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Will I find bills or a check when I open my post office box in about two hours from now? Maybe I will find both.

best of luck
we tended to get a gratuitous payment, way back huh

 

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NASTY DABG CRITTERS,APPARENTLY HA
BUT THEN I HATE BSTS/RATS SO
MEBEEE JUST ME DUH
be bloody wortse/much worse than the tragic
ding took my baby

Wolverine Captured on Yellowstone Trail Cameras for the First Time | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

 

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The 'Godzilla vs. Kong' Trailer Teases the Big Monster Fight of the Century
Everyone's favorite oversized beasts are facing off in what looks like an extremely epic battle.


apparently

 

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How the Second 'Euphoria' Special Sets Up Season 2
The standalone episode was written by

Queen bee shortage leaves beekeepers in Australia struggling to rebuild hives
Beekeepers are battling to secure the much-needed queens that are vital for each hive's honey production.

and

 

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a virgin network AUSTRALIA
enjoy the day of freedom,bacjk tio State PM dictatorship tomortrow

 

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Australia’s Growing Camel Meat Trade
Most Australians come from cuisines unused to camel meat. But around the world, camel meat is dinner. In Morocco, it’s stewed into fragrant tagines. In Cairo, diners will pay a premium for the animal’s delicate fat. In Somali neighborhoods of the American Midwest, camel burgers offer a taste of home. Now, for a large lobby of Australian environmentalists, activists, and entrepreneurs, eating camel offers a solution to a major environmental problem.
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about time,been such a waste,grrrr

 

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You may need to start wearing better face masks

(Image: © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

New coronavirus variants spread more easily than earlier versions of the virus. That means you may need to upgrade your face mask, experts say.

What does that mean? Many experts are recommending people wear fitted surgical masks, a cloth mask over a surgical mask, multi-layer cloth masks with a non-woven filter, or a well-fitted N95 mask.


a year later thats suggested huh
pathetic
"A surgical mask is better than a cloth mask, a tight-fitting

 

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BRIEFING



NZ, Vietnam top list of countries with best responses to the pandemic
New analysis has found that New Zealand has handled the coronavirus pandemic more effectively than any other country in the world.

NZ, Vietnam top list of countries with best responses to the pandemic


general feeling
well,my feeling,means nothing
if the world concentrated on whats best for everyone re that shit,we may have all been better off
to hell with continual human competitiveness

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.




The Australia-NZ travel bubble looks 'increasingly difficult', but individual states could have their own two-way arrangements

DAVID ADAMS
JAN 27, 2021

James D. Morgan/Getty Images

• Two-way, quarantine-free travel between Australia and New Zealand may operate on a “state-by-state” basis, NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
• She said free travel looks “increasingly difficult at a country-by-country level,” given Australia’s recent suspension of existing arrangements after a new case of COVID-19 was detected in the NZ community.
• Ardern has previously indicated that a two-way travel arrangement could be in place by the end of March this year.
• Visit Business Insider Australia’s homepage for more stories.

The long-awaited travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand may operate on a state-by-state basis, says NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has conceded that all of Australia opening to two-way, quarantine-free travel looks “increasingly difficult.”

The Australia-NZ travel bubble looks 'increasingly difficult', but individual states could have their own two-way arrangements

2 countries,supposedly the best at handling the CV SHIT
1st and 8th,yet this

 

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A MOTHER
AND HER TWO TEENAGE SONS,UNSCRUPULOUS L/LS,APPARENTLY
sad

UNRELATED,to the below,this being in london

ABC National Rural News - Thursday Email Update


Overfishing blamed for 'alarming' decline in sharks
Researchers say an elevated extinction risk to sharks jeopardises the health of oceans as well as food security in many nations.

Gap year turns into Kimberley adventure for Tasmanian ringer Emily Hirst
Tasmanian Emily Hirst's gap year in WA started three years ago and now her passion for the outback – which she spends countless hours traversing on horseback – is unbridled.

US President Joe Biden pauses oil and gas leases, cuts subsidies in 'bold' climate steps
The new president signs a raft of executive actions to combat climate change as he pursues green policies.

