Edition No. 12
October 2020
The Redcliffe Rave EDITOR RICHARD LANCASTER
From the Editors Desk
After an exhaustive yearlong battle involving local Woody Point residents and developers, the Traders in Purple group, relating to a proposed high rise development on the old Filmer’s Palace Hotel site, the Land Court has ruled in favour of the developer and the Moreton Bay Regional Council, thereby dismissing the residents objections. “It has been a costly and time consuming exercise” said Traders in Purple Managing Director Charles Daoud. “ Now that we have the go ahead we will start immediately. The project will generate 150 direct jobs and 250 indirect jobs “ he concluded.
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The case is rumoured to have cost Purple Traders over $400,000. Increasingly objections from nearby residents to high rise developments have become a regular feature on the Peninsula and views are mixed on this highly contentious issue. On the one hand, the Peninsula desperately needs development to continue to grow, but residents believe that development should be tempered by giving careful consideration to the impact on natural surroundings, historic values and most importantly, the needs of local residents.
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The ‘not so’ Wild West
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The End of Humanity
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That’s down right Silly
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As editor of this newspaper, it gives me great pleasure to let you, our readers know that `The Redcliffe Rave` now has two sponsors. Both individuals have been strong supporters of the `Rave` concept since its inception and both are good mates of mine too. Both exhibit the qualities that I admire most in people. They are Integrity, a capacity for Hard Work and Loyalty. Our sponsors are Shane Newcombe CEO of MBRIT and Charles Daoud CEO of TRADERS IN Purple.
The Other Diary We all know of The Diary of Anne Frank. It’s the story of a young Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazi’s, in war torn Amsterdam. The diary was published in 1947 and subsequently became a world best seller. Few however have heard of another diary, equally poignant and terrible, this time happening in the Polish city of Lodz . The author was a 15 year old Jewish boy named Dawid Sierakowiak who was a resident of the Nazi created Lodz Jewish Ghetto along with his Edition 12 - October 2020 - The Redcliffe Rave
family, in 1939.. He began making notes which vividly described the suffering, horror and cruelty that the Jewish community suffered under the brutal Nazi regime. In the five notebooks that comprise his diary he vividly described the harsh conditions of the Ghetto. He also writes of his disdain for the Jewish leader of the Ghetto and the moral breakdown of his father during that time. He died in the Ghetto aged 19 in 1943, of starvation. His diary can be purchased.
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The `Not so Wild` West by Richard Lancaster
I sadly had a long held belief shattered the other day. It happened as I read the pages of Bill Bryson’s book `Made in America`. In this book, Bryson, an American born writer de-mythologizes his native land in a most readable fashion. But I digress. At the age of about 8 through to 12years, each Saturday morning, come rain, hail or shine, a small cadre of mates and I would attend the Scala Theatre in Claremont, a suburb of Cape Town and in the dark, watch enthralled as our heroes, the likes of Hopalong Cassidy, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry conquered the West by eliminating a seemingly endless number of `baddies`, who were consistently engaged in stagecoach and bank robbery, cattle rustling and other nefarious goings on. Whilst the Red Indians were generally peaceful and therefore played a supplementary role in most of these movies, there was the odd tribe which `got out of line` and they were also summarily dealt with by our heroes. Although these images didn’t constantly occupy my mind throughout my growing years, they were successful in slotting into the memory bank, creating an image of how the American Wild West was won by a number of unbelievably brave cowboys, who were great horsemen and who were also quick on the draw. As I grew older, I continued to meet more of these fantastic cowboys. Their names had changed to Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Randolph Scott and even Clint Eastwood and Yul Brynner and they were still shooting `baddies` and consistently winning the Wild West. My memory bank was reinforced with these new sets of images and the message remained solid. By now my psyche was sold on this simple message of how, under the most difficult of circumstances , these gun slinging cowboys tamed the hostile West of America. And how wrong that turned out to be! I was conned along with millions of adoring followers of those Wild West cowboys. The making of the fantasy, that was the conquering wild west and the shattering of my long held belief, commenced in the 1880’s. At the time, the vastly growing American public was eager to find heroes to tie into their dreams and two clever individuals, an artist and a writer stepped in and more
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than adequately satisfied their needs. Artist Frederic Remington started painting action scenes filled with cowboys engaged in gunfights, fighting against cattle rustlers, bank and stagecoach robbers. These images were created from his fertile imagination as he had never been west or even ridden a horse. Seeing the success of the Remington art work, a writer, Owen Wister with an equally fertile imagination started writing cheap novels on a similar theme. These books sold in the thousands and when he produced his first full length novel `The Virginian`, the public readily embraced the story of an Easterner, who goes out west and becomes a cowboy hero. The book sold 50,000 copies in a few months and 3 million overall. Hollywood made it’s first western in 1903 and by the 1920’s westerns accounted for a third of all movies made. The mystic of the cowboy was growing. The western