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December 2007
October 2007
In election mode.
September 2007
22 September 2007. A lot about the "Ticker" and a replay of opinion poll results to soften the punters up for another con.
16 September 2007. Does the Howard/Brough/Helen Hughes intervention policy mean hucksters can do anything they want on Aboriginal land if they say "job opportunities" and "benefiting Aboriginal people"....Refer ABC Background briefing on logging on the Tiwi Islands...Timber, tax and the Tiwis.
Also:Northern Territory Intervention blog (tracking Howard/Brough consequences; lists towns scheduled for 5 year leases and those left in the ether)
091407: Our election period grinds on. No official naming of "start" as yet. Howard's unflagging ambition grinds us all into the ground.
How long do we have to put up with dunderheads like "Tough Decision... at the end of the day Downer" and Brenden, let alone the pointy end leadership.
091207: KABUL, Sept 12 (Pajhwok Afghan News): With the exception of rice, prices of almost all kitchen items registered a slight increase during the outgoing week in Kabul.
Being the last week before the holy month of Ramazan (fasting), hoarders and profiteers have increased prices of daily commodities like, wheat flour, sugar and cooking oil.
However, rice and petrol were the two commodities which registered a slight decrease in as the week concluded on Thursday.
According to Khan Ali, a retailer in Karta-i-Seh locality of Kabul, rate of a small packet of milk increased from 10 to 12 afghanis, while a packet of dates from 25 to 28 Afs. (Refer link)
090607 Animation and inner spirit: Some thoughts: I am curious about the visual aesthetic evolving in mainstream 3D computer generated animated imagery ? where computer constructed 'actors' generally lack a sensitivity in their surface/skin (no inner spirit?) and character design has a sameness across productions, and where movements become predictable- any clever complicated movement soon becomes tiresome because of the underlying visual construction. (The Pierce Sisters is a recent break with this established trend...link is http://www.aardman.com/pearcesisters/clip2.html)
I contrast this with 2D hand drawn animation that always contains the quirkiness of their makers, this quirkiness imbues character inside the 'actors' and stamps the look of the film- the maker's style. This stamp usually maintains audience interest in the moving images irrespective of dialogue- the imagery can carry the audience without dialogue ( or loud noises). I make this last comment, thinking of Shrek 1, which I enjoyed, where the swift dialogue dominates the imagery (particularly if you like fart jokes and a smart-arse donkey). I think the same can be said of most 3D animated films.
These comments arose after trying to watch 'Elephants dream' an open source 3D animated film- link is http://orange.blender.org/download- I wanted to like the film but gave up... too much running in a complicated background.
Ron Paul must look good if you are an American Republican voting in 2008 - he ain't voted against gun control (who can blame him)..
Bashing of Peter Toyne
Making art is an ugly business
March 13th, 2008(Visual stream broken by some reflection on recent incident in the NT)
Art and crime. Bashing of Peter Toyne:
Peter Toyne, 62, who was stabbed in the leg with a sharpened nulla nulla and clubbed across the head several times by a professional thug in front of his wife, made the stunning allegations yesterday. NT News reference and ABC link here
July 2007
July 2007
071307 Rain.
071207 Still. Paul Keating defines nationalism and patriotism
071107 Sunshine trying, ice in the air.
071007 Foggy winter's morning.
070907 Mild winter's day to start with. Howard makes us all relaxed and comfortable, "raises" existing terror alert in Indonesia but not for the UK?
070807 Blue sky in the morning and all day! Noel Pearson's article in the Weekend Australian is measured. And he says land rights and actions to make people safe are not mutually exclusive, as some commentators would have us think. Control over ones life is crucial to health and well being.
Our Federal police boss predicts a future with robo-crooks. Iraq continues.
070707 Winters day. Mal manages his media at Uluru.
Downer pops his head up on Iraq
070507 7 degrees, blue sky may grow? Rains.
070507 Grey. Chill in air. Howard beats his other drum, on terror. The question is, "is that ear-pierced Brendan a socialist sleeper"? Or is Nelson just a tin whistle?
Howard flex's view on China off local radar.
070407 Grey, drizzle with blue sky breaking through. BBC journalist freed.
Will Mal Brough become more of a bully as this "intervention policy" proceeds? His performance on RN with Fran Kelly showed up the transparent politics that underpins this government's professed righteousness -it is only Howard and Brough claiming this ground, other government members are keeping a low profile- so much for intent and moral outrage. Noel Pearson will have to show his colours soon?
