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West Australian
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Outback Bloom: Mullewa's wildflower festival prepares for exceptional display of native flora
Mullewa's biggest and most beautiful time of year is about to bloom, which brings with it an influx of visitors. As the 2025 wildflower season draws closer, Mullewa is preparing for its Outback Bloom festival which will coincide with the Mullewa Agricultural Show. This year, entry to the show is free thanks to sponsorship from Community Bank Geraldton Bendigo Bank. Famous for its stunning array of native flora, Mullewa is gearing up to showcase some of the Mid West's most breathtaking natural beauty. City of Greater Geraldton mayor Jerry Clune said this year's weather conditions should lead to blooms a-plenty. 'Mullewa's wildflowers are truly a sight to behold, and thanks to the plentiful rainfall this year, we're expecting an exceptional display,' he said. 'If you make the effort to see them each season or have never enjoyed the magic of the Mid West's wildflower season, this is the perfect year to make the journey.' From Thursday, August 28 to Sunday, August 31, visitors to the small town can enjoy the Outback Bloom festival. Among the many activities to choose from are a range of guided walking tours, flower displays in the town hall, painting workshops, bush tucker yarns and a photography workshop. The Mullewa Agricultural Show takes place on Saturday August 30 at the Recreation Ground. 'Both events (are) highlights on the Mullewa calendar and provide a great opportunity to experience the town,' Mr Clune said. 'I also encourage visitors to check out Helen Ansell's gallery and Suzie's Aboriginal art studio to view local artwork inspired by the region, additionally be sure to call into the Mullewa Community Resource Centre for the latest information about what's happening in the area.' More information for both events can be found on the VisitMullewa website.
Agriland
31-07-2025
- Business
- Agriland
Heavy Cattle Breach the E5 Kg Price Mark at Carnew Mart
There were over 800 head of cattle on offer at Carnew Mart, Co. Wicklow, on Saturday, July 19. Speaking to Agriland after the sale, yard manager Eugene Clune said that the trade remains "exceptional with prices for quality beef cattle pushing forward again as several cattle passed the €3,000 mark and upwards of €5.00kg". Separately, Clune also confirmed to Agriland that Carnew Mart is hosting sales of cattle from TB restricted herds with cattle sold from the host farm. These cattle do not travel to the mart and are sold subject to district veterinary office (DVO) approval. Commenting on the general cattle sale last Saturday, Clune said: "There was a large entry of store cattle meeting a super trade with a great price of €2,220 paid for three Charolais-cross bullocks weighing 358kg equating to €6.20/kg. Some of the top bullock prices from the sale: 290kg Limousin bullock sold for €1,820 or €6.28/kg; Three 358kg Charolais bullocks sold for €2,220 or €6.20/kg; 766kg Charolais bullock sold for €3,700 or €4.83/kg. Clune said: "Heifers were also in high demand with prices passing €5.00/kg. We had two Limousin heifers weighing 684kg that made €3,500 or €5.12/kg." Some of the top heifer prices from the sale: Two 684kg Limousin heifers sold for €3,500 or €5.12/kg; 442kg Charolais heifer sold for €2,200 or €4.98/kg; 670kg Belgian Blue heifer sold for €3,330 or €4.92/kg. "Bulls remain a fantastic trade with quality continentals consistently making over €5.00/kg and up to €5.82/kg for quality lots," the yard manager said. Sample bull prices from the sale: Three 372kg Limousin bulls sold for €2,170 or €5.82/kg; 390kg Charolais bull sold for €2,200 or €5.64/kg; 410kg Limousin bull sold for €2,300 or €5.61/kg. Three Limousin-cross bulls with an average weight of 372kg sold for €2,170 or €5.82/kg. Some of the top cow prices from the sale: 738kg Aubrac cow sold for €3,340 or €4.53/kg; 662kg Limousin cow sold for €3,000 or €4.53/kg; 802kg Belgian Blue cow sold for €3,500 or €4.36/kg; 656kg Angus cow sold for €2,600 or €3.96/kg. Clune said: "Cows were in great demand also with Friesians making up to €3.50/kg and over, while beef cows sold from €4.00-4.50/kg. "Prices in general were up €40-60/head on previous weeks leading to a full clearance."
