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Ongoing dry conditions are starting to take their toll on winter cereal crops in New South Wales.
Were you with the person when they died?
Declinism, a staple of the old order, is set aside in favor of a more complex and nuanced understanding of aging.
If not, how did you find out?
It's changed its proposal on the way through to accommodate any concern the Aboriginal communities had.
Illness, grief, and loss are reframed.
Was there something you wish you could have said to him or her and didn't?
His piercing blue eyes signal anger or torment while his manner stays glassy and querulous.
If you went to the funeral, what happened there and how was that for you?
This is a much larger idea than either quality of life or customer satisfaction.
What feelings did you have when this person died?
Wheat, barley forecasts drop due to dry conditions
The common use of this term in the language of the institution has perverted the word's true meaning.
How did you deal with your feelings?
Elders eat meals, bathe, sleep, rest, and socialize at the times they choose.
The big dry has led the Emerald Group to dramatically lower its wheat and barley forecasts.
How long did it take to feel better?
Befriend: To pursue a knowing and affectionate relationship with others.
Barley production is expected at six million tons, and a canola crop of one million tons.
Here are a few questions to get an interesting conversation going with your parents about people you're related to.
This requires a deliberate commitment to make oneself known to others and to be known by others.
Barley prices are up sixty dollars for the month, there's been a spectacular rally here.
If you live with both your parents, Secondhand Lions is a good movie to watch all together so you can hear about both sides of your family, but watch out because it can get really complicated!
It is not an attempt to change the culture of long-term care because it rejects the very idea of long-term care.
Uncle Hub and Uncle Garth soon become Walter's favorite relatives.
But there are fears the changes could make it harder for managed investment schemes to attract funds.
Who is your favorite relative and why do you like him or her so much?
In the later years of his life, Pope John Paul the second was, medically speaking, eligible to be admitted to a nursing home.
Walter is quite a distance from home at his uncles' place.
That is the forecast Angus Walker from chartered accountants Ernst and Young delivered to an oil conference in Perth yesterday.
Have you ever had a chance to stay with a relative who lives far from you?
He remained in his own home only because the Holy See had the funds available to meet his needs.
Who would you like to stay with and what would you like to do during your stay?
Prime Minister John Howard has now intervened, saying the money is compensation and should not be taxed.
Where did your mom or dad spend time with relatives when they were young?
The Green House can be organized along one of two basic lines.
Uncle Garth and Uncle Hub were in the French Foreign Legion.
A new national Dairy Innovation Center has been tasked with finding ways to compete with the growing soy milk market.
A Green House must, however, make arrangements to ensure that elders never have to face losing their place due to ill health.
Do you know whether any of your relatives were in the military or fought in a war?
Dairy farmers have also contributed, through the levies they pay to Dairy Australia.
If not, ask your mom or dad what they know.
A group of senescents and elders who choose to create and then inhabit the intentional community of a Green House.
Greens Senator Christine Milne says that is a clear sign the Government is trying to renege on its promise.
Walter's uncles turn out to be loving, kind, and caring, but not all relatives are like that.
The constellation fosters the well-being of each house in its range and benefits from a voluntary peer-to-peer support network.
Are there any relatives that you wish you didn't have to see?
Under the scheme, Tasmanian producers receive a rebate on freight to offset the high cost of shipping across Bass Straight.
What is it about them that makes you uncomfortable?
The elders pay for their services just as they would if they had continued to live in their own homes.
Walter decides he'd rather live with his uncles than go back to be with his mother.
Australian dollar falls again amid low metal prices
An adult nonresident employee of the Green House and the guardian of the culture of the Green House.
If something ever happened to your mom and dad, which relative would you like to live with and why?
The chairs of fourteen peak bodies have been meeting in Canberra this week.
An adult nonresident employee of the Green House who can help the elders create the intentional community they desire.
Now it's your turn to write down any questions you would like to ask one or both of your parents about people you're related to.
Vets in the Northern Territory are calling for their attendance to be mandatory at all outback rodeos.
What do you really want to know?
Elderhood that does not touch the lives of its neighbors is not a worthwhile elderhood.
Parents and Kids: Collaborate on a list of interview questions for your oldest relative.
The call was prompted after a horse stumbled and broke its leg at an event earlier this year where a vet was not present.
If possible, plan to record the interview.
Long corridors disable frail people, forcing them into wheelchairs.
You may have seen a three-legged dog or even a three-legged cat, but what about a three-legged cow?
What invention that was created in your lifetime has had the greatest impact on your life?
Massive dining rooms are impersonal and intimidating and promote anxiety.
In resources news, gold is again being milled at Pine Creek in the Northern Territory, after three years.
