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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Wheel Of Names Picker Launches User-Friendly Digital Tool for Random Name Selection
Brisbane, Australia, June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wheel Of Names Picker, a newly introduced browser-based platform, today announced the official launch of its interactive random selection tool. Designed to enhance fairness, accessibility, and visual engagement in decision-making, the tool enables users to create and spin a digital wheel of names directly within their web browser—no sign-up or download wheel of names interface used for random name platform provides a dynamic and intuitive interface that allows users to enter names or list items, customize the color and layout of a digital wheel, and instantly generate randomized results. As seen in the platform's interface, users can input entries line by line, update the wheel in real-time, and trigger a smooth spinning animation that selects a winner. Each name segment is color-coded and clearly labeled, providing an engaging and unbiased visual experience. According to Chris Barnaby, developer of Wheel Of Names Picker, the tool was built to serve classrooms, meetings, online giveaways, and any scenario requiring impartial selection. 'We focused on building a tool that feels natural to use but is powered by thoughtful design,' said Barnaby. 'What we've released is not just a random picker—it's a reliable, shareable experience designed for repeat use.' At its core, the platform features: Real-time editing and immediate wheel updates with unlimited entries Color-coded visual segmentation for clarity and presentation Spin animation with visual pointer and central activation button Options to clear, reload, or embed customized wheels Seamless operation on desktop and mobile browsers The tool's simplicity makes it especially valuable in educational and professional environments where transparent random selection is required. Users can create a list—such as student names, task options, or raffle entries—then spin the wheel to display a clearly chosen result, visible to an audience or participants. The platform is freely accessible at About Wheel Of Names PickerFounded in 2025, Wheel Of Names Picker is an independent software tool designed to provide a modern, interactive alternative to traditional random selection methods. The company is based in Brisbane, Australia and serves educators, professionals, and casual users worldwide who seek simplicity and fairness in group decision-making. Press ContactChris Barnabydeveloper777@ in to access your portfolio
ABC News
27-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
Coalition's climate splits echo Labor's dragging divisions over refugee policy
The fast-paced drama of recrimination, estrangement and reconciliation between the National Party and the Liberal Party over the last fortnight has generated two phenomena. First: a serious degree of brand confusion with the 2025 series of Farmer Wants A Wife. (A series recap: David has told Sussan he can't be with someone who won't let him keep his collection of fantasy nuclear reactors. Sussan isn't bothered — she needs space to find herself anyway and is suspicious that David won't honour the solemn covenant of shadow cabinet faithfulness. It's OVER! Gasp! Everyone heads to IKEA to buy separate flat-pack shadow cabinets, the Liberals drawn immediately to the fun energy of the KLUSTERFÖK line, while the Nats opt for the more transportable DUMMISPIT, with optional display shelving and beer holders. But wait! Barnaby and Michael — who loathe each other a lot, but not as much as they jointly loathe David — have gone behind David's back and talked to Sussan! Maybe divorce is too expensive? Isn't it stupid to have two cabinets? David says gruffly that of course he'll respect shadow cabinet solidarity. Sussan says maybe the reactors can go in the shed for now. So she's back to making up spare beds for injured egos in the marital home. So many plot twists! Including that for the first time in forever, a Liberal leader is providing a deeply relatable moment for Australian women. Though not, admittedly, for great reasons.) These are eye-catching personal dramas, to be sure. But they obscure the larger and deeper fissure that yawns unbridgeable-y beneath the bickering parties. Which is all about policy, and not about personality quite as much as would appear. "There won't be a climate war," declared Sussan Ley at her first press conference as the first woman to lead the Liberal Party. "There will be sound and sensible consultation and I undertake 100 per cent to do that." But the truth is, there is still a climate war. Not just between the Nationals and the Liberals but within the Liberals, too. This war has been going on for the entire 21st century. It's bubbled along under multiple public protestations to the contrary, and it's never quite been extinguished despite serial ceasefire agreements, some of which were confusing to those watching from home. A reminder: it was John Howard's first environment minister, Robert Hill, who negotiated an advantageous deal for Australia at the Kyoto climate summit in 1997. It was Howard in his third term who then decided not to ratify Kyoto after all. But it was Howard again — in his final term — who developed an emissions trading scheme and took it to the 2007 election. Tony Abbott (despite having described climate change as "crap") signed up to significant emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement in 2015, only to repent in 2019. In late 2021, Scott Morrison — flanked by then energy minister Angus Taylor — announced a plan for Australia to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Liberal leader Peter Dutton embraced a nuclear future so as to achieve