JACK HAS GONE TO THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

Sad time for me my jack has gone

22nd April R.I.P. my wonderful friend.

Jack was a little of colour on the 21st but still had his evening meal and a game of frisbee with our other dog.  On the 22nd a Tuesday we decided to take him to the vet with what we thought was a tummy bug. 

He was to do his aged care visit the following day, so just to be on the safe side we though a vet check was in order.

Well went from bad to worse very quickly.  The vet began to take some blood out of Jacks leg, it was almost black.  Sent it for analysis and the results were not good.

He wanted a second opinion so off we went to a specialist center.

Xray's and scans and deliberations by the vet.  Then the worst news we could possibly get.

Jacks immune system had gone berserk, his white blood cells were killing of his red blood cells.  There was no coming back.

So I gave the OK to put Jack to sleep, one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life.

So I cuddled him and told him I was so, so sorry.  And my wonderful friend was no more.  It was so quick and quiet not a murmur from him. He went into a deep sleep and the next needle stopped his heart, and mine.  Jack was only 7.

We went home in total disbelief, two weeks later it is still disbelief.  Never to get a cuddle from my best friend ever again, never a lick, never  his head resting on my lap looking at me.  

Jack has left a huge hole, his bed is still next to my chair.

 It is so quiet, I can't finish this tonight.  Maybe never finish.

 

The Wolf Man

Wow how interesting:

http://today.ninemsn.com.au/?videoid=f6cbf9f2-b6a4-46dd-b98b-9e3c74b4e282

NZ DOG RESCUE STORY

The story begins with the rescuers finding this poor little guy they named "Ralphie",

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2. Someone had already taken him under their wing but they weren't equiped to adopt.

   Ralphie, scared and starved, joined his rescuers.

 I wouldn't think anything could live thru this....but we were wrong.

This little lady also survived that wreckage.

Here she is just placed in the car - scared, but safe.

and then..they are no longer alone!

Add two more beagles found after that....the more, the merrier!

Oh boy, a new traveler to add to the mix...

(Note: the cat coming over the seat needing shelter...)



Now just how is this going to work? (and remember they
are all strange to one another )




It's going to work just fine, thank you very much!





Wow! The things we learn from our animal friends...


If only all of mankind could learn such valuable lessons as this.


Lessons of instant friendship. Of peace and
 harmony by way of respect


for one another -- no matter one's color or creed. These animals tell you... "It's just good to be alive and with others."
Yes, it surely is.


So.... Live, love, laugh. "Life's a Gift... Unwrap It!"

Just to add a note here, when Robyn and I were native bird carers we found quite often we could put birds together that normally were not compatable.  Totally different species co-exsisted together.  Also most birds let us handle them without to much of a struggle.  We like to think they knew we were only trying to help them.





FRIENDS FOREVER AND BEYOND

This needs nothing said, just watch and think

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2010/11/05/dnt.dog.defines.loyalty.wfaa.html

DAMN SPEED CAMERA'S

If you do contribute who's fault is it?  To me it does not compute when drivers see a road sign that says 60k and they want to do 65 or 70k.  Then when they get caught on camera for speeding it is, "that damned government is revenue raising".  Surely as adults and logical beings we know the difference between right and wrong.  i.e. don't touch the stove".

If a child is told, "don't touch the stove or you'll get burnt" and the child touches the stove that child will get burnt. Easy huh! The child will most likely understand not to ever do that again. Is this logical?

As adults it is our job in life to teach our children the right and wrong ways to do things, THAT makes us responsible people.  We are responsible for many things, work, bills, health, education, feeding, cooking.  These are our rules of life that the majority abide by.  If we don't abide by these rules there are dir consequences, we get sick, no money, nowhere to live and so on.  Is this still logical?

Really I don't need to say anymore do I?

It's sad, but I need to say more. 

I hear on TV and on radio, in the papers, "THE GOVERNMENT IS JUST REVENUE RAISING".
WELL IDIOT YOU DON'T HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE!!!!!


