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Peacocks are "well known" (so they say) to flash their erect, sometimes-six-foot-high rack of colorful tail feathers to attract mating opportunities. However, as researchers in Texas recently found, the display might not be important. Body cameras placed on peahens at eye level (to learn how they check out strutting males) revealed that the females gazed mostly at the lowest level of feathers (as if attracted only to certain colors rather than the awesomeness of the towering flourish).
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It turns out that Layne Hardin's sperm is worth only $1,900–and not the $870,000 a jury had awarded him after finding that former girlfriend Tobie Devall had, without Hardin's permission, obtained a vial of it without authorization and inseminated herself to produce her son, now age six. Initially Hardin tried to gain partial custody of the boy, but Devall continually rebuffed him, provoking the lawsuit (which also named the sperm bank Texas Andrology a defendant) and the challenge in Houston's First Court of Appeal.
An astonished woman unnamed in news reports called police in Coleshill, England, in February to report that a car exactly like her silver Ford Kuga was parked at Melbicks garden center–with the very same license plate as hers. Police figured out that a silver Ford Kuga had been stolen nearby in 2016, and to disguise that it was stolen, the thief had looked for an identical, not-stolen Ford Kuga and then replicated its license plate, allowing the thief to drive the stolen car without suspicion.
At what was billed as part of a cancer fundraising event at the AvantGarden in Houston in February, performance artist Michael Clemmons and a partner, working as the act Sonic Rabbit Hole, had the elegant idea that one give the other an enema on stage, but there was a "spraying" accident. Viewers were led to believe the procedure was authentic, but the artists swore later that the sprayed contents were just a protein shake. "What I did is not all that [extreme]," protested Clemmons. "I don't understand why I'm getting the attention for this."


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Multiple roles of arginine/serine-rich splicing factors in RNA processing.
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SR proteins (serine- and arginine-rich proteins) are an evolutionarily conserved family consisting of essential pre-mRNA splicing factors. Since their discovery and initial characterization, roles of SR proteins in pre-mRNA splicing and in subsequent steps of post-transcriptional gene expression have expanded significantly. The current hypotheses suggest that SR proteins are multifunctional adaptor molecules that may couple distinct steps of RNA metabolism. In the present study, we will provide an overview of the roles of SR proteins in different steps of post-transcriptional gene expression.

