Posts by Sam F
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(For the purposes of this analogy, Julia is played by RNZ Concert.)
I think you'll find that's pronounced Yulia on our new-look Concert FM Service. Don't forget to tune in after 5 for your chance to win a zippy new Barina courtesy of Team Capital Holden!
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ACT New Zealand: the money and the bag since 1994.
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That's often the case, but I'd imagine that some schools have motivations about being private which are largely for other reasons - method of teaching, religious community etc etc. Sure, some of them will make a potload of money, but some will be scraping by like every public school.
Back in 2008 I wrote a guest post at Paul Litterick's blog on the topic of private schools and the dilemma of state integration. The post seems in retrospect a bit snarky, but it seemed that these schools were mostly trying to stay open and teach in the way they thought best rather than rake in the dollars at all costs (even if Carey College's idea of quality education seems a bit screwy...).
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*chuckle* The kind of post Friday afternoons are made for. Cheers Steve.
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We've got not much more than a year, true. But the Sohole is on dry ground which won't need reinforcing (and nobody will be able to drown there, at least not once the rain water is pumped out); it's in the middle of what is already a party district; it's not too far at all from Kingsland, Eden Park, or the city... what kind of interesting, partly landscaped space could you build from a big hole in the middle of Ponsonby?
Or have I been huffing too much of what Rodney's on?
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ACT: keeping hardworking businessmen in solvent since 1994.
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It's so great that this thread keeps coming back. Thanks to SamF for this latest revival.
Ta muchly - for me it's sort of gone from holiday reading to reading as a mental holiday, in the midst of much grimness in the news. Although oddly I did get a fair bit of apocalyptic reading done over a recent beach break (PD James' The Children of Men in its Black Death-esque eeriness, and Marcel Theroux's Far North, which I can't recommend highly enough).
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If that doesn't pan out, Sam, it is held by about eight other New Zealand libraries, including North Shore, so you could probably interloan it.
Ha - I'd forgotten you could do interloans at public libraries for some reason (although I did a heap for my thesis via the UoA Library). Will see how I go.
Thanks for the tip, recordari; Trademe is blocked here (fair enough too!) but will look when I get home.
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and the 'guests' they bring for the weekday pm Panel are just too much The Usual Suspects ie people who already have ample access to the public discourse, or are just too predictable.
Don't forget weekday mornings with "Left vs. Right".
I'd almost forgotten the magic of hearing Matthew Hooton deliver the Good News on Tax last Monday. Apparently the proles should be taxed harder via GST, because it's the only way they'll learn not to torpedo our balance of trade via JB Hi-Fi ("15 percent? Why not 20 percent and even lower income tax?"). But naturally a tax cut for the rich will allow these noble folk only to invest in productive businesses to make our country great, rather than in those new powerboats and beach houses they seem to like?
I hasten to say the chap from the left was not much better; altogether a depressing few minutes of radio...
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Thanks! That'd be wonderful. Have just sent you an email.