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Taranaki beneficiaries are keeping themselves clean as they try to put their best foot forward to get a job.
According to Work and Income's latest figures, there have been no pre-employment drug test failures in Taranaki.
In July last year, the Government announced a series of reforms to get more people off welfare and into work.
One of the changes included the requirement of beneficiaries to pass a drug test if an employer or training provider asks for one as part of the job application process.
"The aim is that people change their behaviour so that they can meet their obligations," Work and Income spokeswoman Liz Jones said. "This is about getting people into work,"
The number of drug tests conducted was not available.
About 40 per cent of the jobs listed with Work and Income require applicants to pass a drug test.
If a Work and Income client fails a pre-employment drug test their benefit can either be reduced or stopped for up to 13 weeks.
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Taranaki beneficiary advocate Alex Ballantyne said he was not aware of any cases in the province where people were having issues accessing or keeping benefits because of the new drug testing requirement. "It hasn't been an issue here thank goodness."
Drug Free Aotearoa counsellor Darren Hulton said drug testing in workplaces was already common place.
Mr Hulton said targeting beneficiaries was not the best way to tackle New Zealand's drug problem and more needed to be done at a societal level.
"Drug and associated problems continue to spike regardless of the efforts to date," he said.
At the end of December, 15,365 people across Work and Income's Taranaki service centre were on a benefit, 655 less than at the end of 2012. The centre covers a large part of the central North Island.
Whanganui has the highest welfare numbers with 5338 people, followed by New Plymouth on 3578. The number of people on benefits in Hawera was 1471, while Stratford has 830 and Waitara 1034. Other areas included in the service centre figures are Marton, Taihape, Taumarunui and Te Kuiti.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said more than 17,000 New Zealanders came off welfare in the past 12 months. Currently 321,869 people still receive a benefit of some kind in New Zealand. "This is a significant decrease and proof that the welfare reforms implemented by this Government are making a huge difference for New Zealanders."
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David Chang, Chefs Sick Of Vegetarian Requests. Momofuku Them!
Written by Vegetarian Star on June 9th, 2010 in Business, Chefs, Food & Drink, Restaurants.
David Chang, chef and owner of Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York, as well as other chefs, may be getting tired of your requests for vegetarian dishes to be made separately from meat ones.
In an article in the New York Post, chefs who are fed up with catering to customers' demands are discussed, as well as their reactions, which include ignoring the requests, even at the expense of losing a customer.
It's rumored that Chang got so tired of vegetarians complaining of the lack of options, he permanently changed the menu to reflect more meat than before.
Anthony Bourdain, who's normally tickled pink by vegetarians too, by the way, gave the dish.
"I don't know if it's true," says Bourdain. "But there's a story that when customers started annoying [David Chang] by complaining about the lack of vegetarian options at [Momofuku] Noodle Bar, he changed the menu and put, like, pork in every dish."
The Post says Chang did not deny the story, and at another one of his restaurants, Momofuku Ssam Bar, there are notes that read, "No substitutions or special requests" and "We do not serve vegetarian-friendly items."
As The Post writes, "Well, Momofuku too, pal!"
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An Auckland property developer believes shipping container apartments are the answer to supplying worker accommodation for the rebuild.
The modular units are designed to house one person with bed, table, kitchen and bathroom, and can be stacked to form an apartment block up to three storeys high.
Developer David Gaze calls the units "MiPods" and said they were the perfect way to supply affordable temporary housing with the 10-year lifespan specified by the Christchurch City Council, while producing a tidy pay-off for investors.
"A lot of people have been looking at [temporary accommodation], but the economics of doing it haven't been fantastic."
A multi-level conventional housing development would be uneconomical because of high demolition costs, while the cost of land meant a sprawling single-storey village would also not be viable, he said.
With his MiPod concept, each unit would be built and fitted out in China for about $27,000 and be rented out for $250 a week, he said.
That meant an occupied unit would return its investment after just more than two years.
Gaze plans to set up a limited liability partnership to build and operate the villages, his company Gaze Commercial will put up $500,000 itself.
The investment would be open to investors worth more than $2 million putting up at least $250,000.
He needed $10 million in private investment, bolstered by a $4m bank loan, for the 200-unit village and expected a return of about 11 per cent each year.
The company would return 7 per cent to investors before the 2.5 per cent management fee was taken, to be fair to investors, he said.
The village would be set up with communal areas, as well as laundry facilities from which the business has budgeted to make roughly $12,000 each year. It will steer clear of liquor licences.
