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  1. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Those little green pills are amazing.... HI EVERYONE, how are you all this morning? - - Sun is shining (well trying to) and the birds are singing (well trying to) and I am eating some GM derived & highly processed corn with a significant sugar fix... The full moon should be showing you the way to early church services... Ready for the resurection..? Bless you all :D:D:D
     
  2. Landlubber
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    artemis,

    Our "new" (1996) gun laws allow us to own firearms for sport or recreational shooting, but we cannot have semi autos anymore.
     
  3. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    So buy 6 and rack em on a cylindrical frame, point the magazines outward, and work out a cyclic firing system - it has been called a "gatling gun" he he he
     
  4. safewalrus
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    safewalrus Ancient Marriner

    Your lucky over in the UK we're lucky to be allowed to own the pictures - well it wouldn't do to let us have nasty guns would it!! Somebody might just want to use them to change the government (about 80% of the population! the other 20% are here illegally and just keeping their heads down, making a fortune and sending home to ???????
     
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  6. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Scrawling on the toilet walls at Parliament house - - where else???
     
  7. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Where is Gamage? You got a job old man?
     
  8. safewalrus
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    Yeah as 'minister for whingers'
     
  9. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Safie you following me?
     
  10. gamage
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    Arthur C Clarke’s Last Call

    http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/04/05/fea01.asp


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    Saturday, 5 April 2008

    Listen to our planet in distress:

    Arthur C Clarke’s Last Call


    Nalaka GUNAWARDENE

    Author and underwater explorer Sir Arthur C Clarke who died recently aged 90, may not have been a placard-carrying, greener-than-green environmental activist.

    But in his own unique style, he supported a range of environmental concerns - from the conservation of gorillas, whales and dolphins (among his favourite species) to the search for cleaner energy sources that would enable humanity to kick its addiction to oil.

    This interest was sustained to the very end. In his last public speech delivered a month before his demise, he stressed: “There has never been a greater urgency to restore our strained relationship with the Earth.”

    Audio greeting
    The speech was an audio greeting to the global launch of the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) held on 12 - 13 February 2008 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

    Sir Arthur provided the closing remarks for the two day meeting attended by diplomats, scientists and youth from all corners of the world.

    In that address, which he had recorded from his sick bed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in early February, Sir Arthur said: “The International Year of Planet Earth is being observed at a crucial juncture in our relationship with the planet. There are now clear signs that our growing numbers and our many activities are impacting the Earth’s natural systems, causing planetary stress.”

    He added: “We have had local or regional indicators of this stress for decades, and more recently we have confirmed our unmistakable role in climate change. If we’re looking for the smoking gun, we only need to look in the mirror...”

    He outlined his wish for the ambitious IYPE, which is led by geoscientists around the world to raise more awareness and inspire action on understanding how our planet works. *”I sincerely hope that the Year of Planet Earth would mark a turning point in how we listen to Earth’s distress call - and how we respond to it with knowledge, understanding and imagination.”*

    The full text of Sir Arthur’s greeting is found as a pdf on IYPE’s official website, which also offers the actual greeting as an audio file - but only in Apple Quicktime. For those who are not part of that limited universe, we reproduce Sir Arthur’s speaking text in full below.

    I had the privilege of once again working on this text with Sir Arthur as I did for many years on various other video/audio greetings and essays. This was originally going to be a video greeting, but we decided to just capture it in audio as Sir Arthur was confined to bed with a back injury since early 2008.

    Audio greeting by Sir Arthur C Clarke to the global launch event of International Year of Planet Earth 2008

    “Hello! This is Arthur Clarke, speaking from my home in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

    I am very happy to join you on this occasion, when the International Year of Planet Earth is being inaugurated at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

    Fond memories
    I have fond memories of attending major international conferences at UNESCO over the years. I’ve always cherished my close association with the organisation, especially since I received the UNESCO-Kalinga prize for popularisation of science in 1961 - a date that now seems to belong to the Jurassic era!

