little as 14 days.
Here are the points:
• Correct moisture and air (oxygen) content: Compost works best if the moisture content of the materials is about 50 percent. That's not easy to measure, but it has been estimated to be about the moisture content of a wrung-out sponge. If the material is too dry, decomposition will stop; if too wet, oxygen is excluded and decomposition will slow and odors will be produced.
• Proper carbon/nitrogen ratio: For effective composting, the raw materials must have a proper carbon/nitrogen ratio — set at about 30:1. Since this cannot be easily measured, experience has shown mixing equal volumes of green plant material with equal volumes of brown plant material will give this ratio. The greens are fresh moist materials such as grass clippings, weeds, manures and kitchen scraps. The browns are dry materials such as twigs, wood chips, straw, saw dust and paper. If a pile of twigs are thrown to the side, they will eventually decompose. But when leaves (greens) are combined with the twigs (browns) in the proper ratios, the organic matter will decompose more quickly.
Mixing something such as grass clippings with twigs or chips is not only good for obtaining the proper ratio, but also helps maintain a good oxygen level. Grass clippings alone (shredded paper, too) tend to mat and exclude oxygen. Adding twigs helps open the pile, allowing a better movement of air.
• Proper size of material: Soft, succulent plant tissue doesn't need to be chopped into small pieces because it will decompose rapidly. However, the harder to decompose woody materials will compost best if pieces are 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches in size — the smaller the pieces the quicker the decomposition.
• Proper pile size: The size of the compost pile is important. The minimal size is 3 cubic feet (3-by-3-by-3). Maximum size would be about 5-by-5 and as long as you want it.
• Proper turning: Turning the pile is not required, but will certainly speed up the process; turn any time from every day to every 10 days. Turning helps ensure proper air circulation, moisture and heat distribution.
Finally, here's how to know when the composting is finished: when the majority of the pile has become dark, loose, crumbly and sweet smelling. Also, the original ingredients will not be recognizable with the exception of a few pieces of tough woody material.
Composting is a good way to reuse our natural resources, recycle nutrients and add good organic matter back into the soil.
Hi, Dr. Sakovich. First, thank you for your informative articles. Kudos to the person who developed and shared the carpenter bee trap. It works well and has prevented further borings into the woodwork of my home.
Quick note
Just an early note to mark your calendar for 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. I will be teaching a gardening class at the University of Hawaii campus titled "General Care of Backyard Citrus and Avocado."
Call CCECS at 974-7664 to reserve a seat.
Hilo resident Nick Sakovich is a professor emeritus of the University of California. He has worked in the field of agriculture for 30 years. Email your questions to Sakovich at askthegarden email@example.com. You also can visit his website at www.gardenguyhawaii.com.
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I've just finished a new PC build using a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ motherboard and SATA DVDROM and HDD.
I've set up the bios to use the following boot order:
I know that the CDROM drive is connected properly and working, since I can boot from it if the HDD is disconnected. But when the hard drive is connected, the HDD boots first. It's driving me nuts, the boot order is set properly-- why would it not boot from the CDROM?
Other points:
the boot preferences / order are being saved in the BIOS so I don't think it's anything obvious like the battery being dead or settings are not saving.
Hitting F12 on reboot and manually selecting the CDROM as first boot still results in HDD boot
I've double checked that the CDROM is plugged into SATA port 0, and the HDD is in port 1, since some posts have said that the SATA boot order will follow the port number by default
Even after setting boot order as CDROM DISABLED DISABLED (so nothing should be booting except CDROM) the same issue occurs and HDD boots.