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Saturday 7 February 2009

Global Warming.

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Global Warming? RisinItalicg sea levels? All Bullshit. I don't believe it, man. Anyway, my house is on a hill.
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"On May 16 morning, sea waters gushed in, breached the embankments and inundated our fields with saline waters, destroying all our crops," said Patra's 23-year-old son Gopal. "With the crops gone we really don't know what to do now," said Gopal, whose father fends for the family by practicing homeopathic medicine and keeping poultry at Poilagheri village on Moushuni, one of the many threatened islands of the Sunderbans. Looking helplessly at the farmland, which is now infested with mosquitoes and poisonous snakes, Patra said: "Our island is famous for the production of good-quality chili besides other vegetables and crops. But all were lost that in the sea water." "We will have to do without fish too for the next one year with the [freshwater] ponds now filled with saline water," he said. Global warming and climate change are terms the Patra family had never heard of until the rising seas forced them to join the thousands of prospective environmental refugees in the Sunderbans. Home to the world's largest mangrove gene pool and a U.N.-designated World Heritage site, the Sunderbans face a threat from global warming and attendant climatic change. It is estimated by a recently released United Nations study that a mere 45 centimeter increase in the sea level will destroy 75 percent of forests spread over 10,000 square kilometers in India's eastern state of West Bengal and adjacent Bangladesh.

Friday 6 February 2009

Supply lines limited.

There are many who think American troops and their reluctant allies in Afghanistan are like an invasive cancer....an occupying force with no justification for being there and  having no thought-out, long-term plan. Pres. Obama may have made a big mistake in sending thirty thousand troops to bolster American forces in Afghanistan, which is becoming known as Vietnam 2. One of the greatest needs in the U.S.occupation is access to supply lines. Through Pakistan has been shown to be very dangerous and other routes are being strangled, just as a surgeon cuts off blood supply to a cancer, in order to extract it. Lack of supply lines beat Napoleon and Hitler.(Ric)

Kyrgyz closure of US base 'final'

US air base in Kyrgyzstan
The move to shut the base comes at a critical moment for the US

Kyrgyzstan says its decision to close a US base that serves as a vital supply route for US and Nato operations in Afghanistan is "final".

It contradicts US statements that talks are ongoing about the base's future.

Meanwhile, the US has asked to move supplies through Russia, and Tajikistan has said it will allow the transit of non-military goods into Afghanistan.

Nato is understood to be increasingly concerned about the security of its supply routes through Pakistan.

Most of its supplies come through Pakistan's Khyber Pass, which has come under increasing militant attacks.

Critical timing

"The decision has been made," said Kyrgyz government spokesman Aibek Sultangaziyev.

"The US embassy and the [Kyrgyz] foreign ministry are exchanging opinions on this, but there are no discussions on keeping the base."

Manas, just outside the capital Bishkek, is the only US base in Central Asia and is a vital transit point for Nato and US operations in Afghanistan - an hour-and-a-half's flight away.

The base is used to refuel Afghan-bound planes, and is the first point of stop for the majority of coalition troops on their way in and out of Afghanistan.

The closure announcement came after Russia promised Kyrgyzstan $2bn (£1.4bn) in aid. However, Kyrgyzstan says the moves are not linked

New Thoughts on Gaia.

Six billion tons seems to be a lot of extra carbon for the Earth to handle each year, particularly since a little bit of this gas seems to go a long way. But let's put this in perspective for a moment. Fungi, molds, bacteria, microbes, termites, worms, beetles and slugs produce about twenty times as much CO2 as we humans do, and have been doing so from time immemorial. The Earth has been able to cope with that amount just fine. There is, in fact, a well-developed and immensely old mechanism in place to keep this gas in check.

Is it reasonable to assume that the six billion extra tons of carbon will just accumulate in the atmosphere ad infinitum, until our race perishes in the ovens of a Bio-belzek? Or would it be logical to expect the rate of photosynthesis, and carbon burial, to increase and mitigate the effect?

Recent observations would suggest the latter. Though the level of CO2 is unquestionably on the rise, it is not accumulating in the air quite as fast as we would otherwise expect. Some of the carbon is missing.

