Archive for December, 2009

Farmer-health workshops

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
FARMERS are known to put the freedom from disease of their businesses well in advance of their own well being. But for the 700 who be obliged completed the second year of the award-winning Sustainable Farm Families program, personal health issues have come out of the closet.The SFF program consists of a order of workshops focusing ...

Starting again in 2010

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
SARAH HUDSON asked five rural Victorians to reflect on their hopes and plans The extremity of the year is not just about fodder, wine and mirth, but resolutions and soul-searching, with some eye to the subsequent time.So at the expiration of 2009, and the noughties, we ask five influential rural Victorians - who be in actual ...

CIA: 7 employees killed in Afghan attack

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA says seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a terrorist attack on an agency base in Afghanistan. CIA instructor Leon Panetta said those killed in Wednesday's criticise "were far from home and shut up to the enemy, doing the hard act that must subsist done to secure our country ...

AP sources: CIA base chief killed in attack

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a self-murder bombing at a base-born in Afghanistan. The Associated Press has learned that one of them was the chief of the CIA'sitting post in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost Province. CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a notice to means ...

Scientists find clue to killer of Tasmanian devils

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fierce as they are, Tasmanian devils be able to'face to face forge a contagious cancer that threatens to wipe them uncovered. Now scientists have an opinion they've set the disease's origin, a step in the race to save Australia's snarling marsupial. The furry black animals spread a fast-killing cancer at the time that they bite ...