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Family comes first for Roar star
Thomas Kristensen is playing for his future at the Roar. DARREN ENGLAND
by PHIL DILLON
RESULTS aside, Thomas Kristensen is loving life Down Under. And, more importantly, so is his family.
The former Danish international is deep into his third season with A-League club Brisbane Roar after signing from top Dutch side ADO Den Haag in 2016.
The 35-year-old midfielder has enjoyed those three years in Queensland, even the past six months when the Roar has won just three games to languish second from the bottom on the premiership ladder with just five rounds of the regular season remaining.
But he would not have lasted if his children - Oscar, nine and Alma, six - had not settled.
"Football was always No.1 when I came to Australia but I also have a family, so that's important to me," Kristensen told News Regional.
"If my family hadn't enjoyed their time here, we would not have stayed.
"It's the full package and we haven't regretted it at all. It's been an adventure on the pitch and off the pitch as well."
Kristensen tweeted a picture of Oscar riding his bike through a rain-forest setting on Australia Day with the caption "He's more Aussie than Danish. Happy Australia Day".
Kristensen said both children were also handling the language barriers well.
"They have been full on at school for a couple of years now and I reckon my daughter is 80 per cent English (speaking) and 20 per cent Danish where my son is more 50-50," he said.
Kristensen's family will also come first when he decides to pull stumps on his playing days.
His contract with the Roar finishes at the end of this season but he is keen to continue playing, before transitioning into the coaching ranks.
"Time will tell. But if you ask me now I will definitely say I will play on. Whether that's here (Brisbane), at another club in Australia or back in Denmark," he said.
Kristensen is well settled at the Roar. DARREN ENGLAND
"After that I don't know. That's another decision that we will have to make as a family, but I definitely want to get into coaching.
"For me it would be better to get my licence in Europe because that gives me the opportunity to use it both here and over there. If I take it here I can only use it on Australia.
"I can't see myself doing anything outside football. I would like to stay within that small world."
The Roar have endured a torrid season, which has included the axing of coach John Aloisi and departure of star striker Adam Taggart.
Still, Kristensen is at a loss to explain why the Roar are sitting second last on the A-League ladder.
The Roar have struggled on the paddock this season. JONO SEARLE
"In the three years I have been here this pre-season was probably the best," he said.
"We got a new training ground, we had some good players coming in, so it's hard to put a finger on it. Definitely some of the other clubs have been a lot better this year.
"The pre-season looked really good, we didn't have issues in terms of injuries and after the first game against the Mariners (1-1 draw), I was like 'wow, this is going to be a good year'."
The Roar take on ladder leaders Sydney FC at Suncorp Stadium tonight with nothing but pride on the line but Kristensen said it was still important to put in a positive performance.
"All the players and coaching staff are playing for their future. There are a lot of players coming off contract," he said.
"We can't just say the season's out the window because I would like to have a job next year and I reckon all the other players would like a job too.
"It doesn't matter that Sydney are 27 points ahead, it's a game you always want to win."
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Owen Gnatovich (Son), Isla Gnatovich (Daughter)
Hallie Gnatovich is one of the former American actresses who is well recognized as the wife of American television presenter, Josh Gates. The married life of the couple that belongs to the Hollywood industry has accumulated huge attention since the time they got married.
Let's dive into the details of her biography and find the information on the couple's married life.
Hallie is a former American actress who has portrayed few characters in different television series. She appeared as the researcher in the TV series Destination Truth which aired from 2008 to 2012. The reality show revolves around her husband, Josh Gates, who portrays the lead investigator who explores different places of celestial import.
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In 2007, Halie played the role of Marnie in the short/comedy show, Archer House which aired on 23 March 2007. The film was successful and has won Special Jury Award in 2007 at Sidewalk Film Festival with some excellent reviews.
Keeping aside her career as an actress, Halie is currently working as a professionally licensed therapist since 2012. As a therapist, she specializes in mothers, LGBTQ couples, and entertainment industry professionals. She often gives marriage tips, parenting tips, and relationship tips on her social media.
Net Worth of Halie Gnatovich
Halie, being the former actress and a professional therapist, has yet to disclose her earnings. So it is quite baffling to evaluate her annual revenue and her net worth when she hasn't hinted the fortune that she is enjoying.
However, her husband Josh, who is an American TV personality, has a jaw-breaking net worth of $3 million.
Haile's Married Life And Children
Talking about her love life, Halie, age 36, and Josh met each other in 2007 during the shooting of TV Series Destination Truth. The pair emerged their bonds closer, and their relationship soon flourished into a love affair. They finally converted their sweet love into marriage on 13 September 2014, after being together for more than five years. They exchanged the vows in the wedding ceremony in Hidden Pond Resort in Kennebunkport, Maine, in front of their family members and friends.
Her husband Josh is very active working with Discovery channel on a project called Expedition Unknown. On April of 2019, he posted a picture of a 2,500-year-old burial of a high-priest of the Egyptian god Thoth on his Instagram which shocked the audiences around the world. He is working with a team of Egyptian archaeologists and exploring Egypt with the Discovery channel.
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In the year 2015, Josh received an emergency call from his wife while he was in the middle of the shooting of the episode called Expedition Unknown of reality TV show Secrets of Christopher Columbus. After talking to his wife, he was excited, and with a proud smile on his face, he learned that his wife was pregnant and he was soon emerging to be a father.
The duo had their pleasant moment together in February 2016 when they embraced their first baby, Owen Gnatovich.
Hallie Gnatovich announcing the birth of her new baby on 21 February 2016 (Photo: Twitter)
Their son, Owen, is currently three years old. Moreover, the couple got a chance to become a parent to their child again in 2018 but the exact date of birth of their second child is yet to be revealed. They have named their second child as Isla. Halie and Josh are living peacefully together in Los Angeles involving in their parental duty by raising their son.
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Hallie, who was born in 1981, is currently 36 years old. She has ensured privacy regarding her childhood life, so the exact information regarding her birthday is unknown. Hallie is shorter than her husband, Josh, who stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inch (1.87m) tall. As per wiki, her ethnicity is white and carries American nationality.
In 2004, the former actress completed her education at Oberlin College. She graduated her Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University in Sandiego, California.
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Transfer news and rumours LIVE: Bayern open talks with Man City over Sane
Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2019 by Goal.com
Bale to snub Spurs offer
Gareth Bale is set to snub a potential move to Tottenham as he waits for a solution from Real Madrid.
The Mirror reports that the winger is being pushed out by the Spanish giants, but won't agree to leave without his contract, which earns him over £600,000-a-week, being honoured.
Man Utd looking for alternatives to Koulibaly
Manchester United are looking for alternatives to Napoli's Kalidou Koulibaly, who has been deemed too expensive, according to Independent.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has identified centre-back as a position of need, but United are not willing to meet Napoli's £90 million (€104m/$116m) asking price for Koulibaly.
That could see the club turn to Harry Maguire, Milan Skriniar, or Toby Alderweireld instead.
Bayern open talks with Man City over Sane
City may be forced to sell the German star if he does not agree a new contract
Bayern Munich have opened talks with Manchester City over a move for Leroy Sane, the Daily Record reports.
Sane was often left out of Pep Guardiola's starting XI this season, and City have given Bayern permission to speak with the German's representatives over contract terms.
City may feel that selling Sane is the best option, with the 23-year-old so far rejecting the club's offers to extend a contract that runs out in 2021.
West Ham planning move for Etheridge
West Ham United are planning a move for Cardiff City goalkeeper Neil Etheridge this summer, Football Insider claims.
Etheridge, 29, was impressive with Cardiff this season despite the club's relegation, with the Bluebirds preparing to field offers for the shot-stopper.
The Hammers are looking to bring in cover and competition for current starter Lukasz Fabianski.
Schulz closing in on Dortmund move
Borussia Dortmund are nearing the signing of left-back Nico Schulz from Hoffenheim, reports Kicker.
The 26-year-old will move for a fee of around €30 million (€26m/$34m) and will sign a contract with Dortmund through the 2023-24 season.
Schulz joins Thorgan Hazard as a summer reinforcement for Dortmund, with the Monchengladbach star also nearing a move to Signal Iduna Park.
Atletico nearing triple swoop for Porto stars
Atletico Madrid are closing in on signing Hector Herrera, Felipe and Alex Telles from Porto, according to ESPN FC.
Center midfielder Herrera will join on a free transfer, while Porto are holding out for €25 million (£22m/$28m) for Felipe and €40m (£35m/$45m) for Telles.
Felipe will help Atletico replace the outgoing Diego Godin at centre-back, while Telles will do the same for left-backs Lucas Hernandez and Filipe Luis.
Griezmann confirms Atletico exit
The France star is rumoured to be on his way to Barcelona
Antoine Griezmann has confirmed he is leaving Atletico Madrid after five seasons with the club.
The 28-year-old has been linked with a move to Barcelona just one year after spurning the Blaugrana to sign a new deal with Atletico.
Goal understands Griezmann will be available for a €130 million (£113m/$146m) release clause on July 1.
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Radford Bulletin Term 1, Week 5 – 6 March 2019
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Staff Insights
Junior School and Secondary School Calendars
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P&F AGM 2019
Thursday 7 March at 7:00pm, RA Young Hall
Radford College Gala Ball 2019
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From the Principal: 6 March 2019
Principal Fiona Godfrey
Updates on Drama, Music and Year 7 Camps, important date changes, staff movement and compulsory winter sport in 2020
Although we have only just completed the last of the 'new school year' events, the end of this week marks the halfway point of Term 1. Given this milestone, it is now time to take stock of the progress your child has made to date, and if you have any underlying issues or concerns, please speak to someone – a classroom teacher (JS), tutor (SS), or even an Assistant Head of Junior School or Head of Year (SS). This is particularly important for students new to the College, as their transition from another school, or commencement of their schooling journey, can sometimes raise some challenges and obstacles.
The aforementioned 'last of the new school year' events included the individual Music and Drama Camps, held over the weekend of 22–24 February, and Year 7 Camp, which took place last week. I had the opportunity to visit both Music Camp and Year 7 Camp, and I am delighted to report that on both occasions, the students' involvement was inspiring to witness.
I visited Music Camp for the final section of the camp schedule, at Greenhills Conference Centre, overlooking the beautiful Cotter Valley. The camp finished with a concert showcasing the work done over the two days the group had been together, featuring works by Camerata, Bernstein and Corelli, our top choir, band and strings groups respectively. It was amazing to see students of all ages working together to produce stunning music, most of which they had only just started to rehearse on camp. I would like to thank all the staff who contributed to the success of both the Music and Drama Camps – in particular Ms Kirsten Knight and Ms Emily Leong for Music and Ms Sally Stenning and Mr Nick Akhurst for organising Drama Camp, which was also a great success.