These people that continuously flaunt the law by driving fast and the complaining really are IDIOTS.
There are no excuses they are just IDIOTS. 


When I was 18 three of my friends were going for a drive to a rural town, only 1 hour away.  They asked me to go and as I had to get up for work in the morning I said no to their offer.  THAT is probably the most important decision I have ever made.  NONE of them survived the crash.  Straight into a huge tree, I mean huge like 6ft or 2meters across.  The road was a fairly good road no rain and a well light corner, I know it well.  The speed limit at that time was 35mph (60k) for that stretch of road.  They were doing about 50mph (80k), three young men out for some fun never went home, I never saw them again but I have never forgotten that day. 

So my friends call me what you will but I don't speed.  Oh yes sometimes I go marginally over, but when I notice my speed is up I back off right away.  I owe this to my wife my kids, grand kids to my friends and people in general.  Go to a hospital look in the spinal injuries wards.  next time you see a crash on TV and it is caused by speed think about your responsibilities to other people.  Leave 10 minutes early and and take your time.

"THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME", hmm how many dead people have said that.  How many fathers, mothers, aunties uncles, sons and daughters have said those exact words.

It's not about paying a fine, it's not about I was only 5k over, it's about staying alive, being responsible and teaching the right lessons to our kids.


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What's been happening????

Jack and I will be back to the Children's hospital and the aged care home very soon. I must admit I have missed it very much, and I know Jack has been missed too. Ha ha he's getting fat not doing anything. I have lost 10kg in the last month so Jack is on a diet to now.

We have all seen the pure aggression of nature at work recently, with floods here in Queensland, cyclones up north, earth quakes in N.Z. and now Japan and even more flooding as I write in N.S.W. The magnitude of Japan's earth quake by far the most devastating. I cannot imagine what those poor people are going through. We here at our home in south east queensland feel very lucky indeed to come out unscathed.

Our summer has slipped into autumn now but temperatures still get up into the high 80's. I will have to plant some winter vegies soon, silverbeet and lettuce are top of the list. I have 3 bathtubs for growing them in, and also large pots strategicly placed. It's good with the big pots they can move and follow the sun.

Just organised my visiting days for next month. We go back to the aged care home on the 6th April and Childrens Hospital the week after. I cannot take pictures in the Children's Hospital, it's just not allowed for the security of the children. The aged care home is Ok for taking pictures as long as they sign an OK form.

Jack has to be vet tested 4 times a year, he has a throat swab (He hates that) that is to test for anything that may be harmful to any patients like, salmonela. Dogs that eat raw meat can have salmonela in their system. All Jack,s food is cooked food but still has to be tested. The other test is a poo sample.

Well enough waffling for now, be back to more doggy and animal things very soon



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BULLY GETS OWNED

I don't like violence, but I see this as more, hmmm, retrobution

 

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CARBON TAX PHOOEY!!!

How Well Has The Media And Government Informed The Public About CO2 Levels In The Air?



Ask yourself, your friends, family and work associates if they know the answers to the following questions about Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Be sure to write your answers before looking at the following pages.



Question 1. What percentage of the atmosphere do you think is CO2?



Question 2. Have you ever seen the percentage given in any media?



Question 3. What percentage of the CO2 is man-made?



Question 4. What percentage of the man-made CO2 does Australia produce?



Question 5. Is CO2 is a pollutant?



Question 6. Have you ever seen any evidence that CO2 causes a greenhouse effect?



I have asked over 100 people these questions. Virtually everyone says they don’t know the answers so ask them to tell you what their perception is by what they have learnt from the media, the government and Green groups. Let them know there is no right or wrong answer as you are just doing a survey as to what people have perceived the answers to be from these sources.



The answers to these questions are fundamental to evaluating the global warming scare YET almost no one knows the facts. However, without this knowledge we can’t make an informed decision about whether Climate Change is natural or not.



