There are those who wonder what will happen when respected Queen Elizabeth II departs because indications are that the successor will lack some of her sterling qualities.
enhanced operating economics per centand increased long-term reliability
Mr Heatley noticed something per centHousing NZ had missed in its list of required work
Her top priority would be sharpening the UNDP's focus on poverty reduction.
A new deal for the world economy and a new deal for the environment should also be capable of tackling poverty, including tackling energy poverty and providing a low carbon footprint route to development.
Freeing Schools
- Underperforming schools will be taken out of local authority control: This will allow schools to flourish in the way that City Technology Colleges did - by "freeing them from the obsessive micromanagement of government and stifling local bureacracy";
- Freedom will be restored to the highest performing schools: As was the case with grant maintained status, but with the proviso that they have a partner school which is underperforming or failing - "liberating the strong to help the weak; helping the weak by empowering the strong".
Discipline
- Steps will be taken to protect teachers, who currently cannot restrain violent children or impose detentions;
- The teacher will be in charge: Mr Gove promised to "safeguard the rights of the majority, not defer to the human rights of the troublemakers";
- The head teacher's word will be final on exclusions;
- Disruptive children would get the care they need and "tough love" at an appropriate alternative school;
- The base of people brought into the teaching profession will be broadened, for example using those who have been in the services.
Darling, like his ... one-eyed organ-grinder, is not really interested in the poor, and never has been. The politicians are interested in only one thing—power.
To be in power, they must be elected, and to have even the faintest hope of being elected, the politicians believe that they must, at all costs, retain their client electorate.
The Budget was gesture politics at its worst: the lack of spending cuts was designed to keep the client electorate voting Labour, whilst the extra tax on the rich was designed solely to appeal to said clients' most evil sensibilities.
I have said it before and I'll say it again: if you really want to help the poor, then stop ... taxing them.
1789: In a mutiny on HMS Bounty, the crew set Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him managed to reach Timor in 47 days.)28th April
1945: Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.
1967: Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army, the same day Gen. William C. Westmoreland told Congress the U.S. "would prevail in Vietnam."
The projects to be launched at a top-secret University of Maryland research center would make "Q" - James Bond's owlish gadget-meister - blink with tears of envy.
In the coming months, teams of the nation's top theoretical mathematicians, behavioral scientists, software engineers and futurists will assemble to figure out how to make U.S. intelligence better, faster and more efficient.
Aston Martins with twin machine guns and ejector seats? Flamethrower bagpipes? Jet packs? The missile-firing leg cast?
Beyond that. Way beyond that.
"We're talking technology breakthroughs," she said. "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are stampeding across the planet as we speak, and there are those who have a predatory intent against the United States of America.
"We have to stand sentry to make sure that never, ever again is there an attack on the United States and its interests abroad."
Intelligence officials swamped with war, terrorism, piracy, competition from Russia and China, swine flu and other problems are looking to the researchers for relief.
"They will, I hope," said Blair, "help us find the right dots to connect."
Offenders at present owe $790 million in fines. Almost $450m of that is overdue
While there, Mr Heatley noticed something per centHousing NZ had missed in its list of required work - a light fitting was hanging out of the ceiling in the children's bedroom and he worried the exposed wires were a hazard.
161. Offence to engage in prescribed electrical work without practising licence
Every person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 who does any prescribed electrical work in contravention of section 95 of this Act.
There is no compromising on standards, there is no reduction in entry requirements.
We've got three and a half million layabouts laying about on benefits and I'm 76 getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go to work to keep them.
He also spoke of his frustration with the Government, which he described as "rotten" and said that he was "not a fan" of the Prime Minister.
"A political party that's in too long is like a piece of meat – if it's there too long it will go rotten and they've gone rotten and they've got to go," he said.
The point about him [Gordon Brown] is he's never been elected by anybody. I'm supposed to be in a country where I get the chance to elect someone and I've been around here at the most dangerous of times led by a man who's never been elected by anybody.
There is no point to their existence and no pressing need for their deliberations.If Finance Minister Bill English is looking for budget savings, he might take a quick glance in their direction. And he won't need a signpost.
Behind that long and lonely trenched line
To which men come and go, where brave men die,
There is a yet unmarked and unknown shrine,
A broken plot, a soldier’s cemetery.
There lie the flower of youth, the men who scorn’d
To live (so died) when languished Liberty:
Across their graves flowerless and unadorned
Still scream the shells of each artillery.
When war shall cease this lonely unknown spot
Of many a pilgrimage will be the end,
And flowers will shine in this now barren plot
And fame upon it through the years descend:
But many a heart upon each simple cross
Will hang the grief, the memory of its loss.
by John William Streets (killed and missing in action on 1 July 1916 aged 31)
Lest we forget.
We will stop them from building houses, we will stop them from building roads, we will stop them from building anything on the land.
Maori will come from the four winds to protect this land as this affects them from all over the land.
Maori are "seething, there's anger all over the place".
Central government will have to do something about this situation.
the legend about the fish of Maui was a largely European-inspired idea, because Maori could only have known that the shape of the North Island resembled a fish after having seen maps produced by early European explorers
Rare is the person who does not know about global warming and its terrifying potential.
