Nicola wants Luxon's job, too. Nicola Willis wants a puppy. https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/350282594/nicola-willis-power-sacrifice-and-her-mischievous-streak
There, all fixed now. / Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws State, which just had its hottest year since 1895, will ban offshore wind power, boost natural gas and reduce gas pipeline rules [...] Climate change will be...
Huxley was right!
The attempted assassination of Slovakian PM Fico… curiouser and curiouser.. Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs Wow. Looks like Slovak PM Robert Fico's reported assailant, writer Juraj Cintula, was associated with pro-Russian paramilitary group Slovenskí Branci ...
A little perspective on the threat H5N1 poses. @kakape With #H5N1 #birdflu spreading amongst dairy cows, one of the most important things to think about right now is what would need to happen for this virus to actually start a pandemic. I'm on a train, so ...
I linked to a study dated 4 years after your newspaper link that found "Overall, we found that assessment practice across the schools/kura was ‘good’. " An evaluation that did not seek to compare the outcomes achieved by PSKH with outcomes achieved by ...
your premise was flawed, My premise is that that charter schools used their own separate assessment and monitoring to scam NCEA results. And that they'll do it again. your source was out of date. Best you link to a more recent source showing charter ...
that no one voted for That whole party vote thing is a bit of a mystery, eh. /
You are satisfied that 20% of students are failing? Citing you.
And the solution is to revisit the failed charter school scam complete with it's own separate assessment and monitoring so it can't be directly compared to the state school system that is supposedly failing 20 per cent of students. Genius!
Paywalled but the lede tells you all you need to know about these arseholes. / @marcdaalder New: Diplomats representing New Zealand at negotiations for a Pandemic Treaty have been told by the Government to focus on making sure New Zealand can opt out of ...
It'll work, this time... / The reported results were inflated because the charter schools, also known as partnership schools, were using a different method from state schools to report NCEA pass rates. The report showed Vanguard Military School on ...
Pretty sure Curran was sacked for misleading the house, not undiaried meetings.
Polling isn’t done to inform. / @michaelharriot In 2020, Trump won 8% of the Black vote The weighted sample contains 391 Black voters. 13% of all respondents were between 18-29. If weighted the same as the total group, in this poll, the difference between ...
Of course Luxo will have words. / “Sadly, these things are never a juicy conspiracy,” Shane Jones says of his office neglecting to include a dinner with mining interests in his ministerial diary. “They’re largely a cock-up – not a particularly polite ...
Someone's done something to them. May 14, 2024 By Reuters An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a...
If Hamas etc stopped attacking Israel, what would happen to Palestinians? Rinse and repeat of events since Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. What was Hamas' strategy in attacking Israel in October 2023? My reckons from last year. Hamas and it's patrons took...
An elitist greasy little ideological turd. / @LewSOS Party put into govt by 9% of voters announces special treatment for 2% of schools Govt picking winners, and establishing preferential regulatory and funding regime to make sure they appear to be winners ...
Going to a integrated Catholic school I was for the first time treated like a human.. The start of my wretched experience at a Catholic school was as a new entrant sitting on the steps trying to tie my shoe laces and an impatient nun grabbed me by the arm...
Ms Irma is a dissembling POS. @publicaddress So ... Brooke van Velden was kept fully appraised of a young DJ being helped by DIA to take up a great opportunity and was "stoked" about it. Then when it became news she was "asking questions" and it was "not ...
Luxo' hitting the brakes on government consultants and contractor “gravy train” / https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/05/public-service-job-cuts-ministry-of-education-prepares-to-use-consultants.html
Poots has found his Albert Speer. Who is Andrei Belousov, Putin's choice as defence minister? [...] MOSCOW, May 12 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a surprise new defence minister, nominating civilian Andrei Belousov, a former ...
And those records could have absolutely nothing to do with the safety of the child. Really, wtf is the state supposed to do because a child is present when police were investigating a dishonesty incident or a notification is made about a family member? ...
In almost every case the family was well known to OT. Cite?
All Minister Chhour needs to do is turn up and provide evidence to support changes to 7AA. Should be a doddle...
lol - first up, best dressed @FitzmauriceLuke More 7AA news: the Bill repealing section 7AA has been introduced to the House today. Tribunal snuck in just in time by getting their report out on Friday, as they no longer have jurisdiction now that the Bill ...
Good. Dr Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown @FitzmauriceLuke BREAKING: Court of Appeal overturns high court decision that the waitangi tribunal erred in issuing a summons to the minister for children. Says the tribunal has an important constitutional role, as well as ...
Freedom's for white people. // Libertarian Party NH @LPNH Happy birthday to John Wilkes Booth https://twitter.com/LPNH/status/1788882018303975472
High ceilings have always been a display of wealth.
Women only so best I check.
I really don't get why we have so many damn windows. Glazing on north-facing walls can be reasonably large. Where there is good solar access and exposed concrete floors to provide thermal mass, north-facing windows should be approximately 10-15% of total ...
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