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Zonta STEM scholarship applications closing

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 08:46

THE Zonta Club of Coffs Harbour Inc invites young women to apply for the prestigious Zonta International STEM Scholarship 2023. Completed application forms are to be emailed to the Awards Coordinator at Zonta Coffs Harbour by Friday 1 September. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone...

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Coffs Harbour TAFE student wins gold in skills championship

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 08:33

ROSS Colquhoun, who studies Automotive Mechanics at TAFE NSW Coffs Harbour Education Campus, has won a gold medal in the WorldSkills Australia 2023 National Championships. Lestatt Hammond-Hurst, a passionate Retail Baking student at TAFE NSW Coffs Harbour Education Campus, has won a silver medal. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...

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Walking Together art exhibition opens discussion around Uluru Statement from the Heart

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 08:31

THE ‘Walking Together – from Heart to Heart’ art exhibition opens at The Art Factory in Coffs Harbour on Saturday 2 September. The exhibition is supported by the City of Coffs Harbour through its Arts and Cultural Development program and Coffs Harbour Arts Council. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...

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Men’s Shed Week celebrated in Coffs with garage sale and sausage sizzle

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 08:26

AS part of Men’s Shed Week (2 – 9 September), Coffs Harbour Men’s Shed will celebrate three decades of the organisation with a birthday bash open to the public. This year’s Men’s Shed Week theme is ‘30 years of Sheds’, and the local Shed is marking the milestone with a monster garage sale and open...

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Another Elon

https://digbysblog.net/2023/08/24/another-elon/
Created
Fri, 25/08/2023 - 08:00
Here’s an article about how Trump mini-me Vivek Ramaswamy made his fortune. He’s a familiar type: On the campaign trail, as he lays out why he is a different kind of presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy calls himself a Harvard-trained “scientist” from the lifesaving world of biotechnology. “I developed a number of medicines,” Mr. Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and conservative writer, told a gathering at a construction firm this month in Davenport, Iowa. “The one I’m most proud of is a therapy for kids, 40 of them a year, born with a genetic condition who, without treatment, die by the age of 3.” The reality of Mr. Ramaswamy’s business career is more complex, the story of a financier more than a scientist, and a prospector who went bargain hunting, hyped his vision, drew investment and then cashed out in two huge payouts — totaling more than $200 million — before his 35th birthday. Mr. Ramaswamy’s enterprise is best known for a spectacular failure.

About that stupid song

https://digbysblog.net/2023/08/24/about-that-stupid-song/
Created
Fri, 25/08/2023 - 06:30
It’s so awful in so many ways. But since people are taking it seriously as some sort of political manifesto. (They talked about it in the debate last night.) I think it’s worthwhile to point this out: Reminder: The “Rich Men North of Richmond” policy agenda is utterly incoherent. Anthony says government spends too much money, but also isn’t helping people enough. Miners (who earn 20 percent above the average national wage) are somehow in trouble. Skinny people are dying in the streets from drugs and suicide. But fat welfare queens are bringing home the bacon. The entire thing is an evasion of personal responsibility and an exercise in special pleading: The government should spend more money on the people I like and less money on the people I do not like. And also: Everything that’s wrong in my life is someone else’s fault. Finally: Oliver Anthony seems unaware that the places he romanticizes are actually the ones sucking the most off the government teat and contributing the least to our economy. We are indeed a nation of makers and takers. And the takers are Oliver Anthony and his friends. Thank you JV Last.

Digital service providers share market insights in the 2023 Drupal Business Survey

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 05:00

The Drupal Business Survey invites business leaders worldwide to share their insights and metrics on the Drupal business ecosystem. Relevant topics to many digital service providers include business development, community, marketing, and human capital. The results of this survey are analyzed and aggregated into a comprehensive report and presented at DrupalCon Europe, the yearly Drupal summit. Participants can support anonymously.

What weaponization?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/08/24/about-that-weaponization-3/
Created
Fri, 25/08/2023 - 05:00
Donald Trump keeps exhorting Republicans in congress, both publicly and privately, to step up and use their power to go after the prosecutors who are indicting him for his many crimes. And like the good little MAGA soldiers they are, they’re following his orders: The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is expected to open a congressional investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as soon as Thursday, a source tells CNN – the same day former President Donald Trump is slated to surrender at the county jail after being charged for participating in schemes to meddle with Georgia’s 2020 election results. The committee is expected to ask Willis whether she was coordinating with the Justice Department, which has indicted Trump twice in two separate cases, or used federal dollars to complete her investigation that culminated in the fourth indictment of Trump, the source added.