Early last week I ventured up the road to Year 7 Camp, which was once again held at OEG's Camp Biloela, bordered by Belanglo State Forest in the Southern Highlands of NSW. After navigating my way through the forest and down what can only be described as a 'Four Wheel Drive Only' track, I found myself once again in a magnificent valley, bordered on both sides by a rocky escarpment filled with tents and 16 groups of Radford students immersed in a wide range of adventure activities.
Despite the relatively warm weather, the students were fully engaging themselves in activities which included, amongst other things, bushwalking, low ropes, mountain bike riding, raft building, abseiling, canoeing and riding the flying fox. While all these activities were great to watch and be involved with, it was the preparation of meals I found to be most interesting. Many of the students really struggled cutting raw vegetables and other foodstuffs and preparing the tables for eating whilst at the same time ensuring everything was completed in a hygienic fashion! I hope this foray into food preparation will be just the start of a culinary journey for many of our students.
End-of-year celebrations
Families who are not new to Radford will know that our Junior School and Secondary School Awards Afternoon/Night has traditionally been held on either the first or second Tuesday of December at the National Convention Centre Canberra (NCCC).
This year there will be a few changes to the format. Firstly, there will be a name change. Given that these events are more than just the distribution of awards and, rather, a celebration of the year we have just been through, we intend to call these two events the Junior School Celebration Afternoon and the Secondary School Celebration Night.
Additionally, we will trial a new venue this year. Due to parking constraints, issues with entering and exiting the Royal Theatre and a distinct lack of foyer accommodation, we have decided to move away from the NCCC. Instead, we have booked the AIS Arena for this year.
Unfortunately, the date we had scheduled for Celebration Afternoon/Night was already taken by another school, so this year we are moving our special day/night by one day and will now have it on Monday, 9 December. Please note, this change will not affect the date for the final day of school as all students in Pre K–Year 9 will have classes on Tuesday, 10 December.
Senior staff movement
In recent days I have announced to colleagues that we will be losing two senior members of staff over the course of 2019.
Our current Chief Operating Office, Mr Simon Wallace, has given notice that he intends to resign his position on 7 May this year. Simon has made a significant impact on Radford during his nearly five years of service, including but not limited to the oversight of the Masterplan, a major revamp of our IT system, the rollout of three major databases, changeover of uniform suppliers and canteen providers, assistance in the development of the Foundation, changes to traffic flow and parking, and a change in the College's bank and subsequent financial arrangements. While Simon will no longer be a staff member after 7 May, as a parent his ties with Radford will continue. We wish him well in the future and thank him for all he has done.
After 16 years of unwavering commitment to the College, our much loved and respected Senior Chaplain, Father Richard Browning, has decided to leave the College at the end of this year. Richard has been offered and accepted the role of Director of Mission for Anglican Schools in the Brisbane Diocese. Whilst we will have a number of opportunities later in the year to acknowledge the legacy he will leave on Radford, I would like to thank him for his passion and the dedication he has shown to our students, staff, parents and Collegians. I think it's fair to say that Richard's work has had an impact on every student who has studied at Radford in the past 16 years – from his charismatic flair in Chapel, his energetic addresses in assemblies and the care and attention he shows every day. Richard has helped to shape Radford into the school it is today through several major events, including our Foundation Day celebrations, Dirrum Dirrum and the Timor Leste trips.
A change to start dates for 2020
The start date for all students in Term 1 2020 has now moved back one day from what has previously been published.
This means new students in the Secondary School will start on Monday, 3 February, while all returning students will start on Tuesday, 4 February.
In the Junior School, Monday, 3 February will be a day-long opportunity for parent discussions with classroom teachers, while the Tuesday, 4 February, will be the first day for all students.
Compulsory winter sport in 2020
Regular Bulletin readers will recall we asked for feedback on the idea of having compulsory winter sport and sporting activities from 2020, in an article on 26 September 2018. For those parents who missed the article or would appreciate a reminder, I have attached the link: http://www.radford.act.edu.au/news-and-events/latest-news-and-achievements/article/?id=from-the-principal-26-september
After that article was published, we received numerous positive responses from parents and only a handful of concerns, the majority of which related to the fact that their sons or daughters were already involved in sporting teams for sports we didn't offer or were playing at a higher level than we offered. Some parents were concerned that we would force their son or daughter to play another sport. At the time, we responded to parents to say there would be criteria developed for students already involved in sport.
The College is currently working through criteria for exemptions to this policy and we should be able to release this information in coming weeks. Once again, we welcome feedback from parents.
Reflections for Lent
Rev. Erin Tuineau
Ash Wednesday reflection from Rev. Erin, given at assembly.
By Rev. Erin Tuineau
This is the reflection I gave at the Senior School Assembly this week, and which I thought would be worth sharing with you here:
Today is Ash Wednesday. It is the day when Christians around the world begin their 40-day journey of reflection, known as Lent, into Easter. You might ask, 'What do people reflect on during this journey of Lent?' Well, they usually use it as a time to become more aware of the areas in their where they have gone down the wrong path, so to speak. Where they have wandered away from God's love. Because, if you are not aware, the word 'sin' actually means 'missing the mark'- or not quite living out life the way God intends us to do.
The journey of becoming more aware of how we have 'missed the mark', or how we are hurting ourselves and others, is a deeply confronting one. I want to share with you a small snippet from Roald Dahl's book, The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), that shows us how hard it is to face up to our flaws as humans.
Please remember that the BFG does not speak perfect English:
'I is not understanding human beans at all,' the BFG said.' You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?'
'Right,' Sophie said.
'But human beans is squishing each other all the time,' the BFG said. 'They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing/hurting other human beans.'
He was right. Of course, he was right, and Sophie knew it. She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants.
I know we can smile a little at this story, as we know that it is a work of fiction, but the BFG does name something about humans that is true and hard to accept. We do hurt each other. Sometimes deliberately, sometimes without even knowing it. And as the old saying goes, 'we hurt others when we are hurting'. And Jesus knows this about us.
Jesus knows just how badly humans can treat each other. He copped the worst of human behaviour throughout his life, and of course, at his death. But he also came bearing a message: 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near'.
Jesus was trying to say to us that if we are willing to become more aware of our own brokenness, and get to know the places inside of us that are hurting, then, strangely enough, that is when God can show us our true potential as human beings, which is to bring God's joy, love, and peace to this world. This is what happens when we experience God's forgiveness, and accept it.
If any of you are wanting to commit to a journey of self-awareness, heading into this Easter, then at lunch today there will be an Ash Wednesday service where you can receive the mark of cross on your forehead or arms to symbolize this commitment.
God, we lose our way.
We get lost.
We forget who we are meant to be.
Shine your light in our darkness,
and stir up within us
the love and the goodness
that we were born to share.
We ask this in Christ's name.
From Karen Maher, Acting Head of Junior School
Karen Maher, Acting Head of Junior School
The Boatshed, Minimaths, Grandfriends Day, JS Library news and more
Friday 8 March - Grandfriends Day
Monday, 11 March – Canberra Day public holiday
Wednesday, 13 March – Year 6 Science Incursion
Wednesday, 13 March – Photos make-up day
Friday, 15 March – 6HB Introduction to Rowing
I find it hard to believe we're approaching the middle of the first term until I consider all we have achieved, working together.
This week's highlights include:
Visiting the boatshed
Like any learning resource, it's not until we use it that its true value is revealed. Our Year 5 activity day involved students exploring elements of Who We Are, including the principles of trust, social cohesion, teamwork, mindfulness and physical health.
Our Year 6 PE classes have been spending their double lessons at the boatshed – participating in such activities as paddle boarding.
Minimaths
Bruce Ferrington, in conjunction with the ACT Maths Association, has produced a guide for using maths to incorporate the environment and explore nature in the early years.
Radford was fortunate to host a professional learning session, facilitated by Bruce, for ACT early childhood educators. This session included an understanding of authentic inquiry maths. More than 40 local teachers attended this event and explored the environment and nature on Gossan Hill. They were left feeling empowered to take the learning outside the classroom and make maths active and visible.
Beach and Boardies Day
Tomorrow (Thursday, 7 March) will see our Pre K and Kinder students having lots of fun at Beach and Boardies Day. This day includes purposeful water play, beginning by slipping on Boardies, slopping on sunscreen and slapping on a hat.
This event is always memorable and takes place in our Early Learning Centre. A big thank you for, and acknowledgement of, the PE and ELC teams' efforts. They always make this event such a delight.
Years 1 and 2 Swim Carnival
Conducted tomorrow (Thursday, 7 March) at the Canberra International Sports and Aquatic Centre (CISAC), within a safe and nurturing environment, the Years 1 and 2 Swim Carnival encourages and introduces younger students to swimming in a carnival atmosphere.
Many thanks to our PE staff and sports teams for all their planning, preparation and organisation, making this such an enjoyable and worthwhile event.
Grandfriends Day
This Friday, 8 March, Radford Junior School will host grandparents and other significant people in our students' lives, at the annual Grandfriends Day.
This is a day where we entertain multi-generational families and see, first hand, the joys of unconditional love from older relatives and close friends.
Human relationships are living, breathing things. Like all works in progress they require effort. With attention, time and care, we give relationships the best chance to flourish.
It has been quite an experience witnessing the many new friendships formed this year in the Junior School.
As Father Richard has commented: if you would like a friend, you first have to be a friend. This refers to favourable actions being greeted with positive and respectful reactions and strengthening bonds between people.
Fr Richard spoke with Years 3 and 4 students about friendships. He identified the importance and value of:
Seeing through new eyes.
Being a friend and not owning a friend.
To have a friend, first you have got to be a friend.
Please remember to demonstrate respect for others, listen deeply and act with kindness.
The Junior School character strength spotlight this week is kindness.
JS Library News
The Junior School Library is open from 8:15am each morning. This time is for returning and borrowing books and quiet reading, and it is lovely to see parents sharing stories with their children in the mornings.
It is also a terrific time to return library books before your children go to class. This helps the younger children lighten their school bags somewhat and it also helps the library staff get a head start on their busy day.
Please ensure your children have a library bag on their respective library lesson days. It is College policy that books are only loaned out to students who have their library bags with them. We have a supply of spare library bags but these are regularly depleted. Please return spare library bags the next day.
The JS Library team thanks you for your ongoing support. Happy reading!
P&F Annual General Meeting
Nominations open for P&F Committee
Radford College P&F Annual General Meeting
Thursday 7 March 2019, from 7:00pm
Venue: RA Young Hall, Mulford Junior School
Notice of Meeting with agenda
Business of the meeting will include appointment of the Management Committee. There are executive positions, as well as general committee member positions, available to be filled.
Nominations must be made on the attached form and received by Ms Angie Walters by email to angie.walters@radford.act.edu.au, or delivered to her at Years 5/6 reception, no later than 4:00pm on Wednesday 6 March 2019.
