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John ConvillAustralian security specialist Vision Security Services has announced an iPhone app that provides easy access to its Mobotix range of remote monitoring IP cameras.

Called Q-Cam Professional, the Australian-developed application is designed primarily for the remote monitoring and control of Mobotix cameras.

QCam Pro makes use of the Mobotix MXPEG protocol which allows live audio and video directly from the camera. It also provides a simple “Speak” function for two-way voice communications directly with speaker-equipped cameras. QCamPro is developed by SA-based QIMS (http://www.qims.net.au/qcampro.html).

Vision Security Services managing director John Convill describes QCam Pro as “fantastic”. “I’ve have already loaded it with more than 50 cameras, multiple sites with multiple views,” he said. 

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Gordon WagnerClients don’t view Gordon Wagner as a typical psychologist.

Rather than just a source of professional advice, they see Gordon as a guide for whom authenticity is the essential ingredient to being happy.

As a registered psychologist, Adelaide-based Gordon has worked with more than 1000 clients, many of whom have experienced powerful life-changing results after working with him.

Gordon began studying psychology midway through his career after facing and working through many of his own challenges as a young man.

For years, Gordon pursued a path of awareness, studying everything from mindfulness principles and meditation to eastern spirituality including Sufism and Taoism, as a way to become free of the constraints of his own conditioning.

Gordon’s personal journey helps him immensely as a psychologist:  By facing his own challenges. Gordon has developed a rapport with his clients that only life experience can endow.

Gordon’s clients will often comment on how comfortable they feel around him and are surprised at his level of understanding of what they are going through.  "Too many people are unhappy, bored or unfulfilled as often, their deepest needs are just not being met,” explains Gordon.

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John SinisaQueensland will host a free, fun-filled event on March 29 to bring together Pacific Islanders with albinism to share experiences, access services and identify how they can assist compatriots with the rare genetic condition.

The PolyVision event in Ipswich will provide an introduction to genetics, vision impairment, adaptive technology and services available for people with albinism in Australia. PolyVision will also have a fun atmosphere with DJ Mr John Sinisa presenting multicultural music and a catering menu featuring some Pacific Islander food favourites.

The event will also include several displays of interest such as Pacific Islander handicraft display, Vision Impairment Equipment Solutions selection from Vision Australia and artwork by photographer Mr Rick Guidotti on loan from the 'Celebrating Diversity' photographic exhibit.

Albinism is an inherited condition that can affect the colour of a person’s skin, hair and eyes and is found in many different human populations. Pacific islanders with albinism can have reddish gold hair; light brown, green or blue eye colour and white/ pink pale skin. Their vision is within the legally blind range, which means they need help with reading small print and seeing fine details, plus problems with light glare and depth perception.

While numbers vary, in North America and Europe, it is estimated that one in every 20,000 people have some form of albinism. Research by Ms Helene Johanson and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience identified that in one Polynesian population, one in 669 people is born with albinism – which is one of the highest recorded rates of Oculocutaneous Albinism Type 2 in the world. This research also found that people living in the islands have limited access to health resources and information, as a result their skin may be extensively sun damaged by early adulthood.

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Anna SoldingAustralia's newest book publishing house, MidnightSun Publishing, this week launches its first novel, The Hum of Concrete, to coincide with the start of Adelaide Writers' Week.

Set in the multicultural city of Malmö, Sweden, The Hum of Concrete is an evocative novel about a city and its people. Shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript in 2010, The Hum of Concrete combines sensual writing with serious and unusual themes.

The Hum of Concrete is the story of five people whose lives intersect. With photographic precision, author Anna Solding captures both light and shadow found in the fleeting beauty of everyday life. From the silences between people and the ordinariness of places, she conjures narrative jewels of intelligence and pleasure.

Esteemed author Sean Williams will launch The Hum of Concrete at Adelaide Writers' Week at 5pm this Saturday at the Pioneer Womens' Memorial Garden. The event will kick off a major national publicity campaign, with associated writers' festival appearances by Anna.

Anna Solding's first novel has already received praise from early readers:

"The characters who figure in the interwoven stories that make up The Hum of Concrete are treated with heartwarming tenderness. The narration is unobtrusively and effectively managed, the Swedish settings vividly realised." - J.M. Coetzee

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