Posts by Gareth Ward
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I think calling an entire audience up and dancing to a 70 YEAR OLD MAN for at least one song a "ruined night" is a tad misplaced.
Point taken however. Perhaps you should simply buy the DVD of concerts though?
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But the circle is not for dancing EVER.
James Brown refused to continue playing until everyone on the upper floor of the St James was up and dancing.
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as if she were singing an old Atlantic soul tune
Ooooohhh, want.
Tyrant or crusader against corrupt democracry?
Apparently there are murmurings from exiled former military leaders that Mr Bananarama doesn't enjoy quite 100% support within the barracks. However the natural and rather bloody end to that sort of intra-army clash is not one that Fiji deserves
We've runout of teenagers to sell iPods to.
It's the duty of every creative black-collar to henceforth breed a captive market.
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I think that last year, with Tony on the verge of becoming the major New Zealand television presence, God said: "No, no, Tony. Not yet. There is something that has to be paid for. You have to pay for it and it's up to you to find your way back." I think Tony Veitch will find his way back.
- Paul HolmesI... what... but...
Speechless. That's just all kinds of awfulness.
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Having simply refused to read or view any recent MSM piece on Mr Veitch beyond basic details of the sentence (it just feels too much like enablement of an awful, awful scene) this has been an interesting read - it allows for a certain academic detachment of the media spin aspect of the case.
And thankgod at least one news outlet has, for a single occasion at least, decided on a better course of action.
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The more I watch Susan Boyle the more I get the nagging feeling it was staged...
Yes, very true. I think everyone bar the judges had already had a "taste" to get her on the stage (I doubt anyone that wants to can just rock up and sing/yell/swear without a producer-filter). The views that this woman somehow wouldn't be able to sing because she looked, well, pretty average really seems overly managed to replicate Potts as well.
Re Powershop, Russell perhaps you should suggest to your Pioneer partner Mr Farrar that he should disclose his involvement in promotional activity before writing a glowing, seemingly-independent blog post. Just for his own credibility.
Powershop are also doing this - presumedly that may preclude involvement in your promotion but pretty damn worthwhile. -
About this whole private/public school thing - I went to both sorts.
As did I, although in a slightly different order - I was public right through to my last year when I became a "guinea pig" for the first year of a new private school. And as good as my public school was, this private school was a grade above and perfect for me - it operated on completely different hours and approaches to the public system that operated well as a "bridge" to university.
Interestingly though, both my wife (who was privately educated for high school) and myself are quite against sending our kids to a full-length private education, independent of cost. -
I presume there are studies that attempt to level external factors and determine the best-fit indicator of educational success? My google-fu ain't good enough to find them though.
It seems to me that high-decile schools are the ones that show up in Highest Score, Biggest Scholarship type reporting - this could be due to a better environment, greater access to learning outside of the school, or a more richly funded school from private donation (quasi-private) that outweighs the "deficit" from being higher decile.
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Whether that leads to excellence in teaching and learning, that is an entirely different kettle of fish. All I can say from a personal point of view is that we are enormously happy with the low decile school that our children attend and it's not as if we couldn't have opted for a much higer decile just up the road instead.
Well that's bloody good news and a sign things are working pretty well.
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LESS difficult =(