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Neelu Vaghela who has gained immense popularity after
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today with the entire cast and crew and what's more she shares her birthday with co-actor Varunn Jain who plays her son in the show.
When we called her, the birthday celebrations were on and we heard the co-stars singing the birthday song in the background for Neelu and Varunn. The duo had just cut their birthday cake on the sets.
Even as her colleagues were feeding her cake, Neelu spoke to TellyBuzz about her birthday plans. A delightful Neelu told us, "I am shooting today and celebrating my birthday with my reel life family. My entire family is here to celebrate my birthday. What else could I ask for? We all are happy and enjoying together."
Talking about a perfect birthday, Neelu said, "A perfect birthday according to me is the one which I am having today. I returned from my shoot around 12 o'clock last night and my kids were ready with the gifts and surprised me with a nice celebration. They also prepared a birthday greeting for me and prepared a picture collage for me."
So, what gifts have you got on your birthday? Neelu told us, "Both of my kids have prepared a pillow from each of their side. My daughter wrote 'I am a princess of my Mumma and Papa' and my son wrote 'I am a prince of my Mumma and Papa' on the pillow. I love my family. My husband (Arvind Kumar) gifted me a greeting card and a mobile phone. I didn't expect all this."
Sharing her childhood birthday memories, she said, "I used to celebrate my birthday with my family. I like to be with my family. I am a very family person so I used to have lots of fun while celebrating my birthday with all in my family around. My friends also join in and we all eat together, dance and enjoy."
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I have just purchased a HTC One X. It is a good smartphone. I would like to know what accessories are available in market for HTC one X. Can anyone tell me if they have purchased any accessories for this smartphone?
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HTC Car StereoClip Audio Bridge CAR A100 is a dongle to stream the music from mobile to other devices. You can connect this dongle to music playing systems with USB support. For example, cars audio player.
HTC Car Mic- Bluetooth Visor Speakerphone CAR V100 is a handsfree device used in car for connecting to mobile using Bluetooth. You can talk and listen to phone calls. It also has function to read the incoming message as well as ability to convert audio into text message for sending. It is also equipped with voice recognition system. HTC BH M500 Bluetooth Mono Headset is a Bluetooth enabled earphones. It doesnt have any wires that create mess. It also has voice recognition system. It is useful for handsfree experience while driving or while performing some other task where using phone is difficult.
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Oklahoma State football notebook: Cowboys dismiss hangover talk
Coming off an emotional overtime loss at Oklahoma, there was some concern about how the Cowboys would play on the road at Baylor.
They didn't play sharp, for sure, falling behind 24-3 and eventually falling 41-34.
But no one was biting on the hangover talk.
"I think the guys were over that," said OSU quarterback Clint Chelf.
Cowboys coach Mike Gundy said the possibility briefly crossed his mind, before he dismissed it.
"I would hate to hang my hat on that," Gundy said. "I thought the same thing in the beginning of the fourth quarter, maybe they couldn't overcome the last game. But I got to thinking and I don't really see it that way.
"I don't really think there was a hangover. If there was, it's my fault, because that's my responsibility. I thought we practiced well. I just don't think that was a factor."
Facing one of the nation's most explosive offenses, OSU's defense found itself shorthanded at two key spots: defensive tackle and cornerback.
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Baylor attacked the middle of the Cowboys defense in the run game, netting 319 yards and three touchdowns, including a 76-yard romp by Lache Seastrunk.
"We missed Castleman," Gundy said.
Cornerback Brodrick Brown didn't start and eventually played, but limped off the field several times, taking himself out of the game with an apparent leg/foot injury.
"He's not healthy," Gundy said. "Probably should have just stayed home. He felt like he wanted to try to go. But he's not healthy."
OSU had climbed within one score at 34-27 in the fourth quarter, scoring a touchdown on a J.W. Walsh run, then needing a defensive stop to set up a chance at an unlikely rally.
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Once past the line, Seastrunk had nothing but open field to cover, which he did, despite seemingly pulling a hamstring in the run.
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"Cant' wait to see it," said Cowboys defensive coordinator Bill Young. "We were blitzing right there. We had two linebackers going to the spot. And they just creased us.
"I think our safety got confused, rolled the wrong way. And we didn't have anybody coming down. It was a bad combination. It was a huge play in the ballgame, too."
Seastrunk, who has bolstered an already potent Baylor offense, finished with 178 yards on 16 carries.
Baylor's improvement under coach Art Briles has featured some landmark wins over Texas and Oklahoma and others.
Before Saturday, Baylor had taken down every current member of the Big 12 in the Briles era with the exception of West Virginia (one meeting)… and Oklahoma State.
Even with Robert Griffin III the past two seasons, the Bears couldn't break through, actually getting routed in both meetings. And their frustration showed.
Saturday ended that.
"It's very big and it's a really good feeling," said Baylor senior safety Mike Hicks. "Our seniors who have been through this program had this win coming to them."
Said Briles: "Really, today was about getting respect. When we are standing on the street corner, we have to find room and we have not done that with OSU."
