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Travel back to the 1850s when people from around the world would flock to Ballarat to seek a fortune in gold. Spend the day experiencing what life was like back in the gold rush days. Visit the impressive Gold Museum, Sovereign Hill and try your luck at panning for real gold!
Wandering around Sovereign Hill really does take you back in time and is exemplary as an outdoor museum that reflects Ballarat's history with gold discovery in the 1850s. Take a town tour of Ballarat en-route to Sovereign Hill where you will spend the majority of your time seeing and experiencing the gold rush era. The original shops are a real treat such as the blacksmiths and a favourite for many is the lolly shop where you can purchase homemade boiled lollies. Enjoy the rustic and western atmosphere of your lunch venue at the New York Bakery in Main Street.
Sights Include:
Sample Lunch Menu
Tea, coffee, juice or soft drink is also included
Vegetarian option available for lunch. Please advise at time of booking.
Once this experience has been confirmed, changes are at the discretion of the experience provider and arranged directly with them according to this policy:
The there is maximum of 48 people.
Sturdy shoes are recommended.
This experience is located at Sovereign Hill Ballarat, departing Melbourne CBD.

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John Thomas Cartwright, Private 49154, 2nd/7th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died of pneumonia 3rd December 1918 in France, aged 21
John Thomas Cartwright, sometimes known at Thomas, was born in Macclesfield in 1897, the son of Margaret and Thomas Cartwright, a shoemaker of 29 Sunderland Street, Macclesfield. In 1911, thirteen-year-old John was employed as a silk winder and living at the same address with his parents and siblings William (19), Alice (18) and Jessie (16).
Thomas Cartwright was one of two hundred men named as new recruits in the Macclesfield Times on 30 April 1915.
Private Cartwright was listed as wounded in the War Office Casualty List on 12 September 1917, but must have recovered and returned to service in France. He was again reported wounded on 15 October 1918, and was reported to have died in the Casualty List dated 15 January 1919. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he died of broncho-pneumonia on 3 December 1918.
Private John Cartwright is buried at Etaples Military Cemetery, in grave ref. XLVII. A. 11. His mother asked for the inscription "REST IN PEACE" to be added to his headstone. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission holds casualty details for Private John Cartwright, and he is listed on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website.
Locally, Private John Cartwright is commemorated on the Park Green and Town Hall war memorials.
Brother of William Henry Cartwright, who served as Private 290374 with the 1st/7th Bn. Cheshire Regt. and was killed in action 23rd July 1918 in France, aged 26.
GRO (England & Wales) Index: Births
Census (England & Wales): 1911
WWI British Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects
Lives of the First World War website
Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
Macclesfield Times: 30 April 1915
Weekly Casualty Lists (Find My Past): 12 September 1917, 15 October 1918, 15 January 1919


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Deformity, Hooks [{{#arraymap: Vile, Deformity|, |x|Type::x}}] Summary::Hooks of bone and flesh have grown across your entire body, sinking deep into your flesh and causing you excruciating pain at all times. Prerequisites: {{#arraymap: Evil Alignment, Willing DeformityBoVD|,|x|Prerequisite::x}}Benefit: You gain a +2 circumstance bonus on intimidate checks, a +2 deformity bonus on climb checks, and a -2 penalty or concentration checks due to the constant searing pain. Furthermore, you can rip a hook out of your body as a move action, dealing 1d4 slashing damage to yourself, and gaining a bone hook which uses the stats of a masterwork sickle (or if you are proficient in their use, a masterwork kukri). Also, if a creature hits you in melee combat with a non-reach weapon, they immediately take 1d8 points of slashing and piercing damage.
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A Touch of Magic: The Forces of the Universe Series (Book 1)
Plastic surgeon Jessie Inglewood is staunchly anti-natural medicine. Sure, the owner of the local health food store is sexy, but there's no way she's going to the "dark side" and dating a natural health hippy! No, she's seen a lot of ridiculous things in her clinic over the years, and as far as she's concerned, holistic nutritionists, naturopaths, chiropractors, and crystal waving energy healers are all the same: unethical quacks and charlatans peddling false hope to the vulnerable. Jessie's very comfortable with her judgement… until a woman in white appears at her clinic one night and gives her an extraordinary gift – the ability to heal people. Jessie has a choice to make: keep giving hands-on miracles to people or give up her gift so she can have her old life back – the one where her colleagues don't view her as one of the quacks she used to criticise.
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MacDermid Performance Solutions announced that effective January 1, 2019, it will combine its Alpha Assembly Solutions and MacDermid Enthone Electronics Solutions business units to form MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions, a $1.2 billion electronics chemicals and materials business, headquartered in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
By integrating its two electronics businesses, MacDermid Performance Solutions will have a more complete view of the electronic pathway, allowing the company to accelerate innovation in chemistries, materials and processes. The combined business will be uniquely positioned to help customers overcome technical challenges and deliver more creative and reliable solutions, due to a collaboration of experts spanning the broader electronics ecosystem.
"The integration of Alpha Assembly Solutions and MacDermid Enthone Electronics Solutions will allow us to better leverage our deep expertise of the entire electronics supply chain," said Scot Benson, president of MacDermid Performance Solutions. "As one business, our experts will have the tools they need to design high-reliability solutions for the industry's most difficult technology challenges and provide industry-leading technical support that helps our customers win in the marketplace."
About MacDermid Performance Solutions
MacDermid Performance Solutions is a subsidiary of Platform Specialty Products Corporation. Our companies manufacture a broad range of specialty chemicals and materials which are used in multi-step technological processes that enhance the products people use every day. Our innovative materials and processes are creating more opportunities and efficiencies for companies across key industries – including electronics, graphic arts, metal & plastic plating, and offshore oil production.


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Ehe office segment retains its place as a prime mover of real estate transactions, representing 40% of the volume of non-residential (Office, Retail, Logistics, Hotels) transactions during 2016.
Investment in office space in Spain fell by 8% in 2016, to achieve 4,895 M. Euros, against 5,513M. In the previous period. It is appropriate to highlight the important role Socimis have played in the sector, accounting for 55% of the total volume transacted in 2016. More conservative and family businesses have also participated significantly. When combined with Socimis, the two categories of company amount to 87% of the transactional volume.
In 2017, there is a pipeline of 1,406M. Euros, amounting to 30% of the volume realised in 2016.
At a time when Spain is experiencing economic recovery, and with the process of ´Brexit´ in train, the cities of Madrid and Barcelona are positioned to the most competitive in the country in terms of attracting investment. Both cities rate among the best in Europe in terms of profitabilty.
With regard to the volume of new offerings, 12 new projects are expected to add close to 180.000m2 to the Madrid market during the course of 2017, rising potentially to 300.000m2 during 2018. Meanwhile Barcelona will add close to 37,000m2 this year, with a further 93,000m2 in 2018.
The Spanish capital currently has more than 1,400,000m2 availabe, and Barcelona almost 400.000m2.
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I've had a crazy week since I drew a cartoon of the Mexican flag, with the eagle shot dead by a stream of machine gun bullets. The cartoon illustrates the terrible violence in Mexico. Since President Felipe Calderón announced his war on the drug cartels, over 28,000 people have been killed in a civil war that shows no sign of easing. I got a spirited, angry reaction on my blog and in e-mails from Mexican readers who objected to my "desecration of the sacred Mexican flag."In light of all of the issues around illegal immigration I thought that it my be interesting to discuss something happening on the other side of the border. I sometimes wonder if the real issues around illegal immigration has more to do with Mexico than it does the United States. I am pretty sure that, if I lived in Mexico, I would be wanting to live somewhere else. And the contrast between our government and theirs.. the level of corruption there and here.. gives significant explanation for the one-way immigration phenomena.
