This is a summary of the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Join Reading.FM now: https://fourminutebooks.com/go/readin… Read more summaries: https://fourminutebooks.com/0:00 – Introduction 1:34 – Top 3 Lessons 2:10 – Lesson 1: Pesticides destroy not just the particular pests but whole ecosystems 3:56 – Lesson 2: Once DDT enters the food chain, it affects all the species involved 5:58 – Lesson 3: The two main solutions to the harmful effect of pesticides are education and biological alternatives to deal with pests 7:32 – Outro Silent Spring was first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962 and has been updated by Rachel Carson in this iteration. In the book, the author brings to light the harm of pesticide use and other environmental effects caused by the present actions taking place in the world we live in today. You can also read this summary on our website, listen to just the audio, and download a PDF of it: https://fourminutebooks.com/silent-sp… For more weekly animated book summaries, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGz… Four Minute Books is a collection of over 1,000 free book summaries, each of which draws 3 lessons from one of the world’s best books. Get smarter in 4 minutes or less! Start reading: https://fourminutebooks.com/book-summ…
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Agfa Clack
Gerard, you published this blog a long time ago! You probably still remember very well the time before you left Holland for Australia. How do you feel about this now?
Agfa ClackPosted on December 15, 2010 by gerard oosterman
There must have been some spare money about but when about twelve or so I had a Kodak box camera given by my parents. It was a simple box and had two little mirrors in which to focus on the subject. The film was wound on an empty spool two and a half times and then inserted in the camera; the box would be closed ready for the 8 or 12 photos that it then could take. What a glorious gift it was. The photos took about a week to get developed and sleepless nights would be followed by euphoria when the big day would arrive to get the photos. Money for the development was earned by collecting old newspapers and rags after school.
After the go-a-head for migrating I had spotted a camera far advanced to the Kodak Box. It was…
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Information Anarchism
We’re on a collision course with extinction via environmental catastrophe or nuclear war, and it’s because of the decisions made by powerful people who are continuously working to control what ideas and information we consume. If information was really freed up, along with our ability to collectively control the direction humanity takes going forward, it’s hard to imagine we’d mess it up any worse than they have.
By Caitlan Johnstone
Our civilization is built upon lies and obfuscation to such an extent that advocating for transparency and the democratization of information can be a complete political ideology, all by itself.
Rather than claiming to know what’s best for society (whether we should move left or right, whether we should espouse this model or that model), it is perfectly legitimate to simply support giving humanity the information tools necessary to know the truth about what’s happening so that they can collectively determine for themselves what direction to take.
This would mean supporting the end of the mass-scale manipulations and obfuscations used by the powerful to influence the way the public thinks, acts and votes, and it would mean giving them the democratic infrastructure to steer their civilization in response to the true information they’ve got access to.
It would mean supporting the end of government secrecy and advocating…
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LANDLINE
https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2204Q021S00
This Landline program I find most interesting! 🙂
It is wonderful how locally grown fresh products can be delivered to restaurants within hours 0f being harvested! 🙂
The Casterton Kelpie show is a very nice show! A lot of great dogs to be admired!
Very interesting also to find out what Destination Restaurants are! 🙂
https://iview.abc.net.au/video/RF2204Q021S00
Fine-dining regional restaurants offer new opportunities for local producers; One of the nation’s smallest and most unique farms; Mixing with the top dogs at the Casterton Kelpie show; 200 years of agricultural education.
Lift Off
This looks to me like a very interesting book launch! 🙂
Big thanks to all who attended the launch of ‘Long Jetty, Short Stories, Volume 1, Before the ‘Rus’. The Savoy at Long Jetty proved to be the perfect venue with rumours that a handful of revellers kicked on and ended up at The Long Jetty Hotel. For some it was a very dusty Sunday, trust me I know.
I am thrilled to have had some great feedback on the book already. When I was reading through the final proofs of the book, I must admit to suffering from some serious self doubt about the stories. It’s all part of the process, apparently. Incidentally, my publisher, Stephen Matthews at Ginninderra Press, has just sent me the first galley proofs for Volume 2. So here we go again.
Special thanks to my three daughters, Hannah, who read a piece from the book, Bethany, who made a fabulous cake, and Bronte, who…
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Aunty Uta’s Diary from February 21, 2013
All went well. Now we have to wait for just a few weeks before we’ll be sent the finished disks. Not that I’m looking forward to listening to my recorded voice! Thanks to all the encouragement I have been given by Frances, I survived the interviews. But I’m glad it’s over now. Talking to Frances was great. I very much liked our conversations. It was just a bit difficult at times knowing what I said was being recorded. Still it was overall a good, enjoyable experience. Frances always tried to put me at ease before the recordings and helped me along by asking relevant questions.
6 thoughts on “Aunty Uta’s Diary”
catterel
- Now you really are part of Australia’s history! This is a great idea, wonderful for future generations with no idea of what life was like in the past. I’m so glad you had the courage to go along and do it.
auntyuta
- Wow, what a lovely comment, Cat. Thank you so much!
WordsFallFromMyEyes
- This is hugely valuable, Aunty Uta, just like Catterel says. You surely know, I believe wholly in capturing your life while you’re in it, for others to know in years to come what it was like. This is so interesting – excellent!
- Thank you, Noeleen.
