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Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners

Foo Fighters- Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners [HD]

GravyMusic

Published on 21 Sep 2014

Track 09

Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace

By: Foo Fighters

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

14:05:32

Category : Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters to put Christchurch on the world map

Christchurch’s AMI Stadium will be transformed from a sporting turf into a giant stage venue for the Foo Fighters’ first Australasian concert on their 20th anniversary Sonic Highways World Tour next year.

Vbase General Manager Darren Burden says the stadium will be ready to welcome over 30,000 Foo fans from around the South Island and the world on Wednesday 18 February.

Source : http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1410/S00569/foo-fighters-to-put-christchurch-on-the-world-map.htm

Beaconsfield Gold Mine

The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurred on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, one was killed and the remaining two were found alive using a remote-controlled device. These two miners were rescued on 9 May 2006, two weeks after being trapped nearly a kilometre below the surface.

On Anzac Day, 17 men were working underground at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine, having started their shift just a few hours earlier. Two of this crew – Todd Russell and Brant Webb – were in a tunnel 925 metres below ground. This tunnel was referred to as the ‘925 metre level’ (925mL). These two were working out of a basket. The third man, Larry Knight, operated a forklift cherry picker machine called a telehandler. It was this machine that held them there.

For more go to : http://tasmanianlife.com.au/beaconsfield/

Foo Fighters Sonic Highways

World Tour Downunder

The Foo Fighters’ world tour has added a string of stadium dates across Australia and New Zealand.

Dave Grohl’s rock outfit will play eight concerts in the region early next year, starting Feb. 18 in Christchurch, before visiting Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and wrapping up March 7 in Perth.

The show at Derwent Entertainment Centre in Hobart (the only indoor gig on the slate) will be the band’s first in the Tasmanian capital since 1998, while their opener in Christchurch is their first ever in NZ’s most populous South Island city. The band has a strong connection with both towns. Grohl wrote the instrumental “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners” (on 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace) for trapped Tasmanian miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell (2006) and the band has performed a charity concert in support of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake appeal.

Source : http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6297040/foo-fighters-announce-stadium-shows-down-under

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R I P W a y n e G o s s

 

Tribute to former Queensland premier Wayne Goss, gone at 63

Qldaah

 

Monday, 10 November 2014

13:39:22

Category : Qld Politics

R I P

Former Queensland premier Wayne Goss has died aged 63

Wayne Goss swept Labour into power in 1989 after 32 years of domination by the National Party under Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen.

Robert Schwarten former Labour Minister spoke with AAP.

Mr Schwarten said Mr Goss was responsible for sweeping social reforms.

Among his reforms were ending the gerrymander, decriminalising homosexuality and introducing a raft of protection measures to safeguard Queensland's natural environment.

'Within a year it was no longer illegal to be a homosexual, he introduced laws to decriminalise prostitution, he brought in the first gun laws in Queensland,' he told AAP.

'It was just an enormous list. But the thing he's least remembered for is that he got Queensland into the 20th century in terms of financial accountability.'

Source: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/11/10/former-queensland-premier-goss-dead.html

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T h e F a l l o f T h e B e r l i n W a l l

 

Berlin Song

Ludovico einaudi berlin song

rubia lima

Ralph Essers

This song is maybe the best example to show that music is the universal language of all emotions. This song tells a story. It is a story of melancholy, of hapiness, of sadness ,,, it's all there and we can all understand the words. More clear than Italian or English could do this: music is the true language of the heart. And Einaudi is its poet.

 

Sunday, 09 November 2014

14:44:12

The Fall of The Berlin Wall

On the 9^th of November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down.

For over a quarter of a century the wall had divided

the people of Berlin

the people of Germany

the people of Europe.

It was the point at which Democracy and Communism collided.

The Berliner Mauer as it was known in Germany represented the most brutal symbolism of communist repression. It was a physical barrier that stopped people from living out their lives in freedom.

The Second World War, came to an end in May 1945 - the allies won, led by the USA the Soviet Union and Britain over Nazi Germany.

The decision of what to do with a defeated Germany was a plan to divide Germany into a number of smaller states.

