Happy NY to All.
While I was watching the Sydney Harbour Fireworks this morning, it was nosiy, colourful and spectacular. Oh the weather here this morning at Bradfield is spectacular too.
The exploding fireworks reminded me of something of my personal interest, the volcanoes. It also jolted me something of a blast from the past, something that i wrote a while back for Margo Kingston’s Webdiary. Especially with the number of earthquakes in 2011 in NZ, Japan, Turkey etc as earthquakes and volcanoes are closely linked as by-products of the tectonic plate movements and clashes.
This is an extract just for the fun of it:
Indonesia’s 13,000 islands string across the equator. It is blessed with breathtaking beauties and an abundance of natural resources. It is so fertile that anything would grow naturally and luxuriantly, because it has many of nature’s own fertiliser factories, the volcanoes. Volcano eruptions are nature’s way of replenishing the earth with new topsoil and minerals. Sub-sea eruptions are nature’s way of building new islands and continents. Without them, life is not sustainable.
Indonesia has more volcanoes than any other country in the world. There are more than 60 volcanoes in Indonesia with the majority located on the island of Sumatra, Java and the eastern islands from Bali to Timor. The most well known is Krakatau, which erupted famously at 10am, August 27, 1883.
Krakatau was an island of 47 sq kms in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java. It blew itself away in 1883. The wave it caused wiped out 163 villages and killed 36,380 people. Pumice was thrown 55 km high and dust fell 5330 km away 10 days later. The explosion was recorded four hours later on the island of Rodrigues, 4776 km away, as the roar of heavy guns and was heard in over one thirteenth of the surface of the globe. Krakatau was famous because it happened at the beginning of the telegraphic age.
Simon Winchester’s excellent book Krakatau: The day the World exploded describes how a local Sufi mystic Haji Abdul Karim had stirred the local people with his prediction that the Infidels would bring “earthquakes, hours without sun, giant waves and the end of the world”. So the Krakatau eruption was attributed to the first “jihad” attack on the westerners in Indonesia. In October 2, 1883, two months after the eruption, a young Dutch soldier who was part of the disaster relief regiment was stabbed to death by a bearded man dressed entirely in white and armed with a curved dagger. The same thing was repeated six weeks later.
Famous as it was, Krakatau was not the largest eruption from Indonesian volcanoes. The largest was attributed to the eruption that created the beautiful Lake Toba of North Sumatra next to Aceh. It was the last truly giant eruption on earth and occurred 74,000 years ago. It ejected into the atmosphere some 2,800 cubic kilometres (ckms) of ash, pyroclastic material and lava bombs, blocked sun radiation and reduced global temperature. In comparison, the recent Mt. St. Helens eruption ejected only 1 ckms, Katmai of Alaska 10 ckms, Krakatau 20 ckms, Lake Taupo NZ 80 ckms and Mt. Tambora 150 ckms. So 3 of the top 5 volcanic eruptions occurred in Indonesian volcanoes.
The Tambora (located on the Island of Sumbawa, between Bali & Timor) eruption was the most violent eruption in modern times. It began in early April 1815 and continuing till the middle of July 1815. Its immediate explosion effects were felt over an immense area, embracing the Maluku Islands, Java, and portions of Sulawesi, Sumatra, and Kalimantan. 92,000 deaths were reported. Tambora spewed sulphur-rich gases that rose to a height of 28 miles and created a giant sun filter in the northern hemisphere that caused the spring and summer of 1816 to be extremely cold across Europe and North America as described earlier. It was called the year without summer and caused food famine & riots in the Northern Hemisphere.
G’Day to ALL
Still no change with page numbering though, and it reverts to the first page.
Hm got Prev 1 2 next
That is a clue.
Hmm refreshing the page reverts to the first post on the first page of this thread.
mattiethereaderMattie
Abbott says govt must live within its means.This is same MP who had to take out a $710k mortgage to fund lifestyle & private school fees?
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Abbotts New Year rant was bizarre.
Why does he have a fetish about pressure on interest rates? Unless of course he has a massive debt.
And make a complete ballsup like you did with the World’s Greatest Taxi Ride ?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-01/call-to-protect-hopman-cup/3754130?section=wa
still not showing 51, 52 etc
and when posting it goes straight back to first page of post and doesn’t showe newer entris at the bottom onlty older entries
helping post whatever
Tennis Australia also manages the Brisbane International at the same time and there are fears it might encourage high ranking players to skip Perth in favour of Brisbane.
Er Look who is playing in the Brisbane Int.. Sorry WA Hopman cup is rooted.
Plugins conflicting, I will sort it out later or sooner.
ruawake,
Hopmsan Cup lost it’s edge once Their ABC stopped telivising it and the Aussie Team never reaching the finals
Sixty Minutes of crap is about to come on ch9 and I suppose they are showing reruns. One story is how the gov’t killed the live cattle export industry and now refuses to admit culpability. :sigh: #TooSickOfThisCrapToEvenGetAngryAnymore
Yep what is the point of a tournement that nobody is interested in.
The only thing of interest is the Hopman Cup Ball on New Years Eve – as for the rest unless you can afford the money to attend – forget it.
lazy Gerblism.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/molly-meldrum-recognises-brother/story-fn6mhd09-1226234372540
Still reverts to front page, but at least we have page numbers at the bottom
Are we trying to mimic PB?