Island Traveler
- Wonderful post my friend. Hearing your stories always bring inspiration. Looks like you had a fun time in the pool. Swimming is invigorating!
- Invigorating – very much so, dear IT. I wished I had the stamina to go there more often. Yesterday Peter and I went to Merrylands West again taking some more stuff out of the house. Gaby’s portable ramp, her portable respirator and a box full of stuff for the respirator was still left in Gaby’s room. We found an address where all this had come from and took it there. It meant we did a trip to another Western Sydney suburb. Most of things that were still left in the house, Peter took to a close by opp-shop. He had to do several trips because our car is only small. After an exhausting eight hour day we were glad to be home again. The villa is completely empty now and ready to be renovated for the next disabled occupant.
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ORAL HISTORY AND FOLKLORE
https://www.nla.gov.au/collections/what-we-collect/oral-history-and-folklore
Oral history and folklore
The Library’s Oral History and Folklore Collection dates back to the 1950’s and includes a rich and diverse collection of interviews and recordings with Australians from all walks of life.
Portrait of Smoky and Dot Dawson
Smoky Dawson interviewed by Rob Willis for the Rob Willis folklore collection.
Portrait of Lola Wright
Lola Wright interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob Willis folklore collection(2008)
Portrait of interviewer Rob Linn
Peter Cundall interview with Rob Linn.
View in the catalogueNext PAUSEPAUSE SLIDER
Our Oral History and Folklore collection records the voices that describe our cultural, intellectual and social life. The collection consists of over 55,000 hours of recordings, the earlier ones dating back to the 1950s when the tape recorder became available. More than 1000 hours of interviews, music and accents are added to the collection each year. Increasingly the collection is available online or may be requested from the catalogue. You can listen to:
- Folklore recordings – popular culture, traditional songs, dances, music, stories and more
- Interviews with distinguished Australians – scientists, writers, artists, politicians and sports people
- Interviews with people who have lived through significant social trends and conditions – unemployment, the impact of child removals from families, the Depression, and migration to Australia
- Environmental sound – the historical sound of the built and natural environment.
Some interviews have transcripts or summaries and our online audio delivery system helps you search the content of our collection, which can be searched through Trove.
Highlights
- Interviews by Hazel de Berg – 1,290 recordings of interviews and readings dating from the 1950s of prominent Australian poets, artists, writers, composers, actors, academics, publishers, librarians, scientists, anthropologists, public servants and politicians.
- Folk music by John Meredith – over 500 recordings between 1953 and 1994 of traditional Australian folk music, songs, recitations, bush dance music, yarns and reminiscences. John Meredith was a foundation member of the Bushwhackers and helped form the Bush Music Club and the Australian Folklore Society.
- Bringing Them Home oral history project – These include over 300 interviews collected between1998 and 2002 of Indigenous people and others, such as missionaries, police and administrators, involved in or affected by the process of child removals. Listen online to a selection of interviews.
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants project – interviews with people who were in institutional and out of home care as children. Listen online to a selection of interviews.
- Australian Paralympic stories– interviews with key people responsible for the growth and success of Paralympic sport in Australia. Listen online to Australian Paralympic stories.
Oral History
Some time ago, I did actually listen to both discs, Peter’s and mine. Thanks to Frances the recordings sound rather interesting, So far, none of my children could be bothered to listen to any of the recordings!
After having been to the State Coroner’s Court of NSW for the past couple of days and hearing a lot about Gaby’s Life and Death I was reminded how Peter and I talked a lot about Gaby’s life when Frances interviewed us for the ORAL HISTORY recordings. We did get the finished disks sent to us as expected but we never listened to them yet! I guess I am too chicken to listen to my own voice, and Peter probably feels the same about the recordings of his voice. I was thinking the past few days that maybe Frances would be interested in the findings of the Coroner’s Court?
I wrote this on the 21st of February 2013;
“Today, Frances arrived for the last part of the interview.
All went well. Now we have to wait for just a few weeks before we’ll be sent the finished disks. Not that…
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Bill Gates Granted Authority To Buy 2100 More Acres Of North Dakota Farmland
This looks quite scary to me!
Gates is circumventing a 1932 anti-corporate farm ownership law
Blogging Hounds
Gates, already the largest farmland owner in the country, has secured the go ahead to buy the land for $13.5 million under his ‘Red River Trust’ company.(Click Here)
Gates is circumventing a 1932 anti-corporate farm ownership law by pledging to lease the land back to farmers after the purchase is complete.
The Daily Mail reports:
North Dakota’s Agriculture Commissioner, Republican Doug Goehring, previously said that many people feel they are being exploited by the ultra-rich who buy land but do not necessarily share the state’s values.
‘I’ve gotten a big earful on this from clear across the state, it’s not even from that neighborhood,’ Goehring told KFYR-TV…
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When I turned seventy-eight!
This is a Post that I published close to ten years ago.
I find it amazing, that after all this time, I am still kicking!
Flowers for my birthday!
- I love these berries!
- My brother made this beautiful plum cake
- We took our guests to an Italian Restaurant
- We were happy to sit outside in the garden area
- I loved my Pizza Vegetaria
- Everyone was happy with what they had ordered
We left the gardens of the restaurant after an excellent lunch to have coffee and cake in our little apartment. We had been very lucky that it had still been warm enough to sit outside for our meal.
AuntyUta 