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Oh, right...sorry....well I guess that jsut shows that we can adapt your example easily to other sports! Alternatively here you go and here (see the survey - last section) and here And of course we have ample evidence on here that no aussie ever abuses an all black supporter - right Aff?? :cool: ROFL - the aussies getting all precious about someone telling them their sports team sucks - that's a real turn up for the books. Here's an op-ed that puts it into sperspective - everyone at het cup except teh Aussies celebrated the Irish win - poor didums aussie cry babies! What problem??

Seems reasonable - as JonS pointed out, the Wallabies have taken lessons from the AB's, and so it's only fair that kiwi fans take lessons from these Aussie fans and these Aussie fans and these Aussie fans and these Aussie test cricketers, and might even have read the Aussi guide to sledging :cool: And these English fans too People have commented that we're 20 years out of date over here - so you can't complain when we catch up!!

I understand 7's is very popular in the US, since inclusion in hte Olympics & the US tournament has been going - I have a sister living in LA who goes along to that every year (so far - was easier for her when it was in LA!) & also to local college games. god help the status quo if the USA does ever take it up "full time" in any sense of the word - all that money will "speak"!

The IRB website lists about 138,000 registered players in NZ, 87,000 in Aus, and 632,000 in South Africa! The numbers of teen aged male players are 193,000 in SA, 39,000 in NZ & 19,000 in Aus - NZ has a bit more than 1/3rd total numbers in teens, SA a bit less, Aus < 1/4

Of course they have - that's why they're at least competitive now as opposed to being he easy beats they were in the 1970's - they didn't win a test series in NZ until 1986!! The down side of playing someone a lot is they get better - just ask Sparta about Thebes.....

Trust an Aussie to make it all about how they played and not about ethopposition!! I've been enjoying the games with the "minnows" - for me USA vs Russia, Canada vs Tonga have been highlights & I'm looking forward to other 2nd tier matches. Sure their rugby isn't as good as the top grade (duh!), but they are enthusiastic, motivated, physical - when was the last time before yesterday you saw a try from an up-and-under landing near the line?? (Canada vs France) Little flashes of brilliance like that on top of their commitment & character are great to see.

Video here if you haven't seen it yet

Just for completeness, NZ SAS seems likely to remain there until March of next year, and the Bamyan PRT until 2014.

Here's your chance then - are you against the extra-judicial killing of third-party nationals on friendly but foreign terroritory??

this one may also be relevant - Selective Perception

confirmation bias? Here's an article on seeing what you expect to see which probnably jsut tells you what you already know Wiki has a list of cognitive biases that might be more useful

Wheel AND track - how quaint! Unfortunately the add doesn't say if it is going or not - but apparently plenty of spares are available including a complete engine, and you can gvet it "converted" to a WW2 Tiger too!

None of those companies are actually charities tho are they - they are all helath insurance providers - so commercial, profit making organisations?

Relevance?? :confused:

Except of course a bunch of people now feelign guity and sheepish were not in htat class at all - they were just opportunistic looters - like the girl who went out for Mcdonalds & helped herself to a TV on the way ....or the various graduates & well paid employed types appearing before the courts..... As one correspondant wrote: The idea that it was an underclass of discontent with the establishment, disaffected youth, etc., seems to be fading away in the harsh glare of prosecution!

IMO the word "bonus" is used fartoo much and has becoem far too perjorative. In many cases the "bonus" is essentially no more than an "at risk" part of the remunseration package - ie if you don't perform at least adequately then you dont' get it. That was certainly the case when I was working under such a system a few years ago - if my annual performance assessment wasn't up to par then I didn't get a lump sum that amounted to 2 weeks pay - it wasn't a "bonus". there was potential for geting more than that - and that section might be accurately described as a "bonus" payment for high acheivement - but the "basic" payment was paid for reaching an "adequate" performance. If you didnt' get "adequate" then you stood to lose about 4% of your anual remuneration - quite an incentive! If you didnt' erach it then you weer also hauled in for reassessment, training, counselling, etc!! And also an incentive to managers doing the performance assessments to make sure that everyone did reach "adequate" as it would refelct on them if they didn't, and create friction.....so all in all it wasn't very satisfactory at all!! And of course it seesm to have little to do wit hte pay of a CEO for a charity....

Right - so y'all are comparing a CEO of a multi-million dollar organisation with minimum wage workers - how is that a competitive situation?? Aer y'all amaking sure you work for peole who used to earn $10k pa before they were your CEO? Does it give good job security? Are those charities doing a great job?? Has anyone actually botherd to see whether she's doing a $1 million job or not? Or is it jsut that she's the "tall poppy" - getting paid a very good salary - if not a massive one for a CEO of a large organisation - and so of course she can't be worth it?? the evidence being some other dude who got head hunted for $1 million and isn't worth it...... And now, for some reason.......Warren Buffett's well known diatribe about taxation is relevant to whether she's worth $1 million......how does that work???

True - but it also not true to say that large salaries mean crap leadership - ther is no reason why large salaries HAVE to mean bad leadership, and I'd suggest that there are probably more places paying large slaries where the leadership is fine and dandy. Please note that what I said was "competitive salaries" - if someone has come up through effectivemanagement and having a good track record of success, then would yuo not expect them to: 1/ be well paid, and 2/ continue to be successful? These days that doesnt' seem like a particularly massive salary!! :/ However ultimately it is up to her board to decide. You can possibly influence their decision by "public pressure" of course.... If there is an advantage to doing so, then why not?

I have no problem with paying CEO's of large charities competitive salaries - they are big businesses, handling 10's of millions of $$'s, and they need good people to run them. And anyone who has ever done any significant amount of business travel knows that staying in crappy accomodation is just another stress you do not need. All that said there needs to be at least as much accountability and justification of expenses as in any tightly run organisation - and probably more becaujse of the reputational risk that is involved - as this thread highlights.

Just to state teh patrently obvious - young women soldiers are invariably: 1/ young...except maybe the Serb in Oz's link! 2/ fit 3/ armed...one way or another... so even the not-so-pretty ones still have 3 things going for them...or 2...which is still more than me! I'm sure women drool over young boy soldiers too....

the incident gets a mention here - http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article6954393.ece

It comes up with "link not valid" error for me :eek: - you can't go posting soldier-grog-porn links that don't work - that's a shootable offense!!

My mother is in the mental health services (Teaching fellow of the Society of Transactional Analysis or something like that!) & reckons that you might as well take any modern pharmacopia you can 'cos it's more likely to help then hinder. But it's never going to be enough on it's own - it's like a backstop - it can stop you feeling worse, it might give you some confidence even....but ultimately you have to change something to make any real progress.

There's a WW1 game "Guns of August" that has a Portuguese Corps in the TE OOB......someone knew plenty about it a few years back I guess the Portuguese are right up ther with the Brazilians in WW2 or Turkey in the Koreans War in terms of "public awareness" of their contribution!

As the old saying goes - "Round" is a shape!