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When Bentley got out of her car, her partner drove off with their daughter. She called him, bidding him to return to meet her at her mother's house, and he turned up some time later. |
The trio left Kawerau but continued to argue. A disagreement over the music in the car resulted in her partner punching Bentley on the side of her head, then pulling over and jumping out of the car. |
When he walked off, Bentley attempted to locate him but had no luck. |
Despite having consumed about eight rum and cokes on the journey, she then jumped behind the wheel - planning on driving home. |
The court's decision noted it was a remote rural location with no public transport, and the distance to the couple's home was over 25km. |
After another motorist helped her re-start her car due to a flat battery, and Bentley then carried on her way. |
She was only a short distance from home when she lost control, crossed the centre line and went off the road - causing the vehicle to roll on to its side. |
The Rotorua woman was charged with six offences related to the incident - failing to give her name and address on demand; refusing to give a blood specimen; resisting police; refusing to accompany a police officer; careless driving; and ill-treatment or neglect of a child under 18 years. |
She was sentenced to 150 hours' community work after entering a guilty plea to the first five charges, and another four months' community detention with nine months' supervision on the ill-treatment or neglect charge. |
In the initial decision made in the District Court, the jury was directed to consider whether Bentley's conduct had been likely to cause injury to her daughter, as well as whether her conduct was intentional. |
The final question was directed to whether Bentley's conducted amounted to a "major departure" from the standard of care to be expected of a reasonable person. |
In the Court of Appeal decision, the earlier judge's question trail and directions were deemed appropriate and the standing decision were subject to "no dispute". |
The appeal against conviction was therefore dismissed. |
Marienita Catu Pastor, 49, of Kailua died in Kailua. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by son Randal Akiona Jr.; daughter Karleigh Akiona; mother Amelia; brothers Randal Akiona, Lyle Valdez and Blackie Kala; and sisters Grace Pastor-Agbayani, Gloria Pastor-Tucker, Peggy Samoata and Sheri Komatsu. Celebration of... |
In an increasingly competitive, cautious and accelerated world, those who are willing to take risks, step out of their comfort zone and into the discomfort of uncertainty will be those who will reap the biggest rewards. |
When I first left my parents’ small farm at eighteen to move to “the city” for college, I was part terrified, part excited, and completely outside my comfort zone. As I found then, and have countless times in the years since, no worthwhile aspiration can be accomplished from within our comfort zone. Only in giving up t... |
It’s a lesson that was reinforced in my interviews with accomplished leaders across a diverse range of fields while researching my latest book Stop Playing Safe. While each had forged their own path to success - either up an organizational ladder or as an entrepreneur - the common thread of wisdom they all shared was t... |
One of those leaders was Lori Garver, who worked her way up in the male-dominated aerospace industry from an administrative assistant role to the Deputy Director of NASA. Like so many other successful people, Lori has always been driven more by what inspires her than what scares her. She’s always been willing to challe... |
Do I keep doing what’s always been done, or challenge old assumptions ad try new approaches to problems? |
Do I proactively seek new challenges or just manage those I already have? |
Do I risk being exposed and vulnerable, or act to protect my pride and patch of power? |
Do I ask for what I really want, or just for what I think others want to give me? |
Do I 'toot my horn' to ensure others know what I'm capable of, or just hope my efforts will be noticed? |
Do I speak my mind or bite my lip, lest I ruffle feathers or subject myself to criticism? |
Of course, being willing to take a risk doesn’t mean everything you try will work out. But as every successful person will tell you, it’s only by being willing to make mistakes and try something new that you can ever accomplish more than what’s been done before. As John F. Kennedy once said, "Nothing worthwhile has eve... |
Too often we let our mistakes and setbacks define us. Yet, as Dr Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology once said, “It’s not our failures that determine our future success, but how we explain them to ourselves.” Likewise, if you knew that no matter what happened, you could handle it, what actions would you... |
Caste your mind ahead ten years from now and think about the life you want to be living then. What do you want to be doing? With whom? Who do you want to have become in the process? |
Ten years from now there will be people who have achieved extraordinary success. While we don’t know who they will be, one thing is sure - they won't be people who have stayed inside their comfort zone. Rather, they will be people who have continued to stretch themselves, even when things are going smoothly, and who ha... |
In our ever more cautious and competitive world, there is little security in playing safe. Being willing to give up the familiarity of the known and embrace the discomfort that comes from being outside your comfort zone is increasingly crucial to your success in work and life. |
To watch a short video I made on why you should rethink risk click here. |
Gimme a Job—Or I’ll Sue! |
This week, we have a slew of readings on the employment situation: ADP. Challenger. The Labor Department. And Trina Thompson. |
Trina Thompson, who received her bachelor’s degree in IT from Monroe College in New York City in April, is suing the school because she hasn’t found a job yet. |