Following Sunday's bowl announcement, revealing OSU's postseason destination, the team will have several weeks to regroup from a two-game losing streak ending the regular season.
Gundy said he doesn't anticipate any major rebuilding, with the late losses more attributable to an inexperienced roster and a league that features eight teams with at least seven wins.
"I think our guys are fine, I really do," Gundy said. "I just think there's parity in this league. When you play on the road, there's no gimmes in this league for the most part. When that happens, it's a battle week to week. And you're going to see more teams that finish in that six, seven win category and not as many in that 10 and 11 category.
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This is why I cannot understand why some states still have churches under their "victim zones." This would pretty much include my state....
This is a discussion on Gunman critically wounds 7 in TN church: MERGED within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Almost everybody I know that attends church and has a CHL carry in church,some of them actually sit in areas where they have a tactical ...
Almost everybody I know that attends church and has a CHL carry in church,some of them actually sit in areas where they have a tactical advantage to observe anybody coming in and some of them are pistol packing preachers,ever since the church shootings last year it seems like they are becoming a newer target
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
This is why I cannot understand why some states still have churches under their "victim zones." This would pretty much include my state....
Better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
I found a link to a news article that is being updated continuously on the Drudge Report.
Seems this nut used a shotgun and the attack didn't take too long. From the way the news article reads he may have only gotten off 3 or 4 shots.
Here is a link to the story:
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This must be why they don't allow guns in church here in KS.
When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will follow. Semper Fi.
As long as the church isn't posted, guns ARE allowed in Kansas churches. Part of the revisions made with HR2528.
What a scum bag.6:05 pm
The suspect in this morning's shooting has now been identified as Jim D. Adkisson of Knox County. Randy Kenner with the city of Knoxville said Adkisson is held on a million-dollar bond and is charged with first-degree murder.
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A suspect has been arrested and charged with first degree murder, since two people have now died of their injuries. Click, for news story.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
News like this makes me sick & heartbroken. Thoughts & prayers for wounded & grievers.
The Unitarian Universalist Church is a fringe group. While I disagree with them very much, I have to admit that I too belong to what some might consider a fringe religious group. I'm a Messianic Jew and I congregate with two different groups of Sabbath-keeping Protestants. Knowing the disdain for Sabbath-keepers in my beloved South, there's no way I'm going to congregation without my piece. The fact that this group got shot up gives me even more reason.
The preceding post may contain sarcasm; it's just better that way. However, it is still intended with construction and with the Love of my L-rd Y'shua.
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Church shootings are more common amongst certain denominations?
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My prayers to all the victims and families.8:12 pmA second victim in the church shooting has died. Linda Kraeger, 63 years of age, has died from her wounds, according to city of Knoxville spokesman Randy Kenner.
You have to make the shot when fire is smoking, people are screaming, dogs are barking, kids are crying and sirens are coming.
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Ego will kill you. Leave it at home.
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Is there anyone left in America (and elsewhere) who still believes churches are a safe haven?
As we watched this on the news tonight, I reiterated to my wife that is why I carry: It could happen anywhere, anytime. She didn't say a word, which means in her language that I have a point that cannot be disputed or discounted.
My prayers go out to the victims...12 injuries with only 3 or 4 shots from a shotgun? I wonder how many of the injuries were do to the stampede that ensued when people panicked.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Who is John Galt?
Watching the videos and listening to a person who helped subdue the shooter, it sounds like the rounds fired caused a lot of damage, a shotgun is an area weapon as we all know, and can do damage and be fatal to victims on the peripheral of the intended target causing multiple casualties with a minimal amount of rounds being fired. Apparently, as per the interviews, there were some people who fled the church, but there seems to have been quite a bit of calmness and organization by the congregation members during and after the incident. It's sad that everyone cannot worship in peace anymore.I wonder how many of the injuries were do to the stampede that ensued when people panicked.
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California voters favor taxes on wealthy, not boost in sales tax
Taxes yes, taxes no
Key results from the survey by the Public Policy Institute of California:
• 68 percent support Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to temporarily increase taxes on the wealthiest Californians.
• 64 percent oppose his plan to temporarily increase the sales tax.
• 68 percent support his proposed initiative, which calls for increasing both.
• 48 percent support his overall budget proposal.
SACRAMENTO Californians are sending mixed messages to Jerry Brown on his proposed tax initiative.
On one hand, they like a central part of his initiative that would tax the wealthy and send the money to schools. Conversely, voters do not want the sales tax raised for any reason.
Those contrasting results from the latest survey by the Public Policy Institute of California pose a dilemma for Brown and his supporters as they promote a November ballot measure aimed at raising both taxes to help close the state's daunting budget gap.
"The challenge the governor faces with his tax initiative is that one generally popular tax increase — raising personal income taxes on the wealthy — is paired with one generally unpopular one — raising the state sales tax," said Mark Baldassare, PPIC president.
Just as troubling for Brown, Baldassare continued, is the results released Tuesday show that a majority of voters are convinced that government could spend less and still provide the same services.
"Voters are dubious of the need to raise taxes at all," Baldassare said.
