RainCalendar.com – The Free Rain and Weather Database For Farmers, Students, Schools and Weather Watchers
Here is a Rain and Weather Calendar I have just made for Farmers, Students, Schools and Weather Watchers.
It is totally free!
Please share with your friends!
Rain And Weather Calendar Screenshot
I decided to design the Rain and Weather Calendar, because I feel it would be of excellent use to mainly Australian Farmers who rely on the Weather for their crops, such as Wheat, Barley, Lupins, Corn and all other seed crops, so they can hopefully have a successful year from their crops, thanks to good and reliable rains and sunshine.
With the way Climate Change is affecting the Earth, I think it is imperative to track rainfall statistics, so you can compare this years rains, to next years and the many more years to come.
I carried out some research on the internet, for other rain and weather calendars, which are similar to mine, and I just cannot find any, apart from the normal paper calendars that you hang up on your wall and never use.
I also feel that this calendar would be perfect for kids, students, teachers and schools for an education tool. Kids just love the weather, and this spreadsheet would be perfect for a year long science project for students aged anywhere from 10 years of age, up to 17 years of age.
The Rain and Weather Calendar has taken many hours to design, but no matter how many hours and days it took to get to the stage where I am happy with it.
Thats why this calendar is free, so it can help farmers, educate kids and students about the weather.
So please feel free to download the calendar, if you do use it, please let as many of your friends know about it as possible.
Please feel free to pass this link on to all your friends, whom you feel could make some use of this weather calendar
If you are a school teacher, and feel you could use this for your kids science projects next year, please let me know that you plan on using it, as I would love to know that it will be used for kids to learn about the weather!
Thanks Everyone
Billy
DVA Good Sleep Guide
I am an ex-serviceman and the other day I received an excellent brochure in regards to one of the most important things in life … SLEEP!
Here is some great advice about getting a good nights sleep:
Here is what the experts say…
During the day
Not being able to sleep is a common problem. If can cause worry and lead to more sleep problems.
Often our day and evening routines, and our beliefs about sleep, determine how well we sleep.
- Get up at the same time each day
- Estabilish daily routines for meals, activities, taking medications
- Try and spend at least 30 minutes outdoors each day to help set your body clock
- Avoid daytimes naps, particularly after 3pm
- Try and be more active during the day
During the evening
- Do not sleep or doze in the armchair. Keep sleep for bedtime
- Allow yourself time to wind down during the evening
- If you find yourself worrying, put youe day to rest by writing down your list of concerns. Decide to deal with them tomorrow
- Avoid caffeine, smoking and alcohol near bedtime. They interfere with either getting to sleep or staying asleep.
- Make sure your bed and bedroom are comfortable – not too cold or too warm. Reduce light and noise
- Avoid a heavy meal close to bedtime. If you are hungry, a snack may help you sleep.
At Bedtime
- Have a bedtime routine so your body knows you are preparing for sleep. Try a warm shower, a snack or listening to relaxing music
- Go to bed only when you are sleepy
- Don’t watch TV or use a computer in bed. Only read in bed if it helps you fall asleep
- Enjoy relaxing even if you do not at first fall asleep
- Sleep problems are not as damaging as you might thing. Getting frustrated or worried about not being able to sleep makes it harder to fall asleep
- If you are still awake after about 20 minutes, get up and do something relaxing. Go back to bed when you feel sleepy
- Speak to your doctor if you are frequently getting up at night to go to the toilet.
Medication
Medication is not a good choice for long term sleep problems. It can have serious side effects, increase the likelihoods of having a fall or car accident, and reduce the quality of your sleep.
Sleep medication supplied in hospital generally should not be continued after leaving hospital.
It’s time to talk to your doctor if you:
- Have been taking sleep medication
- Would consider taking less sleep medication
- Would like to try a non-drug approach to help you sleep.
Non-drug treatments work for about 70% of people who try them and are far more effective in the long term than sleep medication.
Did you know?
- People with sleep problems often get more sleep than they think.
- We generally need less sleep now that we did when we were younger
- Worrying about a bad night’s sleep affects us more the next day than the lack of sleep
K9 Dog Rescue Mandurah
My Sponsored Dog - Australian Blue Heeler Harry - Needs a new home
If you live in Western Australia and your considering getting a dog, why don’t you get in touch with K9 Dog Rescue Nambeerlup Western Australia (Near Mandurah)
For the last couple of years my website Beaut Utes has been sponsoring K9 Dog Rescue Nambeerlup near Mandurah and I have sponsored many dogs, usually one dog a month. I pay $5 a week to sponsor a dog, and that money go towards feeding the dogs, veternary care, vaccinations and so forth.
Please have a look a K9 Dog Rescues Dogs For Adoption if you are interested in sponsoring a dog.
Instead of buying a puppy that may have been bred in a Puppy Mill Factory please consider adoting one from K9 Dog Rescue
About K9 Dog Rescue
K9 Dog Rescue Nambeerlup Mandurah
K9 is run by a group of ordinary, but very dedicated volunteers who are concerned enough to take action against the increasingly inhumane treatment of man’s best friend…….. THE DOG!