Thompson, who has a 2.7 grade-point average and good attendance record, told CNN she upheld her end of the bargain, contacting companies listed on the university’s Web site. But that only yielded two responses, neither of which panned out. |
So why’s she suing? She says the career-development center gave preferential treatment to students with 4.0 grade-point averages. |
“They’re supposed to say, ‘I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right — can you interview this person? They’re not doing that,” Thompson told CNN. |
“It doesn’t make any sense: They went to school for four years, and they come out working at McDonald’s and Payless,” she is quoted as saying. |
The lawsuit has already touched a nerve in this fragile economy. |
“I totally understand her situation,” said Catherine Ortiz, a member of the Support Trina Thompson Facebook group, which has 89 members, many of whom are fellow IT workers. “Schools are taking advantage of people who are hungry for a better future. They sign us up, promise the world and we get stuck with these absurd l... |
On the flipside, critics say students today don’t have a sense of responsibility. |
“Too many students enter a college or university degree program with a sense of entitlement,” Brian Mark Weber, a history professor at American Military University, wrote on the Examiner Web site. “Unfortunately, people such as Trina Thompson are victims of a society which instills in its children the idea that the wor... |
And the “Who Thinks Trina Thompson Is an Idiot?”Facebook group now has more 115 members, more than the Thompson support group. |
Member Ryan Hayle felt so strongly, he started a separate group called, “I'll bet I can find 1 million people who won’t hire Trina Thompson.”He’s urging employers who wouldn’t hire her to join. So far he’s the only member, but I’ll bet he recruits more faster than you can say 2.7 GPA! |
Then again, she may just get a slew of offers for her entrepreneurial spirit. Remember Joshua Persky, an accountant who landed a job for his bright idea to slap on a sandwich boardand hit the streets of New York? |
Karen McGee, the assistant dean for student affairs at Syracuse University, said she thinks this lawsuit will actually have the opposite effect of what Thompson intended. |
"I think Ms. Thompson has significantly hurt her chances for employment," McGee said. "She comes across as a whiney, immature person who blames others for her inabilities — not exactly qualities employers are looking for. Her grammar and less-than-impressive GPA certainly won't help either." |
McGee said Thompson's time could've been better spent "conducting a proactive job search rather than sitting back and thinking someone is going to do it for her." |
The incident has already been spoofed by the Onion. |
"I authorized my secretary to get on the phone and offer this Trina Thompson a position in the sales department. This is precisely the type of litigious mediocrity I want on my team!" said “Arthur Sellers, CEO,” a character from the site’s “American Voices” section. |
You know, I remember a time when we used to type cover letters until our fingers bled because they got jammed between the typewriter keys one too many times. We may not have been able to shake your hand in the interview, too embarrassed by our bloody stumps, but we had pride. We didn’t wait for someone to hand us a job... |
So, what do you think? Vote in our poll above. |
Recession Indicator: When Will the Hiring Start? |
Emcee and businessman Daniel Mananta propels patriotism in pop culture. |
On a rainy afternoon, television personality Daniel decides to go to a gym as flooding hits Jakarta and his work schedule for the day has to be rearranged. |
“I was supposed to have a job at Mangga Dua Square [in Central Jakarta], but the organizers had to reschedule it until next week because of the floods. Oh well, I’m enjoying it anyway,” Daniel, who has been hosting Indonesian Idol since 2006, tells The Jakarta Post over the phone, after a session at the fitness center. |
“About the gym thing, it’s because I’m going to shoot for a TV commercial, which requires me to take my shirt off during the production. So, I really need to go to the gym [to look in shape],” he adds lightheartedly. |
A university has been ordered to appear in court to provide a legally sufficient reason for detaining the two chimpanzees. |
Three courts in New York are being asked to recognize four chimps as “legal persons” with fundamental rights. |
Chimpanzees are getting smarter it seems. They are now ‘asking’ zoo visitors to help them escape. |
The chimps got a brief taste of freedom before returning to their compound. |
That’s the clear interpretation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings, at least as they were conveyed Sunday by Attorney General William Barr. And it’s the line President Donald Trump’s gloating defenders are promoting. |
But without access to Mueller’s full report, we can’t know just how damning—or not—this investigation is for Trump. Justice Department rules say a sitting president can’t be indicted, while other Justice Department rules say it’s wrong to release derogatory information about someone who isn’t charged with a crime. |
So unless Barr decides the president is a special case, we might never learn the full extent of Trump’s actions. And we might never learn how close Mueller’s team came to charging Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, let alone others caught up in the Russia scandal. Still, even if Barr does release the bulk of the repor... |
Barr’s summary makes clear that there was no coordinated high-level conspiracy between Russia and Trump to tilt the 2016 presidential election in his favor. Never mind the president’s strange behavior, such as his repeated refusal to so much as admit that Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to help him win. And chal... |
Maybe former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, for instance, was simply trying to repay his multimillion dollar debt to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska when he passed internal polling numbers to his former business partner, Konstantin Kilimnik. Maybe George Papadopoulos, whose previous claim to fame was serving in... |