My cartoon appeared at the same time as Calderón's state of the union address to Mexico's Congress in which Calderón claimed to be making progress in the worsening drug war. Mexico's conservative, national newspaper Reforma, and other papers in their chain, published my cartoon at the top of their front pages. The convenient timing of my cartoon "scandal" was an opportunity for Reforma to make an effective front page dig at Calderón, and soon the cartoon was picked up by almost all of the other Mexican newspapers.
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That is 6 times the number of Coalition deaths in Iraq in half the time. It seems that would qualify many citizens for asylum. I know that even before this, many areas in Mexico were just as dangerous. A lot of my friends growing up were born here while their parents had fled to the US, intending it to be temporary, but never returned because there was no improvement in safety.ReplyDelete
I don't know a lot about the violence in Mexico. But, the problem with a "war on drugs" seems to be pretty simple to me. The more the government wages this war, the higher the price of drugs, the better funded the drug cartels are and the more corruption you have because they have oodles of money. Combine this with a government that is largely ineffective and you end up with a drug cartel with greater resources (and maybe resolve) than the government has.ReplyDelete
The way to fight the war on drugs, is to dry up demand with education and drug treatment programs. The way it's being fought now only increases the profit motive and the criminal element.
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WAMCATS: The Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System
- On May 26, 1900, Congress gave its approval to build an extensive network of telegraph and cable lines that would link Alaska to the rest of the world.
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Furnace Configurator: The furnace configurator
module provides users the ability to create a virtual furnace. It can handle both Box or Cylindrical type furnaces. Input
parameters include:
Module: The software comes with a profile creation wizard. Profiles
can be created from the following options:
Process Parameters: The users have the ability to vary process parameters
such as temperatures, number of stages, cycle time.
Module: A selection of basic part shapes is provided with the software.
A new part can be configured by supplying new dimensions and material
properties (provided with the software). The basic parts that can be
created are pipes, rounds, slabs, billets, cylinder, bushing, blocks, sheets, flange, pipes, etc.
Placement: The user can run furnace simulations using different
part orientations to determine the effects of part placement on furnace
design and performance. Part placement data include Different Container
hoding the parts (Baskets, Trays, Peers, etc.), part arrangement inside
the container, and container position inside the furnace.
Data: Provides the user with a tool to create new materials, refractory
and fuel.
Audit/Power Calculations: Calculates heat to part, refractory loss,
refractory heat storage, heat to gases, and heat and energy/power consumed
in different stages.
Results: Results include Time Temperature profile of the furnace and parts, stage
wise thermal loading, stage wise fuel and air inputs in case of combustion
system, and fuel/air demand during heating cycle. Heat Balance during the entire heating cycle and total fuel and air consumed is also calculated.
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Technical Support:The technical support package entitles the user to help-desk support via telephone or e-mail for a period of 1 year
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I clearly remember the day Barack Obama won the Illinois senate seat by an overwhelming majority in 2004. The media was frenzied over this young politico with the "funny" name winning by so many votes, and his face was all over the TV and papers for weeks. It was then I first heard about Michelle Obama, Barack's wife, former boss and 5-foot-10, hard-working black woman from Chicago's South Side. Love was in the air.
Over the last year, finding articles, interviews or photos of Michelle was just as easy as finding press about Barack. For the first time in a long time (eight years, at least) a first lady had become noteworthy, not just because her husband was president, but because she was worth talking about.
In the March issue of Vogue, gay fashion icon, editor at large and Obama-family fashion strategist André Leon Talley writes about his experiences with Michelle when it comes to family, fashion and philosophy.
Obviously, the article focuses on fashion, it being Vogue and all, but even in her fashion choices, Michelle is a down-to-earth and most importantly — real — woman.
Talley expresses the point beautifully in the article, with quotes from friends and family members, and Michelle herself: Sure, she likes clothes, but she is by no means a first lady who will sit pretty in her Chanel and play hostess for political big-wigs.
"Michelle Obama is a full-blown, grown-up woman," Oprah Winfrey tells Talley in the article. "An authentically empowered real woman who looks and feels like a modern woman in the twenty-first century, allowing us to see the best of ourselves in her. [She's] bringing a sense of connection and accessibility to that position that no nation has ever witnessed."
Michelle has the whole world watching her, and as Talley points out, talking about her clothes. While she can't please everyone, she knows what needs to come first:
"I love clothes," she admits. "First and foremost, I wear what I love. That's what women have to focus on: what makes them happy and what makes them feel comfortable and beautiful. If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion."
Between Rachel Maddow's Vogue appearance in December and this article about Michelle, I'm considering a subscription — while I cannot afford the clothes, I certainly love to read about amazing woman who can.
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We showed a quick preview of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph last week - now we've gotten our hands on it, and are proud to show you these live pictures and impressions.
Here's the thing: Jaeger-LeCoultre never made a chronograph that looked like this in the 1950s or 60s. So while last year's tribute to the Deep Sea Alarm was a historical reference revisited (this historical reference), this year's chrono is really a tribute to a watch that could've been (and definitely should've been). Essentially, the Deep Sea Vintage Chrono took the stylings of the DSA and made it a chrono. Is it historically important like the Polaris and Deep Sea Alarm tributes? Nope. Does it still look awesome? Yup, big time.
In fact, we absolutely loved this watch when we got to play with. The size is perfect at 40.5mm, the style just incredible, and the JLC caliber 751 chronograph is just rock-solid. Oh, and the best part about this watch? It's poised to be sold for at or under $12,000. Pretty incredible considering that's roughly the cost of the Deep Sea Alarm from last year and this has a chronograph. So, the JLC Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph may be a tribute to something that never existed, but its undeniable wrist prescence, practicality, great looks, and good value trump that many times over.
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Getting Liturgy "Right" … the right way
November 21, 2011
Let me say from the beginning that I fully understand and am aware of all the liturgical, historical, and translation reasons that memorial acclamation 1, "Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again" was removed from the soon to be current translation of the Roman Missal. I'm a liturgical purist, and a little piece of me is completely fine with this omission. After all, it's not in the "original" latin. Following the standards set by Liturgiam Authenticam, it's not an o.k. acclamation. It's not addressed directly to God. And if it isn't introduced well it really can seem like a side note that gets stuck in, mid Eucharistic Prayer, to make sure everybody's paying attention. And yes, sometimes I do giggle when we sing the mass of creation version because it evokes a feeling akin to mixing the imperial march from star wars with John Phillips Sousa, and then repeats itself just in case you haven't had enough imperial marching around. All that to say: I get why it got dropped.