Boston Globe
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Are they panic attacks, or visitations from an ancient Greek God?
All of this makes Clune sound like Jonathan Franzen, a cartographer of Midwestern schools and suburbs. But if 'Pan' is a work of realism — and that's an open and interesting question — then it's interested primarily not in the realities of social existence (what it's like to live in a particular time and place) but in the realities of consciousness (what it's like to think in a particular way). Early in 'Pan,' Nick starts having what he comes to understand are panic attacks. Sitting in geometry class, he realizes that his hand is a thing, just like the textbook and eraser he sees in front of him: 'That's when I forgot how to breathe.' Soon after, he's watching 'The Godfather III' when he forgets 'how to move blood through [his] body.' He begins worrying that, if he stares at something or someone too long, his 'looking,' or his 'thinking,' or his very self (it's hard to tell them apart), will escape from his head and stick to what he's staring at. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up How does subjectivity, the ineffable feeling of being a person, arise from the material brain and its measurable neural firings? How is it that thinking takes place within time and yet seems to remove us from time? (There's Augustine again.) Think too much about thinking and these questions, and you, start falling apart. Nick is 'a pragmatist' (there's William James again), and 'Pan' follows the strategies he develops to deal with his panic and insomnia: note the symptoms that precipitate an attack; breathe into a paper bag; meditate. Advertisement Interwoven with this rather straightforward, if effective, story of mental health and its treatment is a wilder, stronger strand. Nick hooks up with a group of cool — read: trouble-maker — friends. They start hanging out in a family barn they call, with equal parts irony and mythic seriousness, the Barn. There, they do drugs (Nick doesn't; he's read they can trigger panic attacks), listen to music, engage in rituals (dancing, more drugs, sex), and decide that Nick has been inhabited by the Greek god Pan. As Ian, the group's ringleader, declares, 'When you are aware of the panic, you are seeing the truth of ordinary life' with 'absolute clarity.' Panic isn't a condition to be managed; it's a divine possession to be embraced. It shows us the truths — the subject is an object; selves are porous to one another; 'time was part of the body after all' — that we normally refuse to see. Advertisement Nick is regularly described as being 'loose,' ready at any moment to drift from his mind and the world. 'Pan' is, in many ways, a loose novel. It refuses to be one thing or the other; its plot moves — Nick tries out new ways of controlling panic; his friends come up with wilder theories about panic's sacredness — but at its own strange pace. Is the claim that Pan is real and within Nick meant to be taken literally? Or is it a metaphor to describe how we are visited by thoughts that seem beyond us? Yes and yes. Clune doesn't choose between what we might describe as the poetic and the novelistic, the mystic and the naturalistic, explanations of Nick's experience. When it comes to time and consciousness, Clune's perennial topics, visionary perception is perhaps just a deeper form of realism. Advertisement Anthony Domestico is an associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY, and the books columnist for Commonweal. His reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Baffler, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. PAN By Michael Clune Penguin Press, 336 pages, $29
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Appeal alleging House v. NCAA settlement ‘ignored' Title IX will pause back pay plans
Eight female athletes filed an appeal of the House v. NCAA settlement Wednesday in a California federal court, arguing that the landmark agreement violates Title IX. The appeal only addresses the back damages portion of the settlement, not the portion that establishes the system of direct revenue sharing with athletes. The watershed settlement, approved late Friday night by federal judge Claudia Wilken, has been years in the making. Last October Wilken granted the settlement preliminary approval, then waded through hundreds of objections filed over the ensuing eight months. Many of those objections were related to Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education and requires schools to offer equitable opportunities to women, including in sports. Advertisement Wilken was unmoved by those objections, repeatedly saying the antitrust case had nothing to do with Title IX. But she did leave the door open for future lawsuits based on Title IX targeting how future payments from schools to athletes will be made. The appeal will not impact revenue sharing — slated to start July 1 for all schools that have opted in — but will pause the back-pay damages portion of the settlement. John Clune, the attorney who represents the eight women filing the appeal, said he also filed an objection during the settlement adjudication process but that nothing came of it. 