Mapping laboratory hits new terrain P 2 QUT Central Administration 2 George Street Brisbane 4000 Telephone (07) 3864 2111 Registered by Australia Post – Publication No. QBF 4778 ▼ ▼ ▼ Recalling QUT’s fascinating past P 3 Queensland University of Technology Newspaper • Issue 191 • July 20, 1999 Solving a clanger of a problem P 5 QUT honoured several Australian and State leaders at graduation ceremonies held in April and May at the Queensland Performing Arts Complex. Queensland Govenor, Major-General Peter Arnison, (centre) received an honorary doctorate at a Faculty of Science graduation ceremony. He is pictured with 10 PhD graduates from the Science Faculty. • For more pictures and reports, see Page 5. Honours bestowed by QUT Hard work paid off for the recipients of the 1999 Outstanding Contribution Awards for QUT general staff when they received their prizes at a recent ceremony. Paula Callan, reference librarian at the Carseldine library, Jackie Comerford, manager of the Student Services and Cooperative Education unit at the Faculty of Information Technology and Veronica Hughes, graphic designer at the Publications and Printing Unit of the Division of Administrative Services were honoured for outstanding work. Ms Callan was recognised, for among other things, responsibility for significant innovation and improvement Outstanding staff recognised for valuable contributions in operating systems, technical and administrative procedures. Ms Comerford’s award was for significant innovation and improvement in operating systems, technical procedures and administrative practices. Ms Hughes was recognised for excellent service and promoting links between QUT and outside organisations. The Alumni Relations unit of the Development office, comprising Leesa Watkin, Jill Dale, Lisa Russell, as well as Deborah Sheedy, previously with the Faculty of Health, also received the award for contacting 2,500 graduates and former staff of the Central Technical College for a grand reunion in June 1998. More than 300 graduates and their families attended the highly successful reunion. The response from those who attended the reunion was that it was an oustanding event. The awards were presented by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dennis Gibson. Professor Gibson paid tribute to all those who had been recognised and thanked them for their contributions. First presented in 1996, the awards include a presentation plaque and certificate, as well as a $2,000 individual grant and $6,000 group grant to be used for work-related purposes. Juliana Yeh About 15,000 visitors flocked to QUT’s annual Course & Careers Day on Sunday, July 18 held under sunny skies at the Gardens Point campus. Employers and professional bodies were part of the action as the country’s fourth-largest university opened its doors to potential future students and their families. There were dozens of informative talks about courses on offer in QUT’s eight faculties. Hundreds of QUT faculty and administrative staff members were stationed at handy information points. Frisbee competitions were held throughout the day and participants whose frisbees landed in a tank went into the draw for one of five CD gift vouchers that were given away. The winners were Jason Allen, Prajwal Basnet, Amanda Jaques, Emma Bollington and Meilsa Henderson. Campus tours were held regularly, and a range of interactive, practical activities, kept visitors busy. One crowd-pleaser was a belly-dancer, Princess Shahara, who performed at the School of Public Health stall with a lumbar motion monitor attached to her back. Her message was that only trained people should attempt manoeuvres which place strain on the spine. Careers Day draws crowds “Professor and Professor, the Scientists of Fun”, caught the attention of six-year-old Georgia Amery at QUT’s Course & Careers Day.
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Page 1 Inside QUT July 20, 1999
Mappinglaboratoryhits new terrain
P 2
QUT Central Administration 2 George Street Brisbane 4000 Telephone (07) 3864 2111 Registered by Australia Post – Publication No. QBF 4778
▼▼ ▼
Recalling QUT’sfascinatingpast
P 3
Queensland University of Technology Newspaper • Issue 191 • July 20, 1999
Solving aclanger ofa problem
P 5
QUT honoured several Australian and State leaders at graduationceremonies held in April and May at the Queensland PerformingArts Complex. Queensland Govenor, Major-General Peter Arnison,(centre) received an honorary doctorate at a Faculty of Sciencegraduation ceremony. He is pictured with 10 PhD graduates fromthe Science Faculty. • For more pictures and reports, see Page 5.
Honours bestowed by QUT
Hard work paid off for the recipients ofthe 1999 Outstanding ContributionAwards for QUT general staff when theyreceived their prizes at a recentceremony.
Paula Callan, reference librarian atthe Carseldine library, JackieComerford, manager of the StudentServices and Cooperative Education unitat the Faculty of InformationTechnology and Veronica Hughes,graphic designer at the Publications andPrinting Unit of the Division ofAdministrative Services were honouredfor outstanding work.
Ms Callan was recognised, for amongother things, responsibility forsignificant innovation and improvement
in operating systems, technical andadministrative procedures.
Ms Comerford’s award was forsignificant innovation and improvementin operating systems, technicalprocedures and administrative practices.
Ms Hughes was recognised forexcellent service and promoting linksbetween QUT and outsideorganisations.
The Alumni Relations unit of theDevelopment office, comprising LeesaWatkin, Jill Dale, Lisa Russell, as wellas Deborah Sheedy, previously with theFaculty of Health, also received theaward for contacting 2,500 graduatesand former staff of the Central TechnicalCollege for a grand reunion in June
1998. More than 300 graduates andtheir families attended the highlysuccessful reunion.
The response from those whoattended the reunion was that it was anoustanding event.
The awards were presented by theVice-Chancellor, Professor DennisGibson.
Professor Gibson paid tribute to allthose who had been recognised andthanked them for their contributions.
First presented in 1996, the awardsinclude a presentation plaque andcertificate, as well as a $2,000 individualgrant and $6,000 group grant to be usedfor work-related purposes.
Juliana Yeh
About 15,000 visitors flocked to QUT’sannual Course & Careers Day onSunday, July 18 held under sunny skiesat the Gardens Point campus.
Employers and professional bodieswere part of the action as the country’sfourth-largest university opened itsdoors to potential future students andtheir families.
There were dozens of informativetalks about courses on offer in QUT’seight faculties. Hundreds of QUTfaculty and administrative staff memberswere stationed at handy informationpoints.
Frisbee competitions were heldthroughout the day and participantswhose frisbees landed in a tank wentinto the draw for one of five CD giftvouchers that were given away. Thewinners were Jason Allen, PrajwalBasnet, Amanda Jaques, EmmaBollington and Meilsa Henderson.
