how can i retire to new zealand? as a british citizen how do i retire to new zealand

My wife and I are going to retire to N/Zealand Christchurch to join our Son next year .? Any one out there who might be able to tell me what area's i would live in or any other comments would be great. From Ireland. Roll on next year. horray.

Can anyone give us any input on studying in New Zealand? We are planning on retiring to NZ but our youngest son is getting ready to start High School, 9th grade. We are considering sending him ahead to start HS where he will finish. Our son is 14, has been homeschooled, tests as gifted and tests well above grade level. Can anyone offer any advice, thoughts etc? Thank You!

I am a New Zealand citizen but have supperannuation in Australia. How can I withdraw this? I have been told because I am a citizen of NZ I cannot withdraw my Australian superannuation until I retire at 65 even though I do not live in Australia. Does anone know how I can withdraw it or know of any company that may beable to assist.

I want to arrange the most economical trip to New Zealand and both coasts of Austrailia. Who do I consult? We are semi retired with limited funds. We have friends in Sidney and in the Perth area, whose homes we are welcome to use as 'base camps'. We are thinking that this will be a two month trip.

Why New Zealand became average team after Martin Crowe retired in 1992?

What do I do? (going to New Zealand as a foreign Exchange Student)? I'm not so good at wording things, but here's my situation: I'm a sophomore (grade 10) in the USA. I am 15 years old, but will be 16 on September 30th. I wish to study abroad in New Zealand as a foreign exchange student. I know their grades are different, (called years/forms I think?) so I need to know the following things: 1.) What year would I go into? (I have a good GPA. ~high B I think) 2.) If I moved there (which I plan to) would I be able to leave school after this year and go to college? (or, whatever it's called down there. A university. Art school preferably) 3.) My dad (who is retired) wants to go with me as a retiree. Would he still be able to get his retirement from the USA, or would he have to work again? If you need more information, it can be given.

I want to settle in New Zealand.What are the ways? Iam a retired state government employee of the state ofTamilnadu,India. I want to be settled in NewZealand. Can anybody suggest the modolities to be followed in the matter.

Is New Zealand cricket reaching crisis point? The Black Caps have just arrived for their tour of England. However, their best batsman, Fleming, has retired, Vettori, Oram and McCullum are due to join them until they have fulfilled their IPL obligations, and Bond is banned for joining the rebel ICL league. The players are intimating that making money means more to them than playing for their country. This may not be their intention, but it is certainly how it looks. Now I would have no objection if the England tour had been arranged after they had signed their IPL contracts, but this is not the case! Have New Zealand cricket been forced to allow the players to go, or risk losing them altogether? Will more countries follow suit, and try to have the best of both worlds, by allowing players to join lucrative tournaments, and forego international commitments for financial gain?

Who will win the 20-20 game tomorrow?South Africa or New zealand? Oram and Martin ruled out from the 20-20 game...... vettori said that ODI's are more important for us injuries and sickness...... No bond No Oram No Martin No mcmillan(retired) Cumming --fractured cheek how will they win?funny

Is it time for Styris, Fleming and Bond to retire so younger players get a chance to see if they can make it? All three of them are past their best and New Zealand are destined for the cricketing wasteland if they keep going the way they are. I think they should promote younger players and give them a fair shot at playing international cricket - not the one game in, one game out as they currently seem to do (with the exception of Hamish Marshall of course!)

how can i locate a person in new zealand. i know very little details about him (not even a family name)? name - trevor lives in NZ but his family is british retired and deals with real estate now travelled through south america recently for a while he's gay, born 1953

For the UK, France, Poland, China, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and the countries I forgot? As an American Veteran, I would like to say that we are approaching the 11th Hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th Month. We refer to that day as Veteran's Day. I would like to offer my appreciation for what all your nations did to end World War ll. Here in America, 1000+ World War ll Veterans are dying daily. There are only three World War l Veterans alive. No one nation can claim the victory over Japan and Germany. It was those brave young men and women who risked everything for the freedoms of their countries. I am proud of my father and three uncles who served America and the World during World War ll. Just like I am proud of all of your Veterans. Let us not forget. Maybe someday we will learn that there are better ways to solve disputes without killing and maiming our young. Thank you and Salutes from a retired United States Air Force Veteran I forgot the brave Philopino's who who fought a daily battle with the Japanese from Dec 7,1941 onward.