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Halloween is a well-known opportunity for party going and drinking escapades. It's also well known for its competitive sexy costume angle and hook-up culture.
However, some of us (me) miss the carefree and wholesome excitement we had for Halloween when we were kids. Back then, going out late at night felt like a dangerous adventure full of new possibilities.
So, what are we to do on Halloween if we're not into the club scene and just want to have some spooky adventurous fun? Lucky we're all in Vancouver where the options are endless!
Here are the top 10 adventurous Halloween activities for those of you craving an exhilarating good time.
1. Go to a Haunted House
A jaunt through a Haunted House is of course the most quintessential adventurous Halloween thrill you can get and no better way to spend the night of October 31st. You need guts to facedown fear!
Run by the Moran Family and on their 25th year of operation, Reapers is one of the most well known haunted houses in the area and a definite safe bet for adventurous chills & thrills!
When: up to October 31st between 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: 9423 Gibson Road, Chilliwack – 1 ½ hour drive from Vancouver
Price: $11.00 for just the haunted house but $20.00 for both
Beginning this year (2017) Potter's now has 2 haunted houses. Their first is the creepy gothic themed "The Monstrosity" and their new second house is the industrial nightmare called "The Devil's Descent." Either one will guarantee you the perfect level of Halloween thrills!
When: up to October 31st between 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Where: 12530 72nd Ave Surrey – 30-minute drive from Vancouver
Price: $15.99 – $30.00 for 1 or both houses
A hybrid between a haunted house and an escape game, Countdown is called an "interactive haunted house". It allows you to participate in the horrors within the walls, but you are not locked inside. Delight in the thrill of helping to save victims while being scared beyond breaking point!
When: up to October 31st between 4:30pm to 9:30pm
Where: Central City Mall, Surrey – 30-minute drive from Vancouver
Price: $17.00 at the door but $15.00 booked online
No Vancouver Halloween List would be complete without Playland's Fright Night. For those who don't know, Fright Night at Playland includes a whopping 8 haunted houses! They also include 20 rides as it's a theme park after all. A truly unique and classic Vancouver Halloween Experience.
When: up to October 31st between 7:00pm to 12:00am
Where: 2901 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Price: $32.00 online and $35.00 at the door
2. Go to a Haunted Corn Maze
Lucky for Vancouverites, the lower mainland is home to a number farms with corn mazes. Nothing is creepier for a Halloween night than being chased through "Children of the Corn" style crops by a chainsaw wielding murderer!
And yes, both below corn maze options feature chainsaw murderers!
Maan Farms Haunted & Flash Light Corn Maze
A farm run by the Maan Family which is one of the most well-known corn mazes in Lower Mainland BC. Maan Farms has 2 corn maze options for late night spook fest. One is their "haunted" option and the other is "non-haunted" but still spooky because it's at night and you must bring your own flashlight.
When: up to October 31st between 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Where: 790 McKenzie Road, Abbotsford – 1-hour drive from Vancouver
Price: $12.00 – $20.00 depending on which option you choose
Along with their haunted house, Reapers is also home to a fantastic haunted corn maze. You can visit both at the same time or separately. It's a haunted double feature!
When: up to October 31st between 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: 9423 Gibson Road, Chilliwack – 1 ½ hour drive from Vancouver
Price: $11.00 for the maze alone & $20.00 for both Reapers Haunted House and the Maze of Terror
3. Go for a Halloween Adventure Run
The most unique Halloween activity on this list. Test your stamina with a run through the forest while in your most comfortable Halloween costume.
PNW is a community of trail lovers who meet regularly for hikes and jogs through the British Columbia wild. This October 31st they are hosting a Halloween run in Lynn Valley beginning at the End of the Line General Store. This is a truly unique activity for those looking to combine their love for exercise, the adventurous outdoors and Halloween.
When: October 31st from 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Where: 4193 Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver
Price: Nothing but calories
4. Go on a Visual Filmed Adventure
Not all adventures need to be active, sometimes a good adventure can be had by relaxing in a cushioned movie theatre seat. So here are 2 options for those who want to have their cake and eat it too.
If you haven't had the chance to see the totally unique FlyOver Canada experience, Halloween night might just be the right time for you. For those who don't know, FlyOver Canada is a family friendly experience that simulates what it's like to literally fly over Canada. For Halloween, they have added a Witchy element to the usual show.
When: up to October 31st 4pm – 9pm (week days); 10am – 9pm (weekends & October 31st)
Where: Canada Place, Vancouver
Price: $22.95 – $27.00
Halloween Movies at the Rio Theater
The Rio Theater will be showing Halloween themed movies for the entire week leading up to Halloween night. On the 31st you can relax with popcorn and watch a cult-classic triple feature starting with the teenage 90's witch drama The Craft (1996) at 6:20pm, the demon banishing thriller The Exorcist (1973) at 8:30pm, and finally the completely unique The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) at 11:45pm.
For other Halloween movies in October view their schedule here.
When: October 31st between 6:20pm to 11:45pm
Where: 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver
Price: $15.00 – $18.00 per movie
5. Visit a Psychic
Sometimes the most adventurous, daring and scary activity can be gaining insight into your life and future. Whether you believe in Psychic powers or not, you'll definitely get something worthwhile from talking to Vancouver's intuitive elite.
Main Street's Sara Psychic Reader
Sara has been using her intuitive powers to help Vancouverites for 30 years. She performs palm, tarot and psychic readings.
When: by appointment at 604 251-1246
Where: 4388 Main Street, Vancouver
Price: $40.00 per service or $60.00 combo
Faith is a 7th Generation Psychic and has a very diverse set of skills. She provides readings with palms, tarot, crystal balls, past lives, horoscope, candles and many more.
When: by appointment at 778-379-4070
Where: 1682 Renfrew Street, Vancouver
Price: $25.00 – $300.00
Tegan is a certified tarot reader with 10 years of experience. She also offers courses for novice learners. For her, tarot is about nurturing and allowing someone to be seen without judgement. You are safe in her hands.
When: by appointment at 604-679-9650
Where: Mount Pleasant, Vancouver
Price: $100.00 – $200.00
Cassandra MacLean Psychic Numerologist
Cassandra takes a more technical approach to her Psychic powers with a focus on numerology and cycles. She believes timing is everything and she can give you advice your possible opportune moments.
When: by appointment at 604-732-9226
Where: location varies by appointment
Price: $95.00 – $225.00
Maxine is an energy reader who provides spiritual message interpretation. She offers complete suite "general readings" involving analysis through tarot, chakra scans, mediums, and tea leaves.
When: by appointment through here
Where: 1333 Hornby Street, Vancouver
Price: $90.00 – $230.00
Juan places a huge importance on individuality, non-judgement and positivity. He gives consultations by phone, and in-person for psychic and photo readings.
When: by appointment at 778-990-9785
Where: 1026 DAVIE STREET, VANCOUVER
Price: $45.00 – $130.00
6. Go to an Escape Game
Sometimes the most adventurous experience can be a challenge to your mind. You'll definitely feel invigorated after a Halloween themed escape game.
Created by the Burns Bog Conservation Society to bring further attention to Burns Bog. For Halloween, they're putting on a "Halloween Ball" which is part escape game, part wilderness and part Halloween thrill with werewolves on the loose!
When: up to October 29th with games starting from 5:00pm to 9:45pm
Where: 10388 Nordel Court, Delta – 30-minute drive from Vancouver
Price: $20.00 – $30.00
E-Exit's Transylvania Vampire Hunters Escape Game
E-Exit's Transylvania is an escape game themed with classic Halloween creatures such as Vampires, Goblins, Werewolves, and Trolls. The goal of the game is to steal a gem and take down Dracula himself to escape with your friends alive!
When: any day between 3:00pm to 11:00pm
Where: 309 W Broadway, Vancouver
Price: $23.81 per person
In Locked Canada's Asylum you are placed in a room of an abandoned asylum with remnants of torture and mystery. You and your friends will be handcuffed as you search for the truth of what happened to the victims of this asylum.
When: any day from 3:00pm to 11:00pm
Where: 200-1050 Kingsway, Vancouver
Price: $25.00 per person
SmartyPantz's Thirst for Murder
In SmartyPantz's Thirst for Murder game you are at the mercy of a psychotic killer who has handcuffed you in a room stained with blood. However, you are given the chance to escape before the killer comes back.
When: any day with games starting from 2:00pm to 7:50pm
Where: 289 Abbott Street, Vancouver
Price: $25.00 per person
7. Have a Virtual Halloween Experience
The future is here and now you can experience it for your Halloween festivities. Get a taste of the future by checking out these horrifying Virtual Reality experience to have an awesome story to tell your friends the next day.
SmartyPantz Hospital of Horror
Along with the earlier mentioned escape game offerings, SmartyPantz is also one of the first places to offer a 10-minute Virtual Reality Experience. Their Hospital of Horror experience is described as a haunted house but far more realistic and terrifying. Everything you see may not be real but it will still trick your mind!
When: any day with games starting from 6:00pm to 11:50pm
Where: 289 Abbott Street, Vancouver
Price: $25.00 per person
The Dreamscape experience was created in Alberta and only in Vancouver for 3 weeks, so don't miss your chance! Dreamscape places you in a terrifying 20-minute long narrative where you will encounter simulated shocks, monsters and horrifying events. They also offer a Halloween themed dinner where you can socialize with the other participants over dishes of "Brain Juices" and "Gut Medley." This is a truly unique 21st century Halloween adventure experience with a social element!
When: up to October 31st between 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Where: 212 Carrall Street, Vancouver
Price: $20.00 per person
8. Go on a Ghost Tour
A tour is a great option for people still new to the city or those who can't decide on Halloween activities for the night. Follow along on these tours and learn about brutal murders, famous ghosts and urban tales set right here in your city. I bet you won't look at Vancouver's streets the same way again.
Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour
Normally serving tourists, the Vancouver Trolley Company is offering a special Halloween tour and it is by far the best way to explore the creepier parts of Vancouver. The Trolley Tour will take you on a thorough tour of the city's most famous sites including Stanley Park, the Fairmount Hotel, Shaughnessy, Mountain View Cemetery, the Vancouver Police Museum, the first city morgue and finally the Dreamscape Haunted Virtual Reality also mentioned above.
When: up to October 31st tours start between 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Where: 212 Carrall St, Vancouver
Price: $55.00 (price includes the Dreamscape experience)
Ghostly Vancouver offers 3 different walking tour locations which are Vancouver, Gastown, and New Westminster. Select the Gastown tour if you want to hear creepy Victorian ghost tales or the Downtown tour to hear hidden secrets about famous landmarks or choose the New Westminster tour to hear about the "Hanging Judge."
When: up to October 31st at varying times around 7:30pm to 8:00pm
Where: each tour has a different meeting area in the individual location
Price: $20.00 per tour
Forbidden Vancouver also offers 3 locations for their scary walking tours which are Gastown, Stanley Park, and Chinatown. Choose their "Lost Souls of Gastown" tour to hear stories of smallpox victims, and mysterious murders. Select their "Secrets of Stanley Park" to hear about secret burial grounds and murders all within the dark greenery of Vancouver's biggest park.
When: varying dates & times up to October 31st – tours start between 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: each tour has a different meeting area in the individual location
Price: $25.00 per tour
9. Visit a Cemetery or a Real Abandoned Asylum
These are by far the cheapest ways to get your Halloween adventure thrills. A simple walk through a cemetery or abandoned asylum during the day is creepy enough, but on Halloween night it will be a spine-tingling nightmare.
Riverview Hospital is famous for being one of the creepiest abandoned buildings in Canada. At one point it was a hospital for psychologically disturbed individuals but was closed in 1983. Now the hospital is frequently used for film and tv shows such as the X-Files, Riverdale and Supernatural. Some of the parts of the building are closed to the public but other parts are accessible. A visit to this abandoned building is a quintessential Vancouver experience and perfect for Halloween.
When: Anytime
Where: 2601 Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam – 30-minute drive from Vancouver
Price: Free, unless you trespass in prohibited areas then there will be a fine
Fraser Historical Cemetery Tour
Hosted by a Sense of History Research Services, walk through a cemetery while listening to your guide tell the stories behind the graves including the mystery surrounding an unmarked grave and a possible curse. This tour is a great way to get to know your city better while honoring and remembering the dead which is what Halloween was all about.
When: October 31st between 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Where: Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster – 30-minute drive from Vancouver
Price: $12.86
All Souls at Mountain View Cemetery
Mountain View Cemetery is situated in East Van. Living up to its name the cemetery's slightly elevated location gives the change to see a beautiful view of the city and north side mountains. On October 31st the cemetery will host an All Souls event with harpist Janelle Nadeau for a night of music honoring the dead. As advertised it will be a quiet sanctuary from the noise of Halloween.
When: October 31st at 5:00pm
Where: Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver
Price: Free
10. Solve a Halloween Murder Mystery
Get your fix of social and unique with this fun event in Gastown. Unlike an escape game this event allows you to compete against other teams while solving a mystery.
Hosted by Vancouver Mysteries, this special Halloween mystery will take you and your friends through Downtown and Gastown completing challenges to solve the murder of Jimmy Capello.
When: up to October 31st at 7:00pm
Where: Waterfront Station, Vancouver
Price: $50.00
Well there you have our list of the most adventurous Halloween activities in Vancouver. What will you be doing come the night of the 31st?


