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Post by Galadriel on Feb 11, 2009 16:48:18 GMT
I'm pretty sure that the Aussies will test the blood they got too. It can take up to a week, but if they have overstock right now, and need to throw 1/3 away from the donated blood, they still have enough to cover it 
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Post by Alrik on Feb 13, 2009 18:27:13 GMT
These fires remind me of Greece and of the U.S. ... And most worrying, there had been people in some places starting these fires ... Who knows why ?
Of one case I read where a dropped cigarette has ignited such a fire somewhere in Australia ...
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Post by janggut on Feb 14, 2009 17:28:29 GMT
HEF, glad u're ok. hope others in Oz are doing alright too. things are really weird. with one side burning while the other submerged in water. i hope things will get better on both sides soon.
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Post by LaFille on Feb 15, 2009 5:29:10 GMT
These fires remind me of Greece and of the U.S. ... And most worrying, there had been people in some places starting these fires ... Who knows why ? Of one case I read where a dropped cigarette has ignited such a fire somewhere in Australia ... Those 3 places are environments where forest fires are part of the natural cycles (IIRC it's called a Mediterranean biome, though I'm not sure if the Oz one is one of its own); some tree seeds even need that to germinate or need the kind of evironment that follows a fire to thrive, and as such the mature trees are (evolutionarily-speaking) purposely easily flammable. It doesn't excuse the crimes, but explains some why it always comes back and why it tends to go out of control more than elsewhere... |
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Post by janggut on Feb 15, 2009 9:35:32 GMT
i have an Aussie colleague who said the same thing, Fille. the forest/bush fires being part of the land's natural cycles. this time it's extra bad cos there hasn't been one for quite a while & u have forests & such growing all around. these become fuel for the bush fires.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Feb 15, 2009 20:21:02 GMT
excuse my nerdiness... There are 5 regions with 'Mediterranean' climate on Earth - the others being in California, Chile, South Africa and Australia. Common factor? - they all grow excellent wines! While fires are a natural cycle in many wooded parts of the world, Spain, France and Greece have a number of instances where this is used as an 'excuse' to start fires artificially for the purpose of land speculation (Both to make room for new building as well as to deteriorate a competive owner's land). |
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Post by rhiian on Feb 16, 2009 16:30:40 GMT
Hey guys!
i guess this is the right place to put this... i might have to make a topic idk. it's not really worth it.
but anyway
I'm in the middle of my GCSEs now and the heat is really on D: i got my exam timetable the other day so i need to start studying away.
Sorry I haven't been on here much >.< too much coursework and hardly any time to go on every single forum i'm a member of. I doubt I was greatly missed (tho killerzzz PMed me so that's one person who remebered me xD)
haha
anyway I'll try my hardest to come and remain the wittiest >=D
but as of now I'm not going to be around much.
I'll see you on the other side >=)
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Post by Hildor on Feb 16, 2009 16:39:26 GMT
I wish you a lot of luck with your gcse's and tons and tons of courage and (most important) determination  |
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Post by Galadriel on Feb 16, 2009 17:42:39 GMT
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 16, 2009 18:22:25 GMT
Good luck with the exams, Rhiian! (And I knew you were OK as I saw you on the SSF  |
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Post by LaFille on Feb 17, 2009 3:22:44 GMT
I was wondering where you vanished too, rhiian; good luck with the exams!  On forest fires, they're common here too in the north, but with the fires in Greece a year or 2 ago it was the first time I heard about those forest fires for land speculation (or perhaps even pyromaniac acts now). I know that in California they used to do "preventive burning" (don't know if the speculation thing was happening there as well) and that setting some land on fire for agricultural purposes is done in a few places in the world, but otherwise all I knew were natural or accidental cases. It's scary. |
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Post by janggut on Feb 17, 2009 3:34:57 GMT
we're fortunate here in Malaysia as we didn't have any haze last year, unlike previous years. i guess the Indonesian governments have somehow done something to reduce blatant forest/plantation fire, which sadly is (wish that's past tense) a common practice here to clear the land for another round of plantation.
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Post by Alrik on Feb 23, 2009 20:49:04 GMT
For the OSCAR prize, Germany had sent the movie "Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex" into the race - a movie about Germany's most dangerous terror group in the 70s and early 80s.
Now I just read in another forum about a woman who had seen this movie, is interested in getting to know the backgrounds, and therefore connected herself with a kind of interest group - a "network", as she wrote.
A lost relative whom she had met only a few months ago is now threatening her that she should tel that she "doesn't think so" and is willing to tell the U.S. Homeland Security about her and that she is a danger for the person's country (the U.S.).
The person also forbid her to contact ANY of the persons relatives again.
She doesn't know why she received this rather aggressive message, but she says this can only be because she said she was conneting herself with this interest network.
I bet the person hasn't even seen the movie and doesn't even want to.
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Post by LaFille on Feb 24, 2009 3:17:33 GMT
I'm not sure that I understand what's the situation.  (I haven't seen that movie either.) I want to apologize for not being around much and being late to answer these last times... I'm in the middle of 2 particularly ruishing weeks. =/ Spring break is next week though (eager tyo be there). |
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Feb 24, 2009 12:55:59 GMT
I'm not sure that I understand what's the situation. (I haven't seen that movie either.) I want to apologize for not being around much and being late to answer these last times... I'm in the middle of 2 particularly ruishing weeks. =/ Spring break is next week though (eager tyo be there). I'm not sure that seeing the movie will help to understand. (I also doubt that, if shown in North America at all, it'd be succesfull) The events in question were before your time - this may help: German Autumn |
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Post by Hildor on Feb 25, 2009 22:15:51 GMT
Giving you greetings from the mini-lanparty me and my friend are holding here right now ;D
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Post by Galadriel on Feb 25, 2009 22:18:31 GMT
Giving you greetings from the mini-lanparty me and my friend are holding here right now ;D  ;D |
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 25, 2009 22:21:07 GMT
*cough* tell him all about Chaos *cough* ;D
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Post by Galadriel on Feb 25, 2009 22:42:00 GMT
*cough* tell him all about Chaos *cough* ;D
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 25, 2009 22:47:10 GMT
*cough* tell him all about Chaos *cough* ;D
----->I DID mean Hildor... ;D |
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(I haven't seen that movie either.)
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