User:Cnwb

CNWB
About CNWB is a wikipedian from Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Perth in 1973 and lived briefly in Adelaide before his family moved to Melbourne in the late 1970s. CNWB is currently teaching History and English at a public high school in Melbourne's western suburbs. He enjoys a short gin and tonic with freshly squeezed lime, strong coffee, Coopers Sparkling Ale, and pinot noir. His favourite spice is cumin, his favourite herb is coriander, his favourite spice-mix is za'atar. His user page design was ripped off from User:Vague Rant. Talk to me by clicking HERE.	Wikipedia involvement CNWB has been a member of the Wikipedia community since 1 July 2004, and an administrator since 4 December 2005. He enjoys writing and contributing to articles about Melbourne and Victoria, Australia. You can often find him lurking at the Australian Wikipedians' Notice Board, patrolling New Pages, checking Proposed Deletions, copyediting, speedy-deleting, and other assorted tasks, and updating his ever-increasing Task List. Here is a gallery of photos uploaded to Commons, and an older gallery of stuff here.
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Italo Calvino ...who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable...	Claude Lévi-Strauss Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.
Jean-François Lyotard No self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations now more complex and mobile than ever before... one is always located at a post through which various kinds of messages pass	Shakespeare All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players: / They have their exits and their entrances; / And one man in his time plays his parts...
Jorge Luis Borges Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.	John Peel Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, life has surface noise.'
Aust / NZ News 30 September 2024 – Australia–Tuvalu relations, Climate change in Tuvalu Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands. (The Guardian) 28 September 2024 – 2024 AFL premiership season The Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans 120–60 in the Australian Football League Grand Final to win their fourth AFL premiership title. (The Guardian Australia) 26 September 2024 – Israel–Hezbollah conflict Israel rejects proposals from the United States, Australia, and the European Union to initiate a temporary 21-day ceasefire with Hezbollah. (Reuters) (Reuters 2) 23 September 2024 – 2024 AFL season In Australian football, Patrick Cripps wins his second Brownlow Medal with 45 votes, the most votes since the current voting system was introduced, and also becomes the seventeenth player to win the award more than once. (ABC News Australia) 18 September 2024 – Alleged Ghost developer and administrator Jay Je Yoon Jung is arrested in Sydney, Australia, on five charges related to the encrypted communication network's development and operation. (The Register) 11 September 2024 – Israel–Hamas war protests Victoria Police arrest 39 people and fire stun grenades, rubber bullets, and pepper spray at anti-war and pro-Palestinian protestors picketing outside a military weapons expo in Melbourne, Australia. (Al Jazeera)	World News Maia Sandu Maia Sandu (pictured) is re-elected President of Moldova. In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series. A canopy collapse at Serbia's Novi Sad railway station kills fourteen people. The ruins of a Maya city, dubbed Valeriana, are discovered in Campeche, Mexico. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Teri Garr Paul Stephenson Peanut Dub Jones Janey Godley Edzard Reuter
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