Protect your dog from canine ehrlichiosis, a new deadly disease outbreak
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, another life-threatening disease has emerged and it's killing untold numbers of dogs.

Fruit and vegetable price volatility like the stock market
The price of ginger has tripled but tomatoes have more than halved in cost, shocking a Melbourne wholesaler.

Teen notches up back-to-back wins at national cattle camp
Georgia Perkins, 17, has amassed plenty of ribbons over the years and now she's won enough animals to start her own stud.

The 'touch and go' race to eradicate a cattle-killer
It was "touch and go", but scientists have managed to control a weed deadly to cattle that threatened to run rampant in WA.

 

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as mentioned
was seveeal years when NAT GEO NZ refused to allow copy/paste sharing,of info,grrr
even tho they toook grom othes'
seemed to have a massive change of heart last year in particular,when mostly kiwi kids were in lockdown'made daily free things
kept it going since
GREAT,GOOD ON THEM


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A summer of walking
For the first time, New Zealanders outnumber international visitors walking Te Araroa, the track that runs the length of the country. Many will have started in October in order to complete the track before winter, while Queenstown nurse Brooke Thomas just broke the women's record for running the entire track.

Two years ago, we followed a New Zealand family walking the track. They lived outdoors for five months and covered an average of 20 kilometres a day. For nine-year-old Elizabeth and six-year-old Johnny, it was an immersive education—a form of learning increasingly absent from the lives of young New Zealanders, even as international research affirms the importance of children spending time in nature. Keep reading...

Fairy terns struggle over summer
Just a handful of fairy tern/tara iti chicks are set to join the adult population of around 40 birds after this summer's breeding season.

The fairy tern has got everything going against it: weather, cats, its own DNA, and the fact that humans love the white-sand beaches where it raises its young.

Only a small group of people, many of them volunteers, stand between it and oblivion. What will we lose if it vanishes altogether?

(Yes, there's fairy tern chick in the picture above.) Keep reading...

What have we got against gulls?
Earlier this month, a group of four-wheel drivers and motorcyclists rode through a colony of tarāpuka/black-billed gulls nesting on a north Canterbury riverbed. Tarāpuka are the rarest gulls in the world, more endangered than the takahē, the hoiho, and all five species of kiwi.

When New Zealand Geographic journalist Bill Morris visited the Hakatere River near Ashburton, he found a thriving colony of tarāpuka, as well as pied stilts, wrybills, pied oystercatchers and banded dotterels.

"There are few places in New Zealand where this kind of abundance and diversity is found in such a small area," he writes. "The area is, of course, highly protected, closely monitored and off-limits to most human activity. Right? Well, no." Keep reading.

 

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Best fitness tracker: Hit your health goals and sleep better with these picks


sounds sensible
once there was freedom of choioce,afbd health

 

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NEWS
Conversation Hearts Will Feature Song Lyrics This Valentine's Day

heres hoping ya'all get off your arse/ass USA and spend heaps on another copmmercialized bullshit holliday

what we as humankinmd have deterioated imnto huh,duh

 

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For better coffee, start with fewer beans

A new study flips the traditional technique on its head.

coff,not my thing but wt

 

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The Highest-Res Snowflake Photos Ever, A Shipwreck of 'Ancient Treasures,' Pompeii's Museum Reopens and More

1/31/2021 Weekend Newsletter

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These Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken of Snowflakes
Photographer and scientist Nathan Myhrvold has developed a camera that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before

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"Yellowknife Flurry," a photograph by Nathan Myhrvold, captures the intricate structure of snowflakes. (Nathan Myhrvold / Modernist Cuisine Gallery, LLC)

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Trove of 'Ancient Treasures' Found in Shipwreck Off the Coast of Greece
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How the Rugged F4F Wildcat Held the Line During World War II
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What One Covid-19 Cluster on an Airplane Tells Experts About Risk Factors While Flying
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Inscription Offers Earliest Evidence of Christianity in Israel's Jezreel Valley
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Ancient South American Civilizations Bloomed in the Desert Thanks to Seabird Poop
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Petite Portrait of Henry III, King Who Challenged Sexual Norms in 16th-Century France, Discovered
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Meet the Soil Scientists Using Dirt to Make Stunning Paints
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Human-Sized Maya Mask Found in Mexico
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Felines May Use Catnip for More Than Just Euphoria
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Stunningly Well-Preserved Elizabethan Garden Discovered in England
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Archaeologists Identify Famed Fort Where Indigenous Tlingits Fought Russian Forces
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ive never ever thought Aus economy would suffer'just spend more on exporting minerals and all else
good for bthem

Suddenly Australia's economy is looking good


Academic rigour, journalistic flair

Six months ago the forecasting team assembled by The Conversation was predicting economic Armageddon – a second straight year of continuous recession.