Paradigm Shift
The Gaia theory, first proposed by the British inventor James Lovelock in the 1970's, may help to explain the riddle of the missing carbon. It also explains a lot of the other peculiarities of planet Earth. The Gaia theory holds that the Earth's wildly improbable atmosphere, oceans and climate are constantly being regulated by the process of life itself, a single living organism which Lovelock called "Gaia" (from the goddess in Greek mythology).

In the 1960's, NASA hired Lovelock to devise an experiment for detecting the past or present existence of life on Mars. His assignment forced him to consider the means by which one could detect the existence of life on Earth. As an atmospheric chemist, Lovelock, logically, first studied the Earth's atmosphere.

Free oxygen, scientists agree, is the product of biological activity. Oxygen is also very reactive, and readily combines with other elements to form oxide compounds. Accordingly, it must be constantly replenished, or it will gradually disappear.

Oxygen is also necessary for much of the life on this planet. Humans and virtually all other animals would quickly suffocate without it. About 21% of the Earth's atmosphere is comprised of oxygen. From the best information available to us, oxygen has remained at or near 21% for a considerable period of time.

The mere presence of more than a trace of elemental oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere is evidence of the existence of life. The presence of a significant amount of oxygen on Mars would therefore be a signature of life (or at least life as we know it).

But Lovelock became intrigued by a more basic question: how and why is oxygen, a highly reactive biologically produced element, held at a constant 21% in the Earth's atmosphere? The chance of this occurring randomly is virtually zero. Lovelock then observed another remarkable fact that further belied any notion that this could be mere coincidence: the figure of 21% is exactly the concentration of oxygen which is most conducive to the survival of life on the planet (at least, life as it currently exists). If the percentage of atmospheric oxygen was higher than this figure, much of the Earth's biomass would be combustible. If it was lower by even a few percentage points, most present animal life would suffer or even die.

A balance of toxic gasses
Lovelock also discusses other curious gasses in the Earth's atmosphere. These gasses include methane, ammonia and CO2, the first two of which are almost completely of biological origin. This gaseous triumvirate appears to have a crucial role in regulating oxygen, pH and surface temperature, respectively. Incredibly, the mixture and ratio of such gasses is precisely that which is needed to make the world most hospitable for life as we know it, and somehow these gasses have remained in this balance for an immense period of time.

Lovelock summarizes these concerns:

Life first appeared on the Earth about 3,500 million years ago. From that time until now, the presence of fossils shows that the Earth's climate has changed very little. Yet the output of heat from the sun, the surface properties of the Earth, and the composition of the atmosphere have almost certainly varied greatly over the same period.

The chemical composition of the atmosphere bears no relation to the expectations of steady-state chemical equilibrium. The presence of methane, nitrous oxide, and even nitrogen in our present oxidizing atmosphere represents violation of the rules of chemistry to be measured in tens of orders of magnitude. Disequilibria on this scale suggest that the atmosphere is not merely a biological product, but more probably a biological construction: not living, but like a cat's fur, a bird's feathers, or the paper of a wasp's nest, an extension of a living system designed to maintain a chosen environment. Thus the atmospheric concentration of gasses such as oxygen and ammonia is found to be kept at an optimum value from which even small departures could have disastrous consequences for life.

The climate and the chemical properties of the Earth now and throughout its history seem always to have been optimal for life. For this to have happened by chance is as unlikely as to survive unscathed a drive blindfold through rush-hour traffic.

-- Gaia: A New Look at Life on the Earth

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Gradually gaining wider acceptance in the scientific community over the past few decades, the fundamental principles propounded in the Gaia Hypothesis and subsequent work have been a catalyst for and instrumental to the work being done by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change. Like many such powerful concepts, they grow beyond the ownership of those who originated them, however, and are often taken in many different directions, some of which run counter to or in direct opposition to the authors’ own views and intentions.

Lovelock, for instance, remains a staunch supporter of nuclear power, which I imagine makes him persona non grata to many environmental organizations, and leads to disparaging criticism as well as conveniently ignoring his views on the issue. I grew up in the cultural milieu Lovelock describes that produced in many, including myself, an elemental fear and dread of nuclear power—a combination of the Cold War threat of nuclear devastation and the anti-establishment youth culture that grew out of the civil rights and Vietnam War era in the US.

