Hard News: Time to move on
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Islander, in reply to
Hang in there - enlightenment will come via - diegesis?
I'll rush away & google that- -
No, don't - that way lies insanity! The line between someone who writes and someone who teaches about writing cannot be crossed without ... well, whatever it is that I've done to myself.
Bloody Ian McEwan and tutorials on Atonement. It's all his fault. Threadjack imminent. Someone get it back on track, fast...
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Islander, in reply to
Breathe deeply. Think of oysters. Know that our world is ruled by birds.
Yesss!
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merc, in reply to
Nah, it doesn't work that way for me.
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Molotov Cocktail. Must be OK. Mainstreamed in Wiki now.
Yummm...Napalm. American. Must be good.
And metal melting. The use of it for welding rails allegedly invented here in in NZ!!
Does gathering this information into one post make me an enemy of the state?
We come in peace, shoot to kill.
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Kracklite, in reply to
Ah, birds or archosauria, reminders that the Mesozoic didn't end at Chicxulub... mmmm... Kaka and Kea, the intelligent cousins of Tyrannosaurs...
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Islander, in reply to
Remember the endangered bird of the dark, the parrot that learned to thrive therein- kakapo...
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I do that for fun, and the entertainment & enlightenment of whanau kids- so, I’m a *terrorist* for fucks’ sake?
Yeah, but you didn’t negotiate to buy a grenade launcher, or threaten people who crossed your path. You didn’t bind and blindfold kids you invited into your circle. You didn’t openly fantasise about killing people, declare to your friends that you were “going to war”, or stage military-like exercises.
I was as clear as I could be that I don’t regard these people as terrorists. But I do regard them as idiots who would probably have got someone hurt.
Anyway, I have one or two other thoughts, but it’s a bit late now.
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Islander, in reply to
Yeah.
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Time to change tack:
Lancet and NZ. Leading journal questions NZ health policy
Page includes the paper: "Increasing incidence of serious infectious diseases and inequalities in New Zealand: a national epidemiological study"
and the Editorial: "Social determinants of health and outcomes in New Zealand"
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Sacha, in reply to
Ooh, second author is our Lucy Telfar Barnard. Perhaps we can get some comment from the horse's mouth, as it were? Maybe even a pointer to a version of the paper we can access without ponying up $31..
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Oh dear......I'll see what I can do to extract a copy. Heh. I didn't realise we (I) had free access through work.
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I don't know of any online free access to the Lancet paper, but I believe I'm allowed to email copies of the pdf, so if you're burning with interest, do contact me (I've made my email address available here temporarily for that purpose). However, you can find the (longer, sorry, but more detailed) report the paper was based on here, and I'm happy to take questions, with the usual caveat that my opinions may not necessarily be the opinions of the other authors.
I think the media coverage on the paper has been pretty well done, thanks in no small part to the work of the Science Media Centre. Getting an editorial comment from The Lancet was a bonus, particularly as it has meant a second round of media coverage on the issue.
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Can't believe I read all of Holmes at Herald and didn't want to puke.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
It is a strange day, indeed, when Paul Holmes makes sense.
Still, that is a fine example of why I think the Herald's editorial staff need to buy some sharper blades and apply them mercilessly to the often rambling work of their opinion writers. How he starts reviewing the Tuhoe situation and then suddenly swings on to Nick Smith I don't know. If he were one of my students, that piece would've been handed back with a big red line and the word 'irrelevant' through the final few paragraphs. Pick a topic, and stick to it, dammit.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Pick a topic, and stick to it, dammit.
True.
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Sacha, in reply to
Pick a topic, and stick to it, dammit
highly ironic on a PAS thread :)
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
How he starts reviewing the Tuhoe situation and then suddenly swings on to Nick Smith I don’t know. If he were one of my students, that piece would’ve been handed back with a big red line and the word ‘irrelevant’ through the final few paragraphs. Pick a topic, and stick to it, dammit.
He started out well with the Tuhoe raid issue, but his bit on Nick Smith came across as a bit No True Scotsman-ish to me.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
It is a strange day, indeed, when Paul Holmes makes sense.
Sorta. It’s clearly some sort of correction for the infamous Waitangi Day column, but it’s as disorganised an argument as usual. Holmes doesn’t have evidence for things: he “thinks”, “knows” and “feels” them. In this instance he seems basically unfamiliar with the details of the case.
Which doesn’t stop him putting himself in the story: “I used to write [Tame Iti] off as a cocky little bastard. But then I noticed that a lot of people wrote me off too as a cocky little bastard.”
Pick a topic, and stick to it, dammit.
Heh. You don’t read his column very often, do you?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
He started out well with the Tuhoe raid issue, but his bit on Nick Smith came across as a bit No True Scotsman-ish to me.
But even the Tuhoe part relies on the reader embracing his personal intuitions about Tame Iti. Holmes a a serial offender in inviting readers to regard his feelings as facts.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
serial offender in inviting readers to regard his feelings as facts.
Somewhere along the way he got lost in his own world of self importance and stupidly TVNZ were one of the first to let him go with it. I remember him then and I would nearly puke at his arrogance. Sadly he is not the only one on the waves who bleats on. I'll blame the parents {;)
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
It’s clearly some sort of correction for the infamous Waitangi Day column . . .
Yeah. And Kofi Annan used to be some kind of cocky little bastard.
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Hebe, in reply to
You don’t read his column very often, do you?
Never. Or Michael Laws. I know from experience they will infuriate me (sorry Russell, a feeling ).
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Heh. You don’t read his column very often, do you?
I prefer not to. Experience suggests there's a 99% chance of both:
1: The academic writing teacher I am in my day job going on some insane rant about his inability to stick to one topic and offer up factual, logical evidence to support his thesis; and
2: My daughter learning some naughty words as I express my feelings about his expressed views.
However, I do try to keep an open mind. A broken clock is right twice each day, and other similar cliches.
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Soo, finally, U 4, No retrial. Time to move on ..... yes we have no terrorists.
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