Posts by George Darroch
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George, I'd like to be the first to welcome you to librarianship (me) or high school teaching (my husband).
Since it's the fairly recent history of our neighbour Indonesia, I'm posing for the employers as an expert in other fields which are marginally more employable.
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Thanks Emma for re-posting this article.
Ever since the Listener put up that pay-wall it's been a painful wait (since you can't simply pop down to New World and buy it in Canberra).
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PHIL 120 is a gateway drug.
HIST 110 for me
They are totally the gateway drugs. I did Phil 102 and Hist 101, and now I'm just about to complete a Masters in Unemployability (History).
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Result - 100 metres final
1 Usain Bolt (Jam) 9.58secs (WR)
2 Tyson Gay (USA) 9.71
3 Asafa Powell (JAM) 9.84
4 Daniel Bailey (ANT) 9.93
5 Richard Thompson (TRI) 9.93
6 Dwain Chambers (Gbr) 10.00
7 Marc Burns (Tri) 10.00
8 Darvis Patton (USA) 10.34.What I think is amazing, truly amazing, about the Bolt 9.58, is that Tyson Gay ran 9.71s. That time would have been the world record, any time in history before 16th August 2008. That says a huge amount about how fast that was.
As others have noted, this was also the fastest field in history, one where you had to post a square 10 seconds not to finish last.
I also have every confidence that Bolt is clean. You would think he simply has too much to lose, and now that the IOC and IAAF hold blood samples for later testing as new techniques are developed.
He had only better watch out what chicken nuggets he eats. You never know what drugs they're putting in their feed.
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I'm bumping this, because... this is just insane.
If the rest of the world does 40%, we'll do 20%. And we won't actually do 20%, we'll just buy credits to pollute.
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Woah. Now Dalziel's doing thread crossovers. In awe.
Second that.
i'm sure it'll all be food for thought and I'll get my just deserts if I'm tart with Hart, when down with Brown in town...
yrs indulgently
We are so lucky to be indulged.
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Meanwhile, radical feminism pretends male subs don't exist, and teaches that all subs are women conditioned by society to think they enjoy being dominated by men, sexually and in all other areas of their lives.
This hasn't been my experience. I know a few doms and subs who consider themselves radical feminists. I think the dynamics of power that exist in BDSM practices are interesting, but how/if they relate to life outside the bedroom is in no way straightforward.
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At that rate, it takes two years just to pay a day's wages to the person who signed you up.
I've worked in the past as a street fundraiser for Greenpeace, for about a year part time, and know that their business model worked on the basis that it took on average 8 months worth of membership for them to recoup membership cost (signing up more than 1 person per day). The mechanics are such that the average is several times that, and with a good percentage of members staying in it for the long term (5-20 years), it isn't a significant drag. They very strongly discouraged signing up anyone who wouldn't stay on.
I donate to organisations who can demonstrate transparently where the money is going. They tend to be either rather small and therefore running on the smell of an oily rag, or rather large and with streamlined bureaucracies.
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I really don't know how or if I would have survived without the alt ed I got. I was in 'real' schooling for a few years, and was glad to have escaped.
It hardly had any funding from the Government even then, and ran on the determination of those who wanted it to survive - and also on their ability to circumvent ERO's need to push education into little boxes. The current Government's obsessive focus on narrow definitions of education puts at risk such spaces which allow children to grow.
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Predictably, the Government has based its case on this report - which simply didn't model what the Government claims it has.
You also have to love this line:
The target range of 10-20% reduction from 1990 levels is comparable to Australia’s taking into account conditionality, different base years, our lower GDP, and our higher costs of abatement
There's some pretty specious reasoning in there.
The Wellington Chamber of Commerce describes the Government as having "shown strong leadership and been bold". I take it that they're not too concerned about business in Rongotai and Petone.