Boat on fire at entrance to Wellington harbour

A fire on a small boat in Wellington harbour's entrance has been extinguished.
The blaze began on board a pleasure boat just off Baring Head about 2.40pm, and was put out by a police maritime unit about an hour later, a police central communications spokesman said.The sole crew member was evacuated safely.Emergency services are fighting a fire aboard on that small boat.The blaze began on a pleasure boat, police central communications Inspector Ian Harris told NZPA.

If you get cyber-bulled

If you receive threats that hurt you on your social page you can tell your parents to help you and they can get the police. If you get the police into it you will need to take a screenshot of the threats as evidence to your local police station. To take a screen shot make sure the threatening comments can be seen then press print scan.Most social networking sites have terms and conditions which prohibit bullying and other abusive behaviours including harassment, impersonation, identity theft and more. If you want to make a complaint, it is helpful to copy the terms and conditions which have been breached and also to add screenshots as evidence. Ways to report bullying abuse or harassment to Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, are listed below:

Text bulling

Text bullying happens when someone is mean to you by text. Text bully messages might be rude, scary, mean, or just something weird that makes you feel a bit gross or uncomfortable or even mad. It hurts to know that people around the world do this to people just to scary or do what ever it is really mean and nasty.people often write things in a text that they wouldn’t say to someones face. That’s because they think that no one will be able to tell who they are and that they won’t get caught if they use their phone to be mean. In actual fact, everything you send on your phone can be traced back to you. That’s why it’s a good idea to never send a text that you wouldn’t want an adult, like your parents or your teacher, to see.
Always tell an adult that you trust like a parent or teacher. If you‘ve been text bullied it‘s important to remember that it’s not your fault. Anyone can be a target of text bullying. However, it can still be very upsetting to be bullied by text and sometimes it can be very scary.

Cyber-safety (Cyber-bulling)

Cyberbullying is the use of e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, pagers, cell phones, or other forms of information technology to deliberately harass, threaten, or intimidate someone. Cyberbullying is often done by children, who have increasing access to these technologies. However, it is by no means confined to children. The problem is compounded by the fact that a bully can hide behind an electronic veil, disguising his or her true identity. This makes it difficult to trace the source, and encourages bullies to behave more aggressively than they might face-to-face.
Cyberbullying can include such acts as making threats, sending provocative insults or racial or ethnic slurs, gay bashing, attempting to infect the victim's computer with a virus, and flooding an e-mail inbox with nonsense messages. If you are a victim, you can deal with cyberbullying to some extent by limiting computer connection time (not being always on), not responding to threatening or defamatory messages, and never opening e-mail messages from sources you do not recognize. More active measures include the blacklisting or whitelisting of e-mail accounts, changing e-mail addresses, changing ISPs, changing cell phone accounts, and attempting to trace the source. In some cases, it may be advisable to inform the local police department or consult an attorney. It is not recommended that you retaliate in kind because such behavior can lead to civil actions or criminal charges against you.

Nick Vujicic

This man is really thankful for what he has but not for what he don't got
he is really special and never gives up.

Maori parents fail in bid to get child back

The biological parents of a two-year-old girl have lost a legal battle to have their daughter raised in a Maori family.The birth mother gave her daughter, of Maori and Cook Island Maori descent, to a Pakeha couple when she was just hours old but later changed her mind and began a legal challenge to take back the girl, The Dominion Post reported today.The biological father wanted the girl brought up in her own culture, but the High Court this week ruled in favour of the care couple.They were granted primary care but must ensure the girl has continuing contact with her birth family and raise her to know her Maori roots.Justice Warwick Gendall said the arrangement was not necessarily permanent.

lucas ward has been found

The mayor of Gisborne says the local community has been tremendous in its search for Lucas Ward.The four-year-old's body was found in the Waimata River yesterday, 400 metres from the jetty near his grandmother's house in the suburb of Kaiti.Mayor Meng Foon says the whole Tairawhiti family has been helping out and he thanks the public for their tremendous support in looking for Lucas and supporting his family.There's expected to be a large turnout for Lucas Ward's funeral and Mr Foon says he has a feeling it will be at a marae.
He says the family wants to give Lucas to Ngati Porou to deal with the funeral process.

lucas ward (missing)

There's been an emotional plea from the parents of Lucas Ward, missing for over two days in Gisborne. Jessica and Damon Ward have fronted a media conference at the Gisborne Police Station.They are asking their community to take five minutes out and check their properties as they're worried the four year old may be lying hurt somewhere.They also want Gisborne parents to ask their children if they know any good hiding places in the Inner Kaiti area where Lucas disappeared from on Tuesday afternoon.Jessica and Damon Ward have thanked the Gisborne community for their support.Meanwhile, Gisborne police are still treating the disappearance of Lucas Ward as a missing person inquiry.Gisborne reporter Murray Robertson says police don't suspect anything sinister and they aren't concerned about the prospect of foul play at all.Murray Robertson says it's the saddest thing that's happened in Gisborne for a long time.

The magnificent bull

Today we also look at another poem but it is called THE MAGNIFICENT BULL we had to look if there were any similes or metephors.