070207 Mild. Grey with touches of white.
070107 Cool.White. Howard to backflip in Iraq?
Link to the "Little Children Are Sacred" report
June 2007
063007 Blue skies with rain in Gippsland. Water,lakes, inlets and sand dunes. The passing of a friend and a life. Rest in peace.
Howard says he is doing "the right thing." Dangerous, repeated history, may now follow.
062907 Blue sky struggles.
Howard claims the hand back is not a land grab.
John Howard's vindictive streak is also playing out punishing all the Aboriginal leaders who turned their backs on him at a conference-this goes someway to explain him not involving leaders in his "intervention plans."
Rex Wild transcript on Lateline business
062807 Overcast. Opera House makes World Heritage List.
Howard's election strategy is becoming more transparent each day-attack the Labor States and sideline Rudd and the Federal Labor Party- as Labor premiers scramble for airwaves flooding out the National agenda.. they are becoming the news... and it can only be negative. And with Warren Mundine and other cohorts spruiking, it's not going to be easy.
Abused Children "strategy". Watching Mal Brough last night on Lateline (ABC) was a chilling experience. The men and woman doing their "duty" implementing Howard's "interventions" are to be supported; however their work is going to be made even more difficult by the politics of what has been done to a group of citizens and the way the implementation unfolds. A thin line separates institutional racism in any activity involved in implementing changes from within societies. It is to be seen if Noel Pearson's pre-election period rumble between the States and the Commonwealth can bring lasting benefits to Indigenous Australians specifically. Noel Pearson needs to comment on some aspects of the intervention tactics employed by Howard.
Fred Hollows tried to check every (black and white) community residents eyes and ears when he undertook the National Trachoma and eye Health program in the 1970's.
062707 Rain and wind. Howard says his government is in for the long haul. It is such a pity that he has cried wolf so many times. But maybe this time he will be skewered by his politics.
The 60's and 70's getting bashed and blamed for all evils by US experts (Mead/Meyers).
062607 Fluff in the sky. Noel Pearson's conference well underway in Cairns- Michael Meyers claims culture as static constructs-No one I know has ever believed that-do search. Pat Turner makes statement on Howard's intervention in the NT.
This Howard government is shameless, and Labor is not much better. "The cost is a secondary consideration," says Mal Brough, as the army and AFP plus moves into communities, down south of Alice ("Phase one" of Howard's interventyion Press release available here).
Noel Pearson continues to speak his mind- well someone has to.
Tim Colebatch highlights Grants Commission funds issue in NT -ie. lack of spending in Indigenous lands and towns on indigenous land. To quote:
The Commonwealth can't do it alone. It needs support from the Northern Territory Government and white Territorians, who will face painful changes. Above all, it needs the support of Aborigines themselves, including a recognition that isolated communities with nothing to sell can never provide a viable base for economic equality with whites.
The way the Northern Territory works is
a scandal. In 2007-08, to equalise states' capacities to provide services, the Grants Commission will take $3.34 billion from Victoria, NSW and WA to give to other states and territories. Just over half of that, $1.72 billion, will go to the Northern Territory — on the grounds that it is very expensive to give outback Aboriginal communities services equal to those in Melbourne and Sydney.
Victoria will get $2177 a head from Canberra. The NT will get $10,553 a head.
But no law requires the NT Government to spend that money providing Aboriginal communities with services equal to Melbourne and Sydney — so it doesn't. Instead, under the Country Liberal Party and Labor, it has used those billions to make Darwin a pleasant, lightly taxed place to live.
Commission figures show that, on average, the NT spends only a third as much per head on its Aboriginal communities as Queensland or WA spend on theirs, a quarter as much as NSW, and a sixth as much as South Australia. Relative to need, the NT also provides the poorest family and child services, preventive and community health services, services to the homeless, and police.
Instead, the territory has no land tax, barely taxes financial transactions, imposes the lowest fees, fines and user charges, and offers Australia's cheapest rego fees for four-wheel-drives. Meanwhile, it outspends every other state on preschools (except in Aboriginal communities), universities, culture and recreation, tourism, subsidised gas and electricity and offers very generous public service superannuation.
