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will forever be to the forefront from this time hece
dont forget Californias many years of such


Bushfire threat to intensify today in Queensland
After a short-lived reprieve in conditions, authorities are bracing for the fire threat to again intensify in parts of Queensland, with the warmer weather expected to persist over the weekend.

Does Australia have enough water-bombers?
Experts are concerned that fire services do not have enough large-scale aircraft to deal with the unprecedented magnitude of fires Australia is now facing.

bit of a silly statmenti am sure theyre working on it
dont believe theyre neglecytfu at all


Does Australia have enough water-bombers?
Experts are concerned that fire services do not have enough large-scale aircraft to deal with the unprecedented magnitude of fires Australia is now facing.
Does Australia have enough water-bombers?

 

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wolves behave
any excuse is looked for re your existence WW i think, altho, theres a fondness for

• EARTH MATTERS

Why you shouldn't yell at your dog

• HEALTH
• LIF

Yelling at a dog can cause long-term stress. (Photo: Inna Astakhova/Shutterstock)

You love your dog, but he probably drives you bonkers at times. Maybe he's developed a taste for socks or won't stop jumping up on your friends. The methods you use to train him can make a big impact on his stress and long-term well-being, a new study finds.

My dog Brodie is reactive, meaning when he sees another dog, he barks like mad and spins in circles. Brodie just wants to play, but it sounds like he's a demon from hell. I interviewed several trainers and some immediately wanted to put a prong collar or shock collar on him to keep him in line. Instead I've worked with positive reinforcement trainers who have taught me to use treats, praise and other tools to work on Brodie's issues. He's still a work in progress and there are definitely times when I'm screaming inside my head, but I don't take it out on my dog.


And that certainly will make him happier in the long run, according to science.

Researchers at Universidade do Porto in Portugal studied 42 dogs from reward-based training schools that used treats or play and 50 from schools that used aversive methods like yelling and jerking on the leash.

The dogs were recorded for the first 15 minutes of three training sessions, and saliva samples were taken after training sessions and at home on days when they didn't have classes. Researchers were determining the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in each dog at rest and after training.

Researchers also looked for stress behaviors like lip licking and yawning and analyzed the overall behavioral state of the dogs to take note of whether they were tense or relaxed.

They found that the dogs enrolled in classes where they were trained with yelling and leash-yanking had higher levels of cortisol in class than when they were at home. They also showed more stress behaviors, especially yawning and lip licking. The dogs that were in positive-reinforcement classes, however, showed fewer stress-related behaviors and had normal cortisol levels in class.

"Our results show that companion dogs trained using aversive-based methods experienced poorer welfare as compared to companion dogs trained using reward-based methods, at both the short- and the long-term level," the researchers conclude. "Specifically, dogs attending schools using aversive-based methods displayed more stress-related behaviors and body postures during training, higher elevations in cortisol levels after training, and were more 'pessimistic' in a cognitive bias task than dogs attending schools using reward-based methods."

The paper is available on bioRxiv before peer review.

Long-lasting impacts of stress

Dogs trained with treats and praise are happier than those trained with yelling and leash yanking. (Photo: Jne


Why you shouldn't yell at your dog

 

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Latest weapon against lionfish invasion? Meet the Roomba of the sea.
How to counter invasive species, a common, and often intractable, problem? One entrepreneur’s clever approach offers lessons in finding solutions in the unlikeliest of places.

Latest weapon against lionfish invasion? Meet the Roomba of the sea.

a big big problem apparently
in Australia and elsewhere

Explore the Kermadecs from your armchair
Look around. This is what a healthy and diverse coral reef looks like.

It all fits together like parts of a clock. Every species plays a different role on the reef—some are reef builders, others eat old coral, some fish service other fish, some control algae growth, scavengers clean up after others, large predators keep small fish in check.

Can you see the school of barracuda?

Check out all the NZ-VR experiences here.

