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VALUES
VALUES Have you ever considered how the current values of the federal Coalition contrast with those of some others and what might be in a new society? Here is a first effort at comparing them. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH DRIVEN ECONOMY 1. Economic growth is always good: the future is no concern…
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Rainforest Meets the Sound
The waterfall and rainforest in Doubtful Sound, Fiordland, Southland New Zealand, an amazing contrast of the ocean and rainforest in this cold climate.
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Tech Tip of the Day: Recovering Lost files on Windows.
Tech Tip of the Day. I helped my neighbours today, B had lost a file on her High School Laptop. Apparently they use the Cloud at High School now. Microsoft Cloud…….. I went back to the old ways, I opened a command prompt, I was in B’s home folder (/Users/studentid,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory). I then ran the command…
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Example – Depth of Field and Focal Length
Depth of field is greatly influenced by the focal length, using a long lens, 300mm for example, means that F5.6 is like F4.0. This photo shows this in action, the nice blurred background here is also aided by a good deal of depth in the subject as well, position yourself where you can get great…
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How to get Brother Control Centre working for remote scanning on Windows Vista
How to get Brother Control Centre working for remote scanning on Windows Vista Description of the problem You’ve installed the Brother Control Centre software on your Windows Vista PC and can print, copy, fax and even scan using the software on the PC but you can’t use the buttons on the MFC scanner to…
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The 10 Commandments of Photography
The 10 Commandments of Photography Here’s something new. A photography article with no pictures. There is one rule you need for taking great photographs. It was a favourite saying of noted British nature photographer Heather Angel and most of the 10 Commandments come from this simple phrase: "f8 and be there" Read on to…
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International System of Units (SI) prefixes.
I always find it hard to picture these BIG numbers in my head, so here they are in simple form with comma’s between the 0’s to give them a little length. yocto — 10^-24 — 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 zepto — 10^-21 — 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,001 atto — 10^-18 — 0.000,000,000,000,000,001 femto — 10^-15 — 0.000,000,000,000,001 pico — 10^-12 — 0.000,000,000,001 nano — 10^-9 — 0.000,000,001…
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An impoverished landscape – Part 2
by John Sinclair A land rapidly losing its wildlife — Birds As a concerned grandparent, I am conscious of the world we are bequeathing to future generations and try to compare my own childhood and youth with that of my grandchildren. In this essay I discuss how they will miss the sound and sight of many…
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An impoverished landscape – Part 1
This essay is the first of a series of planned reports discussing the Australian landscape and its natural environment and how it has become significantly impoverished especially in recent years. A land depleted of its natural heritage After more than a half a century of exploring Australia to identify the best of its natural heritage,…
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Connor’s Lost Football
A story from Kakadu July 2010 by John Sinclair for his grandchildren and others When Connor lost his football in the tall dry grass while on holidays with his family in Kakadu he thought that was the end of the matter. He and his sister and cousins had searched and searched in the long…