Are capital gains on investments abroad taxed in NZ? Say I acquire New Zealand citizenship and eventually retire there. If I have a tidy sum invested in a variety of US Exchange-Traded Funds which I just hold forever (liquidating little bits here and there to pay living expenses), are the capital gains taxable under NZ law? What if the money were in a US-based hedge fund instead that generates annual short and long-term capital gains?

A legendary rugby player with the first name of Bryce? I think he played for New Zealand and I think he is retired. But he was supposed to show up at my Grandfathers funeral and I want to look him up. Thanks!

Does the US tax law provide an economic incentive for its wealthier citizens to expatriate? Assume that 1) a person has several million dollars and wants to retire, 2) they probably have 30 years left to live, 3) their investment style is such that the majority of their future income would come from long-term capital gains. Given these assumptions, wouldn't it make sense for that person to acquire citizenship in a country that has no capital gains taxes (e.g. Switzerland, New Zealand, etc) and renounce their US citizenship? Without capital gains taxes, assuming a 9% annual return, each unspent $1m would grow to $1m x (1 +9%)^30 or $13.27m in 30 years. With a 25% cap gains tax, each million would only grow to (1 + 9%(1 - 25%))^30 or $7.10m. It seems to me that such an individual would gain another 87% (13.27 / 7.10 - 1) in long-term investment earnings simply by changing their citizenship. If this is true, it would seem to provide wealthier US citizens a compelling reason to take their money elsewhere which would hurt the US economy in relative terms. Is this correct?

How many people who are or where in BSA know what a rover scout is? This question is for others, I know what it is. After being out of touch with scouting for quite some time, and after some time of deliberation, a rover crew from a Mexican Scout Group invited me and accepted me as a member. During a religious service in a church a few months before the actual centenary where quite a crowd of "old" scouts attended, when they asked which troop or post I belonged too, they were amazed when I mentioned I did my oath formally in a rover crew, as a scout, not a scouter, at 18! Some taught I was kidding, a few wondered if I was telling the truth, only one retired scouter knew. Just taught to add some debate, roverism is a branch of scouting for those 18 to 26, originally founded in the 1920s in England it no longer exists there but it does in many nations. The cut-off age varies, the WOSM puts it for all international events at 26, but some nations like New Zealand and South Africa put it at 30, in many Latin American nations is between 23 and 21.