[testing testing]
Try making it BETTER than PB :-)
When I refresh it comes back to where I left, that is on page 2 and the last number post that I read.
Yay all fixed so it goes to last post on current page,
Testing paras.
Testing paras.
It works!!!
Well done all involved.
wikileaks WikiLeaks
2012: Assange: 390 days detained without charge, WikiLeaks: 393 days bank blockade, Manning 587 days military jail
just so we are clear on the FACTS
vanOnselenP Peter van Onselen
Your (like it or not) ratings of our leaders 2011 performances? Sunday Tele: “PVOs end-of-year political report card” | bit.ly/tHooPr
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Thefinnigans TheFinnigans天地有道人无道
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@vanOnselenP Gee, Tony Abbott a leader? a clever opposition politician maybe, but he aint no leader.
finns
your mission
seek and destroy PvO’s logic train
:grin:
musings
getup and wiki have a common parent
peeps who seeek to unshackle the ramrods of the MSM
we iz legion (and spartacus, sometimes)
gen franco
all dictators think that
Honeymoon over for Fatty ?
GhostWhoVotesGhostWhoVotes
#Newspoll NSW State 2 Party Preferred: L/NP 64 (-2) ALP 36 (+2) #nswpol #auspol
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frankenfurter
manning iz hiz own man
aamoi even if he said assange coerced him
it is actually wiki, not JA that released the tapes
If union carbide etc can hide behind corporate law, why not wiki?
Wiki ain;t a Coroporation – it is a collective of nutcases. :-)
The Republicans can’t depend on all the USA Evangelicals. Some of them have had enough of Republicanism.
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/12/28/3399068.htm?WT.svl=featuredSitesScroller
frankenstein
true
most corps are nuthouses
wiki is where the intelligentsia congregate
in fact
the comintern is perhaps the closest global example
vanOnselenPPeter van Onselen
Probably shouldn’t have called it rating our ‘leaders’…let’s just call it rating our politicians….
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@ThefinnigansTheFinnigans天地有道人无道
@vanOnselenP Peter, it’s easy to NO everything. Show me one new substantial policy initiative and vision for Aust from Tony Abbott
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And it’s Their ABC:
ABCNews24ABC News 24
On @BreakfastNews tomorrow we’re joined by Opp. spokesman for Climate and Environ. @GregHuntMP and Simon Gillett from #AmysRide. 6am AEDT.
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hmmmm
[Why Evangelical Christians have left the Right]
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/10/28/3350576.htm
[New evangelicals" (as Richard Cizik, President of The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, calls them) have shifted away from the religious right - moving towards an anti-militarist, anti-consumerist focus on poverty relief, environmental protection, immigration reform, and racial/religious reconciliation.
The religious right remains, but where there was the appearance of a seemingly monovocal movement there is now robust polyphony.
Robert, for instance, is the PR director of a southern megachurch. He has no cross in his office, but rather a large poster of Barack Obama along with Captain Kirk screensavers, framed vintage SciFi magazines and books on philosophy and theology. His church spends $1.5 million each year on social justice projects.
Across the country, the "Introduction to our Community" DVD at a midwestern megachurch talks about one of the church's first members, a post-op trans-sexual. That church's social programming addresses substance abuse, orphans, the homeless, free food and clothing distribution, care for the elderly and the deaf, prison ministries, building affordable housing, and projects overseas on environmental protection, disease reduction, and education.
Crossing the country again, Randall Balmer, an editor at Christianity Today, lambastes the religious right: "The evangelical faith that nurtured me as a child and sustains me as an adult has been hijacked by right-wing zealots ..."
Back in the Midwest, the Rev. Greg Boyd writes, "I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry," worshipping political wins rather than Jesus' teachings.]
So what are we doing letting these rw nutters set up here influencing our politicians, when even the evangelical movement in the USA is asking serious questions and rejecting their doctrines?
GhostWhoVotesGhostWhoVotes
#Newspoll NSW Preferred Premier: O’Farrell 54 (-3) Robertson 15 (+2) #nswpol #auspol
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GhostWhoVotesGhostWhoVotes
#Newspoll NSW Robertson: Approve 28 (+1) Disapprove 35 (+3) #nswpol #auspol
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GhostWhoVotesGhostWhoVotes
#Newspoll NSW O’Farrell: Approve 49 (-4) Disapprove 28 (+4) #nswpol #auspol
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GhostWhoVotesGhostWhoVotes
#Newspoll NSW State Primary Votes: L/NP 49 (-2) ALP 24 (+2) GRN 13 (-1) #nswpol #auspol
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StGusface Gusface
@geeksrulz No silly, he was made a MoM- now he is officially a muthafucker
setting the record straight re the rodent
stfrancis
did u c PvO’s tweet
he iz such a fib fanboy
francesco
[StGusface Gusface
@Andy_Downunda 2012 is the year of No Surrender No Retreat #fightthemsm #fibs #liesandspin #Australiasfuture]
StGusface Gusface
@ @Andy_Downunda andy, its more a guerilla campaign- ie workmates friends, in fact any peep who is brainfarqed by the msm shite- we can do it
a maxim for our time
NSW Quarterly Newspoll Tables:
http://ghostwhovotes.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/newspoll-120102-nsw.pdf