Saturday, October 12, 2024
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Wooden spoon (award)
A wooden spoon is an award that is given to an individual or team that has come last in a competition. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events. The term is of British origin and has spread to other English-speaking countries. In most cases it is simply a colloquial term for coming last – there is no actual award given
Saturday, October 5, 2024
When to reply work messages
A five- minute phone call can replace emails back and forth sometimes for several weeks - email ping pong and can be more effective.
SMS and instant messaging can be used for urgent queries.
Emails should be replied within 24 or 48 hours to be effective. You may not be able to resolve the situation straight away.
It's better to let people know where you are at rather than replying after a week. "Thanks for your inquiry. I'll look into this and get back to you within a certain time frame.'
Don't be a mirror - looking into it but never reply.
Friday, October 4, 2024
NRL
The storied history, all-time records and laws of rugby league in Australia.
With a rich history dating back to its creation in 1908, the NRL Telstra Premiership is the closest elite sporting competition in the country and the Holden State of Origin series between New South Wales and Queensland is Australian sport’s greatest rivalry.
The National Rugby League (known as the NRL Telstra Premiership due to sponsorship) is a professional rugby league competition in Australasia which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand.
Tracing its origins back to the New South Wales Rugby League, which formed in 1908, rugby league competition in Australia had gone through numerous iterations, including the 1990s Super League war,[3] by the time the NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership between the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the News Corporation-controlled Super League.[4] The partnership was dissolved in 2012, with control of the NRL going to the re-constituted ARL, which was re-structured with an independent board of directors and renamed the Australian Rugby League Commission.
The season typically runs from March to October, with each team playing 24 matches, with the highest placed team at the end of the regular season awarded the minor premiership. This is followed by a finals series contested between the eight highest placed teams from the regular season. The season culminates in the premiership-deciding NRL Grand Final.[5] The winners play the World Club Challenge against the champions of the Super League.[6] The reigning premiers are the Penrith Panthers, having won their fifth premiership at the end of the 2023 season.