Dropping the text itself doesn't bother me that much, for all the afore stated reasons. But singing it at mass for the last time last night really, really bothered me. What bothers me is that I think Mother Church could have done this differently, and used this as a way to reach across the boundary of schism to begin healing a very deep wound. It's not time for finger pointing- and I heartily admit that protestants have their share to do for healing reformation scars. I find shifting reformation blame completely uninteresting and unhelpful. But it dawned upon me last night that no longer will Protestants and Catholics use the same words to profess their hope in the realization of Christ's kingdom. This new translation, particularly the point of the mystery of faith, could have been a point where liturgical Protestants (at least mainlines) and Catholics worked together and informed each other. If we had worked together, we still could have dropped memorial acclamation one, no big deal. And when I say we I mean here my whole extended Christian family, weird cousins and all. Protestant liturgy could have grown toward an arguably better expression of the mysterium fide. And Roman Liturgy might have benefited from looking at it's own genetic development as it was passed down toward its grand children and great grandchildren. We (and here I mean Protestant we) did, after all, steal most of the Roman Rite originally. Just take a close look at the 1662 BCP or Luther's first few german translations, and you'll see what I mean.
Again, I find figuring out who is 'right' and who is 'wrong' for its own sake completely uninteresting and largely unhelpful. Everybody's to blame for continued schism. What I do find interesting are opportunities for healing and union in the body of Christ. The liturgy can only be for the life of the world when it is the wellspring of the church's life, it's source and summit. I'm not angry at anyone, and I'm not even annoyed. I think I feel more like a parent, who knows what my beautiful and brilliant child is capable of, watching that same child settle for less. It makes me unspeakably sad to see yet another opportunity for healing and life pass my Christian family by, untried. In this particular move, I think all of us would have benefited from an aim toward eternal life along with formal latin. The two need not be diametrically opposed.
Let's do better by each other next time, y'all. We're family.
Chrysostom Christmas Liturgy
November 15, 2009
St. John Chrysostom's golden mouth should not be relinquished to the history of the church. Part of the continued witness of saints is that we keep speaking their words as the ages roll on. The following is a litany I created by swaddling John 1:1-17 (adapted from NRSV) in portions of St. John Chrysostom's Christmas Sermon.
The whole sermon is beautiful, and could honestly be preached if cited. However, I wonder if people might be more likely to comprehend the complexities by speaking at least some of them with their own lips alongside scripture. By intertwining those mysteries with the Prologue to John's Gospel, I hope to facilitate a more mysterious encounter with this anything-but-cute baby. This baby isn't adorably cute; this Child is God, who is worthy of adoration, come for the salvation of the world.
After all, in the liturgy we encounter Christ the Savior, swaddled.
Chrysostom Christmas Liturgy
Anna Adams, November 2009
All: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
L: BEHOLD a new and wondrous mystery! All join to praise this holy feast, beholding the Godhead here on earth, and man in heaven. He Who is above, now for our redemption dwells here below; and he that was lowly is by divine mercy raised. Ask not how: for where God wills, the order of nature yields. God willed, God had the power,
P: God descended, God redeemed; everything yielded in obedience to God.
L: This day He Who Is, is Born; and God Who Is, becomes what God was not. For when The Lord was God, God became human; yet not departing from the Godhead that is the Lord's.
P: He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.
L: For with God we look not for the order of nature, but rest our faith in the power of Him who works.
P: What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.
L: What shall I say to you; what shall I tell you? I behold a Mother who has brought forth; I see a Child come to this light by birth. The manner of His conception I cannot comprehend.
P: The light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it.
L: For what reason? That coming amongst us he may teach us, and teaching, lead us by the hand to the things that we cannot see. For since people believe their eyes and not their ears, He has decided to present Himself as a body, and remove all doubt.
P: The Word became flesh and lived among us. And we have seen his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.
L: It is to God no debasement to put on What God made. Let this creation be forever glorified, because it wrapped around its own Creator. For as in the first creation of flesh, man could not be made before the clay had come into His hand, so neither could this corruptible body be glorified, until it had first become the garment of its Maker.
P: All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.
L:What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of days has become an infant. He Who is enthroned in Heaven lies in a manger. He Who cannot be touched, Who is God plain and true, without complexity, greater than creation, now lies subject to the hands of humanity.
P: From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
L: He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infants bands.
P: He has decreed that lowliness become honor, humanity be clothed with glory, and set the servant as the measure of His Goodness.
L: For this the Lord assumed our bodies: that we may become capable of His Word; taking our flesh, God gives us His spirit; and so He bestowing and we receiving, the Lord prepares for us the treasure of Life.
P: God takes our flesh, to sanctify us; He gives us His Spirit, that He may save us.
L: Come, then, let us observe the Feast.
P: Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the Nativity.
All: For this day the ancient slavery is ended, the devil confounded, the demons take to flight, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error driven out, truth has been brought back, the speech of kindliness diffused, and spreads on every side, a heavenly way of life has been 'in planted on the earth, angels communicate with men without fear, and men now hold speech with angels.
L: Why is this? Because God is now on earth, and man in heaven; on every side all things commingle.
P: God became Flesh. The Lord did not become God. The Lord was God.
A: The Father of all ages, as an infant nursing, nestles in a mother's arms, and the heavens give glory, as the Lord is revealed by a star. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
To Him, then, Who out of confusion has wrought a clear path, to Christ, to the Father, and to the Holy Ghost, we offer all praise, now and for ever.


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Librarians and Hollywood types don't tend to intermingle. One group focuses on details and research, and the other exists primarily to stretch the truth, even in movies based on real people or events. But these two worlds meshed for a while a couple of years ago, when the folks behind the Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club contacted the University of North Texas library system, which had recently acquired the archives of Ron Woodruff.
Woodruff was the Dallas resident who, after contracting HIV in the 1980s, created the Dallas Buyers' Club, which helped get successful, non-FDA-approved AIDS-fighting drugs to people who were HIV-positive, mostly gay men, through the early 1990s. Newsletters from the club, newspaper articles on Woodruff, personal letters from him, and even vials of the non-FDA-approved drugs he used, ended up in UNT's archives thanks to a donation from Resource Center Dallas, a LGBT and HIV/AIDS service organization.
"It's an interesting story," said Dreanna Belden, the assistant dean for external relations at UNT Libraries. "Dr. Mark Vosvick, the associate professor of psychology, does a lot of studies on human sexuality and works a lot with Resource Center Dallas."
Resource Center had amassed a sizable amount of donated material over the years, filling 500-plus boxes covering 60 years of gay rights work in North Texas, and Vosvick was looking to give the material a permanent home. Talks among the resource center, Belden, and Sue Parks, the assistant dean for special collections, began several years ago, and UNT took over the archives in 2012.
It wasn't long before it was put to major use. During production of the movie, set designer Robert Covelman contacted Belden, who pointed them to Morgan Gieringer, head of special collections. (Belden was rewarded with a "special thanks" mention in the credits. "I swear, I don't know how it happened!" she said, laughing.)
The filmmakers, Gieringer said, were looking for background information "on what the Dallas gay community was like back then, who [Woodruff] was, and anything we had on Dallas Buyers' Club, people, places, and anything that the movie was trying to replicate."
The filmmakers, in the throes of shooting, were unable to view the collection personally, "so three students –– Marissa Posada, Zachary Richardson, and Bijan Zadeh –– spent hours past their normal shifts to do research," Gieringer said.
In the evenings, the students would scan hundreds of images and send them to Covelman. "Then he would load them onto his iPad and walk through the set to make it authentic," Gieringer said.
Aside from loving the movie, Gieringer also hopes it will bring attention to the archive. "It's sometimes difficult for us to get the word out on important archives, since most of the work is geared toward research," she said.
She also added that she's happy the movie "was able to reach so many people, and people who enjoyed it who want to learn more will look at the things we've digitized, and I also hope people who knew [Woodruff] will volunteer time or donate to the archive."


