Year 8 (final year) students from the Postgate School in Whitby, New Zealand face off against the upcoming year 6-7 classes, Maori style.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
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(Patrick Nulty, Labour TD for Dublin West, centre, with Eamon Gilmore and Joan Burton last year)
Patrick Nulty writes:
“I have taken the decision to resign my membership of the Labour Party. This was difficult because I have been a member of the party for over a decade. However, it was necessary.”
“I no longer believe that membership of the party is any assistance in advancing the political ideas which form the cornerstone of my value system. These ideas are social justice, equality and the creation of full employment with quality work in our society.”
“I still have great regard for the many decent, hardworking Labour members, supporters and public representatives who share my thirst for a better Ireland. However, the leadership of the party and in particular the cabinet ministers who have sacrificed core social democratic demands for their own personal political ambitions, have brought the entire political system into disrepute.”
“Trust in our political system with citizens has been broken. This means there is a need for new ideas and social movements that are accountable to citizens not powerful interests.”
“The most recent example of the Government hitting the most vulnerable hardest is the announcement that children with special education needs will not receive the resource teaching hours they require next September.”
“The Government has imposed savage cuts to housing adaption grants specifically provided to people with disabilities who need alterations to their home. We have personal insolvency guidelines published which seek to micro manage the personal finances of hard pressed families and we have seen cuts to Child Benefit which Labour had sworn to protect.”
“These are not the actions of a party that is acting in the interests of working people and a just economic recovery. That is why I have resigned. I am optimistic about the future of our country and I will continue campaigning for the radical change that is needed.”
Twice now, the stunning Volvo P1800 has been mentioned as someone’s idea of a proper classic. Here’s one I found along the [Grand] canal. It was in pretty good nick. At first glance, I thought it was a VW Karmann Ghia!
The Renault 19 is an uncommon sight on the roads today. This is a post-facelift model from 1995 with a 1.4 engine. The owner has had it since the late 90s if I remember correctly.
I’m unsure of what this car is. It has a Ferrari label on the back and doesn’t look unlike one of their 1970s supercars, though a search done by a friend proved fruitless. This needs a lot of restoration and has been lying in the same spot since at least 2007, and probably a lot longer. What a shame…
Pica and text: Patrick ‘Carspotter’ Cummins
Ceci n’est pas un chat.
(Thanks Eoin Darby)
A victory for the game consumer?
Sido writes:
Was it John Gallen’s post on Broadsheet, that tipped the balance, I wonder? Microsoft rapidly back pedals on game ownership on the new X Box One release. Now all they have to do is sort out the bag of sh*te that is Windows 8.
Xbox One reversal: did Microsoft make the right decision? (Guardian)
Ah here.
An enormous betting agency advertisement showing a wallaby having sex with a lion has been painted in a field near Tullamarine Airport, designed to be visible to passengers on departing and arriving planes.
The 170-metre-by-90-metre image by online bookmaker Sportsbet, features the slogans “Rooting for the wallabies” with the twitter hashtag #rootingforoz and threatens to reignite a debate about industry standards.
The interdenominational Christian organisation Exodus International that sought to cure gay people of their homosexual desires has shut up shop after 37 years.
In an open letter to the LBGT community, founder Alan Chambers has apologised for the pain and hurt inflicted on people over nearly four decades saying that the group had “been imprisoned in a worldview that’s neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical.”
There were several years that I conveniently omitted my ongoing same-sex attractions. I was afraid to share them as readily and easily as I do today. They brought me tremendous shame and I hid them in the hopes they would go away. Looking back, it seems so odd that I thought I could do something to make them stop. Today, however, I accept these feelings as parts of my life that will likely always be there. The days of feeling shame over being human in that way are long over, and I feel free simply accepting myself as my wife and family does. As my friends do. As God does.
I am sorry (Alan Chambers, Exodus International)