Campus tours were held regularly,and a range of interactive, practicalactivities, kept visitors busy.
One crowd-pleaser was a belly-dancer,Princess Shahara, who performed at theSchool of Public Health stall with alumbar motion monitor attached to herback. Her message was that only trainedpeople should attempt manoeuvreswhich place strain on the spine.
Careers Day draws crowds
“Professor and Professor, the Scientists of Fun”, caught the attention of six-year-old Georgia Amery at QUT’s Course & Careers Day.
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A word from the Vice-Chancellor
The long-awaited Federal GovernmentGreen Paper on Research, NewKnowledge, New Opportunities, is thefirst major review of research policyand funding in Australia for a decade.It will undoubtedly change the researchlandscape, especially for universities.
Of course it provides opportunitiesand challenges for QUT. The emphasison collaborative teams working withindustry on real-world problems andthe commercialisation of researchunderscores the traditional directionsof this university.
The research training issues raisedhave already been recognised at QUT,partly through the outcomes of thePitman Review of Research undertakenlast year. The appointment of a directorof Postgraduate Research Studies,collaborative efforts with the otherAustralian Technology Network(ATN) universities, as well as asubstantially revised research planwhich emphasises end-users of research,have positioned QUT well to respondto the new environment.
The proposed new fundingarrangements are not entirely clear.
A single National CompetitiveGrants Program subsuming mostcurrent Australian Research Council(ARC) programs will be allocated totwo elements of research, namely tofundamental “discovery” research, andto collaborative research andinvestment in strategic infrastructurewhich creates “linkage”.
The research training component ofoperating grants, research quantum andARC small grants schemes are to bereplaced by an Institutional GrantsScheme – allocating according to full-time equivalent research students,research income, including industryfunding.
Laboratory manager Maurice Friendhelped usher in a new era for theuniversity’s 25-year-old photogrammetrylaboratory before retiring from the jobhe has held for 20 years.
Mr Friend was on hand to celebratethe renaming of the laboratory as theMapping Science Laboratory at aceremony held by the School ofPlanning, Landscape Architecture andSurveying in D Block at the GardensPoint campus in June.
The new laboratory has been heraldedas a facility for the future.
It provides state-of-the-art digitalequipment for aerial photos, digitalterrain modelling (3D), satellite imageryanalysis and multimedia mapping.
The laboratory has been set up as aself-directed flexible delivery facility,with a variety of software and systemsinstalled for use by students andresearchers
Ian Pagan has been appointed the newlaboratory manager.
Andrea Hammond
We will need to ensure we arecompetitive in key areas to regain asmuch as is taken away.
The possibility for holders ofresearch scholarships to changeinstitutions after a year, intended toenhance student choice, will also havean impact on how we supervise,support and market ourselves toresearch students.
Responses to the Green Paper arerequired in Canberra by October 1.The Deputy Vice-Chancellor,Professor Peter Coaldrake, is co-ordinating a response from the ATNuniversities.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Researchand Advancement), Professor JohnCorderoy, will co-ordinate the QUTresponse through a number ofopportunities, including a specialseminar, as well as at meetings of theUniversity Research Committee andUniversity Academic Board.
No doubt faculty researchcommittees and other forums will alsogenerate views and inform ouruniversity’s response.
Professor Dennis Gibson
Research plan offerschallenges, opportunities
Marking a new era for QUT’s photogrammetry laboratory are (fromleft) School of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Surveyinglecturer Sue Buzer, new laboratory manager Ian Pagan and retiringmanager Maurice Friend.
MappingScience hashigh-techlaboratory
A number of QUT staff and former staffhave recently published or collaboratedon new books.• A novel, Angels in the Architecture, hasbeen written by Mary-Rose MacColl, aQUT graduate and the former executiveofficer for the Vice-Chancellor.
The new novel, from the 1995runner-up in the Australian/VogelLiterary Award, is a mystery, romanceand a 20th Century journey to faith andthe triumph of love set in a fictionalBrisbane university.
Ms MacColl teaches writing andissues in publishing part-time atQUT.• The Centre for Commercial andProperty Law recently released a bookhighlighting the controversial issue ofguarantees and solicitors’ certificates.
Guarantees and Solicitors’ Certificates:Guidelines for Lawyers, Financiers andGuarantors, traces recent developmentsin the law of guarantees, lookingparticularly at cases where legalpractitioners have been sued for negligencewhile advising guarantor clients.
It is a joint collaboration betweenProfessor Berna Collier and AssociateProfessor Bryan Horrigan of the centre,and Professor John Phillips from KingsCollege, University of London, whovisited the Law Faculty last year.
The book is the first in an ongoingseries of monographs to be published
University authorspublish new books
by the Centre for Commercial andProperty Law.•A joint effort between QUT andEducation Queensland has resulted in abook being published on curriculumdevelopment and leadership.
Funded by the Australian ResearchCouncil over more than three years,research teams have compiled amonograph titled Places and Spaces forTeachers in Curriculum Leadership.
The monograph contains a majorinput from a number of researchers fromQUT, including Tania Aspland, BobElliott, Ian Macpherson, AdrianMcInman and Christine Proudford, allfrom the School of Professional Studies,and Ross Brooker from the School ofHuman Movement Studies.
Novelist Mary-Rose MacColl.
From the Inside ... by David Hawke From the Inside ... by David HawkeFrom the Inside ... by David Hawke
Psychologists at QUT need volunteersto help them better understand whyAustralians love their motor vehicles.
They are calling for more than 100volunteers, aged 18 to 60, willing todiscuss how they treat their cars and theway they drive them .
Researchers call for car lovers to volunteerFocus groups of drivers of different
ages will be held at the Kelvin Groveand Gardens Point campuses.
QUT senior lecturer in PsychologyDr Sandy Smith said the research wouldalso focus on how people experiencedcar ownership and driving.
Interested drivers should call (07)3864 4623 and leave their name andcontact number.
Dr Smith said volunteers shouldindicate whether they are interested inparticipating as private vehicle ownersor as professional drivers.
World experts at workshop
‘It’s from the virtual universityinviting us to the welcomefunction for new staff andstudents. The party will beheld at vunewstaff.edu.au.’
