Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Hard News: The good guys, in reply to Lilith __,
with the Ferns winning the game but losing the cup by a nose. Almost zero media coverage
Ah...but do you remember the media coverage for netball when A Certain Company wanted to put their brand logo on the seat of the players' uniform pants?
Said it all, really.
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to B Jones,
Kinda like we're doing here?
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Solar panels...have two 85W on the roof of our Bus. Four (don't ask how many amphours, guys) deep cycle batteries. We have a doohick to take excess power generated from the engine(once the cranking battery is topped up) and dump that into the deep cycle batteries.
We have a pure sinewave inverter...which, when the volts are about 13.4, we can plug in a 240V appliance. If the appliance draws heaps..(love these technical terms) like heating an element...the inverter beeps, flashes lights and shuts down...it is programmed to protect the deep cycle batteries. If the sun is shining directly overhead, the solar panels are clean, we can suck up about 15A from the panels. Feed that into the batteries and use it to charge Peter's emotion wheels, cellphones, laptop. There is a little smiley/sad face icon on our solar controller (the brains of the system) to let me know that all is well.
We would like a small, portable wind turbine. One that we can wire through our solar controller. For those days when the sun don't shine, but the wind is threatening to blow us over.
Then...we would probably never have to plug into the mains ever again.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Thought you might. ;-)
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Ackshully....I said..."a bit of balsamic vinegar." YP replied, in that 'orrible whiny tone..."Uh, there isn't any in here". "What is there then?" sez moi, "Uh, red wine vinegar." That'll do.
(There was balsamic in the pantry. Right by the RW Vinegar.)
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
though you may regret it.
Not at all....and believe it or not we had kinda worked out what you said (gulp!) but not in so many words.
The $1425.67 per night sounds about right...just for the bed, and peripherals...such as nursing care and the like. No actual treatment per se.
Add on chemo at $30,000 a pop and the average goes way up.
There are also additional complications – a night in hospital increases your risk of subsequent hospitalisation, which then costs the DHB more. I haven’t factored that into the cost.
Comes as NO surprise that one.
Be almost worth it to do a survey just on that alone.
Thanks for that response.
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Speaker: Are there opportunities within…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Yep. The other day, I got one of the Young People to fry up some onions, chuck in garlic, salt and pepper and a tin of cheap chopped peeled tomatoes. "Boil the shit out of it" I instructed (the yoof terminology for 'reduce') and add a bit of vinegar.
Yum.
I can just hear your sister say "you make yours from scratch?"...does she have the accent?
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http://www.hpenz.co.nz/product.aspx?ProductID=142
2kVA? Would that do the necessary?
"Retail price (excluding GST): $2,595.56"
Trade or bulk buying...much cheaper.
This model s popular with the motorhoming fraternity...must have your coffee machine! Seriously though, there are a few living fulltime in Buses that have CPAP and BiPaps...the genny is a must.
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These people probably don't see themselves as activists....
https://www.teawamutu.nz/courier/archive/2015/2015-11-03.pdf
"Volunteers rally for Tokanui forgotten."
The stigma of mental illness left 450 Tokanui dead in unmarked graves in an unofficial cemetery, that in modern times became part of an Agresearch farm.
This was in today's Courier...that link is to a big file...perhaps in a few days it will be downloadable as an individual article.
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Phone calls continued. I was repeatedly treated like an idiot, asked if I’d rung the power company, and surely I must have friends or family who could put us up for the night (friends and family with spare beds and wheelchair-accessible homes?). I was told to go and see our GP (at whose expense? And what could he possibly do?).
I'm surprised no one told you to take a chill pill and wash it down with a cup of harden the f*ck up.
After what happened to this person...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10806437 (from your post)
and this person....https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2007/07/newz-j05.html
An Auckland District Health Board spokesman said that although the power cut had stopped the oxygen machine, Muliaga should not have been reliant on it and would not have been sent home had she needed the machine to keep her alive.
bold mine.
.....one could have reasonably expected that they would have got their collective shit together on this one.