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	Orders, Decorations and Medals - Medals by Country - Medals of United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The award may be presented for wartime endeavors; the peacetime medal is presented to those whose service is recognized as "an extremely difficult duty performed in an unprecedented and clearly exceptional manner," according to information about the award.
		The first recipient of the medal was a Navy nurse, Lt. Ann Agnes Bernatitus, who was honored for her work during the World War II campaign on Bataan and Corregidor from December 1941 to April 1942.
		Jacobs is the recipient of the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal that is awarded for “professional achievement as patrol plane commander” from February to April.
	www.geocities.com /dco700/UnitedStates3.htm (11506 words)

	National Australia Day Council - Australia of the Year Award 2007
		Finalists and recipients at the state/territory level are selected by an expert selection panel comprising representatives of the state/territory Australia Day organisation, National Australia Day Council, Award sponsors and past recipients.
		The Australian of the Year Awards commenced in 1960, with the inaugural Award recipient being Sir MacFarlane Burnet OM AK KBE, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
		The Young Australian of the Year Award was added in 1979, Senior Australian Award in 1999, and the Local Hero Award in 2003.
	www.australianoftheyear.gov.au /pages/page36.asp (754 words)

	Deputy Sheriff Bonsai
		D.S.B., as Commander of the South Pacific Refugee Internment Camps, was also responsible for the implementation of the “Pacific Solution” and indirectly responsible for the illegal detention and internment of Australian citizens on the mainland; the treatment of the inmates there could not be compared to that of the aforementioned camps.
		In Newscorp, locally based Australian journalists are an endangered species.
		They murder children in their parent’s arms and murdered an unarmed peace protester by bulldozer; the list is endless.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/dirtydigger/bonsai.htm (1688 words)

	Surgeon captures 'Australian spirit' - National - www.smh.com.au
		The 2005 Australian of the Year, a medical scientist and surgeon best known for her spray-on skin treatment of burns victims of the Bali bombs, spoke for less than a minute but captured what she called "the Australian Spirit".
		The 2005 Australian of the Year awards - the recipients of which include a Vietnamese boat person who became a filmmaker, a Portuguese migrant who became a philanthropist, and a Tasmanian environmentalist - complement the Australia Day honours announced today.
		Australia's Local Hero of 2005 is Ben Kearney, a baker of Coles Bay, Tasmania, who worked with Planet Ark to make his community free of plastic bags.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Surgeon-captures-Australian-spirit/2005/01/25/1106415597814.html (795 words)

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		Local grocery store owners, commercial fishermen, wood carving busi= nesses, and war veterans joined forces with members of the Klamath Bucket B= rigade to say with a loud voice that they are not going to stand by and allow the NPS to destroy a rural comm= unity.
		This is about making distinctions and choosing ou= r future." A local commercial fisherman who will not be able to pass on his fi= shing permit to his sons said the NPS will not honor a transfer that woul= d allow his family members to access the beach wave-slope.
		First the local sheriff, politely requested the protesters to stand on city property that lies outside of the fence, and is off of federal land.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/roc/archive/roc.200107 (16929 words)

	National Australia Day Council - Australia of the Year Award 2007
		That's why he wrote an important and provocative book The Weather Makers, which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and which also won this year's NSW Premier's Book of the Year award.
		Tania is the only person within her community to complete a university degree; indeed, she's the only one to have successfully completed Year 12.
		By establishing the "Lentil as Anything" concept, Shanaka Fernando has set a wholly successful example to society of how a commercial enterprise can be operated on a socially responsible, idealistic and altruistic basis and still be financially successful and popular with the public.
	www.australianoftheyear.gov.au /pages/page305.asp (604 words)

	Feted WA scientists lead honours parade - National - theage.com.au
		Earlier in the year, they were named Western Australia's Australians of the Year and today they will wield AC (companion in the order of Australia) next to their names.
		In total, 577 people were included on the honours list, ranging from the business elite and doyennes of the arts to volunteer firefighters and religious leaders.
		Sportspeople were not overlooked and former Australian cricket captain Bob Simpson was included on the list of AOs while cricketer Stuart Law and champion aerial skier Alisa Camplin were both given medals in the order of Australia (OAM).
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/feted-wa-scientists-lead-honours/2007/01/25/1169594432309.html (645 words)

	Turf's men of letters \| Herald Sun
		This year's Australian Legends Award honours trainer Bart Cummings, jockeys Roy Higgins, George Moore and the late Arthur "Scobie" Breasley, breeder and owner Bob Ingham, and racecaller John Tapp.
		The award recognises great Australians who have made life-time contributions to the development of national identity and character.
		John Tapp, known as "the Voice of Racing", was the leader in his chosen field, the leading caller for 30 years, and called more than 50,000 races during his career.
	www.news.com.au /heraldsun/story/0,21985,21107742-2862,00.html (518 words)