Brown has proposed filling the $9.2 billion budget gap through a combination of spending cuts and temporary tax increases. His initiative has two targets: upper-income Californians earning more than $250,000 a year and everyday consumers by adding a half-cent to the state sales tax.
If voters reject tax increases, Brown said he would automatically cut about $4.8 billion in state spending after the election. The brunt of the so-called "trigger" reductions would fall on schools — a practice opposed by a majority of voters.
The PPIC poll of 2,002 Californians also touched on California's attitude toward the governor, Legislature and Congress. It also asked Republicans who they want to see as their presidential nominee.
The survey was conducted just after the governor released his budget in early January.
The results from each question in some cases appear contradictory. For example, 68 percent of likely voters support Brown's tax initiative overall and by the same amount support taxing the wealthiest. But 64 percent oppose adding to the state sales tax — a key element of his initiative.
Some other key findings there:
• 51 percent support Brown's approach Brown's three pronged approach to the budget — tax hikes, spending cuts and the trigger reductions.
• 75 percent oppose the proposed trigger cuts to schools.
• 41 percent prefer closing the deficit mostly through cuts only; 40 percent prefer a mix of taxes and reductions, and 13 percent want to see mostly taxes and no loss in services.
• 62 percent are willing to have taxes raised for K-12 schools. But just 49 percent would pay more for health and human services, 46 percent for higher education and just 12 percent for prisons.
The poll also asked for views on revenue-raising plans that have been aired regularly in California but are not part of the governor's proposals. Two of the three are resisted overwhelmingly.
Just 39 percent favor extending the sales tax to various services, such as car repair labor and accountants. Even fewer, 35 percent, believe all purchases, such as food and medicine, should be taxed. However, 60 percent of likely voters are open to weakening Proposition 13 so that long-held businesses are assessed at current market rates for property tax purposes.


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Second Reading
- Debate resumed from 27 March.
JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki) : Speaking to the second reading of the Trade (Safeguard Measures) Bill, I want to say that this bill repeals the Temporary Safeguard Authorities Act 1987 and implements a new safeguard regime for New Zealand that is consistent with World Trade Organization rules. I think that is particularly important to New Zealand's economy, because, as this Government knows only too well, enhancing and growing New Zealand's international trade links and also opportunities is a pretty much key part of our plan to build a competitive and also productive economy. This bill is part of that. It promotes efficient, transparent, and objective investigative decision-making processes. Now to explain.
Safeguard measures are emergency measures applied at the border, usually in the form of a duty, which is a cost to the importer, to temporarily protect the domestic industry from a surge in imported goods. If you think about what kind of product that might mean, you are talking about a container-load of cheap T-shirts, maybe cheap socks, or some product of that nature. The bill prevents New Zealand from receiving a rapid influx of cheap imports. What it does is allow New Zealand businesses time to bring themselves up to the level of international competitiveness required to stay competitive and afloat in this current economic climate. Again I need to say that it is a temporary measure. New Zealand consumers will continue to have the benefit of free-trade principles, which are so important to New Zealand and underpin New Zealand's trading environment. The bill creates—and this is also significant—a single point of contact for all trade remedy inquiries, which, of course, is a plus for busy businesses, and provides an effective safeguard regime that can help build support for future trade liberalisation among domestic manufacturers who compete with importer trade. I commend the bill to the House.
IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North) : It is a pleasure to rise on behalf of the Labour Party and speak in support of the Trade (Safeguard Measures) Bill. As with many trade bills, this is a bill that has received bipartisan support from across the House. In fact, it was originally introduced by the Hon Lianne Dalziel during the last Labour Government. I think that does require a comment to note that it seems to have taken an awfully long time for this Government to progress the bill, because it was introduced by the previous Government and, 4 years later, here we are at just the second reading.
The purpose of the bill is to replace New Zealand's current safeguards regime with a new regime that is consistent with World Trade Organization rules. The new regime will be a more efficient, transparent, and objective investigative and decision-making process. Safeguards are emergency measures applied at New Zealand's border, usually in the form of a duty, and facilitate adjustment by a domestic industry to competition from increased imports. That is, I suppose, a flowery way of saying it is a response to the practice of dumping large quantities of often low-quality and low-cost goods on a particular market. This is the regime by which New Zealand will be able to defend its borders against such exercises.
The existing Act, the Temporary Safeguard Authorities Act 1987, was subject to review under the Labour-led Government, which included wide public consultation, and the bill is the result of that work. I note that a lot of the work, a lot of the consultation, and a lot of the activities that take time in preparing a bill were carried out by the previous Government, and, again, the question remains, when this is such an important piece of legislation to support the work of small businesses and large businesses across New Zealand, to support our own local economy and to safeguard our own local economy, why on earth it has taken this Government such an astonishingly long time to progress the bill to the point where it is at—that is, its second reading.
The bill not only ensures compliance with World Trade Organization rules, it streamlines the process of responding to allegations of dumped or subsidised goods on the New Zealand market—something that will certainly be welcomed by New Zealand manufacturers and New Zealand producers. It removes the requirement to establish temporary safeguard authorities and it enables the existing expertise of the Ministry of Economic Development to be utilised instead. It is a cost-effective measure too, and we are all supportive of that.