Any higher than three levels and the building would need sprinkler systems, lifts and other requirements, he said.
He had scouted several possible sites around the city, but was yet to secure the 4000-square-metre block needed.
Given the Government has forecast up to 30,000 extra workers will flood the city during the rebuild, housing 200 of them was quite a conservative proposition, he said. "We've had inquiries from construction companies and individuals and the hospitality market."
Once the village was dismantled, the units could be sold, rather than leaving waste rubble like regular buildings, he said.
He could have 200 units imported within four months, which was the limit allowed on one site, but the fund would look at setting up more around the city as demand allowed, he said.
It was possible the rebuild could still be cranking in 2022, with a chance of getting the resource consent renewed, although that was unknown, he said.
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One is a larger, double unit.
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BV: Is there one thing people who know you from 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' will be surprised to see watching you this season on 'Celebrity Apprentice'?
NL: One thing you will see, and you did see a little bit of this on 'The Real Housewives' this season is my business side. I know from being on the 'Housewives' show, people think, "Oh, she's [about] the drama," they will get to see I am not as crazy as they think I am. I like to say, "I'm crazy like a fox."
BV: Some of the blogs were saying that one of the 'Celebrity Apprentice' contestants, Star Jones, put a restraining order out against you. Is that true?
NL: Not that I know of. I don't have a restraining order. I think that when you get a restraining order they let you know that you have one, don't they? I don't know if that's how it works, but if there is a restraining order out on me, I don't know it.
BV: Who do you think was your strongest competition?
NL: I don't know who my strongest competition was, but Star was definitely a challenge. Lil' Jon. Everybody on the show is very smart, and I would say they all are a challenge in their own way.
BV: Were you worried about how soon you might be voted off?
NL: When I first got there I said, "As long as I'm not the first one fired, I'll be okay." I just didn't want to be first. Other than that, I'm okay. I didn't go in with any strategies. I just went in as myself. You guys have no idea what I have gone through when I was doing this show. I was going through something very personal in my life and I think that I am a very strong woman from doing this show. This is a tough show to do. We filmed this show in 30 days. We worked our asses off six days a week. We get one day off, on Sundays, and the hours are long as hell. You wake up at 4 a.m. and you're back in the bed at midnight.
BV: It seems like that would be really tough for you.
NL: Yes. But, I want to get back to what you said earlier. I heard something that was very interesting. I didn't hear that there was a restraining order, but I heard that the police was called. I was just wondering when and where. I want to make this very clear. While I was on that show, the police was never called that I know of... a lick was never passed between any contestant, like pushing or shoving or touching them in any way. They are trying to hype up a few things, but there are a few things that I just won't accept. If the police were ever called, they called the police well after I left the show. Maybe that was made up after the fact, but if there was a restraining order, that is a big fat lie. I won't stand for something like that. Someone trying to make my character something that it is not. I think that would be really f**ked up of them to do something like that.
BV: Are you speaking of the network or the contestants?
NL: I am speaking of them both - the network and the contestants. I never saw a reason for the police to be called. If there was somebody pretending to file a police report for a restraining order, they have made that s**t up. Right now, you know that me and Star had a big argument, but there was never any physical touching on the show. I got up in her face and she deserved every bit of it.
BV: Kim Zolciak mentioned this in the reunion of 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta'; you have been an advocate against domestic abuse yet there was a situation where you were alleged to have choked Kim and now there's this 'Celebrity Apprentice' debacle. How do you feel about people perceiving you as a violent person?
NL: Because I am a spokesperson for women against domestic abuse, that's the only little thing that they have. People say, "Well, if she's a woman against domestic abuse, then why is she getting up in your face?" I'm not abusing you, I'm getting up in your face and I can do that as long as I don't touch you. You need to understand what abuse is. When I touch you, I am abusing you. I never choked Kim. Kim likes to say that because people like to feed into that. If I choked you, sweetheart, you would have a police report on my ass right now. You would have me in court. I think if anyone abuses you, they would be taking your ass to court and not sitting up on some TV show saying, "She choked me." Well, you should do something about it, honey. Not sit up and drink wine with me, baby, and then afterwards say you were choked, honey. That goes for Star Jones too.
BV: You have a lot to say about Star Jones. Why have you two butted heads so much?
