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Melbourne Art Fair

04/08/2010 (All day) - 08/08/2010 (All day)

contemporary art. Featuring more than 80 selected galleries from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, China, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, Melbourne Art Fair is the leading trade fair and public exposition of contemporary visual art in the region. Other highlights include national and international collector programs, programs for curators, a line-up of free public forums, project rooms for emerging artists, art publications, a private lounge, guided tours and travel and accommodation packages. Established in 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair is held at the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Photography by David Marks

Darwin Beer Can Regatta

08/08/2010 (All day)

A regatta like no other, with boats primarily built entirely from aluminum beer cans. This annual family event is rapidly becoming a spectacle for all who line Mindil Beach and cheer on the home-made boats of cans and cartons, as they flounder and sink in the shallows. The Darwin Beer Can Regatta started as an unusual by-product of the devastation caused to Darwin by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. A Darwin citizen, Lutz Frankenfeld, suggested a boat race with all the craft fabricated from beer cans in order to clear up the empties, and at the same time have a day of fun. The inaugural beer can race in 1975 was an instant success, and has developed into a major event with boat entries ranging from 1 to 12 metres and some even with secret weaponry. Entry is by donation, with proceeds going to projects of the combined Lions Clubs of Darwin.

Alice Springs Rodeo

14/08/2010 (All day)

See the amazing skills of the country’s top professional cowboys. As part of the Australian Professional Rough-riders Association official circuit, the Alice Springs Rodeo kicks off early Saturday evening. Watch the bareback bull riders hold on tight-fisted for the required eight seconds. Watch man and beast face-off in the steer wresting competition. Other events include calf roping, team roping, breakaway roping and the ladies’ barrel race. There are junior barrel races and the ever-reliable comedy clown. Full catering is available and buses will be running every half hour from the Post Office to Blatherskite Park and back, starting from 5pm.

Newcastle Jazz Festival

27/08/2010 (All day) - 29/08/2010 (All day)

Come and enjoy a wonderful weekend of great jazz and take an opportunity to catch up with the Australia wide Jazz family. This year the Newcastle Jazz Festival is celebrating its twenty-second anniversary and has continued to grow each year. The Festival features some of Australia’s best Jazz and Blues performers. This year performers will be heard in five different rooms within the City Hall at various times over the weekend. Highlights include a Jazz breakfast, gala dance on Saturday night and a Jazz Gospel on Sunday morning. Full details including registration form, program and details of the artists appearing can be obtained from the Newcastle Jazz Club website.

Reading Music Festival

28/08/2010 (All day) - 31/08/2010 (All day)

Every year the Reading Festival grows a little older and with this musically wiser. The festival has been going, in one shape or another since it’s conception as a Jazz event in 1961, a time when audio was in its ‘rock n roll infancy’; before the invention of music as we know it today and the time when the festival laid down its roots as the UK’s premier indie festival. From the early Jazz ramblings of Chris Barber (one of the co-founders of the original Reading Festival), Johnny Dankworth and Humphrey Littleton, in the different location of Richmond, to Windsor, then Sunbury and eventually Reading, the festival has always been at the top of its game. Attracting thousands of music fans, critical of the bands performances and really there just to enjoy the best that the festival has to offer, the Reading Festival has been a stalwart in the world of outdoor music. From the late 1960’s bands started to appear that are still revered as legends today; The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Small Faces, T Rex, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, all great bands, but all cast from the same ‘rock mould’. It took the near destruction of the festival in 1988, a poor line up, poor weather and poorly attended, to see the Mean Fiddler organisation take the reins and steer the festival to the pinnacle of outdoor music that it is today, with its mix of indie/rock/punk/dance and every genre in between. Looking back over the line-ups on the posters, who can forget the last UK appearance of Nirvana at the festival 1992, the onstage melt down of the Stone Roses (their last show together) in 1996 or the first triumphant appearance of Metallica in 1997? All landmark events at a festival which is chock full of memories, mostly good, but some pretty bad. Who remembers the shocking ‘braining’ of Brendan Urie of Panic At The Disco in 2006 or 50 Cent getting everything thrown at him including a deck chair? Some shocking moments, but all part of the history of a festival which has been raised on rock, from classic to indie, Reading has it all. Reading Festival has and always will, lead the way in UK outdoor events of a similar ilk. Reading is a music festival designed by music fans, for music fans. When the line-up was released this year there were complaints that the ‘Sunday Rock Day’ had been ditched, but if you now look at the mainstage on Friday and the Radio One tent on Sunday, there are probably more rock & metal bands than any other year. The organisers listen to the fans and obviously take note of their comments, which is why the festival is probably the first one that most people attend and always will. Music for the people...... With this years festival having the debut headline appearances by Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead, I’m sure we will have some more classic performances to go down in the archives, for history sections of the future.

