Posts by George Darroch
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I would thoroughly recommend having your running stride analyzed in a running-shoe shop, and then buying a shoe that prevents the movement that may be causing it. The shoes you buy may be expensive, but arthritis or joint replacement surgery is worse, unfortunately.
Also, if you want to avoid injury, increase your distances very slowly. No more than 10% more a week in both your total and your longest run. It may feel too slow, but you'll have more distance to look forward to the next week and you can sustain it. I think you could do a half within 4 months, assuming you're doing 10k comfortably now.
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I don't have time to comment in full, but will just very briefly note two things. Brazil just the other week put a 2% tax on capital inflows. It's currency has behaved much like ours in recent times, on the back of speculative investment into non-productive capital. It received approval from places as diverse as the Financial Times and Melbourne's The Age, and there's been suggestions that it could work well in other countries with similar problems. While this doesn't directly affect the debate on controlling the currency, it does show that we have options, if we want to use them.
The RBNZ does intervene in the currency, buying and selling to moderate it, but it can only prevent spikes, rather than control its direction. I actually wouldn't be entirely averse to pegging the dollar again, but for me the bigger question is who would we peg? Our monetary policy settings are different to those of almost every other nation, for a number of reasons.
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I mean, possible with the current bunch.
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Strong reform of media governance laws
You really think that is even possible in New Zealand?
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Thanks for the link Lyndon.
What a depressing state of affairs.It's fantastic isn't it?
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listening to Helen Kelly of the CTU try and explain the issue to Jim Mora and Graham Bell on The Panel last week was painful. Neither of them seemed to grasp what she was talking about.
You'd think that the concept of the right to a break being taken away, including the right to a toilet break, would be pretty simple to understand. I can't see what's complicated.
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Well, I pulled an all-nighter trying to finish a thesis chapter. And I'm still here...
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I don't think anything was killed (I assume you're joking, actually). PAS threads frequently sustain half a dozen topics simultaneously....
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No spitting from me. I think there's something in that.
It worked under Helen Clark. It's not working now, because it only works when you're able to paper over disputes in the service of winning. About now would be a good time for Labour to work out some of these issues.
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Matthew, thanks for your clarifications so far. Most of these points are indeed obvious if you read the Act, but some are not. In the last year I've read a good number of bills and laws, and have been surprised at the clarity of legislation, for the most part. The drafters are careful to make interpretation of the law limited, but they can't foresee all interpretations - which is why a robust select committee process is important. Where all major parties except the Greens are happy to shunt bills through (in many such cases), problems can arise.
Thankfully all legislation, including all bills, is available now at Legislation.govt.nz - anyone who deals with laws, new or existing, should bookmark this site. It sure beats having to stand in Bennetts!