Sport
Aaron reps Mullum in Melbourne Eve Jeffery
Million of eyes turned to the big square screen last week to see the historic boxing bout between Anthony Mundine and Belarussian Sergey Rabchenko fought in the Hisense Arena at Melbourne Park, but one fortunate local fellow was there. Aaron Diehm is a huge Mundine fan and has long followed his sporting career. ‘I am a foundation member of team Mundine, which is Anthony’s support network’, says Diehm. ‘I flew to Melbourne to offer my support as Mundine went into the fight as the underdog – he is 39 and heading towards the end of his career. Rabchenko is 28 and has won his last 25 fights, 18 by knockout! ‘If Anthony lost it would probably have been his last fight so I wanted to be there to celebrate a great career.’ Aaron’s role on the day was to be part of the support team for pre-fight lead up and training and to assist in the team Mundine corner. ‘I was also part of the crew who escorted him to and from the ring before and after the
Mullum lad Aaron Diehm with Anthony Mundine after last week’s win in Melbourne.
fight’, said Diehm. ‘It has been a long-held dream.’ Aaron says the atmosphere at Melbourne Park was electric with around 9,000 people packing out Hisense arena. ‘I thought Anthony seemed amazingly calm and centred’, he said. ‘He was very determined and I think spurred on by the fact he was
being touted as the underdog. ‘Pre-fight he locked down the entire area and there was a blanket ban on anyone in the dressing room except his immediate crew. I felt very lucky to be part of it all.’ Mundine is known for his capacity to ‘meet and greet’, hype and build up and plenty of distraction. ‘This time he
was just completely focused. I have never seen him so determined and it showed in the ring. ‘I thought the fight was very close but I felt Anthony had done enough to win.’ Mundine, whose record to date is now 47 wins from 53 fights (27 by knockout), beat the Belarussian 11 years his junior in a split-point decision. Rabchenko’s record was until that point unblemished with 25 wins from 25 fights (18 by knockout). ‘I was in the ring when the announcement was made and it was just the best feeling ever’, says Aaron. ‘We were all over the moon!’ Diehm says that Mundine was very relived after what was a tough fight. ‘He just wanted to be surrounded by his family and the team Mundine crew. He was rather emotional. It was a great moment in his career and I will never forget being part of it all.’ Mundine won in a very close split after the Swiss judge gave the fight to Rabchenko 115–113, and the two Australian judges saw a local win with 115–113 and 116–112.
Teva takes Mullum title
Technology in phys ed
The Mullumbimby Tennis Club Men’s Singles Championships held on the weekend saw young Teva Liebo at just 15 years of age, take out the title. The local hero, currently in year 9 at Cape Byron Steiner School, defeated some experienced opposition to win the tournament. Teva has been playing tennis at Mullum since he was eight. His dad Micky taught and coached him and Teva has been going to tournaments since he was just 11.
Digital technology is part of everyday life, whether at home, at work or at play. But what role does it play in education? A world-first study led by Southern Cross University researcher Dr Michael Gard will investigate the use of digital technology in school health and physical education and its wider implications. Starting in 2015 and running for three years, the study was made possible by a $177,000 Australian Research Council (ARC) grant. Dr Gard said the research will examine the use of digital technologies in school health and physical education from a sociological perspective. While improving the health of students was not its primary goal, it is hoped the research will inform and improve the way students learn about health and physical activity at school. ‘We’re going to examine some of the wider contextual factors that are shaping the way digital technology is being used in schools’, said Dr Gard. ‘There has been research done on the application of digital technology in schools but nobody has tried to give a broader description
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or tried to understand it in a social science context. ‘We’re interested in what is being done to children and why, the types of digital technologies being used and how they are being used.’ Dr Gard said the research would also address the ‘commercialisation of schools’, with technology providers targeting education as a revenue stream. ‘Many of the things that are happening in schools in terms of technology are about making money, so some products may be sold to schools in the name of health but they are actually about making money. ‘What I think we will find is some examples of really brilliant practice and some not so good.’ On November 5, Southern Cross University received $1.7 million from the ARC. Southern Cross University vice-chancellor Professor Peter Lee said the result was outstanding. ‘This is an excellent result for our researchers. These are highly competitive grants and the success of our applications is a real testament to the high quality of research we are undertaking at SCU’, he said.
