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Being a sole trader you do not have to choose to apply for an ABN, but if your annual turnover is over $50,000, you are required to register for GST and get an ABN.
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to be continued
that's all for today; I'm sleepy now, gn~

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that's all right...

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  I'm coming now

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http://www.theage.com.au/nationa ... -20080613-2pxv.html

NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca has quit the NSW ministry pending the outcome of a police investigation into events that took place at a Central Coast nightclub last weekend.

The NSW police are investigating conflicting claims over what transpired at Iguanas Waterfront in Gosford last Friday night in an incident involving Mr Della Bosca and his wife, Federal Labor MP Belinda Neal.

"Earlier this week, I accepted the statement of the minister and the apology he received from the establishment,'' Mr Iemma said.

"Mr Della Bosca should have disclosed to me at that time the exact nature of his involvment in negotiating the terms of the apology.

"Anyone offering a retraction has the right to seek certain content.

"In the interests of public accountability, the exchange of documents should have been acknowledged. The minister agrees with this.''

At the club, Ms Neal is accused of aggressive behaviour, including threatening the club with the loss of its liquor licence, claims she has denied, even though several staff members have signed statutory declarations confirming their version of events.

Della Bosca's position had become untenable today, after a Sydney Morning Herald report this morning that Mr Della Bosca had written the apology for the club to sign, even though his office had denied that he had done so.

The club issued an apology to Mr Della Bosca clearing him and his wife of any wrongdoing at the nightclub last Friday.

While Mr Della Bosca has stood aside, Mr Iemma said that the Attorney-General John Hatzistergos will assume the education portfolio while the Roads Minister Eric Roozendaal will take over the industrial relations portfolio.

Mr Iemma told reporters today's action did not mean Mr Della Bosca had lied, or that he was being pre-judged.

Nightclub staff last weekend swore statements alleging Ms Neal and Mr Della Bosca threatened and abused them. Some, but not all, of those were later withdrawn and an apology issued by the nightclub.

The couple have released statutory declarations from four of their dining companions backing their side of the story.

Police are investigating those conflicting statements. It is an offence to lie in a statutory declaration.

with AAP

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[ZT]http://www.osha.gov/dts/shib/shib073105.html

Elements of a Dust Explosion

Elements Needed for a Fire (the familiar "Fire Triangle"):

1. Combustible dust (fuel);
2. Ignition source (heat); and,
3. Oxygen in air (oxidizer).

Additional Elements Needed for a Combustible Dust Explosion:

4. Dispersion of dust particles in sufficient quantity and concentration; and,
5. Confinement of the dust cloud.
The addition of the latter two elements to the fire triangle creates what is known as the "explosion pentagon" (see Figure 1). If a dust cloud (diffused fuel) is ignited within a confined or semi-confined vessel, area, or building, it burns very rapidly and may explode. The safety of employees is threatened by the ensuing fires, additional explosions, flying debris, and collapsing building components.

An initial (primary) explosion  in processing equipment or in an area were fugitive dust has accumulated may shake loose more accumulated dust, or damage a containment system (such as a duct, vessel, or collector). As a result, if ignited, the additional dust dispersed into the air may cause one or more secondary explosions (see Figure 2). These can be far more destructive than a primary explosion due to the increased quantity and concentration of dispersed combustible dust.

If one of the elements of the explosion pentagon is missing, a catastrophic explosion can not occur. Two of the elements in the explosion pentagon are difficult to eliminate: oxygen (within air), and confinement of the dust cloud (within processes or buildings). However, the other three elements of the pentagon can be controlled to a significant extent, and will be discussed further in this document.

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A lot of airlines won't waive their strict nonrefundability rules for sick passengers

If you plead your case at the gate, your airline might see things your way

Inform the passengers around you that you're ill; their dismay may help your case

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Dark clothing is more practical to mask spills

High heels are uncomfortable on long flights and dangerous in emergencies

Products with a strong odor may irritate your cabin-mates

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was accused by a government colleague Thursday of applying a sexist double standard by insisting that a woman lawmaker seek anger management counseling when male politicians' similar behavior has been overlooked.


Prime Minister Kevin Rudd interrupted a trip to Japan to telephone the lawmaker accused of misbehavior.

Rudd took the extraordinary step Wednesday after the lawmaker Belinda Neal became the focus of a series of media reports alleging threatening or violent behavior.

Neal, a 45-year-old former union leader, has been accused of threatening and abusing staff at a nightclub last week and of kicking an opponent during a recent football match.

