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Thursday, August 24, 2006
South Auckland Tyndale Park Christian School have been asking parents of the pupils for permission to administer corporal punishment. The parents are informed that corporal punishment is illegal in New Zealand schools but it quotes the Bible “we ought to serve God rather than men”. Strapping children has been illegal since 1989.
“When this law was changed. . . exceptions were not given based on whether a school believed it was serving ‘God rather than men’. The Education Ministry should investigate allegations that trustees and staff at an Auckland school have sought permission from parents to strap children. It appears to me the school is deliberately breaking the law,” Green Party Member (MP), Sue Bradford, said.
Today the New Zealand Herald reported that they had obtained documents that outline the school’s “corporal correction” policy. The policy states that the strap must be given on the hand after consultation with another staff member and while that staff member is present. The child will then either be spoken to, prayed with or both.
Bradford said: “A full investigation was needed to ascertain whether any students at the school had been assaulted.”
Tyndale Park Christian School is a private Christian school that caters for students ranging from Year 1 to Year 13. The costs range from NZ$708-$1070 per term.
Jan Brinkham, school manager, said: “Our enrollment policy is between the parents who enroll children here and ourselves. We are not a state school; we are not bound by a particular enrollment policy,” but declined to talk or comment to the New Zealand Herald about the schools corporal punishment. “This is between the parents that enrol their children at our school and that is where the buck stops. It’s got nothing to do with anyone else except our parents,” he added.
The Education Review Office (ERO) and the Ministry of Education said that they were unaware of the policy and that private schools are not legally obliged to produce documents to government bodies.
ERO last year said in a report: “The school manager should ensure that parents are clearly informed that the school administers no corporal punishment.”
Charlene Scotti, ERO area manger of review services said: “Some schools had policies to call parents in for cases where corporal punishment was required, but were careful not to include staff in punishing students.”
Bruce Adin, Ministry of Education northern regional manager, said: “The legality of the Tyndale Park document was unclear, but if school staff strapped a student it would be illegal.”
“Corporal punishment in schools was made illegal years ago because it was considered to be brutal and unnecessary,” Bradford said.
By Marci Lall
Okay so its been about 6 months of you doing all this exercise stuff, its working and with great success youve lost a lot of pounds. However, one problem still remains, you are 5 -10 pounds away from your goal and NOTHING seems to make it go away.
A lot of women face this situation throughout their process of losing weight and getting fit. They work hard and continue to exercises on a regular basis. But during the final stages of attaining their ultimate goal they find they cant lose any more weight. There are 6 aspects to consider when faced with this challenge.
1. Be patient
One of the hardest parts of losing weight is being patient. In todays society if we want something we are so accustomed to getting it now. We think heres my money now wheres my product/food. We tend to have the instant gratification mindset and want our needs to be fulfilled now. Weight loss and getting fit is an extraordinary way to break this habit. You must work and put in the time and effort in order to see results. Plan out your workouts and take your time, it might take a little longer but at least it will be gone for good. A little short term pain for a long term gain!
2. Dont bore your body to death
Imagine if you had a life where what you did everyday was the same thing. Thats some scary stuff huh? Imagine how boring and dull it would be after 3 days of doing the same thing over and over again. Its a sad thought but most women who try to lose weight tend to stick with the same exercise routines for months! Our bodies are amazing, you see if we give it something to do over and over again it adapts. So, if you do the same exercises, in the same order, and at the same time your body will eventually adapt and not grow/lose weight. In order for you to have a successful weight loss you need to shake it like a salt shaker and give your routine a total makeover. You should change up your routine every 2 weeks. This timeframe gives your body some time to grow but not to adapt. It also allows your body to experience continual weight loss since you will never give your body the opportunity to adapt.
3. Being positively powerful
It happens to all of uswhen we are faced with a difficult task we almost always think negative. This is especially true when women seem they cant lose those last annoying pounds. They spend a good amount of energy thinking as well as verbalizing that they Cant or that It will never happen. Instead of building a list of negativity, try to reinforce your goals with positive affirmations. It can be a simple line such as (your name), you can do this! Youre so close to your goal dont give up now!. Add a little positive reinforcement to your fitness process and it will give your spirit a confidence booster that may eventually help you lose those last pounds for good.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is scheduled to take place this week.
Tseng runs a firm called eTranslate, which helps software developers to make the software available to the users. In the candidate’s questionnaire, Tseng said eTranslate had led to him working with all three tiers of the government. He previously belonged to the Australian Liberal Party, but has left since then, to run for mayorship as an independent candidate.
Tseng is of Chinese descent, having moved to Australia with his parents from Vietnam. Graduated in Brisbane, Tseng received his PhD in Melbourne and has been living in the city, he told Wikinews. Tseng also formed Chinese Precinct Chamber of Commerce, an organisation responsible for many “community bond building initiatives”, the Lord Mayor candidate told Wikinews.
