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I just couldn’t wait for them to not leave home, but leave the farm situation, and start being their own independent people. |
That would have been good to see that. I saw them growing up. I got to know their personalities. |
It is not like they died as a baby and I didn’t know who they were. I will always remember their personalities. |
Another thing I thought, too, is that it would be hard when you lose one kid because instantly their face appears in your head and their personality whereas every time I’m thinking about it, I am thinking about this group of people and it is not just a face that pops into my head. It is a group of people. I think in a ... |
Like I said, you can ask me questions and I will answer them. |
It might be quite personal but I will make sure you don’t get another one. |
Journalist: It takes a lot of courage for you to be here, this is very intimidating. Can I ask if you felt victimised about not being able to see your kids? And did you feel victimised by vile rumours that you had anything to do with this? |
I think it is funny. I lost four kids. It is not like I don’t care any more but bring it on, let’s have a party. You guys say what you want to ask, I don’t care any more, I’ve lost everything. |
I’ve got my family but my family they are fine and they have always been fine. Yeah, I don’t want to lose them but I have lost everything in my life. So, you want to ask dumb questions I’m going to answer, you want to ask really good questions I will answer. |
Victimised? Whatever. People’s opinions? Whatever. I’ve got an independent psychologist’s report, about 25 pages or something like that. I want everyone to see it, I want everyone to read it. That is my life story. And I will get it out there somehow. The correct way to do it? I’m not sure. I will be informed, I suppos... |
But I would love to have 10 or 20 copies here now and give them all out to you. |
Originally when I got that report I was so happy to see my kids again. That report let me get my kids again and I just want to do an aeroplane drop with thousands of them all over Margaret River so everyone could see. Accusations that I was abusive and all that. Not to prove that I wasn’t abusive and that. So the kids ... |
Journalist: Peter was a friend, you said. You talked about understanding what he’s done. But do you know why? |
I know exactly why. Peter was not suffering for a long time, he has just been trying to hold it together for a long time. He didn’t snap, he knew what he was doing. He did it really well. If someone was going to do it, I trust he did it right and he did it right. |
Nah, no way. Kat might cry on the phone, a bit low on money. But financially no, they would just sell the car or sell the tractor. They have got all new stuff out there. Kat would never know how much money Peter has got. |
He is not the sort of guy to ever let people know how much money but they would have a fair few hundred in the bank so it is not financial. |
As soon as I found out about Neil (Katrina’s brother) having kidney problems, he was down to five per cent or something, I was so upset. |
I thought, if something happens to Neil, Kat will not survive this one, she will not be able to lose another brother. |
But I didn’t think about Cynda and Peter. I didn’t think about Peter. |
There is no way possible he can lose another son, he’ll kill himself but then I thought, “No, he won’t do that either because there is no way he would leave”. |
He was so close to my kids that he would not leave the kids upset for the rest of their lives. |
Journalist: Can I ask you whether you think this was his decision and his decision alone? |
Oh definitely, totally his. Not Cynda, totally Peter’s. He has thought this through. He has not snapped. He has thought, “Right, I can’t kill myself, I can’t live any more so this is it for me but I need to take out everyone with me because that will fix the whole problem”. And he has fixed the whole problem. |
He didn’t leave me with a kid. I’m not glad he didn’t leave me at least one kid but it would be a hard life with that kid growing up after losing all the other kids. |
As I said, he has not just killed himself. He has killed the kids, Kat and Cynda. |
He went across and shot the kids and Kat first and came back and shot Cynda in the living room. Cynda probably got up, heard the gunshots, she was in the living room. He’s come back, shot her. |
He’s sent a triple-0 call, made a two-minute call or something which in that call he would have been saying, I’m guessing about not being able to handle it if something happened to Neil. |
I’m sure that’s in the call. There is two minutes of it. Someday I might to listen to it, someday I might not want to even listen to it. But I don’t even know if I will go out into the farm past the gate, I still have to think about that. |
He’s gone out to the porch, made the call and shot himself. I don’t know how he has done it so well. None of the kids were up out of their beds. |
They were all just very, very peaceful and calm. When I heard that, the best feeling came over me. |
I think that will do. |
Jimmy Page was questioned on the influence of 'Mary Poppins' on "Stairway to Heaven" as the Spirit copyright infringement case continues. |
Day three of the copyright infringement trial between Led Zeppelin and Sixties rockers Spirit over the authorship of “Stairway to Heaven” continued with the plaintiffs’ contentious examination of iconic Zeppelin guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page. |