continued its popularity, reaching its zenith in 1959, when American television networks had 28 westerns all running at the same time. But Bryson research burst the western myth. As he says “It was decidedly odd that these heroic figures of the West, whose lives consisted of herding cows across the vast western plains and whose ideas of excitement was a bath, a shave and a night on the town, should be made into a symbol of many things- courage, honour and chivalry.” So these cowboys didn’t spend their time in gunfights! In fact, Dodge City whose reputation as a lawless town was number one in Hollywood profiling, had only 34 people buried in the notorious Boot Hill cemetery and almost all had died from natural causes. Sadly the Hollywood myth convinced us that the West was populated largely by gun slinging cowboys. The facts say otherwise with farmers out numbering cowboys by 1000 to 1! Even at their peak, there were fewer than 10,000 cowboys out west and at least a quarter of them were Mexican or black Americans. Even the stagecoach, so much a part of Hollywood movies, lasted for less than a decade, replaced by trains in 1869. The Pony Express, similarly lasted for only 2 years. Oh well, as research untangles more historical myths, I wonder what the next set of truths will reveal? The question is `Is it that important to know the truth anyway?`.
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A GREAT COUNTER LUNCH by our Fine Dining Editor Gina Naylor
Rumour Mill • Whispers are getting louder by the day that a well known mining magnate and political activist is seeking a DA from Council, to establish a boutique casino, bar, restaurant and luxury accommodation complex at Woody Point. Apparently detailed plans have already been drawn up and submitted and negotiations to purchase the site are well advanced.
One of my favourite types of meal is a pub lunch or a counter meal. The Ambassador at Redcliffe’s lunch menu is superb, with it’s typical Aussie Pub vibe,relaxed and casual. But it got me thinking where did the original idea for a counter meal come from? In 1857, a Melbourne paper advertised that • Speaking of advanced plans there is word from a reliable Gregory’s Tavern had the idea of a counter lunch, source that a budding entrepreneur is looking at opening which included a glass of beer or a Yorkshire Ale, a restaurant at the Clontarf entrance to the old Hornibrook for just one shilling. Over the next couple of years Highway. It is said that it will be an indoor/outdoor affair, other Melbourne establishments began promoting utilising the old toll keepers tower, which is the focal point their counter lunches, with a shilling also being of the old bridge. the going rate. However, the brawl for customers became more competitive and publicans soon • Local photographer took pic of the demolition of ancient began offering a free lunch with the purchase of tree on Peninsula. Offered the pic free to local e newspaper a sixpenny or even threepenny glass of ale, and so in return for his name on pic and access to finished article. began, the troubled history of the counter lunch. Pic was accepted by newspaper. When e paper was Who would have thought that offering a counter published he asked for copy of article with his pic. Was told lunch could get a pub into trouble? The drinkers got he would have to subscribe to the paper to view his pic. a feed and the publican sold his beer. The problem Not happy Jan!! was that free counter lunches started sending publicans broke. While the publicans had relied on patrons eating moderately , they enjoyed the almost free fare and ate to their hearts content One paper even advertised, “Cold by Richard Lancaster meat, sausage rolls, salad, bread, biscuits, and cheese with a glass One subject that continues to occupy the minds of scientists is of stout or ale all for 6d.” Times what would be the most likely cause of the end of our human have changed since then, but the species on this planet. name “Counter Lunch” remains the same. At the Ambassador, There are many possible natural and man- made disasters that I enjoyed my perfectly cooked can cause problems for the human race, but there are few that Chicken Kiev with a glass of cider might wipe us out completely as a species. If the planet’s entire and my lunch date loved his Reef human population fell below one thousand and advanced and Beef with a glass of Merlot. genetic engineering techniques were not available, then that small gene pool would surely spell the end of the human species. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million people, but even that, combined with all the deaths from the then recently ended W.W.1 of another 20 million, still didn’t end humanity. However a super plague could well spell our demise as could a large In the United States when a asteroid, similar to the one that hit the earth 65 million years ago. criminal is condemned to death, Current scientific wisdom suggests that that sort of event occurs he or she is transferred to death only once every 100 million years. row. When the time comes for their execution they are given A supernova, enough to cover the earth in significant radiation the choice of a last meal. The would certainly be disastrous, but fortunately there doesn’t most common choice is ham appear to be any identifiable star close enough to create or steak with chips. Other foods that. Super volcanoes could all erupt simultaneously, which requested have included oysters, in turn could create gigantic tsunamis, both together would garlic bread, crisps, ice cream have significantly detrimental effects on the world’s human and selections of lollies and population. With the earth’s magnetic poles ability to shift, which chocolate. they do over hundreds of thousands of years, the gap created and the resultant lack of protection from the sun’s rays, could Probably the most bizarre request spell disaster for the human race. was from mass murderer Joshua Jones who in 1839,chose a one But all of that pales into insignificance when one considers dollar bill in between two slices of what we humans are currently doing to the planet on a rapidly bread, before being hanged. escalating pace and in so doing hastening our own demise.