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CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Byron Services Club, Mon 7pm After four games of the $1.5m World Championship match in Sochi, the World Champion Magnus Carlsen was struggling to cope with the tension. Carlsen had cruised to an early lead, controlling the first two games and winning the second of them, but challenger Viswanathan Anand hit back and the Norwegian has been thrown badly off balance. At the compulsory post-game joint press conference after his disastrous loss in the third game – a game where Anand merely had to repeat his opening analysis to reach a winning position – Carlsen’s stayed reasonably calm, summarising his opinion of the game with ‘It sucks.’ However, having failed to achieve anything from his light pressure in the next game, eventually drawn, Carlsen’s mood had darkened further. ‘I thought I played terribly,’ he said. ‘It was not a high quality game… not good enough.’ Carlsen refused to speak to the Norwegian press and his Full moon November 7 09:23 Third quarter November 15 02:16
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen
team – father, doctor, chef and chess aide Peter Heine Nielsen – needed to calm the 23-year-old down before Anand – a veteran of many tight world title matches – could strike again. Norwegian State television NRK, which beat TV2 for bidding rights to the match and has saturation coverage, interviewed a respected psychologist who claimed that Carlsen must be faking his bad mood, but this seems unlikely for the player with the worst poker face in top chess.
NOVEMBER 2014 Astronomical data and tides
New moon November 22 23:33 First quarter November 29 21:07 Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, month rise set rise set height (m) 1 S 0553 1905 1312 0134 0352,1.31; 1600,1.55 2 S 0552 1906 1415 0218 0457,1.40; 1708,1.57 3 M 0551 1907 1518 0301 0555,1.51; 1810,1.59 4 T 0551 1907 1621 0343 0646,1.63; 1906,1.60 5 W 0550 1908 1724 0425 0735,1.73; 1959,1.58 6 T 0549 1909 1827 0508 0822,1.81; 2048,1.55 7 F 0549 1910 1928 0553 0907,1.85; 2137,1.49 8 S 0548 1910 2027 0640 0951,1.85; 2224,1.43 9 S 0547 1911 2124 0730 1033,1.81; 2311,1.36 10 M 0547 1912 2216 0821 1115,1.75; 2357,1.29 11 T 0546 1913 2303 0914 1157,1.67 12 W 0546 1914 2347 1007 0043,1.24; 1239,1.58 13 T 0545 1914 1059 0131,1.21; 1324,1.49 14 F 0545 1915 0027 1151 0226,1.20; 1416,1.42 15 S 0544 1916 0104 1242 0326,1.22; 1516,1.36 16 S 0544 1917 0139 1334 0426,1.27; 1620,1.34 17 M 0543 1918 0214 1425 0519,1.34; 1719,1.34 18 T 0543 1918 0248 1517 0606,1.42; 1812,1.36 19 W 0542 1919 0323 1611 0647,1.52; 1859,1.39 20 T 0542 1920 0359 1706 0726,1.61; 1943,1.41 21 F 0542 1921 0439 1803 0803,1.69; 2025,1.42 22 S 0541 1922 0522 1901 0843,1.77; 2108,1.43 23 S 0541 1922 0610 2000 0923,1.83; 2154,1.43 24 M 0541 1923 0703 2058 1006,1.86; 2242,1.41 25 T 0541 1924 0800 2153 1051,1.86; 2332,1.39 1140,1.83 26 W 0540 1925 0901 2245 27 T 0540 1926 1003 2334 0027,1.37; 1231,1.77 28 F 0540 1926 1106 0125,1.36; 1328,1.69 29 S 0540 1927 1209 0019 0227,1.37; 1430,1.60 30 S 0540 1928 1311 0101 0321,1.41; 1537,1.53
Low tide, height (m) 0937,0.58; 2242,0.35 1050,0.52; 2337,0.31 1158,0.44 0029,0.27; 1259,0.35 0115,0.25; 1354,0.27 0200,0.26; 1446,0.22 0245,0.29; 1535,0.21 0327,0.34; 1623,0.23 0408,0.40; 1709,0.28 0449,0.48; 1754,0.34 0530,0.55; 1839,0.41 0615,0.62; 1925,0.48 0703.0.68; 2015,0.52 0800,0.72; 2107,0.55 0906,0.74; 2201,0.55 1015,0.73; 2253,0.53 1120,0.68; 2340,0.50 1217,0.60 0021,0.46; 1306,0.52 0100,0.43; 1349,0.44 0136,0.41; 1431,0.36 0215,0.39; 1514,0.30 0254.0.38; 1557,0.25 0336,0.38; 1642,0.23 0422,0.41; 1730,0.23 0512,0.44; 1822,0.25 0606,0.49; 1916,0.28 0705,0.53; 2015,0.32 0812,0.57; 2114,0.35 0923,0.58; 2212,0.36
Times are Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 15 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.
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