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Demons, Minerals, and Media-Specificity: The Subterranean as a Productive Force in Early Modern Naples
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My project focuses on the depiction of demons and the use of copper and stone as the support medium around 1600. I will concentrate on Italian, Flemish and Dutch painters living in Naples, whether permanently or temporarily, and their scientific networks. I want to explore the use of these materials in such areas of early modern knowledge as demonology, mineralogy, metallurgy, mining, and quarrying, with a particular focus on Naples as a center of knowledge. My hypothesis is that in realizing this particular subject, the artists consciously made use of their material knowledge of the support mediums, their medial specifics, and in case of painting on stone, of the aesthetic structure of the natural pattern.


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Thanks to the people who replied to my poll on Sunday: just a quick update on what conclusions it reached.
A large majority of you (84%) thought that Buffy would be a little squicked by having to butcher an animal, and another 13% thought she'd be majorly squicked. That's good because it was in line with how I'd envisaged the scene myself. I was initially concerned that many readers would react by saying, "She's the Slayer! She hacks up demons for fun! It wouldn't bother her in the slightest!" - but in fact, only one person picked this option in the poll.
As for the bathing nude question, there was less consensus. The most popular option was that she'd be embarrassed, but do it anyway - but less than half of you (48%) picked that choice. Combining the two scores for "leaving her underwear on" (26%) and "going off somewhere alone" (23%) was exactly equal to the other option. Still, the poll and discussions helped me get a better feel for what would be in-character for her. I'm now thinking something on the lines of extreme initial reluctance followed by an "Oh, what the hell" reaction (but still only if there are no men watching).
And the water fight will definitely be in. :-) Now, all i need to do is try and make this one of the fics I actually manage to finish instead of running dry halfway through... :-(
Thanks for the help!


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I take a cab ride to the beach. It's night time and the city is lit up with multicolored lights and the sounds of night life. The area near the beach looks remarkably like Miami Beach. A long, wide ocean front boulevard lined with palm trees, walkways. Sand on one side, and restaurants and bars on the other. People sit all along the path on benches or in the grass, talking and eating. The beach is open and clear, blocked only by the fading light and the distance, giant, glowing Buddha.
Even at night I can see why this is considerd one of the world's best. The beach stretches kilometres up and down the coast. The sand is clear, almost white, and the sky is black. The air is salty and humid all at once, the water warm like bathwater. I take off my shoes and walk along the shore. I hear the steady sound of waves and the even more steady sound of club music, distant but echoing. Across the bay glows the statue of the massive white marble Lady Buddha, huge and bright against the base of Monkey Mountain.
The boulevard turns neon bright, green and red against the pastel building. Cars begin to honk and for the first time on this trip outnumber the moto bikes.
Other people walk through the surf near me. I pass parents and children splashing water, lovers walking hand in hand, talking in whispers. I spot a lone Japanese man standing facing the water. He wears bright red shorts and a striped polo, looking lost in thought. He kicks the sand once, knocking a wet clump into the waves.
I buy a beer and sit on a beach chair. The umbrellas are still up, shading us from the city lights rather than the sun. It flaps against the breeze. The wind comes in gusts, following the pattern of the waves.
I have Western breakfast the following morning at an AlFresco's restaurant in town. The only only diner is a big Australian man cracking mean-spirited jokes with the wait staff. It felt good to have eggs. The toast was something else though. Possibly more sand than dough.
After eating, I go exploring. I meet a man named Mr. Tai while walking along the river front. He who owns a motorcycle and a diary and offers to take me on a tour of Da Nang. At first I he was just another one of those guys looking for a quick buck to drive you and drop you off somewhere, but then e shows me the diary. It's filled with entries written by tourists he has taken around the city. He shows me words of thanks and gratitude written in dozens of languages, most of them in English and French.
At first I was skeptical about his offer to show me the hot spots and landmarks of the city for a very tiny sum, but the journal won me over. There's no way a 50 something year old man with a basic grasp of English could forge dozens of entries, in different languages, with different voices and hand writing, just to rip me off. That would be the most elaborate con of all time, for the least amount of money ever.
He also has his own business cards. Mr. Tai, the easy rider.
I agree, we shake hands and I hop on the back of another motorcycle, though this man drives with more precaution and consideration than any of the ones I rode back in Hue. He constantly asks if Im okay or if I need anything as he takes me to the tops of bridges, through mountain passes, to clifftop overlooks and beaches. We see the giant lady Buddha as it is called by Westerners, a massive white marble statue atop a hill that faces the city proper. I think its a female version of the Buddha Avalokitesvara (spelling?) who often has a female form in China (Guan Yin? My buddhism 101 is a little rough these days). Either way, its massive and spectacular and makes me think of the Virgin Mary.
We then go through Monkey Mountain, a huge chain of jungle covered hills on an islet adjacent to the city. I see several Monkeys, scurry across roads and into the trees, as we drive, and occasionally slow down.The little bastards are too quick to be photographed today.
On the way back we stop by the shore where a small fleet of multicolored fishing boats are out in the bay casting their nets. Their paint is faded but they still shine bright against the sea. My guide tells me that when he was a boy, the American army had set up a base out here. He remembers seeing them sit and grill food on the beaches when the war was going on. Now there's a Vietnamese army base in the lot on the other side of the road where the Americans once held camp and in the suburbs that have since sprung around it Foreigners are moving in. Americans, Canadians and Australians are buying land and building houses, gobbling up inexpensive waterfront properties and prime real estate for fractions of what we would pay back home.
Dropping me off at my hotel, I sign on for another longer tour with him tomorrow, one that would take me further South down the coast through marble mountains, the Cham ruins at My Son and the historic city of Hoi An.
I swim in the pool at the villa after lunch, and read in the shade waiting for the heat to pass by. It's hot but still cooler than Hue, even in the sun. I take another cab into town and hit a bakery selling some strange things that seem like a fusion of French and Vietnamese cooking. Bought a bun filled with grilled taro (sweet potato?), giving it an oddly sweet and starchy flavour. Bought some mini croissants which tasted unlike any butter I've ever had – guess we're spoiled in Quebec. I also picked up something that looked like friend egg wrapped around cabbage and potato.
That evening I relax at the villa. I watch some television and notice that content is heavily censored with regards to violence and nudity. Also, films seem to play at a different, slightly sped up frame rate, even on HBO.
I stand on my balcony with a cold can of Heineken in hand. It's a cool thirty degrees outside, a good 15 less than during the day. The humidity is nice and low for once too. Beyond the rooftops and trees I can see the lights from a nearby fair, or perhaps small stadium, just on the other side of the water. The Ferris wheel is lit up but silent and still. The first chords from House of the rising sun are plugged in arpeggio, but it's only a tease. The band switches into something else, same key. A local song perhaps. I don't understand the words but the chord progression tells me the singer is sad and wanting.
The next morning Mr. Tai is waiting outside the gates of the villa, leaning on his motorcycle and sporting a mean pair of aviators. "Okay?" he asks me. "Okay", I reply with a thumbs up and we're off.
We hit Marble Mountain, a mountain which gets it's name from the marble caverns that run through it. Maybe the mountain is one giant block of marble. At the gates, stores sell overpriced marble souvenirs. We climb the steps and spend two hours going climbing up rocks and more steps, seeing what the spot offers. There are caves, deep in the rock, filled with shrines and sculptures of Buddhas. The air is ripe with incense. Holes in the ceilings from American bombs let natural light tumble into spaces that used to only be lit by candles. Higher up, at the peaks, we stand at lookouts, the highest points in the mostly flat section of land, and enjoy great views of the city and coast.
Noon time sun is approaching, so Mr. Tai drops me off at a beach resort near Hoi An for a few hours until the worst of the heat passes. I sit in the shade, swim in the ocean and enjoy overpriced food and beer (meaning it's almost what we would pay at home). After a rest, he picks me up for the 20 km drive to the My Son ruins. We pass through rural villages and over small bridges connecting narrow roads between two rice fields. It takes nearly two hours to get to our destination and I'm still not used to riding a motorcycle over bumpy roads. My ass is killing me by the time we arrive.
I'm once again on my own to explore. My Son is a world heritage site. It's a number of sites at the base of a mountain, home to ruins of temples and related structures built by the Chams, the preceding dynasty and rulers of the lands which are now Vietnam. They were probably a people from Indonesia or the Philippines, and for roughly 1400 years set up kingdoms and cities before being conquered by the Viets from the North. The Cham still exist, but only as a minority people in Vietnam and Cambodia.
The temples at the site were built between 700 and 1100, their peak being something in between when the Cham were at the height of their power. Many of the temples are in tatters, likely due to theft and neglect. Whereas the Viet were Buddhist, the Cham were largely Hindu. Some sculptures of Shiva and other deities remain, carved into the rocks. The buildings themselves are made from red bricks and what looks like sandstone. The art style is similar to what I've seen in pictures of Ankor Wat and in old Indonesian architecture. Some structures are still standing, but others are hardly more than mounds beneath dirt and grass.
It looks like some place right out of Indiana Jones.
We drive back to the coast and head into Hoi An. It's an ancient town, still standing since the time of the Cham where it was an important trade route on the Southern Silk road hundreds of years ago. The town went into decline but has since picked up as the main tourist spot in that part of Vietnam.
The town is built along two sides of the river, right by the ocean. The streets teeming with pedestrians. Merchants move amid them, selling flying toys, food and light sticks which they toss into the air. Rickshaws move in fleets, somehow making their way through the crowds. The drivers yell "beep beep beep" to get people to move out of the way.
Mr. Tai and I share a beer in a restaurant by the waterfront. I learn that he is Catholic, a sizable minority in the country actually (several million or so), and that the reason he knows so much about what the Americans were up to during the way is that his father was a sailor for the South's side. He keeps a worn photograph of him in his wallet.
The buildings are shades of orange and yellow, with tiled rooftops. Most have balconies overlooking the streets. Plants hang from pots, and lanterns from trees. In the river, boats move up and down. Some fishing, many ferrying tourists up and down the city. There's an old covered bridge here, along with temples, courtyards and markets.
When it gets dark, all the lanterns come to life. The streets are blue under the moonlight, the people multicolored from all the lights. It somehow gets busier. There are more people than space, and the travel on the bridges slows to a crawl. Shortly after, I regroup with Mr. Tai and we take the long drive back to Da Nang.
The air is cool once again, and the first few patters of rain hit us as we drive. It's still the dry season, but it's threatening to end at any moment.
At the villa, I shower and head downstairs where I run into the owner. We sit around the dining room table talking for over an hour about Canada, Vietnam, culture and even a few forays into politics (of which he is well-versed and educated). He sits at the table dressed like a man. When life gets too hectic, he tells me that he shuts down his cellphone, drives out to a monastery and spends three days there. Even though he's a fairly wealthy business owner, he's a down to earth man. He loves being able to help around at the monastery, even if it's just sweeping floors, and enjoying the tranquility of it all. He shares some food with me, which he could only describe as Vietnamese donuts since there is no English word for it – fried dough flavoured with sesame. Delicious. The girl at the register whispers that I'm beautiful and we chuckle.
He encourages me to walk through the gardens, which I do. I spent an hour outside just listening to the night, feeling the wind and watching the bridge change its colours.
The next day at the airport it starts to rain, water is coming down in sheets by the time I land in Ho Chi Minh city. The forecast is rain, every day for the next two weeks. The dry season has come to an end, and so has my trip.


