Posts by ChrisW
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Oops, I tuned out early, when live reporter on waterfront at Pago Pago had seen nothing I thought well after any tsunami arrival time. But 1.5 m there means nothing to worry about here, and the tide is low.
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Relax. Tsunami waves travel at jet-plane speed across deep ocean. The epicentre is 190 km SW of PagoPago across deep ocean - less than half an hour away. The earthquake was at 6.48am our time and the all clear should have been issued before 7.30.
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It's more than the median income, for Cthulhu's sake.
Cthulu-Southland's sake to be precise...
Holy Molyneux! Likes that one too.
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Linda Bryder particularly emphasised at the beginning of her interview with Kim Hill that she had not set out to study "The Unfortunate Experiment" and had thought initially it would be only a minor chapter in her study of the hospital, on the basis that the story was well known and she could readily summarise from the Cartwright report, Sandra Coney's book etc. But, when browsing 1960s-70s British medical literature she found what she took to be an ongoing controversy indicating significant support for Herb Green's view of the non-relation of carcinoma-in-situ to invasive cervical cancer, she decided to look more closely, was surprised by what she found, and thought it important.
She clearly wished to forestall any suggestion that she had set out with anything like a revisionist or anti-feminist agenda. I think that's credible, nevertheless it's abundantly clear that she got the central matters categorically wrong. That's the incredible part that Skegg struggles with - how come? Is “misunderstanding” a justifiable explanation?
I'm interested too in one of the preliminary statements in last week's NZHerald article by David Skegg, that
The Cartwright Inquiry had profound effects on the delivery of healthcare in this country.
While many of the changes were necessary and overdue, others might be regretted.What were those changes that might be regretted? Is this really his view, or just a rhetorical softening?
I guess there's a connection with the strongly negative views on the "Cartwright" outcomes expressed by some medical people, eg in some of the Listener letters and responses to Kim Hill interviews. But it seems no one who accepts (or takes the trouble to acknowledge) that the central findings of the Cartwright Inquiry were correct has identified what these regrettable changes consequent on the Inquiry findings might be. Any thoughts?
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Agreed, indeed.
ConfessionalA limerick exhorts me to sin
A good one! – I have to be in
But the spirit of Lear
(That’s Ed, not Shakespeare)
Means the quality’s often a disappointment. -
At least Chris agrees with me, then
At least in principle ...
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Princely pals, ples continue the conversation - or shall I at least provide positive encouragement by donating a pendant.
Pals are obvious, tangible, you can shake hands with them, but the principal reason they're at the top of the pyramid is that they think they're important.
Ples note that the plesure in principles is intangible but not shameful. They may be unobvious, but principles being the foundation at the base of the pyramid means they really are important.
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You're confusing two different types of principals.
Hard News: The next bylaw will ban irony
Best I get in now then.
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The site of my head freaked out my daughter last night,
Why - did you have it tucked under your arm?
No, I'm happy you're sounding great notwithstanding. And I do recall being amused at my mother being anxious about my brain damage on the evidence of an uncharacteristic spelling error in a hand-written letter I'd written, after I'd been hit on the head by a falling rock.
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Lhaws just opined on Morning Report that sending kids to kura kaupapa is child abuse. I'd say it was self-satire if he didn't sound so serious.
It was their *politicisation* he held to be child-abuse. This truly shocks me, in relation to his abuse of 11-year-olds that they should stop all the adult problems of their world, specifically child abuse and child-murder! before daring to write an assertive letter to him on such a complex political problem as the spelling of his city's name that they can know nothing about.