net zero, a tactical Venn diagram whose crucial middle zone turned out to host not very many people at all. Like a colicky cat, the Liberal Party has curled itself into countless different climate change positions over the last 30 years, trying to find a comfortable one. But it hasn't worked. Why? Because incurring economic pain and harm for Australia — in the attempted resolution of a global problem — is incredibly controversial. For all the other benefits of a decarbonised economy and the opportunities for Australia that are afforded by new green industries and our natural resources beyond fossil fuels, the fact remains that our efforts won't make much of a difference to global temperatures unless the world moves with us. But if we all wait and see, of course, then it'll be too late for everyone. For the National Party, representing regional Australia, there are added complexities. Their constituents are on the front line of the changing climate — hotter temperatures, disappearing species, drier summers, more intense weather events. But they also experience greater disruption from a supercharged renewable energy rollout, which for Sydneysiders might involve installing rooftop solar or buying an EV, but for regional Australians is more likely to mean even more changes to their physical environment — the efflorescence of wind farms across the landscape, banks of solar panels, the ugly truss of transmission lines across tracts of land that once felt open. These are not trifling matters. How does the Liberal Party — the senior Coalition partner in a collaboration that has lasted 102 years — cogently and ably represent these diametrically-opposed constituencies? It's too late to be speculating on whether the Liberal Party will split. It already has. The shape of the Liberal Party is still clearly traceable across the House of Representatives benches. It's just that a clutch of those seats are now held by climate independents, whose campaigns in 2022 derived additional power from the Morrison government's high-handedness to women. Labor, having long ago picked a lane on both climate policy and representation of women, might take this opportunity for smugness. But it's not all that long since Labor had its own dragging, painful, exhausting split over an issue on which its opponents were jubilantly united. For the first decade of this century, Labor ripped itself apart over immigration and refugee policy, specifically the question of how it should respond to the Howard government's hardline commitment to mandatory detention and offshore processing of refugees. There are similarities between this issue — an existential one for Labor in both opposition and government — and the Liberal Party's ongoing climate dilemma, even though they land in different portfolio areas. Mandatory detention was Labor's invention originally (the Keating government introduced it in 1992, per immigration minister Gerry Hand), just as it was Howard who first agreed in principle to commit Australia to the task of carbon reduction at Kyoto. Just as the Liberal Party has tossed and turned on climate, Labor undertook multiple reversals as it grappled with refugee policy after the "Tampa election" of 2001. Kevin Rudd wound back the Howard government's border regime in his first stint as prime minister, only to be removed by Julia Gillard who moved to reintroduce offshore processing, and then was herself replaced by Rudd Mk II, who cemented the reversal amid a confronting flotilla of boat arrivals. Labor's rank and file harboured a commitment to the humane treatment of refugees every bit as passionate as the belief among the Liberal base that renewables are folly and that phasing-out fossil fuels is an act of national economic self-harm. The blunt force of electoral experience suggests both sets of believers were out of step with mainstream Australian opinion: Australians have voted as firmly in favour of border protection as they have for action on climate change. And both issues are reducible to the same essential human conundrum, the same pulsing kernel. What do those of us who live a lucky life on this great island owe to those who don't? How much should we inconvenience ourselves, to what extent should we disadvantage ourselves, to fix a problem that is not of our own making? The Labor Party's internal division on refugee policy was more or less quelled by its experience in government. Drownings at sea — and the horror of desperate humans embarking upon unreliable vessels captained by mercenaries — drove Labor back towards the Coalition's position, bilaterally hardening the nation's heart. Labor voters who couldn't stomach it, one assumes, defected to the Greens, whose primary vote more than doubled from 5 per cent to nearly 12 per cent as Labor wrestled with its moral dilemma between the 2001 and 2010 federal elections. But Greens voters — notwithstanding their history of disappointment or annoyance with Labor — overwhelmingly put Labor above the Coalition when they allocate their preferences in the privacy of the voting booth. That's how Labor managed, this month, a truly mind-bending feat: nearly two-thirds of the House of Representatives, off just one-third of the primary vote. The left flank of Australian politics is holding together. The same can't be said, at present, for the right flank. This can be confirmed with a casual glance at the spreading riot of colours overwhelming the previous blue of opposition benches in the Australian Electoral Commission's near-complete portrait of the 48th Parliament: Liberals, Nationals, LNP, the CLP, Katter's Australia Party, Teals, Centre Alliance and so on. In this election, for the first time, the Coalition didn't come first or second in the primary vote count. It came third, after "Anybody else". The Coalition: another victim of climate change.
