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The dream is always the same but Dr Rangan Chatterjee — a new voice on my dreamscape's horizon — is facilitating a deeper dive into dreams. We’ve come a long way, learning. Senses are making more sense. Being a dreamer is in itself a dream. I especially like the stuff about creativity but it all helps. There are some juicy bits in "what your dreams are trying to tell you about yourself."
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This jaw-dropping, truly tragic episode was fired across my bow, back in March. Now, after a desperate, last ditch effort, the doer's appeal has just, quite rightly, been quashed.

They're calling this man 'the teacher's pet', somewhat ironically, in the hoosegow where he's found his proper place; no longer the sports star/hero of my youth, he is in truth just a child-abusing murderer, benefactor of a repugnant cultural bias, locked in place, that has allowed this kind of behavior, from people like him — a characteristic so common as to be a universal shame, still present, perhaps to a lesser degree, today — despite the all-too-obvious, nightmarish consequences for our students and others, our charges, our children in the firing-line.

Poor Lynnette, lovely, bright and shining woman. All victims, all survivors, have had a win today. Dawson's headed back now, out of options, to deservedly serve his time.
Dawson will see out the remainder of his 24-year prison sentence for the murder of his wife, Lynette Simms, after NSW’s Criminal Court of Appeal knocked back his appeal on Thursday (13 June) afternoon.

In the lengthy judgment, Justice Christine Adamson said the Crown’s case was “such as to exclude beyond reasonable doubt the hypothesis that the deceased left her husband, children, family, home and friends (which I regard as no more than fanciful)”.

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Dawson makes out grounds of appeal but stays locked up​
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Tom Bomb said:
This jaw-dropping, truly tragic episode was fired across my bow, back in March. Now, after a desperate, last ditch effort, the doer's appeal has just, quite rightly, been quashed.

They're calling this man 'the teacher's pet', somewhat ironically, in the hoosegow where he's found his proper place; no longer the sports star/hero of my youth, he is in truth just a child-abusing murderer, benefactor of a repugnant cultural bias, locked in place, that has allowed this kind of behavior, from people like him — a characteristic so common as to be a universal shame, still present, perhaps to a lesser degree, today — despite the all-too-obvious, nightmarish consequences for our students and others, our charges, our children in the firing-line.

Poor Lynnette, lovely, bright and shining woman. All victims, all survivors, have had a win today. Dawson's headed back now, out of options, to deservedly serve his time.
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Yep, I remember him as a Newtown Jets player as well.
A few of the Jets of the 70s ended up in prison.
 
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Big Bird? Head down to Sesame Street. …

It's for real!!!

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Previously, when New Zealand, Aotearoa, underwent a mammalian invasion, not so long ago, those foreign seagoing folk, upon landing, had to deal with some hitherto unheard-of real-world aerial assailants. Thank your lucky stars. That age is over.

As locals, at least one of these breeds of colossal Kiwi combatants are said to have evolved there to successfully occupy the ecological niche in Aotearoa of the lion or the tiger, in other climes.

Bad birds. Literally, these uproarious raptors became man-eaters.

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They have found fossils of what they are describing as “giant demonic pelicans” in Queensland. Kinda glad I wasn’t around to see those! …
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As big as the moa was, it’s an alarming thought to know that there was once an eagle big enough to prey on them. Haast’s Eagle was the largest eagle in the world with a wingspan up to 2.6m. It is believed they were of a size and strength to hunt humans. No fossil evidence of this has been found, but Māori mythology speaks of a terrible and fearsome bird known as Pouakai, Hokioi or Hakawai that many believe to have been the Haast’s Eagle …
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Dragon this out a little, chasing the dragon, coincidentally, for no apparent reason. Just a little learning,

A great many cultures have legends of dragon-like monsters. Of course, humans have, by definition, never come across mythical beasts. So where in our collective memory do the origins of these ‘great and terrible’ creatures lie? …
Why be dragons?
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Plenty good insights, by George.​




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Just got some very bad news, from 'an adaptation of an article originally published by The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest.' — The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology. Something to shrink think about:wacky:

  • We view minorities and the vulnerable as less than human,
  • We believe in karma – assuming that the downtrodden of the world deserve their fate,
  • We experience Schadenfreude (pleasure at another person’s distress) by the age of four,
  • We are blinkered and dogmatic,
  • We would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts,
  • We are vain and overconfident,
  • We are moral hypocrites,
  • We are all potential trolls,
  • We favour ineffective leaders with psychopathic traits,
  • We are sexually attracted to people with dark personality traits.

Mustn't generalize. I did have this one friend;)
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