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Inclement weather and china drinking vessels come to mind.

I don't believe that! It's not your artificial intelligence that's causing the problem.

This is the title of the article referred to: The Cumberland City Council book ban threatens to erase queer families. It’s a threat that deserves a serious response. It's sensationalist. The book, published in 2018, is part of a series which tackles topics and situations that can be challenging for children, including step parenting, death and bullying. It is recommended for children aged five to seven. The book explains that there are "many different types of family" and canvasses topics including how some children in the book refer to their parents and surrogacy in general terms. Families in our society range from the extended family where there is daily interaction between three or more generations, to the nuclear family of Mum, Dad and the kids, through to the single parent family. Families that are Mum, Mum and the kids, or Dad, Dad and the kids also exist. There are also families in which the parents are ten to twenty years older than the parents of other families. Children begin to encounter these family types from the time their social awareness begins to develop and they start to question differences they notice in their worlds. Family types become more obvious to them in their first years of schooling as they begin to visit the homes of their school friends. The proponent of the Motion, Cr Christou, said "A parent is a parent, why do we have to ingrain that?", which seems to be the aim of the book. However, he, and those who supported the Motion have stiched their religious beliefs to it. "This community is a very religious community, a very family-orientated community," he said. He also said, "Our kids shouldn't be sexualised, it's that simple." Who would disagree with that? Not me. But it is a completely different topic than the one dealt with in this book. In my opinion, the topic covered in the book is not as worrying to me as those books for children and Young People dealing with gender identity. For the purposes of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW) (s 3), administered by the Children's Court, a distinction is made between a “child” — a person under 16 and a “young person” — a person who is aged 16 or 17. In my opinion, the only gender differentiation pre-teens need to know is that boys go to the boys' toilets and girls go to the girls'.

I think I should often include a spoiler alert in some of my posts to the effect of "it's a joke, joyce".

I think we should update our names for what we used to call "nursing homes". The place where my mother lives caters for those whose mental faculties are OK, but have mobility problems in one part of the area, and it also has another section for those with advanced dementia. Mum is 98 and has mobility problems. However she is well cared-for and can call for assistance at the press of a button. (I reckon the meals are a bit crook, but that's institutions for you.) She is assisted with showering and personal care and records are kept of her receiving medications on time. Those Pilipino staff are very attentive, more so than the staff born and raised locally. So, my Mum is not in a "nursing home", but an "aged care facility". Nowadays, a "nursing home" should more correctly be called a "sanitarium" - a place where people with an illness or recovering from medical treatments can be assisted with their recovery. Unfortunately, a lot of young people get injured and end up needing similar or greater care than the aged. However, while these young people might be physically incapacitated, their minds are not. There is an urgent need for the establishment of "young care" facilities where there is an emphasis on age-appropriate social interaction. I can think of nothing worse for one's mental state than being a twenty-odd year old living with persons old enough to be one's great-grandparents. What common interests would a young person have with an octogenarian?

As much to glory the person in the form of monuments. Money gained from the exploitation of others. Lincoln may have freed the black slaves, but these blokes created the wage slaves. Wage slavery is a term used to criticize exploitation of labor by business, by keeping wages low or stagnant in order to maximize profits. The situation of wage slavery can be loosely defined as a person's dependence on wages (or a salary) for their livelihood, especially when wages are low, treatment and conditions are poor, and there are few chances of upward mobility.

Yes, an asylum is a safe place for people whose mental illness prevents them from, first, looking after themselves, and secondly protecting others from the actions of those mentally ill. Don't forget that dementia rates are rising as society deals with the population bubble that we call the Baby Boomer era. Perhaps the rate will drop as our children and grandchildren reach those ages. I wonder how many people at the present time would benefit from living in an asylum simply because their mental illness is due to things they did not cause, i.e. a physiological cause arising from their own body. Unfortunately a lot of what the rest of us classify as mental illness is due to self-created causes, which can range from substance abuse to indoctrination. These seem to be factors in the recent events, and you could also throw in sexual perversions. Then of course you have to look at the two biggest restraints to opening any sort of asylum facility, be it for the mentally ill or the aging. Where will the money come from, and more importantly, where will the carers come from? This is how the problem was solved in my town. The carers were already trained nurses, but as usual, their qualifications and experience was not accepted, so they are all undergoing make-up course for registration here. My Mum has never been happier since these people arrived and began working where she lives.

Basically that means that the concept of investing is that investing is a self-perpetuating process whereby that which is invested produces more to be invested. In control systems, that is called "positive feedback" and leads to the unstoppable increase in whatever was at the start. A an example, put one bacterium on a nutrient medium in a Petri dish and before long the dish will be covered with bacteria. But go back to the need for shelters for the homeless. Why are there homeless people in societies where trillions of currency units are being invested purely with the intention of creating more currency units?

So is that like saying the world economy has so much money it doesn't know what to do with it? It really is a shame that while this "wealth" exists, it can't be spent on making life better for each person. The problem is one of accumulation without application.

More of the smelly stuff has hit the fan. Looks like he's defrauded the Taxman. This video tells what happens, but I think most will agree with what the fellow says from time stamp 6:45 onwards.