Global Warming - The other side of the argument.? Believe global warming is primarily caused by natural processes Scientists in this section conclude that natural causes are likely more to blame than human activities for the observed rising temperatures. •Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatov, mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovskaya Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the supervisor of the Astrometria project of the Russian section of the International Space Station: "Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity...Ascribing 'greenhouse' effect properties to the Earth's atmosphere is not scientifically substantiated...Heated greenhouse gases, which become lighter as a result of expansion, ascend to the atmosphere only to give the absorbed heat away." (Russian News & Information Agency, Jan. 15, 2007 [9]) (See also [10], [11], [12]) •Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: "[T]he recent warming trend in the surface temperature record cannot be caused by the increase of human-made greenhouse gases in the air." (Capitalism Magazine, August 22, 2002)[13] Baliunas and Soon wrote that "there is no reliable evidence for increased severity or frequency of storms, droughts, or floods that can be related to the air’s increased greenhouse gas content." (Marshall Institute, March 25, 2003) [14] •David Bellamy, environmental campaigner, broadcaster and botanist: "Global warming is a largely natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed."[15] •Reid Bryson, emeritus professor of Meterorology: "It’s absurd. Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air." [16]. •Robert M. Carter, geologist, researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia: "The essence of the issue is this. Climate changes naturally all the time, partly in predictable cycles, and partly in unpredictable shorter rhythms and rapid episodic shifts, some of the causes of which remain unknown." (Telegraph, April 9, 2006 [17]) •George V. Chilingar, Professor of Civil and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southern California: "The authors identify and describe the following global forces of nature driving the Earth’s climate: (1) solar radiation ..., (2) outgassing as a major supplier of gases to the World Ocean and the atmosphere, and, possibly, (3) microbial activities ... . The writers provide quantitative estimates of the scope and extent of their corresponding effects on the Earth’s climate [and] show that the human-induced climatic changes are negligible." (Environmental Geology, vol. 50 no. 6, August 2006 [18]) •Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa: "That portion of the scientific community that attributes climate warming to CO2 relies on the hypothesis that increasing CO2, which is in fact a minor greenhouse gas, triggers a much larger water vapour response to warm the atmosphere. This mechanism has never been tested scientifically beyond the mathematical models that predict extensive warming, and are confounded by the complexity of cloud formation - which has a cooling effect. ... We know that [the sun] was responsible for climate change in the past, and so is clearly going to play the lead role in present and future climate change. And interestingly... solar activity has recently begun a downward cycle." (The Hill Times, March 22, 2004 [19]) •William M. Gray, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University: "This small warming is likely a result of the natural alterations in global ocean currents which are driven by ocean salinity variations. Ocean circulation variations are as yet little understood. Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential."[20]) "I am of the opinion that [global warming] is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people." [21]) "So many people have a vested interest in this global-warming thing—all these big labs and research and stuff. The idea is to frighten the public, to get money to study it more."[22]) •Yuri Izrael, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "There is no proven link between human activity and global warming."[23] •Zbigniew Jaworowski, chair of the Scientific Council at the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw: "The atmospheric temperature variations do not follow the changes in the concentrations of CO2 ... climate change fluctuations comes ... from cosmic radiation." (21st Century Science & Technology, Winter 2003-2004, p. 52-65 [24]) •David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware: "About half of the warming during the 20th century occurred prior to the 1940s, and natural variability accounts for all or nearly all of the warming." (May 15, 2006 [25]) •Marcel Leroux, former Professor of Climatology, Université Jean Moulin: "The possible causes, then, of climate change are: well-established orbital parameters on the palaeoclimatic scale, ... solar activity, ...; volcanism ...; and far at the rear, the greenhouse effect, and in particular that caused by water vapor, the extent of its influence being unknown. These factors are working together all the time, and it seems difficult to unravel the relative importance of their respective influences upon climatic evolution. Equally, it is tendentious to highlight the anthropic factor, which is, clearly, the least credible among all those previously mentioned." (M. Leroux, Global Warming - Myth or Reality?, 2005, p. 120 [26]) •Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa: global warming "is the biggest scientific hoax being perpetrated on humanity. There is no global warming due to human anthropogenic activities. The atmosphere hasn’t changed much in 280 million years, and there have always been cycles of warming and cooling. The Cretaceous period was the warmest on earth. You could have grown tomatoes at the North Pole"[27] •Tim Patterson [28], paleoclimatologist and Professor of Geology at Carleton University in Canada: "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years. On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?" [29] •Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology, The University of Adelaide: "We only have to have one volcano burping and we have changed the whole planetary climate... It looks as if carbon dioxide actually follows climate change rather than drives it". [[30]] •Frederick Seitz, retired, former solid-state physicist, former president of the National Academy of Sciences: "So we see that the scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities." (Environment News, 2001 [31]) •Nir Shaviv, astrophysicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "[T]he truth is probably somewhere in between [the common view and that of skeptics], with natural causes probably being more important over the past century, whereas anthropogenic causes will probably be more dominant over the next century. ... [A]bout 2/3's (give or take a third or so) of the warming [over the past century] should be attributed to increased solar activity and the remaining to anthropogenic causes." His opinion is based on some proxies of solar activity over the past few centuries. [32] •Fred Singer, Professor emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia: "The greenhouse effect is real. However, the effect is minute, insignificant, and very difficult to detect." (Christian Science Monitor, April 22, 2005) [33] "The Earth currently is experiencing a warming