NL: When I first walked in, there were people intimidated that I walked in. Star tried to sabotage my very first day on set. She sabotaged me getting hair and makeup. They were Star's regular hair and makeup people, and Star told them not to do my hair and makeup. I had to go to one of the producers on the show and the producers had to drive me to a hair salon and get a makeup person to the shoot. But, still a few days later I tried to be friends with Star. We went out to drink and eat almost every single night. We double dated and my husband flew up; we went out with her boyfriend, Herb. I am very loyal. Star and I had a pact that we were going to be loyal to each other until it came down to she and I. Star showed her true colors to me long before. She is backstabbing. You know her reputation because it's out there. My reputation is I'm loud and I get in your face and I tell you like it is. And, I'm telling you like it is, she is not a loyal person.
BV: Getting back to what you were going through while filming. Are you and Gregg still getting a divorce?
NL: I filed for divorce. I have been very public about that. During the time of 'Housewives' Gregg was living downstairs and I was living upstairs, but we no longer live together. I stay in the house and he moved out and got a place of his own. We are legally separated. We are trying to see if we can do some counseling or something, and if we can't work it out from there, we will finalize the divorce. I couldn't control my marriage falling apart, and it put me in a very low point in my life. It really hurts me and made me become someone I never thought I could become. You need people around you who love and care about you when you're going through a divorce and being on the 'Housewives' show, they didn't love and care about me. They could care less. All they wanted to do was gossip. Being on 'Celebrity Apprentice,' they could care less about my marriage failing.
BV: Having had that type of experience on 'Housewives' this season, would you consider going back for a fourth season?
NL: This season, I just wasn't happy. It was destroying me. Now, will I come back for a fourth season? This is what I can tell you. Obviously, I'm in a contract, yes, but contracts can be broken just like anything else. Today, I do not feel like being a part of the fourth season, and it's not to say that I won't be a part of it. That's not to say next month I won't feel like being a part of it. Right now, I just don't feel like it. If I can talk to the producers and we come up with a way to change the editing format. I have all sides to me. I have good sides and bad sides.
BV: Have you talked to Andy Cohen or Bravo executives about your issues with this season?
NL: No. I don't express it to them. I express it to my lawyer. That's the proper protocol. I don't want to go around my attorney. Andy and I are friends, and I try to separate business and our friendship, so I don't want to talk to him about business. It's a funny thing. I don't want to mess our friendship up.
BV: What are your issues with the editing this past season and what bothered you the most?
NL: The trip to Miami. I thought there was a lot of fussing and arguing between all of us. I feel like they focused on me a lot. I understand why they focused on me. I probably have the loudest voice, and I am probably more entertaining than some of the other girls. I want to tell the full story and they have to tell the story as best they can in one hour.
BV: Did you see that Sweetie, Kim Zolciak's assistant, thinks that you are trying to ruin her?
NL: Ummm, Sweetie is delusional, and this is why I can tell you that. I said on the show that Kim was treating her like a slave. One of the DJs in Atlanta, Rickey Smiley, a comedian, heard me say that on the show and he made a joke called 'Free Sweetie' and it went all over and people ran with it. But, I'm not ruining her life. She needs to call the comedians because after I said it that day, but I haven't thought about it anymore.
BV: This season, we also saw you go under the knife and have a lot of cosmetic surgery. Did you always want to do this?
NL: I had my boobs done before I did the show. I got smaller implants and I always wanted to have my nose done for years. It was something that somewhat bothered me, and I wanted to have it done. I didn't feel pressure from the show. I always felt beautiful, but wanted to take it to a whole new level. I really like the work I've had done.
BV: Would you consider doing a spinoff 'Housewives' show like 'Bethany's Getting Married'?
NL: I would consider it, but it's very hard. You get used to having the rest of your cast-mates, but when it's just you, you have to be entertaining. So I would consider it, but I would definitely have to think about it.
BV: What do you think about critics being hard on the way you all represent black women in Atlanta?
NL: I can't represent all the black women in the world. I can only represent for Nene Leakes. That's all I can say. When I wake up in the morning, I don't think about you or Wylissa or Shawn or who I need to represent for. I have to represent for the Leakes family, and that is the end of that.
BV: You're still pursuing a career as an actress, but how would you do it differently from Sheree Whitfield?
NL: I love acting. I think I am more entertaining than Sheree. I'm not saying that she is not talented, I'm just saying that I believe that I am and I believe that I am more entertaining.
BV: Were you really an intern at 11 Alive?
NL: You can call it whatever you want to call it - interning or whatever. If that's what they call it, then that's what it is. They educated me on a lot of things at 11 Alive. I don't know if that's called interning. If it is, then it's fine with me. Whatever it is at the end of the day, instead of focusing on whether I was an intern or not, they should focus on the fact that I'm trying to get money and be an independent woman and take care of my family. That's where the focus needs to be not whether I am an intern or not because that's bulls**t.