'We felt like we were standing on the table waving our arms that somebody had to address this issue, but none of the parties involved wanted to address it, and the courts didn't want to address it,' Clune told , saying Title IX was 'deliberately ignored.' Advertisement 'This was the only option.' The NCAA and lawyers for the plaintiffs in House v. NCAA did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The eight women represented in the lawsuit are Kacie Breeding Vanderbilt; Lexi Drumm, Emma Appleman, Emmie Wannemacher, Riley Hass, Savannah Baron and Elizabeth Arnold from the College of Charleston; and Kate Johnson from the University of Virginia. The appeal argues that the $2.8 billion in damages set to be distributed to former athletes who couldn't earn NIL (name, image and likeness) money before 2021 violates Title IX because female athletes will be paid less than football and men's basketball players. Advertisement Clune said the settlement suggests 'schools would have paid male athletes over 90 percent of their revenue over the past six years as though Title IX didn't apply. If Nike wants to do that, that is their choice. If the school, or a conference acting on the school's behalf tries to do that, they are violating the law.' 'They can either pay the athletes proportionately, or they can return all of their federal funds,' he said. 'But they can't do both.' Clune said his clients 'support a settlement of the case, just not an inaccurate one that violates federal law. The calculation of damages is based on an error to the tune of $1.1 billion. Paying out the money as proposed would be a massive error … Congress has expressly rejected efforts to prioritize benefits to football and basketball from Title IX's requirements.' Clune said the Title IX implications for future payouts are still to be determined. In the meantime, the appeal process is a 'slow burn,' with a briefing schedule and oral arguments likely to be set in the next nine to 12 months. Advertisement 'It wouldn't surprise me if we see lawsuits against schools for those (rev share) payouts at some point,' he said. This article originally appeared in The Athletic. College Football, Men's College Basketball, Sports Business, Women's College Basketball, College Sports 2025 The Athletic Media Company
West Australian
05-06-2025
- Health
- West Australian
City of Greater Geraldton releasing its first public health plan with National Push-Up Challenge
Community wellbeing is being pushed to the fore as part of the City of Greater Geraldton's first public health plan. To launch the plan, the city is taking part in the National Push-Up Challenge to raise awareness of mental health issues, with all money raised donated to headspace Geraldton. The challenge is 3214 push-ups over 23 days, representing the 3214 lives lost to suicide in Australia in 2023. City of Greater Geraldton mayor Jerry Clune aims to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and is challenging local groups and figures to get involved. 'We'd like to throw out our first challenge to the Mid West Ports Authority and our local member, Kirrilee Warr. The push-ups are in your court,' he said. Mr Clune said he was going to build up to his push-ups. 'I don't want to do myself an injury. Go too hard, too fast. I did two yesterday. I've done three today. So, by the 23rd day, I'm hoping I'll get up to my quota,' he said. 'If we can bring the numbers down from what it is and the conversations that are had aren't too late; everyone thinks 'I should have done this. I could have done that'. 'So it gets people talking, gets people activated. There's nothing like a bit of physical activity to get the brain cells working,' City manager regulatory services Andy Gaze said people could take part as a team. 'It doesn't have to be a proper push-up — on the knees, sit-ups, squats. It's not just about doing push-ups but talking about mental health, suicide prevention and maybe saving a few lives,' he said. The city's health blueprint, Living Well in Greater Geraldton — Wellbeing Plan 2026-2031, aims to make it easier for the community to access greener spaces and provide inclusive programs, safer neighbourhoods and healthier environments. 'Public health is about preventing diseases, promoting healthy behaviours and addressing health disparities to prolong life. That is why we are committed to the development of our first public health plan, which will guide decision-making to foster healthier outcomes,' Mr Clune said. The public is invited to have their say on the development of the city's wellbeing plan, with feedback earning an entry into a draw to win a fitness tracker, yoga mat/towel or a smart water bottle. The survey is available at and closes on Monday, August 25, at 9am. Lifeline 13 11 14