The bill is timely, as it is important that at the time when domestic spending is constrained in New Zealand we have the right tools to protect our businesses from the impacts of globalisation and increased competition, where appropriate. This is, of course, one part of ensuring that the New Zealand economy is able to compete fairly in the world market, and it is great that we are able to put these measures in place to protect and support New Zealand manufacturers and to protect and support New Zealand producers. But what those manufacturers and producers will really be looking for is a real plan, a real economic plan, from this Government—not 120 points of nothingness, not a 14-point this and a 6-point that, and goodness knows what other plans and bullet points will be introduced by this Government as it seeks any opportunity it has to try to convince New Zealand that there is a plan.
We do not need bullet points; we do not need statements. What New Zealand actually needs to make our economy stronger, to ensure that we can compete internationally, to ensure that our exports are of value, and recognised and valued by markets overseas, is an economic plan from this Government. And I think it really is reflective of how sluggish and how lamentably poor this Government has been at driving our economy out of the recession that it has been in, that this fundamental piece of trade legislation has languished for such a long time—4 long years, if not more, since it was first introduced. It was introduced by a Labour Government, it was progressed by a Labour Government, but it all came to a grinding halt once National got into power.
Some significant changes are certainly proposed by the bill. I have mentioned the safeguard interventions, which will be undertaken by the ministry rather than by independent temporary safeguard authorities. The extension of the current 30-working-day time frame for the completion of a safeguard investigation will now be extended to 75 working days, or, in fact, even 85 days, if provisional safeguard duties are requested. The bill provides that after receiving the chief executive's report about the safeguard investigation, the Minister may take one or more of the actions in relation to imported goods, if the Minister is satisfied that a range of criteria have been met.
Given that this is the second reading, it is worth reflecting on some of the amendments offered up by the select committee. The first of those is around the "Provisional safeguard duty—termination or reduction". The commentary on the bill states: "As introduced, clause 15 of the bill would provide the Minister with a wide-reaching discretionary power to terminate or reduce a provisional safeguard duty." The select committee considered that this power was "too wide, and should be subject to a 'parameter of compliance'.", and recommended "an amendment to clause 15(1) to limit the Minister's discretion to terminate a provisional safeguard measure by requiring that the Minister be no longer satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the conditions that justified imposing a provisional safeguard duty are met." The select committee also recommended "an amendment to clause 15(1) to limit the Minister's discretion to reduce a provisional safeguard duty by requiring that the Minister be satisfied there are good reasons for doing so."
The select committee also made amendments on the types of safeguard measures that are available, and recommended "the deletion of clause 17(d), which provides that a safeguard measure can consist of 'any other action the Minister considers appropriate'." The select committee considered that the "types of safeguard measures in clause 17(a) to (c) are comprehensive; and likely actions other than those provided for in the bill, such as the monitoring of particular imports by the Ministry of Economic Development, would not require legislative authority." The select committee also recommended "an amendment to clause 17(b) to delete the words 'or an exemption from any duty', because there is no case in which a safeguard measure could be an exemption from a duty under the Tariff Act 1988."
It is a reasonably technical bill, as often these trade bills are. But, as is so often said in this House, with trade being so fundamentally important to our economy as a small nation reliant on primary produce and manufacturing, we are getting these technical bills around trade and ensuring that where possible we are consistent with the World Trade Organization. They are fundamentally important to the growth and development of our economy and our ability to compete internationally.
The National Government talks a good game on this stuff, but the fact remains that a bill like this has been allowed to languish for so long, and we are in the second term of this Government. It was not a bill that was introduced by this Government; it was introduced by the previous Government. This Government has had plenty of time to progress a technical bill like this, which is just so fundamentally important to ensuring that the New Zealand economy is robust. In fact, it would have been extremely useful. In times of low spending and in times of recession in New Zealand, it would have been very useful for this bill to have been implemented 2 or 3 years ago. I think producers and business people in New Zealand would have appreciated that, but no, because this Government can talk a good game on business but when it actually comes to getting on with the job of being in Government, it fails again. New Zealand businesses are starting to wake up to this. They are starting to realise that this is the second, and final, term of this National Government, because, quite simply, it does not have a plan for our economy.
STEFFAN BROWNING (Green) : The Greens are very clear that they like the point of this bill, the Trade (Safeguard Measures) Bill, in terms of it being an anti-dumping bill, effectively, and in terms of it reducing the risk in terms of a World Trade Organization (WTO) trade dispute. However, the Greens are about fair trade, not free trade as we see free trade happening at the moment.
There is a very disturbing aspect in this bill. In fact, the purpose of it is only temporary. Clause 3 provides that the purpose is to: "(a) provide temporary protection to a domestic industry from serious injury caused by increased imports; and (b) facilitates adjustment by a domestic industry to increased competition from increased imports." There is nothing permanent about this.
