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thehangingtree said:
Since it is already July 4th down under...

239 years ago the founders of the Tree estate United States signed the Declaration of Independence leading to the formation of the country I call home.

It was not a perfect nation, accepting slavery to get the support of the southern colonies. In less than 100 years in a war that claimed more American lives than any fought before or since to cleanse that stain and more to allow women the right to vote and end segregation.

But over the years the US has worked to 'polish the diamond in the rough'.

And they make Seagram's since Prohibition was repealed!!!

...great place to live...

Tree
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And from down under, have a great day, when you finally get there!
It's a sunny but chilly morning here in Sydney, coldest July night for 3 years,apparently.
 
phlebas said:
And from down under, have a great day, when you finally get there!
It's a sunny but chilly morning here in Sydney, coldest July night for 3 years,apparently.
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A friend of my mother's lives in Perth. She e-mailed that she was going to visit her son in Melbourne this week & was going to have to pack a jacket.
Hard to believe when we're sweating in the 90s here.
The current temp in Melbourne, Florida (8:00pm EDT) is 84F (29C). Melbourne, Australia (10:00am) 9C (48F).

Happy Independence Day.
And to our British friends: Hey, no hard feelings.:)
 
Naraku said:
A friend of my mother's lives in Perth. She e-mailed that she was going to visit her son in Melbourne this week & was going to have to pack a jacket.
Hard to believe when we're sweating in the 90s here.
The current temp in Melbourne, Florida (8:00pm EDT) is 84F (29C). Melbourne, Australia (10:00am) 9C (48F).

Happy Independence Day.
And to our British friends: Hey, no hard feelings.:)
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It is close to the middle of winter down here remember.....:D.....but if you all want to experience some real torture come to the tropical north of Australia where Pp lives in February when the days are mid to high 30's C and the humidity is 95%. Then it cools and, at 2:00 AM....it is 27 C and just 90% humidity. :devil: Had a few of those this last summer.

Just 45 minutes from here, temps at the RAAF base regularly crack the 40 C mark in summer.
 
Primus pilus said:
It is close to the middle of winter down here remember.....:D.....but if you all want to experience some real torture come to the tropical north of Australia where Pp lives in February when the days are mid to high 30's C and the humidity is 95%. Then it cools and, at 2:00 AM....it is 27 C and just 90% humidity. :devil: Had a few of those this last summer.

Just 45 minutes from here, temps at the RAAF base regularly crack the 40 C mark in summer.
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Yep, well Sydney is large enough to have several micro climates. You don't want to live in the far western suburbs, stifling in summer and frosty in winter.

Today we are looking at 16c, warmer than Melbourne :) , and sunny too.
But it was 5 degrees overnight - we consider that to be arctic conditions :)
 
phlebas said:
Yep, well Sydney is large enough to have several micro climates. You don't want to live in the far western suburbs, stifling in summer and frosty in winter.

Today we are looking at 16c, warmer than Melbourne :) , and sunny too.
But it was 5 degrees overnight - we consider that to be arctic conditions :)
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You have the Harbour and all those drowned valleys and sandstone ridges and plateaus. and when it really gets stifling you can all slip up to the Blue Mountains as in the olden days.:D
 
Primus pilus said:
It is close to the middle of winter down here remember.....:D.....but if you all want to experience some real torture come to the tropical north of Australia where Pp lives in February when the days are mid to high 30's C and the humidity is 95%. Then it cools and, at 2:00 AM....it is 27 C and just 90% humidity. :devil: Had a few of those this last summer.

Just 45 minutes from here, temps at the RAAF base regularly crack the 40 C mark in summer.
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After converting to Fahrenheit, that's highs in the mid 90s & lows around 80...
Sounds like summer in Florida, except we get cooled down by the massive thunderstorms...like the one outside right now.
Mother Nature is providing her own fireworks. The human ones will be delayed a bit.

Anyway, Happy 4th of July!
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Naraku said:
After converting to Fahrenheit, that's highs in the mid 90s & lows around 80...
Sounds like summer in Florida, except we get cooled down by the massive thunderstorms...like the one outside right now.
Mother Nature is providing her own fireworks. The human ones will be delayed a bit.

