Posts by Yamis
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My 5 year olds reading level is orange. We have 10 weeks before she is supposed to be at green. My wife and I are doubling our evening reading sessions and lifting the intensity.
What's interesting is we got her report last week and the things that she apparently couldn't do in terms of maths I quizzed her on. They were specific like count to 100 in 5's ie, 5, 10, 15, 20 etc and a few other similar sort of basic maths tasks. Of the 4 that she needed to work on according to the report she could do 2 of them straight away when I asked her and we practiced the other couple over about 10 minutes and she could do them by the time we finished (ONE ON ONE TEACHING AYE, SMALLER CLASS SIZES ALL THE WAY!!!).
Obviously from the time a report is written to when it is printed and handed out a kid might learn to do something but are teachers really having to test this much?? I suppose it's roughly informative but they'd almost be better off sending us a worksheet once every month or two saying these are the types of things we are learning about in class, like counting backwards, adding double digit numbers, learning about Africa, painting animal pictures and discussing the theory of relativity and the portrayal of female characters in violent computer games, feel free to discuss them with your child, practice them or whatever...
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Sacha,
In any case, women do not seem to only watch TV shows featuring women any more than Koreans only watch shows featuring people of their culture. The situation is more complex than that.
My Korean wife watches Game of Thrones, House, The Walking Dead, the news, home and garden shows, cooking shows ....
and a whooooooooooooooole lotta shitty Korean TV :)
Personally I don't care if I'm listening to a female expert talking on a topic or a male expert talking on a topic, as long as they are an expert talking on a topic.
This kind of has got me thinking about radio sport which I listen to a lot. 95% of the callers seem to be male. Of them about 50% would talk sense. But given the station regularly runs ads for strip clubs and penis pills I dont see that changing any time soon.
Mind you who gains from strip clubs and penis pills? ;)
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@ Stewart. If they keep the ball IN the ruck longer then the ref blows it up and it's either a turn over or else they get to have the put in to the scrum if the ref deems the ball was trapped in the ruck by the tackle. But for all intents and purposes a team will have to get the ball to the back of the ruck and clear it fairly promptly which is as it should be.
The scrums are a joke though. I reckon they could depower them A BIT. As you point out the 'hit' is the stupid bit that causes all the problems.
They should just make it that you engage in a controlled fashion, get your grips in the right place, head in the right place etc, and cannot push UNTIL the ball goes in. I don't get why teams are trying to smash each other on the hit and work each other over before the ruddy ball has even gone in. It leads to collapsing scrums, and free kicks and penalties all the time. And for what?
Players get penalised for dropping their binds and putting their hand on the ground to prevent going into it head first. So for trying to protect your head and neck you get penalised?!
Scrums should be a way of starting the game. They only need to make sure there is a fair contest for the ball with it put in down the middle and with teams pushing from when this happens. Not before.
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This one won't work though if they are using it for forward passes: 1. A trial to extend the jurisdiction of the TMO to incidents within the field of play that have led to the scoring of a try and foul play in the field of play to take place at an appropriate elite competition in order that a protocol can be developed for the November 2012 Tests.
--- They had it in the NRL years ago but it was so difficult to tell if the ball had floated forward especially on longer passes that the video ref would look for ages and then make a call that half the people watching would disagree with. And to be honest a HUGE number of 'fantastic' tries which featured several passes in a length of the field movement probably have one or two passes that look forward if you slow things down so would they call all them back?
Best to just leave them to the touchies and the ref.
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The first law is really necessary to prevent teams winding the clock down at the end of a game by letting the ball sit at the back of a ruck for 10, 20 seconds, then organise their entire team as though they are about to invade Normandy, before repeating this for 3-4 minutes.
Not sure how rigorously it will be enforced though because the refs have a lot on their mind at ruck time without counting to 5 in their head. Or are the TMO's going to be doing the counting and radioing in their ear telling them 5 seconds is up???
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hockey has a structure akin to cricket in what respect?
To me it seems flat out, barely laying eyes on the ball (puck) chaos vs stop start subtle nuanced stroke play, sprawling out over several hours/days. Even the shortest form takes an hour longer than a game of hockey vs the one day, 3 day, 5 day variety.
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You can't change teams Hadyn, it's against the rules!!!
Anyways, the yankees spend twice as much as any team in the MLB on player salaries and are expected to win the World Series every year so more times than not they will underachieve abd really piss their fans off.
I'm a token Red Sox follower but not into it enough to get upset by a loss or overly happy with a win. There's always the other 160 games to watch them play.... before the playoffs even start.
The school I teach at won the national secondary school softball champs last year and were runners up this year. Google that one. Probably floating around there somewhere.
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He sure was. Typified when that scrum collapsed and he had no idea what to do. The missed knockon was of Wayne Barnes standards, and failing to penalise the Blues for not contesting the scrum leading to the Sharks scrum to fall apart and the Blues scoring under the sticks was rubbish you'd expect from lower grade refs.
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Review of the first 3 days of the festival from someone on the ground who saw the holoshizzle live.
And ATDI!! lucky %%&&%^$!!!
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Dalton's reward for ballsing up Counties was to get the Auckland gig.
Was watching the Warriors Toyota Cup side in the weekend v the Bunnies and they said that Ngataua Hukatai was playing for Kings College last year. He looks a great prospect.
I'd love to see the looks on their faces when they found that out muhahaha.
Joining him are St Kentigern College 1st XV captain Albert Vete, Auckland Grammar centre Braxton Stanley, and Palmerston North Boys' High School centre Ngani Laumape.
Conrad Hurrell was playing for Auckland Grammar 1st XV 2-3 years ago, as was Omar Slaimainkal.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/league/news/article.cfm?c_id=79&objectid=10770697
Good to see that education is one of the main attractions...