Since it’s incorporation in 1990, K9 Dog Rescue has rescued and rehomed many thousands of dogs. The group would not be able to carry out its work without the generosity and constant day-to-day support of local veterinarians, newspapers, local businesses, the general public and most importantly YOU!
K9 is a non-profit organisation operated by volunteers, and financed entirely by donations, membership and fundraising.
K9 tries to educate the public about the need for sterilisation of all dogs that are not for breeding purposes, this goes a long way to reducing the number of strays and abandoned dogs which can ultimately find their way into Pounds and K9 Dog Rescue.
Our aim is to rehome abandoned, mistreated and unloved dogs while trying to advise the public on responsible pet ownership. K9 supplies veterinary care and find new homes for dogs and puppies due to be destroyed at the Pounds. We rear abandoned litters of pups, take in rescued dogs, and whenever possible rehome dogs that are caught up in a family crisis. We rehome well over 500 dogs per year. Some of our new owners come from as far afield as Shepparton, Victoria, Darwin, Alice Springs and one even in Norway (Europe!).
All dogs taken into our care are vet-checked, vaccinated, wormed, sterilised and flea treated. It can take days, weeks and sometimes months to find suitable homes for our dogs. In this time K9 ensures the dogs receive the best possible care available.
Swine Flu Pandemic – Should We Panic?
Swine Flu Masks! Have you got Your Swine Flu?
Well at the moment this Swine Flu Influenza Epidemic is causing global concern and no doubt alot of mass panic! The World Health Authority has raised the official alert level to phase 5, the last step before a pandemic. Something the world has not seen since the the Hong Kong Flu in 1968 – 1968 which resulted in 1 Million Deaths worldwide.
So the question is should we Panic?
Well to tell you the trust I am quite concerned, at the moment my Mother is in a Western Australian Regional Nursing Home, so I am definately worried about her, and winter is only just a couple of months away. I feel like I just want to bring her home for her to be safe and sound … we all know Nursing Homes are a haven for contagious flu’s and disease.
I must admit, I do feel alot safer living in Country Western Australia, than what I would feel if I was living in a capital city, such as Perth, Sydney or Melbourne. Thank God I’m a Country Boy …. as the saying goes…. lets hope that saying rings true!
The thing that also really concerns me is at the moment there is no way of stopping the spread of Swine Influenza, there is no current Vaccinne, and to make a vacinne for the worlds population of 6 billion plus people would take years! I just heard on ABC 7.30 Report that it will take a year just to make 350 Million Vacinations for the Swine Flu…. now thats a reason to consider panicking!
Read the following 7.30 Report Interview Excerpt about the Swine Flu
KERRY O’BRIEN: There’s a lot of talk about the rush to produce a vaccine for this strain of virus, and you’ve talked about the limitations of those vaccines that exist now. But even if an effective vaccine is produced in, say, three or four months, it’s still a massive task, isn’t it, to pump out the vaccine in sufficient volume to circulate to hospitals around the world.
LAURIE GARRETT: Well, with current technology it can’t be done period, full stop. It’s not possible. We’ve never – using the current method, which is actually a very, very old method of producing vaccine on chicken eggs – we’ve never managed to produce more than about 300 million to 350 million doses per year for the entire world.
So to get up to 6.5 billion doses is going to be quite a feat. There are attempts now to create vaccine using different vehicles than chicken eggs for creating it. Growing them on various kinds of cells, and having different methods and biotechnology for producing vaccine. A lot of interesting things in the pipeline, but it’s going to be tricky to get a totally new technology up and running in time for – to address this effort, and then to come up with ways of demonstrating safety in advance.
KERRY O’BRIEN: On the balance of probabilities, what are your biggest fears right now?
LAURIE GARRETT: What happens in the next few days will tell us whether what we’re dealing with here is a garden variety flu that just happened to have gone through pigs, but is no more likely to produce death and devastation than a normal flu; or whether we’re dealing with something that, indeed, is a significant killer flu.
And I would just remind you that we’re heading in the northern hemisphere towards the end of our flu season. Actually, typically we’ve already passed the end of our flu season, so this is already a strange outlier event.
It’s only the beginning of the flu season for folks in the southern hemisphere, and if this virus does indeed circulate down into the southern hemisphere, then all eyes will turn south to see what happens below the equator with this virus in circulation, and what we’ll be preparing for and bracing for in the northern hemisphere is October.
Source: Interview tonight on 7.30 Report ABC <- Read More
Right now if this flu reaches Australia’s Shores, I honestly feel like taking off to the Outback for the winter! But doing that is pretty stupid isn’t it, but I guarantee you, that many Australian people will be thinking the same, and no doubt alot of people will.
Looking at Google there is already rumours of a Swine Flu Conspiracy going on obviously carried out by the United States Government … what a laugh that is!