trend, but there is scientific evidence that human activities have little to do with it.", NCPA Study No. 279, Sep. 2005 [34]. “It’s not automatically true that warming is bad, I happen to believe that warming is good, and so do many economists.” (CBC's Denial machine @ 19:23 - Google Video Link) •Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: "[T]here's increasingly strong evidence that previous research conclusions, including those of the United Nations and the United States government concerning 20th century warming, may have been biased by underestimation of natural climate variations. The bottom line is that if these variations are indeed proven true, then, yes, natural climate fluctuations could be a dominant factor in the recent warming. In other words, natural factors could be more important than previously assumed." (Harvard University Gazette, 24 April 2003 [35]) •Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London: "...the myth is starting to implode. ... Serious new research at The Max Planck Institute has indicated that the sun is a far more significant factor..." (Global Warming as Myth [36]) •Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Center: "Our team ... has discovered that the relatively few cosmic rays that reach sea-level play a big part in the everyday weather. They help to make low-level clouds, which largely regulate the Earth’s surface temperature. During the 20th Century the influx of cosmic rays decreased and the resulting reduction of cloudiness allowed the world to warm up. ... most of the warming during the 20th Century can be explained by a reduction in low cloud cover." [37] •Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, Professor Emeritus from University of Ottawa: "At this stage, two scenarios of potential human impact on climate appear feasible: (1) the standard IPCC model ..., and (2) the alternative model that argues for celestial phenomena as the principal climate driver. ... Models and empirical observations are both indispensable tools of science, yet when discrepancies arise, observations should carry greater weight than theory. If so, the multitude of empirical observations favours celestial phenomena as the most important driver of terrestrial climate on most time scales, but time will be the final judge." (In J. Veizer, "Celestial climate driver: a perspective from four billion years of the carbon cycle", Geoscience Canada, March, 2005. [38], [39]) [edit] Believe cause of global warming is unknown Scientists in this section conclude it is too early to ascribe any principal cause to the observed rising temperatures, man-made or natural. •Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and Director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks: "Thus, there is a possibility that only a fraction of the present warming trend may be attributed to the greenhouse effect resulting from human activities. This conclusion is contrary to the IPCC (2007) Report, which states that “most” of the present warming (+0.7°C/100 years) is due to the greenhouse effect."[40] •Claude Allègre, geochemist, Institute of Geophysics (Paris): "The increase in the CO2 content of the atmosphere is an observed fact and mankind is most certainly responsible. In the long term, this increase will without doubt become harmful, but its exact role in the climate is less clear. Various parameters appear more important than CO2. Consider the water cycle and formation of various types of clouds, and the complex effects of industrial or agricultural dust. Or fluctuations of the intensity of the solar radiation on annual and century scale, which seem better correlated with heating effects than the variations of CO2 content." (Translation from the original French version in L'Express, May 10, 2006 [41]) •August H. "Augie" Auer Jr., retired New Zealand MetService Meteorologist, past professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wyoming: "So if you multiply the total contribution 3.6 by the man-made portion of it, 3.2, you find out that the anthropogenic contribution of CO2 to the the global greenhouse effect is 0.117 percent, roughly 0.12 percent, that's like 12c in $100." "'It's miniscule ... it's nothing,'". [42] •Robert C. Balling, Jr., director of the Office of Climatology and a professor of geography at Arizona State University: "[I]t is very likely that the recent upward trend [in global surface temperature] is very real and that the upward signal is greater than any noise introduced from uncertainties in the record. However, the general error is most likely to be in the warming direction, with a maximum possible (though unlikely) value of 0.3 °C. ... At this moment in time we know only that: (1) Global surface temperatures have risen in recent decades. (2) Mid-tropospheric temperatures have warmed little over the same period. (3) This difference is not consistent with predictions from numerical climate models." (George C. Marshall Institute, Policy Outlook, September 2003[43]) •Chris de Freitas, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland: "There is evidence of global warming. ... But warming does not confirm that carbon dioxide is causing it. Climate is always warming or cooling. There are natural variability theories of warming. To support the argument that carbon dioxide is causing it, the evidence would have to distinguish between human-caused and natural warming. This has not been done." (The New Zealand Herald, May 9, 2006 [44]) •David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma: "The amount of climatic warming that has taken place in the past 150 years is poorly constrained, and its cause--human or natural--is unknown. There is no sound scientific basis for predicting future climate change with any degree of certainty. If the climate does warm, it is likely to be beneficial to humanity rather than harmful. In my opinion, it would be foolish to establish national energy policy on the basis of misinformation and irrational hysteria." (Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, December 6, 2006 [45]) •Richard Lindzen, Alfred Sloane Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences: "We are quite confident (1) that global mean temperature is about 0.5 °C higher than it was a century ago; (2) that atmospheric levels of CO2 have risen over the past two centuries; and (3) that CO2 is a greenhouse gas whose increase is likely to warm the earth (one of many, the most important being water vapor and clouds). But--and I cannot stress this enough--we are not in a position to confidently attribute past climate change to CO2 or to forecast what the climate will be in the future." [46] "[T]here has been no question whatsoever that CO2 is an infrared absorber (i.e., a greenhouse gas — albeit a minor one), and its increase should theoretically contribute to warming. Indeed, if all else were kept equal, the increase in CO2 should have led to somewhat more warming than has been observed." (San Francisco Examiner, July 12, 2006 [47] and in Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2006, Page A14) •Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville: "We need to find out how much of the warming we are seeing could be due to mankind, because I still maintain we have no idea how much you can attribute to mankind." (George C. Marshall Institute Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy, April 17, 2006 [48]) Still convinced that this new religon is right?