What famous person of your generation do you most admire and why?
Rural, suburban, or urban, Green Houses are dwellings that house six to ten people.
A series of cold fronts has brought good rains to much of Western Australia's parched farming and pastoral regions.
What historical event had the greatest impact on your personal life and why?
Communications technologies can improve health through tele-health and tele-nursing.
What decision in your life has had the greatest impact on you?
Grain harvest contractors urge drought assistance
Kids: Ask the oldest person in your family to show you any photographs he or she has.
During the years I searched for the best design elements for a Green House, I visited many people and places.
A push for Indigenous sea rights is growing in the Northern Territory.
Are the photos labeled with names and dates?
In Saskatoon I was fascinated by the Sherbrooke Community Center and inspired by its village model of community living.
If not, offer to work with this relative to make sure all the photos are labeled for future generations.
Fishermen are now choosing to sell the smaller catch to mainland markets at a premium price, rather than supply local restaurants.
In Boston I toured the Hearthstone facilities created by John Zeisel.
Parents and Kids: Uncle Hub has some firm beliefs about things worth believing in: people are basically good; honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; power and money mean nothing; good always triumphs over evil; true love never dies.
Dollar strength threatens asparagus viability
Spend some time discussing the values and beliefs that are most important to your family.
As we bumped and juddered over the city's back streets, he told me that focus was Latin for hearth.
Work together to design a coat of arms that reflects your family values.
The high Australian dollar is threatening to force even more asparagus growers out of business this harvest.
Every Green House must have a center, a hearth around which the affairs of daily living may be arranged.
Kids: Thanks to the Internet, more people are pursuing an interest in genealogy.
Dry conditions prompt early fire work
Is there someone you know who has done genealogical research?
There are no long corridors.
Forestry companies in South Australia have started fire prevention work nearly a month early, due to the dry conditions.
If so, ask for a lesson in using his or her favorite genealogy website, and then see if you can find information about one of your ancestors.
The Rural Affairs Committee is investigating how Australia accounts for its water use and allocation.
Kids: Get a large sheet of paper and draw your family tree.
Another hi-tech quarantine lab is due to be constructed in Cairns, North Queensland.
Include everyone you know, alive or dead.
Make photocopies of any photographs you have and add them to the tree as well.
These prices have not been seen since restrictions were first imposed in South Australia four years ago.
Talk to the oldest person in your family to help fill in any blank spots.
What was your worst experience growing up?
Low commodity prices and dry conditions have also seen irrigators sell their water entitlements earlier than usual.
Were you ever pressured as a child, and by whom?
What is your favorite thing to do?
A new sporting body in Alice Springs wants to help people become fit by helping the environment.
Did you have low self-esteem or high self-esteem when you were my age?
When was the last time you enjoyed yourself?
A South Australian company has developed a method of using milk to relieve the side-effects of cancer treatment.
When you were my age, what bad things did you do with friends?
How many illegal things have you done in your life?
The destructive wheat streak mosaic virus is rapidly spreading across Western Australia.
What's the stupidest thing you ever did?
China buys into future uranium mine
Have you ever experienced drugs?
If so, what are they like?
The dry seasonal conditions are forcing record numbers of sheep and lambs onto the market in southern New South Wales.
Have you ever gotten in trouble with the law?
A young Northern Territory boy from a town of a few hundred people has been elected to a board of the United Nations.
If you haven't done so already, start now to create an atmosphere at home in which no topic is taboo, where no question is stupid, and where your own successes and failures as a person are part of the conversation.
Today marks the last day on the job for the head of the nation's peak commodity forecaster.
I've been where you are now and I trust that you will get through this time of many decisions with flying colors.
Brian Fisher has been director of the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics since nineteen eighty eight.
Desalination plan prompts environmental concerns
Always resist the impulse to judge, criticize, or lecture.
Your child knows alcohol, drugs, and tobacco are bad.
Growers, farmers reject code of conduct
What he doesn't know is how to resist the social pressure to use those substances in middle school and high school.
They are readily available; if he hasn't been already, he will soon be faced with deciding whether to use them.
But questions are now being asked about the number of grower representatives who were from Queensland.
That's where your experience can be helpful.
Australian Wool Innovation CEO quits
While reminiscing with your young person about your own teenage years, be sure to include talk about the fun and wholesome experiences you had.
Tamed N T water buffalo head to Aceh
What did you most enjoy doing?
Who did you love to hang out with?
The forecast for this year's grain crop has taken another big hit.
How did you spend your free time in high school?
A two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand ton shortfall is putting export orders for hay in jeopardy this year.