On the following pages are respondent’s perceptions followed by the correct answers. The bulk of the respondents (over 100 to date) are educated fairly well to very well. They comprise business managers in a diversity of large and small companies, those in medical profession, accounting, law, sales, engineering as well as scientists and trades people.



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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS



Q1. What % of the air is CO2?



Respondent’s Answers: nearly all were 20% - 40%, the highest was 75% while the lowest were 10%- 2%.



The Correct Answer: CO2 is less than a mere four 100ths of 1%! As a decimal it is 0.038%. As a fraction it is 1/27th of 1%. (Measurements for CO2 vary from one source to another from 0.036%- 0.039% due to the difficulty in measuring such a small quantity and due to changes in wind direction e.g. whether the air flow is from an industrialized region or a volcanic emission etc)



Nitrogen is just over 78%, Oxygen is just under 21% and Argon is almost 1%. CO2 is a minute trace gas at 0.038%. We all learnt the composition of the air in both primary and high school but because most people don’t use science in their day to day living, they have forgotten this. Also, the vast bulk of the population have very little knowledge of science so they find it impossible to make judgements about even basic scientific issues let alone ones as complex as climate. This makes it easy for those with agendas to deceive us by using emotive statements rather than facts. For a detailed breakup of the atmosphere go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Composition



Q2. Have you seen a percentage for CO2 given in the media?



Respondent’s answers: All said ’No’.



Q3. What % of CO2 do humans produce?



Respondent’s answers ranged from as high as 100% with most estimating it to be between 75% to 25% and only four said they thought it was between 10% and 2 %.



The Correct Answer: Nature produces nearly all of it. Humans produce only 3%. As a decimal it is a miniscule 0.001% of the air. All of mankind produces only one molecule of CO2 in around every 90,000 air molecules! Yes, that’s all.



Q4. What % of man-made CO2 does Australia produce?



Respondent’s Answers ranged from 20% to 5%.



The Correct Answer is 1% of the 0.001% of man-made CO2. As a decimal it is an insignificant 0.00001% of the air. That’s one, one-hundredth thousandth of the air. That is what all the fuss is about! That’s one CO2 molecule from Australia in every 9,000,000 molecules of air. It has absolutely no affect at all.



We have been grossly misled to think there is tens of thousands of times as much CO2 as there is!



Why has such important information been withheld from the public? If the public were aware that man-made CO2 is so incredibly small there would be very little belief in a climate disaster so the media would not be able to make a bonanza from years of high sales by selling doomsday stories. Governments and Green groups would not be able to justify a carbon tax that will greatly raise the cost of everything. Major international banks and the stock market would not make massive profits out of carbon trading and many in the science community would not be getting large research grants.



Q5. Is CO2 is a pollutant?



Respondent’s Answers: All thought it was a pollutant, at least to some degree.



The Correct Answer: CO2 is a harmless, trace gas. It is as necessary for life - just as oxygen and nitrogen are. It is a natural gas that is clear, tasteless and odourless. It is in no way a pollutant.



Calling CO2 a ‘pollutant’ leads many to wrongly think of it as black, grey or white smoke. Because the media deceitfully show white or grey ‘smoke’ coming out of power station cooling towers, most think this is CO2. It is not: it’s just steam (water vapour) condensing in the air. CO2 is invisible: just breathe out and see. Look at it bubbling out of your soft drinks, beer or sparkling wine. No one considers that a pollutant - because it’s not. CO2 in its frozen state is commonly known as dry ice. It is used in camping eskys, in medical treatments and science experiments. No one considers that a pollutant either. CO2 is emitted from all plants. This ‘emission’ is not considered a pollutant even though this alone is 33 times more than man produces! Huge quantities of CO2 are dissolved naturally in the ocean and released from the warm surface. This is not considered a pollutant either.



The two large cooling towers are emitting only steam. A tiny amount of CO2 is trickling out of the thin chimney at centre. It is only barely visible due to a small quantity of smoke particles, most of which is filtered out nowadays. The media doesn’t like to show skinny CO2 chimneys emitting nothing visible because this is unimpressive and not the least bit emotive so it doesn’t make for sensationalist journalism. So they typically choose to deceive the public by showing cooling towers.



