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====**AUSTRALASIAN COMPUTER COMPETITION** ====

====**In May this year 130 students took part in the Australasian Computer Competition there were 13 High Distinctions which means those people are in the top 1% of New Zealand, there were 40 Distinctions which is the top 10% of New Zealand, there were 40 credits (top 25% NZ),and there were 37 Participations.** ====

====**The High Distinctions were awarded to:** ====

====**Joseph Meltzer, Henry Jiang, Clinton Yiu,** ====

====**Saffron Huang, Kendall Wu, Jemma Zhang** ====

====**Malitha Ambanpola, Abhishek Chawla, Gabriel Hong,** ====

====**Arvin Lim, Bowyn Su, Ernest Wong, Zachary Wong** ====

==== **We also want to give a massive** **Congratulations** **to Joseph Meltzer who was awarded a** ====

====**medal for having the top score in New Zealand.** ====

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**By David Ashley**  

Show me Shorts Film Festival

The Show me Shorts Film Festival is a collection of 10 minute films. They were made by people who are just learning to direct, so they are starting with short films and then making longer films or just people who make short films. This Festival plays the best 40 kiwi and Australian short films. The films have to be between 3 and 30 minutes long and made within the last 3 years. This Festival was launched in 2006 and is every November since then. I have asked around to see if anyone has heard of this Festival but so far no one out of the people I have asked knew what the Show me Shorts Film Festival is. The advertising starts soon so hopefully more people will know by the time the festival starts in November this year.

By Kelsey Boyd Rm1 Year7.

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Smiggle Opening in Botany

Smiggle is a stationary brand, where a wide selection of pencils, rubbers, rulers ect. are with cute and unique shapes, pictures and even lovely smells with each colour of a rubber, highlighters. Smiggle is one of the hottest things out there and there is a new shop in Botany Downs Centre. It is located in the inner Shopping mall, right beside Jay Jays, the other shop in Manukau, is located in Sylvia Park, two Shops down from the shop, Sweet. The Smiggle shop in Botany may not be as big as the shop in Sylvia Park, it is smaller just by a few metres, but it has just as much products. I have asked for some students opinions and some think that it is cool while others think it is a rip-off. Some people do think that it is cute and cheap but some things are just too expensive but they are very stable and can be used for a long time.

The Christchurch Quake By Praharsh Bahl  

Picture caption-A road in Christchurch split in half

The Christchurch earthquake shook Canterbury at 4:36 am on Saturday the 4 of September. Geologists had no warning at all. It had a magnitude of 7.1, about the same as the Haiti earthquake. The extent of the damage was not that of the Haiti earthquake because Christchurch’s buildings were more stable and no one was killed because when the earthquake struck, no-one was awake. People described the walls and floors of their house rippling like waves. Shops were destroyed during the quake as objects fell off shelves and glass smashed on the floor. There have been quite a few aftershocks, some around 5 on the richter scale. Around 100,000 homes were damaged but most have had their electricity restored and less than 5 percent of the properties damaged were without water. The majority of schools have re-opened and the students of the badly damaged schools have been sent to another nearby school. The cost of the damage has topped a massive four billion dollars but the National Bank has already donated one million dollars to Christchurch.

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