The Review Geek
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Sirens (2025) – Season 1 Episode 4 Recap & Review
Persephone Episode 4 of Sirens begins with a flashback to Simone's interview with Michaela for a position as an assistant. Simone looks quite different, wearing casual clothes and sporting tattoos. Simone describes how she quit law school because it wasn't really for her. She only pursued it because her mother once called her a future lawyer. Michaela and Simone bond over their mutual traumatic pasts. Michaela takes her to Barnaby and then offers her the position. We then skip forward to the present, where Ethan is proposing to Simone. Simone asks him why he thought bringing her father here was a good idea. He says it's a grand gesture and he wants to commit to her. This is when Michaela enters and Bruce suddenly seems to recognise her. He hugs her and seems to mistake her for Devon's mother, Andrea. Michaela turns the attention back to the proposal but Simone says she can't do this and runs away. Peter is making his clam chowder in the kitchen when he hears about the proposal from his staff. Simone enters in tears and the staff leave. Peter apologises for the kiss again and Simone agrees to keep it a secret. Michaela heads to the main house and is told that a photographer from Vanity Fair is waiting for her. She tells him to wait and meets Simone instead. They have a heart-to-heart where Michaela describes how her life changed so much after marriage. And if she divorces Peter, she loses the preservation and the aviary. She then tells Simone she wants her to chair the foundation in New York. Simone is overjoyed to hear this and thanks Michaela. Meanwhile, everyone minus Simone and Michaela has Peter's clam chowder dinner in the house. Ray and Morgan get into a bit of an argument over Devon. Michaela comes down and tells Ethan he can go and see Simone. Peter then invites Bruce and Raymond to the gala and when they realise a famous baseball player is going to be there, Devon agrees for all of them to stay. Michaela then finds Peter's personal phone in the kitchen and sees one number being called repeatedly. She calls the number and realises it belongs to Peter's son. Peter and Bruce then head inside. Upstairs, Simone tells Ethan that he doesn't really know her. She says she last saw her father in court where he lost custody of her due to negligence and child abuse. Ethan doesn't seem to digest the fact that he's been broken up with. Outside, Devon is waiting with Ray and Morgan. Ray tells Morgan how hard Devon worked to take care of Simone. When Ethan finally leaves, Simone speaks to Devon alone. Despite seeing how bad Bruce's condition is, Simone doesn't want to talk to him or see him. She blames him for her mother's death and her own suicide attempt. When Devon brings up the fact that Simone isn't taking her meds anymore, Simone reveals that her doctor weaned her off them. She's actually recovered from PTSD but she couldn't tell Devon because she would get upset. She knows Devon needs to feel like she is taking care of Simone. Devon gets upset and tells Simone she won't be helping her anymore. Devon tries to run on the beach to get some space but Ray, Morgan and Eddy run after her. Ray tries to show concern for Devon but she tells him to go back to his wife. She crudely tells him that she only sleeps with him when she wants to hate herself. Meanwhile, Peter and Bruce end up talking about death and family. Bruce suddenly gets agitated when Peter gives him a smoke and begins asking for Devon. Michaela calms him down and sends Simone to find Devon. Bruce starts talking to Michaela as if she's Andrea, Devon and Simone's mother. He apologises for failing her. Michaela opens up about her own trials with pregnancy. Bruce tires out and goes to sleep. After this, Peter apologises to Michaela for not being able to have kids. He then reveals the truth about going to his grandchild's christening. Michaela says she knows and she understands. They make up but Peter slips up and reveals that Simone knew about it. Simone comes across Ethan while looking for Devon. He's drunk and calls her a monster, continuously rambling and edging closer to the cliff. Simone tries to stop him but he falls off and Devon hears his scream from the beach. Simone runs back to the house and tells Michaela and Peter, who call 911. The photographer who's been waiting for Michaela all this while enters the room. He insists that Michaela see a photograph. It's a picture of Peter kissing Simone. The Episode Review Sirens Episode 4 is chaotic in a positive kind of way. With more characters in the fray, conversations are more dynamic and relationships are put to the test. Scenes move faster and the episode has more energy compared to the previous ones. Simone is forced to see her father again and after everything we hear about her past, I can actually see why she doesn't want to show up for him now. In fact, it kind of turns Devon's argument on its head which is interesting. For the first time, the series gives Simone's perspective more weight. Michaela also seems less sinister than before. The entire conversation about medicines and PTSD dives into the sisters' relationship and unpacks quite a few layers there! It's very nicely done and both actresses do a great job. On the other hand, Peter and Michaela's patch-up seems a bit too easy but with that cliffhanger, things are definitely going to blow up soon. Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Daily Mail
