Sharp news from Queensland fisheries this week as shark control nets are returned to the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast beaches after being salvaged from the water when the weather misbehaved.
“It’s standard procedure to remove the shark control equipment when rough weather is forecast,” Fisheries spokesperson Sam Fary explained.
Returning the nets when the weather allowed, the Shark Control team pulled out their masterpiece of brilliance, a rare but effective vertical acronym that says it all for safety on the beach:
Swim between the flags at patrolled beaches and check signage
Have a buddy and look out for each other
Avoid swimming at dawn or dusk
Reduce risk, avoid schools of bait fishing or diving birds
Keep fish waste and food scraps out of the water where people swim
Swim in clear water away from fishers
Top marks to the Queensland Shark Control Program, taking ‘SharkSmart’ to a new level.
Let’s hope the sharks appreciate the creativity!!
Abbreviated job a long road
To the good news of a few weeks ago when Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) announced it had been licensed as the Australian manufacturing partner of a new treatment for non-melanoma skin cancer
Always keen to highlight Australia’s PS success stories, PS News went to report its success and set about collecting information to pass on what would happen next.
As part of the highly regarded international licence, ANSTO had succeeded in getting to work with the German company, OncoBeta and its radio-isotope therapy, Rhenium-SCT as well as an International Registry and EPIC-Skin study.
All went along smoothly for the rough-skinned PS-sssst! until the official unravelling of the abbreviations left, not a little, but a lot to appreciate.
ANSTO’s approval to use the non-melanoma skin cancer as NMSC seemed perfectly smooth and OncoBeta’s Rhenium-SCT (Skin Cancer Therapy) passed PS-sssst’s pedantic test but it was when the ‘EPIC-Skin’ study abbreviated itself as ‘Efficacy of Personalised Irradiation with Rhenium-SCT – for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer’, that PS-sssst! became unhinged and was last seen going and have a lie down.
When is an abbreviation not an abbreviation but a cat’s dinner?
It looks as if Ps-sssst! found out when it untangled the ‘EPIC-skin’!
Bruce Willis DVD at large
Competition and lucky winner section now when the ever-generous Rama Gaind ever-generously offers another free giveaway to lucky readers who play her weekly free giveaway game.
This week’s prize is the DVD of the Bruce Willis’ Die Hard film entitled A Day to Die, starring Mr Willis, Kevin Dillon and Frank Grillo.
To win a copy of the DVD and with it an everlasting place in Rama’s Army, all we had to do was identify the role Bruce Willis plays in the film and have our entries among the first three to be plucked from the judge’s infamous Barrel of Booty.
The answer to Rama’s quiz question was the corrupt Police Chief Alston, and the first correct correspondents to communicate it were from Gregory C of the Australian Taxation Office, Ros M from the Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and Philomena S from the Victorian Department of Health.
Big congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who took part. The thrilling DVDs will be on their way to their new owners very soon.
In the meantime for the rest of us, let’s put our good luck to work and join in Rama’s giveaway games simply by visiting her review of the Book Lonely Planet’s Experience Guides: Italy at this PS News link and follow her instructions and/or visit her second but equally first offering the Book Keith Urban at this link and then sit back and wait for our prizes to (hopefully) head our way.
Good luck to everyone who plays Rama’s rich raffle and comes out a winner.
Watch this space again next week just as Gregory, Ros and Philomena did this week and you too could be in Rama’s good books!
Lucky winner a giveaway!
And finally, the sharp-eyed amongst us will have noticed that one of the lucky winners in Rama’s giveaway this week looks remarkably familiar, and that’s because it is.
Famous for her brilliant, if occasional, contributions of contradictions and commentaries in PS-sssst!, Victoria’s Philomena S has not only entertained us with her wit and wisdom over many months but can now claim wit, wisdom and WINNING following her achievement in Rama Gaind’s giveaway!
And just to prove Philomena’s philosophies are just as sharp as a Bruce Willis Die hard film, our familiar fellow follower has hit the genius jackpot again, this time with a wise word of advice for us considering to take great care when deciding what we’ll eat.
According to Philomena and her foresight, a nutritional diet is not always the best for us, particularly if it is promoted as popular ‘natural’ foods are.
“I used to eat a lot of ‘natural’ foods,” the ever nutritional Philomena admitted.
“Then it dawned on me that most people die of ‘natural’ causes.”
Another unnatural diet starts!
‘Till next week….
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