For Howard's initiative to succeed, this misallocation must be corrected. The NT Government must start giving decent services to its Aboriginal minority. A key part of the task, for both sides of politics, is to persuade the white majority to give up its cushy favours. Full article by Tim Colebatch .
DoFCSIA Fact sheet on NT permit here (1 page)
062507 Winter again. Howard won't meet with states. Fraser and Lowitja O'Donoghue comment on Howard's intervention
Whistle-blowers and a free press? It's a mad world when the Herald Sun fights for a free press?
062407 Blue sky. Noel Pearson speaks at the National Gallery NSW. And the Griffith Review
062307 Grey. Noel Pearson considers some outcomes here. The emergence of unintended consequences is very likely.
062207 Grey morning.
John Howard makes his election move late yesterday using Indigenous issues in NT - Questions is still in the "how"? The "big funds" were not available before and now funds are available-why now and not 5, 10, 15 years ago? What has taking leases back got to do with stopping child abuse and the flow of booze? How will removing the permit system stop "grog running" and improve peoples opportunities? Howard has had over 10 years to be constructive, with a like minded territory government in power for over half those years, so why now?
All Indigenous people are once again stigmatized by broad-brush politics -why?
Howard puts Labor state governments under the spotlight (and so they should be)- but remember the Liberal and National parties have been the main designers of Indigenous policy historically, both federally and in the States;either neglect or opportunism has determined most policy directions, and all eyes will be watching this big one machined by Howard and his cohorts.
Stop child abuse in our society-yes!
More qualified police-yes-how in the long term?
More doctors-yes-how in the long term?
Free health checks to all kids-yes.
Better access to fresh food in remote areas-yes.
More support for families-yes; to support improved diet, education and safety in the streets and in the homes.
Better resources to support communities in their civic responsibilities-yes-how?
And when do the human and financial resources all flow and will it all stop in 6 months time?
Or, are we going to see free-range of journalists roaming communities feeding images to the eastern states throughout the election period?
Other news:
A report on Australian households credit debts shows record levels is pushed off the front page. Focus groups rule the sway in these modern days as we all move towards the election of all elections...
Australian Navy repel Iranian patrol with foul language. Racism underlies story? It is an old story-coming out of the BBC.
062107 Still. Blue sky in the morning and lasts for most of the day. The hunt ended yesterday for the suspected city shooter.
062007 Winter, mild with rain. A Miro sells big
061910 Winter
061807 Grey day. John Howard's dismal imagination is further exposed today, as this election looms closer; this is the one that seals all our fates.
061707 The air is still.
061607 Cool overcast. Still air. This election is going to be nastiest of them all. And we don't like it.
061507 Fog.
061407 Sunshine in morning.
061307 Rain, with occasional sunshine breaking through .
061207 More fluff. School children gunned down
061107.Overcast
061007 Fluff in the sky all day. But still touched by the sunshine.
060907 Blue sky all day?
060807 Blue to start, who knows after that? Mr Howard told Southern Cross radio he did not watch the Keating interview last night, but was keen to see it.
"I don't object to any of his appearances," he said.
H'mm, then there must be some people he thinks he does have the power to object to.
Keating on workplace:
"The great lie of the Howard Government in respect of workplace changes, they are simply a set of arrangements to keep unions out of workplaces. They've got nothing to do with productivity and the quicker we move away from that kind of discriminatory structure to a truly trust based co operative sharing of work and workloads, then we get back to reasonable levels of productivity and again, reasonable rates of growth in real wages. It's no accident as you saw in today's front page of The Sydney Morning Herald and other places that the wage share in the economy has gone down, and the profit share in the last four years has gone up because wages are now in real terms, are declining". Reference full transcript here. Time to take it to them- now, not later.
060607 Mild and grey.
060507.Cool. Grey. The freeze-out has begun on Rudd since last week-it's now Garrett's turn under the radical conservative of blow torch tactic. Opposition treasurer will be next?
060407 Cool. Grey.
060307 Clear blue sky. Did the climate change for Howard when he ignored Gore and belittled the thrust of Gore's "inconvenient truth"?
060207 Cool. Fluff in the sky
060107 Sunshine in Sydney.
May 2007
053107 Grey drizzle.
053007 Blue.Mild.
This hypocrisy of current radical conservative thought spewing from the minds of Professor Helen Hughes and opinion pushers such as Andrew Bolt, who are riding on the back of Noel Pearson's considered comments, could drive a sane person to drink.