Some of the most influential leadersfrom Australian and overseas higher
education organisations were among 100people who attended a two-day workshopat QUT last week to examine the Businessof Borderless Education.
The event marked the half-way pointin an international Evaluations andInvestigation Project (EIP).
The QUT project is being funded bythe Department of Education, Trainingand Youth Affairs (DETYA) and issupported in Australia by The Australian
The Committee of Vice-Chancellorsand Principals (CVCP) in the UK arecarrying out similar work overseas.
Opening the workshop, QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibsonsaid that convergence, deregulation, thechanging role of Government in highereducation, and greater expectationsfrom students and employers ofgraduates were driving change inAustralian universities.
The team’s initial EIP report,published last year, raised issues ofconsumer protection, co-ordination ofregulatory frameworks and accreditation.This second project focuses on the currentstate-of-play with corporate, virtual andfor-profit providers.
CVCP Director of PolicyDevelopment Dr Tony Bruce andSurrey University’s Professor of HigherEducation Robin Middlehurst travelledfrom the UK to present their researchfindings.
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10x3Textexchange
By Amanda O’Chee
Optometry researchers at QUT havedeveloped the world’s first
technique enabling optometrists to “see”as their patients see.
Traditionally, optometrists haverelied on patients to describe their vision,but the new technique, which couldpossibly be commercially availablewithin five years, is the first time thatoptometrists have been able to see howtheir patients view the world.
The technique has been developedusing signal and image processingtechnology used in electricalengineering, with optical techniquesdeveloped by QUT’s School ofOptometry.
Developed by a team including DrRobert Iskander, Associate ProfessorMichael Collins, Brett Davis andProfessor Leo Carney from QUT’sCentre for Eye Research, the technologywill enable optometrists to betterdiagnose and treat patients.
The technique works in two steps.The optometrist uses a wave front sensorsystem to map the optical aberrationson the patient’s eye.
Most of these aberrations can becorrected with conventional spectaclesand contact lenses.
Next, the information is fed into acomputer software program – developedusing signal and image processing tools– to reconstruct an image of the waytheir patient would view an object orscene, based on the patient’s eyeaberrations.
Dr Iskander said the technique wouldeliminate the problem of patients whoare unable to accurately describeproblems with their vision.
Breakthrough opensoptometrists’ eyes
OptometryresearchersDr RobertIskander andAssociateProfessorMichaelCollins(above) havedeveloped atechniquewhichreconstructshow patients“see” in tests(shown right).
By Andrea Hammond
The colourful history of QUT’s 13predecessor institutions is examinedthrough lively accounts and photographsin the book, A Class of its Own: A Historyof Queensland University of Technology.
The book was written by QUTacademics Professor Noeline Kyle andCatherine Manathunga and SunshineCoast University academic JoanneScott.
Professor Kyle said the history ofQUT was largely synonymous with thehistory of higher education in the State.
“QUT was established in 1989, butit incorporated a series of 13 predecessorinstitutions stretching back to 1849 andis the only university in Queenslandwhich can claim such a rich andextensive past,” Professor Kyle said.
“A Class of its Own explores thehistories of these institutions andexamines their distinctive aspects.
“It analyses their similarities inrelation to one another and sets them
QUT history book inA Class Of Its Own
within the broader history of highereducation in Queensland.”
Professor Kyle said the book hadplaced a deliberate emphasis on policiesand people and was based on interviewsand documents collected and writtenover four years.
The book, A Class of Its Own: a Historyof Queensland University of Technology,and an exhibition were officiallylaunched by former Director Generalof Education in Queensland ClydeGilmour in May at the QueenslandMuseum.
Fittingly, Mr Gilmour was also agraduate of the Central TechnicalCollege which went on to become QUTin 1989.
The exhibition, which ran until earlyJuly, provided a pictorial history ofQUT and its predecessor institutions.
The exhibition of photographs,artwork, posters and video weaved acolourful picture of the university andits predecessor institutions from themid-1800s to the present day.
(From left) Professor Noeline Kyle and Catherine Manathunga ofQUT and Sunshine Coast University academic Joanne Scott ...joint authors of a new book on the university’s history.
“There’s more to having bad visionthan having blurry vision; there can bedistortion or doubled vision and it’soften difficult for people to articulatethat,” Dr Collins said.
“Using charts to measure vision,doesn’t tell the whole story. Unless yousee what the patients are seeing you don’t
understand the complexities of whatthey’re seeing.”
The Centre for Eye Research wantsto encourage students studying electricalengineering, physics, mathematics andbiomedical engineering to considerundertaking post-graduate studies in thisfield.
By Andrea Hammond
Present and past students from QUT’sCarseldine campus are eligible to winone of 12 QUT Northern CorridorCommunity Achiever Awards.
The awards are designed to recogniseCarseldine Faculty of Business andFaculty of Arts students who have madea significant contribution to business,the arts or the local community.
QUT Pro Vice-Chancellor (NorthernCorridor Development) Dr Adam
Shoemaker said the awards would focuson innovative activities.
“We want to highlight our high-achieving students who have broughtsomething extra to the world of work,the arts, or have made a difference inthe community,” Dr Shoemaker said.
A pool of QUT students has beennominated for the awards, which arepart of the 1999 Quest NewspapersBusiness Achievers Awards.
The 12 new awards are part of acollection of initiatives designed to grow
the status of QUT in the NorthernCorridor region between Brisbane’snorthern suburbs and Caboolture.
Teaching in environmental sciencewill begin on the campus in July, whilea new communication major taught bythe Faculty of Business will beinaugurated in February next year.
QUT’s Faculty of InformationTechnology will also begin teachingundergraduate subjects at the Carseldinecampus, beginning in Semester One,2000.
Carseldine achievers to be rewarded
The Federal Government’s Voluntary StudentUnionism (VSU) legislation is still alive but whether itmakes it into law depends on the Democrats in theSenate, says Student Guild president, Makelita Cull.
Ms Cull said she now believed the legislation wouldbe brought before Parliament in the spring session.
“The Democrats now have the balance of power inthe Senate, and they have been vocal opponents of theBill and have said they will vote it down,” she said.
