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From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: FOOD FIGHT !!! (Re: Oh Yeah)
Date: 13 Nov 1992 04:50:43 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Mike van Keulen) writes:

>olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:

>>>JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Thyra)) writes:
>>>
>>>>She takes out another amulet and puts it on, and offers others to Susan,
>>>>Liralen and Bear. "Does anybody else want a protective amulet? All it does
>>>>is make messy stuff rebound on the caster. But these things -won't- stop
>>>>peanuts or other stuff that won't hurt or mess up the wearer."

>>"Will they stop fungus and dairy products?  Been hungering for a mushroom
>>and cheese amulet lately..."

>"Aarrggghhh!" Splash cries out in agony at Chip's awful pun.  "Here - have
>some peanuts as a stopgap measure!" Tossing a bowl of peanuts at Chip,
>Splash scurries off to the kitchen, from where clattering and sizzling
>noises are heard.  A few seconds later he emerges with a steaming omelette
>(fastest omelette in the West! - well, this is VR :-) ), takes aim and
><SPLAT!>, leaves Chip rueing his passion for mushroom and cheese omelettes.

Not realizing the awful pun until Splash points it out, the ThunderKat runs
over to Chip, pins him to the floor, and sits on him. This will probably stop
him making *any* sort of mover for a while. (Ever have a several hundred pound
cat sit on *you*?)

Grin! :-) (Cheshire cat-type)


-- 
ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: LA RealSpace Report
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:02:41 GMT
Organization: The Cat Factory


"I hope someone else has time to tell the tale of the recent L.A.
realspace.  I'm working what looks like being a 36 hour day again.

"Sorry about that."

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: FOOD FIGHT !!! (Re: Oh Yeah)
Date: 9 Nov 92 06:41:54 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Thyra)) writes:

>She takes out another amulet and puts it on, and offers others to Susan,
>Liralen and Bear. "Does anybody else want a protective amulet? All it does
>is make messy stuff rebound on the caster. But these things -won't- stop
>peanuts or other stuff that won't hurt or mess up the wearer."

The new, improved Thunderchild (maybe now I'm a ThunderKat) looks up and
telepaths a message to Thyra.

//Sure, I'll have one. A huge moor cat needs all the protection he can get,
me being a huge target and all//


-- 
ThunderKat (a.k.a. Chris Anderson)    s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

"Sam pressed the button. A few lights flashed on the CPU. And another human
life ended. Somehow, it's always sad, no matter what."
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From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
Subject: Re: What is a Snark that it is (was Re: Boojum)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:19:46 GMT

   The brumby has spent the last several days trying to configure a news
system, rather than reading it. It probably wouldn't have been all that
hard if he'd had some documentation....

lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:
> brumby@nella9.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
>=
>=   "Well, I can make some guesses about what a *good* luck field would be,
>=and it is making me hungry." :-)

>StM vanishes momentarily, then reappears with a rolled-up newspaper.  He
>unrolls it and offers the contents to the Brumby, "Here, have some clover."

   "Thank you."
   The brumby stuffs his nose into the newspaper and wonders if the good
luck holds true even after the clover has been eaten.


-- 
     The Silver Brumby of          brumby@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
      the Silicon Plains

      The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: More elections, a victory...
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:59:18 GMT
	<1992Nov5.225203.13430@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed
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In-reply-to: mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:52:03 GMT

"Michael, what do you think a group with actual different interests
should do?  And what of a group that is not allowed to join your
'majority?'"

__R
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: alaric@sti.com (Alaric)
Subject: Re: Statistics
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:05:05 GMT

In article <30OCT199212134684@cisncc.intel.com>, rrubert@cisncc.intel.com (Rubert, Rodney ~) writes:
] 	Trebur Yendor, the long absent 6 foot sea otter, shuffles toward the
] 	bar scooting a small plastic toy with his feet. "It appears to me
] 	it is the definition of impossible that is the problem. Spontaenious
] 	combustion of gas at 0c and 1 atm is considered impossible but
] 	there is some small chance that the right molecules could move
] 	in the right direction to ignite.

Um...  spontaneous combustion of *what* gas, or gases, at 0c and 1 atm.?
And what definition of 'combustion' and of 'spontaneous' are we using here?
There are some gas mixtures that will react very nicely under those
conditions of temperature and pressure.  Particularly in the presence of a
suitable catalyst.  In some cases, they will even react explosively.  For
instance, I believe a stoichiometric mixture of acetylene and ozone can be
quite exciting.  Flourine also lends itself quite nicely to combination
reactions.  (The damn stuff is so reactive it etches glass *as you watch*.)


