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Hypocrisy and reality TV
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11770568 X Factor winner Beau Monga has been charged with assaulting a woman, just days after performing at an anti-violence breakfast. The 22-year-old appeared in the Hamilton District Court today on five charges – three for breaching a protection order and two for male assaults female, reported Fairfax. … Monga and his father were guest…
Convicted sex offender destroyed a nine-year-old boy’s innocence
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/child-sex-offender-sentenced-preventive-detention-after-grooming-boy-online While living at a monitored address, with random room searches and no unsupervised Internet access, Stevens accumulated several mobile devices and downloaded 5000 objectionable images. Prosecutor Evan McCaughan said the supervision conditions should have been sufficient to prevent Stevens reoffending, but it was questionable how strictly monitored those conditions were. Justice Kit Toogood described…
Emotional support duck
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/10/20/daniel-the-emotional-support-duck-takes-his-first-plane-ride-soars-in-popularity/ The duck’s human introduced him to their fellow, now-amused passengers: This was Daniel Turducken Stinkerbutt, or Daniel for short. He is a 4 1/2-year-old Indian Runner duck and is her emotional support animal, she explained. “I heard a few maybe semi-critical mutterings, like, ‘Now I’ve seen everything,’ ” Essig told The Washington Post. “But…
Planning to be happy
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-secret-to-happiness-could-be-in-your-calendar-2015-6 The key is structuring your days in advance to include activities that are likely to make you happy. The technical term is “prioritising positivity.” For the study, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recruited 235 participants and measured: how much they valued…
Volunteering New Zealand (VNZ
Volunteering New Zealand (VNZ) is the only national organisation in New Zealand that focuses purely on volunteering, volunteer management and is the “voice of volunteering”. We hold the ‘big picture’ and are in a position to liaise, work with, and advise government. This works to ensure that volunteering occurs within a positive environment where it…
A Psychotherapist Is An Engineer Of The Soul – Jordan Peterson
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