Neal has denied threatening or abusing nightclub staff and denied the football player's account of Neal's rough tackle, which led to her being barred from playing for two matches in the women's amateur league she plays in.

But when Rudd interrupted a business trip to Japan to telephone her Wednesday, she said she accepted his advice to undergo anger management counseling.

"I have agreed that I will attend counseling to deal with how I deal with conflict with other people," she told reporters after the phone call.

Rudd told reporters in Tokyo that he warned Neal that her political career could be in jeopardy. Neal was elected to Parliament in the November polls that brought Rudd to power.

"I spoke to Belinda Neal today and said to her that there appears to be a pattern of unacceptable behavior," Rudd said Wednesday.

But Julia Irwin, a lawmaker in Rudd's Labor Party for a decade, said former party leader Mark Latham was not required to seek counseling when he broke a Sydney taxi driver's arm during a beer-fueled argument over a fare.

"We seem to allow some of our male politicians to be aggressive and pushy, but women are expected to be meek and mild," Irwin told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Thursday.

"This is not just about Belinda Neal, this is about double standards," she added.

Rudd was in Indonesia on Thursday and was not immediately available for comment.

But Julia Gillard, Australia's first female deputy prime minister, said she supported Rudd's response which, she added, had nothing to do with Neal's gender.

Neal was not available for comment Thursday.

Latham was never charged over the 2001 fracas with the taxi driver. But after leaving politics, he pleaded guilty in 2006 to a charge of malicious damage after destroying a newspaper photographer's camera.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison, although Latham's punishment was a court order to pay more than $5,000 -- the cost of a new camera.
From CNN

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Higher food prices are a worry for the Chinese authorities
China's consumer price inflation fell back to an annual rate of 7.7% in May, official figures show, as efforts to slow food price growth kicked in.

The decline from April's 8.5% rate had been expected, but analysts warned that the surging price of crude oil posed a continued threat.

Beijing had pledged that tackling price rises was a priority.

Food costs rose 19.9% in May from a year earlier driven by demand for pork, but this was slower than in April.

Non-food prices rose by 1.7% in the period, compared with 1.8% in April, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

Despite inflation slowing, the key Shanghai stock market fell by 3.3% on expectations that there would be a further tightening of credit to stem inflation further.

Lending curb

High inflation increases worries that China's economy may be overheating.

However, despite the government declaring it wants to tighten monetary policy in the battle against inflation, the authorities have not yet increased interest rates in 2008 although there were six rate rises in 2007.

Instead, banks have been told to increase the amount of money they hold in reserve and curb lending to limit credit growth.

Earlier, figures had showed that China's trade surplus fell 10% in May from a year earlier on the back of the surging price of imports such as oil and other raw materials.

But the $20.2bn surplus for May was still up from $16.7bn in April and larger than many had predicted.

The surge of money into the country from exports poses a risk of pushing inflation even higher.

Observers say that a global economic slowdown - which is resulting in richer nations importing fewer goods - may cut China's surplus.

From BBC NEWS

最后发表： fishyoyo
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Just do it!

最后发表： woody81
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he means he dont like  some guys post meaningless words
thanks for ur sharing

最后发表： woody81
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well，what about a nap？

最后发表： 喜鹊
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basement

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food coordinator in child learning school

最后发表： jvnopdx
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是啊...

通过此事...又长见识了...

谢谢指出...

最后发表： hunt_easter
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disobey traffic light
交了300多刀学费学来的

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fuel, fill up, pump your car. 这些都可以用来翻译给车加油

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nice ,support

最后发表： craigie
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In a sense,I could exaggerate a bit:  Bloody == a POLITE way of saying F**king somehow.
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"bloody" is nothing like the  "f" word. nobody would be offended by "bllody".
but even the full spelling of  the F word can't be  printed. some people would be offended even at the sight of the word.

最后发表： flyday
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CODE OF CONDUCT IN CHINA DAILY WAY

最后发表： ritaclin
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http://www.theage.com.au/nationa ... -20080611-2otk.html
Olympic silver medallist Scott Miller has pleaded not guilty to drug charges in a Sydney court.

Miller briefly faced Manly Local Court today, where he pleaded not guilty to possessing a tablet press, possessing a prohibited weapon, and two counts of possessing a restricted substance.

The 33-year-old former swimmer was charged on April 16 after a raid on a storage unit at Brookvale, on Sydney's northern beaches, which allegedly uncovered a tablet press capable of producing 27,000 pills an hour and a professional tablet counter.