	The New Environmentalist - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two of the pesticides used (DDT and dieldrin) are on the U.N.'s list of the world's most toxic substances, but despite being banned in many countries, they resist decay and persist in the environment.
		Other recipients of the prize include a Somali fighting deforestation, an ecologist restoring mangroves on the Thai coast, a Guyanese-Amerindian trying to stop mining in native territories, a Polish organic-agriculture advocate and an entrepreneur opposing open-pit mining projects in Puerto Rico.
		The brainchild of San Francisco philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman, the $125,000 prizes have been awarded since 1990 to individuals who are acting to protect the environment at "great personal risk" on each of the planet's six inhabited continental regions.
	thenewenvironmentalist.com /care2/articles_0602/planet_grist.html (9026 words)

	Orders, Decorations and Medals - Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Australians have an emotional attachment to Gallipoli." A spokeswoman for the Australian War Memorial, confirmed the other eight Gallipoli VCs are in its collection, all donated or loaned.
		The medal was awarded to General Nelumba for having contributed to friendship and cooperation the the people of the two countries.
		The star of the day was the Medal of Valor, awarded to Martinez for his actions on Oct. 25 by interrupting a domestic violence incident where a man used a 2-foot long sword in allegedly attacking, and possibly trying to kill, Rizk inside her apartment.
	www.geocities.com /dco700 (9017 words)

	Different strokes - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		When he won the Don Banks in 2000, Browne was on a waiting list for a double lung transplant, after being diagnosed with emphysema in the early '90s.
		There is a touch of frailty evident as Browne sits in his beautiful Malvern living room, a grand piano in one corner, a vintage drum kit in another, and paintings on every wall.
		He is also working on his memoirs, inspired by the journals of his hero Leo Tolstoy which he reads every morning.
	www.theage.com.au /news/music/different-strokes/2006/05/11/1146940673962.html (1591 words)

	Be well. Practice big medicine.
		The Australian Government would contribute $928.4 million (around 60 per cent of program funding, which exceeds $1.5 billion) for HACC nationally in 2006-07.
		Mr Charman’s award is for using his own initiative and setting up an emergency recovery centre for victims of the fire only hours after the disaster occurred.
		Mr Purcell said it was also important to acknowledge the support provided and sacrifices often made by the families and friends of the award recipients and other emergency services staff and volunteers.
	www.bigmedicine.ca /australianz.htm (4947 words)

	U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They were just a few names from a long list of Airmen from the 317th Troop Carrier Group named on the orders authorizing the medal for actions made Jan. 30 through Feb. 1, 1943, while stationed in the Pacific theater.
		Some 120 local Freedom Walks are being held in the coming days around the country, sponsored by local communities, civic groups, schools, churches and grassroots organizations.
		The award of the Bronze Star Medal for Service is a conversion award of the Combat Infantryman Badge authorized for almost 1,200 Canadian veterans in 2005.
	www.senate.gov /~veterans/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.OtherNews (14623 words)

	PLANT BREEDING NEWS
		The Danforth Award for Plant Science recognizes a prominent national or international leader for outstanding achievement and service in the conduct and/or advocacy of science for the benefit of agriculture, food, nutrition or human health.
		Their work, which was funded by the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), is particularly relevant for outcrossing, genetically diverse crops like maize, legumes, or sorghum, to name just a few.
		The authors found that the Ph1 locus is localized to a 2.5 Mb region containing a segment of heterochromatin inserted into a cluster of cdc2-related genes (shown previously to affect chromosome condensation).
	www.fao.org /ag/Agp/agpc/doc/services/pbn/pbn-164.htm (15884 words)

	News Archive, Maximum Russell Crowe
		The SAG Awards be on in the Toronto area this Wednesday, March 14, at 9 p.m.
		Be sure to check your local listing and keep your eye on our calendar, as this alert is sure to move so far down the news page by the time it is going to air, you might forget!
		Australian updates: Amanda Keller and Andrew Denton will be interviewing Russell (taped in advance) on Monday morning, during their breakfast show on Triple M in Sydney.
	www.maximumcrowe.net /newsarchive_1200.html (17219 words)

	indieWIRE > Buzz / Rumors (Apr 2 - Apr 8)
		"It is wonderful to see their hard work, determination and artistic vision recognized by such a prestigious award." The Peabody Awards are the oldest and one of the most prestigious honors in electronic media.
		Locally produced film releases have helped a surge in French box office returns, new figures have revealed.
		Here, the brooding Australian actor talks to David Lipsky about fighting fame, becoming a father and finding love on set.
	www.indiewire.com /buzz/060402.html (3233 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Books - Writing Wrongs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When the truth was revealed, Chatterton was posthumously hailed as a major talent and became a beloved hero of Romantic poets.
		While Chatterton was fooling the Brits, a Scottish schoolmaster named James Macpherson produced “translations” of the Gaelic verse of third-century epic poet Ossian, whose stories of heroism and love wowed primitivists like Napoleon and Goethe.
		In 1944, an Australian poetry editor published a collection of poems by a raw young talent named Ern Malley, a Melbourne mechanic who had died the previous year.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/books/hoaxes.html (2047 words)