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The adjective people have always used to describe me is prolific.
It makes sense. As author, blogger, public speaker, video producer, consultant, columnist, strategist, storyteller, filmmaker, publisher, musician and songwriter, I've spent the better part of my life as a collector, creator and communicator of ideas.
And so, in the past year, I've been researching and writing and experimenting extensively on this topic. I've also been reverse engineering my own creative process, cobbling together the world's first comprehensive framework for becoming prolific.
It's the art and science of collecting, creating and communicating your ideas.
Imagine The Artist's Way meets Getting Things Done meets Behind the Music. That's the best way to describe it. The goal is to change the way you think about the way you think. But it's more than just a collection of exercises; it's a rubric for operable behaviors at all stages and levels of the creative process.
My hope is that it will help you:
*Eliminate creative blocks for life with daily routines, rituals, postures and disciplines.
*Create rigor around your intellectual property and knowledge management.
*Tighten up your systems with infrastructure to produce high levels of output
*Fully flesh out your thoughts and messages for maximum impact.
*Strategically publish and position your body of work as a crafter of compelling content.
*Build a personalized content management system for collecting, creating and communicating your thoughts.
The system I've built will eventually become a book, a curriculum and some kind of software application. For now, I wanted to share a glossary of terms to help you rewrite your creative vocabulary. Each definition has a link to a related piece that explains it further. Enjoy.
Active listening. Tuning
into the muse and the situation and the gleams of light that flash across your
mind, trusting what the world is trying to tell you.
Arbitrary sorting
mechanism. An organizing principle, free of judgment and expectation, which
allows you to notice patterns in your ideas and inspiration.
Associative trigger. Personal
patterns and physical
objects, from music to visual stimulation to desk style, that echo the habits
of action and allow you to enter into your creative zone.
Awareness plan. A
metacognitive procedure or mental recipe for perceiving and thinking about the
environment around you, a lens for interacting with the world.
Cognitive richness.
The sense of agency and competence you experience during the process of manual
or analog work.
Commitment device. A
physical object or prototype that makes the effects of your work real and
visible for all to see, even in the early stages of production.
Constant. Muscles
to count on, places to return to, rituals to abide by, people to confide in,
rocks to anchor to, practices to rely on, structures to lean against, that keep
your creative life stable and fruitful.
Creative kindling. A
source of inspiration that reignites your original enthusiasm and the impulse that
initially fueled your artistic energy reserve.
Creative limbo. A
lack of excitement around not having discovering something worth doing, a
knowledge that you're on the verge of a fiery new artistic pursuit, but an
inability to turn yourself over to some pressing, meaningful creative demand.
Creative on ramp. A
ritual that prompts a work mindset, a moment that merges you into the creative
process, an environment that sets a tone that says work happens here.
Creative subroutine.
Using a ritual that brings up your energy and snaps you into the appropriate
state of mind to do your work.
transplant. Doable, less threatening strategies to enable your ideal mental, emotional and existential space
from which to create.
cognition. New ideas that arise from combining many disparate pieces of
information or concepts over an extended period of time.
Ember of initiative.
Instead of taking things personally, you channel them productively, using
emotion as oxygen for your creative fire.
Faithful force. Routines
that keep your creative life stable and fruitful when circumstances get a
little too overwhelming.
associative process. Creating ideas in a piecemeal, nonlinear fashion,
without the constraints of chronology, sequence, rational order and narrative.
Going perpendicular.
Intentionally walking away from your current work to engage in something
unrelated to the flow of activity.
creativity. Rejecting the notion of the elusive eureka moment and
practicing an existential andholisticapproach to a creative life, living your life in a way that your art gets done over and over.
Gravitational order. Using motion to create equilibrium so your work finds its place in the universe,
thus conspiring towards some unifying geometrical situation.
Ground zero. The
entry point into the creative processing workflow, the primary location for
offloading raw materials into your idea factory.
expression. Whatever little world you investigate to a great, high level,
something that fascinates and ignites you.
Limitation leverage. Identifying your deficiency,
deciding how to exploit it and then restructuring everything in the creative
process around it.
Medium agnostic. Instead of forcing our own
expectations upon the work, you allow patterns to emerge and open our work to
becoming more dimensionalized, in whatever form it needs to live.
Module. Treating each thought as an
uncategorized chunk of creative material, an objective, portable piece content
that accumulates and categorizes into its own structure.
Moment of conception.
The single spark of life that signals an idea's movement value, almost
screaming to you, something wants to be built here.
Movement value.
The discipline of recognizing conceptual beginnings, witnessing ideas in their
nascent state and spawning as many creative offspring as possible.
collaboration. Creating
a more visceral and spontaneous contact with your work by designing systems
and structures that invite nature as your collaborator.
Organizing principle.
The core assumption, central reference point or guiding pole, which governs
action and allows everything else in its proximity to derive value.
displacement. A problem solving technique whereby working in
unusual settings helps you see patterns you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
Polyamorous creation. Pursuing relationships with multiple
creative projects, with a full
knowledge and consent of all partners involved.
Primary creative
environments. The
essential environment asset that reflects who you are and what's important to
you, so that the ideas flow as a natural consequence of that workspace.
Portable creative
environments. Any alternative workspace that functions as a transportable lightning
rod, tailor made to your artistic tendencies, which enables you to snap into
work mode and make the word flesh.
Premature cognitive
commitment. When
people become emotionally or intellectually bound to a course of action,
a form of mindlessness that results after a single exposure to an idea.
unconscious. Viewing your mind as idea processor, waiting at your beck and
call, begging you to assign it a problem so it can immediately go to work for
Prolificacy equation.
An incrementalist, easy does it approach to creating a body of work, which
is everything you create and contribute and affect and impact.
Prototype. Something
that gives your mental obsession a physical expression, a physical thing that adds energy to the system, moves the creative ball
forward and gives
the creator the psychological pat on the back.
Ritualized vomiting. A
daily ritual of emotional release where you metabolize your experiences,
make serious mental headway into your ideas and get the creative faucet
Runway. Your
first creative output that builds momentum, paves the way for prolificacy and does the talking for you.
perambulator. Using rhythmic, repetitive exercise or action to clear your
mind, stabilize your emotions and increase the production
and release of endorphins to pump the well of creativity.
Thievery muscles. Respectfully and ethically other people's ideas as sparks to superimpose your own meaning and take
the idea somewhere else, somewhere different, somewhere better, until the
original idea can no longer be identified.
rumination. Allowing your inner mind to get to work mulling over, sorting
out, organizing and categorizing material that has been previously absorbed,
ultimately generating an idea at a time when the mental spotlight isn't on it.
Walking the factory
floor. Creating the ritual of an established parcel of structured curiosity,
whereby you casually and thoughtfully peruse every idea you've recently
There will be a quiz next week.


