Fourteen sheep were found bound and crammed into a car stopped by police in the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere early today
after he had been to Winz, the mother returned home that night to find him lying on the couch, unresponsive
What NZ needs is a disciplined, positive, strong Right Party with an real activist base in the streets and towns throughout NZ. A party that doesn't tolerate leftism, wowserism, socialism, unionism, libertarianism, or all the other stupid manifestations of the left. A party that puts responsibility before rights, duty before freedom, discipline before self-expression, commerce before charity, work before recreation, punishment before parole, police before criminals, safety before terrorism.
Bethune has rehearsed a "humble" speech in Japanese for his trial starting in the Tokyo District Court today
These are unique spacecraft, and they truly are one-of-a-kind
need to manage the university carefully through a challenging financial period while also investing in resources to focus on the university's strategic initiative
underfunding by successive governments is limiting student numbers and creating challenging financial times for the tertiary sector
Sen. Arlen Specter became the fourth Democrat in seven months to lose a high-profile race despite the president's active involvement, raising doubts about Obama's ability to help fellow Democrats in this November's elections
A private member's bill to exclude the northern part of Rodney from the Auckland Super City is one step closer with Rodney's mayor saying the Labour Party is throwing its support behind it.
Obviously we would prefer a local MP
... as seen by you ...
... and by your buyer ...
... and by your lender ...
... and by your valuer ...
... and finally, by your council rates assessor.We've gone deliberately back to our electorates. We've got their total support.
I won't vote for it. I'm not going to be there. This is not a Maori Party decision; this is a National Party decision, so I won't be anywhere near the House
We said, `Look, do you want us to not honour the deal we've signed up to?' and they said, `No way. You honour the agreement.
I see absolutely nothing that National is doing which is addressing that fundamental problem. It’s all window-dressing and being awfully careful not to alienate any beneficiaries of state largesse (beneficiaries in the broad sense).
The big ticket items which you would need to hit to address over-taxation and over-spending have all been declared off-limits by John Key so just 18 months into his first term as PM it’s clear that his vision is no more than carefully managing Labour’s legacy so that in, say, 5 years time we will get Labour back into office and they can pick up where they left off.
Whoop-dee-do!!
Landlords likely to be biggest losers
The Budget's changes to the housing market could force rents up...
1. The first working laser was built by Theodore Maiman and "fired" at Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California on 16 May 1960.
2. Einstein set the theoretical foundations for the laser more then 30 years earlier in his 1917 paper, The Quantum Theory of Radiation.
3. Putting it very, very simply, you bounce light energy between mirrors at both ends of a tube. One of them is translucent, allowing a beam to pass through.
4. They have featured in hundreds of films, the most famous being the cutting beam heading for James Bond's crotch in Goldfinger; it has spawned imitations from Austin Powers to The Simpsons' Itchy and Scratchy.
5. No need to fear the dentist; beams can remove rot painlessly. Or you could just floss more.
6. The laser printer familiar to anyone who works in an office was invented in 1969 by Xerox, but wasn't commercially available until 1979. Oh, and it took up a whole room.
7. Four years later, LaserDisc – a sort of oversized DVD – marked the first time lasers were used for recording films or music. It never really caught on.
8. The name stands for: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
9. One in five British people who get tattoos later regret them. Many turn to laser surgery.
10. They gave us "bloodless" surgery: heat from the beam cuts and cauterises at the same time.
11. The first everyday commercial use of lasers was in supermarket barcode scanners in 1974.
12. But they aren't just for boring stuff. Pink Floyd and The Who pioneered laser light shows. Now no self-respecting band goes on tour without them.
13. On the downside, when you get zapped by a speed cameras, it is a laser that clocks you by bouncing off your car.
14. Laser pointers – loved by lecturers the world over – cost hundreds when they first appeared in shops in the 1980s; now you can pick one up for 50p.
15. Unfortunately, that means hooligans can afford them: in 2008, South Korean goalkeeper Lee Woon-Jae was hit in the eye while playing Saudi Arabia in a World Cup qualifier.
16. Who first invented the term "laser" was the subject of a 28-year patent lawsuit between physicist Gordon Gould and Bell Laboratories.
17. The glowing light sabres used in Star Wars were inspired by laser technology. They are "the most popular film weapon of all time", according to a survey by Twentieth Century Fox.
18. Lidar – using lasers to measure far-off objects – is more accurate than radar. Lucky really, because the ash cloud is back again.
19. Powerful as they were, lasers were dismissed by scientists at first as a "solution looking for a problem".
20. Nevertheless, Apollo 11 astronauts used one to measure the distance from the Earth to the Moon, give or take a finger's width.
21. Using lasers you can get sequencing information about DNA from a single molecule.
22. The first laser eye treatment on a human was done in 1987 by American physician Dr Marguerite McDonald, who described it as being "like a Buck Rogers ray gun".
23. The world's first laser-guided bomb, in 1967, went by the catchy name Bolt-117.
24. Laser measuring is accurate to more than a nanometre (that's a billionth of a metre).
25. In 2004, about 733 million diode lasers, used in DVD and CD players were sold, estimated to be worth about $3.2bn.
26. Lasers now feature on just about every DIY tool.
27. They are used to milk cows. No, really. They can scan the underside of a cow to locate the udders for robot milking machines.