This is effectively saying: "Hey fellas, organise a redundancy for your staff, give them their notices, plan for your early retirement, think about what your local community is going to do from now on because, sorry, this bill looks out for only a temporary adjustment.", while these people actually downgrade their businesses and move out of their businesses.
We have seen so many things happen in New Zealand. We have watched clothing move off to Fiji, and now we know it has moved further afield and even Fiji does not have that as a business, any more. We have watched footwear manufacturers head off overseas. We now are getting more and more primary-production imports, huge amounts of stuff. I would suggest that 40 percent of the pork that is eaten in New Zealand—hundreds and thousands of tonnes a week—is effectively dumping, and what are we doing about that?
This bill is fine if it saves us from a big, expensive court case, but beyond that it continues to send us in the wrong direction. What is "serious injury"? It is really, effectively, looking out for the absolute worst while anybody who is considered small fry—small to medium sized business—will be going down the gurgler all that much quicker. I would suggest it is just the very big businesses that will get any benefit from this. There is no suggestion of any protection for anything less than what is considered serious injury.
We have lost expertise; we have lost self-reliance in this country. As we head into increased impacts from oil shocks, natural disasters, and social and civil disasters internationally we actually need to have a higher level of self-reliance. We have no self-reliance from something like this. This is absolutely temporary.
A problem with the World Trade Organization, which we are connected with and which we look at to try and smooth trade internationally, is that it is very, very strong on trade and very, very weak on environmental and social concerns. We have material coming in here. Sure, we might get a bit of a tariff put on it. However, what adjustment to make an even playing field is there for New Zealand producers and manufacturers? There is very, very little.
We have material pouring into this country as it is. New Zealand manufacturers are expected to compete against low-wage economies—economies that do not have efficient and protective devices such as the Resource Management Act, and other devices such as national environmental standards, that might give some protections. Yet our manufacturers, our producers, have to compete, price on price, without those things being adequately considered.
So although the Greens are concerned and do not want New Zealand to be caught up in expensive litigation—and this bill may, and let us hope it does, go some way to ensuring it does not happen—we will remain concerned about the continuing and often secretive direction towards free trade.
We would love to know what is going on with the Trans-Pacific Partnership arrangement at the moment, where we have no idea as to the level that something like this bill may effectively be needed, or whether a secretive free-trade agreement may, in fact, lock us out of even being able to use our Trade (Safeguard Measures) Bill.
We need to get a better balance in terms of how we do our trade. We need to be moving on from the free-trade mantra to a fair and a socially and environmentally justifiable trade. While we carry on down this path of free-trade agreements, our manufacturers and producers continue to lose out. I notice that, of course, some producers may appear not to be losing out, because it appears that milk powder and maybe a bit of beef—and some coal, of course—might be the dominant beneficiaries of free-trade agreements.
We actually need to be looking at that other range of producers in New Zealand: the producers that used to be here before the free-trade deals. The opening up, in lots of ways, of trade has actually reduced us to having a series of monocultures. We have lost our diversity, and we have lost our self-reliance, and we have sent it off overseas through the unbalanced competition that has come in here. It is outrageous that this is about effectively supporting industry that is quite destructive and unsustainable in the New Zealand environment, as well.
We have so much riding on dairy, and some milk powder is produced in consistently unsustainable ways, and it does not need to be. Yet we have bills coming in that in a roundabout way support that continued unsustainable production. We need to shift to different systems. The sooner that our production is done in a sustainable way, the sooner we push into organisations like the World Trade Organisation the idea that sustainability needs to be at the absolute highest level.
The Greens do want to keep New Zealand out of litigation, but we are presented bills like this that are based on a very unbalanced environmental and social situation. Thank you.
SIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki) : I will take just a short call on this. I just want to bring a bit of context back to the discussion here tonight, and the context is a Government that has been progressing a number of bills for this country and for the betterment of it. And when we are talking about this Trade (Safeguard Measures) Bill, we are also seeing it in the context of a Government that is leading close to 28 high-level delegations around the world to try to secure better trade for this country—a cooperation that is global, and a cooperation that is good for this country.
The bill itself is relatively simple. It is a safeguard, and it is hard to understand why any safeguard of this nature, which enhances trade in New Zealand, would be rejected. It is a safeguard replacing a prior measure. It is simplifying it for New Zealanders. It is here to stop, as a member mentioned earlier, the rapid influx of cheap imports. It is relatively simple. It is here to try to increase the time frame in which we can consider the need to safeguard our trade. It is simply to provide us with that opportunity to reflect rationally and appropriately and to take on, and take in, all the effects that we need to—the main one being that we do not end up in the World Trade Organization facing problems and financial problems we do not need.
This is a responsible bill. It is a bill that highlights the continuing importance for this Government to promote good trade for the welfare of all New Zealanders, and I totally support it. Thank you.
SU'A WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere) : I am happy to rise on behalf of the Labour Party to support this Trade (Safeguard Measures) Bill. What I will want to do is spend some time articulating why we support it and conclude with some remarks that I hope the other side will accept as constructive criticism.