Who were your favorite teachers or other adults with whom you had contact?
What extracurricular activities were you involved in?
George Johnston, from the Queensland Livestock Transporters Association, says the current proposals are unacceptable.
Which of those interests have carried over into your adult life?
Mandatory horticultural code of conduct announced
What kinds of things do you like to do for fun now that you didn't know about then?
The number of spring sales of store sheep in Western Australia has halved due to the dry season.
When you establish a relationship in which trust, honesty, and openness are the norm, your teen will be more likely to come to you to talk about matters with which she is struggling.
The co-op already has contracts with Coles in South Australia and New South Wales.
Hearing about how you decided what was good for you and what wasn't provides her with useful information.
N T farmers urged to fill out agricultural census forms
She may be able to learn from your example how to size up the risks and benefits of choosing certain actions.
Northern Territory farmers have proven themselves the worst in Australia at filling out the national agricultural census.
What was the biggest influence on your behavior as a teenager?
Cairns Group fears time running out for reform
What values did you hold dear?
Were you influenced more by your parents' values or by the values of other people or institutions outside the family?
A proposed free-trade deal between Australia and Japan is looking shaky, with agriculture again the most contentious issue.
What topics were considered taboo in your family?
A mother and son from a north Queensland grazing family have been convicted in the Mackay District Court for stock theft.
Did that make you more keenly interested in them or less?
Three-hundred bales of wool from South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland have been auctioned.
Did your parents style of parenting push you toward early experimentation with drugs and alcohol, or did it help you avoid these things?
Farmers taking on environmental reforms
On the other hand, democratic parents who provide a consistent and predictable balance between respecting their child as an individual while setting firm and clear boundaries are more successful.
Dry weather prompts Ash Wednesday comparisons
This book is all about adopting this style of parenting and developing a close, honest, open relationship in the preteen years that will carry you through your child's adolescence.
The council's chief executive Len Foster says conditions are very similar this year.
What if the decisions you made about alcohol, drugs, or tobacco as a teenager led to a life-changing experience like an early pregnancy, a serious car accident, a sexually transmitted disease, years of struggle with an addiction, or even incarceration?
Tobacco growers fear for industry
You may have spent years coming to grips with decisions you made as a young person.
Prices for sheep and cattle have crashed in South Australia after massive stock sell-offs last week.
Who better to share that with your teen than you?
Across many regions a lack of rain has seen pastures dry up forcing producers to sell off livestock early in the season.
Twelve-step programs are successful because people get to hear real personal experience, not just predictable homilies.
The state's river levels are at their lowest since record-keeping began forty years ago.
You can trust your child to respect your honesty.
It will help orchards to prepare for pest and disease outbreaks.
Most teenagers feel close to their parents, respect their parents judgment, and want to know their parents as individuals.
This year a series of thefts has cost Tasmanian beekeepers an estimated one hundred thousand dollars.
While conflicts between parents and teens typically arise around mundane, day-to-day issues such as chores and homework, middlers will usually follow their parents lead on matters of personal and family values.
Les Zeller from the Queensland D P I says unmanned planes will make light work of everyday surveillance tasks.
Sharing your younger self with your preteen the fun and the adventures as well as the mistakes and the regrets offers a powerful way for you to take that lead without alienating your young person.
Growers are now asking why the weather bureau did not give them any warning of the Sunday night frost.
Ferris Bueller goes to elaborate lengths to convince his parents he is ill in order to skip school.
There has been a call for more research into coral reefs off the Northern Territory coastline.
Did you ever fake an illness so you wouldn't have to go to school?
What illness did you simulate?
When sea temperature is raised above about thirty two degrees, it's almost lethal.
Did your parents believe you?
If you were successful, what did you do on your day off?
They discuss changes to the freight arrangements of two wheat contracts for the Iraqi Grains Board.
Did you involve any of your friends?
As concerns mount about feed grain supplies across Australia, sorghum prices have jumped nearly twenty percent in a fortnight.
Ferris and his friends do things they know their parents wouldn't approve of, such as skip school and borrow a car without asking.
Producers can have a say on the level of wool tax they pay, from zero to three percent.
What are some things you did when you were a teenager that you knew your parents wouldn't approve of?
But Wellington producer Peter Barton says they must also be able to influence how the tax take is used.
What was the worst thing that happened because of that?
Can you describe a time when you lied to your parents and got away with it?
Queensland and the Northern Territory have not followed the other states in banning G M crops.
Several scenes in the movie portray boring teachers and extremely bored students in the classroom.
There is debate in the Northern Territory about whether to introduce speed limits along the Stuart Highway.
How did you feel about attending high school, especially in your senior year?