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When creating a new reporting period for Semester One, we don't have a template from the previous semester that we can simply copy as we do when creating the reporting period for Semester Two.
At the end of the school year all reporting periods are closed off as a requirement of the end of year rollover process. In order to create the Semester One the following steps need to be followed:
In SAS go to Reporter Pro -> Reporting -> Reporting Periods.
Here you will see the list of existing Reporting Periods.
To add a new Reporting Period:
- Click the Add button
- Select the current year in the Year text box
- Select the current semester in the Semester drop down list
- In the Description text box enter the name of the new Reporting Period, making sure the format fits with previous Reporting Period names. In this case I am calling mine Semester One 2016.
- The Short Description value is not required and can be left blank.
- In the Start Date and End Date text boxes, select the first and last date of the semester respectively.
- The No. of Teaching Days value is not required and can be left as 0.
- The Opening Message is an optional message that you can specify that will be seen by all staff using Reporter Pro. It can be used to inform staff of cut-off dates, etc if you want to make use of this feature.
- Finally place a tick in the Current Reporting Period check box.
Once all the details have been added click the Save button to create the new Reporting Period.
Now that the Reporting Period has been completed the next thing to do is to assign all classes via the Reporter Pro -> Reporting -> Classes screen.
The first thing to do is make sure that all your class teachers appear in the left hand side of the screen. If anyone is missing, go to People -> Staff to locate the missing teacher and make sure the check box is checked. After any changes, close the Classes window and re-open it to see the changes reflected.
The easiest way to assign teachers at the start of Semester One is to use the auto generate feature. To do this click the Auto-generate button in the bottom left hand corner of the Classes screen.
Once this screen is displayed, click the Select All button in the lower left corner to ensure that all the subjects are selected, then click the Confirm button.
This will then generate the class lists for you to preview. If you are happy with the generated lists that are shown on the right hand side of the screen then you can click the Proceed button which finalises the process.
After finalising the auto-generation you can see a teacher's classes in the middle pane of the Classes screen when you select their name from the teacher list on the left hand side.
The only remaining thing to do now is to click Publish which will make the new Reporting Period and associated classes available to teaching staff through Reporter Pro.


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Mahalo to Richard Byrne in Free Technology for Teachers for sharing the video "7 Billion" in his latest blog entry. This touches a continuum of my recent viewing of "Climate Refugees."
There are so many pathways to innovating for the prevention of suffering, which I believe is the underlying issue for all in our biosystem. I ask myself how will I welcome the many who need a homeland to set the stage for a loving and supportive community.
Growing up in Hawaii as a European-American, caucasian, white, feeling a sense of belonging has seemed like a luxury and yet I feel it must be able to be created by community… how can we create that community regardless of skin color and cultural differences?


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My dad and daughter putting the world to rights. They also share a love of hats.
From dodgy celebrities to microwave meals I can't help feeling lucky to have survived a childhood in the 80s relatively unscathed, except for a fondness for Lilt and a mild addiction to apple flavoured Astrobelts. When my mum and dad became parents in the late 70s, parenting was very different. Things have changed a lot and I am often quick to dismiss their way as doing things with "Things were just different back then." Seeing as it is Father's Day, I would like to share my dad's parenting advice which helps me to stay sane as I raise my girls.
In the 70s and 80s there weren't different parenting styles, there was just one way, old school. When a Dad's role was very clearly defined. He was the threat, the man who came in when mum got to 3. When you heard a mum shout 2 at the park all the kids stood up like meerkats because they knew there was a dad with a porn star moustache lurking with a rolled up paper ready to leap into action like Mr T. The 80's dad took care of Saturdays, he ripped his Speedos on flumes over the local leisure centre carpark so that mum could go to step aerobics with her mate Pam. If you behaved, you headed for a Happy Meal, if you had been really good you got to sit on your own at the toadstool table but he didn't sit with you. He ate his apple pie in peace and read Auto Trader but you didn't mind because the kids table was a thing back then. He let us sit in the car and listen to Now That's What I Call Music 12 while they went in to buy the latest must have accessory for his Black and Decker so he could turn the shed into a sauna. Then home to watch Jim'll Fix It, Big Break and Blind Date while we ate burnt crispy pancakes and Chicken Kievs, finished off with a Butterscotch Angel Delight in a pint glass. Beige was the new black back then. Fast forward 25 years and my 80's dad is now a millennial Grandad, or Goggog as he is affectionately known. I see him watch in bewildered amusement at his son in law knee deep in 50:50 parenting, desperate to take him down the pub so he can pass on his fatherly DIY knowledge to this over grown boy, but instead he is being kicked under the table by my mum and told with one look not to get involved. So he sits quietly watching Paw Patrol with his granddaughters pondering when it all changed and he stopped being his daughter's hero.
One of my dad's favourite sayings is "With a degree in hindsight we would all be millionaires" and he is right, it's easy to look back at the past with the knowledge of today with a sense of smugness but let's not fool ourselves, our time will come and our children will laugh incredulously at the the way we raised them.
My dad loves nothing better than giving advice, especially after a large glass or three of Chardonnay and here are 4 pearls of wisdom he has imparted on me over the years that are suitable to pass on to my children. As the great Baz Luhrmann once said in his Wear Sunscreen song, which should be everyone's mantra for life.
"Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it, advice is a form of nostalgia." So here goes…
The Best Gift You Can Give Someone Is Your Time
Take time to spend time with people, face to face or at the very least on the phone. Direct human contact will always be the best way to cheer someone up, although not in a Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby way.
Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down
I remember crying onto my dad's shoulder after a glass of wine because my boss in my first graduate job was an utter cow (ironic given that I worked for a dairy brand). You are going to come across plenty of bastards in life, annoyingly usually in positions of power, and the trick is to learn to rise above it. Smile and nod as my mum would say but this isn't about her. My dad is unashamedly proud of himself, it's so outrageous at times it's funny. When I was a teenager, I remember him putting his arms around me and saying "I bet you are proud of your dad aren't you". At the time I remember thinking he was an arrogant sod and I probably told him as much. Now I admire his thick skin and unashamed self belief.
United We Stand Divided We Fall
Growing up we always felt incredibly loved and secure and were always made to feel very lucky. However, we knew that we couldn't play mum and dad off against each other, so the trick was to figure out who was in the better mood. As a mum to two young girls with a combined pester power to rival Captain Planet, I struggle with this but it is the only way to stave off resentment and present a united front.
Raise Your Kids Well But Not At The Expense of Your Marriage
My dad said when he came to visit our first daughter: "Your children are important but do not neglect your relationship with your husband, if you do you will wake up one day when the kids leave home with a stranger in your bed. Trust me I have seen enough of my friend's marriages go that way." Sadly he wasn't talking about waking up next to Tom Hardy and it felt a bit premature to be talking about anything else other than the new baby but over the last four years I have thought of this advice so many times. When I feel I have nothing left to give and what I want to do is scream every insult I can at my husband for missing another bath time because a work thing over ran, I hear my dad's advice, dig deep and say "I Love You. You bastard"
Happy Father's Day Dad, please share it on Face Ache. Oh, and as the great Tina Turner once sang, "We don't need another hero." In fact I need a plumber so please could you come and unblock the loo, again? Thaaaaaaanks!


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Courtesy of Adam Kubert, here's some photos from last year's (May '08) scholarship presentations at The Joe Kubert School for Cartoon & Graphic Art. I was honored with awarding the Dave & Paty Cockrum Scholarship to second-year student Ian Ayala and am pictured here with living legend Joe Kubert who thanks me for wearing a blue shirt.
