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Matthew is a 90 year old guy from Geelong, VIC, Australia

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The Food-Mood Solution

Rated Dec 05 • 1 review • health, mood disorders, nutrition, diet, anger • foodmoodsolution.com

Well reasoned analysis of the contribution of diet in mood and personality disorders
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http://photography-by-ashley.blogspot.com/

Rated Nov 29 • 2 reviews • photography, photos, children • blogrolling.com

random blog photo
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Warrior Women - Mulan 1

Rated Nov 29 • 1 review • history, warriors, women, war, china • youtube.com

Dramatic tv, blurry history. Story of Hua Mulan, mythical female warrior from China of 18th century, who eventually led a uprising of 100,000 soldiers. Her martial arts skills were honed as a street performer, her taste of inequity as the beggar daughter of a single mum during difficult times in China.

Cross bows and lots of sword fighting. Some nice landscapes, too.

One of a series of five 9 minute sections. Complete video comprising one of many in a series looking at women warriors.
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Casaubon's Book & Blog Archive & Barter, Baby, Barter

Rated Nov 19 • 1 review • economics, community, bartering • sharonastyk.com

From the page: "But the thing about barter that I find true is that it brings out the best in us for the most part �" because it is never possible to full equate eggs with logs, because they are fundamentally not the same, in barter, you are never fully sure that the price paid is a fair one �" you can�t be. And what I see in barter relationships is a turning around of economic exchanges �" because we want fairness even in ourselves mostly, because few of us like to beholden, or to look cheap, we find ourselves feeling as though the relationship is never fully even �" at its best, both barter participants always feel that they got the better of the deal, that they paid too little, and thus, �oeowe” a little on next time. Instead of *getting* the best bang for your buck, barter becomes about *giving* the best bang for your time.

One of the things that worries me about our present economic situation is how very vulnerable we are in our total dependence on the formal economy �" and we are taught to look only there for our security. So when the formal economy fails us, it seems that there is nothing left, that all that remains is the empty rote of enacting participation that we cannot truly succeed in. I don�t claim that barter will save us from poverty �" it won�t. But it may save us by offering us a kind of livability that the formal economy when it cracks and fails cannot. What we may get back in this crisis, difficult as it is, is time �" and the chance to use time instead of money."
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Peter Cundall arrested at pulp mill protest - ABC News...

Rated Nov 19 • 1 review • gardening, protest, australia, tasmania, pulp mill • abc.net.au

From the page: "ABC gardening personality Peter Cundall has been arrested outside Tasmania's Parliament during a protest against Gunns' Tamar Valley pulp mill.

Mr Cundall was among 50 activists who were arrested at the rally organised by the group Pulp the Mill.

The 82-year-old told the crowd he had never been arrested but was willing to make a stand.

He was arrested after refusing police requests to move from Parliament's front steps.

"Did you hear the direction before?" an officer asked him.

"I did hear it," he replied.

"Are you refusing to leave now?"

"I'm afraid so, I do respect the law but I'm so sorry but I will be refusing to leave," Mr Cundall said."
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About urban agriculture

Rated Nov 19 • 1 review • uk, sustainability, food security, reports, urban agriculture • sustainweb.org

From the page: "About urban agriculture

In 1996 Sustain produced Growing Food in Cities, which drew on some of the already considerable experience of urban agriculture in the UK and recommended that more should be done to support and promote it. This message was re-emphasised in 1999 with the report, City Harvest, which examined food growing in London in more depth. "
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Unleashed: When will the shallowness end?

Rated Nov 02 • 1 review • relationships, intimacy, love, children, opinion • abc.net.au

One of the many opinion pieces the Australian Broadcasting Commission publishes on its website. Today an exhortation to lead ourselves away from superficiality if we are to experience the pain and satisfaction that intimacy brings.

"...so much of our every day life -- conversations in queues, reading newspapers, watching television -- is routinely superficial. It involves little reflection or analysis. It's what German philosopher Martin Heidegger called "groundless floating" -- a sort of existential treading water, which adds little to our character.

We lose ourselves in daily interaction with things and people, rarely questioning the fundamental ideas or values we're upholding -- perhaps they're a little frightening.

And the entertainment media feed on this, of course. If it's 'idle talk' we want, magazines like New! will supply it: a few minutes of distracted bliss, where the abstract failures or triumphs of famous strangers can take us away from ourselves.

Jordan's sex life is a vaporous lure for groundless floating.

But when, then, does the shallowness end? What moments offers us retreat from surfaces and reflexes? For someone like Heidegger, it presumably ends with philosophy or poetry -- with some radical authenticity, or re-envisioning of Western civilization. Others have replied with God, art or revolution.

But with Jordan in mind, I'm suggesting intimacy. In its genuine form, love is one genuine antidote to distraction and superficiality. I'm not talking Hollywood romance, with its predictable plots and happy endings -- though they're aiming at something valuable. And I'm not talking about sex, though it's often part of the magic.

The reason is simple: regardless of how the world changes, love enters into your mind as a non-negotiable fact. It is inescapably, painfully real.

You can fake marriages, orgasms and literary careers (Jordan's ghostwriter has written several best-selling books), but it's almost impossible to fake intimacy.

And if you can, it's a futile charade. This is chiefly because the sacrifices it demands are only worthwhile to someone rewarded by it. To love genuinely, you have to give up many things -- not simply time, or money, or a tidy lounge-room, but the sovereignty of your psyche.

To truly love is to give up shibboleths of absolute freedom, and admit that another person has a stake in your life; in the vicissitudes of your consciousness.

And this is particularly the case when we have children. Once they enter your life, kids push you again and again to recognise your faults and frailties, and reassess how and why you're living. They're the ultimate existential test."
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Welcome to Pasture Cropping & No Kill Cropping

Rated Nov 01 • 1 review • agriculture, australia, direct seeding, farming, cropping • pasturecropping.com

Direct drilling winter grain crops into pasture. Improving retained soil carbon, and many other advantages.
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Runaway bus misses man - ABC News (Australian...

Rated Oct 21 • 1 review • russia, video, bizarre, pedestrians, bus • abc.net.au

look left, look right, expect runaway bus!

Nine seconds that almost took all of this man's nine lives.
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TOM_1838 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Rated Oct 15 • 0 reviews • photography, photos, cities • flickr.com
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