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Trailblazing Victorian councillor Tony Briffa to retire

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Trailblazing Victorian councillor Tony Briffa to retire

Antoinette (Tony) Briffa, the world’s first openly intersex public office bearer, has announced an end to their time as a Councillor in Melbourne’s west.

Tony Briffa served as Deputy Mayor of the City of Hobsons Bay in Victoria three times and was Mayor twice.

The next council election is in October. However, Cr Briffa confirmed they will not seek re-election for a fifth term.

“I have been involved in local council issues and advocacy for 23+ years,” Briffa said.

“This decision comes after considerable reflection on my career, family and future.”

Cr Briffa said, “As a Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Councillor, I’ve had the privilege of working with many incredible colleagues, council staff, dedicated community leaders, community groups, businesses and residents.

“Together, we have improved our community through upgrades to the foreshore, reserves, sporting facilities, playgrounds, shared paths, shopping strips, public toilets, kindergartens, libraries, dog parks, other infrastructure and much more.

“We’ve improved accessibility and ensured the council’s policies, plans and community services are inclusive of everyone irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender identity, race, faith, sexual orientation and sex characteristics.”

Coming out as Intersex

Born with Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (PAIS), Tony Briffa was born with physical attributes of both sexes. Raised as a female, they were not told the truth until later in life.

While on the council, Tony Briffa appeared on 60 Minutes and shared their intersex status with the nation.

Cr Briffa has also advocated for the rights of intersex people. They’ve called for an end to non-essential medical interventions on intersex children until they’re old enough to consent.

But Tony Briffa has always been more than the “I” in LGBTQIA+. They’ve championed equality and inclusion for all.

They said, “I am indebted to my family for their support during my years on Hobsons Bay Council; especially my lovely wife.

“I know it’s been very difficult for her at times – particularly when people are unkind about my sexuality, sex, gender or intersex variation.

“I’m looking forward to spending more time with her and other family members, as well as having a more private life.

“While I’m excited about the new chapter ahead, I’ll always carry fond memories of my time on the Council and a deep appreciation for the opportunity to serve our local community.”

Thank you Tony for your 23 years of support, service and advocacy for the pride, passion and power we’ll continue to have in Melbourne’s west.

Tony Briffa’s final term as Councillor will end on 26 October 2024.

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Chris Briffa Architects designed Tanizaki’s Shadows Apartment in Malta -- via ArchDaily

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Ray's House in #Valletta, Malta by Chris Briffa Architects @chris_briffa_architects. Read more: Link in bio! Photography: Chris Briffa Chris Briffa Architects: This fully introverted house is unique by Valletta standards – an attribute that well suited the client’s need for privacy. Confessing that he owned a weekend house in London, designed by the world-famous minimalist, John Pawson, the client complained that it was too much of a white sculpture, so this Valletta house needed to provide what his Pawson house could not – a congenial living space for artworks of all sorts – paintings, sculptures, eclectic furniture and large objects, with a Valletta church dome framed atop of the house… #casa #malta #архитектура www.amazingarchitecture.com ✔ A collection of the best contemporary architecture to inspire you. #design #architecture #amazingarchitecture #architect #arquitectura #luxury #realestate #life #cute #architettura #interiordesign #photooftheday #love #travel #construction #furniture #instagood #fashion #beautiful #archilovers #home #house ‎#amazing #picoftheday #architecturephotography ‎#معماری (at Valletta, Malta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVwYU7sPwJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ULF G BOHLIN: source: Scala Apartment / Chris Briffa Architects.

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OF THE MUSES: first single and video from "Senhal"

Welcome to the decadent and intimate OF THE MUSES universe with "I" the first single taken from "Senhal", the debut album out on My Kingdom Music on November 3, 2023. For the song the talented artist Giuseppe Briffa has edited an official video that you can see at https://youtu.be/PFd3OVHWgXQ

OF THE MUSES, a one-woman Blackgaze act headed by multi-instrumentalist Cristina Rombi, sing songs of grief and pain.  Musically, the Blackgaze can be considered the right place where her music lives, but elements from Doom, Black Metal, Post Metal and also Dreampop also play a quite prominent part in her unique sound that follows the steps of Alcest, Myrkur, Woods Of Desolation. The result is an intimate, decadent and exclusive Art that will allow OF THE MUSES to enter your soul in a furiously deep and confessional way like no one has ever done.

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Les bernard-l’ermite déménagent dans des déchets plastiques… et intriguent les scientifiques

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Après Plastic Bertrand, Plastic Bernard ? Les bernard-l’ermite élisent normalement domicile dans des coquilles vides, mais optent de plus en plus souvent pour des déchets plastiques.