Presiding judge Gary Klausner frequently reprimanded Malofiy, demanding he focus his inquiry only on the similarity between “Stairway” and the “deposit copy” (the sheet music transcription of “Taurus” deposited in the Library of Congress). A prolonged conversation about the musical structure, rhythms, arpeggiation and ... |
The potential for a mistrial appeared to become an increasing possibility. Led Zeppelin’s lawyer, Peter Anderson, objected about the plaintiffs not providing evidence discussed in the trial. “We don’t believe this is an exhibition produced by us or provided to us by the plaintiff,” Anderson said about an audio recordin... |
Anderson also claimed Malofiy had presented to Page a “composite document,” a batch of multiple documents combined into one – forbidden, as it obscures for the opposing counsel what’s being referred during witness examination. The defense also claimed that Malofiy had attempted to influence the proceedings with contrac... |
The Spirit/”Taurus” side may have scored, however, when they called their expert witness Dr. Alexander Stewart, a musicologist, professional saxophonist and music professor at the University of Vermont. The most credible, sympathetic and compelling witness to take the stand in the trial other than Page himself, Dr. Ste... |
More significantly, he powerfully described the close similarities between the compositions, and scrappily held his own under a tough cross-examination by Zeppelin’s counsel. Particularly damning was Dr. Stewart’s analysis that, in their chord progressions, both “Taurus” and “Stairway” “in an unusual way” skip the “E” ... |
The plaintiff did reveal what may be its key advantage. A major point in both sides’ cases is the statute of limitations around “Stairway” royalties. Through examination of Page, Malofiy revealed that a previously unreleased version of “Stairway” – included in a companion disc of alternate mixes from Led Zeppelin IV do... |
Pat Hathaway, an avid whale watcher, couldn’t believe what he saw in Monterey Bay on Sunday. A pod of endangered killer whales, also known as orcas, typically seen in the coastal waters of Pacific Northwest, was now in his backyard. |
While it’s commonplace to see killer whales in Monterey Bay through summer and fall, those whales are of the transient type that travel in groups of 10 or fewer and eat marine mammals — sea lions, seals, grey and minke whales. The southern resident killer whales that were seen this week mostly stick to their homes in t... |
Monterey Bay Whale Watch reported a sighting of over 30 individuals in this pod, including 90-year-old Ocean Sun, the oldest member of all killer whales and a three-month-old calf. |
But what’s compelling these whales to take trips down the coast? Food. |
“They go wherever they can find Chinook salmon,” said Alisa Schulman-Janiger, co-founder of the California Killer Whale Project. |
These are big animals, with high energetic needs, and they need to be in a place that has sufficient food for them. “If they don’t find salmon in one area, they’re going to move to another,” she said. To her, the recent sightings were unusual, but not unprecedented. |
Many Chinook salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest are dwindling. Large-scale fishing in the past and obstruction from dams during spawning have contributed to their decline.”We know they (whales) aren’t getting enough food, we know that they’re struggling, and we’re seeing some whales that are skinnier,” Schulma... |
These mammals have adapted by moving up and down the coast to satisfy their voracious appetite. “This year is a good year for salmon in Monterey Bay,” she said. |
But southern residents are constantly on the move. In Monterey Bay, they’ve stuck around only for a day or two during their visits. “They don’t stay very long, they don’t eat them (salmon) all, but if there’s good food they may come back,” explained Kenneth Balcomb, executive director of the Center for Whale Research i... |
According to him, the sightings of southern resident killer whales in Monterey Bay aren’t unusual, and probably not a recent phenomena either. |
“California is part of their normal range,” he said. The sporadic records in the last two decades could be due to low salmon numbers in the Pacific Northwest or the fact that no one spotted the whales, even though they might have come by for quick visits, he said. |
Nancy Black, marine biologist and owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch, has now seen southern resident whale pods on five occasions in the region — in 2000, 2003, 2008, 2011 and this year. “I had already been in this area for 15 years and never saw the southern residents ever before” 2000, she said. |
For Black, it was easy to tell the difference between southern residents and transients. Although they’re the same species, she knew it was the southern residents that she’d been spotting in the Monterey Bay winters. Of the three known southern resident pods — J, K, and L — the latter two have visited this region. She ... |
Over the last few days, whale watching boats in Monterey have plugged in extra hours and covered more ground to ensure no presence goes unrecorded. This is just in case the L-pod whales decided to stay a little longer. So far, there’s been no news of another sighting since Sunday. |