An anti-violence school program run by QUT ishelping to slash student truancy and detentions,preventing schoolyard fights and boosting students’academic performance.
The findings come from the first formal evaluationof the Peacebuilders program which is being run inseven Queensland schools, supported by AssociateProfessor Simon Petrie and Dr Gayre Christie fromQUT’s School of Justice Studies.
Results have shown that Peacebuilders – whichteaches students the skills to stand up against violenceand maintain a positive approach to life – can reduceschool violence, improve students’ attitudes towardslearning, and provides hope of ending the generationalcycle of violence in society.
Goodna State School, in Brisbane’s west, haswitnessed a remarkable turnaround since thePeacebuilders program was introduced in 1997 tocounter frequent graffiti attacks, disturbingly high ratesof truancy and detentions, playground violence andracial tensions.
In just two years, detentions have been cut by 43 percent and student satisfaction has increased 16 per cent.
Peace program brings resultsThe number of police callouts to the school fell
from 24 callouts – an average of more than once afortnight – in 1996, to just four callouts in 1998.
With fewer disruptions and less stress, students’academic results have greatly improved. Theproportion of students reading beyond their expectedreading age has increased across all school years.
Dr Christie said students learned and lived by fourmottos: praise people, give up put-downs, seek wisepeople, and notice hurts and right wrongs.
VSU Bill hits snags
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Australian corporations were too riskaverse and many managers were morelike “administrators rather thancapitalists”, Telstra chairman DavidHoare told business leaders in May.
Held back by market pressure forshort-term growth, increasing legislativeconstraints and legal responsibilities,corporations pursued business strategieswhich were too conservative, he said.
By Amanda O’Chee
P arents often overlook theimportance of teaching babies,
toddlers and young childrenmathematics, often focusing only onliteracy, QUT academics have warned.
QUT School of Early Childhoodlecturers Dr Nicola Yelland and DrCarmel Diezmann have written a bookwith St Margaret’s Anglican Girls Schoolteacher Deborah Butler on how parentsand teachers can teach mathematics tochildren from birth to the age of eight.
Maths problems are child’s playEarly Mathematical Explorations,
which is published by PearsonPublishing Solutions and is availablefrom QUT bookshops, outlinesfundamental maths concepts in everydaylanguage and provides activities forparents and teachers.
Although most parents understandthe importance of teaching their childrenhow to count, Dr Diezmann said manyparents did not know the importance orthe techniques of teaching childrenmathematical skills for the informationage.
“Many years ago, we did a lot ofcounting work and number crunching,”Dr Diezmann said.
“While that is still important, thereare other mathematical skills that areequally important and which ourchildren will need for the workplace ofthe next century.
“Now that we’re in the informationage, we’ve essentially got to start lookingat maths in a different light.
“With all the information that isavailable, children have got to be able tosort the information, understand it and
use mathematics for creative problemsolving,” she said.
Despite a plethora of child literacyand reading books, Dr Yelland said therewere no Australian books showingparents how to foster their children’smathematical skills.
As well as providing a range ofactivities and games for parents, teachersand early childhood teaching studentsat university and TAFE, the bookoutlines ways in which art, languagegames, shopping or even having a bath,can be used to teach children maths.
QUT School of Early Childhood lecturers (from left) Dr Carmel Diezmann and Dr Nicola Yelland say that teaching maths concepts can beincorporated into enjoyable children’s activities.
Tough-guyimage mayharm healthBy Andrea Hammond
The need to be “manly” may preventmen from seeking life-saving help fromhealth services.
Neil Pledger, a QUT nursing student,said health services failed to adequatelyaddress the physiological, psychologicaland social implications of being a man.
He presented a paper, Men’s Health, atan Australasian Nursing StudentsConference at QUT held earlier this month.
“Men in Australia use health careservices 26 per cent less than women,where all epidemiological evidencepoints to the fact that they need to usethem more,” Mr Pledger said.
“Manhood and the masculinestereotype it perpetuates of strength,invincibility and control are factorswhich negate the health of men.”
Mr Pledger said Australian men hadsignificantly higher rates of morbidityand mortality than women.
The incidence of coronary heartdisease among men is 253 per centhigher than women, while lung canceris 220 per cent, and stomach cancer 136per cent higher.
“Nine out of every 10 people whohave HIV are men, men are six timesmore likely to commit suicide, andminority groups such as homosexualsand Aboriginal men are even at greaterrisk than their white, heterosexual malecounterparts,” Mr Pledger said.
US exchange student Tregenna Myrabo is one of 75 Internationalexchange students who will study at QUT this year.
Exchange bursaries up for the takingTen lucky students with the travel bugwill have the chance to receive $2,000each under a new QUT bursaries schemefor students undertaking aninternational exchange in Norway,Sweden, France, Germany and the US.
QUT will offer bursaries for studentscompleting an exchange in Semester 1,2000, to selected European and USuniversities.
Exchanges and study abroad officerin the Office of International RelationsRaelene Frederiksen said competition foran exchange in the UK was fierce andQUT was trying to encourage morestudents to complete their exchanges inEurope and the US.
“We’re particularly keen to sendexchange students to Europe (Sweden,Norway, France and Germany) and theUSA as we have some difficulties inbalancing exchange agreements in thesecountries,” Ms Frederiksen said.
Applications for the next round ofexchanges close on Monday, August 16.Application forms are available from theOffice of International Relations, Room
Third-year visual art student ShaunO’Connor has become the fourth QUTstudent in eight years to win theprestigious Churchie Memorial ArtPrize.
Mr O’Connor won the 1999 $3,000prize with a strong, graphic black andwhite work that combines elements ofillustration, graphics and montage.
Art studentwins Churchie
Mr Hoare, who was speaking to 310people at the QUT Business Leaders’Forum at the Hilton Hotel, said thechanging composition of shareholders,where individual shareholders werebeing replaced by financial institutions,had also encouraged greater conservatism.
The next Business Leaders’ Forumwill be held on July 27. The speaker isbusiness tax report author John Ralph.
‘Corporations are too cautious’
Researchers at QUT are working withround-Australia runner Pat Farmer towork out exactly how much energy he isburning up each day.
Researchers are using the doubly-labelled water technique and specialmeasuring equipment to precisely judgehow much food and drink his marathoneffort requires each day.