The Soviet Union was given control of the eastern part of Germany. The soviets had already been invaded in two world wars from the west and they wanted to ensure their security by making Poland and Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic & Slovakia) into buffer states.

Berlin was divided into the French sector, the Soviet sector, the British sector and the US Sector.

Gorbachev

the political conditions that would bring the wall down were brought about by Mikhail Gorbachev leader of the Soviet Union who introduced two new ideas glasnost freedom of information free speech free elections and perestroika economic reform within communism.

When asked about the Berlin Wall,Gorbachev said “The wall could disappear once the conditions that created the Wall disappeared.”

By November a million people were marching in the streets of East Germany demanding that the borders were opened.

On Thursday the 9^th of November 1989 East Germans were to be allowed to cross the border.

At the wall itself no one had given the East German guards orders they stayed at their posts until people began to gather at the walls crossing points.

At the Bornholmer Strasse Crossing an elderly couple were allowed through the guard had heard on the radio that visas and passports were being issued.

On the other side West Berliners had carried hot drinks and flowers to the Wall.

By midnight the border guards had received official orders to open the gates. A celebration began on top of the Berlin Wall.

Ende

The Berlin Wall

All Along the Watchtower: "Expelled" Version

jevansturner

A Divided Family

“The main house was in the Soviet Zone while some of the fields were in the British Zone. The border literally divided the property.

Aged seventeen, my father hid a suitcase on a horse drawn cart and drove west across the border on family property, leaving his parents behind.

In the following forty years he was allowed to return only twice-for a maximum of three hours each time –for their funerals.

Author Oliver August in Along the Wall and Watchtowers,remembers how the partition of Germany divided the farmland where his father grew up.”

 

  

Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech

Russel Tarr

An Iron Curtain

Winston Churchill Britain’s Prime Minister made a speech in Fulton Missouri USA

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended over the continent.”

In time this iron curtain would take the physical form in the shape of the Berlin Wall

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 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnoXecGpq6g

Published on 1 Oct 2014

Music video for "Yellow Flicker Beat" Performed by Lorde

Saturday, 8 November 2014

10:54:22

LORDE LYRICS

"Yellow Flicker Beat"

I’m a princess cut from marble, smoother than a storm.

And the scars that mark my body, they’re silver and gold,

My blood is a flood of rubies, precious stones,

It keeps my veins hot, the fire's found a home in me.

I move through town, I’m quiet like a fight,

And my necklace is of rope, I tie it and untie.

And now people talk to me, but nothing ever hits home

People talk to me, and all the voices just burn holes.

I’m done with it (ooh)

[Chorus:]

This is the start of how it all ends

They used to shout my name, now they whisper it

I’m speeding up and this is the red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart

We're at the start, the colours disappear

I never watch the stars, there’s so much down here

So I just try to keep up with the red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart

I dream all year, but they’re not the sweet kinds

And the shivers move down my shoulder blades in double time

And now people talk to me, I’m slipping out of reach now

People talk to me, and all their faces blur

But I got my fingers laced together and I made a little prison

And I’m locking up everyone who ever laid a finger on me

I’m done with it (ooh)

[Chorus]

And this is the red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart

And this is the red, orange, yellow flicker beat-beat-beat-beat

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Lorde

Lorde just turned 18

Queen Bee with four grammy awards

Two months after royals debuted on spotify

It topped the services viral chart

Which measures the ratio between shares and streams.

Her record label and even the radio stations

had no choice but to jump onboard the tailwind

Ella had a photo shoot in New York

The photographer kept telling her to pop her hip out

Smile & try to look cute

ROFL the wrong words to say to a no nonsense little kiwi miss

“I’m Number One in this country

Not because I wink and flirt

And all that shit

but because

I have done exactly what I want to do”

So no he did not get smiles.

Then she smiled

Excerpt taken from

rolling stones rob tannenbaum

Interview with lorde 

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T h e P i k e R i v e r M i n e d i s a s t e r ...

Saturday, 08 November 2014

12:50:31

 Category : Pike River mine

Pike River Mine Update

Pike River families believe photos show bodies

Graeme Axford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngaZUpZRlpU

Published on 31 Oct 2014

Friday 31 Oct 2014 8:06 p.m.

