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Feb 26, 2009
War Memorial to get facelift
The
Coolangatta War Memorial is set to undergo a major transformation as
part of stage two of Council’s Coolangatta to Bilinga Foreshore
Masterplan, which kicks off next month.
Engineering Services Committee Chair Cr Dawn Crichlow said the War
Memorial would be relocated to a more prominent position closer to the
corner of Marine Parade.
“The Memorial is a major part of the park and the new site will be
more accessible for visitors and those attending ceremonies,” said Cr
Crichlow.
“To enhance its feature, the Memorial will be situated in a purpose-built plaza area.
“Representatives from Tweed Coolangatta RSL Sub Branch provided valuable input on the new site.”
Divisional Councillor Chris Robbins said while work was underway,
the Memorial monument would undergo extensive cleaning and restoration.
“The work has been timed to coincide with the second phase of the
Coolangatta to Bilinga Masterplan, which will also see Queen Elizabeth
2 Park undergo extensive reconstruction to create an exciting new
events space,” said Cr Robbins.
“It was hoped that the new Memorial could be unveiled for Anzac Day,
however restorative work is expected to be completed by May 2009.
“Council staff have been communicating with the RSL to ensure they
have an alternative site for their Anzac Day dawn ceremony, which will
now take place at Chris Cunningham Park.”
Tweed Coolangatta RSL Secretary Dr John Griffin said the new
improved War Memorial would be able to cater for greater numbers of
visitors.
“This is very important to the local community and the RSL was pleased to have been involved in the project,” said Dr Griffin.
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Mar 13, 2008
A rocket or rocket vehicle is a projectile, aircraft or
other vehicle which obtains thrust by the effect to the expulsion of fast
moving liquid from within a rocket engine. Chemical rockets operate due to hot fatigue
gas made from "propellant" acting against the inside of incineration
chambers and extension nozzles. This generates forces that both hasten the gas
to extremely high speed, as well as, since every action has an equal and
opposite reaction, generating a large plunge on the rocket.
The history of rockets goes back to at least the 13th
century, possibly earlier. By the 20th century it included human spaceflight to
the Moon, and in the 21st century rockets have enabled profitable space
tourism.
Rockets are used for fireworks and an armaments, as launch
vehicles for synthetic satellites, human spaceflight and study of other
planets. While they are unproductive for low speed use, they are, compared to
other momentum systems, very lightweight, extremely powerful and can achieve
extremely high speeds.
Chemical rockets contain a large amount of energy in an
easily liberated form, and can be very dangerous, although careful design,
testing, manufacture and use can minimise the risks.
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Feb 12, 2008
A biscuit is a hard seared sweet product like a small flat
cake which in North America may be called a
"cookie" or "cracker". The term biscuit also applies to cram
type biscuits, where a layer of 'cream' or icing is sandwiched between two
biscuits. It should be noted, however, that it has become increasingly common
within the UK
for "cookie" to be used to differentiate between the softer, more
chewy "cookie" and the harder, more fragile "biscuit." In
this respect the British usage of the word biscuit was defined in the defence
of a tax judgement found in favour of McVitie's and their product Jaffa Cakes
which Her Majesty's Customs and Excise claimed was a biscuit and was therefore
liable to value added tax. The successful defence rested on the fact that 'biscuits
go soft when stale, whereas cakes go hard when stale.'
In Britain,
the digestive biscuit has a strong cultural identity as the conventional supplement
to a cup of tea, and is regularly eaten as such. Many tea drinkers
"dunk" their biscuits in tea, allowing them to sop up liquid and
soften slightly before expenditure. Although there are many provincial varieties, both sweet and
savoury, "biscuit" is generally used to describe the sweet version.
Sweet biscuits are commonly eaten as a snack and may contain chocolate, fruit,
jam, nuts or even be used to sandwich other fillings. Savoury biscuits are
plainer and commonly eaten with cheese following a meal.
Generally, Australians and New Zealanders use the British
meaning of "biscuit" for the
sweet biscuit. Two famous Australasian biscuit varieties are the Anzac biscuit
and the Tim Tam. Despite the difference, this sense is at the root of the
name of the United States'
most famous maker of cookies and crackers, the National Biscuit Company.
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Jan 12, 2008
Hockey
is any of a family of sports in which two teams struggle by trying to maneuver
a ball, or a hard, surrounding disc called a puck, into the opponent's net or
goal, using a hockey stick. Field hockey is played on nettle, natural grass, sand-based
or water-based artificial turfs, with a small, hard ball. The game is popular
among both males and females in many countries of the world, mostly in Europe, India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South Asia. In most countries, the
game is played between single-sex sides, even though it can be played by
mixed-sex sides. In the United States and Canada it is played mostly by
women.
Ball
hockey is played in a gym using sticks and a ball, often a tennis ball with the
hair removed.
There
are early representations and reports of hockey-type games being played on ice
in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of
the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially planned by students
at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two
years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first
teams.
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Dec 27, 2007
A
flower, also recognized as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure
found in flowering plants. The flower's organization contains the plant's
reproductive organs, and its function is to make seeds. After fertilization,
portions of the flower build up into a fruit containing the seeds. For the
higher plants, seeds are the next making, and serve as the primary means by
which individuals of a species are detached across the landscape. The grouping
of flowers on a place is called the inflorescence.
