Posts by mark taslov
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Richard Aston,
is effectively selling our sovereignty our national soul.
Font Wars.
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: all the fault…, in reply to FletcherB,
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: all the fault…, in reply to FletcherB,
If you have, however, arrived to NZ before 29 November 2010, you would not have been granted a resident visa on arrival. This is because prior to that date Australian citizens were exempt from holding visas or permits for NZ, but were still allowed to remain here indefinitely. If you are in this situation, please note that Immigration NZ now ‘deems’ you to hold a residence class visa, as per policy RA4d.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Lilith __,
begins plausibly and strings you along until that wonderful moment where it becomes too absurd to be borne.
Sounds like civilization.
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Legal Beagle: Dotcom spying: Crown…, in reply to andin,
I’m in awe of those goldentonsils, today weighing in on the Tyson issue stating
Mike Tyson was granted a visa to New Zealand on a “line call” that his rape conviction was 20 years ago…. A “fairly liberal” view was taken if the crime was a long time ago and there had been no further offending"
Tyson’s being sentencing to a year’s imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve two years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident on August 31, 1998 was Further offending, but who’s counting anymore.
Conjecture: the PM may know what a slide rule is for.
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I thought Keith presented a strong case on the show, well done. Transcription query - Roger Shepherd describing Ben Howe as a vital 'cog' or 'clog' 15:12?
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Hard News: Media3: Standards Showdown, in reply to BenWilson,
One of the bands is 6-10 year old
Looking at that test Ben it's very basic vocab recognition exercise and not in anyway a comprehensive indicator, in the test pdf itself the results are perhaps too precise (to the month). Fortunately cursory googling reveals a range of tests. I imagine a financial transaction may be in order for something of quality (more e.g:)
http://www.gl-assessment.co.uk/products/suffolk-reading-scale
http://www.hoddertests.co.uk/tfsearch/reading/AccessReading.htmHaving said that, the international tests we were given back in the eighties seemed more than adequate. and yes:
Unless you weren’t looking
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Hard News: Media3: Standards Showdown, in reply to BenWilson,
My first port of call on the what-to-do front would be professional educators, though. His teacher, probably, who would almost certainly know where he was at, and might also know why, from long observation and experience.
Certainly Ben. I recall being given extensive standardised reading comprehension tests on a number of occasions, results passed on to parents. The means to make similar assessments (reading age etc) are also readily available as they're required by parents who home school.
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Hard News: Media3: Standards Showdown, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
The quickest way to find out how well your child is reading and writing is to have them read something to you or write something. Ask the kid
That is so (too) fucking reasonable Jeremy that it doesn't meet the histrionics quota for significant media/national/blog outrages. You are damned right of course.
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: Questions and Answers, in reply to Sacha,
Right. Any ideas on how much Kim Dotcom might be awarded/ receive from the NZ Government for the ongoing local legal bungling?
"I prefer not to sue the NZ Government," Mr Dotcom said through his official Twitter account. "We love it here & we don't want to burden tax payers."
He added, more ambiguously, "But it's time for diplomacy. This is all wrong."
