CHCH--Mosque shooting: Nationalities of victims slowly emerging
People from Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Indonesia are believed to be among the nationalities of people who have been killed or injured in the terrorist attack on Muslim worshippers in Christchurch. People from Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere also remain on the missing persons' list. A New Zealand police spokeswoman said it was not in a position yet to confirm the nationalities, but would be doing so as soon as possible. Rashid Omar, who moved to Christchurch from Yishun, Singapore, said he was with the police when the Herald called. But he confirmed that his son Tariq Omar, 24, had been killed. A total of 50 people were killed when a gunman opened fire at worshippers in Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Mosque. Not all the dead have been formally identified, and police have appealed for people to register anyone thought to still be missing or mark themselves as alive online. Government representatives from several affected countries, including at least one head of state, have started arriving in Christchurch, the Herald has been told. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred our queries and requests for confirmation to the police. According to Jordan's foreign affairs ministry, two Jordanians were among those killed. Pakistan said five Pakistanis were missing and four injured. At least two Malaysians are also thought to be injured, and one of them has been named as technician Rahimi Ahmad, who remains in a critical condition. He was shot in the abdomen and spine at Al Noor mosque and had undergone at least two surgeries to remove the bullets. Two Malaysian state assemblyman Azrul Mahatir Aziz and state exco Phee Boon Poh arrived in Christchurch on Sunday morning and had spent the afternoon with families of the two victims. Ahmad's mother, Rokiah Mohammad, will also be arriving on Saturday evening to join the family.
The other injured Malaysian national is Mohammed Tarmizi Shuib, a flight simulator operator. His 14-year-old nephew, Idris Khairudin, was in the mosque with him when the shooting started. Khairudin said prayers were just about to begin when he heard multiple gunshots. "At first I thought it was just like construction work or something, then people were all running and screaming," said the 14-year-old Hillmorton High School student.
He managed to escape unhurt but said his uncle was shot "in the backside". It has also emerged that at least three Bangledeshis have been killed and four others injured, and two Indonesians, a father and his son, were injured. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at least three Turkish citizens had been injured. It is also believed that one Palestinian national was killed and several injured during the attacks. Red Cross New Zealand has published a list of those missing on its website, which include people from countries including India, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Poll: Should drivers retake the theory test every 10 years?
Drivers get where they need to go, but sometimes it seems that we are all abiding by different road rules (for example, the varying ways drivers indicate around a roundabout).
Do you think drivers should be required to take a quick driving theory test every 10 years?
Vote in the poll and share any road rules that you've seen bent! 😱
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49.5% Yes
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48.6% No
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1.9% Other - I'll share below
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Why make picking up reserved library books harder? What do you think? Challenge: Write the last stanza for the first poem attached below.
Once books are reserved in Auckland Libraries books, when they are available no longer go alphabetically by customer but instead go into a Holds pickup shelf number based presumably somehow on when each book needs to be picked up by.
I had two books reserved that arrived on two different days in the Blockhouse Bay Library and hence each book has a different shelf number. Hard to find unless you knew the shelf number in the notification email. Even if you knew the shelf number I found myself three books by the same author on the two shelf numbers.
More recently yesterday a book I reserved was on a different shelf number than was specified in my notification email (see image below).
Sadly it is clear from library staff that a numerical system for reserves is here to stay.
I suggest that so that all books for each person has the same shelf number, the shelf number becomes the last digit of a person's library card (0-9).
Within each shelf number a book is found under the day the reserve arrives in the library (01 to 31, hopefully the same date the email is sent).
Since a customer appears to have 10 days to pick up a book, ten days of the month would appear to be required at any time (for each digit 0-9).
Once there are 10 days used the next day's reserves could go back at the beginning of the shelf number after any remaining books not collected (hopefully none) are removed (along with the old day number and the new day number (01 to 31) inserted) after the last day available and future days' books remaining moved forward to make room.
Each day number (01-31) would appear once for each shelf number (0-9) before the first book on that day- perhaps cover an old withdrawn book with paper with each day number on the spine?
When a reserved book arrives in the library the last digit of the library card could be placed on a piece of paper in the book to be removed when it is put on the shelf, to be recycled the next day.
What do you think?
See the image below and page 3 below for a letter appearing in the Western Leader on 9 September:
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