It is alleged police also seized capsicum spray, the anabolic steroid stanozolol and Stilnox sleeping tablets obtained without a prescription, from Miller's Dee Why unit.

Miller, who was dressed in a black suit and appeared relaxed in court, told reporters outside, "I'm feeling very calm''.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he won a silver medal in the 100m butterfly and a bronze in the men's medley relay.

AAP

最后发表： naughtybaby
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Thx guys~!!!  I'll start working on it after I finish my exams, say, som time in July

最后发表： woody81
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yes,i think thats right! i saw the film SHREK,the monster's baby said this word to him.

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Knife frenzy suspect warned: It's time

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    * Man suspected of knife rampage in Tokyo foretold mayhem in Internet posts
    * One posting just before attack said: "It's time," reports said.
    * Attack occurred in a video game district of downtown Tokyo Sunday
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TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- The man arrested after seven people died in a knifing rampage in Tokyo foretold the mayhem in a series of messages posted to the Internet, including one just before the attack saying, "It's time," police and media reports said Monday.
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Rescue workers gather to help the injured in Tokyo's Akihabara district.

Tomohiro Kato, accused of ramming pedestrians with a truck on Sunday and then stabbing 17 bystanders in Tokyo's Akihabara district, posted a string of messages on an Internet bulletin board from his cell phone, a police spokesman said.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing protocol, refused to release the messages, but news reports said they were posted in a threat titled, "I will kill people in Akihabara," starting hours before the stabbings.

"I want to crash the vehicle and, if it becomes useless, I will then use a knife. Goodbye, everyone," Kyodo News agency quoted one message as saying.

That was followed chillingly several hours later, the report said, by a message sent from Akihabara via cell phone that read: "It's time."

The killing started 20 minutes later.

The reported messages gave Japan a limited glimpse into the mind of man accused of one of the worst knife attacks in Japanese history. Police say the assault was the deadliest stabbing assault in Tokyo in recent memory.

Kato said he had "gotten sick of the world," police said, but investigators are still trying to find out his motives and the reason why he chose Akihabara, or whether he had planned the criminal act over the past few days as reported.

Police say Kato -- reportedly a factory worker -- rammed a rented two-ton truck into a crowd of afternoon shoppers in Akihabara, a prime shopping area for electronic goods and a hangout for young people, particularly comic book fans.

Kato himself reportedly had a penchant for computer games and anime -- like vast numbers of Japanese youths. Kyodo said that he listed a female computer game character as his "favorite person" in his junior high school yearbook.

After ramming the pedestrians, the killer jumped out and began stabbing the people he had knocked down with the truck before turning on horrified onlookers, police said.

The assault shocked Tokyo, which has a relatively low murder rate, because of its seeming mindlessness.

On Monday, the crime scene was covered with offerings of flowers, comic books and soft drinks left for the souls of the dead. The offerings were shielded from the rain by a small white tent.

Takashi Kiuchi, who was on a high school judo team with one of the victims, said many Japanese live with the assumption that their country is safe, but that assumption was under attack. Video Watch report on stabbing spree »

"It's gotten so you can't even walk down a crowded street," he said.

Kato reportedly made his way to Tokyo from a neighboring region where he worked and headed for Akihabara because its main streets are closed to cars and open to large numbers of pedestrians on Sundays.
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    * Man stabs 17 in Tokyo

Guns are tightly restricted in Japan, and shootings are extremely rare, with the one exception being gangsters, who most often use them against each other and do not generally victimize the general public.

Stabbings, however, are less rare.

In March, one person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were hurt by a man who went on a slashing spree with two knives outside a shopping mall in eastern Japan. In January, a 16-year-old boy attacked five people in a shopping area, injuring two of them.

A spate of knife attacks also have occurred in schools, the worst on June 8, 2001, when a man with a history of mental illness burst into elementary school near Osaka killing eight children. He was executed in 2004.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura told reporters Monday the government was considering tightening restrictions on large-bladed survival knives like the one apparently used in the attack, which had a 13-centimeter blade and is easily available in stores.

"Everyone says that Japan is a safe country, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore," said Sayaka Itoda, a young woman who came to donate flowers at the memorial, which stood on a street in front of an electronics store and a giant TV display screen.

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Gas price record above $4.02 as oil slips

Price at the pump heads higher after breaking the $4 barrier; oil softens after record-breaking rally.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The national average price for a gallon of gas set another record above $4.02 a gallon, while crude oil prices eased following a massive spike in the previous session.

At the pump, the national average price for a gallon of gasoline rose above $4 a gallon on Sunday for the first time ever, according to motorist group AAA.