But before doing so, I do want to make mention of an event that took place yesterday, because I think I might not get another chance to put it on the record. I was privileged yesterday alongside my colleague the Labour Party leader, David Shearer, the Hon Phil Goff, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs to join with the Governor-General and many other MPs to participate in the funeral of the King of Tonga. I think it is important. I have a significant number of the Tongan community living in my electorate and they would want me to express to this House the appreciation that they have, and I convey that to the Governor-General, to the Government Ministers, and to all the parties who were present yesterday.
It was a huge, strong delegation, which, I think, signals the importance of the relationship that New Zealand has in the international area, but, more important in this case, with Tonga and the Pacific Island nations. We do have a close relationship not only on a personal and educational level, but also on trade, and so I thought it was appropriate that I do so at this particular time. I do want to place that on record, because irrespective of what the outside world might feel about the King of Tonga, the people of Tonga have a high regard for their late King.
I want to do that because only today I have been advised by some in the Tongan community that they are complaining to this Government, and I have encouraged that complaint to go to the Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I know it is hard for the Government to choose who goes and who does not go, but, in this particular case, I have asked the Tongan Advisory Council to lay its complaint directly as to why it was not part of that delegation. I thought: "Get it on record. Where credit is due, place that. But then also make it known to this Government about what the Tongan Advisory Council is intending to do." So those are my comments to preface.
As I said, the Labour Party does support this bill. After all, it is a bill that began under the Labour Government with the good work of the Hon Lianne Dalziel, and I think it is important, as mentioned by other speakers, that we take this quite seriously. The safeguard measures are to try to ensure that duties are placed on certain goods that come into the country, particularly where certain industries might be under threat. I am not a member of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee so I did not get a chance to hear the submitters, although I understand there were five submitters from significant organisations in New Zealand.
But it was interesting reading some of the report that, in terms of our used tyres, we have lost some significant industry because we did not place enough safeguards on certain goods. I will give you an example. We have lost the footwear industry as regards all types of children's, men's, and women's footwear. It was interesting that over a 2-year period, when we removed the protections on our borders, the volumes of import in regard to footwear increased by 124 percent. As a result of that not only did we lose the market share, the profitability, and the return on investment, but we lost, I suspect, thousands of jobs. Again, I am belabouring the point that there is a role for appropriate safeguards in order to protect our local industry.
It was interesting that I found for men's and boys' underwear that the removal of the licensing controls over those particular goods allowed for imports to increase by 289 percent over a 2-year period. Again, what we have witnessed over the past as a result of not having those safeguards or those protections on our borders with regard to those goods is loss—the complete loss, I would say—in that industry: the loss of profitability, the loss of our sharemarket, and also the loss of hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs. Again with used tyres, I note that in terms of used tyres for motor cars and light commercial vehicles over the 1-year period of 1992-93 there was an increase of 52 percent in our imports.
It was interesting that the temporary safeguard authority did not think that safeguard measures were needed at that particular time. There are also the abrasive discs in 1995, which are the grinding wheels, or the cut-off wheels, and imports increased by 28 percent over a 1-year period. Again the temporary safeguard authority concluded that there was no ground for safeguard measures. The point I am making is that Labour supports having these safeguard measures because I think where certain industries are threatened by imports we need to act fast, and we need to act decisively in order to protect those goods.
But also we need to protect the profitability in our own sharemarket, because in this day and age, as this Government knows, we are not only going through a recession but we have hit depression. I understand from some of my mates who are at the Ports of Auckland that a recession is when their neighbour loses their job, but a depression is when not only their neighbour loses their job but everybody else in that neighbourhood loses their job. There is a real need for us to be protective of our manufacturers in particular, and I hope that in the years ahead we can do more work in order to increase and support and encourage the manufacturing industry. I do not think that we are really taking the full potential of the manufacturing sector and being able to ensure that there is a deliberate and more determined plan.
I suppose that brings me to my criticism of tonight, and, as I said, I hope the Government does take it by way of constructive criticism. It has taken us almost 4 years to have this bill come to the House. As I said earlier, it began with the previous Labour Government, with the good work of my colleague Lianne Dalziel. It went to its first reading in 2009 and there were only five submitters. There were not hundreds or thousands of submitters, so I do not think the select committee really took a lot of time to deliberate on this. But only now is this Government bringing it in for the second reading. We should have had this in the House some time ago.
I suppose what that highlights is that it reinforces what we have been saying all the time about this Government. Where is the deliberate plan for protecting our industries, for boosting our economy, for creating jobs? Is it just simply rolling out the action points? Where is the comprehensive plan? Because of the ad hoc nature of the way this Government has treated this particular bill, we are continually on the back foot. The Government is not just focused on cuts to funding, cuts of public sector jobs; this House will recall when this Government first came into power the mantra for its cuts to the public sector was that it was capping the workforce. It was not cutting the workforce.
Hon Ruth Dyson: Capping, not cutting. Ha, ha!
SU'A WILLIAM SIO: That is right. Today the public sector has lost over 5,000 jobs across all Government departments and other State-owned enterprises. That is over 5,000 jobs. I also understand there are over 2,500 jobs still unfilled, and the morale of the public sector is so low at this particular time that I am hopeful that this Government acts quickly. Simply merging Government departments is not going to get us to where this economy needs to get. We need jobs and this bill should have been in the House a long, long time ago.