BV: What kind of talk show would you have if you had your own show?
NL: I would love to do a cross between 'Chelsea Lately' and maybe 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I love to talk and maybe gossip. I don't know. I love 'Chelsea Lately''s show. I love the format with how they are talking and then they move over to the couch and do the interviews.
BV: If you could clear the air and let your fans know who the real Nene Leakes is, what would you tell them?
NL: I would want them to know I'm a real person just like they are. I have highs and lows just like they do. I am a very loyal person and I'm very genuine. What you see is what you get. I'm very spiritual at the end of the day, and for my friends, who are true friends to me, I am a true friend to them. I am a very good judge of character and I do have a lot of dignity and respect for myself. If I have to sum it up in one sentence: I am a real person.
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I love u Nene, girl just keep doing you! I wish you the best in all endeavors
I will reiterate what I said when the story about Nene and Star first surfaced. Star is the aggressor. Yes Nene has a big mouth but, I saw the first Apprentice last night and I can already tell that Star is going to be all that she can be, a biooooootch. Star thinks that the sun rise and set around her.
I AGREE 100% to your NeNe Leakes comment. You GO Retha! Praise the LORD, I couldn't have said it better; and most of all, the Producers of any show that would have NeNe Leakes on it have no dignity or respect for mankind. She is very ABUSIVE and INDECENT and she needs HELP! Obviously, she is hurting; because hurting people hurt others.
Retha, that was a dumbass thing to say. First of all Nene has a real job. Doing a TV reality show is very difficult because you have to allow people into you personal lives and film you at you best and at your worst. People who are not familiar with that will think that these people are dumb. But they are earning a living and trying new things and finding new ways to market themselves. That in itself is work(a real job). Nene is very entertaining and that is why people continue to watch including yourself. I think you're the jealous one because no one asked you to do a reality show and you possibly don't have a "REAL JOB" or you don't like your "REAL JOB". In any event, I appreciate all the people who have been able to do a TV reality show and not lose their sanity totally because it can be a very invasive process. So never judge a man(or woman) til you have walked in their shoes. And grow up with the hateful comments. We should be encouraging one another towards success and not trying to tear them down because our life may be bitter. I applaud Nene and all of the other housewives from all the cities(I watch them all). You guys have a very hard job trying to be entertaining to the public while you may have personal things going on in your life that are devastating. Keep on keeping on and don't pay Retha no mind. I think she is the JEALOUS ONE.......
I love my black sisters and im glad to see them on tv, but some of these reality stars are setting a bad example for young women. especially for their daughters and sons also.
so many Black woman don't act pretty.... have no class and are always loud. they're too ignorant to realize how that looks on them as woman no tv, and how it makes them look in public.... with the i don't give a f attitude.
a woman is suppose to pretty all around with common sense and class. i see it all the time, they look ugly and sound ugly and far from attractive. (i didn't say all blk woman) but it really seems like it though.
they wonder why they have no man or husbands.
I am wondering if I got paid enough could I be as ignorant? WOW...she is really blind! Did she call Star a backstabber who tried to sabotage her? Please, she could learn a few lessons about being a lady from Star, including putting some dayum clothes on!
My advice to Greg...take NeNe back to the stripper pole that he got her from and leave her there. I bet he is thinking, 'Dayum, I should've left her on the pole' RUN GREG RUN....and take your kids with you, she has already ruined her oldest son.
Also, I didn't know domestic violence was only physical?? So as long as a man "gets all up in yo face" but doesn't touch you, it's ok? WOW...really? Well, I guess her son will be back in jail in no time flat.
She seems quite happy, as well she should be...ignorance is bliss.
You are so right! I can't believe someone that's a spokesman for domestic violence could be so clueless. You don't have to physically strike someone for it to be abuse. Has she not heard of emotional abuse? NeNe is not only abusive, but a BULLY. She thinks nothing of crowding someone's space, towering over them, while loud talking and pointing her finger in their face. The fact that NeNe sees nothing wrong with her actions is unfortunate. She probably contributes her antics to being a strong black women. She doesn't realize intelligent women don't act the way she does only hood rats and NeNe Leakes is a well dressed hood rat. That's why Star Jones bothers her so much because she envies Star's class and education. You can take a stripper off the pole and put her in designer garb, but the stripper mentality remains and that's what NeNe can't shake she just calls it "being real". She's also the type of woman/mother whose son's girlfriend could call and say Bryson was in my face yelling, pointing, and hit the wall close to my head and NeNe would defend him because he didn't actually HIT her. NeNe needs to leave TV and get into a shrinks office. What more proof does she need that her life is out of control? Her marriage is over and her oldest son is a bum that's knocked up some poor girl. GET HELP NENE ... you need it!


