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  AlwaysOntTop/FancyZones
Posted by: Excalibur - 17-04-2024, 12:21 PM - Forum: PressF1 - Replies (2)

Continuous notifications about something I don't know much about. There is "Don't show again" option but I'd like to understand what it's over. Should I be concerned?
Please advise. thanks.

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  David Seymour defends calling Jacinda Ardern 'authoritarian"
Posted by: Lilith7 - 16-04-2024, 06:28 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - No Replies

Even for David Seymour this is well out of order & just shows how little he understands about small children & parenting.
As well as the former PM.

Quote:The government has announced changes to the early childhood education sector, which it says will make it easier for new centres to be set up.

ACT leader David Seymour has announced the moves at a Wellington ECE centre, where he read to children while sitting next to a book featuring Jacinda Ardern, before telling reporters the former prime minister was an authoritarian.
He has also signalled plans to introduce mandatory child abuse reporting, while noting the government has not yet made a firm decision on that fraught debate.
The changes will revoke legislative changes allowing the government to decide where early learning services should be, and requirements for ECE centres to have a highly-trained teacher in charge before being allowed to open.

The government is also cancelling a change that would have taken effect in August, requiring any ECE centre to have a more highly qualified teacher to be in charge to be permitted to open.
It would have meant at least one teacher with a Full Practising Certificate (category one or two) would need to be on site. Seymour said the current setting - requiring any registered teacher - would now remain.

"Theoretically you would have to close while that one person went to the bathroom, if that one person you might have was sick you would have to pay a very expensive reliever in order to open.


Ahead of his announcement at a centre in Wellington, Seymour read Oi Frog! to the children there. Another book,Taking the Lead: How Jacinda Ardern wowed the world had been placed prominently alongside him.

Seymour would "absolutely" have read the Jacinda Ardern book to the children, but said "Oi Frog! was a lot more entertaining and ironically Oi Frog! seemed to be a warning to children about authoritarian people that tell you what to do all the time.
"Maybe that's why they have the Jacinda book - for a similar purpose - who knows?"
He defended his characterisation of Ardern as authoritarian.
"I think the way that she used power through the Covid era was excessive, it didn't properly balance New Zealanders rights and their welfare and in some cases it actually was found to be illegal."
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, speaking to reporters in Singapore as part of his trip to Southeast Asia, said he did not agree with Seymour's characterisation.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...LMH8o0RTss

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  Stuff to do Newshub
Posted by: Lilith7 - 16-04-2024, 03:54 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (8)

Might prove interesting. A 6pm bulletin one hour long & 1/2 an hour on weekends. To start July 6th, the day after the final broadcast from Three with the loss of 300jobs.



https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news...4SF6EVRIA/

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  The lost boys of Dilworth
Posted by: Lilith7 - 15-04-2024, 03:35 PM - Forum: Movies & TV - Replies (9)

Screened last night on One. Those poor little boys were abused in a place which was supposed to be helping them get an education - & their poor parents, who thought they were doing the best possible thing for their sons, which turned out to be the exact opposite.
At least 175 boys have been identified as having suffered abuse but the actual figure is believed to be much higher.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/35023906...-dark-past

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  Brian Tamaki's grandson in law vandalised rainbow crossing
Posted by: Lilith7 - 15-04-2024, 11:36 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - No Replies

The McBishops grandson in law, Ford O'Connor, has pleaded guilty to vandalising the rainbow crossing on Karangehape rd.


 No doubt the McBishop will stump up with the fleecings from his faithful flock to pay the fine... Rolleyes


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5142...pay-16-000


"The pedestrian crossing was covered in white paint more than two weeks ago, just days after the rainbow crossing in Gisborne was vandalised.
Ford O'Connor, 31, appeared at the Auckland District Court Monday morning and entered a guilty plea.
Destiny church leader Brian Tamaki addressed the media outside earlier, saying O'Connor was married to his granddaughter and was a member of the church.
Community magistrate Jan Holmes said she gave credit to the accused for the early plea and his willingness to pay the approximate $16,000 for cleaning the crossing.

No further penalties were imposed and O'Connor was discharged with conviction.
Prior to the man's arrest, police had said they were treating the vandalism as a hate crime.

Hate crimes, while recorded by police, are not stand alone offences but are seen as a motivating factor.

Police's working definition of a 'hate crime' is as any offence that is perceived, by the victim or by any other person, to be motivate by hostility or prejudice based on a person's characteristic.
This can be race, religion, sexual orientation, gender/transgender identity, disability, or age.
Last week Auckland Pride called for a restorative justice approach to the offending, focusing on repairing relationships between victims, offenders, and the community while at the same time keeping considerations of justice in mind."

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  Sydney mall attack
Posted by: Lilith7 - 14-04-2024, 03:31 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - No Replies

The man responsible was being treated for mental health problems. Six people including a young mum, are dead & 8  including a 9 month old baby, are being treated for injuries. A senior police officer was first on scene & when the suspect lunged at her, she shot him dead.
Which probably saved more lives.


https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-australia-68805458

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  Outdated Drivers
Posted by: Pato - 14-04-2024, 10:54 AM - Forum: PressF1 - Replies (2)

CCleaner tells me  "You have 11 outdated drivers" is it safe to ask them to "Resolve" the problem?.

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  Feijoas
Posted by: nzoomed - 14-04-2024, 10:54 AM - Forum: General Discussion - Replies (5)

Its that time of year again, i took a cutting off the tree that my parents neighbours had coming over the fence.
That thing was prolific but getting way too big so they cut all the branches away and still got plenty of fruit falling on their side.
My cutting is now about 5 years old and is growing fast, have picked two full bags of the things this week alone and its only a small bush.
Biggest downside with these trees is the amount of pruning they require so they dont get out of hand!

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  Most powerful solar panel in history
Posted by: nzoomed - 14-04-2024, 08:59 AM - Forum: Environment - Replies (7)

Get a bit tired of these headlines,  but at least it's something different to the hundreds of stories about pervoskite panels.

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/most-powerf...panel/788/

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  Israel situation escalating
Posted by: harm_less - 13-04-2024, 10:45 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (26)

It sounds like Israel is presently receiving some retribution from Hezbollah and has retaliated against the source of the missiles in Lebanon. Iran has threatened action against Israel following the attack on its consulate in Damascas last week so escalation of military action is that area is hardly unexpected.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/...ity-attack

Oil prices have topped USD90/barrel as would be expected with unrest in the Middle East and gold prices are surging as markets clamour for economic safe haven. The world is restless.

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