Posts by Kyle Matthews
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And you'd like Matthew Littlewood, but he's only in Timaru on much the same conditions Russell was.
Russell did PD in Timaru?
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Ben Elton's Chart Throb is a reasonably entertaining look at the Idol phenomena.
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Tend to agree, but if the players didn't know what was going on (a big assumption I know), then it keeps them playing for the rest of the season, and therefore more marketable at the end of the season.
It would be complex, but if the players are found to not be at fault, Melbourne could be allowed to lease them out for the remainder of the season. Or the NRL could be allowed to keep the money from the auction if they don't want the Storm to have it. They could even raise the salary cap for the other teams temporarily to ensure that the bidding has meaning.
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I do have to wonder at the sort of people who choose to be in those shows in the first place, particularly one like 'wife swap', where it's all set up to make you look like the moronic opposite of your moronic swap.
There can't be this many people in the world who think that being on TV and made a fool of is an accomplishment in itself can there?
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I suspect that worked very well for Christianity until the tail end of the middle ages, when some troublemakers started insisting the Bible be printed in the common language and not Latin.
And then a few hundred years later mass literacy took a hold and all heck broke loose.
We should point out that mass literacy hasn't exactly killed Christianity. Indeed, there's plenty of evidence that the attractions of literacy helped Christianity attract mass converts in some places (New Zealand is an example).
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even a boat
Does your office flood?
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The fire sale wil be at the end of the season, and other clubs will be offloading their breaches then too.
They've been allowed to honour this year's contracts.
This makes sense, as long as it's found that the players haven't done any wrong. Melbourne has the money, so it's not a financial issue (except their fans and sponsors will be spewing, so long term financially it will be an issue). And they're not allowed to accumulate any more points this season, so the fact that they're overspending the cap doesn't create a problem. They're going to come last no matter how much money they spend.
I presume it was done because of equity to the competition. Melbourne have already played some teams with their illegal cap. If they had to cast aside two or three star players now, then teams that have already played Melbourne are disadvantaged relative to teams who have yet to play them.
There's no true halfway in the competition. While you play each team twice (at home and away), both games might happen in the second half or first half, so there's no future point where they could say 'fit under the cap from this date on by selling players'.
The other argument to that is that their season has no meaning at all from now on. So the players are unlikely to be giving 100% to win all their games, so teams that play them from now on may be advantaged over teams that haven't played them yet.
I'm surprised that they didn't strip them out of this year's competition entirely. All games involving them are zeroed out and removed from the record, all future games are now byes for the other team, no points. That would seem the only fair way to do it.
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And I see their lead conspirator in the fraudulent behaviour is now head of the Melbourne Rebels Super 15 expansion team, surely he cannot carry on in that role.
He's been suspended and they're making a public announcement this afternoon. Expect him not to be seeing out his contract.
Why aren't the players being punished at all, i.e. Billy Slater may be a good player but he took the money, and inglis and smith. why aren't they stood down from international duty. they took dirty money
I think the further investigations will look into whether any of them were complicit. The story I read (letters stored at the CEO's house promising other money on top of the the official contracts that were submitted to the NRL), certainly indicates that they should have been suspicious at least.
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And yes our private sector RS&T investment is low. But our Government funded RS&T is still less than half that of the OECD average! So yeah sure it's fine for the government to say the private sector should step up. But it doesn't abrogate the governments failure to support science in New Zealand.
You could kill both those birds with one stone through a R&D tax credit. Both govt and the private sector would be contributing.
Oh wait...
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This is the kind of logic that led FRST to where it is today, they stopped assessing quality of science (mostly) and tried instead to pick projects that would succeed in increasing NZs wealth. Which is laudable. But it hasn't worked.
I didn't say anything about wealth, I said 'likely to work'.
That is, the assessment that determines who gets money in the NZ research environment is pretty harsh, and proposals have to meet a high standard of 'looking likely to lead to something significant', because the funding is limited.
It's the nature of a limited pool, if proposals are at all ranked in terms of quality, then you have to be pretty high quality to get funded.
Most of the academics I have anything to do with get Marsdens, and much of their research has zero possible financial implications, they still have to be able to prove that they're likely to turn out something good at the other end.
Marsden doesn't fund "blue-sky" research, that is a misconception. Marsden simply says the only criteria we will use to select is the quality of the science. Marsden make (almost) no judgement of where that science might lead. So applied science if it was very high quality could get Marsden funding as well.
I didn't say "only funds blue sky", I said it funds blue sky research. A fair chunk of its money does indeed not go to blue sky research, but if that's your research field, it's the only large fund in NZ to go for for many researchers.