Were you eager to get on with your independence, or were you content to play by the rules?
There is another gloomy forecast today that suggests the drought is set to worsen.
Who was the most boring teacher in your high school?
N T fishermen reach buyout deal
What made that teacher boring and what methods did you use to get through the class?
Up to six northern prawn trawling licences may have been bought back by the Federal Government.
While Ferris has a strong and confident sense of self, Cameron is full of angst, anger, and trepidation about going along with Ferris and life in general.
Darwin fishermen Tony Thiel says he is relieved to have reached a deal in the first round of the national industry buyout.
Of these two characters, which one is more representative of you as a teenager?
Meanwhile, Australia's patagonian tooth fishermen have rejected calls to close down the fishery.
What can you tell your child about developing self-confidence and self-esteem?
This week, two illegal fishermen were fined more than one hundred thousand dollars for poaching.
When you think about your own self-esteem, are you the same person you were as a teen or different?
What parts of yourself as a teenager would you like to reclaim?
A W I chairman Ian Mclachlan wants to ensure the marketing program is effective before committing more funds.
What parts are still with you?
What parts are you glad are gone forever?
A merger or takeover has not been ruled out for one of Australia's main milk companies.
Ferris and his friends have some really fun adventures on their day off, from driving a really cool car to attending a baseball game to joining in a parade.
Lake Cowal is the largest inland lake in the state, but is dry most of the time.
Canadian owner Barrick says two thousand and ten permanent staff are now employed.
But John Tesoriero, from the Murray Valley Citrus Board, says calls for help from growers in his region have gone unheeded.
Mr Vaile is swapping portfolios with Transport Minister Warren Truss today.
Sports lovers facing big weekend
What is your most memorable adventure in or out of school as a teenager?
If given the choice, would you go back and relive your teenage years?
As an adult, what are some things you like to do for fun?
Ferris pressures his best friend, Cameron, to participate in his antics.
Jo Haw from the local government-based Murray Darling Association says farmers are selling water rights in desperation.
The dry conditions are forcing many sheep farmers to begin their shearing earlier than normal.
Farmers urged to talk about problems
Publisher seeks more flexibility in media ownership law changes
Australia's largest publisher of rural newspapers is calling for more flexibility in cross media ownership rules.
But John Fairfax, chairman of Rural Press Limited, wants to see fundamental change.
Honeymoon uranium mine gets environmental green light
Final environmental approval has been granted for South Australia's controversial fourth uranium mine.
When I'm working with a group of teachers, I often ask them to pair up, look into each other's eyes, and take turns saying, I love you.
This is a revelatory exercise for everyone: teachers, C E O's, mid-life boomers, or older zoomers.
Love as a neotenous trait is not limited to or narrowed by rules, expectations, or definitions.
A neotenous love can be the love you feel for your dog, cat, fish, or plants.
It can be love for a co-worker, parent, child, sibling or even unknown children on a playground.
Ultimately, love, like life, begins and ends with you.
As you have learned, you are aging most fully when you are aging within your spirit.
Don't concentrate on externals; look instead at who you are, what you believe, what you cherish, and what you value.
Because of the self-help movement and the backlash of self-esteem programs, being kind to ourselves has gotten a bad rap.
Feel it, relish it, and let yourself see yourself through that friend's love.
When you're feeling old or ugly, or think that life has passed you by, try to understand the source of that noise.
What's making you fearful?
We vividly remember the criticisms of others, our failures, and our shortcomings.
It follows then, that in order to be young, you must be youngable.
You can decide how your wrinkles will develop.
As I mentioned earlier, I live on top of a mountain where winds are blustery and inhospitable many days of the year.
Your future can be exciting, fulfilling, youthful, and vigorous.
Humanity's longing for immortality is embodied in Greek mythology and the legend of Tithonus.
To live a longer life, to merely achieve longevity, is a wrong and wretched wish.
The myth of a fountain of youth has been part of human longing for two millennia.
The legend of Tithonus gave our human longing a cautionary quality.
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon put a more modern face on the myth, giving it an enduring ethos of futility.
A recent study from Case Western Reserve University revealed that cockroaches do not age gracefully.
If you could make a wish or sip a magic potion to erase or extend your years, would you do it?
What about the years your children were born?
Take away the grief-filled year that was spent saying goodbye to someone you cared about?
Can you be grateful for the years that have passed, and graceful for each promising year ahead?
Life may bring surrender, and you may succumb, but because you still have those birthday gifts of neoteny, you don't really change.
Play on the floor, climb a tree, and jump at any chance.
Get out of your house, your chair, your way.
Learn, laugh, and do it every day, everywhere, with everything you've got.