 and lecturers for key contacts in your industry and ask for introductions. Go along to industry networking nights and keep a record of the people you meet. The industry relationships you make now could set up you up for a job in Brisbane when you finish your degree.
Arm yourself with as much local knowledge about Aboriginal culture, Australian history and landmarks as you can. Come along to a Lord Mayor’s International Student Friendship Ceremony and meet the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, experience traditional indigenous dance and get your own friendship certificate. You should also take advantage of the free Brisbane Greeter tours and take in the city’s history.
Another way to gain invaluable work experience in Brisbane is by volunteering. This way you can learn work skills, meet people and get some work experience under your belt. Check out Volunteering Queensland online or ask at your uni for opportunities.
Don’t spend your weekends going to the same old student bar on campus (even though they’re great) – go where the locals go. Find the cool bars in the suburbs, the cheap local restaurants, the local grocer at the market and the live music at the pub.
Go beyond the assigned student groups for assignments and join a sporting club or student association. This is a great way to meet people and extend your skills set.
If mountains are your thing, climb ‘em all. If you love live music, write a gig list. Whatever it is you love to do or want to see, add it to your ultimate Brisbane bucket list. Start by selecting a few from these 22 Brisbane experiences and go for gold.
(Edited William Inglis & Son press release)
The William Inglis & Son Sydney classic yearling sale generated upswings of 20% in gross revenue, 23.7% in average price, and 25% in median price from a year ago during its two-day run that ended Jan. 25 in Australia. The clearance rate was 83%.
"We worked hard to get buyers here and it was great to see the sale buck the (negative) trend,” Inglis managing director Mark Webster said. "In saying that, we made a conscious decision to be more selective when recruiting yearlings, and we were prepared to offer slightly fewer horses, over two days instead of three. As a result, we had good feedback from buyers about the quality and the format. Vendors did a great job meeting the market, and there was good competition for their horses which resulted in an excellent clearance rate.”
The 385 yearlings that sold grossed Aust$12,671,500 ($11,412,600 in U.S. funds) and averaged Aust$32,913 ($29,643). The median was Aust$25,000 ($22,516).
A Fastnet Rock colt, who is the second foal produced from the winning Octagonal mare Sea Folly, brought the last session’s highest price of Aust$250,000 ($225,162) and also was the most expensive horse sold during the auction. Sea Folly is a half-sister to 1998 C. F. Orr Stakes (Aust-I) winner Special Dane (by Danehill).
Kieran Moore purchased the bay yearling from Widden Stud.On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 01:10:58PM +0000, Gwynne Powell wrote: > Walter: > Cordelia never completely adjusted to Barrayaran society. > > Gwynne: Yet after she lost Aral she stayed in the Empire. Even after she retired from > Vicereining. She stayed on Sergyar, as far away from Barrayar as you can get while remaining in the Empire. And one can strongly argue that she didn't stay in the Empire for its own sake, and obviously not on Barrayar; she stayed on Sergyar, which happens to be in the Empire, for now. > Besides, I think her focus was the other way round - she never really tried to adjust to > Barrayaran society, it was so much easier to make Barrayaran society adjust to her. And, > eventually, it did. It did, a bit. Mostly she's so privileged she didn't have to worry that much about adjustment. -xx- Damien X-)The scene on stage just before Bon Iver's headlining set at the 2016 Eaux Claires festival.
Friday night, Bon Iver performed their new album, 22, A Million, at Eaux Claires, the hometown festival created and curated by bandleader Justin Vernon. Million is a lovely, weird, unpredictable record, combining Vernon’s characteristic multilayered songwriting with an ever-grander embrace of electronics and an occasional blast of noise. Its entrance into the world felt suitably ceremonious, if limited in scope: Two new songs are now available on streaming services, but the album proper isn’t expected until September 30. Set to be released on Jagjaguwar, 22, A Million will be Bon Iver’s first new music since 2011’s Bon Iver.
Vernon remained front and center throughout the live debut, sometimes accompanied by only a couple of band members, other times surrounded by a tight arc of musicians at music stands. (At one point, he introduced his backing band as “the Sad Sax of S**t.”) With each new song, attendees who downloaded the festival’s app received bizarre strings of characters as notifications: “22 (OVER S??N),” “10 d E A T h b R E a s T??,” “715 – CR??KS.” These, it quickly became clear, are titles of the new songs.
“I just think maybe I ran my course with being able to come up with new moments on the guitar,” Vernon told Grantland last year, ahead of the inaugural Eaux Claires festival. “I think the thing I’m working with the most is the OP-1. It’s a sampler-based synthesizer, and I honestly think it’s the most important instrument that’s come into my life since I first picked up a guitar when I was 12 years old.” A year later, the synthesizer’s continuing influence can’t be overstated: Million is built and re-built from samples and loops in a manner that recalls Vernon’s work with one of his non-Bon Iver projects, Volcano Choir.
Kanye West, meanwhile, has long been a big Bon Iver fan, and his corresponding influence on Vernon seems more apparent than ever before, particularly in the echoing crunch of “10 d E A T h b R E a s T??.” As odd as it can be to hear lyrics about creeks and reeds through a thicket of Auto-Tune, 22, A Million sounded crisp: Eaux Claires’ organizers clearly prioritize audio quality, and perhaps it’s only to be expected that Bon Iver’s music should sound better near a forest beside a river in northwestern Wisconsin.
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Well, the Coast Guard was called in to contain the Gulf oil spill within minutes. This is probably more due to a difficult-to-hide blast than anything else. Now the Navy has been called in. And the Air Force. With the oil slick approaching seriously sensitive and vital wetlands on Louisiana's coast, we should see the National Guard, and maybe even the Army called in soon. So there are chapters yet to be written on this one, and not a few surprises yet to descend upon us I'm sure. But let's put those aside for the moment and think about what the final chapter of this oil slick should, might, or will look like. And we're talking maybe 20 years here if the Exxon Valdez is any indication.
There are two critical factors in any such resolution. The first is what was the cause. The second is what are the limits of responsibility. These are linked. If the cause is shown to be a criminal one, such as the violation of the terms of a permit, then the limits of responsibility tend to be more broad. At least until BP's armies of lawyers wear down everyone seeking restitution.
Let's talk about the cause. And since Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy expert at Rice University, was quoted in the NY Times as saying deepwater oil drilling was," as technically challenging as space travel," let's turn to the space industry for guidance.
In the aerospace world, accidents are intensely investigated. They have to be. Confidence in the systems depends upon knowledge that the builders and operators learn from their mistakes.
All accidents have two causes - a 'proximate' cause, which is the immediate and obvious reason that an unplanned event happened, and a 'root' cause, which is the deeper reason. In the 1987 Space Shuttle Challenger accident for example, the proximate cause was that the "O ring" that sealed hot gasses inside the solid rocket boosters, cracked and allowed those gasses to escape and ignite the liquid fuel tanks they were next to. It turns out that the "O ring" was not designed to work at the low temperatures that Florida had seen the night before. So the search for the root cause began with the question of why the launch team decided to launch anyway. The investigation board famously determined that NASA's safety culture was "broken," and the desire to launch overrode the desire to launch safely. In short, the safety organization had been co-opted by the launch authorities, including the contractors who were pressing so hard to show good performance by launching on time. Heads rolled, and organizations and processes were changed. Not perfected. But changed for the better.
So with this Gulf oil disaster, I would be keeping my eyes open to make sure that there is a root cause being pursued from the get-go. Documents had better be secured, e