The scholarship is funded by sales from Dave Cockrum's personal comics collection.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
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From Gaza: I'm a Human Being, Not a Human Shield*
By Walaa Ghussein
A Palestinian holds clothes and bullets which witnesses said were left behind by Israeli forces in the Shejaia neighbourhood in Gaza City July 26, 2014.
Do you feel like Hamas is using you as a human shield?'
I've been asked this question by many people since the last campaign of Israeli aggression against Gaza in 2009, and the subject has received reams of media coverage over the last few weeks – far more coverage, in fact, than Israel's killing of hundreds of civilians, its destruction of residential houses and its bombing of hospitals, schools and children's playgrounds.
First of all, let's make one thing clear. It's been shown during the recent days of aggression in Gaza that there is no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields. This has been verified by international journalists reporting from Gaza, including Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East editor.
What basis do people have for claiming Hamas is using innocent people to shield its weapons?
What evidence do they have?
The answer is: none.
The people of Gaza are clustering where they are safe, not where they can sit on Hamas rockets. Am I being used as a human shield just for refusing to leave my house, my supposedly safe zone? I have already been forced to flee my house, and I'm still not safe.
The other 1.8 million people living in Gaza are in a similar situation. Our collective home is a rectangular tract of land, about 25 miles long and just a few miles wide, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea on one side and Egypt on another. In such a place, it's difficult for civilians to hide or go anywhere to avoid Israel's airstrikes, artillery and gunboat shells. They have no choice but to stay in their houses waiting to get killed, while Israel continues propagating flimsy accusations that we are being used to hide weapons.
On 24 July a spokesman for UNRWA, the UN's refugee agency in Gaza, said they had received no warning before Israeli forces shelled a school in Beit Hanoun and killed at least 17 displaced civilians who had taken shelter there, and this was not the first time Israeli forces have bombed schools serving as shelters in the besieged Gaza Strip. These schools shelter elderly people, women, children and UN employees; the same people who, according to Israel's PR machine, have been ordered to evacuate their homes before IDF bombing raids.
The civilians in that Beit Hanoun school were not used as human shields for Hamas, it was their own decision to take that school as a last resort, believing that a UN school would be a safer place for them while Israel was terrorising their areas and destroying their houses. Beside schools, Israel has targeted hospitals, opened fire on medics and ambulances, and banned them from entering under-fire areas to evacuate civilians and save their lives – as happened in Al-Shojae'ya and Khuza'a.
And let's clarify another point: Hamas is not just a military wing, it's also a political organisation embedded in civilian life, and its members are civilians too. We're talking about a movement that runs hospitals, shops and many civic services and offices in Gaza. So when Israel decides to destroy everything related to Hamas and its infrastructure, it means destroying the whole City.
When the IDF targets a house because it belongs to a Hamas member, that means destroying the house and killing the target's whole family as well as whoever is staying in that house. Neighbours are often caught up in the carnage as well. These people are not human shields; they are simply in the wrong place when the rocket lands.
As a Palestinian living in Gaza, I refuse and denounce the false claims of being used as a human shield for Hamas. It disturbs me that the world cares much more about these arguments than the fact that Israel is committing inhumane war crimes against me and my people. We're all together in this; the Israeli killing machine does not differentiate between civilians or military members, they kill everything that moves.
Related Topics:
Israel's 'Eid Gift to Palestinians*
Operation Protective Edge: The Dead Have Names*
The Real Jihad is in Palestine*
DEBKA Report: Saudi, Egypt and Israel Orchestrated Palestinian Holocaust*
How GCHQ Monitors Germany, Israel, the EU and Africa*
Irish Shops Urged to Remove Produce from Israel*
Deir Yassin, the Beginning of the Palestinian Holocaust. 1948*


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SPOZ's RANT ::
:: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
ST JEROME'S LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2008LIVE @ CITY WEST / Saturday February 23rd 2008Previously on Spoz's Rant: the geniuses behind Adelaide's event scheduling decide to pack out the city's east end to lung puncturing density for the Festival Fringe opening street party whilst simultaneously blocking up every exit with petrol heads for the Clipsal 500 street race. Thus begins my Friday night footnote: packed like sardines at the Crown & Anchor, breathing through a snorkel, waiting 20-30 minutes at the bar as that same drunk woman and her Holden team husband order three bourbons, throw in a vodka, correct with an additional scotch, add one last minute wine followed by me beating them to death with the blunt end of a fire extinguisher..Fall through the cracks in the pavement on Union Street only to dig my way to freedom stuck in human traffic two thirds down Rundle Street. An impenetrable forcefield of meat. Every few minutes another freshly picked carcass surfaces for air, floats downstream, only to wash ashore at the Exeter; one of the many performing artists to fall prey to the pirahna swarm this night..Beating shovels and cricket bats down detours and side streets to East Terrace, the Unearthly Gardens is all but flattened by a stampede since bottlenecked to a crawl, no ones getting out alive. Moans, groans and clawing hands; dreams of Soylent Green. And then it starts to rain..Onwards with punching fists to the live stage at Rymill Park, gargling dirt and exhaust fumes with the hundreds and thousands crushed to faceless glee. A growing pantheon of pagan gods piss through sieves from above as wheelie bins uproot like trees in earth to air missiles..Dappled Cities Fly as I miss I Heart Hiroshima: not just for the band, but for the delerious yearning of one well placed thermonuclear device, one hazard suit and a week's warning..I dream of being the last one left alive as the earth is overrun, all chattering, devouring, 10ft tall, propped up on shoulders, hats and hair, arms flailing devil horns and camera phones..Fall forward 5 metres to cans, cups, waterbottles and crunching skulls under foot, fall backwards arms fumbling, fingers up noses and in eyes. Tiny compact lenses grind like glass beads to the passing of a perfect storm, whilst overhead flapping birds fall flightless to crashing waves..Somewhere beyond, in beaming lights where lungs sing free, The Presets blast shockwaves into the apocalypse throng whilst I briefly attempt to capture the insanity from ground level..Althoughly clearly someone else had the upper hand on the night when they captured this from further afield and above East Terrace. Just watch when that crowd lights up and OOOH SHIT!Oh the fun we had in the rain, tumble dried to flying fists! Follow it up with me drowning in the aftermath; ale after ale into the remains of the night, memories all but obliterated to the fight or flight? Fuck! Remind me again who's genius idea it was to combine the Festival Fringe opening party with the Clipsal 500!? If they try this shit next year, I'll be sure to bring my shotgun!8 hours swimming up shit creek, 9-10 beers and 5 hours sleep later, I'm freshly exhumed for Adelaide's inaugural installment of the St Jerome's Laneway Festival; 2000 people smeared to the walls between Fowlers Live and UniSA's City West campus? OOOOH FUCK YEAH!As much as I can gather the planning for this year's festival went something like along the lines of this: somewhere down Toronto way, in a dutched out combi van packed full of clown shoes, Broken Social Scene receive a last minute phone invitation from Australia. Laneway Festival desperately needs to fill a live bill and thanks in no small part to the red tape vagueries of Immigration, Work Visas and Occupational Health & Saftely, figure if they split up Broken Social Scene's 15-20 strong army into at least 3-4 "different" bands then sprinkle in a few local ring-ins and get The Presets to headline, nobody will catch on. Genius! What's the bet next year they'll do the exact same thing with the Polyphonic Spree? (unless of course they're the exact same act just with multicoloured choir robes, I mean who's to know? ooooooh indie scene conspiracy!).OKKERVIL RIVER (***1/2) myspace ::First catch for the day is Okkervil River. One brief look at the lineup, one quick cross-check through my anti-terrorism fridge magnet, no sign of wayward Broken Social Scene members? Phew! Hailing from the sunny side of Austin Texas: the teenage wasteland may have their emo, the rest may have their oldtime country and blues, but nothing speaks of true sorrow and suicidal woe quite like that of Okkervil River. Thinning the herd wherever they go, they're the black eyed Lifeline speed dialer that'll have you crying bathtubs full of your own tears before dropping the hairdryer in. Friends don't let friends listen to Okkervil River alone. Watch for the warning signs and for your own saftey please make sure to remove all knives, guns, ropes, belts and sleeping pills before even daring to watch this music video, you HAVE been warned!