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To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our current and former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today’s columnist, Suzanne Yeagley, has written Interviews with People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs for our site since 2002. It’s one of our oldest running columns. Suzanne returns today for the first new installment in a few years.

Q: What is your job title?
A: The official title is “Guinness World Records Adjudicator.” I’m part of a team of adjudicators who are sent in person for certain events. I am the person who decides, normally in real time, unless it’s a very intense record, whether or not the record attempt was successful.

We go to the event in our fancy uniform. Every time I’m in it, I feel very official.

Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks is an official in-canon look at the Fourteenth Doctor's first adventure that's passable but inessential.

1. When the mega-mansion developer said, “Build,” he willed the entire life of a neighborhood into despair.

2. This despair cannot be understood as referring to anything other than the complete loss or absence of hope, that is, the hope of ever knowing a quiet day again.

3. The preservationist canons were imposed, but only on the height and façade, and the architects, being very clever, found ways around these according to the canons themselves, proposing a “library tower” because it is part of the “Village vernacular, water towers and all.”

4. It is easier for a herd of camels to pass through the eye of a needle than for one man with a library tower of books shelved by color to get into the kingdom of heaven.

5. It takes no less than five years to build a mega-mansion. And wherever two or more are built, others will follow. Therefore, it is certain that the hell of construction noise will be never-ending.

6. For the souls in the vicinity, absolutely no care or recompense is given.

This explosive exploration of human movement pays tribute to the animator’s late father, who had multiple sclerosis

- by Psyche Film

Watch at Psyche

In the 1960s, psychedelic research was driven underground. Now it’s re-emerging – with lessons for the study of psychosis

- by Phoebe Friesen

Read at Aeon

John Mitchinson reflects on why the life of Saint Cuthbert still has important things to teach us

Luke Kelly was born in Sheriff Street, one of the best-known thoroughfares of Dublin’s north inner city, in November 1940. For decades the area’s workers had laboured on the nearby docks — providing the backbone, thirty years before, for much of Jim Larkin’s organising efforts. But by the mid-twentieth century, those employment opportunities had begun […]

Ivor Gaber examines the technique of repeating untruths for a particular gain and how to counter it

A new report by the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank describes the emergence of the 'culture control left' – conveniently looking the other way when it comes to the right of politics

TAFE NSW has been announced as a finalist in the 2023 National Travel Industry Awards (NTIA) for Most Outstanding Travel Industry Training Institution. This nomination follows years of work by TAFE NSW to realign course delivery to offer more flexible training solutions, to prepare students for success in a constantly evolving sector. Advertise with News...

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“PLEASE let us back into our pool.” That is the urgent message from a group of elderly members of the Coffs Harbour Education and Recreation Program (CHERP). Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au With the closure...

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A DONATION of $5,000 has been made by Pink Silks Trust (PST) to the local CanDo Cancer Trust. This donation unites two local charity organisations that share a common mission: to provide vital support to those affected by cancer. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone...

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COMING home, the Australian Decorative Fine Arts Society (ADFAS) final presentation for 2023 is set in Australia. On Monday 20 November, at The National Cartoon Gallery, guest lecturer Dr June Ross will be talking about the Kimberley rock art in north-western Australia. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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THIS Christmas Sawtell will again hear the sounds of a traditional Christmas as many well-loved carols are sung on Wednesday 20 December 2023. This is the 17th year of the Sawtell Uniting Church Carols by Candlelight, a well supported community event that marks the week leading up to Christmas. Advertise with News of The Area...

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THE Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club (SLSC) is excited to host the 2023 Craft Carnival, with an impressive cast of over 500 competitors, 50 officials and 1,000 enthusiastic spectators all gearing up for the November 25-26 event. Athletes from across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria will be taking part in this year’s event,...

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We need it The world is exhausting right now and I’ve reached my bandwidth for the day. So here’s a little something less important that might bring a little happiness: Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” “We are ready to continue our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation, and do our best to meet the wishes of the Californians so as to deepen the friendly ties between our two peoples,” Xi said Wednesday during a dinner speech with business leaders. The gesture came at the end of a day in which Xi and President Biden held their first face to face meeting in a year and pledged to try to reduce tensions. Xi did not share additional details on when or where pandas might be provided but appeared to suggest the next pair of pandas are most likely to come to California, probably San Diego. The bears have long been the symbol of the U.S.-China friendship since Beijing gifted a pair of pandas to the National Zoo in Washington in 1972, ahead of the normalization of bilateral relations.

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We are living in a deadly nightmare, right here in the USA This epic analysis of the horrific carnage caused by the AR-15 by the Washington Post is essential reading for every American with a conscience. It’s not easy. You may want to pour a drink or save some time to take a walk afterwards. But it’s important to bear witness. Mass shootings involving AR-15s have become a recurring American nightmare. The weapon, easy to operate and widely available, is now used more than any other in the country’s deadliest mass killings. Fired by the dozens or hundreds in rapid succession, bullets from AR-15s have blasted through classroom doors and walls. They have shredded theater seats and splintered wooden church pews. They have mangled human bodies and, in a matter of seconds, shattered the lives of people attending a concert, shopping on a Saturday afternoon, going out with friends and family, working in their offices and worshiping at church and synagogue. They have killed first-graders, teenagers, mothers, fathers and grandparents. But the full effects of the AR-15’s destructive force are rarely seen in public.