Gas prices climbed Monday to a record $4.023 a gallon, which is more than 10% higher than $3.692 a month ago and nearly 29% higher than the $3.091 average a year ago, according to the AAA figures.

Meanwhile, light, sweet crude for July delivery fell $1.44 to $137.10 a barrel in pre-market trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

On Friday, the contract shot up nearly $11 - the largest single-day jump on record - to settle at a record $138.54 a barrel.

Friday's rally was fueled by a combination of geopolitical jitters, the dollar's decline and a report from Morgan Stanley predicting oil could reach $150 a barrel by July 4.

Last week's runup in crude prices helped push the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 400 points Friday. Many investors see higher gas prices crimping household budgets, damping consumer spending and undermining the economy.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese

最后发表： ritaclin
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thanks for the information
I'm in Mel but I didn't go shopping in the city recently and have no idea about the situation there; as far as I know, Boxhill has a lot of discounts

最后发表： craigie
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family planning就是计划生育，和财政计划无关。

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June 9, 2008
THE Federal Government will spend $460,000 on a suicide prevention strategy, as part of a focus to improve men's health.

The money will be spent in four areas — $122,000 for a men's health information and resource centre at the University of Western Sydney, $80,000 for the Toowoomba older men's network, $150,000 for the workplace program OzHelp Tasmania, and $117,000 for INCOLink, a Victorian program aimed at preventing suicide for apprentices in the building industry.

Another $95,000 will go on a campaign to encourage men to get preventive health checks.

Figures released by Health Minister Nicola Roxon's office showed men were expected to live 4.8 years less than women and were three times more likely to commit suicide. They also experience 70% of the burden of disease related to injury.

Average life expectancy of indigenous Australian males is just 59 years, 20 years less than for non-indigenous men.

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strong...
but massage is equal to prostitute?

最后发表： naughtybaby
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So the lame joke can be scientific n predictive~

" The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on
prostitutes and beer...."     From :  http://www.freeoz.org/forum/thread-787124-1-1.html

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Asterisk.    what u 've heard might be sth like "press the asterisk (key) on the keyboard".  

The 和 Asterisk 一起，属于元音连读，你听起来就成了theasterisk,像是T开头了。

最后发表： naughtybaby
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yeah,moreton bay bugs live in THE bay, yummy~!

最后发表： ritaclin
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Nowadays I take No. 11 bus

最后发表： ritaclin
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I planned to take the beautiful cat with me when I would have my own place...
She had kittens and later they were killed before I could buy an apartment...
Later I moved to OZ...
Still I do regret for the promise that I failed to keep

最后发表： naughtybaby
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yup, tht's how the slang evolves

最后发表： woody81
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great!

最后发表： coredump
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FROM: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18633/1095/

At a seminar in Canberra on Thursday 5 June organised by the,overlapping, carrier grouping behind the Tell The Truth Telstra (T4)web site, the CCC presented a report by the Centre for InternationalEconomics. The report claimed to have determined that "Australianconsumers will pay 15 percent more for broadband services if Telstrawins the rights to build and manage a National Broadband Network."

Furthermore, it concluded that:
- Australian consumers and the economy would be $897 million worse offunder a Telstra owned and operated National Broadband Network;
- Telstra's targeted return on its capital investment was relativelyhigh and "may be consistent with the abuse of market or monopoly power";
- The build-cost scenarios for Telstra's broadband network wouldincrease inflation, reduce national growth, lower wages and reducenational consumption;
- The impact of Telstra's network would "lead to a general contraction of the Australian economy."

Strong stuff! And Telstra's response was immediate and ferocious. Itdid not attempt to counter the report's finding in any detail, simplydismissing the report as 'bogus' and accusing it competitors of having"sunk to new lows in their bid to stop Australia getting a high-speedbroadband network."

Group managing director for Telstra Wholesale, Kate McKenzie said:"This is a completely bogus report that has been bought and paid for bya bunch of competitors who want one thing only - to stop the buildingof Australia's national broadband network and keep their current cosyarrangements. "The report has no basis in fact. It is a dishonestdistortion that is designed to do nothing but delay the process."

When you want to discredit a report you an always find a few words toquote selectively in support of your cause. Thus we have McKenzieclaiming "The report itself says: 'estimates presented in this reportmay not be precise' and that the 'estimation error in the WACCcalculations presented in this report may be significant'."

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26        9 L of a C
9 lives of a cat ?????

肥猫你来说说你到底是7条命还是9条命啊？记不清楚了。