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Capitol chaos is just the first act: The Republican party is shattered and civility is not coming back
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Nearly all US presidents have been good. Some have been great. Thus runs the mythology. On Inauguration Day the skies have been a wintry grey but when Kennedy or Roosevelt or Reagan stepped to the lectern the sun s brilliant rays shone forth with meteorological magic.
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Our reluctance to think, talk or communicate about death is even more pronounced when we deal with others loss compared to our own, new research finds, but either way we tend to frame attitudes and emotions in a sad and negative way.
Teaching new more positive ways to address these difficult conversations is the focus of a new paper in
PLOS ONE journal by palliative care specialists across Australia.
Led by Flinders University s Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying (RePaDD) and Palliative and Supportive Services, researchers from Flinders, CQUniversity Australia, NT Palliative Care Central Australia and University of Technology Sydney, surveyed 1,491 people about the use of language to express their feelings and insights into death and dying.
Australian artist Eugenie Lee evokes the chronic pain of endometriosis in high-tech experiential artworks
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Lee lives with endometriosis and adenomyosis and has experienced pelvic pain for nearly three decades.
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Eugenie Lee has strapped a thick, strange-looking belt, a kind of torture device, to gynaecologist and endocrinologist Dr Natasha Andreadis.
The custom-built haptic device gives the wearer pelvic pain-like sensations, and at first, Dr Andreadis s descriptions of the experience are fairly innocuous: I m feeling like my organs, woah, are really getting a deep massage.
But once Lee ratchets up the intensity level, Dr Andreadis says it s like someone s punching you and they ve got spikes on their knuckles .
Regent Theatre, Mudgee, State Heritage listed
Roxy Theatre, Parramatta, built in 1930, State heritage listed
Theatre Royal Lithgow, closed for more than a decade, was recently up for sale with no takers
Yass Liberty, art deco theatre currently for sale
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The owner of the Enmore and Metro theatres wants to revive NSW s oldest theatre under a model that could extend the working lives of other dormant theatres across the state, including Parramatta s Roxy Theatre.
One week after the Minerva Theatre in Kings Cross was heritage listed, potentially saving the 1930s art deco building from redevelopment, Century Venues has stepped up its push to reopen the Victoria Theatre in Newcastle.