There seems to be one Sydney, if I understand what you're talking about!
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This particular meridian is the basis of the Eastern Australian Standard
Time, used in Queensland, New South Wales (except Broken Hill), Victoria and
Hi
What i was meaning ( and i should have been clearer in my first email) was a
meridian line like in some European cathedrals. If you look at the top middle
picture on
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jmikeshaw/page16.html
You can see the projected image of the sun during a partial eclipse. I had
From a bit further afield, Plate 8 in J. L. Heilbron's Sun in the
church shows the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. It has a sunbeam
operating on the noon line principle but the text is devoid of an
explanation.
Frank
On 26/05/2012 16:18, Ian Maddocks wrote:
hi
I will be on the east coast
I found an excellent book on the matter
It shows how we are making the world more dangerous for children. Society
protects them so much that we prevent them from learning how to cope in the
stressful world. Children grow old. We can't prevent that. However we can
prevent them from growing up.
Part of the problem seems to be that society is getting to a point where what
ever happens there must be someone to blame. People just can't accept that
stuff happens, get over it. It is true that if a child is over protected then
they cannot learn how to effectively handle situations they
I was sickened how society prevents children from growing up or learning
how to cope with life. That is until I read about Lenore Skenazy
http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/ and Tim Gill
http://rethinkingchildhood.com/
It looks like this will turn around. It may take a generation or 2 to do
so.
I was a free range kid, as were my kids. We created our own activities, took
risks, and ended up learning from these experiences to accept personal
responsibility and be creative. I ended up being a chemical engineer involved
in research most of my life. As a kid, my personal chemistry set
And in Australia we can’t even purchase fire works that go off with a bang. And
blow the letter box metal lid onto the roof. And who didn’t make a fire cracker
gun out of a metal bicycle pump and marbles. But it was hard to get the wick to
come out of the hole in the end of the pump.
Regards,
