Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?

Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.

I got into paying attention to cities and when I moved downtown I would go into stores that were more mom and pop, so I would get to meet the people and talk to them, ... A lot of them pushed me and said I should run for council. Also, a lot of my old bosses said I should get into politics because I seem like a person who would care enough to do what is right.

Right now council is a part-time job but for me [but] I would want it to be a full-time job, ... I'm going to take it very seriously and spend a lot of my extra time out in the community to try and figure out some of the problems that aren't being heard.

On local issues, it is extremely important to run as an independent so that you can do what is right for the city rather than following a political agenda.

No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.

You just have no idea what it was like trying to get out of there.

I basically lost everything. By the time we knew we had to get out, there was no time. I brought my laptop, my cell phone, a change of clothes and a pair of shoes and some of my boots.

I don't like politics per-se, ... but I want get in there try and do something good, if that is possible.