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Tourism or Tucker – The Plight of the Australian Camel.
Australian Travel Blog
The Egyptians may have cornered the market on pyramids, but it is Australia that remains home to the world's largest population of wild camels. In Western Australia, these 'ships of the desert' roam the outback in herds up to 100-strong and the Australian Camel are reaching plague proportions.
New Eco-Menu Item? "A three-year study has found the population of more than a million feral camels is now out of control and damaging desert ecosystems, water sources, rare plants, and animals. The Recommendation: "Eat Them, It's a Bit Like Beef" Professor Murray McGregor: "Its beautiful meat. It's a bit like beef. It's as lean; it's an excellent health food".
In the 1860s about 10,000 camels were imported into Australia, mostly from Palestine and India. The single-humped dromedary camels were used as draft and riding animals by people pioneering the dry interior. The Afghans famously used the camels in the construction of the "Ghan Railway". When their work was done and road and rail connected the Australian interior, the animals were just turned loose creating the world's only population of wild camels. Since then their population has doubled every eight or nine years.
Head up to Broome, a resort town in WA's tropical northwest and you can ride a domesticated camel, and take a sunset ride along the famous white sands of Cable Beach. Whilst camels have now been identified as an environmental threat, they now play a significantly different role in Western Australia. Camels are now firmly in entrenched in the Broome/Cable Beach tourist strategy and each day long caravans carry tourists up and down stretches of Cable Beach and is rapidly becoming a "Must Do" experience while visiting the area.
A possible solution: Saudi Arabians and other Muslim Countries Importing Camels from Australia to meet.
The Central Australian Camel Industry Association recently told the BBC, that the Saudis need to import Australian camels for meat production because the use of their own stock is for breeding and racing purposes only. "The Saudis do not have enough [camels] for their own consumption of meat," Hundreds of thousands of camels are slaughtered every year during the Muslim pilgrimage, or Hajj, in Mecca. The Saudis have traditionally imported camels from North Africa, but a combination of disease, drought, and political instability has led them to look elsewhere. Camel meat is also consumed elsewhere in the Muslim world - a fact not lost on Australian camel-exporters who are looking at is catering to Muslim countries worldwide. The Central Australian Camel Industry Association is now targeting its neighbor Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country.
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Brent Narbey
Post date: 12 Apr 2016 (Last updated: 13 Jun 2019)
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The establishment of a Transition Team to guide the presbytery as we live into our new vision.
There were 13 members on the VTF representing varying viewpoints and experiences across the Presbytery.
Our first priority after commissioning was building trust among members so we could engage in the personal and emotional discussions about the Presbytery's current challenges and opportunities.
Our second priority has been to clarify and understand what we currently know about patterns and trends within the presbytery, including membership, finances, and leadership.
Using the information gained in clarifying what we know about patterns and trends, the members of the VTF have created a list of questions that will help us understand the needs and desires of our member churches. Over the coming months, members of the VTF will take these questions out to the sessions of our churches and mindfully evaluate the responses as we move into the next phase of our work.
Thank you for agreeing to meet with the Charleston Atlantic Presbytery Visioning Task Force. As you know, we have been at work for over a year, determining the direction of our work and building an understanding of the needs of sessions and the presbytery as a whole. Based on the questions we asked at the February 2014 meeting, the Visioning Task Force has generated a series of questions for sessions.
These questions have two purposes; first, to understand the current situation and future needs of congregations, but just as important, to understand the process your session uses to analyze and respond to new challenges. Because we value the process you use to reach your answers, we want to observe your response to our questions in person. However, to give you an understanding of our goals and to help you stimulate your own ideas, we are sharing the following information about our questions with the hope that your session will prayerfully reflect on these broad topics before our meeting. The goal is not to find consensus, but to hear the different voices of your session.
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Robert Julian Bentley, né le  à Columbiana (Alabama), est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti républicain, il est gouverneur de l'Alabama du  au .

Biographie
Né à Columbiana, en Alabama, Robert J. Bentley sert dans l'Armée de l'Air des États-Unis comme médecin généraliste de 1969 à 1975. Il quitte l'armée avec le grade de capitaine. Il a obtenu son doctorat en médecine de l'université de l'Alabama (spécialité dermatologie).

Il est élu à la Chambre des représentants de l'Alabama en 2002 et a accompli deux mandats de 2002 à 2010.

En 2010, le gouverneur Bob Riley ayant décidé de ne pas renouveler son mandat de gouverneur, Bentley se porte candidat. Il quitte alors son cabinet de dermatologie de Tuscaloosa. Se présentant comme un «  », Bentley arrive en deuxième position de la primaire républicaine, créant la surprise. Au second tour de la primaire, il bat le favori Bradley Byrne avec 56 % des voix, notamment grâce aux comtés ruraux de l'État. Durant la campagne, il promet notamment de ne pas toucher son salaire de gouverneur tant que le taux de chômage dépasse 5,2 %. Il remporte l'élection générale avec près de 58 % des voix contre 42 % obtenu par son adversaire démocrate Ron Sparks. Il s'agit de la marge la plus large enregistrée pour l'élection d'un républicain au siège de gouverneur de l'État de l'Alabama. Il prête serment comme gouverneur de l'Alabama le .

Durant son premier mandat, le taux de chômage baisse de 9,1 % en janvier 2011 à 6,6 % en . En novembre 2014, Bentley est réélu pour un second mandat avec 63 % des suffrages. Il s'agit d'un nouveau record pour un gouverneur républicain en Alabama.

Pendant plusieurs mois, Bentley est accusé d'entretenir une relation avec l'une de ses collaboratrices. La rumeur s'amplifie après son divorce avec Dianne Bentley, avec laquelle il est marié depuis . En , il reconnait sa liaison avec Rebekah Caldwell Mason, une femme mariée. Bentley est alors accusé d'avoir intimidé des membres de l'administration pour l'aider à garder secrète sa relation extraconjugale. Face au scandale, une procédure d'impeachment est introduite contre lui, une première depuis un siècle en Alabama. Le , il démissionne après un accord avec le procureur pour utilisation personnelle de ses fonds de campagne. La lieutenant-gouverneur Kay Ivey lui succède comme gouverneur de l'Alabama.

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Naissance dans le comté de Shelby (Alabama)
Naissance en février 1943
Gouverneur de l'Alabama
Personnalité du Parti républicain en Alabama
Étudiant de l'université de l'Alabama
Membre de la Législature d'État de l'Alabama
Médecin américain du XXe siècle

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