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Sunday, November 12, 2006
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Today is the birthday of TWO of our great interpreters of American Popular Song, Jo Stafford and Audrey Morris. Long may they warble! Here is a link to a two-part interview I conducted with Stafford AND a link to Morris' web site.
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Yes it's all been said before, but with so many French players signed by Alan Pardew - unlike Arsene Wenger and his onion-eating squad - the Toon manager cannot speak French!
Now wouldn't you have thought talking the bloody language would be a help!
David Ginola: "I spoke a few weeks ago about the fact there are 10 French players in the squad and whether it would be a good thing for the club.
"At the time, it seemed that it was positive because they were going to bring something different to the club, but after a few weeks, it wasn't good enough and it still isn't now.
"Playing in Europe and then in a Premier League relegation fight are completely different things.
"You have to have the right sort of players for that task and I'm not sure that the players are concerned about it.
"The players are thinking, 'Well, if the club is relegated, then we will leave in the summer'.
"Hopefully they are going to find something to help save the club because Newcastle United and the fans need to stay in the Premier League. I hope they are impressing that importance onto them."


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We offer a lot of different embellishment options for our tutus and know it can get confusing deciding which to pick, if any. Hopefully the descriptions and illustrations below will take out all the guesswork.
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Clear Rhinestones – There will be rhinestones sprinkled throughout the tutu skirt.
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Waistline Embellishments - There are an assortment of embellishments to choose for the waistline of her tutu. You can only pick one.


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The House Crowd, a property crowdfunding platform, has published survey results highlighting a nagging issue. UK individuals that are nearing retirement (55+ years old), are woefully ill-prepared to retire. This is a common theme not just in the UK but around the world. Much of the responsibility lands on the individual and their decision to spend now and save later.
The data, drawn from a OnePoll survey of 1,000 employed adults aged 55+ across the UK, indicates:
- 41% say their hopes for a financially secure retirement are no longer possible
- Over a third (37%) say their lifestyle will be worse once they retire – just 16% think it will improve
- Over a quarter (26%) say it's too late to change their plans and save more for their retirement
- One in five (20%) blame the Government for not being able to save for retirement
- On average, those surveyed said they'd like their annual income to be £18,235 once retired – but think in reality they will only receive £14,180
- Over half (51%) do not have a personal pension, and do not plan to put one in place
- Over a quarter (28%) do not have a workplace pension, and do not plan to put one in place
- Women feel even less positive about their retirement than men: just 17% of women said they are prepared financially for retirement, while 28% of men reported being on track. Women were also more likely to blame the Government for being unable to save for their retirement (23%, versus 18% of male respondents).
Expecting the state organized pension is one way to tough it out but another is to start saving now. The new generation of online investing platforms may be one method to help boost retirement income. There is a growing number of online lenders that offer decent returns along with relative risk. The House Crowd is, of course, a platform that would like to capture some of this business.
"These results paint a miserable picture for our Baby Doomers – but it's not too late for people approaching retirement to improve their situation. By exploring newer investment options, like property crowdfunding, over 55s can benefit from solid rates of return to help make retirement more comfortable," says Frazer Fearnhead, founder and CEO of The House Crowd.
Alternative finance platforms may be a good vehicle to invest and grow your money. During a historically low level of interest rates, holding money in a savings account may not be the best approach – depending on your situation and appetite for risk.


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Worms have been used for fishing for years, but they have another purpose in life, they break down soil and add nutrients to it. You can invite these wonder worms to your garden by building a worm composting bin. Being a worm keeper needs little maintenance but the benefit is great.
Worms make compost by taking in your garbage through their front, using a few nutrients for digestion, and then leave great soil, full of nutrients, behind. This new soil is also-called castings or vericompost. You can use this compost directly for planting or add it to your compost pile to enhance the nutrient levels. The worms need very little to make this black gold but the main thing is a place to live, this is where a worm composting bin comes into play.
Types Of Worm Composting Bins
Finding a place for your worms to live is not rocket science, after all you see them out in the yard so it seems that they just need some dirt, right? Well, dirt is important but you want to be able to capture the compost so you can use it. You can make your own worm composting bin. One way would be to make it out of wood. You can build a box out of wood and fashion a cover that has ventilation properties. This is a handsome choice if you plan on displaying your worm composting bin, but it may be more work then you want to take on.
Building a worm composting bin out of plastic is one of the easiest ways to house your new wiggly investment. One set of plans include:
Purchasing two 8-10 gallon plastic storage bins with covers. Be sure to buy the darker colored ones and not the kind you can see through (worms like it dark remember they live underground without electricity.
Drill 20 evenly spaced 1/4″ holes in the bottom of both bins. This will provide drainage and allows the worms to crawl to the second bin when the first bin is full of compost and you want to harvest it.
Drill ventilation holes 1-1 " apart on each of the sides of each bin, near the top edge. Next drill holes in one of the covers.
Next comes the bedding. Worms like moist, but not wet bedding. You can shred newspapers or use office paper shreddings, some rotten leaves (if you have them), and a handful of dirt to aid in digestion.
Worms would be an essential element to worm composting bins. Red wiggler worms are the most successful composting worms. You can try harvesting them yourself, but it is just as easy to buy them from a reputable worm company.
There are companies that sell worm composting bins or take a chance and build your own worm composting bin.