We encourage all parents to consider joining the committee to assist with community engagement.
Please contact the President, Sarah Jennett, Sarah.jennett@bigpond.com with any queries.
Secondary School Athletics Carnival
Details for parents about next Tuesday's carnival
Radford College Senior School Athletics Carnival
AIS, Bruce
Proposed Southside bus service and P&F campaign
Survey on bus between Radford and Canberra's South and P&F campaign
As many parents and caregivers would be aware, Transport Canberra will no longer be providing many dedicated school bus services from the beginning of Term 2.
The College has campaigned against this decision without success. We have been in discussions with a private bus company to trial replacement user-pays morning and afternoon services between Radford and Canberra's South, the area most affected by complete removal of all school bus services.
The most cost effective private services will have two pick up / drop off points only - Woden (15 Bowes St, near the Abode Hotel) and Curtin (shops street parking on Theodore Street). Extending the services beyond that was investigated, but was cost prohibitive. Parents interested in their child/ren using these services need to complete this survey
NB: Those parents who have already completed the survey do not need to re-submit the form.
The likely cost will be a flat fixed fee of about $35 per week on a per-term basis, regardless of usage. The cost will be added to student accounts for the term.
If there are insufficient numbers to support a full service, consideration may be given to running only a morning or afternoon service. Survey respondents will be advised of the outcome and a map and timetable will be provided should the services go ahead.
The P&F Association has been in contact with APFACTS, the peak non-government school parent voice for the ACT, and wants to hear from Radford parents wishing to further protest Transport Canberra's reduction in school bus services.
Email: P&F@radford.act.edu.au
Cambodia Service Tour July 2019
Kath Notley
Registrations close 14 March
Year 9/10 Cambodia Service Tour July 9 – 19, 2019
Building on the success of the Cambodia tour in 2018, Year 9 & 10 students have the opportunity to participate in the trip that will occur during the July holidays.
Working in conjunction with tour group Rustic Pathways, students will experience travel from a local's perspective and be immersed in the rich and diverse culture of the region. Students will learn about local, national and global issues and work on service projects in a local community.
Registrations close Thursday, 14 March. Please go to the Round Square page on ROL (Cambodia Folder) for the detailed information pack and program details.
Contact Ms Notley for further information.
P&F Entertainment Book Fundraiser
Pre-order for early bird bonus offers
Radford College P & F Association, Bernadette Mihaljevic
EntBook@radford.act.edu.au
Radford College P&F Association is fundraising with Entertainment. Funds raised by the P&F are donated to the College in support of projects to benefit the students. One recent project was a minibus used to transport students to excursions, service activities, outdoor education and so on.
College minibus sponsored by P&F Association
Your support really helps the College, so we're thrilled to let you know about special bonus Early Bird Entertainment Membership Offers for loyal supporters.
Pre-order the NEW 2019 | 2020 Entertainment Membership (book or digital membership) and receive bonus offers you can use right away.
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Details of early bird offers
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iPad settings for security and safety online
Lisa Plenty, Director of Digital Learning and Innovation
Helping children learn to navigate the digital world safely
By Lisa Plenty, Director of Digital Learning and Innovation
In recent days we have heard a lot in the media about online content that is designed to frighten children and reports have indicated the possibility of serious impacts on mental health and wellbeing. This frightening news is a reminder that the internet is not a safe playground, and that there are risks associated with children's use of digital technology.
We recently conducted a survey of our Year 5 and 6 students around their use of their iPad. One question asked whether restrictions had been set on their iPad to limit access to content. According to the student responses, 34% were aware their parents had set restrictions on their iPad, with 41% indicating no restrictions were set and 25% unaware if restrictions had been enabled.
In 2018, Apple introduced Screen Time and Downtime to the iOS platform, extending the previous capacity for restrictions. Through these features, extensive personalisation of settings can be enabled, and limits can be set to prevent overuse of the device. Setting of these features will prevent children from accessing apps that are age-inappropriate and limit the availability of adult content in websites, music, books etc. You are now able to time-limit certain categories of apps, as well as set a start and end time for use of the iPad over the course of the day. Further information about setting Screen Time and Downtime is available as a video at this link.
Along with these settings, we continue to recommend that internet-enabled devices are used only in the open areas of the home and charged in a communal area. A traditional alarm clock can replace a device alarm. We value our partnership with families and welcome your insights as we work together to help children learn to navigate the digital world.
Collegian News: Lisa Bouari, Class of 1999
Claire Osborne, Collegians Association
Winner of the 2018 ARN Women in ICT Award for Innovation.
Content provided by the Radford Collegians Association
Lisa Bouari (née McPherson, Class 1999) is an owner and director of outThought.co. She has delivered roadmaps and solutions to a wide range of industries and executives to make Cognitive and AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology possible in their organisation, with a focus on natural language processing, conversational agents and robotic process automation. Lisa enjoys the never-ending learning and excitement of her domain, meeting new clients. Beyond IT, she enjoys Salsa dancing and has performed professionally in Samba shows.
Lisa was the winner of the 2018 ARN Women in ICT Award for Innovation.
Criteria for the award are:
The Innovation award recognises the candidate who is a stand-out in delivering 'big picture' ideas and vision in the ICT industry, thereby responding to change and discovering unique and challenging business opportunities. The candidate will show a proven track record of finding new and better ways of doing business, continually pushing the envelope in the ICT industry.
Her citation as winner was:
Lisa wins this award for building an Australian-based artificial intelligence SaaS platform in OutThought. The solution took 12 months to create and passed rigorous government audits and regulations, with the goal of making 'AI accessible to every organisation'.
Lisa describes this moment as 'career-defining for so many reasons'. She says:
The year prior I had taken a huge leap of faith and left my great income and career trajectory to start my own company in AI. We literally started with nothing. No clients, no idea how we'd get one, no runs on the board under our new name and no infrastructure in place to actually execute a business. The award made me realise that despite going 'backwards', I had gone forwards — and that by sticking to my goal and taking a risk, in the process I had become a thought leader and had achieved much more than I would have had I continued on the 'old' path.
Lisa told Thrivhers, an online space dedicated to enabling women:
I seek out uncomfortable challenges and commit to them. I have found this is the fastest way to develop and learn – it's a sort of forced learning, because once you've committed you often can't back out (or risk professional reputation damage usually!). If I didn't approach it this way my development would be slower, more conservative and safe. This is still a healthy approach, and was my approach some three years ago, however, life is short. I want to learn as much as I can. The more uncomfortable I have been going into a challenge, the more rewarded I have felt when I have accomplished it, or developed a new skill. (Read the full interview here.)
Lisa is frequently invited to present at conferences around Australia. She will be in Melbourne in April at the second Customer experience and marketing with AI conference, as one of their global speakers.
Lisa remembers her time at Radford fondly, describing it a welcoming, safe and respectful environment in which she felt comfortable to be herself. She observed this is something many struggle with, and expressed her gratitude for learning it so early in life. Lisa was good at maths and science without being passionate about either, and opted to study IT at university because it had good job prospects at the other end – and it seems she was right.
Radford Institute - Paul Dillon presentation
Having the 'Alcohol & Parties Discussion' with your child
A Radford Institute presentation by Paul Dillon
Date: Wednesday 27 March
Venue: Heath Lecture Theatre, Radford College
RSVP: institute@radford.act.edu.au
This is an open invitation event for adults in the Canberra community with an interest in issues relating to young people and alcohol. It is particularly suited to those caring for or working with Year 7–9 students.
'Parents often wait until it is too late before setting rules and boundaries around alcohol and parties. Put simply, if you haven't had a discussion with your child about this area by the beginning of Year 9, at the latest, you are almost certainly going to have problems in the future.'
Using the most recent data on the use of alcohol by school-based young people, this presentation will discuss the growing evidence on the risks associated with this practice. There will also be a close examination of the positive influence that parents can have on their child's drinking behaviour, as well as some of the barriers that they may face during adolescence. It aims to empower parents with a positive message and assist them in having open and honest family discussions in this complex area.
Painting and drawing with light
Amanda Andlee Poland
Students create new images of still life, portraiture and landscape
By Amanda Andlee Poland, Head of Creative Arts
Sydney-based photographer Peter Solness returned to Radford College to introduce a new group of students to his long-term practice of light painting.
Peter explained that light painting involves a camera and a tripod, working in darkness with a long exposure between 20–60 seconds. This means the subject is hand illuminated or drawn using different types and colours of torches to create otherworldly effects often not associated with traditional photography.
A workshop with Senior Photography students during the day involved light painting for portraiture and still life objects. Some Senior Photography and Visual Art students ventured to Gossan Hill from 7–9.30pm to light paint and draw the landscape in a collaborative evening workshop.
Students created hundreds of images during these sessions. The digital files provide the starting point for ongoing adjusting and combining images, cropping and decision making while working in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Final works will be displayed and published after the next stage of intense creativity. Peter's departing advice to students was 'thinking, playing and making your intent clear as you edit and layer your images'.
For most students, working with Peter was a very steep learning curve and there was an intense 'buzz' around the taking and sharing of images and the larger project.
We thank Peter for spending time with us at Radford, as he maintains a very busy practice. It is good to know Peter is a finalist in the 2019 Dobell Drawing prize with Night Cricket, Hill End (pictured, below). The winner will be announced later this month.
The exhibition is open on 28 March and continues until 25 May 2019. Peter is also a finalist in the international Head On portrait prize, with the winners announced on 3 May. Peter is also in the final stages of preparing for a significant show around the middle of the year.
We look forward to sharing more images later in the semester.
Call for household items
Nick Akhurst
Seeking ladders, pots and plastic flowers for musical props
By Nick Akhurst, Head of Co-curricular Drama, Dance and Oratory
We require some household items to use as props in the upcoming Radford musical, Little Shop of Horrors.
We are hoping parents can have a look around at home to see if they have any of the following they are happy to donate:
Old timber ladders
Old clay or terracotta pots – no plastic pots please
Plastic flowers.
If you have any of these items to donate, please deliver them to the Performing Arts Centre by Friday, 5 April.
A box is set up outside the PAC office for collection.
Avoiding Flexischools' Friday morning congestion
Karen Robinson, Canteen Manager
Save time by ordering Friday lunches in advance
By Karen Robinson, Canteen Manager
Flexischools receives a large number of orders between 7am and 9am on Friday mornings, and there have been periods of congestion on the website over the last couple of weeks as a result. This has affected lunch orders for many families.