(Damn, there goes my entire audience) As for their live set? It somewhat reminds me of what Modest Mouse would sound like if Isaac Brock ever went through rehab (with perhaps a few sprinklings of Arcade Fire for good measure). Their lead singer Will Sheff is a misery guts, wailing away on stage like every woman in the audience just broke up with him on the spot and now desperately wants them all back, but the set draws you in. As far as opening acts for me go, this one really had me thirsting for more. Hmmm.. now where DID I put that razorblade?Satisfied with that opening hit from the main "Uni" stage, I take a quick surf through the crowds to the wash ashore here at the "Fowlers" side stage. With it's steady flow of beer on tap (no lineups!), plenty of room to move, shade from the sun and rapid access to the front, this would prove a welcome respite throughout the day from the meat packing plant swarming outside..LADY STRANGELOVE (****) myspace ::As much as I'm aware, no member of local band Lady Strangelove is a card carrying Broken Social Scenester, but it helps to be vigilant. Still on the flipside, if these guys DID manage to form a touring collective with Wolf & Cub, Taught By Animals, Mr Wednesday and the scattered remnants of Artax Mission we'd have an arms race on our hands. And if both collectives ever chose to play in Amsterdam? Fuuuck! life as we know it on this planet would be over! Lady Strangelove: they put the entire Amazonian ecosystem through a blender to skull fuck us blind when they played Rocket Bar two weeks ago, they've spun the sun retrograde at both the Adelaide Big Day Out and Meredith Music Festivals and today with Brendan's acid antics with a floor fan and Josh's guitar meltdown, backward somersaults and twin maraca crowd invasion? this set may've retroactively been responsible for the Milky Way Galaxy doubling it's size in under a week. I don't know much about the laws of thermodynamics, but I'm pretty sure they're guilty of breaking at least *four of them today (*and yes, they originally wrote the fourth one).STARS (***) myspace ::I walk back into the sunlight only to be hit in the face with the screaming of sirens and flashing lights. Surgical masks and duct tape are now falling from the sky. In times like these it helps to remain calm. The rumours are true, erstwhile members of Broken Social Scene have indeed broken loose and formed a side project: Stars, from Montreal Canada. Beats me why the fuck they chose such an utterly non descriptive one word band title, but according to the laziest of wikipedia research their music has been featured on "Degrassi: The Next Generation" so clearly they must be all kinds of indie scene awesome. Here to introduce, is one of their videos..As for their set today, the vibe is again comparable to Modest Mouse, but one where Isaac Brock has already gone through rehab and has since relapsed with a Ketamine addiction. As such think bittersweet hungover with dappled guitars, layers of trumpets, soothing interplay between male and female vocals and next to bleedingly impossible for me to anything write about by being so utterly non-descriptive and "middle of the road" that I've got nothing to make fun of. Still, at least they didn't bring out the piano accordian; we can be thankful for such small mercies..BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE (****) myspace ::Now I realise with 90% certainty that most of my reading audience have already been a member of this band and have simply failed to tell me (and I realise that this introduction may also be a moot point) but lets not forget how many "late night trips" to the Quickie Mart are necessary to keep a band like Broken Social Scene alive. If you have indeed forgotten and have made ANY visits to Toronto in the last 12 months; short term memory loss, uncontrollable laughter and a fondness for baked goods may not be your only problem, you may have royalties to collect. Broken Social Scene: they're what you find jamming away in your kitchen at 11AM after one fuck of a house party. They're one thousand sounds of discontinuity and gently dappled hippy euphoria licking your face. As much as I could easily find BETTER video examples to showcase their sound, I believe this one is by far the funniest in it's depiction..Live on stage they sound rather like the spacey upbeat extremes of Sonic Youth or The Pixies, only with the emphasis on much heavier bass funk and less so on the feedback and Kim Gordon's howling sneer. Utterly shambolic, disorganised, spontaneous yet blissfully, effortlessly euphoric. They're the morning after lying dead on the couch after one helluva night's heavy drinking and partying, laughing hysterically at all the dumb shit you just did as recollection returns in waves. They're the hangover without the complication. Forget the breakfast of champions: bacon and eggs, Kentucky Fried Camel, Micky D's, Crunchy Dacks, aspirin, hair of the dog that bit you or whatever the fuck. We don't need any of that here. In Broken Social Scene we found our cure..Since most of their extended family (minus a few female vocals) were all in attendance, this set was in no short supply of "guest" appearances. First it was the members from Stars getting in on the act with trumpets and backups, and then when Feist hit the stage for the soaring bliss that is "7/4 (Shoreline)" everyone went absolutely bat shit! Laneway Festival, it may've just been a thinly veil excuse for a Broken Social Scene love-in, but with this set they delivered it in spades!DAMN ARMS (***) myspace ::Not to be confused with any aforementioned Canadian bands (but again it pays to be vigilant) is my next choice off at the side stage. Damn Arms from Melbourne; they're the impossibly self aware, cool-as-fuck, post everything with angular riffs, demonic basslines, electro synths and stabbing 4/4 drums that conjure up images of scruffy art and design students wearing skinny jeans, futurist t-shirts, eskimo goggles and shoes held together by electrical tape dismissing your entire cultural worth with nothing but a vacant stare and an assymetrical haircut. The sort that once flocked to Rocket Bar, but now can be found ignoring you in droves at Transmission. Since I'm already more or less familiar with their album, it's no surprise that today at least 50% of the songs I hear are completely unrecogniseable. Forever forging ahead in territories that only a million 80's bands (and Kraftwerk) dared to tread, this is me forever thankful they're not ripping off Daft Punk or Justice. They damn near scare me, but they still bang one mean arse jam!CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH (***1/2) myspace ::Back to the sounds of the setting sun, I return to the main stage for my next pick. According to the timetable this band was merely listed as "CYHSY". Clueless to what to expect, I was under the impression that this was going to be some fuckarse obscure Norwegian band pronounced "Czar" who sound like Sigur Ros being arseraped by The Knife whilst Aphex Twin watches. So it was with welcome relief that I was greated with the opening refrains of "Satan Said Dance" and finally joined the dots (damn you acronym! DAMN YOOOU!). Clap Your Hands Say Yeah from Brooklyn, New York: to borrow my continuing Isaac Brock analogy, imagine if our unfortunate Modest Mouse's frontman went through rehab, a vicious bout with Ketamine, a full frontal lobotomy and is now since found drooling on windows in a space helmet, screaming at pregnant women on the bus. Fan or no fan you gotta admit Alec Ounsworth, lead singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, either sounds like David Spade trying to sing, Thom Yorke being beaten to death, or a strangled cat crossed with a helium baloon pissing air. Since it's impossible for me to get past just how insane his