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First Aid Training - Level 3
The level 3 First Aid Course is focused on providing primary first aid care in the workplace in response to health emergencies, particularly those arising from an occupational risk in the specific workplace.
This First Aid level 3/Advanced training course incorporates the specific outcomes and assessment criteria of the following SAQA registered Unit Standard:
|Provide risk-based primary emergency care/first aid in the workplace
|NQF Level:
|4-5 days (course duration can be adapted to our clients' needs)
|Certificate Validity:
|3 years
Course Contents:
- The principles of emergency care in the workplace.
- Preparedness for health emergencies in the workplace.
- Assessing and managing an emergency scene in the workplace.
- The Primary Survey.
- Emergency life support for adults, children and infants, including single and two persons CPR, artificial respiration, and managing a choking patient.
- Bleeding and shock: anaphylactic shock.
- The secondary survey.
- Management of wounds; soft tissue injuries.
- Common injuries
- Head and spinal injuries.
- Fractures.
- Joint injuries and rescue carries.
- Chest, hand and eye injuries.
- Burns.
- Environmental illness and injuries.
- Poisoning, bites and stings.
- Medical emergencies common in the workplace including: diabetes, epilepsy, asthma, stroke, heart attack.
- Maternity.
- First aid and follow-up treatment.


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A slip-on sandal is a summertime staple. I bought a pair at J.Crew last summer, which they brought back this year, and wore them constantly. They go with anything from shorts and a tee to a sundress. This year, I have my eyes on criss-cross sandals. Just as easy to wear with a beautifully simple design. And like a create of habit, this J.Crew sandal is on my wish-list. What sandals are you eyeing for summer?
March 12, 2015
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Flow Communications had the privilege of revamping the Constitution Hill website and launching a brand-new app so that visitors can conduct self-guided tours around this impressive precinct.
Constitution Hill is one of South Africa's richest and most historic tourist attractions. Flow designed and developed the new site, and wrote all the content. The revamped website includes a number of features that make it both useful and user-friendly for visitors.
All of the information required to tour the precinct is provided in the Visit section, while the Explore section offers an overview of the site's museums and exhibitions, as well as the public programmes in place. Information on Constitution Hill's venue hire options, its school programmes and regular events is also provided. The events calendar is particularly handy for those wanting to keep abreast of the many goings-on at Constitution Hill, with debates, dialogues and social events happening regularly.
An app that enables visitors to conduct self-guided tours of Constitution Hill was released in early 2017. The app provides information on multiple points of interest in every museum, and has multimedia content that has been produced from the Constitution Hill archives – material not available anywhere else on the precinct.
This project showcased Flow's skills across a number of disciplines, including design, programming and content.


text: Herbarium No. 019 Scientific Name TULIPA Common Name Tulip Type Ring Place Made in Amsterdam Date 2005 Collected by Susanne Klemm (1965 Zürich -) Material Silver, paper, epoxy Size 42,2 x 44,5 mm Total Weight 29,8 grams Condition Good Price 185 EUR Link to Suzanne Klemm's website and to a Dutch page with info about the artist. Link to an excellent article on the Rijksmuseum website, about the 17th century's fascination and speculation, called Tulipmania.


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Covid 19 May Update
We are operating as normal both from the office and working remotely. More info here
William Clutton (b. 1740), was the third son of the Rev. Ralph Clutton, vicar of Horsted Keynes. The Rev. Ralph had moved to Sussex from the family home in Cheshire.
Robert Chatfield had a son who died young, and a daughter, Sarah, who married William Clutton. William clearly worked hard and took over the business from his father in law, who retired in 1765. At this point the firm changed its name from Robert Chatfield to William Clutton.
William Clutton developed a prosperous country and land agents business which he conducted from his house, Ockenden Hall, at Cuckfield, held from the Burrell family. It is known that one of his main clients were the Trustees of Smiths Charity, for whom Robert Chatfield was acting at least as early as 1762. William continued in business until his death in 1826 at the age of 86. His son, also called William, had been trained in the surveying profession by his father, and was made a partner of the firm in 1790. To reflect this addition the name of the family firm changed to William Clutton and Sons that year. William Junior moved to Hartswood near Reigate in Surrey, a house that his father bought from Lord Gwydir, a client of the firm. The land agency business then transferred from Cuckfield to Hartswood and William Junior took over the running of the firm.
William Junior had five sons; Robert, Ralph, John, Henry and William. Robert, John and Henry followed into their father's firm; Robert in 1825 at the age of 24, John in 1827 at the age of 18 and Henry, was made a partner in 1838 at the age of 24. William Junior died in 1839 and the three brothers continued in business for another 12 years until 1851 when John retired from the partnership, having by then set up his own business in London managing among others, the Smiths Charities Kensington Estate.
On John's retirement the firm underwent its fourth name change to R & H Clutton and under Robert and Henry's direction continued to practise from the Surrey base.
The final name change to RH & RW Clutton, took place in 1875 when Robert and Henry's nephew, Ralph William joined the firm and was made a partner. Henry had already stepped down from the partnership in 1856 and Robert continued until 1877 when he retired. Ralph William continued as the sole principal until 1916 when he brought in Cyril Stone. The direct involvement with the Clutton family ended in 1923 on Ralph William's death.
Cyril Stone continued for twenty years under his own steam bringing in to the partnership George Raikes (1936 – 1989), Henry Eeles (1945 – 1961), Anthony Duveen (1952 – 1987) and Guy Courage (1955 – 1972).
In the early 1950s the firm moved from Reigate to a new office at Stone House in Judges Terrace East Grinstead and then in 1955 to its present base at 92 High Street, East Grinstead. Interestingly the premises was formerly a Doctors home and surgery and the Partners had to apply to the Lands Tribunal to have the restriction against office use lifted.
Following the retirement of Cyril Stone (1956) and Henry Eeles (1961), the triumvirate of George Raikes, Tony Duveen and Guy Courage took the firm forward over a 25 year post war period when many rural estates were undergoing major changes. Between 1974 and 2012 the Partnership was run by Christopher Schooling (1974 - 2007), Timothy Hutchings (1974 - 2009) and Timothy Raikes (1974 - 2012), and their management has brought the Firm to what it is today. The Firm is now being run by husband and wife team, Senior Partner George Back and Managing Partner Victoria Back with the support of Partners Robert Windle, Oliver Harwood, James Tillard, Peter Hughes and Richard Grassly.
Peter Hughes Country Property in Petworth joined RH & RW Clutton LLP on 1 May 2016, with Peter Hughes becoming a partner of the firm heading its residential agency department. The opening of a new office in Petworth has given RH & RW Clutton a perfect opportunity to bring its expertise in all aspects of property services to the Petworth area, whilst Peter has brought his knowledge and experience in residential sales and lettings to RH & RW Clutton.
Philip Baker of Park and Bailey Commercial in East Grinstead joined RH & RW Clutton on 1 April 2017 bringing his commercial property expertise and a number of loyal, long term clients to the firm.
The combined expertise of these three firms has enhanced and expanded the services available from all of our offices, providing the Southeast with a complete professional property service.
As a business RH & RW Clutton can boast a number of unique attributes but two, in particular, stand out; firstly, we managed the Henry Smith Charity agricultural portfolio for over 250 years, and secondly since the founding of the business there have been only 17 partners, clocking up an outstanding total of 545 years service for the company. This demonstrates that tradition and continuity along with a willingness to embrace modern technique and increasing technology, have created the successful surveying business that is RH & RW Clutton.