The canteen would like to remind families who wish to order lunches on Fridays that it's possible to order these in advance. You can avoid delays by ordering the night before, several days before and even a month ahead.
We apologise for any inconvenience these delays may have caused.
Sports Report: 6 March 2019
Di Wilson, Sports Administrator
Cricket, Touch Footy, Oztag, Futsal and Equestrian news
U14 Division 1 T20 Grand Final: Norths 3-79 (Darcy Macdonald 1-7, Joey Slater 1-10) def Radford 8-78 (Jake Smith 18, Darcy Macdonald 18)
By Mark Slater, parent
Radford and Norths played off in the T20 Grand Final for the second year in a row.
This time, Norths turned the tables and outplayed Radford to win comfortably by 7 wickets with 3 overs to spare.
Batting first, Radford struggled to get on top of the accurate Norths attack. Jake Smith Gibson (18) and Darcy Macdonald (18) battled hard for a partnership of 23, but they were the only batsmen to reach double figures in Radford's score of 8-78 from the mandatory 20 overs. In response, Norths batted steadily to reach the target in 17 overs, although their losing 3 wickets for 15 runs gave Radford some hope of an upset late in the innings. Joey Slater (1-10 from 4 overs) and Darcy Macdonald (1-7 from 3) bowled tightly to slow the scoring and Darcy's direct hit to run out Norths' Dylan Brick was the highlight of the Radford fielding effort, along with Jake Smith Gibson's outfield catch in a swirling breeze.
Despite the loss, Radford can be immensely satisfied with making the T20 decider two years in a row. The team can now look forward to battling Wests in the semi-final of the two-day competition which started on 2 March.
U14 Division 1 Two-day Competition Semi-Final: Radford 161 (Darcy Macdonald 50, Jake Smith Gibson 38, Harvey Hazlehurst 32) def by Wests 8/164 (Gen Cassarotto 2-27, Nikhil Pilla 2-29, Jake Smith Gibson 2-34, Joey Slater 1-17)
Occasionally a sporting contest is defined by the manner in which it is played and the many fluctuations in fortune, rather than just the outcome. The raw figures barely tell the story.
MyCricket will show that Wests beat Radford to make it through to the Under 14 Div 1 Two-day Grand Final against Norths, but this match was so much more than a collection of statistics. Fielding first, Radford's accurate bowling restricted Wests to 2-62 in their first 25 overs. In reply, Radford reached 1-51 but suffered a late collapse against some probing leg spin bowling, to reach 6-72 at the end of the first day.
Starting the second day with a lead of just 10 runs but with only 4 wickets in hand, Radford managed a further 89 to set Wests another 100 runs for victory. Tight Radford bowling (and the catch of the season by Jake Schemen-Rogers) put Wests well behind the asking rate but their batters remained focused on an improbable victory, finally reaching the target on the second ball of the final over. After more than 600 balls had been bowled, the end result was reached with just 4 deliveries remaining, such was the tightness of the contest. Wests won by just 2 wickets.
After the combatants had shaken hands they, the families and coaches from both teams mingled in review of an exceptional contest between two fine groups of young men who had represented their clubs with honour.
The Radford team was well drilled by coach Tom Crossley throughout the season and led by Darcy Macdonald, Jake Smith Gibson and Joey Slater on the field. Thanks must go to the parents and supporters who turned out each week to cheer and support the players. Reaching the T20 Grand Final and the semi-finals of the two-day competition, after last year's success, augur well for the future of Radford cricket.
Congratulations and good luck to the U11 Division 1 cricket team who will play their Grand Final on Saturday morning.
Junior Indoor Cricket Representative Trial
Please see the following link for further information: https://cricketact.com.au/competitions/indoor-cricket/nationals.
Congratulations to the Radford Panthers who have secured a spot in the finals for Oztag next week defeating Kaos 3-2. Come along to support the girls this afternoon – Wednesday, 6 March – at 5.55pm at Kaleen Ovals.
The Radford Dragons were unlucky, losing in extra time. The match was so close, though, and the team put in a great effort.
The National Equestrian Centre (NEqC) has a program for children wishing to learn riding. Additionally, they are able to pick children up from Radford College in a bus after school and transport them to the riding school. We are currently offering this opportunity to students from Years 5–12. Parents will need to pick up participants from NEqC between 5:15 and 5:30pm, depending on their level.
NEqC offers a staged riding lesson system for all levels, however for new beginners, two to three private lessons are required prior to starting in the group class. These lessons ensure the participant is confident around horses and knows some basic safety processes. They can be completed over a couple of weekends or potentially after school.
Packages are available to help with the cost of private lessons and include boots, helmets and the workbook. There is currently space in levels 2 (first level after the private sessions), 3 and 4 on Thursday.
The cost of 10 group lessons is $585, which normally covers the whole term.
To express interest in this or receive more information, email Jade.redfern@canberra.edu.au.
Information is also available on the NEqC website and you can contact them directly. Just ask to speak to Emily.
Grand Final Wrap-up
Congratulations to the Radford U11 Division 3 Open and U16 Division 2 Open teams who won their grand finals on Sunday. The U11s won comfortably 5-3, with Rory Munro earning Player of the Match. The U16s came from behind to win 4-3, with Flynn Seymour named Player of the Match.
The U10 Division 1 Open team unfortunately lost their game in the last minute of extra time. It was an exciting game that saw goal keeper Steve Maglasis make some amazing saves.
The U14 Division 2 Girls also went down 5-1 against a strong opposition, but were enthusiastic and strong minded right up until the final whistle with some great passing tactics.
On Thursday, 28 February 2019, the Radford Reds (Year 10–11 Girls, pictured, below) won the Deakin Women's B Division Touch Football. The final score was 12–5, with some outstanding tries scored. Well done, girls!
Tomorrow (Thursday, 7 March) we have the Radford Stormers (Year 6–7 Boys) playing in their Grand Final B Division, Deakin Oval commencing 6.00pm. We wish them all the best!
Radford Rowing goes for gold
Isobel Allison
Our rowers collected a swag of medals at the Head of the Lake regatta
By Isobel Allison, Rowing GAP Assistant
Radford Rowing won a myriad of medals this weekend at the biggest ACT school rowing event of the year, the Head of the Lake regatta. Our talented team reeled in an astonishing 11 gold, eight silver and four bronze medals!
Niamh Pascoe of Year 10 won the first gold medal of the day in her Schoolgirl Single Scull event. Further victories followed in the single sculls, with Jacinta Buckman claiming first place in the School Girl Division 1 event. In addition, Tyson Munro gained gold in the second division of the School boy Year 9 Single event.
To top off the accomplishments of the Radford small boats, Damien Schroder and Noah Sampson placed first in Division 1 of the Schoolboy doubles. Liam Kenneally and Chris Bush won the first division of the Schoolboy Year 9 doubles event. Callum Durnell and Oliver Bailey secured a gold medal in the second Year 9 doubles division.
As for the girls' double races, Lissie Gregory and Lily Smith-Saarinen ranked first place in their Schoolgirl event. Alison Barclay and Thea Buckman also scored first place in Division 2.
The Schoolboy coxed quad races saw Josh Everett, Griffin Williamson, Lucas Lang, Nick Seddon and cox Jemima Green rank 1st in the second division. In the B final of the Schoolboy Year 8 coxed quads, Oliver Fox, Hunter Jolly, Connor Jacopino, Hamish Roberts and cox Mitch Riepon claimed first place.
There is no doubt that Radford has achieved an outstanding set of results which represent a true reflection of the continuous efforts and time the rowers dedicate to the sport. We look forward to reaping the rewards of Radford's hard work at the biggest event in the rowing calendar ― the Head of the River ― to highlight the end of the season in the next few weeks.
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"35 Years of Radford College" launch & sales
Book launch Wed 10 April, book pre-sales now open!
Written by long-serving Radford staff member George Huitker, 35 Years of Radford College: Foundations, Traditions, Inspirations captures the essence of Radford and our shared experiences.
It is an entertaining account of who we are, and what we have done, featuring photographs and stories from staff, students, Collegians and other members of the Radford family.
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 6pm-7pm, Morison Centre, Radford College, RSVP essential, by 31 March.
(If you wish to bring children to this event, please note that alcohol will be served.)
ADVANCE ORDERS
Order your copy online today - pre-paid books can be:
collected at the launch
collected from Radford during school hours after the launch
posted in Australia, if you choose a postage-paid copy.
Please note that books can only be ordered online, and cannot be collected or posted prior to the launch event on 10 April.
BUY AT THE LAUNCH
You can also purchase on the night and collect your book at the launch.
Radford students seeking support for this major fundraising event
Radford's senior students are preparing to participate in the upcoming Relay For Life.
The Year 11 and 12 students have formed teams to fundraise and walk (or run) for a 24-hour period in order to raise awareness and funds for cancer research.
This year is the Canberra Relay For Life's 20th Anniversary and the 2019 Relay will be held from 11am Saturday March 23 through to 11am Sunday March 24 at the AIS track.
The Radford teams can be found at Canberra Relay For Life
History Tour 2020 - new itinerary
Brad Greer, History teacher
New itinerary - please register your interest asap!
By Brad Greer, History teacher
Anyone interested in joining the Radford College History Tour of Turkey, Greece and Rome, running from 27 December to 12 January 2020 should express their interest now.
You can view a new itinerary for the tour here.
Please email Brad to register your interest in going on this tour, which is open to all staff, families and students. Brad's email is Bradley.Greer@radford.act.edu.au.
Peru awaits! Info night for tour 2020
Lindy Braithwaite, Dean of Senior Studies
Find out more about the exciting new tour destination for 2020
By Lindy Braithwaite, Dean of Senior Studies and IB DP Coordinator
Parent & Student Information Evening:
Thursday 21st March
Heath Lecture Theatre - Radford College
Following successful tours with Antipodeans to India 2004, Turkey 2008, France 2010, Europe 2012, Europe 2014, Europe 2016 and Europe 2019, Radford College is excited to announce the launch of next tour to Peru with Antipodeans, in June 2020, (dates to be confirmed, approximately 30th June to 14th July). Student travel specialists Antipodeans bring over 25 years' experience in conducting secondary school tours through 30+ developing countries.
This tour gives students the opportunity of an amazing educational experience in the world beyond the classroom, in the new destination of Peru, South America. This tour will take in the sites of Peru such as Arequipa, Cusco, Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo, the Condors in the Colca canyon, the floating islands of Lake Titicaca, and of course, UNESCO heritage site of Machu Picchu.
As well as visiting these amazing sites, this small group tour will be one that focusses in part on developing the skills of young people highlighted in the Radford Learner. Students will travel as a team with supervising teachers and an Antipodeans Tour Leader. They will:
Visit and learn about Antipodeans sustainable community projects that are linked to the UN Global Compact and its sustainable impact goals.
Experience Global Citizenship/Internationalism - cultural immersion, understanding/awareness/mindfulness.
Experience personal development through personal challenge, and self-regulation leading to resilience development.
Curriculum areas – sustainable tourism, environmental education, history, geography, Spanish language.
Team Fundraising for the Antipodeans Community Project contribution.
Eligibility for the tour:
Students will need to be in Year 11 or Year 12 in 2020, and a merit application process will be in place, as trip numbers will be limited.
As such, we strongly recommend you consider this opportunity for your child and find out more at our Parents Information Evening held on Thursday 21st March at 6.00pm in the Heath Lecture Theatre.
At the Antipodeans' presentation, we will discuss the program, its benefits, safety and back-up, fundraising support and answer any questions you have about this unique and rewarding educational opportunity. If you are unable to attend please register anyway and we will send you information via email.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, Lindy Braithwaite - lindy.braithwaite@radford.act.edu.au, or contact Joe Lodge - joe@antipodeans.com.au. We look forward to seeing you at the information sees there.
Grandfriends Day - Fri 8 March
Friday 8 March is Grandfriends Day 2019 in the Junior School.