voice is, I'll throw this introductory video at you instead..Live on stage, with Alec Ounsworth writhing about, they're either infinitely more annoying or infinitely more brilliant than their albums, the exact opinion of which all depending on whether you're a gushing fan or whether you're one who'd prefer jamming an entire box of pencils up their nose till the pain stops. For the record I DO quite enjoy their first album, but since I've clearly used up all my best punchlines already, I've got next to nothing left to contribute. Fuck!FEIST (****1/2) myspace ::(Don't mention the Toronto band, pleaaase don't mention the Toronto, shit too late!) For those of you late to this game of six degrees of seperation, Feist has been one of the (many ridiculous) number of revolving door collaborators to Broken Social Scene. Again, I don't feel I really need to mention this band, as not only am I sick to death in referencing it, but clearly EVERYONE of you idiots have already been in this freaking band by now and my invite simply got lost in the mail (fuckers!). But of course, this is nothing but a trivial footnote now. Thanks in no small part to one of her songs being used in an ipod nano ad campaign, that same song spawning a youtube viral plague, high rotation in every single cafe, bookstore, fashion boutique and mental asylum (and lest we also mention Triple J Radio damn near flogging her album to death for the last six months), Leslie Feist is probably the ONE bleedingly obvious drawcard for all you "me toos!" wanting to bask in her 15 seconds of fame. So if you haven't heard of "1,2,3,4" already, that rock you've been living under contains traces of lead, but hey who am I to refuse the Sesame Street lesson? look for Snufalufagus and The Count, I'm sure they're hiding in there somewhere..Still as much as I'd rather follow Isaac Brock's crash diet into the toilet than listen to THAT song again. I'd hate to say it, but Feist tonight is a truly mesmerising performance to behold. Sure, she sounds ever so irritatingly Canadian in a way that only Alanis Morrisette at her most coy and a hundred singer songwriter clones flooding Channel 7's Sunday night "McDreamy" lineup makes you want to punch lightbulbs, but dammit, she's just soooo damn cute it's impossible to hate her! ARRRGHH! DAMN YOU!! Delicately fluffy, girly, bouncy, twinkly, playful with crowd participation and ever so slightly smokey with jazzy undertones, she has me captivated despite all survival instincts to gnaw my arm off and flee. As much as she might just be a flash in a pan, and hundreds more will be sure to follow, tonight she had us all in the palm of her hand!THE VASCO ERA (****1/2) myspace ::Few words can adequately describe what followed next from the side stage when The Vasco Era make their appearance. They're the swampy Detroit blues of The White Stripes as soundtrack to the screaming zombies from 28 Days Later tearing you limb from limb. They're a hessian bag of feral cats beaten raw with sticks and let loose on your face. If you've ever downed fifty red bulls before hitting the road to a 5 hour traffic jam whilst windowlickers in the car next to you play nothing but Justice's "D.A.N.C.E." in a loop, that howling primal urge to gib their exploding remains all over their windscreen using nothing but the power of your mind IS The Vasco Era. Comparing their performance tonight to anything else out there is rather akin to comparing death by a 10 kilometre asteroid, to being shot point blank range with a shotgun. Both are lethal combinations, both cannot compare. The Vasco Era; just be thankful they only make music!GOTYE (**1/2) myspace ::Everything I'll write in this review will be coloured by the one simple fact: Gotye's music annoys the living shit out've me. Granted this may be no fault of his own; such a gentle, whimsically and ecclectic fellow, who was to know his laptop music of swooning strings, pianos, plink plonk beats and affecting vocals would provide Triple J with it's whipping boy for an entire year in high rotation? who was to know that both "Hearts A Mess" and "Thanks For Your Time" would be played on Triple J everytime I woke up on a Sunday with the world's most fucked up hangover? who was to know I'd come to connect the two like ringing bells to Pavlov's dog? Clearly such conditioning is nothing but happenstance and I should simply be sending all my Theodore Kaczynksi love letters to Triple J instead of beating upon THIS poor soul. So as you acquaint yourself to this video to "Hearts A Mess", I'll be off in the corner, huddled in foetal position with my hands around my ears whimpering like a fool. Don't worry I'm sure Gotye won't mind, he'll probably sample it for his next song and then Triple J will pick it up.. and then.. oooh crud!So this is me making an attempt, this is me taking photos and featuring him in this blog (hehehe.. he so blurry!). This is me caring cause I know some of you are BIG fans of Gotye. Sure I really can't understand why, I mean, have you LISTENED to "Thanks For Your Time"!? How the HELL did this sadistic FUCK make waiting on hold even more annoying!? HOW DAMMIT!? *cough* yes, I realise this is my problem and I'm dealing with it. Swooning strings, pianos, plink plonk beats and affecting vocals? donning a fake moustache and dedicating a song to Josh from Lady Strangelove? What's not to love! (Hmmm.. now where DID I put that Okkervil River CD?)And now with that rat bastard Gotye finally finished for the night, with that one person in the crowd breathing a sigh of relief that his reign of terror is finally over (just be thankful I didn't choose to cover The Panics today, yeeeouch!) we reach the final headlining act: running two hours over schedule, thanks in no small part to a certain band who's name I'll no longer mention in this blog (and their fifty billion spin-off projects) spending way too much time in soundcheck..THE PRESETS (***) myspace ::They played a set to over 10,000 screaming idiots packed out in Rymill Park the night before to open the Fringe Festival (a set I barely made out've alive) and now they're back to finish the job. The Presets; they make cocaine binges, insider trading, sadomasochism and serial killing cool for the kids again! YES! As such, tonight's set is a mixed dimebag of uppers and downers that remindes everyone what they both loved and HATE about hard edged 80's dance music: they hit the ring punching with crowd pleasers "Down Down Down", "Are You The One?" and "Girl And The Sea", bored everyone shitless in the middle with "Steamworks", "Kitty In The Middle" and a retarding mashup of Daft Punk's "Da Funk" set to a two-tone beat (since every dickhead and their dog loves that shit now) before bringing it all home triumphantly with their new single "My People" and the ever brilliant headfuck that is "I Go Hard, I Go Home"..Still since they've got a new album coming up in April, there WAS a wealth of new shit to keep things interesting to the discerning ear. The Presets in 2008 appear to be of the harder edge: classic cuts were given a "mechanoid" facelift (especially opener "Down Down Down"), new instrumental jams were referencing a definite Gary Numan vs Kraftwerk vibe, and then there was this gem: I heard it the night before and call me a sucker for the Roland TB303, but the minute I heard that buzzing acid loop I went fucking apeshit! The visuals are kind've shit (arms flapping, strobe lights and youtube's aggressive compressor will do that for you) but just crank that volume up high in this live video and you'll pick up on that satanic buzz too. If their new album's anything as good as THIS song promises to be? we're sure to have a winner!Phew! and there we have it: two thousand hippies, freaks, geeks and hipsters tragics crammed into the cracks of a west end back alley for an indie music festival celebrating the REAL creative fringes from around the world! Sure, it might not be as overblown as the official "Fringe" street party from the night before (pffft!) but I ask you, where would YOU prefer to get your hit?Who is this Saint Jerome? What is he doing sniffing around back alleys making all manner of weird noises and retarded flashing lights? Who cares! cause he sure as fuck knows how to throw one madarse party! Come back anytime dude, these streets are yours for the taking! :)Previously on Spoz's Rant: The Killgirls + Booster + Dead Popes Of The Vatican
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"SARG operated as a trust in the period before 2009, with the main focus being to implement National Responsible Gambling Programme (NRGP), which was launched as a comprehensive industry response to the challenges posed by problem gambling in a developing nation such as South Africa, after the legalisation of gambling in mid-1996," explains Sibongile Simelane-Quntana, the Executive Director.