28. Alexei Tolstoy's 1926 sci- fi novel The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin features the first literary use of a "laser-like" device.
29. Fashion has been revolutionised by programmed lasers to cut thousands of garments.
30. They take seconds to scan fingerprints so a computer can check against a huge database.
31. The Q-switch Laser hair remover was first put on the market in 1968. It was withdrawn three years amid concern about safety checks.
32. In 1982, the compact disc player came into people's homes and revolutionised music.
33. The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes: as in how many safety razor blades a beam could punch through.
34. Fibre optics for phones, cable TV and internet work via laser-generated pulses of light.
35. The mystery of how sharks swim so fast was solved using curtains of lasers which they swam through.
36. Laser tag – people shooting each with ray guns for fun – was developed as a non-lethal training tool for the US army in the 1970s.
37. A laser beam can be hotter than the surface of the sun.
38. Yet they can be used to cool atoms when combined with a magnetic field.
39. The first toy to use a weak laser beam was marketed in 1979 as the Star Trek "phaser" gun.
40. Lasers are categorised from 1 – 4: level 4 can result in permanent blindness and burning.
41. Scientists are testing the use of beams to draw lightning strikes away from airports and power plants.
42. Jean-Michel Jarre's laser harp was the ONLY cool thing about his massive concert in London's Royal Docks in 1988.
43. Tests on what could be the first fusion power source – using 192 laser beams – will be concluded in California this summer.
44. Laser thermometers can measure the temperature of a surface without touching it.
45. A laser ray gun powerful and light enough for use on a battlefield is being tested by the US army and navy.
46. They can reduce acne scars and subcutaneous fat.
47. They will even keep a cat amused, with flickering beams housed in pet toys.
48. We can manipulate objects as small as atoms using focused laser beams.
49. Early studies suggest that broken bones heal faster with laser therapy.
50. A tiny beam can be powerful enough to etch a serial number on a diamond, the hardest natural substance known to man.
scandal-hardened magazine staffers who saw them ''felt sick''.
It's called Governing and colonising migrant maternity. The abstract is as follows:
The empirical study of migrant maternities offers a unique theoretical vantage point for considering wider issues such as imperialism, nation building and reproduction. Using the white settler context of Aotearoa/New Zealand, I detail an empirical study that explored the discourses used by well child health providers to represent their work with migrant mothers. I argue that migrant maternities are constituted through a repertoire of medical and nursing discourses combined with culturalist and assimilatory discourses that draw on liberal pluralist notions of citizenship. These require the migrant mother to take up normalising or colonising practices that enforce adaptation to dominant cultural norms such as autonomy and independence. These discursive practices or normalising strategies of power are colonising because they involve the re-ordering of space and the surveillance and control of mothers. Health professionals discipline and regulate gendered bodies in racialised ways that reinforce and reproduce colonial power relations and that this has the potential to contribute to health inequalities and ethically and socially unacceptable outcomes. Further development and refinement of cultural safety, an indigenous ethical form of nursing practice is advocated in order to counter dominant beliefs that racism can be ameliorated with moral education and greater cultural knowledge.
Three companies and a director were yesterday ordered to pay more than $120,000 in fines and reparation after a steel gate fell off its hinges, killing a 7-year-old girl
The parents of a toddler who was killed by a falling gate at an Auckland kohanga reo want accountability over their son's death and are considering a civil lawsuit after police decided not to lay charges.
there was "ample evidence" for marae trustees and kohanga management that there were problems with the gates coming off their tracks
Apparently it was all good to go until Sonny Tau backed by Mark Solomon presented a set of demands that derailed the deal.
Tuhoe organized a hui to declare that they had won the day and ownership of UNP would be transferred – a publicity stunt designed to force the issue. Tuhoe were pre-empting a cabinet decision purely for political purposes
Black Power gang members have vowed to hunt down and punish a gang affiliate who attacked a preschooler
"We are not happy with this. We are keeping a watch out for the guy. If he is found we will give him a good clouting."
Mayor Michael Laws, whose town has a "no patches policy", called for gangs to be outlawed. "What we really want is a no-gangs policy. They are evil and require their banning by legislation."Justice Minister Simon Power said there were already provisions in the Crimes Act covering intimidation and assault.
The government has made it clear to negotiators embroiled in discussions over Urewera National Park that its
vesting in local iwi is ''unacceptable''
It comes as National comes under increasing pressure, including from rank and file, over concessions to the Maori Party including its endorsement of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, Tariana Turia's flagship Whanau Ora policy and tobacco taxes.
Brownlee pointed to untapped potential in "very significant" gold "massive" ironsands deposits under NZ's sea - which could be a boon to tribes under customary title proposals in the foreshore and seabed plans
for four months the Dunedin City Council, chamber of commerce, local engineering firms, Hillside Workshops, the rail union and all of Dunedin’s MPs have been working on this issue quietly behind the scenes
Meanwhile, Roxanne, a graphic designer who refused to give her last name, carried a placard featuring John Key with a Hitler-esque moustache and a single word in gothic script: "Mein!"
... Roxanne is studying graphic design at A.U.T.
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