A bit for practical understanding

Indigenous Culture Week Course – Australia
# Bush tucker# Indigenous bush medicine# History – past and modern Indigenous culture# Indigenous art appreciation# Ancient land management# Dreamtime story telling# Local flora and fauna Indigenous names and stories# Importance of Indigenous land management# 4WD’ing# Bush walking# Birding

UQ Course

Course Profiles, The University of Queensland
One of the most important themes in the course is the diversity of Indigenous societies in Australia, and case examples in lectures are used from many different areas of the Australian continent and islands; taking in remote “outback” social realities and histories as well as urban life and politics. Considered [...]

Course – Aboriginal Australia

UNSW Handbook Course – Aboriginal Australia: The Post-Colonial Experience – ATSI2002
This course examines political and social constructions of contemporary Aboriginal Australia and the processes which have shaped them. Contemporary issues which affect Indigenous Australians, such as health, education, criminal justice, land rights and law, will be examined. The structural position of Aboriginal people within Australian [...]

Design and the Indigenous

Its been a few months since my participation in that forum where I got introduced to the Indigenous in design and architecture. My first impulse was to go off and literally consider a ‘design school’ for the indigenous. This is something that Alison Page is championing – so I could join in that effort. I [...]

French Potato Masher

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Discovered in a Paris flea market years ago, we yearned to get our hands on more after guests would covet our personal collection hanging from our kitchen pot rack. After scouring many, many markets and antique auctions throughout France, we finally ran across them once again. Their history is now here [...]

Potato Masher

Chefs Toolbox Potato Masher
If you’re kind to potatoes, they’ll be kind to you. Stop pounding. That’s the philosophy behind the Chefs Toolbox’s masher. The ingenious design uses an ergonomic circular rotating action of the palm to mash potatoes, rather then a strenuous pounding action. It’s faster and easier than conventional mashers (50% faster) and creates [...]

Adjustable Rolling Pin

Rolling Pins, Adjustable Rolling Pin, Depth Discs for Perfect Pastry, Pasta, Pizza, Joseph Joseph Kitchen Accessories and Essentials
The fiendishly clever Adjustable Rolling Pin from Joseph Joseph allows you to roll out pastry, pizza dough, pasta or even filo pastry to an even thickness. With 3 pairs of removable discs that raise the rolling pin to [...]

ADU

News room — Australian Design Unit
The ADU news room includes feature stories and a comprehensive source of career opportunities for Australian designers updated monthly. Drawn from local and international design sites, foundations, blogs, design councils and government and institutional websites, this is where you will find information on competitions, grants, residencies, workshops and opportunities, gathered [...]

Theme Forest

So imagine you have been using wordpress for a while – and a comfortable with the format. Then you get to a stage where you are ready to change the way you project yourself; the blog is pushed to the background  and the portfolio comes to the fore ground. If you are here then ‘theme [...]

Theme Generator

When I get some time to play with wordpress and themes I plan to take a shot at Artisteer.
Artisteer – joomla template generator and wordpress theme generator
With Artisteer YOU immediately become a Web design expert, editing and slicing graphics, coding XHTML and CSS, and creating Web Design Templates, Joomla templates, Drupal themes, WordPress themes, DotNetNuke [...]

Limitations of urine glucose monitoring

I am looking for a lo-cost glucose monitoring method. So have been going back and looking at urine glucose monitoring. Its not perfect – but in a situation where there is no PBS and there is no possibility of doing frequent blood glucose tests – this is an option.
So I have begun looking at alternate [...]