Doubly-labelled water is a relativelynew method of non-invasivelymeasuring total energy expenditure thatplaces no constraints on the subject.
The technique uses two stableisotopes, one of hydrogen and one ofoxygen, in the form of water.
QUT is the only university in thesouthern hemisphere to routinely usethe doubly-labelled water technique andisotope ratio mass spectrometry.
Round-continent runnercarefully tracked by QUT
Researchers hope that the findings willbe useful to endurance sportspeople.
School of Human Movement Studiesresearcher Dr Peter Davies said judgingthe number of calories required in high-endurance events had been guesswork.
“Pat Farmer is travelling 65 to 80kmeach day and is not expected to stopuntil January 1, 2000. It is vital that thenumber of calories he is consuming isequal to his energy needs.”
Mr Farmer drank one glass of doubly-labelled water at Newcastle on June 6and supplied urine samples to theresearch team for the South EastQueensland stretch of the run. Thestudy forms part of a PhD programbeing carried out by Human MovementStudies graduate Rebecca Hill.
Andrea Hammond424, O Podium, GP, or students cansend an e-mail to [email protected].
An exchange program informationseminar will be held from Noon to 1pmon Monday, August 2, in S403, GP.
This year 57 QUT students willtravel to universities across the world tocomplete part of their studies – anincrease of 30 per cent over the previousyear.
With the Government’s Voluntary Student Unionismlegislation now an unlikely starter, QUT’s Student Guild canconcentrate on other student concerns. An ongoing gripe isthe shortage of parking. Guild president Makelita Cullacknowledged this issue in a recent edition of Utopia.
Reacting to one student’s novel proposal, Ms Cull said: “Inresponse to the student who suggested that we turn the poolinto a carpark, I must advise that as the ground that it is onbelongs to the university, the guild has no authority whatsoeverto make a decision of this kind.”
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By Noel Gentner
Australia’s Governor-General, SirWilliam Deane, and the Governor
of Queensland, Major-General PeterArnison, were awarded honorarydoctorates for distinguished service atrecent QUT graduation ceremonies.
Addres s ing a Facu l ty o f Lawgradua t ion ce remony a t theQueens l and Per fo rming Ar t sComplex, Sir William said it wasdifficult not to be discouraged, evendepressed, about the slow progressof reconciliation in Australia.
He said greater education forAbor ig ina l people and a moreinformed community were crucial toachieving reconciliation in Australia.
Sir Wil l iam was appointedGovernor-General three years ago and,while successfully avoiding a politicalstance, has been a strong advocate ofequity and fair treatment for allAustralians, and of reconciliation.
Sir William is a former Justice ofthe High Court of Australia and hewas previously a judge in the EquityDivision of the Supreme Court ofNew South Wales, a judge of theFedera l Court of Austra l ia andpresident of the Australian TradePractices Tribunal.
He was made a Knight of theBritish Empire and a Companion inthe Order of Australia in 1988.
Major-Genera l Arni son, whoaddressed a Facul ty of Sc iencegraduation ceremony, holds a degreein economics from the University ofQueensland, a graduate diploma inapplied finance and investment fromthe Securities Institute of Australia(Queensland branch), and is a SeniorFellow of the Corporate DirectorsAssociation.
He was appointed an Officer of theOrder of Australia (Military Division)in 1992, and is a Knight of Grace inthe Most Venerable Order of theHospital of St John in Jerusalem.
He retired from the Army in 1996and was appointed 23rd Governor ofQueensland in July 1997.
Governor-General speaks out onsluggish pace of reconciliation
At the Law graduation ceremony,QUT’s first Doctors of JuridicalScience (SJD) were presented to twoFaculty of Law recipients, GarryHamilton and Gerard Sammon.
Unlike the traditional PhD, an SJDis a professional doctorate which involvesone year of course work and thedevelopment of a major thesis dealingwith a particular area of the law.
Dr Hamil ton’ s doctora ldissertation Invalidation of Securitiesin an Insolvency Context, is consideredto be the first comprehensive analysisof the manner in which “securities”can be avoided in an insolvencycontext.
Dr Sammon’s thesis examined theareas of the law where freedom ofspeech was affected.
QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson (left) and QUT Chancellor Dr Cherrell Hirst congratulateGovernor-General Sir William Deane during the awarding of an honorary doctorate.
Honorarydoctoratefor LordMayor
It’s cool to be an achieverMany young people think it’s not “cool”to be an outstanding achiever at school,former Chief Industrial CommissionerLionel Ledlie told a QUT BusinessFaculty graduation ceremony in May.
Mr Ledlie, who was awarded anhonorary doctorate for distinguishedservice to QUT, said he was appalledby the “culture” which seemed to havecrept in among some students withinthe school system.
He said he often conversed withstudents – particularly boys – who toldhim it was not “cool” to be an achieveror an outstanding performer at school.
“They accept that passing subjectsis okay, but feel pressure not to standout among the crowd,” Mr Ledlie said.
“If you aim for 51 per cent passesand your aim is anywhere near accurate,not only are you in a perilous area butyou have little chance of being anachiever by miscalculation.
“It seems incongruous that theenthusiasm and dedicated effort usuallyapplied to a sporting activity is notalways matched in the crucial areas ofeducation and employment.”
Mr Ledlie’s association with QUTand its predecessor institutions goesback more than 30 years to 1966 whenhe was a part-time lecturer in personnelmanagement at QIT.
He was a member of QUT Councilfrom 1990-98, and in his final year oncouncil was Deputy Chancellor. Lord Mayor Jim Soorley.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley wasawarded an honorary doctorate fordistinguished service in May.
Jim Soorley was presented with theuniversity’s highest honorary award atthe Faculty of Business graduationceremony for the schools ofaccountancy, economics and finance,and marketing and internationalBusiness.
QUT Vice-Chancellor ProfessorDennis Gibson said that, since beingelected Brisbane’s Lord Mayor in 1991,Jim Soorley had made a significantcontribution to the community.
“He has implemented a range ofprograms to make Brisbane a moreprosperous and livable city throughenvironmental protection andplanning,” Professor Gibson said.
“His achievements over the past eightyears have included environmentalprotection of bushland, the river andthe bay, as well as improvements to wastemanagement and air quality.