  Publié: 20 février 2024, 15:42 CET

Mark Briffa

  Les bernard-l’ermite terrestres utilisent des bouchons de bouteille, des morceaux d’ampoules électriques ou même de bouteilles en verre cassées à la place des coquilles.

  C’est ce que montre une récente étude menée par des chercheurs polonais, qui ont étudié 386 images de bernard-l’ermite occupant ces coquilles artificielles. Les photos ont été analysées par ces scientifiques grâce à une approche connue sous le nom de « iEcology », ou écologie Internet, qui se base sur des photographies collectées à d’autres fins que des fins de recherche. Sur les 386 photos, la grande majorité (326 cas) montrait des bernard-l’ermite utilisant des objets en plastique comme abri.

  À première vue, il s’agit d’un exemple révélateur de la façon dont les activités humaines peuvent modifier le comportement des animaux sauvages, et même la façon dont les populations et les écosystèmes interagissent en conséquence. Mais de nombreux facteurs entrent en jeu et, bien qu’il soit facile de tirer des conclusions hâtives, il est important de s’interroger sur les causes exactes de ce changement particulier."

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L'étude

  The plastic homes of hermit crabs in the Anthropocene - Science of The Total Environment, 06.01.2024 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723075885#f0005

  [Image] Coenobita purpureus with artificial shells: (A) plastic cap, (B) bulb fragment, (C) metal cap with a glass bottle fragment.

Photographs: courtesy of Shawn Miller.

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Crafting Shadows into Architectural Folly| Chris Briffa Architects

Chris Briffa Architects reinterpret Junichirō Tanizaki’s famed essay, In Praise of Shadows to transform this seaside holiday home in Gozo Island into a mesmerizing narrative of Japanese austerity, anchored by a nuanced interplay of light and shadow. https://www.indiaartndesign.com/crafting-shadows-into-architectural-folly-chris-briffa-architects/

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Environmentalism has been rebranded into climate change and is nothing more than a sales pitch for politicians and wealthy industrialists betting on the new trend. Recall, the “Climate Gate” scandal broke on November 17th 2009. But by now there are several associated issues, such as “Glacier Gate” (1) and “Amazon Gate” (2), and it is time to figure out what it all means.

Climate Gate was the release (by a hacker or an insider) of thousands of e-mails and commented source codes from the Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU). There is enough fascinating material to write books about it (3), but one of the e-mails that have attracted most attention is one from November 1999 where Phil Jones of CRU wrote to Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes (the authors of the famous “hockey stick” graph that suggested unprecedented warming during the last century) saying: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” By itself, that could mean anything, but the source code of the related computer program makes abundantly clear that they substitute Keith Briffa’s original tree ring temperature proxy with Hadley’s instrumental record from 1961 onwards in order to hide the apparent decline in temperatures indicated by the tree-ring data (4).

The general impression that one gets from reading the material is that a small group of generously funded researchers have been torturing the temperature data from all over the globe to get it to show a 0.8ºC increase over the last 150 years, and, amazingly, they (together with Al Gore, MSM, IPCC and others) have managed to convince most people that such an increase is unprecedented, caused by human CO2 emissions, and disastrous for all life on the planet.

One of the other main issues in the climate gate scandal is that the Hadley Climate Research Unit has resisted releasing data and methods, so that other researchers could verify their results. The scientific method in general requires researchers to make their data and methods available for independent replication, and the British Freedom of Information Act specifically requires publicly funded institutions to do so, but the hacked e-mails make clear how the involved climate researchers have resisted and evaded legal and reasonable information requests.

Glacier Gate, on the other hand, is the debunking of the claim in the IPCC’s fourth assessment report that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than in any other part of the world and could “disappear altogether by 2035 if not sooner”. This statement has proven to be completely unfounded, and one glaciologist, Professor Cogley at Ontario Trent University, believe the IPCC has misread the date in a 1996 report which said the glaciers could melt significantly by 2350. The IPCC has now officially retracted the statement (5), but what makes it particularly embarrassing is that the IPCC chairman had ridiculed Indian scientists who refuted the claim, calling their work “voodoo science” (6).

Amazon Gate is another example of the flimsy evidence on which the IPCC have based their claims of climate calamities. In the Working Group II report of 2007 they state that “up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation” on the basis of a non peer-reviewed WWF report whose lead author, Andy Rowell, is a free-lance journalist. If you follow the reference used by WWF, it leads to a 1999 article in Nature about the impacts of logging. IPCC could have used that reference, as it is at least peer-reviewed, but the problem may have been that the Nature-article mentions nothing at all about climate change (2).