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Ted Sorensen - State Member For Hervey Bay
Positive Future For Hervey Bay
Positive Future For Hervey Bay
About Ted
Ted Sorensen is no stranger to the representation of the people of Hervey Bay.
Ted was the Mayor of Hervey Bay for two terms, 2000 to 2008 and was voted onto the local council from 1994, where he served as a councillor and Deputy Mayor.
He was elected to State Parliament in 2009 achieving a large swing to defeat the sitting Labor member and Bligh Government Minister Andrew McNamara.
Ted's family are pioneers of the Hervey Bay area spanning some five generations.
He was born and educated in Hervey Bay where he was a keen sportsman playing Rugby League, coaching and umpiring softball. Ted earned a living as a pastoralist, married and raised his family in Hervey Bay and still lives on the property with his wife Jenny.
Married, five adult children (three Girls, two Boys).
Education – Bingham Road School; Torquay State School, Hervey Bay State School; Hervey Bay High School.
Prior to election – Mayor, Councillor, Grazier.
Personal interests – Politics, Sport, the National Rugby League (NRL).
Community Interests:
Member - Hervey Bay Chamber of Commerce;
Vice-patron - Kirami Nursing Home;
Patron - Hervey Bay High School;
Member - Seagulls Old Boys;
Honorary Member - Sunrise Rotary Club;
Patron - Hervey Bay Art Society Inc.;
Patron - ZPac Theatre;
Patron - Fraser Coast Historical Vehicle Club;
Patron - Older Men Unlimited-Hervey Bay;
Chair - Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal fund-raising committee.
Patron - Hervey Bay Veterans Advice and Social Centre. (Veterans of Australia)
Patron - Hervey Bay Orchid Society
Past:Deputy Government Whip from March 2012 to 2015. Deputy Opposition Whip 2010-2012, Member - Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee 23 April 2009 - 9 February 2010.
Party Activity: Member LNP.
Local Government Service: Mayor, Hervey Bay City (2000 – 2008); Councillor, Hervey Bay City (1994 – 2000).
Commonly known as "The Bay", the electorate of Hervey Bay sits within the boundaries of the City of Hervey Bay which is part of a region known as the Fraser Coast.
World heritage listed Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world, is adjacent to the City of Hervey Bay and forms the eastern boundary of the Hervey Bay Electorate.
Hervey Bay is one of the fastest growing regions not just in Queensland but across the nation. Between 2001 and 2007, the Fraser Coast population increased by over 18,000 persons to 92,500 (approximately).
Over this period, Hervey Bay experienced the most significant growth, followed by Woocoo/Tiaro and Maryborough.
Projected growth of the Fraser Coast on the Fraser Coast is expected to exceed that of Non Metropolitan Queensland (NMQ), with Hervey Bay expected to maintain a higher average annual population growth compared to Woocoo/Tiaro and Maryborough.
In the 2015 Census there were 56,834 persons residing in Hervey Bay: Suburbs contained within electorate: Booral, Eli Waters, Fraser Island, Kawungan, Pialba, Point Vernon, Scarness, Torquay, Urangan, Urraween, River Heads and Wondunna.
Phone: 07 4183 8100
Fax: 07 4183 8109
Office Location: 3/357 Esplanade, Scarness. QLD 4655
Postal Address: PO Box 5049, Torquay. QLD 4655


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With a nervous student waiting for her turn to speak, the camera briefly surveyed the immediate environment leading to the front gates of a local NGO headquarters which offered free English classes. Motorcycles whizzed past, raising dust and gravel. Farmers tended to their weary cattle, tired after a long day of rice planting and earth ploughing. Occasionally they whipped a cow's legs with a bamboo cane to prevent them from straying near neighbours' huts. Local school children did everything possible to steal the spotlight, yelling out "Helloooooooooooooo!" as if a well-known pop singer or actor was dropping in.
Clutching my camcorder, I turned my attention to the young woman about to be placed under the spotlight and asked what she thought would be her dream job in life.
A few seconds passed before Sae Khana's eyes rolled around. Directing a hopeful glance towards her friends through the corner of her eye, she giggled before comprehending the question I had just asked.
"I want to be (an) English teacher."
To her, all that mattered was giving an answer. Whether it turned out to be correct or not was irrelevant.
Answering personal questions in a foreign language in front of an audience is daunting enough, but for the first time, these students were taking part in a video biography, a last-minute plan that I had conceived the previous week out of sheer frustration.
So how did an interesting concept come to fruition?
Like all great achievements and classic dinner tales, the answer was simple: a teacher walkout borne out of sheer frustration. The thin line between being ostracised and performing an inglorious exit was crossed.
A simple rule in Cambodia is that if lessons are not fun, students will get bored and engage in private conversations in Khmer because they do not understand the lesson's concepts. The theme was ordering food in a restaurant. With the commotion I had managed to put together in my classroom, the experience could have been lifted straight from John Cleese's antics as the mad Basil Fawlty in the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Perhaps I would have made for a good stunt double of Cleese's character or his poor sidekick Manuel the waiter from Barcelona who bears the brunt of Cleese's tantrums.
Unfortunately, I never got to use the DVD due to power restrictions. Recreating a fun-filled setting at 5pm on a humid and wet day was a subject I did not take at university all those years ago.
Throughout the classroom, spot-fire conversations broke out, people entered and left as they pleased, interrupting the flow. I actually went to the point of asking one drop-in if he wanted a coffee, a book and the chance to put his feet up on the table. Naturally, the sarcasm was not comprehended.
With the class in disarray, my recourse was to simply stand silently in the front, with my arms folded, waiting for everybody to notice me. But this did not happen.
I uncrossed my arms, gazed ahead with the students in my sights, said "Excuse me", and headed for the exit, fleeing upstairs to my room.
The entire class was stunned.
In selecting what I saw as the right way to compose myself and step outside, I thought this would result in minimal disruption. What I did not factor in was the effects of a sudden departure to the door. To the students, this was out of character for me, and they were right.
Stomping up the stairs and marching into my bedroom, I searching everywhere for an idea, and then out of the corner of my eye, I spotted what seemed like a gleaming silver object inside my open backpack. My camcorder!
This would be potentially a lifesaver; all I had to do was figure out how to use it to the benefit of the class…in 30 seconds or less. I kept thinking about whether anybody was interested in participating in any project, considering I had left the class in such a way.
Placing the camcorder into a plastic bag, I rushed out of my room, ran down the stairs, and collected my thoughts with a big breath before re-entering the classroom. I convinced myself that I had struck gold.
Use this to understand your students and improve yourself, my conscience said. That's when it hit me; make a video biography. Students love to talk in English, and I had the perfect tool to assist them. Heck, I told myself, they may even have fun.
The students had elevated me to a higher status for being a teacher, one I felt was undeserved. How could I explain my walkout? Things seemed awkward for the initial 30 seconds and lightening the mood would not be an easy job. Eventually, a student rose from her seat, cleared her throat and said, "Teacher David, we are sorry for being a bad class and making you angry."
At the end of her sentence, she bowed her head and sat down.
I could feel my heart shredding, blood squelching everywhere, unable to stop the haemorrhaging.
So this is what I have reduced them to, said my conscience in a mocking tone. Well done, I hope you're happy, big guy and with that came the sound of clap, clap, clap, in my head.
At this time, the emergency plan was unveiled. I removed the camcorder from the bag, held it in the air like it was a star that I had pulled out of the night sky and declared, "We are going to make a film."
A chorus of excited ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhsss and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs then echoed throughout the room. Girls giggled, and a couple of boys cheered and shouted, "Me movie star, teacher!"
This project, based on the reaction alone, was worth its weight in gold. I may as well have discovered electricity or the internet.
Moving to the whiteboard, I wrote the words biography and interview, coupled with a dodgy drawing of a person holding a video while asking questions to a second person. I told the class everybody would have the chance to talk about themselves, and that the planning would commence on Monday. From that moment on, a fusion of uneasiness and excitement seemed to be present in the air.


