 didn’t understand. One hundred and seventy-seven years after the Treaty that’s a good effort, right? A little bit of brown sugar on the pile of white bread.
But Māori achievement sits where it does, that mark in our history, our society, and our schools, and we can’t do anything about it because partnership is always described as racist in this country. One rule for everyone is deemed fair even if the same group is always at the bottom, and partnership – which must be between equals – is racist. Isn’t it racist to make one group do everything your way? To vandalise perceptions, change the geography of minds, to relegate a whole language – a whole, beautiful, unique way that a society found to express the world – to the sidelines? Isn’t that racist?
The ruru may do as it pleases, high up in the trees that have not been cut down yet. Down here though, you’d need to dress as a cat, speak as a cat, think like a cat.
white bread lining up to speak at a conference
Future “thinkers” at education conferences don’t give solutions. That’s not their job. It’s their job to tell teachers that they need to race to keep up to prepare people for something ambiguous in shape and value but part of the narrative of progress.
It was future thinkers who gave us the New Zealand Company. They saw oceans, rivers and forests as resources, and Māori, ultimately, as a frustrating impediment. Futurists are the latest imperialists preaching capitalism and uniformity to the world, and digital space is their ultimate fantasy.
In the digital land we can, the missionaries tell us, create new power structures, new ways forward. If, of course, we have a device, and feel like we are part of that story, which is being written – again – by the West. By the same people who wrote the empires of the past: Caucasian, and capitalist. White straight men from the middle and upper classes. Exactly the same people. Microsoft. Facebook. Google. Apple. We can all of us benefit, they say, we can have Māori Google, but it was never the man who smoked the cigarette who had the power – it was the man with the license to make the cigarettes.
The futurists are the ones drawing the survey maps for a new Taranaki. They are asking education to go out now with their survey pegs and string and lay the groundwork for the new society, to prepare the children to be settlers on the digital land. But it is not new. It is a perpetuation of injustice and empire. Are you going to be a participant? Will you take the survey pegs? If we think resistance is wrong then we laugh at Te Whiti and Tohu and the people who went out with ploughs to say something different. If we think resistance is wrong then the Crown apology at Parihaka was wrong. Wrong to apologise for disenfranchising, falsely imprisoning without trial, for raping, for looting.
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When they buried Tohu, his people smashed the casket and buried him the traditional way. There is no headstone on that hill where he is buried. That hill is overgrown now and he is returned fully to the earth that bore us all. Papatūānuku. They want you even in death to conform to their beliefs. Even your dead body is handled by the ideology of the cat.
Come ruru, come. Sing in the trees at night. Sing a different song.
An excerpt from Kaitiaki o te Pō: Essays by John-Paul Powley (Seraph Press, $35), a striking new collection of essays, available from Unity Books.
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package it.polimi.ingsw.networking.message.updateMessage;

import it.polimi.ingsw.networking.message.Broadcast;

/**
 * Packet used to update the status of the Faith Track
 */
public class FaithTrackUpdateMessage extends Broadcast {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1557675867488135049L;

    private final String nickname;
    private final int position;
    private final boolean firstVaticanReportVPAchieved;
    private final boolean secondVaticanReportVPAchieved;
    private final boolean thirdVaticanReportVPAchieved;

    public FaithTrackUpdateMessage(String nickname, int position, boolean firstVaticanReportVPAchieved, boolean secondVaticanReportVPAchieved, boolean thirdVaticanReportVPAchieved) {
        this.nickname = nickname;
        this.position = position;
        this.firstVaticanReportVPAchieved = firstVaticanReportVPAchieved;
        this.secondVaticanReportVPAchieved = secondVaticanReportVPAchieved;
        this.thirdVaticanReportVPAchieved = thirdVaticanReportVPAchieved;
    }

    public String getNickname() {
        return nickname;
    }

    public int getPosition() {
        return position;
    }

    public boolean isFirstVaticanReportVPAchieved() {
        return firstVaticanReportVPAchieved;
    }

    public boolean isSecondVaticanReportVPAchieved() {
        return secondVaticanReportVPAchieved;
    }

    public boolean isThirdVaticanReportVPAchieved() {
        return thirdVaticanReportVPAchieved;
    }
}
I mean Rhyno seems like a good guy to aim for (if you don't already have him) being the last ECW Champion. He'll also only be 28/29 I think, so still decently young.

Raven would also be a good target as his flock would be the perfect way the bring in some young talent.

Aside from those two just find any old ECW whose contract is available and preferably won't also be a pain backstage.

I think RVD is on your roster anyway, but if not grab him too.

For young guys CM Punk, Bobby Lashley and Ezekiel Jackson all feel like the obvious picks. For young guys look at anybody in training you might like and good young talents that you think fit the product.Smoking by an open door is not smoking outside...

I have to vent about this. My SO is ready to snap and I can't complain to him anymore about this. We are staying with his parents right now (as I've put in posts before). My MIL refuses to smoke outside. She has for years. FIL doesn't smoke so he hates it too but isn't here most of the day so he doesn't have to smell it. I'm here all day and several times a day I can smell the smoke wafting through the open vent she sits beside. It makes me so sick. I get nauseated and get a headache. I've closed the vents down here (basement) and have even resorted to opening the sliding glass door down here and turning on a fan to try and alleviate some of it. 

I just cannot understand how someone who is educated can sit by an open door while the puff away and call it good enough. Especially since I'm here now! She also has my niece and nephew over here but I guess since their parents both smoke its okay. 

I already told my fiance that our baby WILL NOT be visiting if she continues this. Sometimes people really dislike me because I will put my foot down and not give in. This is about health, not just personal preference. 

I'm just so sick of it right now. I had a migraine for over 24 hours that just went away last night and I can feel it coming back now. Apparently she is running low/out of xanax so that's why she's smoking more. (Don't even get me started on the xanax and pain pills she takes...) 

I got good news yesterday though. I had previously vented a little about my brother in law and his wife and how they are using benefits while also doing other illegal things to make money. (They're the ones with the niece and nephew, nice huh?) Anyways, I heard yesterday that they are losing part of their assistance and also will not be able to get the free Christmas presents they always get. They don't need the free presents. This woman gets around $3k a month in assistance and through other means. She got a cell phone through assistance but it wasn't nice enough, so she gave it to her 12 year old and got a smart phone.  I don't want anything to happen to the kids but I really want to see them have to get jobs and get their own vehicle. It makes me sick to see people mooching like that.Drivers face disruption in one of Glasgow's busiest stretches of road this week as resurfacing works get underway and have been urged to plan ahead to avoid delays.
Drivers have been warned of possible delays from roadworks in a busy area of Glasgow's west end.
A programme of resurfacing works is to take place this week with restrictions in place from tomorrow.
Great Western Road traffic will be reduced to a single file flow eastbound and westbound between Anniesland Cross and Ascot Avenue.
Herschell Street will be closed between Foulis Lane and Great Western Road and there will be no right turn from Ancaster Drive onto