Tseng discussed his plans for leading Melbourne, recovering from COVID-19, and “Democracy 2.0” to ensure concerns of minorities in the city were also heard. Tseng also focused on the importance of the multi-culture aspect and talked about making Melbourne the capital of the aboriginals. Tseng also explained why he thinks Melbourne is poised to be a world city by 2030.
Tseng’s deputy Lord Mayor candidate Gricol Yang is a Commercial Banker and works for ANZ Banking Group.
Currently, Sally Capp is the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, the Victorian capital. Capp was elected as an interim Lord Mayor in mid-2018 after the former Lord Mayor Robert Doyle resigned from his position after sexual assault allegations. Doyle served as the Lord Mayor of Melbourne for almost a decade since 2008.
Monday, May 9, 2005
Workers at Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana have completed a successful test-run of a chemical reactor designed to dispose of Cold War stockpiles of VX nerve agent.
After encountering initial difficulties when the temperature in the reactor grew too high, workers were able to adjust the speed of the device. 180 gallons of VX and water were turned into a caustic but far less lethal compound, that can be further reprocessed into an inert substance.
A residue of 14 parts VX per billion remained; the Army’s eventual goal is less than 20 parts. One drop of VX can kill a grown man.
The conversion of the VX stockpiled at the facility is projected to take two years. Then the drain cleaner-like waste product with its small residue of VX will need to be sent to another facility for reprocessing into a safer, biodegradable compound.
A controversial plan has Dupont doing the reprocessing at their facility in New Jersey, and dumping the compound into the nearby Delaware River.
Friday, September 2, 2005
A man from North London is currently training for an attempt at flying a hang glider across the UK from land’s End to John O’Groats.
Shola Ogunlokun a 41 year old married father of 3 who had never flown a hangglider before taking up this challenge said yesterday “I aim to fulfill a dream offlying, use the challenge as an opportunity to meet the people of Britain andencourage people of similar ethnic backgrounds as me to pursue their dreams”.
Shola is on stage 2 of a 3 stage training programme, and has flown a glider offa 2000ft mountain on completion of stage 1 of his training. He is currentlylooking for sponsors and in talks with a TV production about making adocumentary of his attempt.
The flight attempt is currently planned for around Autumn next year, should takebetween 5-7 days, and Shola would like to spend the night of each flight at thehome of a local in the town he lands. If successful, Shola will be the firstperson to have flown a hang glider across the UK over this distance.
Shola has an online diary charting his progress at http://mbchallenge.blogspot.comFor further details, or to contact Shola, please visit his website:http://www.meet-britain.org.uk
Submitted by: Edgar Roger
Raising chickens on its own is good for the environment. And yet did you realize that the chicken coops can be safe towards the habitat, as well? Utilizing a green chicken coop means you are being cautious towards the climate and you are also helping make this country a much better place. You see, instead of employing synthetic supplies, you are able to go earth-friendly and utilize strategies that will help cut back on trash. Here, we’re going to tell you the numerous ways that you’ll be able to take care of chickens and go eco friendly as well. This makes certain you will get utmost profit out of growing chickens while not having to get it done at the price of the harmony of nature.
The very first way of performing it is through recycling. If you ever will browse around your own home, you will find numerous things or scrap items you may use to make a good chicken house. What this means is you do not have to purchase brand new sheets of plywood or steel, and maybe even wire mesh, to build your hen house. A complete green chicken coop indicates reduction of waste materials and one of the procedures we can do it is to reuse unwanted plastic materials, wood, metal, and many other things.
A different way of going green, for those who haven’t got the raw materials to reuse, is to make use of wood that came from lumber facilities that happens to be legitimate. You should never support unlawful logging as this kills our own jungles. We should only acquire wood from loggers who are authorized by the government and consequently from loggers who actually get lumber from wood plantations that happen to be environmentally friendly.
From then on, we will need to assure that the other components employed in creating a green chicken coop are certainly not bad for the community which includes fresh paint, adhesive, as well as other harsh chemicals. When acquiring car paint, be certain it is CFC-free. If we are not confident around the kind of items we make use of, we have been basically assisting producers of dangerous toxins that are a factor in hurting Nature herself.
If you’re adding chicken coop nesting boxes in the chicken coop, you have to assure you make use of hay or perhaps pure straw rather than fabricated parts such as polyurethane foam. Straw along with hay are usually normally created and these are generally organically grown products. This means that they will likely decay and will help maintain the atmosphere by acting as fertilizing elements, helping to make the top soil healthier.
In so far as the birds are associated, you need to make sure that they eat organic lawn and ordinary meals. Abstain from shopping for synthetic foods and also commercially produced pellets. A good green chicken coop indicates that the hens can easily peck on the soil and take in earthworms, their natural food. This may also make certain that you have natural eggs and healthy chickens that will offer you a healthy food source.