It is understood that a decision from Solid Energy on whether it will allow recovery teams to re-enter the drift of the Pike River mine is imminent.

The drift is not the mine itself, but the two-kilometre tunnel that leads to the mine.

Families of the victims are desperate for a mission to collect evidence and to see if there are any bodies in the drift.

They say if Solid Energy won't do it, they will.

They say they know there are bodies in the mine, and tonight, with their blessing and for the first time, we can show you their evidence.

Dean Dunbar, the father of lost miner Joseph Dunbar, spoke with Campbell Live producer Kate McCallum.

Watch the full interview with Dean Dunbar.

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Heavy machinery accidents, mishaps and other interesting mining photos

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Published on 15 Aug 2013

Amazing pictures of super heavy machinery working in extreme conditions at the Stockton mine in New Zealand.

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Friday, 07 November 2014

13:19:31

Topic : Pike River Mining Disaster NZ 2010

The Pike River Mine

19 November 2010

12 days away to the memorial

The Pike River Mine

disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, 46 kilometres (29 mi) northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island.

Families back Pike River civil case

3News NZ-2 hours ago

No one has been held criminally responsible, with police saying last year that without gaining re-entry into the mine, there was not enough evidence to link individuals with specific events leading up to the explosion.

The Government has now asked Crown Law to investigate the possibility of a civil suit.

Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/families-back-pike-river-civil-case-2014110709#ixzz3IKf06txZ

Solid Energy's decision to abandon the body recovery effort is unlikely to be the last chapter in the story of the Pike River mining disaster.

Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/families-back-pike-river-civil-case-2014110709#ixzz3IKekMBXN

A Cock & Bull Story

    Government does not have a plan let alone a plan b

So great is their faith they believe it will ‘go away’

They do have a mine -its not going anywhere

They have an energy company who has stalled over any chance of entry into the mine and recovering any data and /or the remains of the deceased miners

Exit one mining company enter another?

They have families the survivers of the 29 miners lost in the mining accident who are still being fed a C& B story

They have their endless royal commissions inhaling funds that could have been used elsewhere

They have a Prime Minister John Key who is aware of the shortfalls and inadequate policies & practices in place

They have an energy & resource Minister who is managing to read the appropriate things to say and one of the key points in his words were a focus on “care of the feelings of the families who may be able to move on” move on to where simon bridges?

You make ‘moving on ‘sound like some tourist destination that nice feely people should want to go to. Smarmy suck it up out of place standard expressions for newbie car salesmen by a new wave nice kind of guy. For Gods sake –gross!

Are you guys planning on rectifying your faulty laws & policies and putting in place some safety standards and measures and would that be likely today tomorrow or in the near or far future.

Still planning on jacking up off shore drilling?No!

Do you guys really think you are up to it and capable of dealing with any more dramas in mining?No!

Do you have the practical side of things under control?No!

Have you decided yet who should be in charge at any future mining disasters?No!

What kind of compensation have you in place for any one exposed to your bad practices,laws and policies?None –thought so!

Where was the Labour Department in all this or was it dismantled?

Nothing has been done except talk & more talk .Well you guys can’t keep burying your heads in the sand because the whole country is listening waiting and watching.

So far we have heard your speeches and the repetitiveness is ridiculous read what you are saying.

If I was one of the survivors you’d be “doing my head in” as it is I’m really annoyed that you are doing this to any New Zealander.

You guys need a good kick up the britches for this!

No shame- diminished responsibilties.

No sympathy either - sticking your heads in the sand ain’t gonna make it go away.

We remember…

A list of things you can do :

Must do list

Health and Safety and Environment Committee

Policies and Procedures. Whistleblower Policy

Corporate policies/procedures

Information Systems and Tools Usage Policy

Mining Health & Safety Laws, Regulations, and Procedures

Our policies - Department of Natural Resources and Mines

Site work conditions and rules - Mining operations

policy procedure process

the laws, regulations, practices, and procedures involved in mine safety

Health and Safety and Environment Committee Mandate • Board Charter • Governance & Nomination Committee Charter • Advance Notice Policy

Policies and Procedures - Global Mining Standards

Nota bene

There are specific companies that exist in the industry who deal with and handle this type of information and can write your policies and procedures for you.

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