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Here's my album review for AC/DC's latest album "Black Ice". This is the first AC/DC album that I've ever "owned", although you can't own a music album, only the physical media it's distributed on - and in the age of digital downloads you don't even get that.

As a prelude - I lived in Lima, Peru for three years. I was a bus ride away from the mysterious ancient city of Macchu Picchu, but I never got to see it. I was busy holding down the fort in an inner city ISKCON temple and restaurant, and trying to resuscitate a BBT that had gone into cardiac arrest.

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Last night Brisbane was hit by the worst storm in a decade. One person was drowned and thousands affected by falling trees, damage to their houses, and extensive power outages which will take days to fix.

More storms forecast for this week.

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8 weeks 6 days ago

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Def Leppard are playing in Brisbane in November. I've seen them play once before, on the Adrenalize tour back in NZ - it must have been 1991 or thereabouts.

Hysteria was the first heavy metal album I bought, in 1987. It was the start down the road that lead me to where I am now.

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Is it just me, or is there something very, very wrong in this picture?

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Param Satya, Prahlad, and I took our first holiday in four years over the last week. We went up to Cairns to "hang loose and let off some steam".

From now on I'm operating by the principle Rick Warren shared in a recent conference:

Divert daily.
Withdraw weekly.
Abandon annually.

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"Bundaberg - It's Australian for Ginger Beer"

We arrived back from our sojourn in Cairns yesterday to a letterbox filled with mail. Among the various letters was one from the Department of Immigration - Param Satya, Prahlad, and I have been granted permanent residence in Australia.

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To relieve that "burning of the universe" feeling... here's something about what I've been up to.

On Tuesday night Prahlad and I dropped by the Shabazz School of Self Defense, run by local Master Warrior Ali Shabazz. Ali Shabazz is also known by the name Abhilasa dasa. In addition to being a student of martial arts traditions he is also a student of the ancient Vedic spiritual tradition, and was one of the youngest of the disciples of the great world teacher Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

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Currently Param Satya is applying for permanent residency in Australia. She is on a bridging visa while she does this. Initially she was on a religious worker visa, sponsored by ISKCON in Brisbane.

It's taken almost two years since we first put the application in. A series of mishaps and lost documentation, the need to get documentation from Perú (a torturous affair), and the last minute addition of Prahlad and myself to the application have made it stretch out waaaaaay looooonger than it should have.

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This is a long weekend in Australia, the "land of the long weekend". Monday is Labour day, so Sunday we spent the day out with no concerns about working on Monday.

First of all we went to the opening of Brisbane's new Inner City Busway. It's been a huge two year effort to build this underground bus tunnel, and Sunday was the public open day, where Brisbane citizens are invited to walk through the tunnel.

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The Brisbane City Council (sorry, but I refuse to call them "Council") has produced a report called "water ->->-> for today and tomorrow" (yes, with the contemporary all lower case title)

I picked up a copy at work. Here's the Lord Mayor's introduction. Anyone else seen Dune, or Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome?

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In Australia's first known case of murder due to "water rage," a dispute over a suburban man's water usage led to him being beaten to death in front of his home. According to police, 66-year-old Ken Proctor was watering the lawn in front of his home in Sydney on October 31 at approximately 5:30 p.m. when a passerby made a comment to him about wasting water. Proctor then turned his hose on the other man, who knocked him to the ground and began to punch and kick him.

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GOUURRAAAAANGAAA!!

Kali yuga pavana Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ki jay!
Kali yuga dharma Harinam sankirtan ki jay!

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The local Tower of Babel, the Red Hill cell antenna, towers over the burnt-out remnants of human culture...

Shot on the way to work this morning. It's about a 30 minute walk to the new office.

I just finished a two-day course to become qualified as a "First Aider", able to provide first aid and emergency life support in the event of accident or medical emergency. As a yoga teacher I need to keep a current First Aid certificate, and my work needed more First Aid qualified people onsite so I put my hand up to do the course.

Brisbane is the last major city in Australia to have a fluoride-free water supply.

Now steps are underway to add fluoride to the water.

In my research on this issue I've turned up the following interesting resources:

Indrayumna Swami writes:

Our festival programs continued successfully in the Sydney area. After performing there for two weeks, we flew to Melbourne for a three-day program in the prestigious, centrally located town hall auditorium. When we arrived to begin setting up early one morning the devotees were awestruck by the ornate architecture, spacious rooms, high ceilings and crystal chandeliers.

“We've never performed in a place like this,” one devotee exclaimed.

Today's harinam in Spring Hill rocked out.

After weeks of solid rain in Brisbane (quite welcome), our harinam parties have been graced with sunny conditions.

The Roland Amp Cube is a powerful weapon on harinam. Running on 6 AA batteries for up to 15 hours and with a 5W amplifier for its two speakers, it's light and LOUD!

Vrajadhama das leading. New Farm is a hip suburb near the Valley, on the Brisbane river.

This week there were eight of us. It doesn't have to be any more than one person, as Srila Prabhupada demonstrated - but at the same time, the more the merrier!

H.H. Indradyumna Swami and his Festival of India crew are presently visiting Australia, performing "Le Carnival Espirituel".

I went out on harinam with them the other day and attended the program last night. I am going to try to attend the program tomorrow night as well. I shot some video of the harinam and the program, and will try to get some more, and some photos, tomorrow.

The State Emergency Service says the evacuations could extend into thousands as the Tweed River reaches its peak.

The SES says torrential rain has resulted in flooding along the Tweed and Richmond Rivers and about 400 people have been evacuated from Kyogle and South Murwillumbah in the early hours of this morning.

A major flood warning has been issued at Murwillumbah where around 80 people are taking shelter in the local Catholic Church Hall.

On New Year's Eve we did harinam kirtan in the streets in ecstasy for 4 1/2 hours. Now you can experience the ecstasy in just 20 minutes with this highlights video.

See a drunk guy ready to beat down on Sita-pati getting pulled off by the cops: "Got a problem mate?"