This morning the same forecasting team is optimistic. Instead of collapsing a further 4.6% as expected in July, the Australian economy is expected to grow a respectable 3.2% in 2021.

House prices, the share market and consumer spending are expected to climb and while the unemployment rate might not fall, in the view of most of the panel, it’ll get no worse.

The bad news, along with lacklustre business investment, is an earlier-than-signalled rise in interest rates. Most of the panel expect an increase before the end of next year, earlier than the three years the Reserve Bank suggested it would wait.

The Reserve Bank governor himself will set out his thinking at the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Before that, today at the Press Club, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will set out his priorities one day ahead of the opening of parliament on Tuesday.

Things are getting under way.

Peter Martin

Section Editor, Business and Economy

Today's newsletter supported by Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

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A little ray of sunshine as 2021 economic survey points to brighter times ahead
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

The Conversation's panel expects a rate hike by the end of 2022.

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Perth’s 5-day ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown isn’t an overreaction to a single case — it’s basic common sense
Erin Smith, Edith Cowan University

Perth and surrounds will spend the next five days in lockdown, as authorities scramble to prevent a single case – a quarantine hotel security worker – from escalating into a full-blown COVID cluster.

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Morrison to announce $1.9 billion for vaccine rollout, as Coalition and Labor level in Newspoll
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

Scott Morrison on Monday will announce a $1.9 billion initial investment in the massive vaccine rollout which is due to start in late February.

NASA
Apes, robots and men: the life and death of the first space chimp
Alice Gorman, Flinders University

The strange journey of Ham the chimpanzee from a rainforest in Cameroon to the edge of space.

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We analysed almost 500,000 police reports of domestic violence. Mental health was an issue
George Karystianis, UNSW; Tony Butler, UNSW

We discovered many more mental health issues were recorded for both victims and perpetrators of domestic violence than we thought. Now it's time to use our findings to improve public safety.


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Remote learning didn’t affect most NSW primary students in our study academically. But well-being suffered
Jenny Gore, University of Newcastle; Andrew Miller, University of Newcastle; Jess Harris, University of Newcastle; Leanne Fray, University of Newcastle

We compared the educational progress in years 3 and 4 in 2019 with 2020 – the year normal schooling was disrupted by the pandemic. Overall, students progressed at the same rate in both years.

Health + Medicine

 

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Miserable, anxious, depressed / How guide dogs are faring in the pandemic
Amid statewide lockdowns, their daily activities have been put on hold – and their owners fear they won’t recover from it

 

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boooo

 

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times have changed from our greasy boilups
cabbage/brisket/potatoeshuh ha
however,it was taste,not western quantity
quite funny how life/food/living,pans out,mjost timkrs
often feel,its pre-destined huh


in other words
you/we,got no say in any matters

The Guide to Modern Māori Cooking
Few cookbooks kick off with the creation of the universe. Yet that’s where Monique Fiso begins Hiakai, a groundbreaking new book on Māori cuisine. Hiakai means ‘hungry’ or a craving to eat, and it’s the name of both Fiso’s cookbook and her popular restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand. Hiakai is a field guide, a vivid culinary history of Aotearoa (the name that New Zealand’s original inhabitants gave to their homeland), and the first haute-cuisine cookbook devoted to Māori food.
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Around the World in 105 Cows
While Werner Lampert was living on an alpine pasture, he discovered that cows have an insatiable appetite for, among many things, poetry. According to Lampert, cows and humans share a special relationship. That’s why he partnered with a team of photographers to journey around the globe documenting the many breeds of cattle that populate the planet, as well as the humans who look after them, work with them, worship them, and eat them.
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