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OhReally (2007) Credit www.ActionPics.bizOne of South Australia’s best known yacht races, the Milang-Goolwa Freshwater Classic will be held on the weekend of January 21-22, in 2012 after a five-year hiatus because of drought and low water levels.

The Marina Hindmarsh Island Milang-Goolwa Freshwater Classic race will be a spectacular finale to Goolwa Regatta Week, which starts the week beforehand on Saturday January 14 and will offer many community activities on and off the water during the week. 

Racing is open to many off-the-beach monohull skiff and catamaran classes as well as trailer-sailer yachts and vintage river boats. There is a $500 Cash Prize for the special Friday night pre-race event, the ‘Doser Freight Dash For Cash’  short race knock-out series that is sailed right in front of the club marina.

The Goolwa Regatta Yacht Club (GRYC) is relaunching the race with great local support now that the River Murray waters are back and flowing.   GRYC Commodore Don Richardson said the event has attracted strong corporate sponsorship with local developer, The Marina Hindmarsh Island, stepping up as Principal Sponsor for the next five years.

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Paul DelaneyAn Australian conference on albinism this month learned how one man with albinism had become an internationally successful professor of astronomy – despite having a severe visual disability.

More than five per cent of Australia’s nearly 1300 albinos attended the Albinism Fellowship of Australia biennial conference in Melbourne on October 8 and 9. The two-day event – dubbed SPF for Spectacular Platinum Festival – covered topics ranging from genetics, visual acuity and brain development to professional opportunities and human rights.

Albinism is an inherited condition present at birth, characterized by a lack of pigment that normally gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes. The condition, which is found in all races, may be accompanied by eye problems and extreme sensitivity to sunlight. In Australia, the incidence of albinism is one in 17,000 – giving the country a total albino population of less than 1300 people. In South Africa, the incidence of albinism among the white population is one in 15,000 – while the incidence among the country’s black citizens in one in 3900!

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The late Steve JobsApple Computer faces a crisis of confidence after yesterday's death of its visionary co-founder and long-serving CEO Steve Jobs.

This is not the first time Apple has lost Jobs' insprirational influence.

After Jobs was ousted by "professional" management in the mid-80s, Apple lost its way over the next decade, delivering increasingly mediocre products and coming close to failure.

Meanwhile Jobs built successful businesses including animation trailblazer Pixar and Unix workstation specialist NeXT Inc - which laid the foundation for Apple's Mac OS X.

Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as "interim CEO", the role he relinquished only a few weeks ago. During this "temporary" tenure, Jobs transformed Apple from also-ran to the world's most valuable technology company.

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