Mount Royal Mountain Bike Ride

29/08/2010 (All day)

The Mount Royal Mountain Bike Ride is a challenging 30 kilometre loop mountain bike ride on a quiet public gravel road through World Heritage forests of Mount Royal National Park, 50kilometres north of Singleton in the Hunter Valley. Alternatively, ride the shorter, easier forest route. The free ride starts from Callicoma Hill Eco-cabins, where accommodation and camping is available over the weekend. Bookings are appreciated. Bring your own bike, food and drinks. The bike ride is unsuitable for younger children. No support vehicles please.

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Accommodation

Accommodation is a content type that contains information about a place you can stay overnight (e.g. hotel, resort, caravan park, etc.). Accommodation is located in a particular city, and can be included in tours.

After you've added your Accommodation, don't forget to configure the Price Options for it.

Fields

Name

The name of the Accommodation. Generally this'll be the name of the hotel, resort, etc.

Accommodation Type

Select the type of Accommodation you're adding.

Summary

The Summary field is used on the maps for displaying a teaser about the Accommodation. Users then click on the 'Read more' link to view the full description.

Enter some basic information about the Accommodation to entice users to read more about it.

Description

The Description fields are for describing the various facets of your Accommodation (i.e. the room, hotel facilities, etc.). For each facet, you can enter some text, images and links in a popup box.

Click the green 'plus' button on the right of the field. Fill out the form that appears in the popup box to create a description for one facet of the Accommodation. When finished, click Done to return to the Accommodation form where the facet you just created will have been automatically added to the field.

Use the 'Add another item' button to add descriptions for as many facets as you need. To edit one of the facets entered already, click the 'eye' button on the right of the field to open and edit that facet in a new window.

City

The City field is used for displaying Accommodation on the maps. Simply specify which City your Accommodation is located in.

If the City you want to link to already exists on the site, start entering it's name then select it from the list of matching cities that are displayed.

If the City doesn't already exist (i.e. it doesn't appear in the list), click the green 'plus' button on the right of the field. Fill out the form that appears in the popup box to create the City your Accommodation is located in. When finished, click Done to return to the Accommodation form where the city you just created will have been automatically added to the field.

Location

While the City field shows where Accommodation is located in the world, the Location field shows where it is located within that city (i.e. on the highway, down near the harbour, etc.). Note that you can only add one location on the map, so trying to add multiple markers will result in the previous marker being deleted.

Using the 'hand' tool (top-right of the map), zoom-in on the city where your Accommodation is located. Once you've found exactly where your Accommodation is located within the city, use the 'pen' tool to mark it's location on the map.

List Price

The List Price is only ever used for ordering a list of products by price, it has no effect on the price customers pay for a product in their shopping cart.

Enter the lowest price of your Accommodation options (i.e. if your Accommodation has a 1-night option of $50 and a 2-night option of $75, enter '50' as the List Price - the lowest price).

Options

The Option fields are used for listing the various options available for your Accommodation package. For example, you might want to give users the option of a 1, 2 or 3 bedroom room. Each of these would have a different price (configured later) and possibly a separate description and photos.

Click the green 'plus' button on the right of the field. Fill out the form that appears in the popup box to create an Option for your Accommodation. When finished, click Done to return to the Accommodation form where the option you just created will have been automatically added to the field.

Use the 'Add another item' button to add as many Options as you need. To edit one of the options added already, click the 'eye' button on the right of the field to open and edit that option in a new window.

Terms & Conditions

Note: The following Terms are automatically appended to this field for each product on the site and need not be repeated here:

All prices are in $AUD, are correct at time of issue and are subject to availability when booking. Payment by Visa and Mastercard will incur a 1.5% surcharge while Amex and Diners will incur a 3% surcharge. Flights not included unless otherwise stated. Images used for illustration purposes only.

Enter any Terms & Conditions specific to this Accommodation package.

Staff Details

The Staff Details field is for entering details about the product so staff can find more information should someone wish to purchase it.

Enter details about where the Accommodation was found, who it is booked through, where the prices were sourced, etc. If mentioning a website, copy & paste the URL here.

Domain Access Options

This is where you decide what websites your Accommodation should be added to. To assist with this, go to the Domain Content page - it will help you in deciding what products should be added to what domains.

Send To All Affiliates:

This box should never be ticked for Accommodation packages. Make sure it's left unticked.

Publish To:

Select the domains to which this Accommodation should be added. Hold down the 'Ctrl' key on your keyboard to select multiple domains.

Source Domain:

Select the domain that your Accommodation most closely matches (based on the info on the Domain Content page). Note: The domain you choose here has to be one of the ones you selected above. Don't select 'Use active domain'.

Scheduling Options

These settings are for publishing or unpublishing content on a certain date. We don't recommend using the 'Publish on' setting, but suggest you use the 'Unpublish on' setting for automatically removing content that has expired. For example, if your Accommodation package is only valid for a certain time, you can enter a date on which the Accommodation will be automatically removed from the site. This stops the site from displaying old and out-dated content.

Publish On:

Don't use this setting.

Unpublish On:

Enter the date and time on which this Accommodation package expires (if any).

Don't forget to configure the Price Options for your Accommodation.

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