who am I? the fastest correct answer gets 10 points.? i was born in october i played for Leicestershire and Yorkshire i played more than 50 tests i made my odi and test debuts against west indies t20 against new zealand i retired from international cricket WHO AM I??

is australia the last good/safe country left in the world ? and by this i mean to actually work and have a life. i know there are countries like spain, but u have to speak spanish and new zealand but difficult to get work- mostly for retired life. there was UK and US but they are clealy finished

transferring a car title? My father just retired and moved to New Zealand...they tranferred ownership of their car to another family member temporarily...they just informed us that they want to give the car to my family now - it is free and clear but we have no idea how to go from here....the relative signed the title but is that all we have to do to get it signed over to us? Do we now take the signed title to our local DMV or does something else have to happen? Thanks

Hey, all in the land of OZ. I need some pointers or information about moving to AU. from the US.? I may be retiring soon and my wife is tired of living, in the United States. She's taken a keen interest in Australia and for that matter New Zealand. She’s been fascinated, by some of the things I’ve told her, about when I was in the military, visiting over in your neck of the woods. Of course that was over three decades ago, so my information, is to say the least, dated. If I remember right, the cost of living was a bit high over there. So, if you had a little over $400,000 (USD) to get started over there, where would you go? I’d also be receiving about $4,000 (USD) per month in pension and I’d have about $225,000 (USD) in retirement savings. By the way we’re not just hopping over there to buy a house. We’re thinking of taking a vacation next summer to look around. Who knows, she may change her mind when we vacation there, but if it’s close to how I remember, I doubt it. I’ve tried a couple Australian government websites today, but it looks like their out of order (being updated?).

What country gets tax monies? If I retire and become am a citizen of New Zealand or Australia, to which country are taxes paid with revenue from American IRAs and American stock income?

My sister is going out of her way to embarrass me.? My sister seems to have it in for me at the moment. She takes the micky out of me at every opportunity. She teases me about my job (I have a degree in Law but I choose to work in a shop), my clothes (bohemium - long flowy skirts, petticoats etc). I appreciate I don't follow the norm I don't think I deserve this. Recently she has been telling everyone that I was born with a penis and I only wear big skirts to hide it. She even got onto my user last week (left logged on when she came to visit) and posted my full name, address and where I work, told people what I was wearing and said I was hiding a penis under my skirt. SHe the pretended thatI was inviting people to come to the shop and to say Hi and to ask " are you pleased to see me or is that just a tent in your skirt". I have told her I have had enough bet she won't stop. We don't live together, we visit rarely. Our parents emigrated to New Zealand when they retired and have little influence over her. Help?

wat will happen once sachin retires? indian batting looked horrible in the first inning against the aussies...except 1 player...it was none other then sachin tendulkar.... wat an innings he played before getting out....he not only enjoyed the indian fans...but the aussies were also cheering this man shots...it was rightly sad by one of the commentators" aussies like australia to win, but its true they love to see the master blaster make run also" .....but sadly this man has to retire one day....wat will happen then....we are a very strong team in subcontinent pitches...but i feel that wen touring countries like aus.,new zealand,england....we will feel sachins importance once he retires....

Year 2019 - Cricket World Cup news: India failed to defeat Afghanistan in the world cup qualifier? India failed to defeat Afghanistan in the world cup qualifier in the Asia-Pacific zone Coach sehwag said that he is not worried bcoz he has backing of selectors, captain and board....and that they had wona close match against Papua new guinea just 2 yrs ago Rahul Dravid,the coach of new zealand team said that Sachin should now consider retiring gracefully and let his son take over the captaincy saurav ganguly, the coach of england feels that the boys need to control their emotions on the field the current leading man from bollywood bret lee advices ms dhoni to take upacting as well Minnows Pakistan beat Ireland in a close match...and thus they avanged their defeat in the 2007 WC against the then minnows ireland Inzamam ul haq, who was the captain of the losing team and now the present coach said in a press interview that "Boys plays well...they try hard...inshallah we wins the world cup" For more fun visit: http://www.cricket.indhp.net/funzone.asp