	National \| Philadelphia Inquirer
		I would like to suggest that those who are sending full web pages might be more considerate to recipients if they were to use a program to strip the HTML from these pages before sending them as e-mail.
		But a Del Norte County law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said local agencies, the Department of Corrections and other "outside agencies" all are investigating the Boyd homicide.
		``I think we understand local jurisdictions have reasons for choosing at any given time to be on the list or not be on,'' she said.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1998-April.txt (16030 words)

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		Taking hold of the Australian's arm, he turned to see a=20 stocky, balding man who bore a striking resemblance to Grant=20 Mitchell.
		I also mentioned somthing about BATP and the collective effort of the list was used to explain what it stood for.
		Bags I be the heroic little rat who burrows under the foundations in the dead of night, thus causing major upheaval during the closing minutes of the to the death confrontation and collapse of the English defence just before the final whistle.
	www.nfanfic.net /ficlistarchive/1999/LOG9909A.txt (16712 words)

	News for Clint Eastwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Best Actor award was a split decision, going to both Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland and, in a bit of a surprise, Sasha Baron Cohen for the hit comedy Borat.
		Supporting awards went to former child star Jackie Earle Haley for his role as a pedophile in Little Children, and star-in-the-making Jennifer Hudson for her scene-stealing turn in Dreamgirls.
		However, it was the only award that the J.M. Barrie biopic picked up, as the erstwhile awards group, made up of film historians, students and educators, spread the wealth around generously, giving just one award to all movies except Sideways, which nabbed the Adapted Screenplay award and a Supporting Actor nod for Thomas Haden Church.
	imdb.com /name/nm0000142/news (12364 words)

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		The original anouncement follows: Additional Roundtable at ASI Conference In addition to the roundtables listed on the registration form, there will be one on the usability testing of indexes on Saturday, May 17 from 12:00 noon to 1:45.
		I would tend to list the functions available under each class name (since the classes are the building blocks of the program), but cross reference the methods (ie the public functions), eg read() See Input Class, Reader Class.
		If anyone is interested, there are lists of Chinese surnames but it would mean little to most of you since one would have to recognize the characters.
	www.indexpup.com /index-list/1997/01_May_1997.txt (17884 words)

	Australian of the Year » ABC Canberra
		The aim of the awards is to promote Australian values and achievement by recognising excellence and service to the community and the nation.
		The Australian of the Year awards have been running since 1960.
		The list of the former Award recipients is a “who’s who” of Australian achievers including: Sir Gustav Nossal, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kat Cottee, Pat Rafter, Fred Hollows and Keiran Perkins.
	www.abc.net.au /canberra/stories/s1137548.htm (240 words)

	Notebook: Pettitte available for Game 5 - Baseball - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Atlanta’s Andruw Jones and Boston’s David Ortiz were picked as the 2005 recipients of the Hank Aaron Award, given annually to the best offensive players in each league as voted by fans.
		Aaron, baseball’s home run king, was on hand to give the awards to Jones and Ortiz before Game 4 of the World Series.
		White Sox reliever Orlando Hernandez was ready to pitch the day after leaving Game 3 of the World Series with a neck injury.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9832167 (714 words)

	Cornell in the News
		In an annual roundup of local and global trends in birds, Lab of Ornithology's annual feeder study is mentioned as a sign that the evening grosbeak may be in trouble due to declining sightings since 1989.
		Brian Wansink, director of Cornell's Food and Brand Lab, is listed as a hero for the fight against obesity, noting his recently released book "Mindless Eating," which explores the eating habits of Americans.
		Cornell faculty were cited in this year's listing of the Year in Ideas issue of the New York Times Magazine: The New Equality- Economics Professor Robert Frank is cited in an examination of factors affecting the changing nature of economic inequality.
	www.news.cornell.edu /pressoffice1/CUN.shtml (11628 words)

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		Sender: owner-fear-talk@mapinc.org CC: info@hippocrates.com.au Organization: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights http://www.fear.org/ FEAR also offers a low-volume announcements list and digests for all lists The title is to suggest that the issue of asset forfeiture has become international in scope.
		Following a report by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC)10, the Australian Government is currently considering the introduction of Federal civil forfeiture legislation modelled on CARA.
		In my opinion, what K-mart did was cowardly and un-American, and I sincerely hope that all holiday shoppers will remember the unpatriotic deeds of Kmart and spend their money in more deserving stores.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/roc/archive/roc.200111 (11776 words)

	Norwich University
		Norwich pledges $50,000 to help renovate Northfield's Gray Building
		Congratulations to our 2004 NU Alumni Association Award recipients!
		Sixth annual Morin Smith Award winner, Paul Matucci, shines in the classroom
	www.norwich.edu /about/news/2004/index.html (415 words)

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