Have you every been on a 16th Century ship? If you haven't you can have an up close experience at Malacca Maritime Museum. We decide to do what many Singaporeans do and take a nice 4 hours drive up to Malacca for a short trip over a long week end and found this fun museum for kids.
This museum is a life size replica of a Portuguese galleon called "Flor de la Mar," which sank in the Malacca Harbor in the 16th century. The exterior of the ship itself make our boy extremely excited and we are up climbing the ladders up the deck and exploring the ship in no time.
The people who created the replica even put up statues of sailors on the ship.
Before we went, we have read comments that the museum rather old and the English used inaccurate but the exhibits are interesting. However, it prove an interesting experience for us . There are beautiful models of ships from different era and countries, bronze models of workers, captains, pirates, soldiers, canons and prisoner of war at different part of the ship for us to discover, explore and learn about history.
We are impressed with the beautiful models of the ships and boats from different era. They are intricately made and give us a visual feast on the ships that occupy the harbor and take part in battles long ago.
We enjoyed the beautiful ship models of different era.
Many life size statues of historical scenes and everyday life in the part helps us visualize what life is like then.
The bronze statues at different part of the ship illustrate the activities that are carried out in the ship.
Lots of reads about Maritime history are exhibited throughout the museum.


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Dynamics of growth and maturation in the cephalopod Illex argentinus de Castellanos, 1960 (Teuthoidea: Ommastrephidae)
Rodhouse, Paul G.; Hatfield, E.M.C.. 1990 Dynamics of growth and maturation in the cephalopod Illex argentinus de Castellanos, 1960 (Teuthoidea: Ommastrephidae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 329 (1254). 229-241. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1990.0167
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1990.0167
Abstract/Summary
Post-recruit Illex argentinus were collected from the fishery on the Patagonian Shelf between 1986 and 1988. Age was determined by analysis of daily growth increments in ground sections of the statolith, female fecundity was determined, specimens were dissected, weighed and assigned a maturity stage. The relation between mantle length and age is best approximated by a linear model. Both sexes live approximately one year. Females grow faster and attain a larger size than males, but males mature younger. Hatching occurs during the austral winter, peaking in June-July. There is a consistent trend of increasing growth rate with later date of hatching. Statolith growth is negatively allometric with body growth and there is greater divergence between statolith and body growth in females. In post-recruit Illex growth in mass of somatic tissues, apart from the digestive gland, approximates isometry with growth of the whole body. Growth of the digestive gland and the reproductive organs is positively allometric with growth in whole body mass. There is poor correlation between the mass of female reproductive organs and whole body mass, which is due to differences in size at maturity. Mating rarely occurs on the feeding grounds. Fecundity of fully mature females in the sample falls in the range 113835-246098 eggs per individual. This possibly underestimates average fecundity because mature squid on the feeding grounds may be precocious and smaller than average at full maturity. A model combining absolute and relative growth, predicts average male and female growth and growth of the major somatic and reproductive organs. This poorly predicts average female maturity indices with age because of variability in mass of the female reproductive organs. A model that treats maturity stages separately gives close agreement with measured mass of the reproductive organs and maturity indices of a mature female at age one year. Females invest approximately 20% of total body mass in gonad and accessory reproductive organs at full maturity.
Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1990.0167
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Nigeria's Boko Haram forces kidnapped girls into marriage: Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch says more than 7,000 civilians have died since 2009 at the hands of the extremist group. Nigeria recently announced a cease-fire that it said would allow for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April.
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Rachel Daniel, 35, holds up a picture of her abducted daughter Rose Daniel, 17, as her son Bukar, 7, sits beside her at her home in Maiduguri in this May 21, 2014 file photo.
By Robert Marquand Staff writer
Boko Haram has kidnapped more than 500 women and girls in recent years and is increasing the use of abductions, rape, forced labor, and marriage as weapons of war, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
New York-based HRW criticized the Nigerian government for what it called the "horrific vulnerability" of all females in the northeast, where the extremist group operates. The report, released today, came as 30 more boys and girls in the state of Borno were kidnapped by Boko Haram, allegedly to be used as child soldiers, according to a CNN report.
The Borno abductions are the second mass kidnapping since the government announced Oct. 17 that it was negotiating a cease-fire with Boko Haram that would involve the release of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last spring in the town of Chibok. Yet just days after the announcement, Boko Haram insurgents took at least 25 women and girls, dashing hopes of a deal with the government. Talks took place secretly in Chad, according to Reuters.
Today's 63-page report by HRW is based on interviews with 46 victims and witnesses of Boko Haram abductions, including several young women from Chibok who escaped after being grabbed at their dormitory in April. The incident shocked the world and led to the Bring Back our Girls movement.
The report includes testimony from a number of cases, such as this one:
A 19-year-old secondary school student in Konduga, Borno State, told Human Rights Watch that when armed Boko Haram insurgents stopped the vehicle in which she and five other female students were traveling home from school in January, one of the insurgents shouted, "Aha! These are the people we are looking for. So you are the ones with strong heads who insist on attending school when we have said 'boko' is 'haram.' We will kill you here today."
'The students were held in the insurgents' camp deep within the 518-square-kilometer Sambisa forest for two days. They were released after they pretended to be Muslims and pledged never to return to school.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has killed more than 7,000 civilians, according to HRW. And the pace has quickened: Some 4,000 of those killings have taken place in the past year, and more than 2,000 resulted from 95 attacks in the first six months of 2014.
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Last year, President Goodluck Jonathan declared an emergency in three northeast states. The Nigerian Army went into the main cities with considerable force at the outset of the emergency, but has made little headway against the group's guerrilla tactics and its ruthless and indiscriminate killing sprees against civilians of every age and stripe – young students, moderate Muslims, Christians, elderly, and females.
HRW and other watchdogs have previously documented many cases where villagers were warned by Boko Haram insurgents they were coming. When villagers informed the Army or police, the soldiers or police would often disappear.
Despite the doctrinal incoherency of Boko Haram, whose members range from local thugs and unemployed gang members to madrassa students, it has repeated two clear statements of its intent in the past several years: The first is to create an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria's northeast. The second is to undermine the Jonathan government, which the group says has failed northern Nigeria's poor and impoverished Muslims. National elections in Nigeria are due early next year.
HRW says an adequate response to the needs of victims is lacking. The government aided 57 of the Chibok students who escaped, partly using funds provided by NGOs and foreign governments.
[But] the funds … appear not to have widely benefitted the many other victims of Boko Haram abuses. None of the other women and girls interviewed by HRW had received or was aware of any government-supported mental health or medical care. Many fear discussing the trauma they endured.
'The survivors of Boko Haram's violence should not be shamed and frightened into silence,' [says Africa director of HRW Daniel] Bekele. 'It is Boko Haram that should be ashamed of the abuses they commit against women and girls in their extreme interpretation of religious text.'
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Q: Place Return Value in HTML I have a .js file which contains a function that returns HTML.  How can I call this function from my .html and have its return placed where the call was made?
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A: You are thinking from a PHP way of thinking. Javascript makes changes directly to the DOM (Document Object Model) and does not need to be inserted inline with HTML. Take this for example:

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That is the PHP way to do it. In Contrast, here is the Javascript way to do it:

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how to fetch the Distribution Group list from AD using GetTokenInformnation?
We had few distribution groups in our AD for emailing. To provide access to my application i use these groups to generate the license keys.
Microsoft clearly says "Distribution groups play no role in security (you do not assign permissions to distribution groups), and you cannot use them to filter Group Policy settings."
Is there any way to get the token access for the Distribution groups?
Re: how to fetch the Distribution Group list from AD using GetTokenInformnation?
You can use Security enabled distribution list for permissioning in application.


There's a certain irony in the fact that just as patients get better at voicing their opinions on matters concerning their own health, so health systems run out of money. The other irony is that much of the information about drugs and devices, kept away from the layman allegedly for our own good, is now more readily available – and we've discovered that the industry hasn't always known best.
The indignant genie is out of the bottle: ever since the much-cited Herceptin issue in 1995, it seems to be fair game for those outside the medical profession to voice their opinion and state their demands. Clearly this is a pain for politicians and purse-holders tasked with balancing unlimited wants with limited means. And for every 'miracle drug' that can't be afforded, there's one – if not more – 'killer drug'. Or, as was shown on UK television station Channel 4's Dispatches programme recently, killer devices.
For those on the fringes of the formal health system, extreme language is used to garner attention. Expert patient groups, patient networks, patient support groups, consumer health journalists – nowadays they all know how to work the media to the chagrin of the authorities.
So how can pharma companies participate in this burgeoning and inflammatory lay conversation – if, indeed, they should?
Perhaps the main point to take forward is that, in a world of indignant extremes, a little moderation is required. There are few real killers and miracles; by the same token, just because there is a new treatment available, it doesn't automatically mean that every patient and his sickly dog will be clamouring for it.
In a world of fewer blockbusters, perhaps now is the ideal time for temperance, the ideal time for frankness about how and when our products should be used, rather than the constant cycle of hype and disappointment.
Advertising would have a role to play here too. For instance, I've long wondered whether we should rename advertising agencies as 'communication agencies'. Imagine if we just stopped fanning the promotional flames and instead became masters of the subtleties of fair and balanced communication, we'd be able to say a lot more to a lot more people.
Indeed, on a recent pitch, we took the decision to restrain our use of language in order to reflect more realistically where a product should be positioned. Our interviews with European physicians showed a distinct need for balance, despite a more enthusiastic reception across in the US. It felt a curse to begin with, but it was ultimately appreciated by our clients who had similarly started to appreciate that everyone concerned could get along better – and faster – if we set a more realistic timbre.
Interestingly, from a creative point of view, opportunities to do rewarding work seemed greater as the realisation that we could be doing something genuinely useful started to sink in. Pharma ads? Useful? Really?
But this is surely the point: patients have stepped in to add their voice because the so-called guardians of healthcare have either been too extreme in their views or simply haven't shared the knowledge sufficiently. In a world of greater patient influence, we'd be advised to take a longer view. This would involve producing, positioning and communicating brands in a more moderate and open way; instead of protectionism, stand-off, hype and disappointment, we'd all get what we needed a lot more quickly.
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Many years ago I heard a soloist sing, in Handel's Messiah, the aria 'I know that my Redeemer liveth'—my soul was lost in awe and wonder by her voice. Every Easter since then, in my meditation and devotions around Easter morning, I stand at the empty tomb with the faithful that includes Mary. I hear her whispered Rabboni that touches my soul; and in that precious moment Mary and the soloist become one oice pressing upon my heart and soul: I know that my Redeemer liveth. Rabboni, My Master!
Thank you to SSJD Associate, the Rev. Canon C. Russell Elliott, Nova Scotia, for sharing this reflection with us.
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Have you Have you noticed how busy and distracted everyone is lately? Have you noticed how busy and distracted you've become lately? Busyness and distraction have become a way of life. How do we keep all the balls in the air – all the commitments in balance? How do you carve out time to pray when there are so many demands on your time?
When I look at my own life, and listen to the lives of those around me, I am struck by how often I hear the phrase that has become a kind of mantra for many: "I'm so busy!" Perhaps the time for teaching – and practicing – the contemplative arts has never been more pertinent. On the other hand, ever since Eve and Adam left the Garden, it has been our sad refrain.
The Christian classic The Way of a Pilgrim chronicles the journey of an unnamed nineteenth-century Russian peasant. Following the tragic loss of his wife and livelihood, the pilgrim is propelled on a spiritual journey with nothing but a Bible, a prayer rope, and some dried bread, seeking an answer to his profound conundrum: how does one respond authentically to St. Paul's prescription to "pray without ceasing"? (1 Thessalonians 5:17) His quest sets him wandering, searching for someone to teach him how to master such a seemingly impossible assignment.
At the very heart of The Way of the Pilgrim is the Jesus Prayer: "O Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, have mercy upon me a sinner!" Known in the Orthodox Church as "the prayer of the heart." and dating back to at least the 4th century Egyptian desert, these simple words have been a mainstay for Orthodox Christians. This humble prayer is aided when prayed with a prayer rope in hand. First made by monks for their own use, prayer ropes were later adopted by those outside the monastery. While we may be tempted to think of prayer ropes as an Eastern version of the Rosary, they are actually quite different.
Prayer ropes are usually made of wool, sheared from sheep – a reminder that we belong to Christ, the Good Shepherd. While they can be made in different colours, black – the colour of mourning – is most commonly used, for in prayer we mourn the sins which separate us from God and our neighbour. Some prayer ropes include a tassel which is customarily used to dry the tears shed in sorrow for one's sins. For some, this tassel also symbolizes Heaven, which can only be found through the cross which, in the rope, precedes the tassel.
The person praying says the Jesus Prayer for each knot on the rope. Often the rope is 33 knots long but they come in all different lengths. In The Way of the Pilgrim, the pilgrim said the prayer 2,000, then 6,000, then 12,000 times a day. Is 12,000 Jesus Prayers better than 2,000? It is not the quantity of the prayers that is important but rather the quality, the love with which the prayer is said and the faithfulness with which it is practiced. The pilgrim prayed much because that was his "heart's desire." Every prayer is an act of love, offered to the Author of Love, who waits expectantly for us and for our acceptance of his Love. Numbers have nothing to do with this kind of devotion or with a living relationship with Jesus.
When our hearts are restless and our minds wandering, the knots on the prayer rope can help us to focus on the words of the prayer. As our thumb and forefinger continuously move over the knots, our heart continuously cries out its plaintive words. Some years ago now I was gifted a prayer rope by Bishop Henry Hill who devoted much of his life to study and dialogue with the Orthodox community. Its soft, well-worn texture feels reassuring in my hands, and in a way that I do not fully understand, helps move the prayer from my lips to my heart.
Perhaps what is old can be new again. In our on-going quest to draw closer to Christ, I wonder whether the time has come for us to slow the pace, lose the distractions, leave the busyness behind and make a pilgrimage back to praying, without ceasing, the prayer of our hearts.
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yet he shall be rescued from it.
On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will break the yoke from off his neck, and I will burst his bonds, and strangers shall no more make a servant of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
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The "Great O" antiphon for December 21 is "O Morning Star" (or "O Dayspring").
On that day I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and will clothe him with your robe and bind your sash on him. I will commit your authority to his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and no one shall shut; he shall shut, and no one shall open. I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honour to his ancestral house.
O come, O come great Lord of might.