 

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LEAVE our fugi and age old naturals alone

weve done our best to harm/destroy everything else why tart on that
your likly to invent chemicals to kill every living thing huh

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THEY REALLY ARE MAGIC
How fungi could help stem our mushrooming climate crisis
By Zoya Teirstein on Nov 11, 2019

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The results are in, and there’s not mushroom for debate: fungi are an important, if undervalued, piece of the climate solutions puzzle. That’s the conclusion of a new global assessment published in Nature Communications last week.

Humans have long relied on fungi for sustenance and, er, inspiration. Just ask Michal Pollan, who thinks they work just as well in a gruyère omelette as they doon the human psyche.

Despite Pollan’s many pages of ‘s

How fungi could help stem our mushrooming climate crisis

LEAVE our fugni and age old naturals alone

weve done our best to harm/destroy everything else why start on that
you money hungry humans, likley to invent chemicals to kill every living thing huh

ps
there are some real decent fellows who hunter/gather for enough food for themselves only
not looking at any commercial supposed enterprise to strip/rape/pillage every fungi there is, then likely throw the unedible ones out
or
COMPOST IT for more money, thinking theyre doing a great thing for everyone
THATS WHAT HAPPENED with PALM OIL ABUSE



Lane Turner / The Boston Globe via Getty Images
THEY REALLY ARE MAGIC
How fungi could help stem our mushrooming climate crisis
By Zoya Teirstein on Nov 11, 2019
daily dose of good news from Grist Subscribe To The Beacon
The results are in, and there’s not mushroom for debate: fungi are an important, if undervalued, piece of the climate solutions puzzle. That’s the conclusion of a new global assessment published in Nature Communications last week.

Humans have long relied on fungi for sustenance and, er, inspiration. Just ask Michal Pollan, who thinks they work just as well in a gruyère omelette as they doon the human psyche.

Despite Pollan’s many pages of ‘s

How fungi could help stem our mushrooming climate crisis

 

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know
a few politicians we can give these natural wonders a job to



How much weight can a hawk carry?

 

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ffor/ad
there are those who need to be reminded
TEACH your kids noit to play with matches, anythingto do with fire
SOME of you bloody irresponsible parents
incl the irresponsible adults

eminder
Australia/California

 

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FYI FFS


what an embarras ent,for me anyway haha



Off Like a Rockit
From Country Life, 9:34 pm on 15 November 2019
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New Zealand's tiny Rockit apples are proving a real hit with both consumers and growers.

Austin Mortimer

Sandi Boyden

No-one expected the apple to be so popular, according to the the CEO of the Hawkes Bay-based company that grows and sells Rockits, Austin Mortimer.

"It's blown away everybody's expectations, which is terrific,"

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Rockit is the only miniature apple available globally, he says.

"My understanding was when [the Rockit apple] was offered to the big players none of them would touch it because they just didn't think there was value in a small apples."


Off Like a Rockit

 

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HEALTH SUNDAY

now that i find very interesting, and pretty well believe
despite decrying much of what we get up to


Every year, thousands of heart patients receive operations to open blocked arteries. But for many, drugs alone work just as well, a new study found.
Saturday, November 16, 2019 2:22 PM EST
The findings of a large federal study on bypass surgeries and stents call into question the medical care provided to tens of thousands of heart disease patients with blocked coronary arteries, scientists reported at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association on Saturday.

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COOL
better than ..

Stop swimming. Seventeen North Carolina cows were swept away by a huge wave during a storm in early September. They were presumed dead. But three have been discovered peacefully grazing on an island miles across the open water. Plans are currently underway to bring the cows home.

 

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thinking of you Australia
lived and/or passed thru many of those familiar town names in the eary years
nothing beats country rural Ausie towns for down to eartth working life beauty,i reckon

thinking of you Australia

'It's a bit scary': Emergency bushfire warning issued for Ravensbourne as four-day-old fire flares again


An emergency bushfire warning has been issued for Ravensbourne near Toowoomba, with residents ordered to leave immediately as more than 80 fires continue to burn across the state.

Nearly 500 NSW homes lost to bushfires as crews scramble to build containment lines
The NSW Rural Fire Service says 476 homes have been lost since the start of the bushfire season, and more than 1.65 million hectares have been burnt — more than the past three seasons combined.

