Great news from NSW this week with the launch of a project designed to direct young Aboriginal men away from a possible life of crime.
Dubbed ‘Project Walwaay’ which is the Wiradjuri word for ‘young man’, the police-driven project steers its subjects to fun nights at Police and Community Youth Clubs, weekday sporting events and competitions and a mentoring program with Aboriginal Elders, giving them every chance to stay on the right side of the law.
While PS-sssst! is just as impressed as any column would be by the worthwhile worthiness of the project, it is its official name that has caught our attention.
The new initiative leads on to another initiative, brilliantly named the ‘Indigenous Recruitment Our Way Delivery Program’, cunningly acronymised as IPROWD!
Very clever.
Well done!
Congratulations.
Clouded over
And in a similar vein, the might powerhouse we call the United States has also risen to the challenge of ‘appropriating’ an acronym so it becomes ‘appropriate’ for what it stands for, by carefully selecting the name of an Act of Congress permitting foreign countries (like Australia) to have access to some of the data the US collects from the IT webs it has surrounding the planet.
The US lawmakers have shown a glimmer of cleverness by naming their law the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, acronymised as the CLOUD Act so everyone can understand it.
PS-sssst! wonders if the superpower is also planning a Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Technology Act as a warning to other countries that it doesn’t spend all its time in the CLOUD.
Give and get giveaway
To Rama’s weekly giveaway now in which lucky readers stand the chance of becoming lucky winners just by reading PS News and joining in Rama’s regular reviews of books and DVDs.
This week, Rama has redoubled her rich rewards with not one, but two, gratis giveaways rewarding regular readers with twice the pick of her treasured prizes.
First gift through the giveaway gate is the five-disc DVD set of TV show Bull series three, starring Michael Weatherly and the second, the DVD of the soccer-lovers’ movie The Keeper starring David Kross and Freya Mavor.
To score the Bull, readers had simply to answer Rama’s quiz question and name another television series starring the bovine Mr Weatherly – the answer to which was NCIS – and to be a keeper of The Keeper, simply identify the nationality of the film’s director – which was German.
The first three correct answers to squeeze out of the PS News Barrel of Booty in pursuit of Bull came from Jennifer P of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, Patricia S from the Australian Taxation Office in Queensland, and Kirsty D from the Federal Department of Education and Training.
Back on the soccer pitch, the two winners of The Keeper were Johnathon N from the WA Department of Justice and Deborah M from TAFE NSW.
Congratulations to all our lucky winners and thanks to everyone who took part. The winners’ DVDs will be delivered in a popular PS-sssst! Pack, complete with LED light pen and exclusive PS News T-shirt as soon as possible.
In the meantime, for another chance to join Rama’s regular army of winners, simply follow this link and give it your best shot.
Good luck to all who do
Doubly passed
And staying with readers’ competitions, last week also saw eight lucky readers win double passes to the British Film Festival with the compliments of PS News and our esteemed film reviewer Vic Rebikoff.
The first of an avalanche of readers to enter Vic’s competition for double passes were Carol C of the Federal Attorney-General’s Department; Kathleen O of the Commonwealth Department of Health; Norm R from the ACT; Meryl Z of the National Disability Insurance Agency, South Australia; Sande B of Melbourne; Ross J of NSW, Catherine M and Nathan B of Victoria.
Congratulations to all.
Doubly passed over
While on Vic’s cinematic cynosure, deepest apologies to Karen M of the Commonwealth Department of Health in WA whose entry for the tickets missed Vic’s cut-off due to no fault of Karen’s own.
“We in Western Australia are disadvantaged by the tyranny of distance,” Karen lamented on receipt of Vic’s notice advising her her entry had arrived too late.
“That is disturbing, as we received the PS News at 1.02am (our time) today”.
Vic’s attempted defence was that the Film Festival kicked off just two days after PS News was published, forcing him to offer the free passes to the earliest of responders.
“We had little choice”, the remorseful reviewer responded.
But PS News has come to the rescue.
Karen – and all our readers in WA – will be pleased to hear that her grievous gripe was not in vain.
An addendum has been added to PS News’s editorial policy to ensure that all future competitions run for a minimum of seven days.
In the meantime, we hope Karen will accept a PS-sssst! Pack of a prize book, LED-light pen and T-shirt as our way of saying sorry.
Sorry!
Motoring magic
And finally, fantastic news for the car cranks among us with our new master of motoring, Paul Gover launching a new free, expert advice and information service for all things automobilistic starting next week.
Gover – fully qualified as the Car Doctor – will advise on anything anyone asks, from which car is the best to buy at the moment, how to fix a flat tyre and whether your favourite station wagon still comes in Kanga Blue!
So watch this space from next week on or go direct to Gover’s motoring masterpieces at this PS News link.
It ‘wheelie’ is a good section.
Until next week…
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