There is a lot more to branding than identity, advertising and public relations. Brands also need to get in touch with their human face.
I have lost count of the number of times I have heard this statement in the 11 years since we started brand-comm, a consulting company dedicated to building brands. And yet, as is to be expected, people have different expectations from branding and the entire process of branding. The next steps to these statements usually follow one of the following courses of action. 'I think our identity is dated and today's consumers are young, so let's change it, and shouldn't we be thinking global?' This is good news for international brand consultants and design experts as they instantly see (million) $$$ signs. The identity change is announced with great fanfare and it usually goes down like the Indian team went down in Zimbabwe – with scarcely a whimper – as nothing except the identity has changed and the brand is still the same boring brand.
Another alternative is to try to build corporate image through a high-profile TV commercial, probably shot in New Zealand, but without the benefit of a core idea that defines the essence of the brand. "The execution will be clutter-breaking" says the agency Creative Director. The brand promise is not delivered, after all "Yuvarajs" exist in corporate life too!
Another way forward is to hire a public relations firm which goes hammer and tongs at the media – organises one-on-ones, speaker and photo opportunities – all of which generate intense interest about the MD in cocktail parties and amidst head-hunting firms but nothing much happens to the brand. And today there is another option as well.
Sponsor some high-profile IPL team and even if the team does not win a single match, the players dutifully land up at post-IPL parties wearing your brand on their sleeves (if not their hearts) on them.
I know that I am perhaps sounding cynical, a not unexpected reaction from someone my age, but that is hardly the impression I wish to convey or the point I wish to make. There is a whole lot more to branding than identity, colours, TV advertising, sponsorship, events and public relations. While I am not denying the importance or value of these, I think there is something more basic, more obvious and yet, perhaps, more difficult to manage, which is why companies seem to spend so little time on this and that is what I would call the "human side of branding". Here are a few examples of how companies, however big, get this important aspect of their functioning woefully wrong.
… has the potential of being the worst impression. You enter an impressive building, exquisitely designed, wonderfully architected with a façade that could make you stop in your tracks. You cross the manicured gardens and enter the plush reception. And whom do you meet? A security guard in place of the young, efficient, smiling, helpful receptionists that people of my age were used to seeing earlier, but then this is perhaps the order of the day in most companies.
Of course, some of these security guards are smart, even speak good English and can be courteous enough, as was the security guard at the Oberoi in Bangalore last week. He welcomed me in the traditional Indian way. But many are not the way they ought to be and you can easily imagine the impact on the brand when they are found wanting. Of course, I am fond of repeating my experiences of having been welcomed in a company by a security guard whose company name tag read "Doberman". Obviously, you can understand my nervousness! Did the Chairman of the company ever walk past this, I wonder, or does he have his own private elevator that enables him to bypass this welcoming committee?
Another quick reality check for a brand is the way the company answers, or should I say does not answer, the phone. How often do we get the impression that the phone is ringing and the operators are having a good time, when the phone is actually busy?
Let's assume that you have achieved the holy grail of actually getting through to the company and to an operator who puts you on hold. Of course, you may be calling the company not because you are in love with it, but probably because it has goofed and you want to give it a piece of your mind.
What happens then? You are put on hold and the company's jingle of how it is God's gift to the human race goes on endlessly like the maiden overs that Nadkarni used to reel off and you are seething. So what is your view of the brand at that particular point in time? Top-of-mind for all the wrong reasons is probably your reaction.
Let's move on to a slightly more sensitive topic of company or brand culture. Have you ever tried getting in touch with the CEO of a large company? Life seems to be one long meeting; senior people are constantly in meetings, unreachable despite being online 24 x 7. They never take calls, respond to text messages or answer mails. After all, they are busy. I remember my first boss telling me "you are paid to be busy".
But are these captains of industry so busy as to be completely unresponsive, sometimes to calls even from their friends and former colleagues? But what happens then? The company takes its cue from the CEO and soon you have a company that is completely, totally inaccessible, at times even to the media.
If, for whatever reason, the company needs you, it will call you a few hundred times! Do these companies ever bother to assess what the rest of the world has to say about them? Do they even care?
And this is precisely how the brand comes across to the rest of the world and I cannot imagine the ignored parties being quiet about the company and its total lack of response. Surely there has to be a better, more sensitive, more humane way of doing business that can impact the brand and the corporate image positively?
A better way to recruit?
Bangalore is the software capital of India, if not the world, and if you were to believe everything that you read about these companies then you would be convinced they are the greatest places to work in. They probably are.
Make no mistake about this, I am a great admirer of Indian software companies and yet here is an incident that made a profound impression on me, even if it had me a bit concerned about how the brand was getting it wrong.
I am going to talk about one of the top software companies in India if not the world. They needed a director for their brand and I had with great difficulty organised one of my juniors from IIM for this; she was the head of a large advertising agency and went for the meeting at my insistence.
There were many calls reminding her of the meeting. She went to the complex and found herself with hundreds of engineers looking for a job. She also found herself at the venue much earlier because the company wanted her to fill up a form! She was hopping mad, and to add insult to injury, it was not the HR head that she met but her lackey.
Clearly, the company was better suited to recruit thousands of engineer trainees but was probably not geared to deal with a senior employee, particularly someone who needed to be wooed. Luckily the lady in question did not have a blog or she could have told the world about the company and its manner of recruitment.
There is nothing wrong with the company, its financial results or even its image. It is still admired and will continue to be admired but such incidents can and will hurt the brand. But then someone has to be aware of the implications of the acts of commission and omission of each and every one of its employees and we are not talking of CEOs here.
Let me end this piece with a quote by Lee Clow: "Managing brands is going to be more about trying to manage everything that your company does." Yes, everything that your company does! Every action that every employee or your outsourced partner does or does not do continues to impact your brand.


