Posts by dyan campbell
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Marvelous post Jolisa.
Ah, Canadians. The New Zealanders of the north
Heh, thank you so much, we are collectively flattered.
Though I feel compelled to admit in general we are a little more wussy and your menfolk are a little more manly than ours.
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Today Dr Bollard kindly obliged my request for a photo with the other Alan Bollard book. I feel like a fangirl.
Oh my god Robyn, I want that to be me! That is a very cool photo.
I liked what David Haywood wrote about the launch of the book, that someone from the treasury pulled him aside and said "Alan Bollard wants a word with you..."
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I had a really good time. Met only about half of the people I wanted to meet
Same for me, I had a great time but only caught up with a couple of people - but I love the great blends & thoroughly enjoyed Emily P & Dylan H's presentation, as well as Askew and Karl M. Also it jogged a forgotten memory of the Vancouver graffiti artist, (here being political)
Pablo Fiasco.Both Paul & I both arrived straight from work, dinnerless and departed right after the talk in search of food and sleep - specially Paul who had to be at a course at 8:00 the next morning. Blah. 60 hour weeks are for kids.
Let's do more parties. It would probably be nice if Russell could kick back right from the start for once!
Agreed! We should have a big picnic in Cornwall Park as the weather's getting nicer.
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And I'm a smoker too. Ah well, thats me well and truly fucked.
No, not necessarily at all. Just like people who smoked heavily from childhood and never get cancer - there is a certain element of the luck of the draw. We can stack the odds by avoiding this behaviour or cultivating that behaviour, but it is (as other conversations have emphatically asserted) to some extent, the luck of the draw.
The last document I linked to "Medical Guidelines etc" shows the number of individuals who test positive for having had an HPV infection at some point is around 75% but importantly most of these infections resolve themselves without any treatment, leaving only antibodies as evidence of their former presence. Lucy Tel-Ber (I don't want to call you Lucy TB!) if you read that doc there are indeed stats for anal HPV infections also.
Most resolve themselves, but some don't, which is why screening is good and denial is bad - HPV moves very slowly... and the HPV vaccine are good ideas. It should be given to boys as well. Pathogens are interesting creatures, shared creatures and we are often unaware how communicable they all are.
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Of course, the wielders of nukes don't typically bury them kilometers underground.
The Amchitka bomb test was set off nearly 2km deep.
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Which person gets it, the giver, or the recipient?
I'll give you a clue: throat cancer.
It's too bad this information was published in David Wishart's Nutball Magazine, because it's true. Also HPV is not the only oral STD that is rapidly increasing, but it's the one we're discussing here.
A Swedish study in the 1970s showed 23 per cent of oral cancers were HPV-linked. By 2006, the number had climbed to 93 per cent.
A completely separate study in the US showed that as many as 80 per cent of oral cancer biopsies were HPV positive, a doubling of the proportion in 10 years.
Both the giver and the receiver of oral sex are at risk of HPV. So are kissers.
About 75% of adults who have been sexually active test positive to antibodies to HPV. Most cases spontaneously resolve, but a significant proportion don't. Most cases in women are sub-clinical, which is to say, invisible to the naked eye. Many cases in men are invisible until very established.
You can get it from deep kissing, possibly for
good reasonThis is relevant in New Zealand, and the vaccine should be promoted to be given to boys as well as girls.
Medical Guidelines for the Management of Genital HPV in New Zealand
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I'm very glad all you down south people are alive and kicking. I hope pets and animals are doing okay as well. This certainly makes that motorway upgrade in Auckland look like a very sensible investment.
none of the kids knows what a 'tallboy' is, so some interesting and not all that improbable assumptions had been made.
This reminds me of the assumption a friend of mine (from Timaru, of course) made as a child when her sister said an old nun - mutual teacher of theirs had "died on her at school". For a couple years Helen believed her sister had spent a morning at school trapped under the corpse of an elderly nun.
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thanks dyan, I'm sure it's nothing we won't be able to deal with. Will we see you in a couple of weeks?
You will Jackie - looking forward to it. PASers always seem to be meeting at the Civic - that tour of the theatre last year was really wonderful.
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We are dealing, in our house at the mo, with a possible diagnosis of something nasty, I fear.
Much luck & hugs, Jackie - and here's hoping this turns out to not nasty at all.
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I should clarify however that I meant this particular crocodile.
That is one very cool crocodile! It way more appetizing than the Groundhog day cakes we were given as kids, or chocolate covered, cat-turd shaped cookies served in a plastic tray of oats "kitty litter centrepieces" that have long been popular at birthday parties among small gross-joke-loving children in Canada.