Now a good bit older and hopefully more prone to dispassionate reflection, I am more likely to consider and admit my ignorance on any of a variety of subjects and then seek out good sources of information to remedy this as opposed to the much simpler, more convenient and more often than not, emotionally driven option of forming a hasty and ill-formed opinion. Plus, I figure that the problems of environmental degradation and climate change associated with our fast-growing population and the development of modern consumer-driven societies is just too big and too substantial to merit anything less.

As I also cover mineral and energy resources for other online publications, I am aware of the meteoric rise in the market price of processed uranium ore, or yellowcake, over the past few years and the “nuclear renaissance” that some pundits say may soon come to pass. Feeling that it was my obligation as a journalist to recognize and transcend my own almost innate cultural biases and seek out the truth of the matter to the best of my ability, I felt that I needed to re-examine the ingrained, primarily emotionally driven beliefs that the risks of using nuclear power, and safely disposing of nuclear waste, are simply too great.

Unexpectedly, Gaia’s Revenge is helping me do just that. And I have to say that when it comes to nuclear power, which he considers our only safe bet when it comes to cutting back carbon dioxide emissions sufficiently to lessen the effects of the global “hot age” that he sees inexorably approaching, Lovelock has set me thinking.

Following are a few of what so far have struck me as among the most valuable and thought provoking quotes from Gaia’s Revenge regarding nuclear power, at least through page 133 of 204:

- A moment’s thought on the power densities of carbon fuels compared with nuclear fuels explains why the nuclear industry is small. To produce the same amount of electricity requires a million times more oil or gas than it does uranium. As a consequence, the nuclear industry can hardly afford pro-nuclear demonstrations and advertisements, and you rarely ever hear counter-arguments. - An outstanding advantage of nuclear over fossil fuel energy I show easy it is to deal with the waste it produces. Burning fossil fuels produces 27,000 million tons of carbon dioxide yearly, enough, as I mentioned earlier, to make, if solidified, a mountain nearly one mile high and with a base 12 miles in circumference. The same quantity of energy produced from nuclear fission reactions would generate two million times less waste, and it would occupy a 16-meter cube.  - The carbon dioxide waste is invisible but so deadly that its emissions go unchecked it will kill nearly everyone. The nuclear waste buried in pits at the production sites is no threat to Gaia and dangerous only to those foolish enough to expose themselves to its radiation. - …I also knew that that the natural world would welcome nuclear waste as the perfect guardian against greedy developers, and whatever slight harm it might represent was a small price to pay. One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land around Chernobyl, the bomb test sites of the Pacific, and areas near the United States’ Savannah River nuclear weapons plant of the Second World War. Wild plants and animals do not perceive radiation as dangerous, and any slight reduction it may cause in their lifespans is far less a hazard than is the presence of people and their pets.

The fact that a scientist of Lovelock’s stature and staunch independence publicly offered to store the waste from one nuclear power plant on his own small plot of land in England certainly grabbed my attention and has given me food for thought and further consideration.

In Gaia’s Revenge, he states, “But it is not enough to use this as an argument favouring a wider use of nuclear energy, because the public belief in the harmfulness of nuclear power is too strong to break by direct argument. Instead, I have offered in public to accept all of the high-level waste produced in a year from a nuclear power station for deposit on my small plot of land; it would occupy a space about a cubic metre in size and fit safely in a concrete pit, and I would use the heat from its decaying radioactive elements to heat my home. It would be a waste not to use it. More important, it would be no danger to me, my family or the wildlife.

PARISHEV, Ukraine  —  Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching.

Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, andwild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.

"I've seen a lot of wild animals here," says Urupa, one of about 300 mostly elderly residents who insist on living in Chernobyl's contaminated evacuation zone.

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Tuesday 3 February 2009

Ve kommen back, you French Dummies!

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One way or another we will defeat these idiot French swine! Alsace and Lorraine are our territories!." Der Furher

German troops to be sent to France for first time in 65 years.

(The difficulty will be to get the Germans out again! Wouldn't it be better to send them to Israel to help the Palestinians? (Ric))

France and Germany are expected to give details this weekend of an agreement to station hundreds of German troops on French soil for the first time since the second world war, in a region the countries have squabbled over for centuries.

The historic move for troops in either Alsace or Lorraine is part of a 20-year joint military project to encourage reconciliation between the two countries.

