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Hard News: Time to move on

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  • Islander, in reply to Kracklite,

    Hang in there - enlightenment will come via - diegesis?
    I'll rush away & google that-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Kracklite,

    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...

    The Library of Babel • Since Nov 2007 • 982 posts Report

  • Islander, in reply to Kracklite,

    Breathe deeply. Think of oysters. Know that our world is ruled by birds.

    Yesss!

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • merc, in reply to Rich of Observationz,

    Nah, it doesn't work that way for me.

    Since Dec 2006 • 2471 posts Report

  • Ross Mason,

    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.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Kracklite, in reply to Islander,

    Ah, birds or archosauria, reminders that the Mesozoic didn't end at Chicxulub... mmmm... Kaka and Kea, the intelligent cousins of Tyrannosaurs...

    The Library of Babel • Since Nov 2007 • 982 posts Report

  • Islander, in reply to Kracklite,

    Remember the endangered bird of the dark, the parrot that learned to thrive therein- kakapo...

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Islander,

    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.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • Islander, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Yeah.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Ross Mason,

    Time to change tack:

    From todays Herald

    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"

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Sacha, in reply to Ross Mason,

    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..

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Ross Mason,

    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.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Lucy Telfar Barnard,

    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.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 585 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Can't believe I read all of Holmes at Herald and didn't want to puke.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

  • Chris Waugh, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    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.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Chris Waugh,

    Pick a topic, and stick to it, dammit.

    True.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

  • Sacha, in reply to Chris Waugh,

    Pick a topic, and stick to it, dammit

    highly ironic on a PAS thread :)

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Kumara Republic, in reply to Chris Waugh,

    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.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Chris Waugh,

    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?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Kumara Republic,

    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.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Russell Brown,

    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 {;)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

  • Joe Wylie, in reply to Russell Brown,

    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.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Hebe, in reply to Russell Brown,

    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 ).

    Christchurch • Since May 2011 • 2899 posts Report

  • Chris Waugh, in reply to Russell Brown,

    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.

    Wellington • Since Jan 2007 • 2401 posts Report

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Soo, finally, U 4, No retrial. Time to move on ..... yes we have no terrorists.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report

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