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• The Hudson Project: A Diesel Powered 1947 Hudson Pickup, Driven by a Quadriplegic

  
  CarDomain Blog — Authority: 603
  How many of you know anything about the Hudson Motorcar Company? Show of hands….. Well, at one time it was the most popular of the “independent” car makers in America. They “stepped out” of the shadows of the others when they introduced the “Step Down” Hudson models in 1948. Before this time, they did ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Polio victim dies after 60 years in an iron lung

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Sydney, Oct 31 (DPA) An Australian polio victim confined to an iron lung respirator for the past 60 years has died, a spokeswoman for Melbourne’s Thornbury nursing home said Saturday.June Middleton, who was 83, entered the Guinness Book of Records three years ago for spending the longest time in an iron lung.She ...
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• We’re Famous!

  
  Man On The Inside — Authority: 103
  Cole & I figuring it out in the "early days" A couple of days ago I was looking at the blog stats for both Man On The Inside and The Champion Inside blogs and I found that we’d made the big time. For those of you who aren’t “Livin’ La Vida Loca” in the blogosphere your blog stats tell you all sorts ...
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• 15 Minutes of Fame: Quadriplegic player attacks progression raiding

  
  WoW.com — Authority: 657
  15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.coms look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes -- from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players youd like to hear more about. Tales of players who succeed at WoW despite disabilities ( physical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

• I Can Do Anything For 80 Years

  
  The Champion Inside — Authority: 103
  I have been taught the importance of being positive from the youngest days of my life.  I don’t remember a time when having a PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) wasn’t a regular part my parents instruction on the proper way to live a life. Therefore, growing up, I tried to make a positive outlook a part of my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mom Charged in Quadriplegic’s Death

  
  SHADMIA'S WORLD — Authority: 121
  Lorrie Mae Thomas, 40, will stand trial on 6 counts including murder, child abuse and welfare fraud in the death of her 9-year-old quadriplegic, adopted daughter, Shylae Myza Thomas . So said Judge Tracy Collier-Nix of 68th District Court in Flint, Mi. at a hearing on Oct., 13, 2009. Investigators ...
  4 weeks ago

• Consumers push to penalise tardy telcos

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  If you have ever stayed home all day to wait for that telephone repair technician who never turned up, you may have wanted some redress. Now a new consumer advocacy group has called on the Federal Government to make telcos pay automatic compensation payments to consumers when workers are late or fail to show up. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Boat blast survivors get refugee status

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Asylum seekers who survived a boat explosion off Ashmore Reef earlier this year will be granted refugee status in Australia. The 42 Afghan men will be released into the community this week but it is believed the Federal Government will deport any of them who are subsequently convicted of serious charges over the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tander and Davison tame Mount Panorama

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Holdens Garth Tander and Will Davison have won the Bathurst 1000, ending Fords three-year winning streak at Mount Panorama. The lead changed throughout the day, but in true Bathurst fashion it all came down to the final lap and it was the Holden Racing Team duo of Tander and Davison who crossed the finish line in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Digger wounded in Afghan gun battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  An Australian soldier has been wounded in a battle with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. The soldier was wounded while on an operation with other Australian soldiers and members of the Afghan security forces in southern Afghanistan yesterday. The Defence Force says the soldier is being treated at a medical ...
  4 weeks ago

• Beazley flags new approach to US ties

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The new ambassador to Washington is indicating that Australias relationship with the United States is set to change. Kim Beazley says he always questioned the former government over its approach as Australia became the ally the Americans wanted but not the one they needed. The former Labor leader has told the ABCs ...
  4 weeks ago

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