Is this "Really" the way to promote Cricket in Canada? http://www.rogerscentre.com/ http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/canada/content/story/263544.html by having matchup between Retired Indian Players vs Retired Pakistani Players? its a joke if u ask me ICC and CCA doesnt realize that the reason North Americans dont care about the game is because most of them think the only 2 countries that play the sport are India and Pakistan... but.. infact i dont think they are even in the top 3 of the world ranking.. I think if you wanna promote the game in this part of the world , they should bring in the West Indians and the Australians or even England, or an Allstar format , "Asian XI vs Rest of the World" though personally i think South Africa or New Zealand are one of the more entertaining teams to watch.. but Canada / USA dont really know much about them yet. on top of that its going to be an ODI matchup, jeez, why not play two Twenty20 games? kinda like a baseball double header.

Why is it that even women in thu uk are believing that a womans place is in the house, cooking and cleaning? Im in new zealand for 6 months in my partners house at the moment with my partner and 3 yr old girl. My partner is 43 and im 21, although my partner is not my daughters father he fully accepts that my only responsibility is to my child and her future, therefore he encourages me to take her to every mums and tots event there is in the morning while he cleans and prepares lunch so that we can spend time together in the afternoon. Its not that hes desperate, his kids r grown up and he has had such a sucessful career in the fire service he has now retired and runs several businesses, so why cant more men, and indeed after reading a few answers on this, women adapt to the times and stop being so pig headed? a mothers duty is surely to provide a happy childhood, is that keeping them in the house while you cook and clean for their arrogant fathers? Surely not!

Australia v. NZ today? I bet my money this portends Australia is going to have a disastrous World Cup.? Seriously, even minnows New Zealand FIGHTS back today to bring you down - Glenn McGrath looks sad and tired and Brett Lee retired, who is going to pull it up for you? Currently, you may be ranking top but you'll be in for a nasty surprise - because India is just started to be in peak form - just saw them win again and again against both West Indies and Sri Lanka- though we may not be the hot favourites - but we are going to win this time mark it. Aussies LOSE

So now that Adam Gilchrist is retired? Who do you think will be the worlds best wicket keeper after Gilchrist "and also after Mark Boucher"? Is it Taibu from Zimbabwe Kamran Akmal from Pakistan Dhoni from India Sangakkara from Srilanka Brendon McCullum from New Zealand Bradd Haddin from Australia

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? A couple of weeks back on Smackdown Victoria Crawford, a former model, debuted as the wedding planner for Edge and Vickie Guerrero. I am told that the plan as of now is for Edge to get caught cheating on Vickie with Crawford. This will lead to their relationship ending and Vickie turning face. I was also told that this is the role that WWE wanted Krystal Marshall to play but she refused and was released. They didn't have plans for her to be the wedding planner but as Edge's secret lover. The twist with that angle though would have been it also tying into the Teddy Long/Krystal affair as well. Instead the wedding was broken up by Teddy having a heart attack. Krystal never came back on TV and was released just weeks later. and also -- Undertaker will return to television by crashing the wedding between Edge & Vickie Guerrero scheduled for a SmackDown taping in mid-July. He will then be plugged right back into his program with Edge and feud with him for at least the rest of the summer. If they don't have a match at The Great American Bash, then definitely at SummerSlam, although it looks like the wedding is happening before GAB, so they could hotshot it for that show too. There was a feeling that his feud with Edge needed to be put on the shelf for a little while, although he did have some nagging injuries to tend to. The feeling was that it was going to run out of steam without a major twist, hence the retirement storyline. -- As noted earlier, despite his "retirement," Undertaker worked SmackDown's tour of Australia and New Zealand this past week. The decision for him to retire on television was a last minute move, but he had been advertised as the top star on the tour, so they decided to bring him on it. Tickets went on sale several months ago and the company drew huge advances everywhere, so a lot of fans were expecting to see him. The storyline explanation for his appearances on the tour has Shane McMahon coming out at the start of shows to say that he was talking with Vickie Guerrero and they agreed to let him have an "Undertaker farewell tour." want proof, go here http://pwmania.com/ I AM FREAKIN SERIOUS, AND UFC IS FAKE TOO, JUST GO TO THAT WEBSITE AND CLICK ON HEADLINES, THE VICKIE AND EDGE SPOILERS ARE THE FIRST ONES, AND THE UNDERTAKER'S RETURN IS THERE MAIN FEATURE AND HERES MY QUESTION : 2+2= (answer it scientifically) ( first correct answer gets best answer)

Deaf and hard of hearing / hearing impaired jobs abroad?? I am Shrikant Garg. I am hearing impaired. My father retired since 1997. I am 25 years old. I live in India. I have done MCP/MCSE/ MCDBA /MCSA. I have not got any degrees. I have worked about 3 years experience. I will do IT Training. I am not good all india degree study. I think... I will go to study and work permit (UK, Ireland, Germany, all europe, australia, new zealand and canada. How will I get my new job in abroad? Please do let me know...