Q6. Have you seen any evidence that CO2 causes a greenhouse effect?



Respondent’s Answers: Most did not know of any definite proof. Some said they thought the melting of the Arctic and glaciers was possibly proof.



The Correct Answer: There is no proof at all. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (the IPCC) has never produced any proof. There are, however the following proofs that it can’t cause a greenhouse effect.



• It is true that CO2 can absorb heat a little faster than nitrogen and oxygen but it becomes no hotter because it cannot absorb anymore heat than there is available to the other gases. This is against the laws of thermodynamics. All gases share their heat with the other gases. Gas molecules fly around and are constantly colliding with other gas molecules so they immediately lose any excess heat to other molecules during these collisions. That’s why the air is all one temperature in any limited volume.



• Even if CO2 levels were many times higher, radiative heating physics shows that it would make virtually no difference to temperature because it has a very limited heating ability. With CO2, the more there is, the less it heats because it quickly becomes saturated. For a detailed explanation go to: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html



The following facts show that even high levels of CO2 can make almost no impact on heating the atmosphere.



1. Glasshouses with high levels of CO2 - hundreds of times higher than in the air to make plants grow faster – heat up during the day to the same temperature as glasshouses with air in them. This is also true for bottles of pure CO2 compared to ones with air.



2. The planets Venus and Mars have atmospheres that are almost entirely CO2 (97%) yet they have no ‘runaway’ greenhouse heating effect. Their temperatures are stable.



3. The geological record over hundreds of millions of years has shown that CO2 has had no affect whatsoever on climate. At times, CO2 was hundreds of times higher, yet there were ice ages.



4. In recent times when Earth was considerably warmer during the Roman Warming and the Medieval Warming, the higher temperatures then were totally natural because there was no industrialization back then.



• Water vapour is 4% of the air and that‘s 100 times as much as CO2. Water vapour absorbs 33 times as much heat as CO2 making CO2’s contribution insignificant. But like CO2, water vapour also gives this heat away to air molecules by contact (conduction) and radiation, thereby making the surrounding air the same temperature.



• The Earth’s atmosphere is very thin so its heat is continually being lost to the absolute coldness of outer space (-270 C). As there is no ‘ceiling’ to the atmosphere, surface heat cannot be retained. The Sun renews warmth every day.



Over the last few years Earth has had much colder winters due to very few magnetic storms on the Sun. These four increasingly colder winters have been particularly noticeable in the northern hemisphere where most of the land is. Because of this, the Arctic has re-frozen and glaciers that were receding are now surging due to the heavy snow falls. The Arctic showed some melting around its edges from the mid 90s to the mid 2000s due to the very high level of solar storm activity at that time. But as the Sun is now entering probably 2-4 decades of low solar activity, this is expected to cause global cooling. For more detail, see the following page.



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The climate has always been naturally cyclic and variable due to numerous natural drivers of which CO2 is not one. Over millions of years the climate has shown far greater changes in the geological record than we have seen over the last 200 hundred years - and there was no industrialization back then. The very minor variations we have witnessed over the last 100 years have all occurred several times even in that short period. Today’s changes in climate are common and completely natural. There are now over 50 books that provide numerous reasons why man-made global warming is false.



The Effect of the Sun on Earth’s climate



It has long been known that the Sun is by far the major driver of all weather on Earth because it is the source of all heat and energy. There is absolutely no real-world evidence that the temperature has continually risen as we were led to believe. The hottest records in the USA and Greenland were in the 1930s due to a strong solar cycle. It became cooler from 1940 to 1970. This was due to a weak solar cycle. It has again become increasingly colder since 2006 due to another weak solar cycle. The Sun’s magnetic storm activity has now moved to an extended minimum so the next 2-4 maximums are expected to be much weaker than the last few have been. By 2011 the solar cycle should have risen half way back to its 11 year maximum but it hasn’t! It’s only just started. The last time the Sun acted this way was during the Dalton Minimum from 1790 to 1830 which produced 40 years of very cold winters with subdued, wetter summers globally - just as we are expiring now. From 1450 -1750 a more intense Maunder Minimum occurred which caused the Little Ice Age. The next 2-4 solar cycles will very likely be low in solar activity causing noticeably cooler global temperatures for a few decades.