She suggests including Monterey Bay as part of a critical habitat that was designated to protect southern resident killer whales. Currently, inland waters of Washington state serve as critical habitat, but the plan is to extend this to other areas that the whales travel to for food. |
Designers from Tokyo based Bathing Ape fashion brand took cues from a classic. |
For their new Bape Sta Mids, designers from Tokyo based Bathing Ape fashion brand took cues from the classic ‘Doc Marten‘ boots which seemed to have regained in popularity in the fashion scene over the the last 12 months. The shoes use similar colorways, laces, heel tab and even the souls are translucent. |
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you haven’t, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue. |
-We throw away 165 billion dollars worth of food per year in America. That’s more than the budgets for America’s national parks, public libraries, federal prisons, veteran’s health care, the FBI, and the FDA combined. |
-About 50 million of our 317 million Americans are food insecure yet we produce enough food to feed over 500 million Americans. |
-To create just the amount of food that ends up in the landfills we waste enough water to meet the domestic water needs of every American citizen. |
Even with these mind-blowing statistics you probably still need to see it to believe it. That is where I come in. |
This summer I finished up my second bike ride across America living on food from grocery store dumpsters. On my first ride dumpster diving across America, about 70% of my diet came from dumpsters, totaling up to about 280 pounds of food over 4,700 miles of cycling. |
This time around, halfway across the country, I vowed to eat exclusively out of grocery store dumpsters until I reached New York City. For the 1,000 miles and seven weeks of riding from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City you could have spotted me in any of 300 or so dumpsters across America. I admit I slipped up on my... |
I’m not just dining from the dumpster to meet my needs though. I’m doing this to inspire America to stop throwing away food. My interactions with whomever I crossed paths with helped them to see the food waste fiasco firsthand but still I said I would help YOU see it to believe it. |
That is where photos from my public demonstrations come into play. In eight cities along the tour I went out dumpster diving, usually just for one night, and set up my find in a public park the next day. Many people were shocked by what I showed them and even more were angry, not at me, but at the waste of our society ... |
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania we had two vehicles and we hit about ten dumpsters between the two teams. This is what we took home in four hours. |
Two days later I rolled up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 9:00 PM, started diving an hour later, and was sound asleep with this score by 1:00 AM. |
Between all of the demonstrations that I hosted we ended up giving away over $10,000 worth of food and fed well over 500 people. To me that is proof of how good the food is that we are throwing away. |
I’ve learned that I can roll up in nearly any city across America and collect enough food to feed 100’s of people in a matter of one night. The only thing that limited me was the size of the vehicle I had to transport it. My experience shows me that grocery store dumpsters are being filled to the brim with perfectly go... |
My intentions with these photos are to help you to get an idea of the scale of this issue. Even still these are just photos. Seeing it in person is a whole different story. So my mission continues. |
I know not all of you are going to be able to come on Sunday though and I also want YOU to see it for yourself. So I encourage you to go to your grocery store and do something a little different from your normal routine. I want you to walk around to the back of the store, find their dumpster, and take a look inside. Yo... |
With that action in mind you should be versed in this a little bit more before you hit the dumpsters. Our message to the grocery stores is that we want them to stop dumping their excess food and start donating it to non-profits so it can be distributed to people in need. Through my hands on experience and research I ha... |
Thousands of food rescue programs are already feeding people across America and thousands of stores are already donating to these non-profits and food banks. Here in San Diego we’ve got Feeding America San Diego and Donate Don’t Dump. However it is a very small fraction of what could be done. We need more stores donati... |
You don’t even have to peek into their dumpsters if you don’t want to. Share this article with supermarkets or simply talk to the manager while you are at the store and let them know that it is important to you, their customers. Humans with hearts run these stores and we can get them to change for the better! It’s up t... |
I believe that we are at a tipping point for ending food waste and with citizen action we can solve this. The excitement inside me tells me that my generation will drastically reduce food waste in our time. |
Start by telling your grocery store to #DonateNotDump! |
The “End Grocery Waste” App, which is based on the open GS1 DataBar standard, encourages efficient consumer shopping behavior that maximizes grocery retailer revenue, makes fresh food affordable for all families and effectively reduces the global carbon footprint. |
, according to a marine biologist who is trying to find out just how they do it, during an expedition running from March 18 through April 7. |