-- 
      PGP 2.0 - Freeware public-key data encryption.  Get it and use it!
          Public key and info available by fingering alaric@sti.com
Phil Stracchino : phils@sti.com : alaric@sti.com : Software Transformation Inc
     Free Cyberia!!  :::  Committee for a Free and Independent Cyberspace
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu (Ruth M. Koch)
Subject: Re: Someone give me Courage.
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:24:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.114423.6925@bradford.ac.uk> S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER) writes:
>I don't know what's worse, the possibility that someone's self-esteem is
>so low that they've been persuaded that they're no more than a tumour on
>society, or that they've been sold a bundle of pseudo-scientific crud that
>firmly glues a behavioural label onto them which restricts their enjoyment
>of life...

Oh, gee, thanks!  That makes me feel so much better.

The way I felt when I posted was more of a trapped feeling, than feeling
worthless.  Trapped more by my lack of education, and experience than by
a belief in astrology.  I regret that such a small aside made such an
impact on you.  I meant it as a way of describing my personality without
having to type it all out.  It just so happens that I do fit the stereo-
type of a cancer, whether or not that is relevant to my everyday life is
another matter.  However, I refuse to ignore advice from someone using the base
of astrology, purely because of the source.  If a ceritfied psychologist
gave me advice based on theories or case histories, I would hold it up to
the same measure as any other advice.  If it is good advice I will use it.

>Kill an astrologer today and remember that you are a free human being with
>ideas and a personality of your own... You'll find it helps a lot if you can
>make the jump...

I've always feel like a free human being, that actually is part of my
problem.  I blame myself for the situation I get into in life.  If I had
blind faith in astrology, or any else, you can believe that I would do
my damndest to blame someone else.

>Good luck!

Thanks.  I'm acutally feeling much better now.  Getting all those emotions
out in the open did a lot to start the swing back up to "normal" for me.

>Steve
>
>Personality-wise (excuse the expression), the only differences d.o.b. made
>was in people who'd been told which personality they SHOULD have...

Actually, I agree.  Astrology is a mix of twelve stereotypes, people are
going to be able to fit one, or a mix of them, no matter when they were
born.

>"But then I'm a Libra, and we Libras are very skeptical ;-)"

I knew it, I figured you for a Libra.  :)

Nathan                   | Giovanni di Cellini     | Nathan Jones
rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu  | Bjornsborg,             | San Antonio,
R.Koch's brother.        | Ansteorra.  A.S. XXVII  | Texas.  USA
or try njones@nyx.cs.du.edu
From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Jay Brandt (Jason))
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: B'Naal's mail problems
Followup-To: alt.callahans
Date: 13 Nov 1992 17:07:59 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Architecture
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aaa.uoregon.edu

In article <1ds34pINN1p9@gap.caltech.edu>, lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
(Speaker-to-Minerals) wrote:
> 
> In private e-mail B'Naal tells me:
> 
> >I am currently trying to work out my e-mail adress problem.
> >Currently, I have just started a new file in a network
> >called stein. Try this address to send e-mail my way:
> 
> >            dunk@stein.u.washington.edu
> 
> >See if that helps.
> 
> Sorry for posting, but, no, it doesn't help.  stein forwards your mail to
> dunk@max.u.washington.edu.  Please, talk to the system managers on MAX and/or
> BASHFUL and have one of them help you cancel forwarding on their machine.
> Or, just mail something to yourself on ANY of the u.washington.edu machines.
> You'll get the same loop the rest of us do, but the mailer won't be able to
> return the mail so it'll have to send it to your postmaster who, I'm sure,
> will be more than glad to help you fix the problem.  Or maybe I can do that
> from here.  Let me give it a try.

Well, if the systems in question are VAX computers, logging on to the MAIL
program and typing "SET NOFORWARD" should make that account break the loop,
and be the one that really gets all the mail.

Jason
From: S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Back To School?
Date: 13 Nov 92 10:27:01 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 92909131@ccw305
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Go for it!!

I'm "back at school" after seven years of post-doctoral research (and 18
months unemployment -- in three chunks of exactly 6 months), doing a
"conversion MSc" in computer science.

Good Bits: access to student privileges again (In UK these range from a
remission of a portion of one's "poll tax", through cheaper travel by rail
and bus to generic access to university facilities (good beer, the net...)
that I'd have lost by now otherwise.

