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As a qualified educator, and educator of the educators, I am a communications expert; understanding how and why information delivery works and doesn't work. I have experience with technology and consider myself an information-futurist. I am a dreamer!

Now, enough of that wank and onto some more...I have been a teacher of modern English and literature, taught people the skills of learning, teaching and communicating. A can look at big and little pictures and advise on getting from point A to point B. I can read maps!

I am an excellent facilitator, negotiator and have, on many occasions in the past, presented to small and large groups alike. I am a talker!

My experience in commercial enterprise has helped me take a leap from the structure and politic of government back into the real world. I am a thinker!

But I am a teacher; was a teacher of skills and knowledge, and now, like most of us, just a teacher.

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Information and communication developer, reviewer and planner, advice on learning, elearning and services online. I see the past and dream the future. I can use smart and dumb tools. A sharer and a listener. A strategist and a dreamer. I can negotiate with people from all walks. I know where I am at and where you want to be. I can read maps!

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Is that a Budgie in your pocket? No really? Is it?

Now lets not confuse Budgies! It could turn out to be a little embarrassing. But the Smugglers should never be seen as embarrassing! The good ole "cock-jock" or "budgie-smuggler" is a part of Australian identity (among lots of other things of course) and should be celebrated! Like the plagues of Queensland, it will be quite the site when the world record is attemped on Guinness World Records Day, November 12, in Sydney.

So if you are in Sydney, have a budgie packed away somewhere, get on down to Sydney and do it for charity!

Let me know (here or on Twitter) if you do go along, and if you indeed became part of the biggest group of smugglers of budgies in the world! (news source: www.news.com.au)
    Budgie storm / Ann Britton
    A plague of budgies seen near Boulia / Picture: Ann Britton
    SKIES around the far west Queensland town of Boulia are teeming with budgerigars.

    This year's floods along river systems such as the Diamantina and Georgina sparked prolific breeding by the budgies which have been feasting on an abundance of grass seeds, the Courier-Mail reported.

    "I have been here since 1983 and never seen anything like it," Boulia grazier Ann Britton said. "The skies are thick with budgies - how they do not collide with each other is a miracle in itself.

      Budgie smugglers
      Budgie smugglers belong on the beach but will be seen in city streets / File

      SYDNEY'S CBD is the unlikely setting for an attempt to break the world record for the largest swimwear parade.

      Despite having plenty of iconic beaches to choose from, organisers have instead opted for Sydney's financial district, Martin Place, as the start point for the inaugural Strut the Streets parade.

      The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) charity expects up to 1000 Sydneysiders clad in budgie smugglers and bikinis will bring the city to a standstill as they walk to Circular Quay.

      The charity aims to help increase the number of young indigenous Australians participating in university education through mentoring programs.

      The current world record for a single swimwear parade stands at 281 participants and was set in Las Vegas, organised by Hugh Hefner's girlfriend Holly Madison.

      AIME hopes to persuade ordinary Sydneysiders to take part in the event and raise thousands of dollars by charging $50 entry and encouraging sponsorship.

      Several Wallabies rugby players have already lent their support for the event, posting messages of support on Youtube.

      The parade is being held at midday on International Guinness World Records Day - November 12.

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      Filed under  //  Bathers   Budgerigar   Budgies   Guinness   News.com.au   Smugglers   Speedo   Sydney   World record  
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      Posted 4 months ago

      Mars attacks Sydney!

      Orange skies over Neutral bay from Joshua Kerr
      Orange haze blankets Sydney as city,
      NSW shrouded by dust
      • Dust blankets Sydney, parts of NSW
      • Residents wake to orange haze

      RESIDENTS of Sydney and parts of New South Wales have awoken to scenes likened to "armageddon", with limited visibility and orange skies.

      via news.com.au

      And an amazing site for Sydney-siders this morning. Being the Spring Equinox makes it all that bit more "apocalyptical" ;)

      Sylvestor
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      Filed under  //  Dust storm   Meteorology   News.com.au   Photographs   Sky   Sydney   Weather  
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      Posted 5 months ago

      Paedophiles behind face of respectability | Opinion | News.com.au

      Tracey Spicer

      The Daily Telegraph

      September 21, 2009 07:00am

      Victim's drawing
      Naomi's drawing shows her father watching as she is raped.
      A PAEDOPHILE lives in Sydney's East Ryde*. He doesn't have a facial tic or a stutter. He doesn't look like the sex offender from central casting. And his name is not Dennis Ferguson.

      He is one of tens of thousands of paedophiles, living in the suburbs, who don't walk around with big signs on their foreheads.

      In about 90 per cent of child sex abuse cases, the perpetrator is a family member or friend, not some rock spider who abducts kids in the street.

      "Offenders look like everybody else," Carol Ronken from Bravehearts, a support group for child sex victims, said.

      "We need to be vigilant within our own four walls."

      Six year old Naomi*, who drew the picture, left, is among the one-in-five Australian children who have been molested.

      There's no way of sugar-coating this.

      via news.com.au

      Firstly, this is not a happy story. It is quite a disturbing and sad story. I don't want to trivialise this in any way whatsoever. I feel for the child and her mother. The systems clearly fail another victim, as so often happens.

      It reads true; and sadly, begins to sound a familiar story.

      But frankly, and honestly, this poor child is a victim of a criminal, and, honestly...Senator Conroy...are you truly under the impression that you are going to stop this sort of thing happening in future?

      Get a life and get real. System Fail! Yet again!

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      Filed under  //  Blog   Children   News.com.au   Paedophile   Sydney  
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      Posted 5 months ago

      Fully sick eh bro!

      Sometimes its just human nature, and we all love to get a laugh at the results! What do you expect at that time of night in Kings Cross? ;)

      [Updated] This is the DanceRemix from YouTube - not 100% great but a good effort.


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      Filed under  //  Channel 9   Humour   Kings Cross   Shooting   Sydney   Vox Pop   YouTube  
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      Posted 10 months ago