Discover the Secrets of Feng Shui at the 6th Australian Feng Shui Conference being held Saturday 27 October 2007 at the SHARKS Club Southport – on the Gold Coast.
Dynamic and inspiring Feng Shui Master and popular Author, Roseline Deleu, is the host of the Australian Feng Shui Conference. An acclaimed Feng Shui Master after the art of the Black Hat School, Roseline charms audiences where-ever she goes with her captivating presentation and delightful French accent. She combines her knowledge and intuition with the ancient methods of Feng Shui principles, making her a unique Master teacher. Roseline demystifies the Ancient Art of Feng Shui and brings to life the principles which can change your world forever.
Check out the conference
After catching the bug for obsessing about the future of music, Uber Lingua presents PROTO GLOBE Saturday Oct 27th at Horse Bazaar…
Featuring the recently travelled bP & sakamoiz and international guest Aindrias de Staic from Ireland, alongside local trooper Lord Lingham, this party’s gonna venture into the mysterious future of planetary dance-floor
focused music…
An exploration into the sounds of the next few decades… well, maybe… the third world takes on the first world for the coveted title of “the most cutting edge global beat to lose yourself to” creators…
From the Latin fused Future-Cumbia of Mexico, Argentina and Columbia… to the trans-gypsy remix world of the Balkans, Ireland and Turkey… The Indian sub-continent is an emerging economy and with it emerges hi-tech music not to be underestimated..
Similarly China and Korea take on Japan and Southern Hemispheric peoples buy into this complex web with the likes of Angola, Nigeria and Brasil entering this ‘space race of sonics’…
When: Free entry : Saturday October 27, 9pm to 3am
Where: Horse Bazaar : 397 Little Lonsdale St CBD Melbourne
How Much: $0
More info: www.uberlingua.com
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Honda is upping its production of gas-electric hybrid cars, but has no immediate plans to develop the kind of hybrid that would recharge from an electrical outlet, the company announced Tuesday.
Honda CEO Takeo Fukui also publicly criticized General Motors for its pursuit of the Chevy Volt at a press conference on Tuesday in Japan.
If that kind of high-performance battery power is possible then carmakers would be better served making a completely electric vehicle from an environmental standpoint, said Fukui, according to the The Wall Street Journal (subscription required).
Honda is scheduled to release several environmentally friendly vehicles at the 2007 Tokyo auto show this week. Among them may be a hybrid sports car and a diesel-engine car that gets 60 mpg.
GM has been touring its Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid electric car that it plans to make available to consumers by 2010, across the U.S. since its debut at the Detroit auto show. The Volt could possibly run off lithium-ion battery power alone for about 40 miles, according to GM.
Many critics have raised questions as to whether that battery type, more commonly used in laptops, could be cost effective and energy efficient for car use. GM has said it’s developing the necessary technology to make a lithium-ion battery hybrid successful and plans to test out the Volt as soon as spring 2008.
The news follows statements made Monday by Toyota that it’s taking its time to develop a plug-in hybrid to address questions of cost, efficiency and consumer interest.
Cnet
The 2007 Sydney Freecon, Saturday November 3, 2007, Free Science Fiction
The Freecon will start with a panel and audience discussion of this year’s SF / Sci-Fi Movies and TV.
To put the Science in Science Fiction we will have no less than three Archaeologist, Craig Barker and Candace Richards from Sydney University and Tony Lowe of Casey Lowe to discuss what they actually do as working Archaeologists and whether recent Sci-Fi TV and Movie representations of Archaeologists are Fact or Fiction?
Our Epic Writer Guests will be Pamela Freeman (Blood Ties With two websites, one for kids www.pamelafreemanbooks.com and one for adults www.castingstrilogy.com) and Richard Harland (www.richardharland.net/), Eddon and Vail, Ferren and the Angels, The Vicar of Morbing Vile and The Black Crusade). They will be sharing a writer’s panel with Bernadette Foley of the recently created Australian Orbit SF&F imprint of Little Brown / Hachette Livre (www.hachette.com.au). Bernadette is coming to us fresh in from the International Frankfurt Bookfair. That’s two outstanding SF&F writers AND a Publisher / Publicist!
This year’s Kevin Dillon lunchtime Symposium will discuss the life and works of three significant Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors who passed away since the last Freecon; Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fred (Berserker Stories) Saberhagen and Robert Jordan.
If you have ever read and enjoyed a story written by either of these three ‘Ghosts of Honour’ then come along to the Freecon and lets talk about it.
The Afternoon’s panels will include presentations and discussions featuring;
Christopher Jones, Ph.D candidate and currently a lecturer on sport administration, will speak on the future of Sport now that some of the artificial limbs currently available to disabled athletes allow them to outperform un-enhanced able bodied athletes.
There will be a discussion of NSW and ACT short length SF&F publishing, Anthologies, Magazines and Competitions
There will be a discussion of the many sorts of local SF&F meetings, conventions and events that will be of interest to people who read SF&F, want to write SF&F or who watch Sci-Fi TV and movies.
When: 8.30 am to 4 pm, at the Bankstown City Library, Bankstown Mall, Sydney
A day to meet and talk with other people who read SF and watch Sci-Fi, about the ideas found in Science Fiction
Contact – Garry P Dalrymple 02-9718-5827 (best after 7 pm)
Postal address; 1 Eulabah Avenue, EARLWOOD NSW 2206
(No functioning Website this year)
SISTER SPIT: The Next Generation — one vanload of queer female artists + writers + drama queens coming to your (US) town for one awesome night of shameless literary hijinks.
October-November 2007
starring:
TARA JEPSEN, survivor of the original Sister Spit’s Ramblin Roadshow 1997 + 1999; author of the chapbook Midnight Journey to the White Light Kegger and the novel-in-progress Like a Dog; published in the anthologies It’s So You and Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache; host of the San Francisco’s longest running queer open mic, K’Vetch!
TEXTA QUEEN, who combines magic markers and magical skills to create color-crazed portriats of excellent, half-naked females across the globe, capturing their rowdy, surly subcultural bad-assedness; creator of the Some Things Never Change calendar and coloring book; Texta has shown her work in art spaces all over the planet!
CHELSEA STARR, author of the chapbooks Long Walks on the Beach with Chelsea Starr and Candlelit Dinners with Chelsea Starr; published in the anthologies It’s So You and Baby, Remember My Name; DJ of the San Francisco fance parties Hot Pants and Playboy; deisnger of wicked cute fashions!
MELIZA BANALES, author of the poetry collection Say It With Your Whole Mouth and the collection-in-progress 51 Poems About Nothing at All; published in the anthologies Revolutionary Voices, Without a Net and Baby, Remember my Name; former Grand Slam poetry slam champion and the first Latina to win a slam championship on the west coast!
DEXTER FLOWERS, author of the zine Maybe It Was Something You Ate and a memoirs-in-progress about growing up on food stamps with her feminist witch single mom, and a novel-in-progress about a teenager growing up in a group home; published in the anthologies It’s So You and Baby, Remember My Name!
KAY MARIE YOAS, author of the chapbook Perfect Endings: Fresh Stories and Rotten Characters; published in the anthologies It’s So You and We Don’t Need Another Wave; a working-class warrior who has performed her work solo and with improv groups at Homo-a-Go-Go and other fine queer events.
MICHELLE TEA, editor of the brand new anthology It’s So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style, and the still pretty new Baby, Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing; author of four memoirs including the recently reissued The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America and the novel Rose of No Man’s Land.
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