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Power pole. Geilston Bay Road, Geilston Bay. August 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Twenty-Seven. King Street, Sandy Bay. November 2011. Today's top five? The Top Five Interesting Things That I Could Say About The Number 27! 27 contain numbers 2 and 7 if you take line of numbers starting with 2 ending with 7 you will get 27 in result. (2+3+4+5+6+7=27). There are 27 Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office. It was ratified in 1992, a mere 203 years after its initial submission for ratification. Your government at work! According to the ancient and deadly martial art of Feng Shui ; a handy hint for raising money is to discretely keep in the house 27 identical coins. Even better if those coins are 1794 Flowing Hair Dollars ... There are 27 countries are in the European Union. For now, Liechtenstein must bide its time... The 27 Club represents a ragtag collection of musicians ...

Thirty? King Street, Sandy Bay. October 2011. Another Sunday, another top five. Today, Five Things That You May Not Know About The Number 30 ! 30 is the sum of the first four squares, which makes it a square pyramidal number ! 30 is the total number of major and minor keys in Western tonal music, including enharmonic equivalents! French existentialist bore Albert Camus argued in The Myth Of Sisyphus that the age of thirty represents a critical period in life , for at that age humans gain a fresh awareness of the meaning of time! The atomic number of zinc is 30 ! The Thirty Years' War - fought between 1618 and 1648 - lasted for [you guessed it) THIRTY years!

36 what? Campbell Street, next to the Theatre Royal. October 2010. Thirty-six, or three b? Three be what? Thirty-six what? Three be whom? Thirty-six why? The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , Charles Darwin hits Hobart, Method of Fluxions , Utrecht University, Catharine of Aragon dead. It never ends.

#35 of a series that is never used. An abandoned car park. Campbell Street, Hobart, October 2010. Who knew that number 35 was so important? Did you know that…? 35 is the sum of the first five triangular numbers, making it a tetrahedral number. 35 is a centered cube number, a pentagonal number and a pentatope number. 35 is a highly cototient number, since there are more solutions to the equation x - φ(x) = 35 than there are for any other integers below it except 1. There are 35 free hexominoes, the polyominoes made from six squares. Since the greatest prime factor of 352 + 1 = 1226 is 613, which is obviously more than 35 twice, 35 is a Størmer number. All I know is Rule 35 of the Internet!

144 is a dozen dozens . Even better, 144 is one gross . Psalm 144 begins with the statement: Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. Section 144 of Bangladesh Code of Criminal Procedure prohibits assembly of five or more persons, public meetings, and carrying firearms. This is probably why The Polyphonic Spree have chosen not to tour Bangladesh. The total land area of Bangladesh is 144 thousand square kilometres. As of 2005, the population of Bangladesh was approximately 144 million . Thus, if your get a dozen dozen Bangladeshis, times that number by one million , get them to praise the LORD with a rock concert (featuring The Polyphonic Spree which would be in breach of Section 144 of Bangladesh Code of Criminal Procedure) that went for 144 hours , it would smell gross . Probably.

I was playing with some numbers yesterday that came across my desk and fed into the Department of Health and Human Services State of Public Health 2008 report and was surprised by a little quirk that I really hadn’t thought about. Now, we probably are all intrinsically aware of the clear divergence in health status between the most disadvantaged and most advantaged groups in our society. Statistically, lower socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with higher disability levels and higher premature death rates. Low SES – whichever way you choose to measure it: income, educational attainment or occupation – means poorer health, a higher incidence of chronic conditions and higher levels of health care utilisation. Moreover, health inequalities do not just indicate disadvantage, they tend to drive further disadvantage. Now for those who do not know, Tasmania – for a lot of historical, geographical, economic and sociological reasons – trails the rest of the country (bar the Northern Terri...