“Jim Soorley and his team have alsoworked to improve public transportthrough the introduction of the CityCathigh-speed ferry network andcommunity bus systems.”
QUT experts have been called in to solve aclanger of a problem at St Peter and St Paul’sChurch in Bulimba.
QUT metallurgist Dr Richard Cleggresponded to an appeal by the church to test abell stored underneath the church refectoryfor more than 30 years.
He used state-of-the-art magnetic particletesting and coloured dyes to test the 80kg steelbell for cracks.
St Peter and St Paul’s hopes to mount the bellin a new bell tower to be built by the year 2000.
Left: Dr Richard Clegg gets to worktesting the bell for St Peter and StPaul’s Church in Bulimba.
Experts respond to a ringing appeal Dean Wells toopen 1999 Expo
Third-year Bachelor of Arts dance studentsare participating in workshops with youngadults with intellectual and physical disabilities.
The project aims to provide an opportunityfor students to build skills in facilitating danceworkshops and to allow participants – manyof whom have a performance history – tocontinue their creative work.
QUT students receive accreditation forthis practical work as part of a subject Dancein the Community.
Dance workshops
Queensland Minister for Education DeanWells will officially open the CarseldineEmployment Expo on August 5.
Students currently enrolled in courses atCarseldine are invited to attend the Expofrom 1 to 5pm.
Last year more than 220 students attended theday and more than 15 different employer groupsand professional associations were on campus.
The 1999 Employment Expo promises tobe even more successful, with about 20employer groups expected to attend. Therewill be a new IT employment stall, and prizesfor students to win.
Dean Wells is the official guest speaker atthe Expo and QUT graduates will conductpanel discussions on their experiences offinding work or studying further.
The Expo will provide Carseldine studentswith an opportunity to meet and obtaininformation from employers, professionalassociations, recruiting agencies andpostgraduate study advisers.
Students will be invited to participate inworkshops on interview performance, CVpreparation and personal presentation.
For further information phone the 1999Carseldine Employment Expo hotlineon 3864 4725.
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By Amanda O’Chee
U p to 2,300 Queenslanders may be living with undiagnosed Parkinson’s
Disease, according to a new QUT study.In the largest Australian study to
estimate the prevalence of thedegenerative disease, a QUT researcherhas found that approximately 6,800people in Queensland have beendiagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
Doctors have warned that another2,300 people could be living, undiagnosed,with the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease.
The study, by Dr Michael Dunne andCathy Peters from the School of PublicHealth, was funded by Parkinson’sQueensland and involved almost one-fifthof Queensland’s General Practitioners.
Dr Dunne said that in an ageingsociety, the study could have importantimplications for public healthprograms, the medical profession andgovernment funding.
“Parkinson’s is one of the most commondegenerative diseases of the nervoussystem, second only to Alzheimers, butuntil now we have not known how manypeople in Queensland are affected by thedisease,” Dr Dunne said.
“The study also shows that thousandsof people may be affected by the conditionbut have not yet been diagnosed and,therefore, are going untreated.
“What sometimes happens is thatpeople first notice a tremor but don’t goand see a doctor until it becomes moreserious, perhaps when they haveaccidents or falls, or have difficulty doingphysical work.
Two QUT nursing graduates who couldnot make their graduation ceremonywere honoured with a mock version ofthe real thing at Kelvin Grove recently.
Cristee-Leigh Campbell and FayMongta (on right) were joined by familyand friends for the presentation of theirdegrees by Faculty of Health DeanProfessor Ken Bowman.
Cristee-Leigh Campbell graduatedwith a Bachelor of Nursing last year andnow works part time in a medical centrein Brisbane. She also tutors QUT
The new head of QUT’s School of EarlyChildhood Education, Professor ColletteTayler, has vowed to foster a renewed socialcommitment to supporting children.
Driven by a passion to refocus society’sattentions on providing a quality childhood,she will push for combined health,education and community servicesinitiatives to provide better supporteducation services which suit the diverselifestyles and experiences of parents withyoung children.
Special attention should be directedto supporting children younger thanthree years, given the significance ofeffective early learning, she said.
Professor Tayler said universities andother research bodies needed to work withhealth and family services to disseminatethe latest research on how best to fosterchildren’s learning in their formative yearsof life, which influences later development.
“A good combination of publicresponsibility and private responsibility for
Thousands ‘in the dark’ aboutParkinson’s Disease – study
“Conversely, people can becomeslower but, because they don’t have atremor, they do not think that they haveParkinson’s Disease, which is incorrect.
“This is a shame, because most earlysymptoms of Parkinson’s Disease canbe medically controlled.”
Parkinson’s Disease is caused by a lackof the chemical dopamine, which isnecessary for smooth, co-ordinated
movement and muscle relaxation. It affectspeople’s body movements, commonlycausing body tremors, muscular rigidity,and difficulty in making smooth, slow andrefined movements.
Parkinson’s Queensland presidentand consultant neurologist Dr PeterSilburn said the study was the firstconcrete indication of the exent of thedisease in Queensland.
The s tudy a l so revea l ed tha tthree-quarters of GPs treated atleast one patient with Parkinson’sDisease and that 88 per cent of GPswanted further education about thedisease.
Dr Silburn said Parkinson’sQueensland planned an extensiveeducation campaign with GPs this yearas a result of the research.
Parkinson’s Queensland Vice-president Judy Rawlins ... study was funded by Parkinson’s Queensland.
Nursing graduateshave their special day
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderstudents.
Fay Mongta also graduated with aBachelor of Nursing and is working as aregistered nurse at the Wesley Hospital.In 1998 she won a Queensland CancerSociety student essay competition and hada poster accepted at the 1998 Research inMultiple Sclerosis national conference.• QUT’s Bachelor of Nursing degree
has attracted its largest intake ofIndigenous students, with 16students taking up offers in 1999.
New head plans to focus on children
Professor Collette Tayler ... supporting children.
young children, and acknowledgment thatchildhood, and the support of children, isreally significant in society is a soundinsurance for the future,” she said.
“It’s not about educating parents, it’sabout working with parents and havingservice providers recognise the significanceof the birth to three months period.”