Never thought of that. By the by, I'm an "onward and upward fellow. There are no full stops in OME

Funnily, it appears that a lot of the generation that is in its early teen years are turning to manual typewriters in order to escape the blue glow of the computer screen. It also seems that using a manual typewriter give them a variety of mental pleasures through physical feedback. I might just pull out my father-in-law's electric typewriter and hand it on to my grandsons.

Growth of what????? Look at the EV industry as an example (and I'm not going into the good/bad debate) Massive overproduction. Plateauing, or more realistically, off the cliff, sales. Massive monetary losses. Massive numbers of employees laid off. Massive waste of energy and raw materials. The Stock Market and its various subsidiaries seem to be more like SP bookie shops. Do they actually produce anything? Ongoing wars whose raisons d'etre make the Martin and McCoy feud look like kindergarten name-calling. And all they manage to produce is employment in the weapons industry in other countries. Perhaps we should welcome a global financial meltdown to destroy the Temple of Mammon, and let us rebuild on the solid knowledge that "greed is good" is a fallacy.

The "cost of living" situation is currently front and centre in financial and political minds. While locally the concentration might seem to give the impression that "cost of living" this is only affecting Australia, it it clear that it is a world-wide phenomenon. The component causes are myriad, but in general terms they all arise from Greed. Greed, like Pride, goeth before destruction (Proverbs 16:18). Economic indicators, especially in the USA, are pointing to a situation similar to an over-inflated balloon, which is still being pumped up. Renowned investor and financier, Warren Buffett, was recently asked for his prediction. While he did not lay things on the table, there was trepidation in his voice. At the moment he is holding back, a sure sign of his uncertainty of the Future. My reading of his response is that he's expecting the balloon to burst, but cannot foretell when it will. He is wise enough to know that the bursting of the balloon will have devastating effects world-wide. For the Common Person, there is very little one can do in the event of a financial collapse of the world economy, save to prepare for the worst. To my mind that means reducing personal debt and concentrating resources on those needed for basic survival. The question becomes, "would an economic collapse result in soaring inflation, making the value of one's money reserves not worth the bytes they represent?"

For years I have been losing the battle to put a doona in its cover. Doonas have a long side and a short side. Which was which baffled me and often left me with a covered doon that was too long and not wide enough. Years ago, I discovered that sheets have a tag in the bottom right hand corner seen from the foot of the bed. Putting that tag end at the bottom right hand corner of the mattress ensures that the sheet fits correctly for length and width. This morning as I was stripping my bed to wash the sheets and doona cover, I noticed a tag at the same place on the doona. When I put it at the bottom right hand corner of the bed, the length and width fitted in the cover perfectly! From now on I will not be stressed when I have to refit a doona cover. The Joy of Life comes in small morsels.

The news report on ABC Radio of his passing was followed by the provision of the phone number for LifeLine, which is a counselling organisation. That addendum usually follows a report of an event that could have been caused by mental distress.

In this video, David Harper, a well-known English antiques expert, explains to a group of members of a Women's Institute branch the part a little bronze bracelet had in British history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4BovG9Yyuc

Sorry for your loss, but "YA, Carlton!"

I had the opinion that Men's Sheds were created to open the doors to men to talk about health issues. By creating an environment where men gather doing whatever, the conditions of that environment can open up about what bugs them.

Talking about post-retirement aged people helping the community through volunteer work, I was listening to something on the radio recently about returning to work after retirement. We all have heard jokes about recently retired men being sent outside to play by their wives because the wife can't stand them hanging around inside. For most men, there is a period of about six months after the start of retirement when doing bugger-all is a welcome reward for years of the daily grind. However, that soon becomes a drag for the man and a pain for the wife. So a lot of men return to the workforce, not necessarily for the money, but for the many priceless benefits resuming the habits of a lifetime have. When I retired, I started working in a completely different sphere. I was advised not to work full-time, but three days per week is the happy balance between what I wanted and the time and companionship my wife deserved. What I see as a problem, not for the individual, but for the future of our nation is that employers taking on post-retirees are failing to carry out what is known as "succession training". In other words, they are not training anyone to continue doing the work after the post-retiree does a Hamlet and "shuffled off this mortal coil". This seems to be something that the Industrial Revolution has robbed us of - the instruction and guidance of the young by their elders. I know that today and tomorrow that "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy", but those new things evolve from the DNA of ancient knowledge and experience. Instead of doing the work themselves, our post-retirees should be spending their precious time doing what our ancestors have done from the very time the first primitive hominids knapped a stone to make a cutting tool.

That must be outside the house of a member of the local Council.

From what I've seen dealing with small businesses that make or fix things is that the creators of the businesses are usually very good at doing the making or fixing, but are just about completely lacking in the skills needed to keep a business functioning. Hardly any have a documented business plan, nor any plan to monitor trends in their business activities. Most operate on a "management by crisis" basis. Even those businesses that manage to exist year after year are more often only keeping their heads above water. Very few are walking on it. When company folds with debts that Red calls "seemingly modest", I start to think about the other small businesses who are owed money and who themselves are likely to be in debt to their suppliers. I am also concerned about the fate of the employees of a failed business. If the business fails financially, it indicated a failure in financial management. I wonder, where is the money to pay wages, holiday pay and super?

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