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Ja Rule struts his acting chops in a scowling, one-note performance as retired drug kingpin Miles Montego, a one-time womanizing "playa" who falls hard for "a church girl" named Vanessa (Adrienne Bailon of TV's "The Cheetah Girl").
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8 a.m. BURBANK — The Producers Guild of America will begin its two-day annual Produced By Conference, featuring mentoring roundtables, networking opportunities, social events and workshops. Saturday's schedule includes conversations with Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver at 9:30 a.m.; David Fincher and Cean Chaffin at 11:15 a.m. and Joe Roth at 3:45 p.m. Warner Bros. Studios, 3400 Riverside Drive. Contact: Julie Cloutier, (310) 477-4442; Erika Gutierrez, (310) 477-4442.
9 a.m. LOS ANGELES — The 2014 Special Olympics Summer Games Invitational will continue at USC. Saturday's schedule includes competitions from 9 a.m.to 4 p.m.; a Parade of Champions led by Olympic gold medalist Rafer Johnson starting at 9 a.m.; a speech by former NFL player and former Long Beach mayoral candidate Damon Dunn at 9:30 a.m.; free health screenings at the Healthy Athletes venue; a Special Olympics Festival in Alumni Park; and the Unified Bocce Experience — featuring people with and without disabilities — from 1:30 to 4 p.m. USC, Town & Gown, 665 Exposition Blvd. Contact: Brian Szczerbinski, (562) 686-5997.
9 a.m. CULVER CITY — The Peace Project and the Whole 9 art gallery will build a house in six hours to serve as a model for disaster relief and the centerpiece of the second annual Affair of the Arts outdoor festival. Proceeds from art sales will support the construction of 200 "instant houses" starting later this month for families who lost their homes to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, contact says. Construction will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until about 3 p.m. The festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 9300 Culver Blvd., at Main Street, between Trader Joes and the Culver Hotel. Contact: Laurence Cohen, (310) 980-7788; Lisa Schultz, gallery owner and project founder, (310) 403-9800.
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10 a.m. DUARTE — More than 1,500 of City of Hope's young cancer patients and survivors will gather for the center's 17th annual "Survival Safari" pediatric picnic, featuring a "City of Hope's Got Talent" variety show with cancer survivors, comic artists, a face-painting booth and appearances by cast members from Disney Channel's comedy series "I Didn't Do It." City of Hope, Pioneer Park West, 1500 E. Duarte Road. Contact: Denise Heady, (800) 888-5323, or on-site, (626) 378-8184.
11 a.m. LOS ANGELES — The D-Day 70th Anniversary Committee and the Consulate General of France will host an event to commemorate the anniversary of Allied landings in Normandy. The event will feature food trucks, military and classical vehicle displays, a ceremony with World War II veterans at 1 p.m., and commemorative flybys and a fireboat display at 3 p.m. SS Lane Victory, Berth 49 on Harbor Boulevard (becomes Minor Street), 3600 Miner St. Note: Media must RSVP in advance. Contact: Robert Johnson, committee, (310) 675-8543; Astrid le Moine, Consulate General of France, (310) 235-3242; Elsie Nwankwo, anniversary committee, (310) 776-5494.
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BREGA, Libya, Oct 27 (Reuters) - For Libyan militia leaderIbrahim al-Jathran, shutting down half the country's oilproduction with an armed militia is not a crime, it is the startof a just battle for a fair share of the country's petroleumwealth.
From his base near the Mediterranean oil terminal of Brega,the 33-year-old war hero from the uprising against MuammarGaddafi has taken control of the main oil ports to demand moreautonomy and oil for his eastern region from faraway Tripoli.
He commands several thousand fighters from his whitesingle-storey building, the former headquarters of Libya'spetroleum protection force, which he seized with his men when hedefected from the unit in July.
His air-conditioned office is crammed with aides and his menpatrol the large compound. A Toyota pickup truck mounted withanti-aircraft guns is parked at the front gate. His militia alsomans the gates at Brega and other ports along the coast.
The rise of Jathran as a self-styled regional leaderreflects the anarchy of postwar Libya, where Prime Minister AliZeidan is struggling to control a country bristling with armedtribes, militias and radical Islamists.
But the standoff over the oil ports shows the limited powerthe central government has to curb former fighters who chasedout Gaddafi and now believe they deserve to be the beneficiariesof the uprising two years ago.
"Oil exports are supposed to benefit the Libyan people butthe opposite is true," Jathran said in an interview inAjdabiyah, his home town near the Mediterranean coast.
Roads here are potholed, hospitals scarce and the paint ispeeling off buildings, in contrast to the elegant corniche inthe capital Tripoli, 700 km (400 miles) to the west.
"Libyans had the dream of a new country after the revolutionbut security, health and education services are deterioratingday by day," Jathran said.
After blocking oil sales worth at least $5 billion, Jathranis threatening to escalate his confrontation with the governmentby trying to sell crude directly to the market, bypassing whathe calls the corrupt oil ministry.