The sustained agenda that is going on for the past decade or so e.g. the overt trashing of Nugget Coombs, and anyone else of note who shows (or has shown) some passion in Aboriginal Affairs, is unrelenting and must be challenged.
My open letter last weekend to Minister Mal Brough and his advisers was as follows:
(a) Why is the federal government now willing to adequately fund town camps infrastructure in Alice Springs, to a conventional residential standard, when governments denied exactly the same thing to the same group of people over the past three decades?/
(b) Why are you demanding people give up their rights to the land they have lived on, and which they had to fight for three decades ago, before the federal government will accept its responsibilities to adequately fund any further physical developments to improve their residential environments? /
(c) If you consider $60-$70M as adequate to upgrade the physical infrastructure in the Alice Springs town camps, can we assume that federal funding will flow to all populated centres in the region on a pro rata basis at the same time?
(e) Do you think the major policy shifts by governments over the past decades has anything to do with the situations many Indigenous families face every day and night?
The 'Think Tanks' are once again are using Indigenous 'noise' to divert the attention from all the major structural deficiencies underpinning our society(ies).
052907 Grey.Mild.
052807 Grey.Mild, still air.
052707 Clear sky.
052607 Clear sky.
Alice Springs town camps: Question: If the federal government is prepared to spend $60+million dollars on Alice Springs Town camps to overcome some of the disadvantage and fix up a decade or so of neglect -why the ransom? What has taking the land got to do with it?
052507 Grey.Cool. Sunshine for most of the day.
052407 Sunshine, blue clear sky-for now.
052307 Still, grey morning. Fisk reports.
052207 Chilled awakening, with blue morning sky. Heavy, grey day, develops. John Howard splutters hubris all-over.
Greymen and blue suited women manage our economic "tick boxes", telling us how well off we all are.
And, Hicks and this bizarre world flows on- "Hicks – who completed a Year 11 education at Guantanamo Bay (that's news)– has already revealed plans to complete his HSC and study ecology or zoology at university.
"In the next week or so we'll prepare a detailed management plan for him specifically tailored to his needs," South Australian Correctional Services acting chief executive Greg Weir said yesterday.
The terrorism supporter enjoyed a breakfast of cereal, toast and coffee after spending his first night inside G-Division at Yatala Labour Prison.
"Normally breakfast is cereal, some toast and some coffee and that is for all the prisoners in G-Division," Mr Weir said...." (Reference here)---Mr M. FooCo , what would you say?
052107 Heavy sky.
052007 Cloud and sun play.
051907 Sunny.
051807 Rain all night. over 20mm. Grey. Mild.
051707 Cloud cover. Bright and mild.
051607 Puffy sky.Mild
051507 Drizzle. Another Joanna Quinn film is to hit Melbourne again, in June 2007 MIAF.
051407 Mild with cloud cover. Political vision is so refreshing, unfortunately , in someone else's backyard---
"Gordon Brown will detail his commitment to building hundreds of thousands of new homes to meet demand for social housing and help young people get a foot on the property ladder.
The Chancellor will emphasise his commitment today to build more than 200,000 new houses a year, including new homes for people on low incomes and a ground-breaking series of five environmentally friendly "eco-towns".
Mr Brown will use a whistlestop tour of marginal constituencies to flesh out his plans for tackling the housing crisis before turning his attention to the battle for the Labour leadership nominations at Westminster later this week.
He will outline his vision of a property owning democracy but will pledge to make developments environmentally sustainable........But the Conservatives have accused Mr Brown of simply reannouncing a year-old policy and said a pledge to create 10 new eco-towns a decade ago had only yielded one in 10 of the promised homes."