- Former Government minister Taito Phillip Field corruptly received benefits from constituents in exchange for immigration help.
- the former Immigration Minister was acquitted on 20 fraud charges relating to alleged illegal money-shuffling schemes operating when he was an immigration consultant
It’s like somebody’s died here – it’s like a wake. Some of these people have put their life and soul into building this city.
And I just don’t think people realise what’s at stake. Local government effects their everyday life more than central government.
It’s like looking at a car where the engine and all the wheels have been removed and the passengers are still arguing over who’s going to sit in the front seat.
Mr Tamihere says he might be able to lend a hand to Mr Harvey once he’s out of a job in 18 months
"We’ve got an employment agency here at the trust and we might be able to do his CV."
"I’m having too much fun sitting on the sidelines watching these other plonkers."
South Island, the larger of the pair, is also known locally as "the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in the wilderness.
It's getting increasingly lonely out here in the rural sector. Almost daily we can read about more money for Auckland, more motorways for the cities, more money for city broadband users but, correspondingly, no money or recognition for farming.It gets worse with our key to the future, the Fast Forward Fund being wound up, no doubt to pay for Auckland motorways or Wellington broadband.
Dairying alone earns $10.4 billion and, according to the MAF website, meat, dairy, wool, horticulture and forestry earn $23.5 billion and that's in hard, audited dollars, not "contribution to the economy". For all that tourism gets a government subsidy, farming gets nothing.
Of further interest is that with last year classified as a recession year agricultural production actually increased from $21.7 billion to $23.5, not an insignificant feat albeit unheralded and unrecognised.
Research and development tax cuts get wiped as an "unaffordable luxury"
Lots of soothing words from the government about saving "iconic" companies
Someone should tell the clowns in Wellington that people will eat long before they travel or buy new dishwashers.
Producers who thought they had bought the promising Spanish white wine variety albarino and poured marketing dollars into carving a niche for that variety, have been bottling the almost unheard of French variety savagnin blanc, not to be confused with sauvignon blanc.
A visiting French expert raised questions last year, and DNA testing has confirmed winemakers' worst nightmare. The material CSIRO sourced from Spain is savagnin.
Material had been imported in 1989 when there was no DNA typing available.
A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.'
The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.'
And then the fight started.....
It should have been consulted over two West Auckland contracts because of its local "rangatira" role.
It awarded the contracts on merit to agencies that best showed they could meet local needs.
It does not consult unsuccessful tenderers before awarding contracts.
Busted Blonde has probably just heard one side of the story and doesn't understand the full picture as well as WOBH.
All he has to do is watch me destroy him and take notes at how I did it.Just in case you are wondering what my thoughts are, this post isn't about those, it is about anyone outside of Auckland shutting the eff up.
Just so we are in no doubt about what I am about it is Auckland Solutions from Aucklanders, the rest of you can all just STFU!
"Queenstown is the best place on earth"
I think it's time for Andrew Williams to decide what's best for Auckland and indeed for local representation, understand that following the Royal Commission, decisions have been made.
was particularly critical of the sale of 1kg Easter eggs, which have 60 teaspoons of fat and 146 teaspoons of sugar
Our products can be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet and balanced lifestyle, and we recommend all food should be consumed in appropriate amounts related to an individual's ability to balance their intake of calories with their output.
Christian customs connected with Easter eggs are to some extent adaptations of ancient pagan practices related to spring rites. The egg has long been a symbol of 'fertility', 'rebirth' and 'the beginning'. In Egyptian mythology, the phoenix burns its nest to be reborn later from the egg that is left; Hindu scriptures relate that the world developed from an egg.With the rise of Christianity in Western Europe, the church adapted many pagan customs and the egg, as a symbol of new life, came to represent the Resurrection. Some Christians regarded the egg as a symbol for the stone being rolled from the sepulchre."
So that's all right then. Because the egg has been part of the Christian culture of Easter since the early days of the church, for many centuries in fact, but it also may be an adaptation of other traditions, it's fine to cash in on the tradition while destroying the special significance of Easter being celebrated at the specified time of year.
Mr Key said he understood it wasn't possible to offer a title to someone who held a position in the UN.
Internet traffic dropped sharply in Sweden last week after a new law cracking down on online copyright violation went into force.
Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau welcomed the plunge in internet traffic as a sign that file-swappers are reducing their activity for fear of getting caught. "There's no other explanation for it,"
The British Skin Foundation, warned that the new bulbs will cause problems for people with light-sensitive skin.
Fluorescent lights seem to have some sort of ionising characteristic, where they affect the air around them. Certain forms of eczema, for example, flare up anywhere near fluorescent lights.
All prisoners are searched on their arrival to prison.
Searching is business as usual for custodial staff, but its always nice to get a result and know that you're making a difference.
behaviour that verges on "coercive" and "potentially alienating"
As was widely expected, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ahead of the London G20 summit.Excellent.
In the PM’s native Scotland, First Minister Alex Salmond has declared a national holiday to mark the occasion in celebration of Caledonia's favourite son.
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