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Q: Flask app runs fine locally, but error accessing db on Heroku I have a small Flask app (code below) that's basically just using peewee to access a Postgres database. It works fine when I run it locally, but I get a generic 500 Internal Server Error when I try to run it on Heroku.
Here's the code
from flask import Flask
from peewee import *
import logging
import os
import urlparse

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_pyfile('config.py')

urlparse.uses_netloc.append('postgres')
url = urlparse.urlparse(os.environ['DATABASE_URL'])
DATABASE = {
    'name': url.path[1:],
    'user': url.username,
    'password': url.password,
    'host': url.hostname,
    'port': url.port,
}

db = PostgresqlDatabase(DATABASE['name'], host=DATABASE['host'], user=DATABASE['user'], port=DATABASE['port'], password=DATABASE['password'])

class Team(Model):
    class Meta:
        database = db
        db_table = 'd_team'

    team_id = PrimaryKeyField()
    team_name = CharField()

@app.route('/')
def home():
    teams = [t.team_name for t in Team.select()]
    return str(teams)

And here's what I see when I run heroku logs (nothing useful...not sure why).
2014-06-29T19:52:20.242902+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Stopping all processes with SIGTERM
2014-06-29T19:52:23.081153+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `gunicorn main:app`
2014-06-29T19:52:26.240427+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=GET path="/" host=infinite-ocean-5904.herokuapp.com request_id=c1c365ba-94a6-4405-9812-23e18fe853c4 fwd="208.72.142.70" dyno=web.1 connect=70ms service=309ms status=500 bytes=244
2014-06-29T19:52:25.067383+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to up
2014-06-29T19:52:22.220811+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 0

I'm able to get simple "Hello World" messages to display fine, so the problem seems to be the database call. So I've tried accessing the production database when running the app locally, and that works fine locally as well. I've also checked that the DATABASE_URL variable is correctly set in production, and it is.
Any ideas what's wrong? Is there a way of getting a more useful trace?


Pocahontas ; Pocahontas II / writers, Carl Binder, Susannah Grant, Philip LaZebnik ; directors, Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg. Pocahontas II, journey to a new world / writers, Allen Estrin, Cindy Marcus, Flip Kobler ; directors, Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond.
Gabriel, Mike, (film director.). Gibson, Mel, (actor.). Bale, Christian, 1974- (actor.). Stiers, David Ogden, (actor.). Hunt, Linda, 1945- (actor.). Walt Disney Pictures (publisher.). Pocahontas: Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers, Christian Bale. (Cast). Pocahontas II: Irene Bedard, Jim Cummings, Donal Gibson, David Ogden Stiers. (Cast).
Bonus features: Drawing inspiration: The lost story of Hiawatha--Walt Disney's tale that inspired The Pocahontas filmmakers; "Little Hiawatha" cartoon short; deleted song "If I never knew you"; The music of Pocahontas; deleted scenes; audio commentary.
Pocahontas: Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers, Christian Bale.
Pocahontas II: Irene Bedard, Jim Cummings, Donal Gibson, David Ogden Stiers.
Pocahontas: the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.
Pocahontas II: Pocahontas and her friends Flit and Meeko set sail for England on an important mission of peace and discovery.
MPAA rating: G; for all ages admitted.
Subject: Pocahontas, -1617 > Juvenile films.


Yes, there's a message that goes along with this story. Honestly, that's not why I'm posting it. You can check out the message or not, I just think these images a kind of breathtaking.
The inspiration behind this art is the sad fact that the Amazon Rainforest is being decimated. In fact, over 20% of it has been destroyed in just the last 40 years. To help raise awareness, French photographer Philippe Echaroux created what he calls "The Crying Forest," by projecting portraits of members of Brazil's native Suruí tribe directly on to the canopy of the rainforest.
the photos were taken in early 2016, after the tribe's chief invited Echaroux to the village. Now, photos of the projections of those portraits are on display at the Taglialatella gallery in Paris from November 10th through December 15th, 2016. Sadly, I can't imagine they would be anywhere near as moving as it would be to see the images projected directly onto the Amazon.


Complete up to the "Generate the cert" section in this gist and stop just before the "Set up the certificate" section.
Before we begin, we need to generate a PKCS #12 (.pfx) file from the Let's Encrypt certificate files. It's all the Let's Encrypt files archived, and bundled into one file.
You'll first be prompted for your sudo password.
Next you'll be asked to enter a password to encrypt the .pfx file. Enter a password you won't mind saving in the Plex settings in plaintext.
Hand it over to plex.
That's it. You don't even have to restart plex!
You can check the Plex\ Media\ Server.log file in /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Logs if you want to verify whether there were any errors.
Visit your server at https://myhostname.no-ip.org:32400 (Custom certificate domain) and see the HTTPS in action.
Thank you for your description! I applied it to Ubuntu 17.10, so I had to change a minimal part of the setup (cerbot-auto renamed to certbot), and the cron-job is already included - works like a charm!
Thank you for the tutorial. I have successfully make a bash file on synology to run monthly to renew every now and then to keep up with letsencrypt.
Thx guys... It is doing great, even with a plain install on Ubuntu 18.04!
My Plex is also running IPv6 only - no NATing or port forwarding, so certbot is using the native port:443.
I experienced some problems with stateless autoconf and IPv6-PD on 17.10, but wasn't able (or rather I didn't take time for it) to reproduce it.
I think it was more the faulty installation than the Ubuntu itself.
Nevertheless thanks for your effort!
Thanks so much for this Charitha Sathkumara! Just to let y'all know, it worked seamlessly on my Fedora 28 box. Cheers!
Worked fine! Only issue: I needed to restart the plex service to use the certificate.