Posts by Russell Brown
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Little babies on my buddy Shane's amazing avocado tree, on Waiheke, this morning.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Speaking of endearing proto punks, some of you may have heard that Oliver Lindsey Scott (Olly) died in Invercargill on Christmas Day, he was 60 years old.
Olly! I didn't know him well, or long -- and it was, um, 30 years ago -- but I certainly remember him. A lovely man, who seemed like a bona fide slice of 70s London.
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OnPoint: Association of Community…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
For the record, the science convinced 97.5% of MPs to vote for the third reading of Smoke-free Environments (Controls and Enforcement) Amendment Bill last July and so ban power walls in New Zealand.
Evidence, please. Let’s start with proof that 97.5% of MPs actually know what the Smoke-free Environments (Controls and Enforcement) Amendment Bill does, and then we can move to evidence that they each made up their own mind on how to vote on the bill, and each was convinced by science and not something else.
You could apply this test to virtually any legislative vote in the House and reach the same conclusion. I'm unsure what its real significance is in this context.
Your contention is, I take it, that most MPs did not have a full technical grasp of the relevant medical science -- and instead relied on expert advice in casting their votes. Again, does this not happen regularly in a representative democracy? And does it have any bearing whatsoever on the science itself?
I suppose you could turn it around and ask whether any MP cast a vote for the Smokefree Environments bill without believing that there was a scientific rationale for the new regulation. It's possible I suppose, but in the absence of any evidence it doesn't seem likely.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Russell Clarke,
Having said that, this is still one of my favourite sites.
That is a particularly fine website.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Tom Ackroyd,
Our first cat, Bean. She died after being hit by a car outside our house, soon after this photo was taken, aged 1.
What a beautiful young cat.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Fiona Rae,
… also desks …
To be fair, Colin was still drunk from the night before.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Julie Cross,
Looks like part Russian Blue and part mog, Neo, aka the chosen one.
Quite.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Nora Leggs,
The little guy likes to be within structures… here in the Cone of Silence
That is a seriously great bit of cropping.
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And Fiona last Friday, after a swim atPt Chev turned into a few quiet drinks on the deck in Pt Chev ...
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Same ride, a bit of fun with the HDR effect in Camera+.