Bad bits: realising how much I didn't know about {hardware, systems and these
modern languages with too many semi-colons}. Having to go back from a staff/
research environment which was pretty informal in attitude to calling people
Mr This and Dr That (Peeve: It seems to be dep'tal practice to call the
ancilliary/support (Sec's 'n Techs) by their forenames) AND, worst of all,
Lectures and Assignments... (My kids now think it very funny to see me
getting marks and grades, just like them, and hearing Jenny tell me I can't
put the computer on until I've done MY homework)

Still in all, Good Luck and I hope it works for you...

Steve

To Second (and Third, fourth...) Chances!!

The Glass slips smoothly
through the air it goes to die
shattered in bright flame
				<< crash! >>
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
Subject: Re: An introduction
Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:58:39 GMT

>>In article <Nov08.110936.35528@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
>>arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov9.005227.6886@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>>
>>>>Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
>>
>>>Hmmm.  "Yep.  I do beleive we know each other.  Or at least, I remember this
>>>sig line..."

Depending on where you've been, and how long you've been reading the
Net, it could easily have been my .sig that you saw, or other people's;
it's a reasonable common sentiment.
-- 
                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
                             @netcom.com 

Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6

Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: CD's Early Thanksgiving Ramblings
Date: 12 Nov 1992 00:40:03 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Nov11.212727.355@ra.msstate.edu>, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
=>CD chuckles softly and stares at his feet a moment.  "I started 
=>telling friends of mine to be careful, just in case it was some 
=>sort of divine retribution...

=    "Nah. Things just come in groups..."

Sometimes.  When they do, you notice it.  When they don't, you don't.  Makes it
SEEM like things come in groups, even if they don't any more often that you'd
expect of a Poisson process.  The effect is similar to the one that produces
the standard urban myth about the incidence of violence and such being higher
when there's a full moon.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: illuminati (long)
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:56:35 GMT

Speaker-to-Minerals (lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1992Nov10.181212.6469@linus.mitre.org>, ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
: >    "Well that's interesting." says Bill. "But can we trust him?"
: 
: StM, getting into the spirit of things, asks "Do we have any choice in the
: matter?"

Alfvaen grins.  "Why wouldn't we have a choice?"

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"It's not my fault.  The orchestra has disappeared."
   ---Hector Berlioz
Current Album--Northern Pikes:Secrets of The Alibi
Current Read--Jack McDevitt:The Hercules Text
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Nicarra)
Subject: Re: Kate Bush
Reply-To: lalford@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 14:37:38 GMT

In <1992Nov2.221252.23141@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>In article <s0499528.2.0@let.rug.nl> s0499528@let.rug.nl (R. Dijkhuis) writes:
>>Nope. According to English Q Magazine Kate Bush is very much alive, and will 
>>quote/unquote "certainly" release a new album at the end of this (sic) year.
>>

> Thanks ! I appreciate it. Oh look Didi ! A lurker !

Nicarra reappears the sneaky way.  "I posted this via fsu but it doesn't
seem to have gone out.  I stopped by rec.music.gaffa just long enough to
hear that earlier this year, Kate Bush's mother died.  That could have
very easily been misheard to think that Kate died.  (Apparently died
Valentines day, which would rather destroy any meaing for that day for
quite some time.)"

Nicarra grins.  "I think I have set this so replies will go to my
account and not Ross's.  Just in the odd instance that anyone would like
to."

Nicarra
-- 
Ross A. Alford
Department of Zoology                      Internet: zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au
James Cook University                      Phone:    +61 77 81 4732
Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Liability
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:10:56
 2574@midway.uchicago.edu><1992Nov9.043636.13577@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of 9 Nov 92 04:36:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.043636.13577@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:

>	"I have mixed feelings about adopting the English rule on
>court costs, though.  My instincts sympathize with it, but it seems
>possible that such a rule would result in people fearing to file even
>well-justified suits against large organizations with expensive legal
>staffs, because there's always a chance of losing, and a loss could
>impoverish them.

"Actually, most proposals I've seen along these lines limit the loser's
liability for the winners' court costs to their own costs- so you only
pay their lawyers up to what you paid your own."
>..(I have the same mixed emotions about
>contingency fees-- they make me very uncomfortable, but I don't have a
>good counter to the argument that they make it possible for people who
>otherwise couldn't get legal representation to get a lawyer.)"

"Maybe, following on the above, a compromise would be to make the lawyer's
cut include liability as well, so if he loses he pays his agreed share
of the jugement out of his own pocket?

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted
by the sea, circled by the circus sands, with all memory and fate driven deep 
beneath the waves; let me forget about today until tomorrow"  -Bob Dylan.
From: randolph@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Gasoline taxes
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:30:35 GMT
	<xc-=am#@engin.umich.edu> <RANDOLPH.92Nov3233253@cognito.ebay.Sun.COM>
	<pr==SVC@engin.umich.edu>
Organization: St. Dismas Infirmary for the Incurably Informed
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In-reply-to: estin@zug.csmil.umich.edu's message of Thu, 05 Nov 92 22:58:11 EST

"Whew, thanks!