Despite its symbolic significance for a country occupied by Nazi forces, the decision has so far prompted little more than curious and insouciant reaction from the French public. "The prospect of seeing German troops settle in France again ... makes my grandfather splutter," said a Libération reader in a posting on the French newspaper's website. "What an extraordinary symbol of Franco-German reconciliation".

The decision is the latest development for the two countries' 5,000-strong binational brigade, which has been on missions in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.

Under the plan, which has been confirmed in Germany by the Christian Democrat MP Volker Kauder and others, a battalion of between 450 and 800 soldiers is to be based in Alsace or Lorraine.

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More children among Gaza dead Israel has resumed bombing of Gaza.

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Palestinian children are increasingly among the dead as the Gaza death toll continues to rise. One man has lost his entire family - including children ...
Some of the thousands of wounded and dead children. .................. Obama supports Israel's attack on Gaza.
  

  America is isolated, despised and alone as a result of its “special relationship” with the Jewish state, remaining silent as women and children are hacked to pieces of flesh and bone by Israel certainly does not make things better.

  • Those hoping in the “change” promised by the new president while on the campaign trail should think twice before investing themselves in such business. Remember the words of Barack Hussein Obama to AIPAC in June 2008 when he had the following to say–

    “Our alliance is based on shared interests and shared values. Those who threaten Israel threaten us. And I will bring to the White House an unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security. That starts with ensuring Israel’s qualitative military advantage. I will ensure that Israel can defend itself from any threat — from Gaza to Tehran. As president, I will implement a Memorandum of Understanding that provides $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade — investments to Israel’s security that will not be tied to any other nation. We must approve the foreign aid request for 2009. We should export military equipment to our ally Israel under the same guidelines as NATO. And I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself in the United Nations and around the world.

    In other words, the only difference between former president George W. Bush and the current president Barack Hussein Obama with regards to American foreign policy in the Middle East is that one is named George W. Bush and the other is named Barack Hussein Obama.

  • Latest news: Pres. Obama will not change the policy of Police and C.I.A. arresting people without charge, holding them incommunicado in secret locations and sending them to prisons or military stockades in other countries, where they might be tortured. Seems we have Bush's policies continuing and an uncle Tom president. 
  • Last week.Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action , missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people.

Four days after assuming the presidency, he was consulted by US commanders before they launched the two attacks. Although Obama has abandoned many of the "war on terror" policies of George Bush while he was president, he is not retreating from the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.

The US believes they are hiding in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, and made 30 strikes last year in which more than 200 people were killed. In the election, Obama hinted at increased operations in Pakistan, saying he thought Bush had made a mistake in switching to Iraq before completing the job against al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The US marine corp commander said yesterday that his 22,000 troops should be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan. Gen James Conway said "the time is right" to leave Iraq now the war had become largely nation-building rather than the pitched fighting in which the corps excelled; he wanted the marines in Afghanistan, especially in the south where insurgents, and the Taliban and al-Qaida, benefit from both a nearby safe haven in Pakistan and a booming trade in narcotics.

Obama has warned that he is prepared to bomb inside Pakistan if he gets relevant intelligence about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. He had also said he would act against militants along the border if the Pakistan government failed to.

The US missiles were fired by unmanned Predator drones, which hang in the sky gathering intelligence through surveillance and, when commanded and directed by remote control, to launch attacks.

The strikes will help Obama portray himself as a leader who, though ready to shift the balance of American power towards diplomacy, is not afraid of military action.

The first attack yesterday was on the village of Zharki, in Waziristan; three missiles destroyed two houses and killed 10 people. One villager told Reuters of phonethat of nine bodies pulled from the rubble of one house, six were its owner and his relatives; Reuters added that intelligence officials said some foreign militants were also killed. A second attack hours later also in Warizistan killed eight people.

The Pakistan government publicly expressed hope that the arrival of Obama would see a halt to such strikes, which stir up hostility from Pakistanis towards the government; in private, the government may be more relaxed about such attacks.

There is a lot of nervousness in the new administration about the fragility of Pakistan, particularly as it has nuclear weapons, but it also sees Afghanistan and Pakistan as being linked. In the face of a Taliban resurgence, there is despair in Washington over the leadership of the Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, and there will not be much disappointment if he is replaced in elections later this year.

