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One Gay Man’s Painful Story…
by Jane Wheatley “I’d lived two lives for so long”: John Browne. Photo: Jeremy Young/News Syndication/Headpress John Browne was such a success in the cut-throat corporate world he rose to become a lord. But he was living a lie that was eventually exposed. Now openly gay, he talks to Jane Wheatley about the pressure that kept […]
Sleep: are you getting enough?
Sleep’s role in memory formation discovered: do you get enough? Scientists have discovered how sleep is key to learning and forming new memories. How much sleep do you get and is it enough? Carmen Fishwick theguardian.com, Friday 6 June 2014 21.57 AEST Photograph: Rob Bartee/Alamy Sleep’s role in improving memory has been discovered by scientists in […]
Dairy Products: Major Cause of Cancer?
Will giving up dairy defeat cancer? Date: June 06 2014 Cherrill Hicks A leading scientist and cancer survivor says the disease is overwhelmingly linked to animal products and we need to give them up. In 1993, the breast cancer that had plagued Jane Plant since 1987 returned for the fifth time. It came in the […]
Does Sound Have Shape?
A friend talks about his professional life… Jon Osborne on TEDx Melbourne: Teasers: * ‘I grew up listening to lamp-posts’ * ‘What is true silence?’ * ‘Test of good music: does it give you goose-bumps?’ (The ‘music’ you hear via your iPad is better described as ‘noise’) * ‘Well, does sound have shape? Can you […]
Ave Verum: most beautiful rendition…
(I’d go long with that)
Father hugs truck driver jailed for killing daughter
Hume Highway deaths: Father hugs truck driver jailed for killing daughter PHOTO: Sarah Frazer’s overheated car was being loaded onto a tow truck by Geoffrey Clark when Kaine Barnett’s truck hit them, killing them instantly. (ABC News) The father of a woman killed by a truck driver on the Hume Highway in New South Wales has hugged […]
After Divorce…
How I picked myself up after divorce Andrea Gillies had no idea her husband wasn’t happy. Till one day, out of the blue, he told her in no uncertain terms Andrea Gillies ¢â‚¬ ¦ ‘There are different rules inside the digital flirtation pool and people behave in ways they never would otherwise.’ Photograph: Murdo Macleod Andrea […]
To the Woman Behind Me in Line at the Grocery Store
To the Woman Behind Me in Line at the Grocery Store Posted: 04/03/2014 Dear woman behind me in line at the grocery store, You don’t know me. You have no clue what my life has been like since October 1, 2013. You have no clue that my family has gone through the wringer. You have no […]
Self Care in the Life of Service
“First Fit Your Own Mask”: Self Care in the Life of Service Monday, 7 April 2014 | Jennifer Turner ¢â‚¬Å“First fit your own mask before helping the person next to you. ¢â‚¬ The routine message about emergency oxygen masks before a plane takes off always gets me thinking: Does the same thing apply in life? Do I […]
Lessons from Rwanda
Rwanda’s flashpoint is history’s turning point Date April 7, 2014 Editorial The killings in the central African republic of Rwanda began 20 years ago today. For 100 days, with appalling and systematic swiftness, the Interahamwe – militia from the ethnic Hutu majority – slaughtered at least 800,000 Tutsi men, women and children. This senseless spree, […]
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