The Voice: walking with the Australian people for a better future

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 04:58
“For me, indigenous recognition won’t be changing our constitution so much as completing it.” – Tony Abbot, 2015. When on the 7th of February 1788 the British claimed the eastern half of Australia they left us with two abiding problems. They assumed that the First Nations were not in actual possession of their own homelands Continue reading »

Australia could be leading the way on human survival: Will Albanese act?

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 04:55
Our human species is drifting rapidly towards extinction, and there is not yet in place, a process to prevent it. Three very recent books, two by Australian authors, point to the desperate situation in which humanity now finds itself. The three books are “How to Fix a Broken Planet by Canberra science writer, Julian Cribb, Continue reading »

Growing concern at Gusmão’s direction for Timor-Leste

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 04:54
Australia’s leading financial media platform, the Australian Financial Review, raised the red flag about the future of Timor-Leste this month, with International Editor Professor James Curran’s article, Timor-Leste on brink of failure. Curran sensibly said that Chinese influence in Timor-Leste may be a concern in Canberra, but the big problem is that the small nation Continue reading »

We won’t fix inflation while economists stay in denial about causes

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 04:53
Led on by crusading Reserve Bank governors, the nation’s economists are determined to protect us from the scourge of inflation, no matter the cost in jobs lost. But there’s a black hole in their thinking about the causes of inflation, only some of which must be stamped on. Others can be ignored. Meanwhile, here’s another Continue reading »

A bonded approach to the education of skilled workers

https://johnmenadue.com/a-bonded-approach-to-the-education-of-skilled-workers/
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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 04:53
Education Minister Jason Clare’s important review of education seems to have lost the plot. Secondary schoolers have been told for years that their aim should be university entrance. That approach has distorted the focus of secondary schooling toward achieving a high score in HSC while the technical side has been downgraded in both funding and Continue reading »

The branding

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Created
Fri, 25/08/2023 - 04:52
The alleged branding of the Star of David on the face of a Palestinian man by Israeli police has left many around the world aghast at the barbaric cruelty and violence of such an act. It has been reported in numerous media outlets yet is, so far, glaringly left out of others. This kind of Continue reading »

Big brave Western proxy warriors keep whining that Ukrainian troops are cowards

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 04:50
Amid continuous news that the Ukrainian counteroffensive which began in June is not going as hoped, The New York Times has published an article titled “Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say.” Reporting that Ukrainian efforts to retake Russia-occupied territory have been “bogged down in dense Russian minefields under constant Continue reading »

Robots.txt

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Fri, 25/08/2023 - 03:30

A quick note because I have to get out the door and go to work… gah.

I recently removed the restrictions on my robots.txt file.


This site has been denying access to most bots for the past year: 

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Robots

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Created
Fri, 25/08/2023 - 03:30

A quick note because I have to get out the door and go to work… gah.

I recently removed the restrictions on my robots.txt file.


This site has been denying access to most bots for the past year: 

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“Approximately” how it went

https://digbysblog.net/2023/08/24/approximately-how-it-went/
Created
Fri, 25/08/2023 - 03:30
The great Alexandra Petri on the debate last night. If you said, “Would you like to watch Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Doug Burgum, Mike Pence, Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie talk to each other for two hours? FYI, the place where they’ll do so is hotter than Beelzebub’s armpit!,” I would have said, “No, thank you.” But if you said, “The alternative is watching Donald Trump talk to Tucker Carlson on the website formerly known as Twitter,” I would say, “I can’t wait to hear what Ron, Vivek, Nikki, Tim, Doug, Mike, Asa and Chris have to say!” Wednesday night’s debate on Fox News raised all kinds of questions. Like: “Why is this happening?” and “Where is Donald Trump?” and “Is it technically a primary debate or more of a secondary debate given the levels where these people are polling?” Here is approximately how it went. Bret Baier: Hello. We have brought a bell just because we enjoy the sound of a bell.