A lot of other weird stuff happened, from the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians offering dirt on Clinton to the alleged and plausibly sinister scheme by Michael Flynn and Kushner to set up a back channel to Moscow via the Russian Embassy in Washington. Remember Jeff Sessions’ undisclosed meeting with... |
But there are possible explanations for all these oddities that don’t amount to a grand conspiracy to steal an election in exchange for, say, sanctions relief or recognition of Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Maybe the Russians forged connections to Trump’s team on the off-chance their efforts to elect him would work. Ma... |
As for all the lying Trump associates did about their Russia contacts, you can imagine explanations for that too: Practiced liars tend to lie as a matter of habit. And maybe they mistakenly thought they were trying to protect the president and themselves. People make stupid and irrational decisions—especially under pre... |
But there are also many aspects of Trump’s behavior toward Russia, both as a candidate and as president, that remain baffling. His obsession with that Kremlin bogeyman, NATO. His failure to disclose his pursuit of a hotel project in Moscow even as he ran for the White House, and his subsequent lying about it. His real ... |
Strangest of all is Trump’s relationship with Putin, whom he never criticizes directly. Flash back to that fawning July 2018 news conference in Helsinki, at which Trump stood next to his Russian counterpart and said, “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extrem... |
Interestingly, though, we have gotten some recent clues that might—I repeat, might—help us understand where Trump is coming from. Consider his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whose regime is an order of magnitude more odious even than Putin’s. Trump has wooed Kim like a desperate suitor, brushing asi... |
There are two common threads here. One is that Trump covets the power these authoritarian leaders exert over their own societies, and he hasn’t been shy about saying so. The second is that he is desperate for a big diplomatic win, be it some sort of great-power compact with Russia, the end of North Korea’s nuclear prog... |
Forget about the likelihood or wisdom of any such deals; the point is that Trump is in the habit of flattering, cajoling and wheedling the objects of his affection to get what he wants—whether it’s Putin, Kim or (allegedly!) Stormy Daniels. So maybe there’s nothing special about Putin after all. |
And what of Trump’s constant attacks on the Russia probe, the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the sniping at Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the endless cries of “witch hunt,” and so on? Isn’t that suspicious? |
Sure, but consider an alternative theory: He couldn’t be sure what the investigation would dig up, so he used the scorched-earth tactics he learned from his mentor, attack-lawyer Roy Cohn, just in case. Why did the scorpion sting the frog? Because that’s what scorpions do. |
So, as you digest Barr’s very limited four-page summary, consider the possibility—maybe even the likelihood—that the whole thing has been a big misunderstanding. |
None of which entirely clears Trump. It’s not moving the goal posts, as some would have it, to note that the Southern District of New York and other prosecutorial bodies are still investigating various aspects of Trumpdom. It’s just a fact. And it’s not moving the goal posts to point out the damning truth that Trump’s ... |
As to whether this more charitable interpretation of his dance with Moscow exonerates Trump, that’s now for Congress—and ultimately the voters—to judge. But we can be certain of one thing: If Trump had colluded with Russia, Mueller likely would have found out. |
And as for the great debate about collusion, it depends on what you mean. It seems quite clear now that Trump did not collude with Putin to game the 2016 presidential election. Why he still seems to want to collude with Putin to reshape U.S. foreign policy remains a mystery. |
An American trucker who refused to answer questions from the Border Patrol was yanked out of his truck by agents after they smashed his window as a camera rolled, the Houston Chronicle reports. |
The truck driver was arrested at a checkpoint near Falfurrias in Texas, about 60 miles north of the border. |
When asked whether he was an America citizen, the trucker said he would “rather not” answer. |
Despite warnings of being removed from the truck, the driver refused to answer questions. |
An agent accuses the driver of refusing to cooperate with an immigration inspection and then smashes the window before pulling the driver out. |
No charges have yet been filed against the driver in federal court. |
Posted: 11/13/14 at 9:15 AM under News Story. |
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Playhouse Creatures, Headgate Theatre, Colchester. |
It’s the first big school holiday of the year. |
The Pajama Game, Headgate Theatre, Colchester. |
It's not often you get to see a new musical on the Colchester stage. |
Well this is a bit awkward. |
Here are five shows for you to enjoy over the next seven days. |
Big Fish, Headgate Theatre, Colchester. |
IT'S possibly Colchester's best kept artistic secret. |
The ballot has opened for this year’s Essex Big Weekend. |
There can be fewer things as bracing as a winter beach walk. |
Tim Lynch used a donut to coerce an autograph out of future All-Star Lorenzo Cain. |
Cain, playing for the Brewers’ Class A Brevard County affiliate in the Florida State League, was years away from becoming an All-Star center fielder for the Royals. But at that moment, he was waiting for a payment from Topps, the owner of Bowman. His agent at the time, Joshua Kusnick, had advised him not to sign Bowman... |
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