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Matthew Franceschini When Entity Solutions recognised that it had outgrown its accounting software, the multi-award-winning professional engagement (contractor management) services company turned to Evolution Business Systems (EBS) and the Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise management software to meet its needs.

With turnover growth of nearly 50 per cent in 2010-11, Entity Solutions choose Microsoft Dynamics NAV because it offered the ability to immediately meet its current needs and the flexibility to meet all requirements for the foreseeable future. For Entity Solutions CEO Matthew Franceschini, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV project was “the single most successful technology implementation I have ever seen” – on time, within budget and delivering more than EBS initially promised.

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Anna Solding signs her best-selling book Hum of ConcreteSwedish-born Adelaide author Anna Solding, whose debut novel has received rave reviews, will sign copies of her best-selling book, The Hum of Concrete, in Norwood this weekend.

Although English is not Anna’s mother tongue, the style of her writing in The Hum of Concrete has been praised as ‘enchanting’, ‘engagingly different’, ‘sensuous and heartfelt’ by book critics at newspapers including The Advertiser, The Canberra Times and The Age.
 
Readers agree! Right now, The Hum of Concrete is on the bestsellers’ shelf in Dillons Norwood Bookshop, where Anna will sign copies from midday, on Saturday, April 28.
 
“I couldn’t be happier,” says Anna. “After all these years of writing, it feels like everything has fallen into place. It is wonderful to see so many people enjoy my work.”
 
The Hum of Concrete is set in the Swedish city of Malmö, where Anna grew up, and deals with issues of love, longing, sexuality, motherhood and community. According to The Canberra Times, Anna writes about her characters with ‘unadorned honesty and humanity 
 

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Twenty years after printing their last edition, nearly 100 former colleagues from The News reunited to share memories of the great achievements of Rupert Murdoch’s first newspaper.

roger holden speaks at the reunion with frank pangallo on the left

Although it was the last major daily to replace “hot type” with computers, The News later became a trailblazer in technology by becoming the first newspaper to print full-colour pages.

But it was loud laughter and long stories of scoops, deadlines and “country trips” the filled the hours of Saturday afternoon as The News was recalled for its achievements rather than its passing.

The News owner and publisher Roger Holden acknowledged that time had eased the pain of the newspaper’s closure so people could now remember it with pride and shared affection.

The News editor Frank Pangallo praised the energy and initiative of a newspaper that would chase and break stories between multiple daily editions, including the day in 1980 when the newsroom was electrified by a report from Alice Springs that a dingo had taken a baby.

But the highlight of the reunion was when The News Chief of Staff, the legendary Geoff Jones, was presented with the Gold Wood Duck.

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