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Forecasters: Cyclone poses 'serious threat to life' in Queensland Bryony Jones for CNN February 2, 2011 Source Link: CNN A huge tropical cyclone taking aim at Australia's Queensland state has strengthened to a Category 5 -- the highest designation on Australia's cyclone classification system -- and its landfall is "likely to be more life threatening than any experienced during recent generations," forecasters said. Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi has winds gusting up to 295 kph (183 mph) and is expected to maintain that intensity until making landfall in northeastern Queensland late Wednesday evening local time, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said. The cyclone threatens more devastation for Queensland, which already has been hit by deadly flooding in recent weeks. "Yasi ... poses an extremely serious threat to life and property within the warning area, especially between Port Douglas and Townsville. This impact is likely to be more life threatening than any experienced during recent generations," the bureau says on its website. Hundreds of patients have been evacuated from hospitals in the far north Queensland town of Cairns, and residents are being told to leave their homes as Cyclone Yasi closes in. The storm is forecast to make landfall between Cairns and Innisfail. Experts say it will bring torrential rain and cause a storm surge of up to 2 meters above the usual high tide line, flooding low-lying areas along the coast. Queensland Deputy Police Commissioner Ian Stewart warned the state faces "one of the most significant weather events" in its history. "This is a life-threatening storm, and people need to understand that they have a final window of opportunity to self-evacuate," Stewart said. "In the hours that are left, people need to make their final preparations to either shelter in place, or evacuate." The state's premier, Anna Bligh, has urged residents in the threatened areas to take sensible precautions and to stay inside once the storm hits. "These will be highly destructive winds... they will be life-threatening if people make it their business to go outside in them. "Loss of life and serious injury ultimately depends on people being sensible, listening to the warnings, taking advice and not treating this as a tourist event. "It will be a display of the awesome power of nature, but it's not something you want to go outside and watch." More than 250 patients -- including premature babies, those in intensive care, and on dialysis -- are being airlifted to facilities in Brisbane for treatment after the storm forced the closure of two hospitals in Cairns. "We understand this will cause some anxiety, but it is only being done to make sure that very ill, very vulnerable patients are in the safest place possible," said Bligh. More than 20 people died and thousands of homes were wrecked when severe flooding hit Queensland in January, affecting 3.1 million people. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a one-off flood tax aimed at helping to pay for the estimated AUS $5.6 billion (US $5.58 billion) damage caused.

Row Call- How are our surviving members faring in the disaster zone?

*faints*

Can't do it. It would be a matter of what mood I'm in today. The writers here are diverse and offer very different things. Some days it would be X, others Y, occassionally Z and on in rare cases Z'.

I was in college the day it happened. Word spread like wildfire. We all called it a day and went home. Some of the science staff had experiments in line to go up on the shuttle and their research got push back 7 to 10 years.

I'm wondering if this pro-democracy revolution virus thing might have legs. I've seen reports of demonstration in Yemen, Indonesia, Thailand and Venezuela. Is it a just a coincidence that the Obama administration is asking congress for an Internet kill switch? Why the Internet kill switch is a bad idea

I'm thinking four is a nice round number.

I doubt that it would be in Israels best interest for Egypt to fall. The big question becomes what fell beasts slouch towards Cairo to be born? There is no guarantee that the new government will honor the Camp David Accords. There could be a new round of Arab-Israeli Wars and it could get very, very ugly. Egypt's Military is large, well equipped and professional. They could seriously put the heat on Israel.

News sources have reported that Egyptian President Mubarak has fled to London. Conflicting sources say that only Mubarak's family has fled. More as it becomes available. ________________________________________________________ Update Mubarak is still in Egypt. He has asked the current goverenment to resign. There's lots of contradictory chatter about this on the net.

This won't be here long. I don't show my face. It's dangerous to be a gay activist in Mississippi. Nuff said I think. ___________________________ Replaced ugly guy with random LOLZ

Coming soon for the Spring Anthology: the Place In Between It’s never a destination. It’s a place in between tedium and suburbia. It is an impulse turn off of the daily routine; a guilty pleasure that you can feel guilty about after you feel the rush of the forbidden.

I would be interested to know where you were. Mississippi is very much integrated- in fact I live in the hood. I don't see the tension. What I do see is when some black people get in arrested or fired from their job, racism comes up. Usually doesn't mean much as the police and supervisors are likely to be black. Mississippi has been focused on race like no other state. Over the years we've even had Amnesty International investigate or jails! All I can say is that race isn't what everyone goes around thinking about every day. That issue would be jobs/economics.

I sent my respects. Comicality has been around a long time. He's one of the very few authors from gay fictions "first wave" on the net to still be around and producing. He is a living treasure and we should all strive to show him the respect and admiration that he deserves.

I'm not ashamed of the United States past. Compared to other countries and what they were doing at the time, Americans were acting like choir boys. Germany, Japan, Great Britain, France, Russia, Spain and others were all building Empires. They weren't shy about busting heads to do it either. Consider England's colonization of India. Russia's building of the trans-Siberian rail road. Japan's occupation of Korea and parts of China. Spain's brutal repression in Cuba and the Philippines. France's actions in North Africa and Indo-China. All of that was before Germany's two world wars. The chaos that occurred before and after both of them. Don't get me started on Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot. Are we perfect? No. Are we a cut above the competition? Hell yeah.

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Racism is closely associated to racial superiority or the belief that one race is superior or closer to God than any other. This has historically been exploited by practically everybody on the planet. In classical Greece, Greeks were "the people" and Barbarians were everybody else. In Roman times you were either a citizen or a slave. In America it was about our manifest destiny. In Great Britain it was the white man's burden. In Japan it is the belief that gaijin (non-Japanese) are inferior. This is nothing new or even particular to the American experience. Cast your eye at history and you will see that racism goes hand in glove with nationalism and has been a powerful, and often unacknowledged, force behind history.

It R yo birthday. Dance you silly!

I appears to be scanned from a paper source and has become a mini-meme called the "bawww-bunny". It is used in threads on forums where someone is.... bawww-ing.

When it changes from a hobby to a profession, then it's an addiction.

I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part! We're just the guys to do it.

There's east coast and there's west coast and then there are a million places in between.

Toga! Toga!

Some good sites: Awesomedude Deweywriter < Home of the Brian & Pete saga CRY Boy

Not my work. Just something cool I found on /b/

Does anyone know where this comes from?