Judging Obama on ghost prisons, Guantánamo and air strikes

Your report (Obama shuts network of CIA ghost prisons, 23 January) is a clear vindication to the many NGO activists, concerned citizens and parliamentarians who investigated and warned that the CIA operated "ghost prisons" on European soil, as well as rendition flights.

The European parliament's committee of inquiry into CIA rendition, of which I was a member, uncovered evidence of British and European citizens being abducted on European soil, transported through European airports and then subjected to so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques (torture) in third countries, sometimes with the knowledge of member state governments. During our investigations, US representatives would neither confirm nor deny the existence of these sites or inhuman methods. This act by President Obama shows we were right to act on behalf of European citizens, and gives us the first authoritative admission from the US government that these objectionable prison camps did in fact exist.

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Claude Moraes MEP

Labour, London

In suggesting that the US policy of closing Guantánamo is risky for the new president (Former Guantánamo inmate is al-Qaida chief, 24 January) you draw a very odd conclusion. If 12% of prisoners released under the full rigours of the system of internment and the previous administration's legal policies have "returned to the battlefield" then the system was clearly ineffective (quite apart from other considerations such as its morality, legality and cost). The argument for closing the facility is strengthened, not weakened, by this news. Leon Tanner Stratford-upon-Avon

Last Friday Barack Obama ordered missile strikes against houses in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people (President orders air strikes on villages in tribal area, 24 January). A hero has quietly become some kind of monster, with blood on his hands. Almost certainly there will have been civilians among the dead.

Perhaps it goes with the territory. No one can be president these days without murdering civilians. But it is rather extraordinary how widely it is accepted that the United States of America has a right to kill civilians in this way in foreign countries. Some foreign countries, one should add. Presumably there would not be the same level of acceptance if the houses had been in Portugal, or Wales.

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Aus­tral­ia may need an in­fu­sion of ele­phants and oth­er large mam­mals to solve its per­sist­ent ec­o­log­i­cal and wild­fire prob­lems, a sci­ent­ist pro­poses.

Ecol­o­gist Da­vid Bow­man of the Uni­vers­ity of Tas­ma­nia in Aus­tral­ia cites out-of-con­trol fires and bur­geon­ing fe­ral-animal popula­t­ions as quan­daries af­flict­ing the Land Down Un­der. Both could be solved by in­tro­duc­ing large mam­mals, as well as pay­ing ab­o­rig­i­nal hunters to con­trol the fe­ral an­i­mals and re­store the old prac­tice of patch burn­ing, he ar­gues. Patch burn­ing is a form of con­trolled burn­ing in­tend­ed to clean out and re­new bio­lo­gical re­sources.

“I real­ize that there are ma­jor risks as­so­ci­at­ed with what I am propos­ing,” as any tin­ker­ing with the en­vi­ron­ment can lead to un­planned con­se­quenc­es, said Bow­ma­n. “But the usu­al ap­proaches to ma­n­ag­ing these is­sues aren’t work­ing.”

Bow­man de­scribes his idea in this week’s is­sue of the re­search jour­nalNa­ture.

Feb. 7 will mark the three-year an­ni­ver­sa­ry of “Black Sat­ur­day,” when nearly 200 peo­ple died in a mas­sive fire­storm in south­ern Aus­tral­ia. Fires are a con­stant con­cern in the con­ti­nent, said Bow­ma­n, but so are its thriv­ing popula­t­ions of fe­ral pigs, camels, hors­es and cat­tle, among oth­ers.

Bow­man pro­poses to ma­n­age Aus­tral­ia’s trou­bled ec­o­sys­tem by in­tro­duc­ing beasts such as ele­phants, rhi­noc­er­os and even Ko­modo drag­ons. These would help con­sume flam­ma­ble grasses and con­trol fe­ral-animal popula­t­ions, he ar­gues.

The larg­est liv­ing land mam­mal na­tive to Aus­tral­ia is the red kan­ga­roo, which as an adult weighs about as much as an av­er­age ma­n. Larg­er mam­mals used to roam the con­ti­nent—such as a hippo-sized mar­su­pi­al re­lat­ed to the wom­bat and called di­pro­to­don, from the Great Ice Age—but they are no more.

