fish and chip fat aussies

fish and chip fat aussies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRwHv32AbTQ fat girl tells it all.

Thu Jun 19, 10:37 PM ET

"Meat pies are my downfall. Hamburgers fill me up! And I can't even get a girlfriend. They say I fart too much."

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia has a higher proportion of obese people than the United States, with the health system facing a "fat bomb" unless action is taken, a study warned Thursday. The report from the Baker Heart Institute found that 70 percent of men and 60 percent of women aged 45-65 had a body mass index of 25 or more, meaning they were overweight or obese. Titled "Australia's Future Fat Bomb," the study compiled the results of height and weight checks carried out on 14,000 adult Australians in 2005. The institute's head of preventative cardiology professor Simon Stewart said the results meant Australia probably had the highest rate of obesity in the world, outweighing even the United States. "As we send our athletes off to the Olympics let's reflect on the fact that we would win the gold medal problem now in the world fat Olympics if there was such a thing," he said. Stewart said obesity was the major threat to Australia's future health, with an estimated nine million of the 21 million population obese or overweight. "That is a whole million more obese adults than we had thought," he said. The study predicted there would be an extra 700,000 heart-related hospital admissions in the next 20 years due to obesity and almost 125,000 people would die because of the condition in that period. The report calls for a national weightloss strategy on the scale of smoking and skin cancer campaigns, including subsidizing gym memberships and personal training sessions. It suggested hospital waiting lists could be prioritized on the basis of weight-loss, to give obese people incentive to slim down. "These are some of the controversial things we need to deal with because the health-care system is going to be overwhelmed by weight-related hospitalizations from knee replacements through to heart attacks and strokes," Stewart said. The report was submitted to a federal government inquiry into obesity.

Posted by 'Ric Williams at Thursday, June 19, 2008 0 comments

It's not elegant, but it fuels your car for free.

(Well, almost free) http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/09/everything_old_.html

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Everything Old Is New Again: Biomass Burners at Automechanika Frankfurt

by Jack Rosebro

Visitors to one of the 4,500 exhibits at Automechanika Frankfurt 2006, which is Europe’s largest and best-known automotive service, repair, and aftermarket accessory trade show, were treated to a biomass “blast from the past” in the form of a 1938 6-cylinder, 3.5-liter Opel Kapitän which ran on wood and charcoal almost seventy years ago.

Charcoal burning conversion kits, which are really wood gas generators, enjoyed a brief civilian and military niche market in England, Germany, Australia, the United States, and other countries up to and during World War II. Wood gas generators were used to power taxis in Korea as late as 1970.

A charcoal burner actually burns the gases produced by heated wood. The burner is a two part system: a closed chamber with chunks of wood in it, and a charcoal burner to heat the closed chamber and make the wood generate gases by a process called pyrolysis.

H.M.S. SIRIUS, one of the ships of the FIRST FLEET.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~firstff/ships.htm ships of the first fleet:

Vive la FRANCE!

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Australian Light Horse Trooper in France, First World War.

* Australian New Zealander and South African troops in France First World War. Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Mademoiselle from Armentieres, She hasn't been kissed for forty years! Hinky-dinky, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? She got the palm and the croix de guerre, For washin' soldiers' underwear, Hinky-dinky, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? You didn't have to know her long, To know the reason men go wrong! Hinky-dinky, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? She's the hardest working girl in town, But she makes her living upside down! Hinky-dinky, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? The cooties rambled through her hair; She whispered sweetly "C'est la guerre" Hinky-dinky, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? She'll do it for wine, she'll do it for rum, And sometimes for chocolate or chewing gum! Hinky-dinky, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? Oh, Mademoiselle from Armentieres, parlez-vous? You might forget the gas and shell But you'll never forget the Mademoiselle! Hinky-dinky, parlez-vous? *

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If any reader has photos, stories, recollections or ideas relating to the early settlers, especially Williams/ Nash families, stemming from William Nash and Maria Haynes, please contact me by email, cwok66@hotmail.com and (if you want) I will add it to the website. That goes also for ideas or suggestions how I might modify layout or contents. Ric Williams.

early Asian contacts,... Chinese junk

My grandfather Dick O'Keefe told the story that when he was a young man he was travelling a country road in horse and buggy. At a fork in the road he did not know which to take. He saw (in his words) a Chinaman walking along carrying baskets balanced on his shoulders with a pole. "Which way to Donnybrook Station, Charlie?" Asked Dick. "Why you say my name "Charlie"? asked the Chinaman.

One of Japan's Red seal ships (1634), which were used for trade throughout Asia "Oh, I just bloodywell guessed it!" said my grandfather. "Well, you just bloodywell guess your way to Donnybrook Station!" replied the oriental.

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Zhu Di's Map of the World Family(this story is disputed and may not be completely true.) In 1405, Zhu Di sent his favorite Admiral, Zheng He, on a mission to unite the peoples of the "Four Seas"— that is, the World Family. Midway throughthis enormous undertaking of many overseas voyages, a Ming artistprepared this elegant but somewhat stylized version of the world. It was based on information contained in a variety of field maps and navigational charts. The composite map was intended to represent the final unification of the World Family under the leadership of the Ming Dynasty. It was a visual testimonial about foreign nations (or barbarians) that paid homage to the Son of Heaven in Beijing. It was also a memorial to the role of world commerce in preserving the peace between nations; and it was a graphic representation of the system of transoceanic routes that formed Zheng He's colossal maritime trade network. Zhu Di's dream of a United Family did not last for very long. Within a few years, Portuguese spies obtained copies of thismap. And they used it as the principal tool in world conquest. During that conquest, Europeans claimed they were superior because they had better weapons and maps. They boasted that "the Victor writes the history." And so, the legacy of Zheng He and the heritage of other ancient voyagers faded into the twilight of Western doctrine. This is a revolutionary map. It will finally force Western scholars to abandon the doctrine of Eurocentrism that has dominated world history for the past 500 years. In the 21st century, the Global Community needs a factual history that reflects the true events of the past. This map can precipitate a paradigm shiftin history. Such a paradigm shift is essential in order to dislodge the medieval cultural anchors that are holding us back. Then we can truly build a philosophical foundation of equality for the Whole World Family.

Macassan prau's, or fishing boats, fished the waters of northern Australia from the Kimberley region, eastward to the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Possibly establishing seasonal camps and processing factories on the southern coastline of the Gulf or the Wellesley Islands. The Macassans may even have fished as far east as the Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef, though these last two regions are generally dismissed by historians such as MacKnight and Stokes. The Macassans fished for trepang, curing it in temporary camps on the northern Australian coastline until the turn of last century when colonial restrictions had eventually made it unprofitable for the prau owners. Other Muslims visited the northern coastline, including the Chinese Muslim Admiral Cheng Ho in 1405-1433 in a fleet of 400' long ships. Arab Muslim explorers produced the first maps of Australia. The Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi map of the Sea of Java of 820 CE shows the northern coastline from Eighty-Mile Beach in Western Australia to Cape Melville and Princess Charlotte Bay in North Queensland. The Al-Istakhari Map of 943 CE, details the Australian coast from the Kimberley's to the Townsville area. The seasonal Macassan prau's would have included Haji's, who must have conveyed information about Marege', to Muslims from the Bosnia, Athens, Istanbul, North Africa, India and the Middle East. While these Muslims were significant in early pre-European history, they left few reminders, possibly supplying awareness and some detail about Marege [Australia] via the Malay Archipelago or through Muslim maps to early European explorers.