Sunday 24th November 1996
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On his final night here in Australia more than 200 members of the media were joined by 2000 locals in a night of revelry.
The visit by the Clinton's to Port Douglas, it appears, has given the already popular tourist destination a real shot in the arm with thousands of enquiries being received from Americans interested in stepping in the footsteps of the Presidential couple.
And a story to make any restauranteur's hair stand on end... Carmel Forrest the proprietor of The Nautilus at Port Douglas was hosting a fully booked restaurant when at five minutes to 8pm she received a phone call informing her that Bill Clinton and Hillary would be arriving for dinner in twenty minutes.
"We were fully booked and had to manoeuvre to fit them in. They sat in the middle of the restaurant with the other patrons.
"Suddenly there were 200 security men on the premises. It was like something out of a movie."
A flying fox infected with the deadly lyssavirus dropped out of the sky on the Gold Coast biting two women two weeks ago. Following the reported death of another woman over the last week the women decided to have their blood tested. The results were positive.
The attack has got authorities worried because lyssavirus is associated with rabies and the attack has all the symptoms of being deliberate.
The second stage of rabies, after the initial docile stage following infection, makes dogs extremely aggresive while they are still relatively healthy - and before paralysis sets in killing the animal.
Principal veterinary officer Ian Douglas has now warned Queenslanders, " If you are bitten or scratched or come into contact with a flying fox please seek medical attention immediately."
What hog wash! I saw the Aborigines and Asian groups being bussed in from Sunnybank and Brisbane... in fact this was a perfect rent-a-crowd set-up scenario with the demonstrators having as much to do with Ipswich as a french fry on a cardboard plate in a Sydney branch of MacDonalds.
The crowd was estimated to number about 2,000. They met at the centre of Ipswich at D'Arcy Doyle Place to listen to speakers from Aboriginal and ethnic communities.
The "Ipswich residents" called for Ms Hanson to resign.
The hotel was sold for Au$32.5 million by its Japanese based owners, G&E Hotels.
Post by Darren Tracey:
>Careful Peter.
>If the 'missionary bot' finds that the number of flesh coloured pixels in
>your pictures exceeds the limits as decreed by the ethics computer at
>Christian Technology central, then you'll be on the daily list thats
>compiled for the law enforcement authorities!
>I sure you'll rethink your rash and un-christian plans now! ;)
Charles Mannington's response:
Well nearly. It turns out that you just can't count flesh coloured
pixels because you get lots of false triggering on things like arms,
legs, faces , mouths, noses etc. Our engineers realized that image
recognition techniques were required in order to recognise genitalia
without false triggering.
Fractal recognition is currently getting the highest VPM (Vaginas Per
Minute).
Absolute speed in VPM is not really so important because the bot will
be checking the users files slowly so as not to alarm her/him. The
user will probably mistake the occasional disk activity for the hard
drives inbuilt TCAL (Thermal Calibration) sequencing.
Missionary bot technology was a technology just waiting to happen.
Charles M.
DEAR AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE,
I WAS ONE OF THE OLYMPIC TORCHBEARERS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES.
I AM A P.E. TEACHER IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA FOR K-6 GRADES. WE TOOK THE
WHOLE SCHOOL DOWNTOWN TO SEE ME RUN THE TORCH, IT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT
TIME OF MY LIFE AND TO BE ABLE TO SHARE IT WITH 800 KIDS MADE IT EVEN MORE
SPECIAL.
I AM COMING TO THE 2000 OLYMPICS. MAYBE THE UNITED TORCHBEARERS COULD BE
A PART OF THE OPENING CERIMONY. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO THE
OLYMPIC COMMITTEE. LOVE AUSTRALIA!!!!
THANK YOU MELINDA CARTER
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