However, by now it doesn’t matter much what the evidence shows or does not show. The Climate Change Train is going at full speed and it is difficult to get off. Many institutions, which jumped on the climate change bandwagon before the Copenhagen summit, have committed themselves and their budgets to climate change activities instead of their usual activities, and now find it difficult to backtrack...

SOURCE: This is "The Runaway Climate Train", by Lykke Andersen. Lykke Andersen is the Director of the Center for Economic and Environmental Modeling and Analysis (CEEMA) at INESAD.

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(1) See summary at The Sunday Times “World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown” https://web.archive.org/web/20100124015736/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece

(2) See summary by James Delingpole at the Daily Telegraph “After Climategate, Pachaurigate and Glaciergate: Amazongate” https://web.archive.org/web/20100213010322/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023598/after-climategate-pachaurigate-and-glaciergate-amazongate/

(3) That has already been done. See, for example, “Climategate: Caught Green-handed” by Christopher Moncton [http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Monckton-Caught%20Green-Handed%20Climategate%20Scandal.pdf] or “Climategate: The CRUtape Letters” by Steven Mosher and Thomas Fuller [https://www.amazon.com/Climategate-Crutape-Letters-Steven-Mosher/dp/1450512437/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264982554&sr=1-1]

(4) See analysis by Steve McIntyre https://climateaudit.org/2009/12/10/ipcc-and-the-trick/#more-9483

(5) See The Times: https://web.archive.org/web/20111007072623/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece

(6) See The Guardian: https://web.archive.org/web/20130908063242/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/nov/09/india-pachauri-climate-glaciers

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Siracusa: si conclude stasera la terza edizione del Cine Oktober Fest 2023.

Siracusa: si conclude stasera la terza edizione del Cine Oktober Fest 2023. Si conclude stasera con uno Special dedicato al cinema di John Carpenter, la terza edizione di Cine Oktober Fest, edizione 2023. Un excursus video-musicale realizzato in occasione del quarantacinquesimo anniversario dell’uscita statunitense del film cult “Halloween”(1978), chiuderà all’Urban Center e al Biblios Cafè quella che per molti è stata la manifestazione più ricca di veri e propri documenti storici della cinematografia mondiale. Una terza edizione impegnativa, “titanica” – come la definisce il direttore artistico Giuseppe Briffa, per quanto riguarda i mezzi, i tempi e le risorse impiegate, ma che “ mi ha permesso comunque – ha dichiarato Briffa - di mettere a punto un programma di ampio respiro in tutte le sezioni trattate”. Che sono state definite su quattro linee direttrici: Scandinavian, Anniversary, Silent ImAge e Post-Horror Wave. Diversi e intensi sono stati gli incontri organizzati nel contesto della manifestazione, primo fra tutti quello con Remo Romeo, fondatore nel 1995 del Museo del Cinema di Siracusa e che oggi guarda con occhio vigile alla conservazione dell’inestimabile quantità di reperti storici consegnati al Comune di Siracusa in quello che è il nuovo museo a lui dedicato nell’antica chiesa dei Cavalieri di Malta. A Giuseppe Briffa, Remo Romeo ha più volte mostrato la sua gratitudine per avere speso tutto il suo impegno e dedizione nell’allestimento della mostra permanente, ora affidata alla Pro-Loco di Siracusa. Altro momento di condivisione e grande partecipazione è stato con la scuola media Quasimodo di Floridia; ai ragazzi, attenti e preparati, è stata offerta un’intensa e dettagliata lezione sulla storia del cinema, da Giuseppe Briffa e Ludovico Leone, vice presidente dell’associazione Post-Cinema che rappresenta la struttura portante del Cine Oktober Fest. “La cosa che mi premeva di più e credo la più apprezzata – ha commentato oggi prima della serata finale Giuseppe Briffa – è stata la scelta di lanciare per la prima volta una corrente di per sé contradditoria come il Post-Horror, che resta un diamante grezzo e poco comprensibile tutto da approfondire”. Perché, lo spiega ancora Briffa, “ quando si butta sul tavolo un nuovo format o come in questo caso una nuova corrente cinematografica sostenendo presuntuosamente che sia l’ultima avanguardia che la settima arte stia offrendo da 23 anni a questa parte, qualche rischio sicuramente si corre”. E già si pensa alla quarta edizione 2024. “Vorrei trattare – annuncia Briffa – gli angoli remoti del globo, come la Malesia, l’Iran o l’Islanda e omaggiare il nostro ormai storico Gotico e Macabro italiano che tanto ci manca. Penso ad Avati, Bava, Fulci, Fellini, quest’ultimo poco noto al grande pubblico per le sue indubbie virate nel regno esoterico ed oscuro: perché, come nel mio slogan e sempre più convinto, Il Cinema del Passato è il nostro Futuro”. Oggi 31 ottobre, come accennato in apertura, l’ultimo doppio appuntamento con il Cine Oktober Fest all’Urban Center, alle 21 con The Cinema of John Carpenter: un excursus filmografico su uno dei più grandi outsider della storia del cinema hollywoodiano della seconda metà del Novecento. Un Maestro, un uomo che ha sovvertito le leggi del cinema – come si legge nelle note diffuse da Post-Cinema – cambiando la forma da cui attingeva - fra cui Hitchcock, Ford, Segal – e che nonostante il suo continuo ed incessante andar contro l’establishment è riuscito a diventare mitologico nelle sue semplici ed immersive visioni di un mondo controllato dal capitalismo. La peculiarità dell’opera carpenteriana è anche nella sua duale funzione: di regia e composizione elettronica della synthwave per eccellenza. Stasera si affronteranno nove capolavori del Maestro con introduzioni, contributi editati ad hoc e musicati dal vivo come egli stesso propone nei suoi concerti in tutto il mondo. Alle 23, a seguire, Halloween- La notte delle streghe (1978): in occasione del 45esimo anniversario dell’uscita di un film considerato un’icona per le sue caratteristiche minimali e radicali nella forma stilistica. Girato in modo semi-indipendente, l’opera di Carpenter resta una pietra miliare della settima arte nel cinema di tutti i tempi. Musicazione dal vivo con Noemi Barbera, Chiara Pino e Ludovico Leone. Cine Oktober Fest ha partecipato con un focus sulla Scandinavia al Nordic Festival – I Boreali e la casa editrice Iperborea, che si è svolto all’Urban Center dal 27 al 29 ottobre, proponendo quattro pellicole stra-ordinarie firmate da Roy Anderson, Joachin Trier, Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer e Ari Asher. Hanno partecipato con letture e brevi performances teatrali gli attori dell’associazione culturale V.A.N. ( Verso Altre Narrazioni), Ornella Matranga e Riccardo Rizzo, che contribuiscono con il loro impegno a rendere più ricca e produttiva d’idee la Post-Cinema che oggi si regge – oltre che in autonomia e in autofinanziamento – sul contributo di giovani colti e volenterosi, tra i quali Claudio Pavia, grafico, Gianandrea Cama per la ricerca di sponsor e finanziamenti, e Davide Carnemolla per la critica. L’evento cinematografico siracusano è ideato e diretto da Giuseppe Briffa, presidente di Post-Cinema e dal vice presidente Ludovico Leone (musicista, graphic designer e regista indipendente); Cine Oktober Fest è patrocinato dal Comune di Siracusa in partnership con Siracusa Città educativa, Urban Center e Biblios Cafè Ortigia con la insostituibile collaborazione di Paola Tusa.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Manhunt underway for Daniel Briffa after prisoner escapes from Victoria jail as public warned not to approach inmate