The de­lib­er­ate in­tro­duc­tion by hu­ma­ns of po­pu­lations of over­sized, non-na­tive mam­mals to a new conti­nent would be un­prec­e­dent­ed in modern times. One group, though, has pro­posed in­tro­duc­ing large Af­ri­can mam­mals in­to the Great Plains of the Un­ited States, for some­what diff­erent rea­sons than those moti­vating Bow­man.

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Carol Baxter is my distant cousin. She has not directly contributed to this weblog, and has not ever in fact acknowledged its existence, but because of the valuable information I received from reading her website about our family, I am very indebted to her.
Another family website helped me considerably. This was "Our Williams Story" by another distant cousin, Kieran Williams
Our Williams Story
I am heartened by the many emerging websites about the descendants of William Nash and Maria Haynes.
Then there are the many threads from Monaro Pioneers.
Thank you for all the sources.
I am hoping that when I am no longer able to continue (being nearly 79) that someone else wll pick up the ball and continue my blog.Of course I have included my political views and my non-religious attitudes because they are part of me and readers do not have to accept them, but may actually learn a little from them.


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The view west from Geilston Bay.Tas.July, 2010..click to enlarge.


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Cobb and co. coach out of Ballarat.

very top...Painting of original first fleet leaving England in 1787 (Jonathan King)

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http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~aashmore ,
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William Nash came to Australia as a Marine with the First Fleet 1788
William and Mariah's first child, William, was baptised on Sunday 25th May 1788
A wedding was celebrated at St Phillip's, Sydney, on 13 February 1789, between William Nash, a marine, and Maria Haynes, a convict, in the presence of Elizabeth Gratten and Samuel Barnes (Chaplain's clerk)
Mariah Haynes is not listed in John Cobley's 'Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts'
By 1803 William & Maria had separated, and she took the children with her. Maria later became associated with two other men, Robert Guy and in 1816, with William Neale.

6 Children1. William Nash born on 25 May 1788, buried on Friday 19th June 1789, a marine's child.
2. John Nash baptised 15 Jan 1792 (a family source names him William)
3. Mary Nash born 2 March 1793 and baptised 2 April
4. William Nash born 27 March 1795 and baptised 4 May
5. George Nash born 26 July 1797
6. Sarah Nash was born 16 Nov 1798
6. Sarah Nash 16 Nov 1798 wed on the 15th January 1814 at St John's, Parramatta, to John Williams (a convict), 13 children

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(below:) Convicts on way to 14 years penal servitude in Botany Bay. England's loss was Australia's gain. Most had committed crimes that would get them now only a fine.

Crimes of the Old Bailey.
Wallace Street and Corner Store, Braidwood
late 19th century. My father Hector Griscom Williams was born in nearby Araluen in 1909.
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John Kerswell: A Welsh plasterer transported in 1828 at the age of 20 years to 15 years for stealing. Absconding four times and charged with being drunk three times, granted ToL in 1856 and Conditional Pardon in 1857. However, he received 20 years imprisonment for attempting to stab a policeman. He was released from Port Arthur in 1875.

William Forster: At age 17 years was transported for ten years for stealing a box writing desk. Misdemeanour followed misdemeanour and sentence added to sentence until in 1864 he was sentnenced to life for robbery under arms. The last mention of him is in 1872 when he was sent to the Separate Prison for misconduct.

Alexander Woods: A soldier with the 17th Regiment, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Woods (aged 30) was transported from Canada to Port Arthur for 14 years for desertion.
Returned to Hobart with a ToL in 1853 but returned to PA again in 1865 for 15 years for burglary. He was a church attendant in 1869 and was discharged in 1875.


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Gropecunt Lane

Gropecunt Lane was a name used in Oxford, London and other Englishtowns and cities in the Middle Ages for streets where prostitutes conducted their business. The name derives from cunt, the Middle English term forfemale genitalia, and the act of groping. There was also a Gropecunt Lane inDublin, Ireland near where the Savoy Cinema is now. Later sensibilities changed many names of streets bearing this name to more polite variations.

In London, the street that was Gropecunt Lane was near the present-day site of the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The street was called Grub Street in the 18th century, but renamed Milton Street in 1830 . Another street with a similar history in Southwark is Horselydown Lane ("whores lie down"), which is just to the south of Tower Bridge, and was also the site of the famousAnchor Brewhouse.