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While the Ubuntu 13.10 release is only one month away, a Mir Display Server feature not arriving until yesterday was support for DPMS. Display Power Management Signaling is the VESA standard for GPUs and monitors to communicate about display power savings, like putting the monitor to sleep after it's been idling for a certain period of time.
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The road that curls around Sri Lanka's south-west coast traces vacant beach after vacant beach, where the teal waves of the Indian Ocean heave on to the sand. Some stretches are sheltered from the road by gangly palm trees, others by intermittent scars of the devastating 2004 tsunami.
The coast has also suffered from effects of the fitful and prolonged civil war in the north of the island – even this far south of the conflict, tourists were notably absent (although numbers are starting to increase). But even in some of the darkest days there was a tangible sense of peace here, due in part to the space and seclusion, but also because of the warm welcome visitors receive.
On one of the blissfully deserted beaches is Aditya, part of Sri Lanka's burgeoning boutique-hotel scene. Halfway between the sleepy Dutch colonial city of Galle and the surf-party town of Hikkaduwa, the hotel is tucked off the coastal road on Rathgama beach – a long, broad stretch of coarse amber sand that tapers into a mist of sea spray at either end.
Aditya was built in 2006 on the site of a derelict dispensary and is partly influenced by the celebrated Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and his Tropical Modernism aesthetic: horizontal roof-lines and a blurring of the division between inside and out. Trees and palm fronds sprout from courtyards within the capacious lobby, which is open to a coconut tree-planted garden and pool area, with the beach just beyond. The prevailing white walls are broken up by polished concrete, avocado green-painted panels, cobalt blue sofas, cerise cushions and stone carvings of Hindu deities.
Next to the lobby is a double-height dining room, where traditional brightly painted marionettes are suspended in one corner (the nearby town of Ambalangoda is the centre of this national craft). Here, the all-day menu means you can take breakfast at lunchtime, dinner at sunset or take it at face value and graze all day. The food was some of the best I'd sampled on the island, starting with home-baked breads, eggs any how, hoppers (crispy rice flour, bowl-shaped pancakes) with curry, tropical fruits and fresh juices for breakfast. Once that was digested, there was the innocuous-sounding rice and curry – a procession of spiced chicken, prawn, beetroot and dall dishes; rice; breads and sambal – to coriander-encrusted mahi-mahi fish with tropical fruit salsa.
After testing the menu to its limits, there are beaches to wander, a spa to indulge in, waves to board or views to drink in. The pace here is unhurried and Aditya, with its simple luxuries, makes the ideal base from which to enjoy it.
The hotel is a good three-and-a-half-hour drive south from the capital, Colombo. Surf-central Hikkaduwa, brimming with restaurants and beach bars, is around five minutes' drive to the north, while the lovely Dutch fort at Galle is 15 minutes to the south. Otherwise the area is quiet – I saw just a few families wandering the beach. The waves can be strong but Aditya has a lifeguard keeping a look-out should you venture in. Bodyboards are free to borrow from the hotel.
The 12 suites are named after the adityas, a group of Hindu solar deities. The rooms continue the inside-out theme: the choice upper-level "Sagara" suites open on to large balconies with sweeping coastal views, while my ground-floor Shanthi suite had a small garden patio with tropical plants, woven chairs and local wildlife (a large rat snake fell inelegantly out of a tree one evening; thankfully it skulked off without any prompting).
The bathrooms are open in part to the elements, and come with a monsoon shower and a huge stone Jacuzzi. These are more decorative than practical, since they take around an hour to fill and the water is unheated.
Each room has its own charm – perhaps a carved wooden Indonesian headboard, an antique painted Indian cupboard or lights that create a planetarium effect on the ceiling at night. Antiquity is juxtaposed with contemporary luxuries: polished concrete or wooden floors, big comfy beds splashed with bright silk throws and elegant rattan sofas and armchairs. There is also, of course, a supply of Ceylon tea that comes with a selection of sweet treats.
Aditya Resort, 719/1 Galle Road, Devenigoda, Rathgama, Galle, Sri Lanka (00 94 91 226 7708; aditya-resort.com).
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