And already people are profiting of the Swine Flu, just looking at the Ebay Swine Flu Face Masks
In anycase, I am not going to waste my money on any Swine Flu facial masks, I just made a $5 bid on a Swine Flu Survival Kit on ebay, so I reckon I’ll be safe from the Swine Flu … touch wood!
All jokes aside, please do not let the Swine Flu turn you off from eating Pork, this is going to have a huge detrimental effect on Australian Pig Farmers and their income, so please continue to buy Pork from your local Country or City Butcher, just like I did today, we need to support these farmers, eating pork will not give you Swine Flu!
Swine Flu Victim!
Attention Australian Ex-Servicemen and Ex Service Women of The Australian Army, Royal Australian Airforce and Royal Australian Navy
The Australian Army
Are you an Australian Ex-Serviceman and Ex Service Woman?
Regardless of how old you are, or how many years you served in the Australian Defence Forces such as The Australian Army, the Royal Australian Airforce or the Royal Australian Navy, it is important that you read this.
My question to you or any ex-service people you may know of such as your Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, Uncle, best friend and so forth, Did you or they suffer from any injuries, disabilities, even psychological injuries such as depression, post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety problems?
ANY INJURY < I cannot state that enough!
Regardless of whether or not you served in a warzone or just in Australia during any form of Peacetime, you or they maybe entitled to some form of compensation, disability payments, medical treatment or even a White Card or a Gold Card.. or do you think … it all too hard! I won’t get nothing! Or maybe your just too proud like most ex veterans are.
Royal Australian Navy
Did you ever break your leg playing football in the armed forces, or maybe break your arm, or wrist at work.
You maybe be medically fine at this present moment, but maybe when your in your 60’s that previous injury you received in the Defence Forces may come back and haunt you, via arthritis etc.
It does not matter what injury or injuries you received, but you need to know that you can claim for compensation for injuries received.
It is a long process to put in a claim to the Department of Veteran Affairs, and also a very frustrating process, you’ll get letter after letter, and will have to attend Doctors Appointments, Medical Appointments, maybe have to get X-Rays taken, or if you have psychological injuries, you will need to have appointments with a pyschiatrist or pyschologist. But please do not let that deter you.
Royal Australian Airforce
If your unsure how to fill out forms, there are plenty of DVA Advocates who will help you with your claims, these Advocates are usually Ex-Servicemen or Women and have alot of experience themselves in helping ex-service people get disability pensions and compensation payments.
I myself will soon become an Advocate and Welfare Officer which will enable me to help Veterans and Widows for their claims.
For more information the best resource for forms is
If you are an ex Service person of the Australian Defence Force and you are currently suffering from any form of Mental Illness, such as Depression, PTSD, Anxiety and so forth, you are entitled to free counselling via the VVCS program
All Australian veterans are eligible for treatment of Anxiety or Depression at DVA’s expense. A relevant specialist (e.g. psychiatrist) is required to confirm your diagnosis with DVA so we can approve your treatment. Treatment is available for these conditions regardless of your service.
Free and confidential counselling is also available through Veterans Line on 1 800 011 046.
Please do not let the “Veterans” or “Vietnam Veterans” turn you off, that is just the name of the program, if you served in the Australian Defence Force, you are still a Veteran regardless of if you served overseas or not.
If you are planning on putting in a claim to DVA, it is best to get a copy of your Australian Defence Force Medical Records and go through your medical records carefully and note down any minor or serious injuries, even Tinea!
Get a copy of your Medical Records and even your Service Records as follows:
Service Records Service Medical Records
Army
ADF Health Records Office – Army
GPO Box 1932R
MELBOURNE VIC 3001Navy
ADF Health Records – Navy
Queanbeyan Annex 2
CANBERRA ACT 2600
RAAF
ADF Health Records – RAAF
Queanbeyan Annex 2
CANBERRA ACT 2600or email: For medical record enquiries, please email health.records@defence.gov.au.
Service Records
Proof of identity or Next-of-Kin relationship is required and all requests require a signature. Due to privacy restrictions, specific regulations apply to the distribution of confidential personnel records.
Contact Contact Details Postal
Navy -
Personnel Records RAN Phone: +61 2 6266 5962
Fax: +61 2 6266 5851 Queanbeyan Annex 2,
Department of Defence Canberra ACT 2600Army -
Central Army Records Office Phone: +61 3 9282 5393 or +61 3 9282 6235
Fax: +61 3 9282 5434
E-mail: caro.hq@defence.gov.au GPO Box 393 Melbourne VIC 3001Air Force -
Personnel Records RAAF Phone: +61 2 6266 5965
Fax: +61 2 6266 5851 Queanbeyan Annex 2,
Department of Defence Canberra ACT 2600Historical service records –
WWI and WW2
National Archives of Australia Phone: 1300 886 881
E-mail: ww1prs@naa.gov.au
http://www.naa.gov.au
There is so much more to say! I could write alot more, I urge you to please read what I have said and visit the above websites for more information! Pass this information onto your friends and family members who may be unaware of what they may be entitled too!