"Now that I think about it, I don't know the source of that 50% figure
either.  Anyone at UCLA's planning department out there?"

__R
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Subject: Re: ... and you didn't even know I'd gone!
Reply-To: rowanf@crc.ricoh.com (Rowan Fairgrove)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:32:44 GMT

 n article <keulen.720849278@possum>, keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au 
(Mike van Keulen) writes:
>"Oofff!"  Splash replies from beneath the pile of Rutabaga pie.  Scraping
>some from his face he asks "Before I taste this, what does Rutabaga taste
>like?  Is there any meat in it ... I'm vegetarian remember.  Albatross is
>definitely out (besides, I've heard albatross is pretty greasy meat)."

Gypsy watches the debate about the taste of rutabaga with
amusement.  She is actually quite fond of this variety of
yellow turnip.  As to its taste, it is like the turnips the
Cornish use in their pasties.  Sliced and steamed with 
slices of carrots and green beans, it makes a lovely California
cuisine-type veg assortment.

I have never heard of anyone making a pie using it (unless
you count pasties), but if you spiced it like a pumpkin it
mightn't be too bad.  I think making a savory with onions
or leeks might be better though.

In any case, Splash needn't worry about his vegetarian diet being
disrupted by a rutabaga pie.

Rowan (Gypsy Woman)

Rowan Fairgrove
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: SJ&TCS
Date: 11 Nov 1992 03:32:57 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

From today's Herb Caen column:

"I just heard the sad news that Purves Pullen -- Horatio Q. Birdbath in the
unforgettable Spike Jones Band -- died at 83 last month in Vacaville, where
he lived for so many years at 777 Lovers Lane.  That leaves only two survivors
of the City Slickers -- drummer Joe Siracusa and Earl Bennett (Sir Frederick
Gas)....." 

StM reminisces, "Spike Jones & the City Slickers.  The only band I ever heard
of with members playing first and second pistol.  The band that brought us "The
Rites of Spring" ... gargled.  To one of the all-time great novelty bands!"

	<CRASH>
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Ramble about Halloween Weekend
Date: 7 Nov 1992 04:46:43 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Nov6.005332.11362@data-io.com>, li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
=Hmmm... I have this distinct feeling that you've fixated on the Moebius
=Scarves.  They are fun.  :)  You do a reverse loop on size 8, 42-inch long
=circular needles, and then do a half-turn and knit up the *back sides* of
=the loops.  When one comes around again, those half loops are turned the
=wrong way, so you pick one up, turn it around, and then knit it.  When
=those are all done, you're knitting all along the one edge of a moebius
=strip with a double loop of circular knitting needle holding all the
=stitches.   A purl on one side shows up as a knit on the other, so stitches
=that are based on moss stitch or garter stitch are best for the scarves.
=One simply knits it as wide as one wants, and then binds off the one edge,
=and gets a moebius strip for a scarf.

StM asks, "Could you run that by me again, with a bit more detail?  Or maybe
make a miniature example (just enough stitches to demonsrate it) and mail it to
me?  And I assume it's OK to use four double-pointed straight needles instead
of the single circular needle;  I don't have any circular needles, but I *DO*
have double pointed needles that I use for making socks."
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Nicarra)
Subject: Nicarra with more on CO2
Reply-To: lalford@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 15:19:38 GMT

Nicarra decides to add just a little more info on the carbon dioxide
debate.  "Now I know you have all heard about the greenhouse effect, but
did you know that increasing carbon dioxide has another side effect
which could change things?"

"You see, plants breathe (so to speak) CO2 and release oxygen.  Some
plants are going to be better able to utilise the increase in CO2 in the
atmosphere.  There are a small number of research facilities world-wide
working on this problem, and when the Department of Energy report on the
matter came out (about 1986) the grand conclusion to the pressing
question of will crops or weeds grow best with more CO2, the answer was
a resounding...we can't tell.  If (big if) I remember correctly, grasses
usually did better at using the increase in CO2 but individual species
could vary a lot.  At the time the DOE wanted to have *some* reason to
say we *must* lower  CO2 production now, but this report did not help."

Nicarra (former proofreader of the DOE report on carbon dioxide and
plants.)
-- 
Ross A. Alford
Department of Zoology                      Internet: zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au
James Cook University                      Phone:    +61 77 81 4732
Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia
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