"At its inception, it took the form of a national programme with a set of activities that integrated treatment and counselling, public awareness, education, training and research; and it remains globally recognised as the first national initiative to integrate these various components coherently, with the understanding that it is maximally cost effective to have a single, national programme covering all forms of gambling," she adds.
The mission and vision
Simelane-Quntana says the foundation's vision is to create a responsible gambling environment through accessible programmes that manage and minimise the potentially harmful effects of gambling in the country.
Their mission is to grow awareness of responsible gambling and to ensure that the potential negative and harmful effects of gambling are managed and minimised, through an integrated and well-managed programme of:
- Research, advocacy and stakeholder mobilisation;
- Comprehensive treatment and counselling; and
- Problem gambling prevention.
- Responsible gambling defined
Simelane-Quntana explains that responsible gambling is when the gambling activity is a harmless and recreational, which does not take more time or money on gambling than one can comfortably afford.
"A responsible gambler is one who typically determines beforehand what they consider to be acceptable losses. By and large, their gambling activities cause little harm to themselves or their loved ones and their behaviour is associated with minimal guilt.
"They simply require information and education on gambling behaviour to enable them to make sensible decisions and remain harm free," she elaborates.
Problem gambling can have severe consequences and not only does it have a negative effect on the gambler, but also on the family, significant others and on the workplace.
"These are some of the effects of problem gambling on a punter: depression, suicidal thoughts, anger and anxiety, financial and emotional depletion, and so forth," she explains.
The National Responsible Gambling Programme
The SARGF's flagship programme, NRGP, which was launched in June 2000, has successfully treated 18 500 patients to date.
The NRGP has various programmes—The Support and Mentoring Programme/Industry Support Programme, Prevention Programmes and Treatment Programmes—each with their own set of objectives and target audiences.
The Support and Mentoring Programme, also known as the Industry Support Programme, is offered to industry employees, mainly the operators. It comprises of individuals and group sessions facilitated by the foundation's social worker. This programme differs from the training programme in that it focuses on the emotional skills and capacity of employees. It is aimed at creating awareness of problem gambling in the workplace. This programme helps employees to be aware of the triggers of gambling. By placing emphasis on personal choice, employees are capacitated to better understand their role within the workplace including stress triggers. The sessions are facilitated on an open basis in groups. The foundation also has a dedicated crises line of support to call in case of an emergency
Prevention Programmes comprise of the national schools' programme, public awareness campaigns, public sector workshops, private sector employee wellness programmes and the senior older age citizens' workshops, which are all dedicated to managing and minimising the potentially harmful effects of problem gambling. These programmes also educate the public about the dangers and consequences of illegal gambling, how to stay in control and gamble within your means. The foundation works closely with the National Gambling Board, the Provincial Gambling Board's gambling industry operators as well as other key sector stakeholders to roll out the prevention programme.
Treatment Programmes—all the foundation's Treatment and Counselling Programmes are free of charge and available 24 hours a day. These services include an outpatient and inpatient treatment programme as well as the provision of telephone counselling by trained and qualified professionals. The outpatient programme comprises of face-to-face counselling and is aligned with the practices regulated by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and other recognised international best practices. Patients in this programme undergo a minimum of eight to 10 face-to-face counselling sessions, depending on the recovery and progress of the individual. The inpatient treatment targets individuals who are suffering from severe or chronic problem gambling disorders. Patients admitted to this programme are provided with 28 sessions within a hospital or clinic environment. Highly qualified psychologists, psychiatrists and clinicians are dedicated to each individual case to ensure the patients are constantly evaluated and monitored.
The leader at the helm
Sibongile Simelane-Quntana's experience and background lie in institutional development and administration. She holds a postgraduate degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Public Administration and Management and, prior to joining SARGF, she worked in the public sector in various management positions.
"I joined the SARGF because I wanted to make a difference and educate people about problem gambling. In addition, like most South Africans, my family is affected by an addicted person and this has been going on for years now since I was in high school," she explains.
Simelane-Quntana's role is to ensure that SARGF delivers on its mandate to minimise the potentially harmful effects of problem gambling.
"Having worked in the public sector in various management positions equipped with experience on how to run an institution—this, coupled with my educational qualifications, has allowed me to provide the necessary leadership in terms of reconfiguring SARGF's programmes," she says.
Simelane-Quntana has enjoyed a long, prosperous career, which has been punctuated by numerous professional triumphs as well as some challenges along the way.
She describes the biggest achievement in her career thus far as the National Responsible Gambling Month, which she conceptualised in 2016 and each year, it is growing.
In terms of the biggest challenge, she says, "My biggest challenge, which I am overcoming every day, is managing people and dealing with people dynamics daily. Managing people in my view, it's like playing the game of chess. It is very difficult to anticipate the person's next move and you are always kept on your toes in terms of your reaction to their next move.
"As a leader, your next move should not be about checkmate but about ensuring that when checkmate time comes, the other person is aware of how it got to that end.
"I have a personal motto that my next move has the potential to either make or break any situation. I always try to achieve the former by setting ground rules for engagement," she explains.
A remarkable leader, Simelane-Quntana's leadership style is best described as being a combination, as she does not believe that the rigidity of subscribing to one specific style will allow you to achieve what you've set out to achieve.
"Therefore, I am very flexible in my leadership, I allow myself to be a strategic and transformational leader most times. Leadership comes naturally, you need to have a passion to work with people and not be scared to make the difficult decisions as and when it is required of you," she concludes.


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NOVA IT Company has implemented Nova.Chats solution in the online store LadyShop.ua for instant messaging with clients via popular messengers
Katkova Marina, CEO of Lady Shop, about Nova.Chats solution
LadyShop.ua – an online store of professional cosmetics, which provides not only the choice of the right product, but also to get expert advice on its use.
Web chat in LadyShop.ua was used for a long time. I will not say that it was superfluous, but it had no significant influence on sales. Our main customers conduct their own business occupying key positions; the second segment is the mothers in the pregnancy decree. All those are busy and, in a hurry, conversations on the phone are not convenient for them, and it's impossible to guess their free time. We found a way out, how it is more convenient to keep in touch, and started using not only an online chat on the site, we tied it up with social networks and instant messengers – this was solved by Nova.Chats solution. This increased the number of interactions and orders.
The second important thing for us is communication with customers. Since we specialize in selling professional cosmetics with individual selection, it is important for us to communicate with clients quickly and easily (to send a link to the recommended product, live photo, ask a clarifying question, suggest an alternative, etc.)
The market goes to the fact that customers do not have time and desire to rummage through thousands catalogs and choose goods. People specify the prices and order products on the photo through the instant messenger of their favorite social network or fill out a questionnaire for selection and get a decision from us. And the main goal of business is to provide such convenience for each client. Cooperation with the company NOVA IT helped us to increase the percentage of sales and to improve communication with our clients at their own messengers.


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