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NBA: Bradley Beal, Wizards sued by fan over bet spat

Bradley Beal #3 of the Washington Wizards looks on against the Chicago Bulls during the first half at United Center on February 26, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.  Michael Reaves/Getty Images/AFP A fan is suing Washington Wizards star Bradley Beal for assault and battery and suing the team for negligence over a postgame incident in Orlando last month. The plaintiff, Kyler Briffa, of Orange County,…

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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits can be seen in the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta. This lovely composition was painted by Briffa

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Reef Guesthouse, #Bahrain by Chris Briffa Architects @chris_briffa_architects. Read more: Link in bio! In collaboration with local architect Jalal Al Najjar @jalalalnajjarofficial. Photography: Aldo Amoretti @aldoamoretti. Chris Briffa Architects: Inspired by traditional Bahraini courtyard houses with wind towers oriented to catch prevailing winds, this seafront guesthouse funnels the NW breeze into its captivating yard and around its volumes. Designed to immerse its guests into a transcendent experience, away from the generic local context while providing refuge from the unremitting demands of modern living, the building sits on reclaimed land and a hundred piles; its spartan composition of travertine, concrete, wood and glass sewn seamlessly together in a story of bespoke details and balanced proportions… #casa #manama #архитектура www.amazingarchitecture.com ✔ A collection of the best contemporary architecture to inspire you. #design #architecture #amazingarchitecture #architect #arquitectura #luxury #realestate #life #cute #architettura #interiordesign #photooftheday #love #travel #construction #furniture #instagood #fashion #beautiful #archilovers #home #house ‎#amazing #picoftheday #architecturephotography ‎#معماری (at Bahrain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmpC7oPuY9z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ULF G BOHLIN: source: Scala Apartment / Chris Briffa Architects.