What Went Right - 11 MAR 2017

[megpie71]

State election day here in Western Australia - if there's any other Sandgropers reading this, please remember to vote if you haven't done so already. In the meantime, here's another three things from my mainstream news feeds about "what went right".

Big rams bring towns together for tourism on opposite sides of Australia by Andrew Collins and Leah McLennan (ABC Great Southern, Western Australia)

Built around the presence in each city of a sculpture of a giant ram, Goulburn in New South Wales and Wagin in Western Australia have decided on a sister city arrangement. The hope is that this will potentiate tourism between the two areas, and bring benefits in terms of agricultural exchange.

Researcher examines elusive bats in WA to increase knowledge about behaviour by Sarah Tallier (ABC Mid-West and Wheatbelt, Western Australia)

Murdoch University PhD student Diana Prada is working to increase the amount of knowledge we have about the various species of microbats living here in Western Australia. So far she's been assisted by Bush Heritage, Australian Wildlife Conservancy and Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, which have provided access to sites and animals.

Cincinnati Zoo tiger cubs cared for by Australian shepherd dog by AP (uncredited)

The Cincinatti zoo has a new litter of tiger cubs, but unfortunately their mother's maternal instincts didn't kick in. Enter Blakely, the Australian shepherd dog, who provides an "adult" presence for the cubs, stopping them when the rough-housing gets a bit too vigorous and providing someone for them to cuddle up to.

So there's my three for the day. If you've found a story about "what went right" in your mainstream media feed, why not share it in the comments?

(Now I'm off to vote, and hopefully get a democracy sausage out of it as well!)

Comments

[nomnivore]

Enjoy the sausage and hope all goes well in the election!

[megpie71]

Nearest polling place to us (the local recreation centre) didn't have democracy sausages *sobs*.

Fortunately, it's just across the car park from the local shopping mall, wherein there was a cafe which not only served sausages, but also does a pretty reasonable rice noodle stir fry.

[princess_kessie]

My "what went right" for today was ousting Barnett :D

Hope uni's going well for you both xx

[megpie71]

Uni is going well so far (one of my classes has been moved down toward the Manning Road end of the campus, which means I'm going to be heading off with map, compass and pack of bearers tomorrow to locate it before the class on Tuesday). How's things down your end of the world?

[princess_kessie]

I run out of spoons a lot these days - my level of cope is very down since losing Kes 10 days ago, but I'm surviving. Supportive hubby is supportive :)

Struggling a little with some of my coursework (notably the group project. I loathe collaboration), but I'm keeping up (even a little ahead) ok. I'm looking forward to mid-semester break/Easter, as I actually get a break this year. All my units are ten-week/half-semester units (meaning a semester's learning is actually crammed into 7 weeks of tuition, one week of assessments, one week of re-submissions if we have any and a week of non-contact), so none carry over to the second half of semester/second term :)

We'll have to co-ordinate timetables and get together at some point, since Beaconsfield is not that far from Curtin in the grand scheme of things :)