Showing posts with label EDUCATION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EDUCATION. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Free Range Organic Meat

First off . . . . In my opinion wild harvested game, or Free Range Organic Meat is infinity more preferable to packaged, sometimes chemically supplemented and processed meat.

When you pick up that plastic wrapped meat from the supermarket please be aware that farmed animals can be confined, fattened, transported and processed sometimes in cruel conditions and may wait as long as 48 hours smelling death waiting at a processing plant. I fear they often suffer. Of course they may live a life as pleasant as responsible farmers can make possible.

Wild taken game is ideally enjoying a free and natural life in the wild unaware of any danger and in the next second quickly and ethically taken. No suffering and I am respectful and thankful to the animal.

I do not hunt any animal I can't utilise and mostly they are feral (introduced pests) and practice the sustainable utilisation of wildlife. This is my sport and my hobby.

My first Victorian high country Sambar.

 Just a small part of the cleaned and trimmed venison.

 Vacum packed cuts of venison.

 Some in the ageing fridge ready for further processing to steaks, snitzel and venison jerky.

 Hermiones share, mostly the shoulders and other off cuts.

Happy Hermione

My Tikka .308 deer rifle.

Sellier & Bellot 180 grain round and the actual projectile that dispatched the deer.

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

TEDx Sydney

TED is a nonprofit devoted to 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED). The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in just 18 minutes.

TEDx furthers the spirit of Ideas Worth Spreading by bringing people together to share a TED-like experience through a program of local, self organised events. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. TEDx Sydney is one in the spirit of ideas worth spreading.

Tedx are being held all around the world and in australia in there is TEDxBrisbane - Facebook - 10/20/09 - TEDxMelbourne - Facebook - 6/13/09 - TEDxSydney - Eventbrite - 05/28/09

TEDxSydney hits Sydney on May 28, 2009 at Australian Technology Park

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Philosopher Alain de Botton

I was watching TV tonight and caught a segment on ABC2 from the ABC's Fora program covering a recent visit to Australia by Alain de Botton, a Swiss writer and television presenter who's books and television programmes discuss various subjects in a philosophical style. Sometime ago I saw his series on TV 'The Architecture of Happiness' where he discusses the nature of beauty in architecture and how it is related to the well being and general contentment of the individual and society. In it he describes how architecture affects people although people rarely pay particular attention to architecture. But the show explored how human personality traits are reflected in architecture. The best modern architecture, he argues, doesn't hold a mirror up to nature, though it may borrow a pleasing shape or expressive line from it.
In Australia in April he was promoting and discussing his latest book, 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work', in it he surveys ten different jobs, including accountancy, rocket science and biscuit manufacture, which includes two hundred original images and aims to unlock the beauty, interest and occasional horror of the modern world of work. (I have not read it) He is also the founder of School of Life, a new educational institution that claims to offer intelligent solutions to lead a meaningful life. Interesting I thought . . .

Thursday, 23 April 2009

Welcome, first post

This is my first post and will add some more posts shortly. Here is an interesting snippet:

End users, developers seen flocking to iPhone apps on wide scale

A mobile analytics firm has published new findings which show the iPhone taking the majority of the app market -- especially when it comes to the sheer number of users . . Jump to Appleinsider