The End of Humanity
Last Supper
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Now that was downright SILLY!!! • Furious at being sold baking powder instead of cocaine in a drugs deal, a French woman reported the con to the police. They found the white powder was cocaine and arrested her for possession. • A bank robber in Alabama planned a bank hold-up down to the last detail- except that as he fled in his getaway car, it ran out of petrol. • A wildlife volunteer at a Columbian animal refuge stuck her hand through the bars of the tiger cage to show visitors that it was perfectly safe to do so. But the Bengal tiger inside bit her arm off at the elbow.
Dr. Denny’s More Advice on Food • According to a report in the Journal OF Biological Chemistry, the yellow pigment in curry, curcumin, can stop amyloid plaques forming in the brain, which cause Alzheimers disease • Garlic can cure mouth ulcers and verrucas. • Too much salt consumption.
is not good for human
• A puzzled American woman called mechanics, after driving her husband’s speedboat to a nearby lake, only to find that the boat would not move. Finding nothing wrong with the engine, the mechanics looked below the waterline… and discovered the boat was still on the trailer.
• Chillies can help you breathe more easily.
• To celebrate her son’s return from his final year at university, a proud mum made a Welcome Home banner from a sheet tied between two trees. As the son arrived home, a strong wind caught the banner and snapped off a large tree branch- which fell on her son, putting him in hospital with concussion.
• Do not drink tea or coffee with meals. The tannin in both prevent absorption of certain nutrients.
• As she waited to see her brother in hospital, a Belgian woman saw a sunbed in an empty room. To kill time, she lay down for a free tanning session. The sunbed was specially set up to treat skin-cancer patients for no more than 10 seconds at a time. Half an hour later, she was admitted to intensive care, with third degree burns.
• U S research has found that ½ a teaspoon a day of cinnamon can reduce blood sugar in diabetics.
• If you are taking medication, avoid washing it down with a glass of grapefruit juice. Evidence has shown it prevents some drugs from breaking down. • Harvard University scientists say that eating a chocolate bar a week can extend your life by up to a year.
Stevie Hart’s KRAZY QUIPS Why was the Egyptian boy confused? Because his Daddy was a Mummy. Why can’t a cheetah play hide and seek? Because he’s already been spotted. How do witches tell the time? With a witch watch, of course. When do astronauts eat? At launch time.
What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo? A woolly jumper.
What do you call a blind dinosaur? Do-you-think -he saw-us.
Why didn’t the skeleton go to the dance? Because he had no body to go with.
How do you make a swiss roll? Push him down a hill.
Why did the tightrope walker visit his bank? To check his balance.
What song did Cinderella sing while she waited 6 months for her photos to come back from processing? Someday my prints will come.
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The Cycle of Life “Biking from town to town – the world is my friend” by Baz Richards
In the last Redcliffe Rave we reported on our bicycle tour ride in Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi. Enthused by this a few years later we took another bicycle adventure from Vietnam through Cambodia and then Thailand finishing in Bangkok. Both tours were organised by Sharron Sharp (then, of Redcliffe Cruise and Travel) and she and her husband Roy did both tours. Everything was organised with the bike tour groups who provided the hybrid bikes, a large bus for all the riders (you could opt out of sections and sit in the bus). They also had a spare bikes, a repair truck with all things needed such as tubes, tyres and tools and there are bike mechanics following the group. It was interesting with the last tour as we had to get 3 separate bike tour companies- one for Vietnam, one for Cambodia and one for Thailand. So, you change buses, bikes and meet a new crew who are all very helpful and friendly. These crews knew all the great lunch stops where we would grab a meal and have a few beers or wines and get back on our bikes. Our groups on these tours have consisted of Moreton Bay Road Runners, Bay Bikers and other friends. Typically, about 20 of us on each tour Looking at another location such as Japan or New Zealand for when we are allowed to travel again.