"In fact, they're growing faster than the same species elsewhere," said Stephen Palumbi of Stanford University. |
Studying these seemingly heat-resistant corals could help scientists find ways to protect these and other corals, which scientists worry are at risk as climate change warms the oceans. |
Coral reefs are a crucial part of the environment; they support more species per unit area than any other marine habitat. They are home to many fish we eat; they attract divers; buffer coasts from the effects of storms; and have been the source of medicinal substances, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ... |
"Our research tries to find the corals that are better at resisting the negative effects of high temperature, and find out at the molecular genetic level how they accomplish this," Palumbi said in a statement put out by the university. |
To test the corals' strength, the researchers will use a computer-controlled aquarium that lets them increase water temperature to a precise degree. They will place the corals from different locations into this so-called coral stress tank, ramp up the temperature over the course of a day and monitor which of the corals... |
The first part of the team's expedition takes place in Ofu Island in American Samoa; from there, they will travel to Rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. |
"We do not know if the strong corals we find tomorrow will be dead the next day," Palumbi said. "But if we do not find them, we will never know where to protect them." |
Stay updated on the team's whereabouts and findings on their blog. |
Who Are the Biggest Names on U.S. Terror Hit List? |
An American military strike this week took out one of the most wanted terrorists in the world — Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of al Shabab, the organization linked to the siege on a Kenyan mall last year that left 67 people dead. |
But there are still plenty of names on the U.S. terror target list. |
NBC News asked two leading consulting firms that study terrorism and security, the Rand Corp. and the Soufan Group, to identify some of the biggest names still at large. Here are some of them. |
Leader of al Qaeda since the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. Before the India announcement, he surfaced a year ago, when he encouraged terrorist attacks “here and there” inside the United States, with the goal of weakening the American economy by forcing massive spending on security. Zawahri, 63, is the most wanted... |
Operational leader of the Haqqani Network, considered to be the deadliest insurgent group in Afghanistan. The network has been implicated in regular attacks on U.S. soldiers, and Haqqani himself admitted to a 2008 assassination attempt against President Hamid Karzai. It was the Haqqani Network that held American Sgt. B... |
Leader of Boko Haram, the Nigerian militants who kidnapped more than 300 schoolgirls in April. Shekau, believed to be in his late 30s, is said to aspire to be the African bin Laden. In a video in July, he released a video in which he mocked the Twitter campaign #BringBackOurGirls, in support of the captives. His rhetor... |
Skilled, inventive master bomb-maker of al Qaeda. He was behind the failed plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, a plot to take down planes with bombs in printers in 2010, and the surgical implanting of a bomb in his own brother, who was killed trying to assassinate a Saudi official in 2009. A... |
Leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and identified by John Brennan, the CIA director, earlier this year as al Qaeda’s No. 2. The post had been vacant since 2011, when an American drone took out the last man to hold it. Wuhayshi is believed to be in his early 40s and a potential successor to the older Zawahri. W... |
An ISIS fighter known as Omar the Chechen, believed to have a rising profile within the organization. He’s a fierce military commander with a distinctive red beard. He grew up in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, which one terrorism analyst called “the Harvard of terrorist upbringing.” He has commanded ISIS forces in Syria... |
Following the implementation of the nation’s switch from analogue to digital broadcasting, otherwise known as the Digital Switchover (DSO), by the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) as mandated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), children’s broadcast contents appear to be gradually going into ex... |
Their claim is that children do not make buying decisions, and as such they have adopted mothers as their target audience and moved their advertising spend to dramas, soaps and Telemundo which are often rated PG 16. Imagine the children are saying you have no right to tag any content PG 16 when you have not made provis... |
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, speaking on the benefits of successful migration, said the nation’s television industry was expected to generate $1billion annually after the completion of the digital switch over, pointing out that industries like the Nigerian film industry, ... |
“For content providers, this is boom time, as the demand for content will skyrocket, thus allowing our youth to give vent to their creativity. For viewers, there will be a harvest of channels,†the minister stated. The DSO, according to him, is at the dawn of a new era for government, television channels, producers... |
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