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Maps are reference tools used to visualize large areas of land from an aerial perspective. The lines on a geological map identify different geological strata that are exposed to the surface. To illustrate the terrain of a location, contour intervals are used. Contour intervals are the amount of vertical distance represented by the presence of each line as the map approaches the summit of a land feature.
The map key identifies both the scale of the map and the meaning of the symbols found on the map. For this map, the color green is used to identify grassland, while a grey line is a road, and a checked line is a railroad.


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Citizen (Nova Roma)
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- Read our FAQ and "Choosing a Roman name".
- Join our email discussion list : "The Forum Romanum".
- Apply for citizenship
- For new citizens : now what do I do?
- Send a question to the magistrates .
Members of the Nova Roma, Inc. are citizens of the Nova Roman Republic. Nova Roman citizens enjoy various rights pertaining to citizenship.
All full right citizens have an official citizen ID account page in the album civium.
Probationary citizens
There are a number of probationary citizens who expect the end of the 90 days probationary citizenship period. They will be soon full Nova Roman citizens. Probationary citizens don't have a citizen account page in the album civium until they complete their probationary period.
Citizens who did not answer the last census are classified as disappeared citizens and their full citizenship rights are suspended, and instead of full citizenship, they have only a socius status. They can restore their full citizenship status by contacting the censores.
Number of citizens as of 17:04, 9 June 2011 (CEST)
The full number of those who have legal ties to Nova Roma (full citizens, probationary citizens and socii combined) is: 3073.
- The number of Nova Roman citizens is: 1353.
- The number of probationary citizens is: 112.
- The number of socii is: 1608.
Deceased citizens
Those of our fellow citizens who died as citizens of Nova Roma are held in the highest respect and Nova Roma honors them as the Manes of Nova Roma, never ceasing, in our prayers and rituals. There are currently 11 deceased citizens registered.
Right to citizenship
The Constitution of Nova Roma defines the ways of obtaining and losing citizenship:
- 1. Any person 18 years old or older may apply for Citizenship.
- 2. Citizens may apply for Citizenship on behalf of their children or legal wards (as defined by relevant macronational law) under the age of 18. Such Citizens shall be known as impuberes.
- 3. Citizenship is open to anyone regardless of ethnic heritage, gender, religious affiliation, or sexual orientation.
- 4. Citizenship may be involuntarily revoked by those means that shall be established by law, or may be voluntarily relinquished by notification of the censors or by public statement before three or more witnesses.
- 5. Impuberes may have their Citizenship relinquished on their behalf by their parent or legal guardian (as defined by relevant macronational law) by notification of the censors or by public statement before three or more witnesses.
(From chapter II.A of the Constitution)


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Here is Louisiana Congressman Elbert Guillory explaining why he changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.
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Making Sausage
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What is most surprising about this video is not that a politician is lying about their stance on an issue, it is that so many people connected to her are willing to talk about it with a complete stranger. It seems like everyone connected to Alison Grimes is willing to spread the word that the US Senate candidate has no intention of supporting the coal industry in Kentucky, despite what she says in her ads. None of this is particularly surprising, but we rarely get to see politicians making sausage quite like this.
More IRS
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Here is the video of Dave Camp's exchange with the IRS commissioner where it was revealed that Lerner's hard drive was physically destroyed. It seems that Issa has sent a letter to the IRS asking a number of questions to get to the bottom of how this could have happened. There is an abbreviated list of the questions here. This is only going to get worse for the IRS.
Go Paul Ryan!
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I certainly have my issues with Paul Ryan, and I believe he has disappointed a lot of people on the Libertarian side, but when he gets fired up, it is sure fun to watch.


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Silly search engine puts a free pool in FSF office
Just spotted via John Sullivan: if you happen to search for a 'free open pool boston, MA' Google will tell you that the Free Software Foundation has one. It makes sense: next to free beer you need a free pool. You won't find free beer in FSF offices though.
BTW, Bing Maps doesn't find any pool in Boston with that query.
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Unique New Tool Offers Unmatched Visibility and Ease-of-use
"As with most issues in software debug, the problem is not fixing the bug but finding it," said Rick Leatherman, vice president, MIPS Technologies. "Because the stock Linux kernel is very complex and configurable, knowing exactly how it interacts with various applications is a challenge. In just minutes, the HSA lets software engineers pinpoint performance issues that were nearly impossible to identify before. We are now offering the large number of software developers using Linux on MIPS cores an even greater opportunity to optimize system performance."
Unlike most profiling tools that depend on the time-consuming approach of post-processing large trace buffers, require non-transparent instrumentation of the code, or use time-intrusive sampling based on an interrupt, the MIPS HSA runs without incurring any time overhead. The System Navigator EJTAG probe can sample the processor PC register at extremely high data rates without impacting the real-time operation of the processor, rapidly profiling large amounts of code. An intuitive user interface makes the process even faster and easier.
"We have been using MIPS' profiling tools with the multi-threaded 34K cores in our system to determine where any performance bottlenecks might be," said Tom Snodgrass, vice president of product development for PMC-Sierra's Enterprise Storage Division. "The tools quickly identify bottlenecks, with no guesswork required. As a result, we've been able to significantly boost system performance."
In addition to profiling the Linux kernel, the HSA also supports profiling of loadable modules. Most device drivers are built as loadable modules, and the associated code can be highly complex when the driver is controlling a sophisticated peripheral. The HSA lets developers see which functions are consuming the most execution time. The HSA can also be used to profile any code running in the kernel segment space of an embedded MIPS-Based(TM) system. This includes "bare iron" programs -- those without a formal real-time operating system (RTOS) -- or classic RTOS-based environments. Profiling can reveal hot-spots in the RTOS and how it is being used by the applications, showing the percentage of idle time remaining in a dynamic, interrupt-driven system.
MIPS Technologies' Hot Spot Analyzer is available for immediate delivery. It is delivered as an Eclipse Plug-in and is also available with the Eclipse-based MIPS Navigator Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
Processor Business Group
MIPS Technologies provides the number one processor architecture across a wide array of high-growth markets, including digital television, broadband access, WiFi, cable set-top boxes, DVD recorders, HD DVDs, and VoIP. The company offers the most comprehensive line of processor cores available for the embedded market -- ranging from high-performance to low power products with unique efficiencies and cost advantages for next-generation SoC designs. MIPS Technologies licenses its intellectual property to leading semiconductor companies, ASIC developers and system OEMs. As an industry-standard architecture for more than two decades, MIPS Technologies provides the most extensive range of scalable microprocessors in standard, custom, semi-custom and application-specific products worldwide. The MIPS(R) Ecosystem provides a robust infrastructure of world-class standard tools, software suites and services to help ensure rapid, reliable, high-quality and cost-effective SoC development.
About MIPS Technologies
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS) is the world's second largest semiconductor design IP company and the number one analog IP company worldwide. With more than 250 customers around the globe, MIPS Technologies powers some of the world's most popular products for the digital consumer, broadband, wireless, networking and portable media markets -- including broadband devices from Linksys, DTVs and entertainment systems from Sony, DVD recordable devices from Pioneer, digital set-top boxes from Motorola, network routers from Cisco, 32-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology and laser printers from Hewlett-Packard. Today, the company owns more than 400 patent properties (patents and applications) worldwide. Founded in 1998, MIPS Technologies is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, contact (650) 567-5000 or visit http://www.mips.com.
MIPS, MIPS32, 24K, 34K, 74, MIPS-Based and System Navigator are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and other countries of MIPS Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
Web site: http://www.mips.com/