Posts by Stewart
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On a personal note, I am a little disturbed at the beatification of Sophie Elliott. Can't we see some shades of grey - the world is not all black (Weatherston) and white (Saint Sophie Elliott).
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Fans of the Black Caps, fans of the Warriors, fans of the Highlanders...
The highs are sweeter because of the lows we have been through.
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Re my earlier 'injustice' remark...
I was referring to times when a lack of natural justice was evident - that Dean's non-try being the trigger.
But I'm happy to admit that most AB losses are beaten up by the media into a national froth and not a few fans tend to believe that all losses are the result of skullduggery by the cheating foreigners. For myself, I take the result as it stands whether I am happy with it or not. And I'm not particularly happy about the weekend's loss to the Boks - too many unforced errors (to go with plenty of forced errors as the Boks put the ABs under 40 minutes of pressure in the 1st half). Beaten on the day, but to be a real fan you have to stick with it during good times and bad. Did I mention that I am a Highlanders fan? I do 'the bad times' as well as the good. ;-)
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And, IMO, it is not our attitude to defeat, but our attitude to injustice .
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I read the entire copyright thread. I am insane.
Cause & effect?
I read pretty much all of every thread & comment where/when I feel like it; but I stopped reading the copyright thread and went back to pushing needles into my eyes. (Purely because it doesn't interest or have an immediate effect on me - obviously some folk are passionate about it.)
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As a near-luddite I was amused that Lance had problems with having to make yet another tedious click to get to some feature. Clicking a mouse button is one of the least arduous exertions we can make (Stephen Hawking, et al excepted) so if that's the level of his complaints he must hate having to get out of bed, walk anywhere and don';t get him started on the hassle of all that diaphragm-heaving just to keep breathing.
I don't use many of the features available - never set up an RSS feed in my life - but I really enjoy dropping in to PAS tio see what wonderful articles have been added and what all the PAS-people have been discussing. I was thrilled when I discovered PAS after years of just reading the posts & never dropping 'behind the curtain' where we can log-in and post and read comments.
Needless to say, I am another who 'followed' Russell from bFM's Hard News to PA and eventually to PAS.
We are a varied and lively community and I like it like that.
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Thanks for that clarification. It doesn't make it any easier for me to decide one way or another because the level of fortification is so low that it is addressing 12% where 70% is amenable to being addressed by increased folate.
Any improvement is obviously a good thing but I can't help feeling that it could be better targeted or somehow improved so it gets closer to preventing the whole 70% amenable to this solution.
Oh well...it's an imperfect world.
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If the folate fortification would produce a 12% decrease in the incidence of NTDs, how much of the remaining 88% is a result of some hereditary genetic situation, and can this genetic condition be screened for?
It sounds like the herediary aspect would account for a greater percentage than the folate-deficiency and if it can be screened-for then I would suggest that was a 'better' course of action.
(This is assuming that the figures are ballpark-correct and that the aim of folate fortification is a reduction in NTD births)
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Surely "dirty smelly hippies" are part of diversity, too?
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Apologies if that comes across as simplistic nonsense - I am not into accounting or economics and have no real understanding of the intricacies of those subjects, but I am part of the problem as I consume, drive a car, etc.