Posts by Steve Barnes
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Nice one Russell. ;-)
It were like being there.This guy brought his daughter along. Those look like her bikes.
…in Capitalism everything is for sale, nothing has value and somewhere a little girl misses her bike.
I don’t know what the ducks are for.
Teapots I think.
I came back via the northwestern cycleway, and where a section of fence had fallen down, I nipped up on the new left lane westbound for a picture. Naughty me.
I hope you were wearing your Hi-Viz.
Andrew Little’s State of the Nation speech, where I’d been hired to DJ.
They couldn’t afford Max Key?
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I would have thought that Heather Du Plessis-Allan, as a South African, would have been a bit more savvy about the meanings of protest.
Or not, I mean why did she leave? Fear of those nasty black people?
She seems to want to blame the protesters for inconveniencing those poor motorists trying to get to their jobs in finance, insurance, selling crap to tourists or whatever it is those people do in central Auckland.
Oh the Humanity.eta.
Nice pamphlet Rosemary. Good on ya.
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“There are now no regular Māori columnists in the mainstream media”
I actually know a few Maori, writers of all kinds of things.
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Access: Zika and microcephaly: things to…, in reply to John Small,
it appears that the link between zika & microcephaly is really pretty weak.
This is the conclusion that I have come to after reading about it for a few weeks. However, your link is far from an accredited source.
This from the New York Times is a little less rabid…
An emergency designation from the W.H.O. can prompt action and funding from governments and nonprofits around the world. It elevates the agency to the position of global coordinator and gives its decisions the force of international law. It could also help standardize surveillance of new cases across countries — something that Dr. David L. Heymann, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who chaired the emergency committee, said was critical to getting control over the virus.
The global health agency is trying to strike a balance between alerting the public and scaring it. Zika symptoms are mild or even nonexistent in most people. Overreaction could have the effect of punishing countries that are experiencing epidemics, experts say, for example, through restrictions on travel, trade or tourism that could hurt economies.
Headlines like this do no good to understanding the problem…
Scientists warn Zika virus could become ‘explosive pandemic’ as plans to unleash genetically modified mosquitoes move forward
This from Time Magazine is a less panicky…
Is it fatal?
No, but it may pose a risk to pregnant women’s fetuses. The virus has been linked to microcephaly, a condition in which babies have small heads and incomplete brain development; Brazil saw a spike in rates of the condition in 2015. While officials investigate whether there is a link to the country’s Zika infections, they have recommended Brazilian women delay getting pregnant if possible. However, the CDC says more information is needed to conclusively determine a link. “Since there are many causes of microcephaly in babies, it will take some time to determine the cause of these cases,” said a spokeswoman in an emailed statement to TIME.
In addition, health officials are investigating a possible link between the virus and an uptick in cases of a paralysis condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome in both Brazil and French Polynesia. Most people recover fully from the disease, which is characterized by weakness and paralysis in some cases, due to the immune system attacking nerves in the body.
So yes, if you are pregnant, stay away from areas of concern. Otherwise, be aware but…
DON’T PANIC!!!!!ETA...
The biggest concern is yet to come...
Will the Stadium be finished in time because... unions... terrorism... outbreak of [insert disease name here] -
Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Della,
a bunch of people saw those tweets and they know what you said
Well actually quite a few of us here wouldn't, either not following or not the twitter type, so find this all confusing.
So, keep it on twitter eh?. -
Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Sacha,
Please do note the gender of the target.
I'd rather not. Does it matter?.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Sacha,
imagine the confusion.
I don’t have to imagine confusion.
I’ll never have to remember the time when
my sciatica was playing up and your hands hurt,
that was the time that we first met. -
Settle down Sacha,. We know you are ok, don't let them harass you.
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Oh NOES!!!
The twitosphere is imploding…. -
You can't ban Sacha,
he's a minority.