Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Fixing Auckland, in reply to recordari,
looking for cover
Fine for large public places to be mostly open - and this one sounds great - but please fit in some protection from our rapidly-changing elements. Auckland's public planners and urban designers for some reason seem wedded to denial that it rains a lot here. One example is the large and expensive Queen St streetscape upgrade.
Perhaps there's some mass delusion that providing practical shelter ruins the clean lines of the buildings or something? Or that it's not a factor in people deciding whether to use places other than hermetic suburban malls.
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Some great photos of Wynyard Quarter by Sydney of EyeOnAuckland blog.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
From the article Giovanni linked to.
Businesses that run cruise ships have to buy life preservers. Companies that sell alcohol have to keep it away from kids. And people who make communities on the web have to moderate them.
There is no unfettered right to published speech. Speech is a form of action. It has consequences for other people. A civilised society manages that potential impact.
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Field Theory: All Blacks v South Africa…, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
the fervent footballer's answer might be for grasping a pint after the match
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Steve Barnes,
a product of military research. I could say that the exception of this rule is
not quite :)
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Steve Barnes,
the internet, which was born out of
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Hilary Stace,
He's not going back far enough.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Steve Barnes,
the first half looked pretty amazing
those world wars, Depression (financial) and so on were just delightful
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People with depression might make better leaders in times of crisis. reports the Wall St Journal.
How, then, might the leadership of these extraordinary men have been enhanced by mental illness?
An obvious place to start is with depression, which has been shown to encourage traits of both realism and empathy (though not necessarily in the same individual at the same time).
"Normal" nondepressed persons have what psychologists call "positive illusion"—that is, they possess a mildly high self-regard, a slightly inflated sense of how much they control the world around them.
Mildly depressed people, by contrast, tend to see the world more clearly, more as it is.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
Earlier background about Portobello Antiques.
Sian van Dyk, curator at Te Manawa museum, says Blackler is very well-known for having collected a large amount of New Zealand colonial furniture, and a lot of his antiques have been bought by museums in New Zealand and Australia.
Portobello Antiques is "not just your run-of-the-mill antiques", she says.
"[The items there have] real cultural value."
He is appealing to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage Christopher Finlayson to help.
A message received from Finlayson's secretary, in response to a request for support, said "the most likely scenario unfortunately is there won't be a great deal we can do - but we'll do our best".
Crispin Howarth, Curator Pacific Arts at the National Gallery of Australia, said in a letter to Finlayson that "to not attempt to retrieve key objects in Blackler's possession at the property will mean objects of New Zealand's heritage will be wilfully destroyed."
Too late.