Well, in politics, a rose is a rose is a rose. Reference here
051307 Clear sky sunshine in the morning
051207 Cool some fog about.Or is it smog fog?
051107 Grey and coolish. The shame of the world exposed yet again with diaspora of Iraqis - 'Iraq's next-door neighbour, Jordan, with a population of just 5.5 million, are currently trying to deal with close to 700,000 Iraqis who have fled the daily violence that is tearing their nation apart. In Jordan, Dateline's Olivia Rousset found that this largely unreported human tide - the greatest Middle Eastern refugee crisis in 60 years - is really straining the generosity and resources of the Jordanian people. A warning - you may find some of the images in this piece disturbing'. See SBS report here
051007 Grey. Birds chirp. Another grandson born beautiful with curls.
050907 Grey. Government budget splurge over news today
050807 Grey. Spotty sunshine.
050707 Grey. French elections.
050607 Sunshine and cloud. Fine. "There's nothing sweeter than my mother's heartbeat".. Lyric from Archie Roach
050507 Grey-white. Still. Howard's "Work choices" ads hit the morning papers today- George O, where are you- come back-we need you. United Nations report debunks Howard's world view on global warming
050407 Coolish. Has the pre-Copernican obscurantist blinked on IR legislation standoff? Or allowed more advertising promoting the IR law during the election build-up.
050307 More rain. Grey. Heffernan apologies to Gillard (in a fashion)-
050207. Cool to mild. Mild to cool. The orchestra has started its play (again) with Gillard in the pit- it's plain the boys don't like smart women. The grubs have launched the "barren witch" concept again, and washed their hands of "such public utterances"- their moral essence further shrivels inside their empty shells.
050107 Tuesday- some more rain over night. Damp. Gusty and grey. Paul Keating dumps on Howard- Explains the IR laws stosh with clarity- calls Howard's views poppycock plus some accurate descriptions. Thanks for radio...the joy in words rings clear and sharp. Example from transcript:
...."He (Keating) rejects fears by the business community that tearing up AWAs will damage industry, especially mining.
"Rudd and Gillard have left in place common law contracts and what Julia Gillard said, if they want to develop a contract for the mining industry, the Labor Party will consider it. That's reasonable enough," he said.
"The right to collectively organise pay and conditions of work is a basic civil right, it's the thing that cuts out the template on a democratic nation.
"When you say to people, 'you can't get together at work, you can't organise your conditions', you're back to the earlier part of the industrial revolution, and that's where Howard belongs.
"He's a pre-Copernican obscurantist. That's where he belongs, but let's not have all these turkeys in the business community saying, 'well isn't this shocking'.
"I mean, we've got a profit share in GDP today, like you couldn't jump over, that's why the stock market's so high, out of the last Labor government's IR policies.....".
April 2007
043007 Still air, sunshine struggling during day and you ain't "fair dinkum" about doing something to reduce global warming unless you embrace nuclear power..says Howard -some piss-poor logic and what technophile arrogance! Labor commissions report on the economic impact of global warming on Australia here.
042907 Rain- a gentle layering all over the land. A warm nuclear glow hovers over this morning's news. Howard does Walker/Morgan's nuclear bidding- Victorians, we are about to be punished.
Rudd inexperienced? .....But Mr Rudd ridiculed Mr Howard's experience, saying he had caused Australia's greatest national security threat by invading Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.
"It takes a hang of a lot of experience to get yourself into a war in Iraq having just authorised $300 million worth of bribes to the bloke you're about to knock off in Iraq," Mr Rudd said.
"It takes a lot of experience indeed to get into a war in Iraq where you say you're going to have your troops there for a matter of months, not years, and that was four years ago.
"It takes an enormous amount of experience indeed to have engaged this country in the single greatest miscalculation of our national security interest, which has been the Iraq war, and that's Mr Howard's claim to experience."
He said Mr Howard was experienced in being loose with the truth, in ignoring critical needs like broadband networks and climate change, in defunding universities and in pulling out of basic commitments which were part and parcel of the social fabric.
"These are Mr Howard's claim to experience and I say delegates, we've had enough," he(Rudd) said.
Source: The Age newspaper.
042807 Rain overnight. Birds sing, grass parrots cluster and chatter. Old histories continue to rattle away in Estonia (and who said "art aint political?") Photo here ; and Howard spruiks Nuclear Power Plants and the whole kaboom- and the Rudd Labor Party goes half pregnant by lifting a long time ban on the opening of new uranium mines (those leases owned by global others) digging up our land. Brave New World opens up- George O, please come back, we need you.
042707 Rain is falling somewhere across the State. Elvis rocks across the way, alerting the kids the school is open for business- far better than a bell!
