Usually it is the afternoon pelican feeding at the waterfront that is a hit with passersby, but come December, the excitement peaks in Avoca when the Pines Charity Surf Classic takes place on the beachfront.
They will be calling upon the Treasury to cancel the seminar it is co-sponsoring that afternoon with the country's most prominent academic boosters of Shariah-Compliant Finance: Harvard University Law School's Islamic Finance Project.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average ended the morning down 2.19 percent at 8, 377.75, a three-week low, though it is recovering slightly as the afternoon sets off.
The only surprise is that it came on a Sunday, not the usual Friday afternoon, which is when Silicon Valley boards usually sack CEOs.
In the centre of Glasgow it is a gloomy late afternoon with rain bouncing off the pavements, but the lights from the shops are bright.
Under new rules, schools are now only informed of an inspection the afternoon before it is due to begin.
In the late afternoon the pinkish, alabaster light is so fragile it feels as if it could shatter.
In the weather, we see this sort of behavior with extended heat waves, cold spells, or periods when it is hot in the morning followed by an afternoon thunderstorm.
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Despite the fact that it's two in the afternoon on a weekday, the parking lot is packed.
But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.
It is known to have calved from the Ronne Ice Shelf sometime during the afternoon or evening of 4 May as satellite imagery indicates that the ice shelf was still intact on that morning.
"It is hard to comprehend the shocking and horrific scenes we have seen this afternoon on a busy street as Londoners went about their day as normal, " said Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police.
It is understood that seven military patients were flown out of Afghanistan to the UK on Wednesday afternoon.
Throw in classical colonnades, cupolas and a Buddha statue from the 1958 film Inn of the Sixth Happiness, all cradled by the majestic Welsh mountains, and it is a rather bizarre place to spend an afternoon.
While the food and service are not as good as a Cathay or Singapore, it is better than on most domestic carriers, and I like the distinctly English touches like afternoon tea and bacon rolls for breakfast.
It may be difficult to see through the reaction to the first-quarter earnings report that Cisco released Wednesday afternoon that it is actually, or at least it was a few days ago, an undervalued stock, according to most analysts.
It's a humid afternoon, and the biggest soccer superstar of his generation is sitting in a windowless room in the basement of a New York City loft, dressed in slim gray jeans and a white T-shirt revealing the dark sleeves of tattoos on his forearms.
For Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, who knew defeat would more or less turn the title into a two-horse race between Chelsea and Manchester United, it was an afternoon of very public torture and his body language suggested he is feeling the strain of Arsenal's faltering challenge.
And obviously, as the President said at his event this afternoon, that the middle class that built this country into what it is today has borne the enormous brunt of this recession.
It is thought eight animals died recently and a vet was called on Thursday afternoon because many of the remaining ponies were struggling to stand.
It is a short drive from Stirling on to the town of Callander, where you can do some afternoon cycling around the lush forests of the Trossachs.
On Tuesday afternoon, it will be transported by limousine from Edinburgh, where the fashion house is hosting a high-end fashion elite for a couple of nights of fine food and whisky.
For starters, it is Friday afternoon, where New York is bracing for some sort of MegaStorm, while out here in the Bay Area everyone is busily gloating about the Giants taking the first two games of the World Series from the Tigers.
After lunch, it was a dash back to Kuala Lumpur for talks in the afternoon with Razali Ismail, the Malaysian who is president of the U.N.
Speed's professionalism and focus is admirable - and if the 35-year-old gets his way on Saturday it will be a bleak afternoon for English football just as it was at Wrexham 20 years ago.
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According to the official tournament forecast, there is a 30 percent chance of rain until mid afternoon, when it rises to 60 percent.
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On a frigid winter afternoon, Columbia senior Rowan Moore Gerety gestured at the ice-encrusted expanse, insisting that it is underutilized and useless to the public.
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It's a bit weird because half the squad is half-time and half of it full-time so we have to hang around until late afternoon to have a full training session together.
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