Anyway, Happy 4th of July!
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We get those grand summer thunderstorms too. Almost purple clouds, thunder, lightning cracking like a stock whip. A couple of inches of rain in a half hour.....cooler......then she is gone and the bloody humidity builds again.

Still, could be worse, try the "build up" to the wet season in Darwin....only option is to live in the pub and drink beer.

Happy holiday US friends.
 
thehangingtree said:
The US team just won the Women's World Cup Football Tournament...

Tree never knew women wore cups... sport's bras yeah...

Sorry I was just thinking out loud...

Tree

...it is amazing the brain-dead idiot can think at all...

-Ulrika
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yes, I'm really happy about this
(no, not because England only came 3rd, they were unlucky)
it's going to do a lot to raise the profile of soccer
(which I'm no big fan of, but all the same...) in the USA,
and a lot for women's sport (which I do care about)
there and across the world - so well done, you girls!
 
Eulalia said:
yes, I'm really happy about this
(no, not because England only came 3rd, they were unlucky)
it's going to do a lot to raise the profile of soccer
(which I'm no big fan of, but all the same...) in the USA,
and a lot for women's sport (which I do care about)
there and across the world - so well done, you girls!
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Pp has little interest in soccer and nor will that change if he is eventually forced to call it footbal. But he has enormous respect for the women who compete and train on shoestring budgets and who make sacrifices unknown to even low level male players and teams.

The Matildas, the Australian women who made the final 8, before bowing out fighting to the death against a dominant Japan, achieved that with just 2 full time support staff.

Laura Alleway has taken eight years to complete a Bachelor of Education. It's not that she can't to subjects, but that she continuously had to put her studies on hold for football. When she finally decides to no longer sacrifice all for soccer there won't be any lavish retirement, just the day to day life of a schoolteacher.

It is the same situation for Elise Kellond-Knight, the woman who was named player of the match in two World Cup games and did the unthinkable in shutting down the greatest female player of all-time, Marta. Her job on the Brazilian impressed all but perhaps her university lecturers – she's in her eighth year of studying pharmacy.

Another is a barrista, another an apprentice plumber and every member of that team has either dug into savings or been supported by family just to get to Canada.

The team, along with Australia's netball and hockey women have done a tremendous job in promoting sport amongst women and girls but are only ever seen in the media when achievements such as these punt even the most lowly-ranked men's sport back for a week or two.

Despite their efforts in Canada they face exile from the media until the next world cup and that is a shame.
 
Primus pilus said:
Pp has little interest in soccer and nor will that change if he is eventually forced to call it footbal. But he has enormous respect for the women who compete and train on shoestring budgets and who make sacrifices unknown to even low level male players and teams.

The Matildas, the Australian women who made the final 8, before bowing out fighting to the death against a dominant Japan, achieved that with just 2 full time support staff.

Laura Alleway has taken eight years to complete a Bachelor of Education. It's not that she can't to subjects, but that she continuously had to put her studies on hold for football. When she finally decides to no longer sacrifice all for soccer there won't be any lavish retirement, just the day to day life of a schoolteacher.

It is the same situation for Elise Kellond-Knight, the woman who was named player of the match in two World Cup games and did the unthinkable in shutting down the greatest female player of all-time, Marta. Her job on the Brazilian impressed all but perhaps her university lecturers – she's in her eighth year of studying pharmacy.

Another is a barrista, another an apprentice plumber and every member of that team has either dug into savings or been supported by family just to get to Canada.

The team, along with Australia's netball and hockey women have done a tremendous job in promoting sport amongst women and girls but are only ever seen in the media when achievements such as these punt even the most lowly-ranked men's sport back for a week or two.

Despite their efforts in Canada they face exile from the media until the next world cup and that is a shame.
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I would suspect the women athletes of the Crux Forums would agree with you. For all their work the best can hope for if their conditioning makes them last longer on the cross...

it's not fair but what is here???

Tree
 
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I just read some sad news. Amanda Peterson, star of the 1987 movie "Can't Buy Me Love" was found dead at her home on July 5th. She was 43.
I actually enjoyed this "romantic comedy", it also helped me seal the deal one date night;)
 
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