042607 Sky clear to some cover-sunshine, cool. Amanda announces retirement from the Senate and says she wont publicly pester Howard for an overseas posting- within 2 hours she's off to Rome. That's power!
042507 ANZAC day-Sky is blue and sun shines.Election stoush on Research. Howard contradicted by CSIRO on Global warming.
042407 Blue Sky.Our violence on each other always astounds and stunts understanding- no matter what the circumstance- when a stool hits a face? Caution-Image should shock?
042307 Server back up-Sky blue.
042007 Blue sky with haze.
041907 Grey beginning-air heavy with the morning traffic fumes, water dries up in the Murray-Darling Basin-Howard says still claims to be a global warming sceptic but calls on all of us to pray for rain.
041807 Gentle rain in night-sunshine struggles
041707 Blue sky , sunshine at the start and stays on through day. Guns and America again.Shooting massacre here (2002) and 2007 (but then our nation has its moments too-Queens Street, Hoddle Street,and Epworth Hospital in Melbourne and Port Arthur in Tassie, to name some).
041607 First dark morning with a reminder that winter is approaching
041507 Sunshine
041407 Still morning air- sunshines battles the encroaching greyness
041307 Grey sky.Still air an occasional bird sings and autumn grabs hold.
041207 Grey beginning."So it goes".... Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84-a blue day.Vonnegut's comments on men that wear suits and power ties generally known as PP's . The last image of his Web presence shows the man,as it goes.
041107 Still.Clouds.
041007 Still.Grey Still.Grey to glorious sunshine. Howard sends SAS troops back to Afghanistan -(he removed them last September) -only the cynical would think it's all related to the election cycle and has nothing to do with correcting his earlier decision to withdraw troops.
040907 Easter Monday-Sunshine, gentle air.
040807 Easter Sunday-Sunshine still air.
040707 Sunshine still air.
040607 Sunshine gains during day. Easter break begins.
040507 Still morning. More gentle rain during the night, parks glowing green after parched existence.Sunshine pushes through. Howard and Morgan must be on the blower again.(earlier example ( here ) -go nuclear and today, with a public declaration "like minds" Hugh Morgan (AO) and Howard. Morgan supports Howard's call for companies to advertise against the Labor party.
040407 Still. Chill in air. New Matilda ( here )
040307 Still. Grey men in grey suits with designer ties sign papers that snuff lives.
An ignorance of our shared histories and the arrogance arising from one’s self-importance, leads to miserable axioms that underwrite our actions -in this shared experiences of this blue world.
Afghan farmers, poppies and the USA.
040207 Still.040107 Gentle morning grey sky.
March 2007
March 2007.
033107 Cool morning and overcast. Hick's gets 7 and here.
033007 Cool morning, sunshine trying to take hold. Howard to sell uranium to India (after his [and Bush's] earlier visit ).
032907 Still morning, sunshine some fluff and birds sing; turning cool.
032807 Still morning, overcast. The American press comments on David Hick's -The Houston Chronicle. Mammatus clouds sit over Melbourne.
032707- Birds sing and sun shines.Hick's appears in front of military......and sometime later pronouncements made.
032607- Still morning with sunshine.
032507- Daylight saving ends. Coolish morning. Sunshine struggling through. Labor wins in NSW's.
032407- Coolish morning. OC; no sun -"summer type" rain (big slow drops) on an off, with an occasional wind driven rain. NSW's vote.
032007 Rain, overcast and mild.
031807 Calm day, blue sky and warm. Howard wears leather jacket and reshuffles his executive.
031707 Scattered cloud blue patches, rain somewhere. Howard asks ministers to check shares disclosures- Family trusts must be busy.
031607 Drizzle and crazy traffic- Grand Prix time. Federal funding for community garbage collection stopped in Indigenous council run towns- you have to ask why?
031507 Awoke to an overcast sky with 5ml of rain- humidity grows during the day- crickets? sing at dusk- deafening. Does this mean rain? Prime Minister Howard looses another minister- and a Bible basher at that!
031407 Less chill in the morning air. Soft start to a hot day, blue sky. We keep our nation pure- allow populace, mind polluting films but punish the self-abuser
031407 Chill in the morning air. Soft day, blue sky. Some artists suffer pain for their calling and reap rewards
031307 Soft day, blue sky.
031207 Grey breeze. Malaria breakthrough; Bush visits his neighbors(with Laura).