Professor Tayler joined QUT inJanuary after 18 months at theUniversity of Southern Queensland and,prior to that, 20 years at Edith CowanUniversity in Western Australia.
She said a focus on “supportingchildren” would underpin efforts tostrengthen the school’s links withindustry and raise the profile of theSchool of Early Childhood.
“I want to enhance our communityfocus and maintain a central concernabout supporting children, by enablingteaching, research and the serviceactivities to overlap around that thememore directly,” she said.
Justice Studies lecturer Susan Currie hasbeen appointed to the StateGovernment’s Taskforce on Women andthe Criminal Code, which will determinethe impact of the code on women.
The taskforce includes workers whocounsel sexual assault survivors,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderwomen, women from non-Englishspeaking backgrounds, disabilityworkers, legal practitioners and police.
The taskforce will report andmake i t s r e commenda t ions fo rreform by December.
The QUT Student Guild Women’sDepartment is engaged in a range ofactivities to promote women on campus.
It is once again offering four grantsof $350 to women students wishing tore-examine traditional representations ofwomen in the arts.
The Women’s Department is alsoasking for contributions for their annualwomen’s publication, Philosophia.Poetry, feature stories, reviews and artwork is published, and the departmentappreciates assistance with editing.
Contributors whose work is publishedreceive payment. For more informationon any of these matters contact BrendaKelly on 3864 5528.
The Faculty of Education’s LearningLeadership Business Unit recentlyhosted a Tools for Developing SuccessfulExecutives workshop with leading USteacher, researcher and author DrMaxine Dalton.
Dr Dalton is the director of GlobalLeadership at the Centre for CreativeLeadership in Greensboro, US.
About 35 executives from a widerange of public service and privateenterprise organisations attended theworkshop, some staying on to planleadership development strategies fortheir organisations the following week.
Leadershipexpert visitsworkshop
Call for art,poems andreviews
Susan Currieappointed
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By Noel Gentner
QUT will be well represented thisweek at a world conference in
Vienna which will discuss out-of-this-world topics, including futureexploration of space.
A total of 160 students from aroundthe world are attending the UnitedNations Space Generation Forum.
Five of the six Australian delegates areQUT students or graduates. They areAerospace Avionics Engineering studentsAaron Chippendale and Neal Fennell(both in their third year) and RossDennington (fourth year), and graduatesLinda Parker and Michael Mifsud.
Mr Chippendale, who is the Brisbanepresident of the Australian Students SpaceAssociation, said the students woulddiscuss the future of space and theircountries’ involvement in the explorationof space and space technology.
“Initially, Australia was in the forefrontof technology, with regular rocketlaunches from Woomera. Australia wasplaced fourth in the world in launching
QUT delegates explore space researchsatellites into orbit from its own territory,but more recently, there have been nomajor launches carried out here,” he said.
There was now, however, a good dealof high-technology research beingundertaken in Australia, including thedevelopment of instruments for remotesensing satellites.
“There is a lot of specialisedinvolvement going on, but it is notvisible,” Mr Chippendale said.
“There is a lot of work being conductedwithin the Co-operative Research Centrefor Satellite Systems at QUT, and also atthe Australian Space Research Institute.
Mr Chippendale said it was advantageousto attend such a forum. QUT has donated$1,000 towards the costs of the threeundergraduates’ expenses and the Boeingorganisation has met the rest of thegraduates’ costs.
Right: Ready to take on theworld ... QUT’s space forumdelegates (from left) RossDennington, Linda Parker andAaron Chippendale.
Staff who received Teaching and LearningDevelopment Large Grants in 1998, wortha total of $600,00 presented the outcomesof their projects at a recent forum.
QUT is making excellent progress inthe field of flexible delivery of courses,using Web resources and technology toenhance teaching and learning.
Teams from the faculties of Arts,Science, Health, Law, Built Environmentand Engineering and InformationTechnology reported on the developmentof online teaching in their areas.
Dr Janelle Allison, assistant dean ofthe Faculty of Built Environment andEngineering, outlined theestablishment of a professionaldevelopment program to enhancestudents’ access to professions.
The forum was also briefed on theTechnological Literacy Project which aimsto raise technological literacy at QUT.
The project is a joint effort of thefaculties of Arts, Education andInformation Technology. Targeted atboth academics and students, it includesa “LitKit” of strategies and resources tomaster the intricacies of technology.
Boost forflexibledeliveryThe successful implementation of a
new financial system for QUT, OracleFinancials Version 11, was celebratedrecently at a function at the GardensPoint campus.
QUT is the first university inAustralia – and one of the firstorganisations in the world – tosuccessfully implement the graphicaluser interface system.
Registrar Ken Baumber said theswitch was mainly made to ensure theuniversity’s finance system was Y2Kcompliant.
“This is the result of an excellentpartnership between the divisions ofAdministrative Services and Informationand Academic Services and the professionalrelationship which exists between QUTand Oracle,” Mr Baumber said.
“The fact that the information andtraining help desk was hardly required isa strong indication that theimplementation has been a great success.”
Mr Baumber said the change to Version11 was in step with the introduction ofthe original version of Oracle Financial.
The new student computer system,Callista, when fully implemented,will have a smooth interface to theVersion 11 system.
QUT’s Computing Services has beenrevamped, renamed and has welcomed anew director, as part of a move to improveinformation technology services.
The new Information TechnologyServices was launched on May 31 by Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson andnew ITS director Neil Thelander.
Overhaul for network services
ITS, which provides hardware andsystems support for staff and students, andoversees the QUT network, is beingrestructured over 12 months to increase itsclient focus and the quality of its services.
Changes include the introduction of a“job tracking system”, by which ITS staffcan accurately record, monitor and distribute
requests for IT assistance. QUT staff willbe notified by e-mail when their requesthas been logged and fixed, and invited tocomment on the handling of their requests.
The phone number for the InformationTechnology Help Desk has changed to3864 4000, although the 4275 extensionwill remain active for some time.
The team in charge of change (from left) Avril Grant, Peter Kurtz, Ron Heard, Robyn Daniel,Information Technology Services director Neil Thelander and Sharon Kolar.
Oracle systema big success
Tree-lined boulevards, lakes and beehive-shapedbuildings are just some of the innovations thatfeature in a flood of entries in a Carseldinecampus masterplan design competition.
