Blog on Cairns Interrupted

We interrupt this Carnival to explain why we are a week late: somebody died, I went up the Cape and I have spent this past week downscaling the services available at Imaginif. My apologies  and I’m really happy to now get back to regular Blog On Cairns programming:

My fears have been revisited this week with a Man Taken by Croc in Cooktown. Andrew at AGT.ID.AU posts on the initial story of what was believed to be a croc taking. The fears have now been taken as gospel as the 62 year old male has not shown up anywhere. Many of you will know that I am very scared of crocodiles. After growing up in Papua New Guinea and having lived on the Endeavour River in Cooktown (the place where the man was taken by the croc) for many years, my fears are very healthy. I have seen some VERY LARGE crocs up the Endeavour and I still have nightmares about them to this day.

Andrew Griffiths: Sky Hawks goes corporate with Networking is not a dirty word. Not quite Sky Hawks, just Andrew reminding us all of the importance and worth of networking as a business strategy:

For me every time I meet someone is a networking opportunity. Sitting on a plane, buying something from a shop, sitting next to a person in a seminar and so on.

One of my skills is networking. It takes time, definite strategies and it is a two way relationship when someone is attempting to network with you. As has Andrew, I encourage networking and positive reframing of opportunities to be with new people.

Big Little Sister: Oh Monet, Next thing you know I’ll be calling her Claude…. Monet is living up the her name and creating gorgeous portraits of both still and moving life. Melody, I agree that you have both the artist and model in one. She can make all your Christmas wrapping paper too. Let her loose with the brush, the butchers paper and voila, wrapping paper that is hangable.

Birdwing Therapies: My condolences to Keran, not to Mango and Pabu who were kicked out of home. After surviving years of green living, Keran has finally succumbed to the hot flushes synonymous with our age group and has had air conditioning installed. The pampered pooches may have driven the workers to despair, so Keran and the husband packed the pooches off for a little pampering of their own. Oh to be in the dog house in that house!

Cairns Blog.net: If you were Homer Simpson who would you vote for: Obama or McCain? Watch what happens when Homer actually makes the right choice (he he, my own political bias is coming in here: Homer votes for Barack Obama). Big brother sucks up to Homer, and punishes him for voting the right way (which is really left in our thinking). A humorous, yet disturbing, Simpson view of the real life Simpson politics being played out in the U.S. Is this life imitating art or art imitating life?

Cairns Unlimited: Oh dear! Are we becoming a Police State? It sure sounds like it Steve. The power of advertising is enough to send me to drink!!!!! I had just better find out from the Liquor Licensing Board how to interrupt the difference between food and alcohol advertising!

Have camera will travel: When I grow up I want a job like Paul’s. In Sometimes you gotta walk, Paul visits Wallaman Falls (Ingham) and shoots the high and the low. We live in such a spectacular area, with a smorgasbord of photographic delights that I am always surprised when locals fail to intimately know the beauty of our area. For a long time, we visit a new place on weekends. Working our way through the alphabet made the choices easy. On W weekend, we visited Wallamen Falls. Unlike Paul, nobody bought my shots

Jean Burman (artist): Superb post: That other black hole. I cannot do this post justice by comment. I instead tease you with an exert and invite you to read Jean’s full analysis and comment on current day economic liabilities:

A black hole so deep and so dark and so unstable that it had successfully sucked a bunch of the world’s largest banks, institutions and corporations into the empty ugly void of financial “deep space”. A black hole of such gargantuan proportions that every man woman and child on the planet will not escape the “gravity” of it.

Alas… unable to blame the Collider (because it has already broken down)… we are forced to cast around for another villain. And what we see is something way more sinister. There at the helm of the mother ship… set on a doomsday course to oblivion… sits a bunch of egocentric greedy individuals whose free-range money grabbing actions have served to rewrite the pages of history with the blood of all those who trusted them to deliver up their dream of a better situation.

Touche!

nunyaa: Heroes in Death. The Bali bombers await execution. With execution they become martyrs and the fulfil their task of Jihad. Nunyaa poses an interesting and age old question on whether capital punishment always works.Certainly in the case of the Bali bombers, is life in prison a better option because it then takes away their coveted martyrdom? What do you think?

Psych Matters: Multiculturalism, Beliefs, Values and Attitudes in TV advertising: A review of the topic. There seems to be a theme of advertising running through this weeks Blog ON Cairns Carnival. Char ponders on the ethnocentricity of television advertising:

Can television advertising effectiveness help create better social interactions? Eliminate waste and encourage recycling? How do you see multiculturalism, beliefs, values and attitudes as influencing consumer choices?

Interesting questions, and just as an online psychology tutor should aim to do, these questions have taken me back to first year psychology and sociology. Char, using your blog as a point of reference for your clients is a very clever use of blogging as an information outlet.

Spasmodic Dysphonia: Well, well. The blogging Voice from Oblivion returns. A blogospheric absence of five and a half months has seen many changes in my mother’s life. Read the tip of the ice berg in her post. For those that do not know, Spasmodic Dysphonia is a movement disorder that affects the voice. Mum has little voice and the energy required to force sound out is often too great to be bothered with. Her blog is her alternative form of communication. Drop in and introduce yourself as a fellow Cairns blogger.

Teddy Tour: We are gearing up for the Teddy Tour at Imaginif on October the 31st. A new art and craft group has been formed – Crafty Survivors – and participants are concentrating on making Teddy and Story Tag paraphernalia. One of the Crafty Survivor participants in Chess: Chess’ big step brother had his way with her. If you think you are living in a Paradise where nothing bad happens to its citizens, think again. Our Police District has the highest number of reported sexual assaults Australia wide. What does that say for the number of hidden and silent sexual assaults in our town and area!

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