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Short history of Australia

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Butcher's shop Ballarat circa 1890.

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Hang-gliding at Stanwell Tops, Australia.

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Views of Braidwood environs, Eden-Monaro. Here were various pioneer holdings of the Williams Family and relatives.

Overlooking Braidwood from the foothills of Mt Gillamatong
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Below: Light of my life, fire of my loins... The image that will never age: "Lolita"

(Stanley Kubrick, 1962).

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We come in Third with Williams.

Williams

is a patronymic form of the name William that originated in medieval England[2] and later came to be extremely popular in Wales. The meaning is derived from son or descendant of Guillemin, the French form of William. Derived from an Old French given name with Germanicelements; will = desire, will; and helm = helmet, protection.[3] It is the second most common surname in Wales and the third most common surname in the whole of the United Kingdom, the third most common in the United States of America and Australia and the fifth most common inNew Zealand.[4]

Old Harry Williams was asked how was it that the long list of Williams lead by far those of Nash over the last couple of hundred years.

"Well, let's see.Them Nashes they was more posh and they kept the family bible, so we lot had nothing to read at night.There was no T.V. in them days, and we didn't want to waste candles, so we used to all jump in bed together and make more Williams's."

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Statistics are drawn from Australian government records of 2007.[1]

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1Smith114,997
2Jones56,698
3Williams55,555

Australia. The first fleet sailed from England in 1787 carrying marine William Nash and his common law wife Maria Haynes. They were the progenitors of an extensive Nash family in Australia. Another early settler was Andrew Nash. He had acquired the Woolpack Inn in Parramatta in 1821 and became well-known for the prowess of his racehorses. A later settler from Wiltshire was James Nash. He discovered gold along the Mary river in Queenland and helped precipitate the second Australian gold rush.

There were also Nash convicts in Australia. Some thrived; Robert Nash, transported on the Albemarle in 1791; John Nash on the Eleanor in 1831; and Michael Nash from Limerick, on the Rodney in 1851.
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You are not just you.

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_body_politic/You are not just you. You are a community of trillions of cells and at least 100 trillion microbes acting as a community.
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Neither here nor there.

If a man was on an escalator, but walking back down it and the elevator was located in a revolving restaurant on a large airliner going in a southerly direction and the earth was revolving on its axis and at the same time was travelling in an elliptical path around the sun, which was travelling around the galaxy, which was expanding......how many movements was the man travelling in?

Wild man of North Australia.


I met Michael (Tarzan) Fomenko(shown here at 81 years) son of a Russian Princess when I was 18 and he was twenty. He was a handsome young man. I was in love with his sister Nina Fomenko, who was gracious to me but held my ardour at arms' length. In later years I met her in North Queensland where she and her husband Brian Patrick Donnellan were cutting cane. They had no mattress to sleep on, so I bought them one. Nina was always beautiful. (Ric)
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Toonoom Falls
Situated in the heart of Royal National Park to the south of Sydney, Toonoum Falls is a pretty, 5 metre high waterfall alongside Sir Bertram Steven Drive not far from the Garie turnoff. The photo shows the falls in flood.
Location: Royal National Park.

In the fifties, I lived close to here in a rock shelter once used by Aborigines. I used to swim in this creek a little further down the hill. My family thought I was crazy and I probably was, but life here on the edge of the National Park was idyllic if you could bear the flies, mosquitoes, snakes and centipedes.. (Ric)

Aussie Little Nasties.

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HMS Sirius, the main Naval ship with the First Fleet, under Captain John Hunter RN. Had been built in 1780 as Berwick for the East Indies run, badly burned in a fire, and rebuilt by Navy, renamed Sirius, finally wrecked off Norfolk Island on the 14th. of April 1790

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HMS Sirius, the main Naval ship with the First Fleet, under Captain John Hunter RN.
Had been built in 1780 as Berwick for the East Indies run, badly burned in a fire, and rebuilt by Navy, renamed Sirius, finally wrecked off Norfolk Island on the 14th. of April 1790.


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*The Australian Lyre Bird is the world's best imitator; able to mimic the calls of 15 different species of birds in their locality and string the calls into a melody. Also been known to mimic the sound mobile phones.