For details see: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/02/solar-cycle-24-update



and http://www.climatechangedenier.com.au/climate-change/another-dalton-minimum/



The effect of the current Solar Minimum is particularly obvious in the northern hemisphere where increasingly colder winter temperatures have caused massive snow falls disrupting transportation across Europe, Asia and the US.



Despite more than a decade of continual doomsday predictions of increasing temperatures and never-ending drought globally, the opposite has happened. There have been lower temperatures globally with greatly increased rain and snows over much of the planet since 2006. This has caused floods across most of Australia and most other counties, as seen on the TV news. This ended the global 10 year drought conditions from the mid 90s to the mid 2000s. There has been no drop in CO2 to cause this: in fact, CO2 has risen. There is no correlation between CO2 levels and climate. The reason CO2 levels have gone up a little is most likely due to the surface of the oceans warming very slightly during the later half of the century and therefore releasing a little CO2. (The oceans are currently cooling very slightly.) Mankind’s contribution to CO2 is so small it’s not measurable.



Polls on Climate Change



Polls in western countries now show that believers in man-made global warming are now in the minority with a sizable percentage of over 20% who “don’t know” if CO2 is causing any change. The obvious change to a cooler, wetter climate combined with the revelations of climate fraud shown by the Climategate emails has led to the change in public perception. Polls asking people what is the most important threat to them out of a list of 20 issues, place global warming at the bottom!



Popular beliefs are not fact



The bulk of the population of the western world believed that the 2000 Bug would destroy much of our technology on New Year’s Eve 2000 yet not one disaster occurred anywhere. We were told CFCs caused the Ozone ‘hole’ yet after billions of dollars were spent removing CFCs over 30 years, the slight depletion of Ozone at the South Pole has not changed. Scientists now think it is natural. Popular beliefs are often based on blind faith, ideology and profit rather than proven scientific evidence. History is littered with popular consensuses that were wrong.



A Carbon Tax



Taxing CO2 achieves nothing for the environment; in fact, it deprives real environmental issues from receiving funds. A carbon tax will have a disastrous impact on lower and middle income earners. Even if drastic measures were imposed equally on all countries around the world to reduce the total human CO2 contribution by as much as 30%, this would reduce total CO2 by an insignificant percentage. It would have no affect whatsoever on the climate but it would totally destroy the economies of every country and dramatically lower everyone’s living standards. Most people and politicians are making decisions emotively, not factually about a complex science they know virtually nothing about.



Gregg D Thompson



Climate Researcher



Astronomer



Environmentalist



Author of two science books



Business Manager and Director of 3 companies



Author of science magazine articles



Designer and project manager of special effects attractions



Nature photographer



Has a great interest in most sciences



Loves creating innovation in art
 
 
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I TOLD YOU I WAS I'LL! :)

Hey everyone that belongs to the dog club, I won't be there for a while.

 Wow what a life changing experience!  Monday 28th February went to see my doctor after weeks or maybe months of feeling like crap.  After a few quick tests he told me I shouldn't be walking around, in fact a lot of people would be in a coma!!!  My blood sugar was absolutely through the roof at 30.8.  And I couldn't figure why I wasn't coping or maybe I was just getting lazy?  So a big life style change coming up, actually not that big just less sugar mainly and low GI foods.  AND less wine, now thats gonna hurt.:)
So I will treat it as an adventure, learn about, and make myself educated in whatever I need to know what thousands have learnt before me. 








