WHEN: Thursday, May 29 @ 6pm
WHERE: Water Wall entrance to the National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda
Road, Melbourne
Animal Liberation Victoria have been fighting hard to stop barbaric and unnecessary animal experiments at Monash University (see www.MonashKills.org for more information).
The university openly admits that there are humane alteratives to the rabbit killing class available which do not disadvantage students in any way. The fact that Monash University continues to instruct students to cut open and kill rabbits is therefore scientifically and ethically indefensible. Vice Chancellor Richard Larkins has received hundreds of your letters calling for an end to this pointless animal abuse, yet apparently he treats ethical concerns about the killing of rabbits at his university as so unimportant that they do not even warrant a reply.
YOU CAN STOP THIS SENSELESS KILLING!
This Thursday Monash University are having their 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner at the National Gallery of Victoria. Monash University patrons, donors and high profile graduates will be in attendance. This is the perfect opportunity to put pressure on the University to remove live animal dissections from the classroom. Please meet us at 6pm at the Water Wall entrance to the NGV (180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne) and help us send a loud and strong message to Monash that live animal dissections must stop.
In a scene that could have been straight out of a Hollywood apocalypse movie, a farmer who committed suicide by drinking chloropicrin pesticide managed to vomit first in the operating theater as he was having his stomach pumped, and the resulting toxic fumes sickened 54 doctors, nurses, and patients in the theater and nearby. Ten of the 54 were themselves hospitalized and one patient with pneumonia is still in serious condition.
(Source: http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3u98BPeXoK3GPacN1AW07k-39Gg)
Google has pledged to adopt a more open approach with the formula for its hitherto fiercely guarded search algorithms. Udi Manber, Google’s vice president of engineering, made the announcement on a corporate blog as part of a “renewed effort” to open up the company’s secrets.
Manber claimed that competition and attempts to prevent abuse have been the main reasons for Google’s historic secretive stance.
Google has kept its search ranking formulas a closely guarded secret to make it more difficult for people to “game the system”, he wrote.
“But being completely secretive is not ideal, and this blog post is part of a renewed effort to open up a bit more than we have in the past,” said Manber.
“We will try periodically to tell you about new things, explain old things, give advice, spread news and engage in conversations. Let me start with some general pieces of information about our group. More blog posts will follow.”
A group show series curated by tinygold, and is aimed at showcasing works currently being produced by the some of the best emerging artists from Queensland. The show intends to strengthen networks between emerging artists and the community through artist-run events held at alternate spaces.
Tales from the Cold Ghost II will be held on the Gold Coast on August 23 – September 6, 2008. We are still accepting submissions for TFCG II from contemporary emerging Queensland artists, but hurry as we only have limited placements for artists. For submission guidelines go to:
http://www.tinygold.com
Cluster bombs are weapons that break up in mid air to litter the ground with mini-bombs, some of which remain unexploded for years awaiting innocent civilians. But as the international community meets in Dublin to ban them, the Australian Government is going out of its way to frustrate the process.
Thousands of civilians have lost their lives and limbs, mainly children from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon. But our Government is trying to water down the treaty that could ban them.
They’re hoping this issue will slip under the radar without anyone noticing – but the stakes are simply too high to ignore. We need a strong international treaty to prevent horrors like those experienced as a result of land mines, and that decision is being made right now in Dublin. Join me (Kent Holloway) in banning the bombs:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/BanTheBombs