*The echidna is such a unique animal that it is classified in a special class of mammals known asmonotremes, which it shares only with the platypus. The echidna lays eggs like a duck but suckles its young in a pouch like a kangaroo. For no apparent reason, it may decide to conserve energy by dropping its body temperature to 4 degrees and remain at that temperature from 4 to 120 days. Lab experiments have shown that the echidna is more intelligent that a cat and it has been seen using its spikes, feet and beaks to climb up crevices like a mountaineer edging up a rock chimney.

*Purple wallaby - The Purple-neck Rock Wallaby [Petrogale Purpureicollis], inhabits the Mt Isa region in Northwest Queensland. The Wallaby secretes a dye that transforms its face and neck into colours ranging from light pink to bright purple.

*The Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan has the most toxic venom of any snake. Maximum yield recorded (for one bite) is 110mg. That would probably be enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice.

*The Wombat deposits square poos on logs, rocks and even upright sticks that it uses tomark its territory.

*A 10kg Tasmanian Devil is able to exert the same biting pressure as a 40kg dog. It can also eat almost a third of its body weight in a single feeding.

*Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the world. It is the only country which is also a whole continent.

*Over 90% of Australia is dry, flat and arid. Almost three-quarters of the land cannot support agriculture in any form.

*A baby kangaroo at the time of its birth measures 2 centimetres.

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*Kangaroos need very little water to survive and are capable of going for months without drinking at all. When they do need water, they dig 'wells' for themselves; frequently going as deep as three or four feet. These 'kangaroo pits' are a common source of water for other animals living in the kangaroo's environment.

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Kangaroo attacks dog, man. ^

*A kangaroo being chased by a dog may jump into a dam. If the dog gives chase, the kangaroo may turn towards the dog, then use its paws to push the dogs head underwater in order to drown it.

*Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

*A monotreme is a animal that lays eggs and suckles its young. The world's only monotremes are the platypus and the echidna.

*The male platypus has a poisonous spine that can kill a dog and inflict immense pain on a human.

*When a specimen of the platypus was first sent to England, it was believed the Australians had played a joke by sewing the bill of a duck onto a rat.

*Box Jelly fish - The box jellyfish is considered the world's most venomous marine creature. The box jellyfish has killed more people in Australia than stonefish, sharks and crocodiles combined.

*The Sydney Funnelweb spider is considered the world's most deadly spider. It is the only spider that has killed people in less than 2 hours. Its fangs are powerful enough to bite through gloves and fingernails. The only animals without immunity to the funnelweb's venom are humans and monkeys.

*Lung fish - Queensland is home to lung fish, a living fossil from the Triassic period 350 million years ago.

Convicts


*It is estimated that by the time transportation ended in 1868, 40 per cent of Australia's English-speaking population were convicts.
*A census taken in 1828 found that half the population of NSW were Convicts, and that former Convicts made up nearly half of the free population.

*In 2007, it was estimated that 22 per cent of living Australians had a convict ancestor.

*Convicts were not sent to Australia for serious crimes. Serious crimes, such as murder, rape, or impersonating an Egyptian were given the death sentence in England.

*Crimes punishable by transportation included recommending that politicians get paid, starting a union, stealing fish from a river or pond, embezzlement, receiving or buying stolen goods, setting fire to underwood, petty theft, or being suspected of supporting Irish terrorism.

* Alcohol- It has been reported that the first European settlers in Australia drank more alcohol per head of population than any other community in the history of mankind.

* Police force - Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.

* Mass moonings - In 1832, 300 female Convicts at the Cascade Female Factory mooned the Governor of Tasmania during a chapel service. It was said that in a "rare moment of collusion with the Convict women, the ladies in the Governor's party could not control their laughter.


Photo of the arrival of the Lady Juliana at Sydney Cove.

The arrival of the Lady Juliana at Sydney Cove.

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Photo of Ann Marsh managing her company, the Parramatta River Boat Service.

Ann Marsh managing her company, the Parramatta River Boat Service.

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World conflict map. Atheist Empire.

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Street views Australia

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aboriginal culture

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The Aspect Experiment....it changes man's scientific beliefs to unproven suppositions.

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Astronomy picture of the day.(press)

In the Shadow of Saturn