THE MAGNIFICENT BULL

My bull is white like the silver fish in the river
White like the shimmering crane bird on the river bank
White like fresh milk!
His roar is like the thunder to the Turkish cannon on the steep shore
My bull is dark like the raincloud in the storm.
He is like summer and winter
Half of him is dark like the storm cloud,
Half of him is light like sunshine.
His back shines like morning star.
His brow is red like beak of the hornbill
His forehead is a flag, calling the people from a distance,
He resembles the rainbow.

I will water him at the river,
With my spear i shall drive my enemies.
Let let them water their herds at the well;
The river belongs to me and my bull.
Drink, my bull, from the river; i am here
To guard you with my spear.

SIMILES
METEPHORS

Rain

Today we were looking at a poem called Hone Twhares Rain and we had to identify the poetic devices used in a narrative and here it is.

HONE TWHARES RAIN

RAIN
I can hear you making small holes in silence rain
If i were deaf the pores of my skin would open to you and shut
And I should know you by the lick of you if I were blind
The something special smell of you when the sun cakes the ground
The steady drum-roll sound you make when the wind drops
but if I should not hear smell or feel or see you
You would still define me disperse me wash over me rain

PERSONIFICATION
RHYME
ALLITERATION
METAPHOR

what third and first person means

The thrid person ponit of view is a form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all action in thrid person,using thrid person pronouns such as "he" or "she".

frist person ponit of view is a ponit of view in which an "i" or "we" serves as the narrator of a piece of fiction. The narrator may be a minor character,observing the action or a main character.

Mt hutt skifield (closed down)

High winds have closed Mt Hutt skifield today and 900 people are stranded on the mountain.Ski field manager Dave Wilson said the field was closed shortly after noon because of the conditions and driving down the access road was not an option due to poor visibility.But everyone was safely inside and he hoped the weather would improve enough to allow people to drive down.If the weather did not improve people would have to stay on the mountain overnight.The early closure is just another niggle in Mt Hutt's winter ski season, which has been blighted by accidents.Three skiers have been killed and one seriously injured in accidents since the season opened in July.

David Tamihere

Convicted double murderer David Tamihere could be released from prison later this year after the Parole Board requested a report on his suitability for residential restrictions, which would see him released under similar conditions to offenders on home detention. Tamihere was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1990 for the murders of Swedish tourists Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen in the Coromandel in 1990.He had skipped bail for a 1986 rape and was on the run when the murders were committed, and had a manslaughter conviction for the 1972 death of an Auckland prostitute.

Carmen Thomas (missing)

Today we were doing newsboard and for newsboard we wre talking about this lady called Carmen Thomas went missing about six weeks ago in south auckland carmen is 36 years old she has one kid.Her friends contacted the psyhics to help in the hunt for her.Her family said that they want to leave it to the police.Ms Thomas mother Teresa Scott came to new zealand from Durban for about two weeks but left ,with the police no closer to solving the case.

The big fire

Today we as a class were talking about this big fire that happen in west auckland at the discount sore it was so big that there was about 60 fireman and 14 fire trucks trying to put out the fire for about two hours.They said when they arrived it was fiercely burning the firefighters had to work hard to keep it from spending to the other buildings the ground floor of the emporium is gutted basically.

Chewing off his diseased big toe

Today i was reading about this man that has credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his diseased big toe as he lay passed out in a drunken stupor.Jerry Douthett 48 years old of Michigan in the United States, woke up in his home on a Saturday night in late July to find his Jack Russell Terrier, Kiko, had gnawed off his right big toe.The dog always lays with me on the bed,Mr Douthett said.That night, I woke up and looked down at my foot, and it was wet. When I looked there was blood, and there was the dog looking at me with a blood moustache.Mr Douthett's wife, Rosee, rushed him to hospital, where doctors found he was suffering from Type 2 diabetes.His toe was badly infected and surgeons amputated the remainder of the digit.

Tim O'Donnell

Today we also did newsboard and it was about Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell that was killed in an attack on his patrol in Afghanistan early yesterday morning. The soldier had previously been honoured for his valour during a skirmish in East Timor.He was 28 years old and he was killed when his three-vehicle patrol was attacked with explosives and two other soldiers were badly injured there names are Lance Corporal Matthew Ball and Private Allister Baker.Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell said that he talked to his son before he went to Afghanistan.He said to be brave ''but not dead brave.I told him I wanted him to come home He just laughed and patted me on the back.

About what i did today (home)

Today me and my family watch this funny as clip it was so funny itz of this big guy dancing to my humps hahahar it was so kewl and today in class i learnt alot about conjunctions and headings and also subheadings that was really kewl .My best subject in school is maths i love maths sometimes it boring but mostly fun.i dont really know what as to say so i am finish for this post.

About inzone

Today we had Inzone it was funny playing with the boys some of them are really good at playing netball. we won every game it was so cool and i had alot of fun that was the bestest game we have ever played.They are really fun as well but they are also are really funny to play with they make the game more interesting and more funny and kewl at the same time.I love netball and it also has its downside and the downside is that you get really hurt or something like that anyway today was great.