    The International Year of Planet Earth is being observed at a crucial juncture in our relationship with the planet. There are now clear signs that our growing numbers and our many activities are impacting the Earth’s natural systems, causing planetary stress.

    We’ve had local or regional indicators of this stress for decades, and more recently we’ve confirmed our unmistakable role in climate change. If we’re looking for the smoking gun, we’ve only got to look in the mirror...

    So there has never been a greater urgency to restore our strained relationship with the Earth. In such a conversation, who speaks for the Earth?

    Loyalties
    Almost 30 years ago, my late friend astronomer Carl Sagan posed this question in his trail-blazing television series Cosmos. And this is how he answered it: “Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.”

    I sincerely hope that the Year of Planet Earth would mark a turning point in how we listen to Earth’s distress call - and how we respond to it with knowledge, understanding and imagination.

    Geophysical Year
    My mind goes back to the International Geophysical Year, which was observed in 1957 - 58. Both the former Soviet Union and the United States launched artificial satellites during that period, thus ushering in the Space Age. Going to space was an important evolutionary step for our species - one that distinguishes our period in history from all the preceding ones.

    For the first time, we could look back on our home planet from a vantage point in space, and that gave us a totally new perspective.

    The beautiful images of Earth from space inspired much public interest that led to the Earth Day and the global environmental movement in the 1970s.

    Of course, I’ve suggested that ‘Earth’ is a complete misnomer for our planet when three quarters of it is covered by ocean. But I guess it’s a bit too late now to change the name to planet Ocean!

    Fifty years after the IGY and the dawn of the Space Age, do we know enough about how our planet operates?

    Unravelled
    Thanks to advances in earth sciences and space sciences, we have unravelled many mysteries that baffled scientists for generations. We now monitor the land, atmosphere and ocean from ground-based and space-based platforms.

    Armies of scientists are pouring over tera-bytes of data routinely gathered by our many sentinels keeping watch over our planet.

    We don’t yet fully understand certain phenomena, and there are still gaps in how we process and disseminate scientific knowledge. This is why, for example, the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 arrived without public warnings in Sri Lanka and many other coastal regions.

    Within minutes of the undersea quake off Sumatra, geologists and oceanographers around the world knew what was happening. But they lacked the means of reaching authorities who could evacuate people to safety.

    For this reason, I’m very glad to hear that the Year of Planet Earth is placing equal emphasis on creating new knowledge and its public outreach.

    Today, more than ever, we need the public understanding and engagement of science. As UNESCO has been advocating for 60 years, public engagement is essential for science to influence policy and improve lives.

    Planet under stress
    In fact, with our planet under stress, we often have to act before we fully understand some natural processes.

    That is where we have to combine our best judgement and imagination.

    We also need to change the way our resources and energy are used. Our modern civilisation depends on energy, but we can’t allow oil and coal to slowly bake all life on our planet. In my 90th birthday reflections a few weeks ago, I listed three wishes I dearly want to see happen.

    One of them is to kick our current addiction to oil, and instead adopt clean energy sources.

    For over a decade, I’ve been monitoring various new energy experiments, which have yet to produce commercial scale results. Climate change has now added a new sense of urgency to this quest.

    So we face many challenges as we embark on the International Year of Planet Earth. I hope this year’s many activities will help us to better listen to our home planet, and then to act with knowledge and imagination.

    This is Arthur Clarke, wishing you every success in this endeavour.”
     
  11. gamage
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    Thank you, Hopefully end of this month I can join with my new Company .
     
  12. Frosty

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    Hope you get paid this time and manage to keep the job a bit longer.

    Oh by the way I never read posts over 10 lines long so yours is well out the window.
     
  13. safewalrus
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    Another of Wurzells missives, prove one thing, he knows how to cut and paste!

    Great to hear you have a job at last Wurzell, best of luck with it, at home in Sri Lanka I hope, at your age you don't want to travel too far do you?
     
  14. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Hello Gamage, How are you going?
     

  15. safewalrus
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    Now he's employed he don't want to know his old 'friends' he's above all that!

    Must be fantastic to be the ruler of the Sri Lanka Navy!!
     
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