Australia cap number 400? Australia are up to 397 (Dan Cullen) Test caps, anyone care to guess who will be number 400? (Interesting seeing as Warne, McGrath, Martyn and Langer have all retired, so the possibility of blooding three new players in 2007 is high.) Just for interests sake the other nations are: Bangladesh:45, England:634, India:256, New Zealand:233, Pakistan:186, South Africa:301, Sri Lanka:105, West Indies: 265, Zimbabwe: 74.

Gay and the Bible? Even the Churches are getting more and more on our side; New US church leader says homosexuality no sin Mon Jun 19, 3:50 PM ET Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender. Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, was elected on Sunday as the first woman leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church. the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. She will formally take office later this year. Interviewed on CNN, Jefferts Schori was asked if it was a sin to be homosexual. "I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said. "Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender." Jefferts Schori's election seemed certain to exacerbate splits within a Episcopal Church that is already deeply divided over homosexuality with several dioceses and parishes threatening to break away. It could also widen divisions with other Anglican communities, including the Church of England, which do not allow women bishops. In the worldwide Anglican church women are bishops only in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. Three years ago when the Church last met in convention, a majority of U.S. bishops backed the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history. The Robinson issue has been particularly criticized in Africa where the church has a growing membership and where homosexuality is often taboo. Jefferts Schori, who was raised a Roman Catholic and graduated in marine biology with a doctorate specialization in squids and oysters, supported the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history. The 52-year-old bishop is married to Richard Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician. They have one daughter, Katharine Johanna, 24, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and a pilot like her mother. Asked how she reconciled her position on homosexuality with specific passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions. "The Bible has a great deal to teach us about how to live as human beings. The Bible does not have so much to teach us about what sorts of food to eat, what sorts of clothes to wear -- there are rules in the Bible about those that we don't observe today," she said. "The Bible tells us about how to treat other human beings, and that's certainly the great message of Jesus -- to include the unincluded." Last time I checked Idiots, the Bible also says. Men shouldn't shave, we shouln't wear cloths of different material, and eating shelfish is a no no, tampons for women are out. (actually they weren't around) That just explains how much the world as changed and since the Bible was written. You stupid "Probably Southern Babtist who who read only what the Bible says not what it means.. Another thing ever wonder how Adam and Eve created the world?? Just Adam and Eve were "White" we don't know, then where did the African Amercians, Asians, Hispanics, and so on come from??? The Bible is Written as teaching tool for todays society. If we all lived liked the Bible says we should now, we would be in terrible shape. You people don't get it.. Why would you "choose to be gay"??? come on people get a life....I'm gay I have zero sexual attractions to a women.. Aslo if we all having babies like he Bible says, we wouldn't be here anymore because of the way we live in world today.. Yes, I read Lecviticus... Have you???? Guess not since your not LIVING that way .. Did Jeasus ever say anything about homosexuality? He only taught about love. There many many reglions today that are now redoing their believes. Lutheran Churches, Methodist, and many Catholic Churches to name a few. There is research to the fact we don't choose to be gay.. I know someone who is in a family of 7 kids and of those 7 kids 4 are gay? LIke all 4 choose to be gay.. Whatever.. I have a cousin who's gay, and another firiend who has a brother who's gay and he is too.. You know what? Tell me all want, I didn't chose to be gay.. I'll probably won't see you in heaven, you won't be there. AMEN I'm done with this post.. There are just to many people stuck on theold wirttten words of Bible to gays how to live but yet when it comes to their own lives jthey ust ignore it.