More than 50 QUT architecture studentstook on the challenge of transforming thecampus into an educational and culturalepicentre for the northern corridor.
Three winners, Yuri Dillon, Larissa Jonidand Terry Bell were chosen. They will share a$3,000 prize with three runners-up Wade Eiser,Leah Stjernqvist and Nikki Ross and finalistsChristina Chang, Brad Muller, David Christand Natalie Dixon.
The 10 entries will be shown at Carseldine inAugust in an exhibition organisers hope will tourto Kelvin Grove and Gardens Point campuses.
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Northern CorridorDevelopment) Dr Adam Shoemaker said someof the design features would be put forward forthe official masterplan.
“Many of the ideas encapsulated in thesedrawings successfully include the communityand green spaces in very exciting ways,” he said.
Students have designs on Carseldine
Carseldine campus masterplan design co-winner Larissa Jonid with one of themodels constructed by students. The competition formed part of assessmentfor fourth- and fifth-year QUT architecture students.
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Athletes from QUT scooped a healthy share ofmedals at the 1999 Northern Conference
Universities Games in Armidale earlier this month.The annual event attracted more than 2,000 athletes
from 13 university campuses from across Queenslandand northern New South Wales.
Hosted by the University of New England whichfielded 383 athletes, QUT – with a squad of 212athletes – finished with four gold, six silver and twobronze medals to be second overall behind theUniversity of Queensland.
Since 1991 when QUT won the first NorthernConference University Games championships, thecompetition between UQ and QUT has been fierce.
Last year, when QUT hosted the games, the finalstandings were decided by the results of one grandfinal match which went into extra time.
This year’s games proved to be no exception, withsome outstanding team performances recorded byQUT athletes.
Athletes bring homegold medals galore
QUT’s men’s baseball team and its women’s volleyballteam dominated play, with both teams not losing a gameon their way to gold medal success.
The QUT women’s touch team maintained its winningform with its fourth consecutive games win.
In its grand final match against UQ, the QUT teamscored with less than a minute to go to win 2–1 and takethe gold medal.
QUT’s mixed netball team was down 11–13 at halftime but showed tremendous speed and skill to dominatethe second half to win 29–20 and the gold medal.
In the silver medal category, both QUT men’s andwomen’s tennis squads were successful, as were the men’shockey, men’s badminton and the men’s volleyball teams.
In the pool, the QUT men’s waterpolo team – whichaveraged more than 12 goals per game – took out anothersilver medal.
Bronze medals were won by QUT’s women’s hockeyand the mixed touch teams.
All gold, silver and bronze medal winners have qualifiedfor the Australian University Sport National Games to beheld in Perth from September 28 to October 4.
A QUT postgraduate student isdeveloping a training package to helpAustralian businesses understand andwork in the Thai culture.
The training package, which willbe tailored for both Australianand Thai businesses, is part ofPhetcharee Roopwichet’s professionaldoctorate studies.
Des igned to deve lop cross -cultural management skil ls forglobal business, Ms Roopwichet’swork meets the aims of the ThaiGovernment’s National Economicand Social Development Plan whichemphasises human resources andblending Thai wisdom withWestern knowledge.
Ms Roopwichet has workedextens ive ly a s a t ra in ing andmarketing consultant for the ThaiGovernment and businesses.
“I wanted to do something thatwas of use to the Thai people and theThai culture,” said Ms Roopwichet,who returned to Thailand in June tocollect further data.
“In Thai schools and universities,we learn about US culture and thetheories of Western business, butwe do not always practice this –our management practice reflectsThai traditional cultural values.
“My intention is to create a businesstraining package to help East and Westunderstand each other.”
Ms Roopwichet is completing aDoctorate of Education in theFaculty of Education, which is co-ordinated by Associate ProfessorErica McWilliam.
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Phetcharee Roopwichet ... writing a training packagewhich will be tailored for Australian and Thai businessesas part of her professional doctorate studies.
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STUDENT GUILDJul 26-28 Environment Week. Free
plants to be given away. July26, 11am-2pm, Y Block area,GP. July 27, 11am-2pm CBlock area, KG. July 28,11am-2pm, C Block area, Car.Contact Shirley Mundy onemail [email protected] call 3864 5511.
Recreation courses.Everything from winery tours,surf camps to women’s carmaintenance and bellydancing. Further details in theSemester Two RecreationHandbook. Contact KirstenFraser [email protected] or call3864 1213.
SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, EVENTS
CENTRE FOR MEDIA POLICY PRACTICE
Aug 6 Meanings of the Wall: Newsmedia and the collapse ofthe Eastern Bloc in 1989.Lee Duffield. Noon-2pm. B509,GP. For more informationcontact Danna Dale [email protected] or call3864 1729.
SCHOOL OF JUSTICE STUDIES
Jul 28 Risky Business? Ananalysis of currentapproaches to youthcrime prevention inAustralia. Presented inconjunction with YouthAffairs NetworkQueensland. 8.30am-2pm.Room C319, Car. ContactKaterina Ginis [email protected] orcall 3864 3748.
CARSELDINE CAMPUS
Aug 5 1999 CarseldineEmployment Expo. Half-day Expo, 1-5pm. To beopened by QueenslandMinister for EducationDean Wells. Activitiesinclude market boothsfor students to obtaininformation fromemployers,professionalassociations and recruitingagencies, as well asinterview performance /personal presentationworkshops. For furtherinformation contact the1999 CarseldineEmployment Expo hotlineon 3864 4725.
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
Aug 20 Silver Anniversary Ball.7pm. Grand Windsor Ballroom,Carlton Crest Hotel. Tickets$60. Contact Cynthia Harris [email protected] call 0409 268 393.
STAFF & STUDENT COURSES
EQUITY SECTION
OCT 25-7 Career Moves: ValuingSkills, Planning Futures.Two-day course for femalegeneral staff at HEWA3-5.9.15am-4.15pm K108, KG. Toregister call Lilijana Simic on3864 5601.
HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
Aug 4 Staff OrientationProgram. For new staff orother interested staff.Contact Human ResourcesDepartment’s Dora deLaaton 3865 5610 or TanyaNeeder 3864 9605.
