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Men who treat women as people: you're not part of the problem.
Could we talk about this problem of the vast number of men who don't treat women as people? And what can be done about it?What can you, as a decent man, do to change the attitudes of other men?
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Thank you Emma. <3
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Hard News: On the Clark candidacy, in reply to Dennis Frank,
The woman is merely a mainstreamer. Good enough to be a semi-plausible prime minister on some issues while out of her depth on others. I suspect those participating in the UN votes have sussed her out.
Jesus Christ, I don't think even her bitterest political enemies in NZ find her mediocre! She's headed the UNDP since 2009. That's a very big freaking deal.
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Speaker: Colouring Girl, in reply to Sacha,
archival pigment-based inks for inkjet printers
ooh, link please
It’s costly and I’ve only seen it advertised in commercial settings, such as my old friends at Microfilm Digital Print in Chch. Archival prints also require acid-free printing paper.
Home-grade inkjet prints will fade after a few months on the wall. Interestingly, cheap colour-laser prints (or laser photocopies) retain their colour much longer because the toner is made of particles rather than a thin film of transparent ink.
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Wow, what a fascinating story! And doesn't Grace Rawson still have a steady hand and a sure touch!
A curious fact that colour photographic prints have never had the archival qualities of black-and-white, which if treated well can last 100-200 years. Colour photographs are still very prone to colour shifts and fading over time. I imagine White's black-and-white prints coloured with oil paint would retain their colour well.
I suspect it's only with the development of archival pigment-based inks for inkjet printers that hand-colouring has been outmoded.
And what a beautiful process! I did a little retouching when I was at design school and it's so hard to make the colour even. Maximum respect to these ladies!
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Hard News: On the Clark candidacy, in reply to Sacha,
He was charged with sedition rather than threatening personal violence.
Helen Clark was Prime Minster, not a private citizen.
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You throw an axe through someone's window, that's threatening violence. It ain't freedom of speech.
Has anyone threatened Marama Fox with anything? She's had her say, and some have agreed and others disagreed. That's how freedom of speech works. -
I think Helen Clark is brilliant. Other people are entitled to their views, and I understand that the Foreshore and Seabed Act and the Urewera Raids have led to bitterness.
The Clark government achieved much in the area of equitable social policy. John Key’s government has intentionally increased inequity, with tax cuts for the rich, sale of state assets, privatisation in the public sector (prisons, schools), gutting of the social housing system, a “penal welfare” system that treats beneficiaries as criminals who need correction…
The Maori Party has enabled Key’s government.
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Southerly: A Tale of Two Iceblocks: Part…, in reply to David Haywood,
It’s a complicated issue and – as far as I can see – has to have a somewhat complicated solution. Of course, a binding global agreement would in many ways make everything so much more straightforward!
I didn’t mean that as a criticism (of your explanation, or of the concept of a PGST) at all. It seems totally clear to me that we need it. It just reminds me of when I sat down with the IRD Guide to Depreciation. For those of us not used to thinking in these terms, it's hard. :-)
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Southerly: A Tale of Two Iceblocks: Part…, in reply to David Haywood,
the knowledge doesn’t seem able to make its way to policy makers and policy analysts. I wrote these two pieces at the urging of a colleague in an attempt to ‘throw the information over the wall’ to the policy people
It's very interesting David, but to this non-engineer it seems very complicated! Not the overall clean iceblock/dirty iceblock idea, but all the many components in calculating whose fault the greenhouse gases are.