Should we spend a trillion dollars on "Global warming" when, in fact, the earth is cooling? Global warming has stopped! Recent scientific studies may make 2007 go down in history as the "tipping point" of man-made global warming fears. A progression of peer-reviewed studies have been published which serve to debunk the United Nations on climate change. Paleoclimate scientist Bob Carter, who has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works (LINK), noted in a June 18, 2007 essay that global warming has stopped. “The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998. Oddly, this eight-year-long temperature stasis has occurred despite an increase over the same period of 15 parts per million (or 4 per cent) in atmospheric CO2. Second, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements, if corrected for non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, show little if any global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 %),” (LINK) In August 2007, the UK Met Office was finally forced to concede the obvious: global warming has stopped. (LINK) The UK Met Office acknowledged the flat lining of global temperatures, but in an apparent attempt to keep stoking man-made climate alarm, the Met Office is now promoting more unproven dire computer model projections of the future. They now claim climate computer models predict “global warming will begin in earnest in 2009” because greenhouse emissions will then overtake natural climate variability. Southern Hemisphere is COOLING UN scientist Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar, a retired Environment Canada scientist and an expert IPCC reviewer in 2007, explained on August 6, 2007 that the Southern Hemisphere is cooling. “In the Southern Hemisphere, the land-area mean temperature has slowly but surely declined in the last few years. The city of Buenos Aires in Argentina received several centimeters of snowfall in early July, and the last time it snowed in Buenos Aires was in 1918! Most of Australia experienced one of its coldest months of June this year. Several other locations in the Southern Hemisphere have experienced lower temperatures in the last few years. Further, the sea surface temperatures over world oceans are slowly declining since mid-1998, according to a recent world-wide analysis of ocean surface temperatures," Dr. Khandekar explained. (LINK) Meteorologist Joseph Conklin, who launched the skeptical website www.ClimatePolice.com in 2007, recently declared the “global warming movement [is] falling apart.” “A few months ago, a study came out that demonstrated global temperatures have leveled off. But instead of possibly admitting that this whole global warming thing is a farce, a group of British scientists concluded that the real global warming won’t start until 2009,” Conklin wrote in an August 10, 2007 blog post on his website. (LINK) Climate models made by unlicensed 'software engineers' But the credibility of these computer model predictions took a significant hit in June 2007 when Dr. Jim Renwick, a top UN IPCC scientist, admitted that climate models do not account for half the variability in nature and thus are not reliable. "Half of the variability in the climate system is not predictable, so we don’t expect to do terrifically well," Renwick conceded. (LINK) Another high-profile UN IPCC lead author, Dr. Kevin Trenberth, recently echoed Renwick’s sentiments about climate models by referring to them as “story lines.” “In fact there are no predictions by IPCC at all. And there never have been. The IPCC instead proffers ‘what if’ projections of future climate that correspond to certain emissions scenarios,” Trenberth wrote in journal Nature’s blog on June 4, 2007. He also admitted that the climate models have major shortcomings because “they do not consider many things like the recovery of the ozone layer, for instance, or observed trends in forcing agents. There is no estimate, even probabilistically, as to the likelihood of any emissions scenario and no best guess." (LINK) IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr Vincent Gray, of New Zealand, an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports going back to 1990 and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001," declared “The claims of the IPCC are dangerous unscientific nonsense” in an April 10, 2007 article. (LINK) “All [UN IPCC does] is make ‘projections’ and ‘estimates’. No climate model has ever been properly tested, which is what ‘validation’ means, and their ‘projections’ are nothing more than the opinions of ‘experts’ with a conflict of interest, because they are paid to produce the models. There is no actual scientific evidence for all these ‘projections’ and ‘estimates,'” Gray noted. In addtion, meteorologist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at The Netherlands' Royal National Meteorological Institute, recently compared scientists who promote computer models predicting future climate doom to unlicensed “software engineers." "I am of the opinion that most scientists engaged in the design, development, and tuning of climate models are in fact software engineers. They are unlicensed, hence unqualified to sell their products to society," Tennekes wrote on February 28, 2007. (LINK) Should we spend a trillion dollars on "Global warming" when, in fact, the earth is cooling?

deaf and hard of hearing / hearing impaired jobs abroad?? I am Shrikant Garg. I am hearing impaired. My father retired since 1997. I am 25 years old. I live in India. I have done MCP/MCSE/ MCDBA /MCSA. I have not got any degrees. I have worked about 3 years experience. I will do IT Training. I am not good all india degree study. I think... I will go to study and work permit (UK, Ireland, Germany, all europe, australia, new zealand and canada. How will I get my new job in abroad? Please do let me know...