The
primary principle of a flower is reproduction by the joining of pollen of one
plant with the ovules of an additional in order to form seed which grows into
the next generation of plants. Sexual reproduction produces genetically
exclusive offspring, allowing for adaptation to occur. As such, each flower has
a specific design which greatest encourages the transfer of this pollen. Many
flowers are dependent winning the wind to move pollen between flowers of the
same species. Others rely on animals to bring about this feat. Even large animals
such as birds, bats, and pygmy possums can be employed. The period of time
during which this progression can take place is called anthesis.
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Dec 18, 2007
Wilderness is generally defined as a natural environment on
Earth that has not been directly modified by human activity. Ecologists
consider wilderness areas to be an integral part of the planet's
self-sustaining natural ecosystem.
The word, wilderness, derives from the notion of wildness;
in other words that which is not controllable by humans. The word's etymology
is from the Old English wilderness, which in turn derives from wilder meaning
wild beast (wild + deor = beast, deer). From this point of view, it is the
wildness of a place that makes it a wilderness. The mere presence or activity
of people does not disqualify an area from being wilderness. Many ecosystems
that are, or have been, inhabited or influenced by activities of people may
still be considered wild. This way of looking at wilderness includes areas
within which natural processes operate without very noticeable human
interference.
Looked at through the lens of the visual
arts, nature and wildness have been important subjects in various epochs of
world history. An early tradition of landscape art occurred in the Tang Dynasty
(618-907). The tradition of representing nature as it is became one of the aims
of Chinese painting and was a significant influence in Asian art. Artists
learned to depict mountains and rivers from the perspective of nature as a
whole and on the basis of their understanding of the laws of nature as if
seen through the eyes of a bird. In the 13th century, Shih Erh Chi listed scenes
lacking any places made inaccessible by nature, as one of the 12 things to
avoid in painting.
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Nov 30, 2007
An
intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet protocols, network
connectivity to securely divide part of an organization's information or
operations with its employees. Sometimes the term refers only to the most
perceptible service, the internal website. The same concepts and technologies
of the Internet such as clients and servers running on the Internet protocol
suite are used to make an intranet. HTTP and other Internet protocols are
commonly used as well, such as FTP. There is often a challenge to use Internet
technologies to provide new interfaces with corporate legacy data and
information systems.
Intranets
can help users to locate and view information faster and use applications
related to their roles and responsibilities. With the help of a web browser
interface such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, users can contact data held in
any database the organization wants to make available, anytime and - subject to
security provisions - from anywhere within the company workstations, increasing
employees' capability to perform their jobs faster, more accurately, and with
confidence that they have the right information. It also helps to improve the
services provided to the users.
With
intranets, organizations can make more information accessible to employees on a
"pull" source rather than being deluged indiscriminately by emails.
Intranets can serve as influential tools for
communication within an organization, vertically and horizontally. From a
communications standpoint, intranets are useful to communicate strategic initiatives
that have a worldwide reach throughout the organization. The type of
information that can easily be conveyed is the reason of the initiative and
what the initiative is aiming to achieve, who is driving the initiative,
results achieved to date, and who to speak to for more information.
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Nov 26, 2007
Beach
volleyball is an Olympic group sport played on sand. Two teams, positioned on
either side of a net which divides rectangular court, hit volleyball, usually
using the hands or arms.
It
is evolved from indoor volleyball, and
the two sports remain very similar: a team scores points by foundation the ball
on the opponents' court, or when the opposing team commits a fault teams can contact the ball no more than three
times before the ball crosses the net; and consecutive contacts must be made by
unlike players. The most important differences between beach and indoor
volleyball are the playing surface, and the team size. There are many minor
differences as well, including each half of the court actions 8 by 8 meters.
If
a jamming player touches the ball, but it continues onto his side of the net,
the block counts as the first contact. Open-hand dinks, where a player uses his
or her finger tips to redirect the ball into the opponent's court, are banned.
It is legal to cross under the net as long as doing so does not hamper with the
opponents' attempt to play the ball. Players are not necessary to rotate
positions; they must alternate check, but there are no rotation errors.
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Nov 1, 2007
Though nowadays we call most Greek religious buildings "temples," the earliest Greeks would have referred to a temenos, or holy area. Its holiness, often related with a holy grove, was more significant than the building itself, as it contained the open air altar on which the sacrifices were made. The construction which housed the cult statue in its naos was initially a rather simple structure, but by the middle of the 6th century BCE had become increasingly complicated. Greek temple architecture, where the classical orders were developed, had a deep influence on Western architectural traditions.
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Oct 23, 2007
Wallpaper is material which
is used to coat and decorate the interior walls of home, offices, and other
buildings; it is one part of interior decoration. Wallpapers are usually sold
in rolls and are place onto a wall using wallpaper glue. Wallpapers can appear either
plain so it can be decorated or with patterned graphics. Wallpaper printing
techniques contain surface printing, gravure printing, silk screen-printing,
and rotary printing. Mathematically speaking, there are seventeen basic patterns,
described as wallpaper groups, which can be used to tile an countless plane.
All artificial wallpaper patterns are based on these groups. A single model can
be issued in several different color ways.
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