05-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Barnaby Joyce's confession on Sunrise leaves Nat Barr visibly stunned
Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce will undergo surgery today, just one day after revealing his prostate cancer diagnosis. The surgery comes after his convincing re-election to the NSW seat of New England on Saturday night, where he secured more than 67 per cent of the two-party preferred vote. Speaking on Nat Barr's Sunrise on Monday morning alongside Labor Minister Tanya Plibersek, Mr Joyce said he would be heading into surgery shortly after the interview. 'Literally straight after this I'm going straight down the road and straight into surgery,' he said. 'I've got a flood tyre on the truck. I will fix that up, then going straight down the road and straight into surgery. Barr appeared visibly shocked by Barnaby's admission that he was appearing on her show before surgery. Mr Joyce, 58, had taken a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test after receiving advice from his doctor. The test returned an elevated result, and he underwent an MRI scan and biopsy which confirmed the diagnosis of prostate cancer Joyce revealed his diagnosis just hours after being reelected as the Member for New England 'If you're a guy — and that's about half your audience, I imagine — or you know a guy, and that's the other half of your audience, once you get into your 40s, 50s, get a PSA test and clear your own mind that everything's fine. 'If you get it early, you're going to overwhelmingly be OK. 'But if you're too busy to get checked, then you're putting your family in real strife, because it's not going to be good. It's not going to be good for you or your family. 'Look at this beautiful world - you want to live as long as you possibly can in it. If you're blessed to have that opportunity.' Ms Plibersek praised Mr Joyce for openly sharing his diagnosis with the public. 'It's very brave of Barnaby to share his experience,' she said. 'I really do think that having high-profile people like Barnaby talk about their health challenges is really important to encourage other men to get the test.' What you need to know about prostate cancer Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia, and it is estimated that one in six males will be diagnosed by the time they are 85. Early (localised) prostate cancer refers to cancer cells that have grown but do not appear to have spread beyond the prostate. There are two stages of advanced prostate cancer: locally advanced prostate cancer where the cancer has spread outside the prostate to nearby parts of the body or glands close to the prostate metastatic prostate cancer where the cancer has spread to distant parts of the body. Symptoms of prostate cancer Early prostate cancer usually does not cause symptoms. Advanced prostate cancer symptoms can include: frequent urination, pain while urinating, blood in the urine or semen, a weak stream, pain in the back or pelvis, weak legs or feet. More widespread disease often spreads to the bones and causes pain or unexplained weight loss and fatigue. Causes of prostate cancer Age, increasing rapidly after 50 years of age. Family history of prostate, breast or ovarian cancer, especially BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations. A father or brother diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 60. Testing for prostate cancer There is no single, simple test to detect prostate cancer. Two commonly used tests are the PSA blood test and the digital rectal examination.
Perth Now
04-05-2025
- Health
- Perth Now
Go get tested: Barnaby Joyce reveals cancer diagnosis
Federal Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has been praised for being "very brave" after revealing he will undergo surgery for prostate cancer. The one-time deputy prime minister, who comfortably won his regional NSW seat of New England in Saturday's election, revealed his diagnosis on Sunday. Mr Joyce, 58, received the diagnosis following a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test. The test came back with an elevated result and a subsequent MRI and biopsy revealed he had prostate cancer. Mr Joyce, who will have the surgery on Monday, told Seven's Sunrise program he kept his diagnosis quiet until after the election. "I waited until obviously after the election - I didn't want a big circus going on," he said. "Literally, straight after this ... I'm going ... straight down the road and straight into surgery." Mr Joyce said he felt fine, before noting that was normal with a disease like prostate cancer. "You don't feel bad, you go to the toilet a bit more than you should," he added. Federal Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek praised Mr Joyce for going public with his diagnosis. "It's very brave of Barnaby to share his experience," she told Seven. "I really do think that having high-profile people like Barnaby talk about their health challenges is really important to encourage other men to get the test." Ms Plibersek noted that Labor Party national president Wayne Swan, 70, was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 48. "Wayne had surgery decades ago and his health is terrific," she said. Prostate cancer was generally very treatable if caught early, Mr Joyce noted. Labor had a landslide victory at the election, reducing the coalition to one of their worst performances at the polls, after Liberal Leader Peter Dutton lost his own seat.