Sneezing!
With Covid 19 in control, one is now very careful about sneezing. Up until 2019, sneezing was accompanied by a rhyme. May it return soon! One’s a wish. Two’s a kiss. Three’s a disappointment. Four’s a letter. Five’s something better. Six is a journey to go.
OZZIE BOB tell it Straight! When I was a little kid in school, us kids were taught that Captain Cook was hotter than Sinbad the Sailor, that Australia Day was bigger than Dolly Parton’s boobs, and that BLM meant Bloody Lovely Mate.
And you gotta blow kisses instead of hanging a real one, on the bride’s sister. My best mate Dodger is not happy at all. His teenage kid wants to move to Victoria to join the cops so he can separate old ladies from their mobile phones, and shag chicks in hotel quarantine. And that’s not all! He wants to change his name to Dan. When Dodge asks him why, the kid says, “I can’t recall.”
It’s all changed now. Cookie’s a crook, Australia Day gets trashed by the mugs and BLM means if you’re white you’re trailer trash. If you go to a wedding you’ve got Buckley’s. If you wanna do the Twist with the sassy bridesmaid, you can’t, cos the dance floor’s reserved for the happy couple.
So when Dodge says, “What kind of answer is that?” The kid says, “I dunno. I don’t remember.”
Icebergs With the earth’s climate warming, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of icebergs melting and plunging into the sea. It is not generally known that icebergs are gigantic blocks of non- salty water that are parts of bigger glaciers that break off and fall into the sea. Glaciers form on land as an accumulation of snow gathers, over thousands of years.
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Successive layers of snow compress earlier layers until at depths of around 60 metres, glacial ice is formed. Glaciers move and flow outward under their own weight and tidal pressures cause pieces of the glacier to break off, which is known scientifically as calving. Seawater can create various colours in the ice and icebergs can be green, black, striped and even rainbow. Page 5
Movie Magician Brian Lee Watson on Lights Camera Action
ARTSMATTER…
So we have the camera rolling, audio being recorded and the actors are in another zone playing their characters. As the scene ends you call cut and the sound person will save the wav file and the camera man will stop recording .Ask the sound person `Audio good?` Join the camera person and screen through the footage on the monitor. Are you happy with it ? Does it capture the scene the way you want it? Is the lighting ok? Does the scene require reflectors in a daylight scene or is the lighting great for a night scene?. Do the actors capture what you want for that scene ?Can it be edited ok? These are some of the questions you must ask yourself .
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR …Janice Charlish
Even if you think that’s a great scene, always reshoot that angle again as a safety shot. Shoot all the scene angles that are in the shot list. In fact the more different angles the better . Shoot your wide shots, mediums and close ups as per your shot list ticking them off as you go. Grab those extra money shots on the run as it will help in postproduction. Also there will be mistakes that you didn’t see on set, so its imperative that you have a different angle to cut to in post. Only move to the next scene when all the angles are shot and the footage and audio has no major issues. Look after your crew and talent and they will perform admirably for you. Never raise you voice and never forget they need good food and drinks.
ARTSMATTER… This is not fake news it’s fact, I Janice Charlish am nominating ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR …Janice Charlish for the President of the Redcliffe Art Society. I have been a member of RAS since 2009, Sponsorship Officer & This isGallery not fakeShop newsmanager it’s fact, I2015, JaniceRAS Charlish am nominating Retail Vice President 2016 for the President of the Redcliffe Art Society. and I still work on the shop roster monthly. I have been a member of RAS since 2009, Sponsorship Officer & Retail Gallery Shop manager 2015, RAS Vice President 2016 and I still work on the shop roster monthly.
Image Artist Tricia Reust member of moreton Bay Arts Council
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Halloween Family Fun Family Fun Halloween
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Gubbi Gubbi Dancers. Learn how to create a frightful character video using makeup and green screen techniques with Laughing Edition 12 - October 2020 - The Redcliffe Rave Goat Productions. Come dressed up and try trick or treating around the Cleverman exhibition collecting treats for an afternoon