These are merely a few techniques of developing a good solid green chicken coop. First thing you need to always consider when making your chicken house is if ever the resources you make use of and if the course of action you abide by are environment-safe. By way of example, you can utilize CFL lamps as an alternative to the normal yellow types. A real CFL light bulb helps save a lot more power than a yellow one however provides equal illuminating conditions and even capabilities. Being enviromentally friendly entails acquiring cheap hen houses of which this means big savings for yourself. Being able to satisfy all these factors in protecting the environment definitely provides you with a powerful guilt-free feeling, becoming one of many unsung good guys for saving the harmony of nature.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Over 1,600 volunteers registered to help build approximately 65,000 of the 500,000 sandbags to create dikes 20.5 feet (6.2 meters) high to protect the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba in the war against the Red River of the North flood.
700 volunteers answered at the rural municipality of St. Andrews alone. Once sandbags are filled for West St. Paul, St. Andrews, and Selkirk, then frozen culverts must be cleared.
The height of the river is expected to be Thursday, and predictions are that it will be less than Flood of the Century of 1997. There is no precipitation in the forecast, and snow in the province should be melted by the end of the week.
“The fear right now is we have to get that ice out of the river. The Amphibex [Excavators] are still working and breaking the ice apart, and everyday we buy with the warm weather and the current, it is thinning the ice down a bit, so when it does start to move, the better chance it’ll move right out into the lake,” said Paul Guyder, the emergency coordinator for the RMs of St. Andrews and St. Clements.
“I feel that we’ve done everything humanly possible to get ready,” said Gary Doer, Premier of Manitoba, “But … there are fallibilities with human behaviour. We can take every preventative measure as human beings possible and we can still get Mother Nature proving again she is superior.”
Communities with ring diking will partially or fully close their dikes at the beginning of the week. Provincial officials are considering opening the Red River Floodway gates around mid-week before ice is fully melted.
Ice jams could cause flooding within the city, however opening the gates could spare neighbourhood flooding when the river rises to the estimated 6.3 meters (20.7 feet) height. The province does have back up plans for dealing with ice jams within the city if they do occur. The unpredictability of ice jams and the ensuing water level rise may cause neighbourhood flooding. The city is raising dikes where the river has jammed with ice in the past such as on tight curves and past bridges. Likewise there are excavators and backhoes positioned at these points.
Vulnerable neighbourhoods on the river banks have been reinforced with sandbag dikes at vulnerable areas from the massive volunteer effort over the weekend. Guyader feels no more extra volunteers are needed, however volunteers are still being asked to leave their names and number in case of unpredicted need. Existing personnel will assess roads, and help with clean up.
Approximately 400 of the 800 people who evacuated the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation have returned to their homes.
Former Premier, Dufferin Roblin, brought forward the floodway as a protection for Winnipeg residents and economy following the 1950 Red River Flood. The Red River floodway, “Duff’s Ditch” was finally finished in 1968, and its floodway gates have been opened 20 times saving Winnipeg from an estimated CA$10 billion in damages. The floodway expansion began in 2005 at a price of $665 million.
Polish and Chinese experts have come to survey the Red River Floodway, and Dennis Walaker, mayor of Fargo, North Dakota recognises the need for Red River flood defences down river. “Every town that you drive by from the Canadian line up to Winnipeg is either elevated or ring-diked,” said Walaker.
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Friday, January 6, 2006
The new CBS Corporation began trading on the New York Stock Exchange once again on January 3 after officially finishing its split with Viacom two days earlier. The split had been in the works since around March 2005 when Viacom announced it was breaking into two publicly traded companies due to stock price stagnation.
In June 2005, Viacom’s board approved the split and saying the CBS Corporation name would be revived for one of those companies. One of these units would receive most of Viacom’s broadcasting and mass-media portion of subsidiaries (CBS, UPN, Infinity Broadcasting, now CBS Radio) along with Viacom Outdoor (now CBS Outdoor), Showtime Networks, and Paramount’s television studio and a few other operations and announced long-time excutive Leslie Moonves would head that new company.
The split is filled with twists and turns. Viacom was founded in 1971 as CBS’ television syndication division and was spun off in 1973. Westinghouse Electric Corporation bought CBS and changed its name to CBS Corporation. In a ironic twist, Viacom accquired their parent company in 1999 and CBS’ stock symbol was de-listed as it became a division of Viacom. Ironically, the new CBS Corporation is actually the original Viacom. A new Viacom was founded and spun off containing MTV Networks (which contains CMT and Spike TV, two cable networks originally owned by CBS) along with BET, Paramount’s film studio and home entertainment divisions, online virtual pet game Neopets, and a music publisher. It also partially owns Sega of America along with the Sonic the Hedgehog trademarks and is currently in the process of acquiring DreamWorks.
CBS unveiled its logo, the iconic CBS eye, and launched the corporation’s official wesbite, cbscorporation.com