Like many in the underdeveloped east, he wants to split thecountry into three self-governing parts along tribal lines goingback to the time before independence in 1951. Libya was thendivided into the eastern Cyrenaica region, a western part withTripoli as its capital, and Fezzan in the south.
To make this plan work, Jathran needs oil. Some 60 percentof Libya's crude reserves are in the east but Jathran says therevenues go only to Tripoli.
Most experts believe it will be difficult for Jathran andhis rebels to find buyers for oil that belongs to thegovernment, which says it will bomb any tankers trying to dockat the seized ports.
The standoff is not only disrupting world oil supplies. Itrisks further destabilising the vast desert nation, whichWestern powers fear is already becoming a haven for Islamistmilitants roaming across the region's porous borders.
The challenges facing Libya were apparent earlier this monthwhen gunmen from another militia briefly abducted Zeidan fromhis hotel room in Tripoli, only to release the prime ministerunharmed hours later.
Jathran's ascent as a federalist rebel parallels Libya'sdescent into militia chaos.
An acclaimed rebel fighter, Jathran was rewarded after theuprising against Gaddafi with the command of the PetroleumSecurity Guards in charge of protecting ports and oilfields, places he had taken from Gaddafi's troops in the east.
Then bearded and dressed in military uniform - these days heis clean shaven and wears a black designer suit and tie -Jathran commanded the "Hamza" brigade, which fought along thecoast from Ajdabiyah to the Sirte area, Gaddafi's homeland.
Jathran's family were initially given weapons and money fromthe Gaddafi government, which hoped he would help put down theinsurgency. But instead his men joined the rebels, a formerfellow fighter told Reuters.
Angry, like many ordinary Libyans, at Tripoli's failure toprovide development and security, Jathran decided in the summerto become a rebel again and left the oil guards. His men seizedthe Es Sider and Ras Lanuf oil ports.
Still operating from the same office in the old oil guardheadquarters, Jathran has placed himself at the head of anautonomy movement in Cyrenaica.
Supported by male secretaries, some in the uniform of thepetroleum guards, Jathran now calls himself the leader of aregional body to govern Libya's east.
Visitors stream in, forcing aides to lock his office to keepthem out and give him privacy. Inside, he issues orders over thephone or signs papers, while watching a news conference of arebel boasting about Zeidan's brief abduction.
While the prime minister has ended port blockades in Libya'smore developed west by paying off militias, Jathran isresisting. He is insisting on a federalist power-sharing system.
"We need to reinstate the constitution from 1951 which callsfor a federal system. Now we have a government in Tripoli whichis not only a centralized one but also controlled by the MuslimBrotherhood and its armed militias," he said.
"There won't be any stability without a federal system."
Such demands are popular in Cyrenaica, long a neglectedanti-Gaddafi bastion and the cradle of the uprising against him.
Jathran is popular because he paid for his opposition to Gaddafi, spending seven years in the notorious Abu Salim jailbefore being released in 2010 in an amnesty for politicalprisoners.
Residents complain Benghazi still looks as desolate as itdid in the Gaddafi days. Buildings on the seafront, mainlydating from the Italian colonial era, are dilapidated.
Many locals agree with Jathran when he accuses corruptelites in Tripoli of "stealing oil" by taking advantage of theinefficient measuring systems used to track crude at the oilterminals.
"We cannot sit and watch how people from the old regimesteal our oil," said Faraj al-Maghrebi, an engineer atstate-owned Sirte Oil Company, which has operations nearAjdabiyah.
Jathran said government officials offered him money to endhis action. His office provided Reuters with copies of chequeshe says were issued for him by a powerful lawmaker in Tripoli.The deputy concerned says he merely made a gesture of goodwill.
Jathran's is just one of dozens of militias in Libya whichenjoy near-impunity, though many nominally have been integratedinto the interior or defence ministries. In practise they reportto their local commanders, not to the state.
His federalist call may be popular, but his influence islimited. While Jathran commands thousands of men - his spokesmansays 20,000 though analysts say this is too high - his authorityis limited to the Adjdabiyah area, home to his Magherba tribe.
He is also facing opposition from Islamists, whom he accusesof trying to turn Libya into a hotbed of militants like Iraq.
Islamist leaders in Benghazi dismiss him as a localchieftain who is damaging the economy and seeking only tostrengthen his tribe.
"We don't have a problem with federalism," said Ahmedal-Zlietny, the spokesman for a Benghazi-based Islamist grouplobbying for the introduction of Islamic law. "But this is justabout tribal power, which is a problem."
But Jathran is determined. He says he plans to startoffering crude oil to international markets this month on behalfof a new autonomy council.
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Currently, most states deposit their money in private Wall Street banks, and we know who reaps the profits from that. If we had a state bank, these profits could be put toward projects that benefit our state. Other states are considering it.
The public banking website will give you ample information about the progress that is being made in each state toward this goal. I salute Gwen for this, but I do not live in Montpelier, so I cannot express my great displeasure to the city manager and mayor. That is up to you Montpelierites.
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