This is an odd one, even for Seth Godin, a statement he's certain to embrace as the compliment that's intended. He's the guy, after all, who encouraged business people to emulate a mythical purple cow to be unique and highly remarkable.

ARARAT - The Ararat Orchid Society will present its 29th annual Spring Orchid Show this weekend in the main auditorium of the Ararat Performing Arts Centre.

Conversation and information are fast becoming a lost art and many people are rescuing that fascinating art from the flaccid substitutes of back-fence gossip, bar room badinage, and parlour platitudes.

Advice: The universal communication. Everyone has given and received it. But few act on it since so much advice is impractical, confusing or swamped in cliché.

The Principal Judge, James Ogoola has warned lawyers against exploiting members of society. "This is a new commandment for you. As lawyers do not live to exploit the adversity of society, but rather live to expunge the adversity of society," Mr Ogoola s