 

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keep,as well as can e my Aussie friends/family
nothing beats Au bush,as well
always loved it
expected regeneration

hopefully


'It's a bit scary': Emergency bushfire warnings issued for Ravensbourne, Esk as four-day-old fire flares again

 

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very accurate
older link but relevant
again
impressed with there preventative work on the one day so far,when the warning level was Catastrophic

also likely shows you took heed of the warnings Aussies
champion behaviour,well done
not obstinate nor arrogant,pleasing to know

Cold front signals disaster for fire danger

 

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podcast
very interesting i think anyway
like/smile
love chillis/peppers ha true


Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: The Psychology Of How We Ea

Listen Now: Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: The Psychology Of How We Eat





Eat Like The Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4,000-Year-Old Recipes

 

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was a day when no information came out of China
compliments,to them


China Reports 2 Cases Of The Most Dangerous Type Of Plague
November 15, 201911:17 AM ET
AMY CHENG

EMILY FENG

Fleas transmit plague — but the pneumonic plague, the type reported from China this week, can spread from person to person as well.

Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images
Two patients have been diagnosed in Beijing with the most dangerous form of the plague – the medieval disease also known as the Black Death.

The announcement sent shock waves rippling through China's northeastern capital as authorities attempted to tamp down fears of an epidemic by censoring Chinese-language news of the hospitalization.

On Tuesday, Beijing authorities announced a municipal hospital had taken in a married couple from Inner Mongolia, a sparsely populated autonomous region in northwest China, seeking treatment for pneumonic plague. One patient is stable while the other is in critical condition but not deteriorating, according to Beijing's health commission.


China Reports 2 Cases Of The Most Dangerous Type Of Plague

 

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how criminal this is
espedially when MI i such a big issue currently



POLICY-ISH
A Young Immigrant Has Mental Illness, And That's Raising His Risk of Being Deported

José's son, who has schizophrenia, recently got into a fight that resulted in a broken window — an out-of-control moment from his struggle with mental illness. And it could increase his chances of deportation to a country where mental health care is even more elusive.


Hokyoung Kim for NPR

When José moved his family to the United States from Mexico nearly two decades ago, he had hopes of giving his children a better life.

But now he worries about the future of his 21-year-old-son, who has lived in central Illinois since he was a toddler. José's son has a criminal record, which could make him a target for deportation officials. We're not using the son's name because of those risks, and are using the father's middle name, José, because both men are in the U.S. without permission.


A Young Immigrant Has Mental Illness, And That's Raising His Risk of Being Deported

 

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find that one of the worst things ever
for peoples health,and blatant destructive behaviour to the insects

plus
look at that VAPING addicting young people WW as well as 00s of other things
opioids fr eg


all for F'N MONEY

U.S. Annually Uses 388 Million Pounds of Potentially Fatal Pesticides Banned in the EU, China and Brazil

 

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mmmm MEAT ENJOY
bugger those whoi say otherwise

How to Stuff Yourself in Prague for the Price of a Soda | OZY

 

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FAST FORWARD



THE WORLD IS SICK OF SWITCHING CLOCKS

https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/the-world-is-sick-of-switching-clocks/242001/

speaking of meat
the dairy cows must be F'kd off with humankinds changing clock times for ever

 

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do your bestseems ike you have a plan
esp NSW more so than QLD

you may eventually concede its all linked/asssociated
alway be many who will deny anythings morew untward than formerly
idiots, when facts prove otherwise
stuff the economy
start by reducing 1/2 of the coal exports

Analysis: Politicians must accept climate change and the economy are linked
As the country braces for a long, hot summer, it's time for politicians to realise that getting serious about the environment would be good for business, writes Ian Verrender.

'These fires will not go out': Dire warning as Queensland firefighters continue uphill battle
The fire emergency facing Queensland is still not over and it won't be for weeks, according to the Acting Fire Commissioner, who says it will take a heavy dose of rainfall to get the blazes under control.

 

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