What a minefield of what not to eat. It's incredible what you can't eat, or drink.
But I did sauce out Tzatziki and that is OK to use copious amounts.  There are plenty of things I can eat when I have a good look around. 

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MikroKopter is this the way to the future

Wow how close to our idea of a flying saucer.  Could you imagine
 a much larger scaled machine, how awsome would that be.
I absolutely admire the the person/s who built this amazing machine.
This video was sent to me by Paul one of my poker pals



MikroKopter - HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.


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2 GREAT DOG VIDEOS

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HELP FLOOD PEOPLE

Click above for a great youtube.

By playing the YouTube some money goes towards the flood relief, every little bit helps.

It's fantastic seeing kids doing good, don't you just love them?


We were very lucky where we are, no damage at all


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Some Dog Truths (this is the title)

just click on TITLE ABOVE

Thanks Trish for sending this I'm sure a lot will agree some wonderful pics and thoughts in this PowerPoint presentation.  What a shame you can't comment Trish Ha Ha

Trish and Robyn at dog trials

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New Pete Youtube Video

Hi everybody, My video's will improve but I'm using Youtube mainly as an audio outlet for some of my music.  I really loved playing music and did so professionaly for over 30 years.  That came to an abrupt halt one night while I was on tour with the old rocker, "Digger Revell".  My left arm dropped and wouldn't move, I thought at first I'd had a stroke.  Well I was lucky it was a pinched nerve in my neck and I haven't been able to play since.  And yes I do miss it.
Have a look in Pages  for "Stained glass, music and watercolours".   It's in there.

Dog trials

My first Youtube video attempt,  just had to sort out the process.  They will get better.  I used the Lee Conway song "Fight in the Dog", I was his musical director for quite a
few years so I am on that track as well.



Unfortunately, being Trial Manager for the dog trials I really couldn't take photo's.  But I can tell you it was so hot on the field, 33c and the ground probably 43c in the sun and was still damp from recent flooding rains.  Had lots of volunteers helping and they were fantastic.
Thanks Guys. 

Chinese Crested

Lawrie Knauth,  President

Chinese crested

Trish and Robyn 2 great volunteers



Trials were great some fantastic dogs



ACTS OF KINDNESS

Some wonderful acts of kindness and animals just hanging in the best they can.





This guy in the boat is a legend,



What a lady





See we can swim

Another great lady

High and dry I'm so lucky

This is my island go away

 

 

Left to right: cricket, tennis, badminton, pingpong and fred

 

A Goanna hanging in there



Nasty bite from this one



Snakes alive

All snakes can swim

A Dignified end for a wonderful Friend

Unfortunately this is part of being a pet owner whether it is a dog, cat, horse, mouse, snake.  They are our individual pets, with there own personalities, likes and dislikes.

It is never an easy decision to make to take a really loved pet to a vet for the last time.  It takes more than courage it takes unlimited love from the owner, it is never easy and another of life's not so nice duties.

Click once and click again in 2nd screen to enlarge

Peta, Lawrie Knauth's girl

There are many versions of the Rainbow Bridge
This is one of the nicest I have found.

 Some say they will never have another pet and some never do, however most do have new pets and they still remember their past away friends as well.  My choice of a pet is a dog but I like cats to. 

We have 3 dogs and 1 cat.  We have 3 dogs because our very old red cattle dog (Kane) looked like he was on his last legs.  At that time we only had 2 dogs.  So we went to the pound and found a young dog to learn off Kane.  Well the old fellow found a new lease for life and he is still here 12 months later.

He is blind and fat because he can't go far.  Yes we could feed him less but he gets the quality out of his dinner, he just loves his dinner.  We hope that he will just pass away one night, we don't want him to but I'm afraid that is inevitable.

I"m sure his body hurts sometimes, just as mine or yours does, if it becomes to uncomfortable for him I will respect him as the wonderful friend he has always been.  



Kane laying in front of the fan on a hot day

 
He will never be forgotten, he will never be replaced, we can only add one more name to the wonderful list of pets we have known.


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