Hard News: Shihad are like the All Blacks, only more reliable
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Christ almighty. Russell does a lovely post about the Homegrown festival, and where are we now? Two people arguing about how good/not good China is, and a couple of side issues re modern warfare. Ah, the joy of a male dominated demographic.......(yes, I know we have had this discussion about the genders and this forum before, no I don't think it's a bad thing etc)
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This might cheer you up, Jackie:
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Digression is wonderful.
And Russell's piece on Homegrown was excellent, unlike the Dom Post review. But there isn't much more to say - "I'm bored with reggae" is an entirely personal attitude and not a good basis for discussion.
And what is modern depends on when you think the modern period started.
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I think that's what the charm of it is. A natural meandering on tangents among amazingly intelligent and worldly people. I don't imagine Russell feels too slighted.
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Thank you Dale, that did give me a laugh.
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heh, in a female dominated demographic, conversation would naturally have meandered back onto the topic of breaks co-op...again ; )
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This might cheer you up
and there's this one ...
http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/photographer/20/20534_large.jpg
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Oh, it's not too late to resurrect the lost tangents and shuffle the discussion back to the real issues...
Bob, I'd also thoroughly recommend Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones which I'm finishing at the moment.
Echoing Simon's recommendation - Hessler's pieces for the New Yorker are always worth turning to first.
As any fule kno: Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry
Up with skool! Amy is right, although the poor old ostrich died for nothing.
And of course the big unanswered question looming over this whole discussion is Shihad : All Blacks :: Phoenix Foundation : ?
Answers on a postcard.
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Bob, I'd also thoroughly recommend Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones which I'm finishing at the moment.
Thanks Jolisa. Up to chapter 3. Completely absorbed already. It's like a good novel, richly detailed and slowly unfolding, but heading to knows where?
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heh, in a female dominated demographic, conversation would naturally have meandered back onto the topic of breaks co-op...again ; )
No, that would be in a Clark dominated demographic, which it is not.Count yourself lucky....
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ha, New Zealand- Auckland- Mt Eden- isn't a Clark dominated demographic?
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Oh, it's not too late to resurrect the lost tangents and shuffle the discussion back to the real issues...
Good, good.
Very partial to Len Lye myself. Recently(ish) found The cheekygirl10 Guide to Len Lye (YouTube), which I enjoy a great deal. Wonder if Trilogy is not shown because they visited about the same time I last did, when it was not on display, and if so whether her dad was as sad about that as I was.
Amy (is in ur gallery, whirling ur...KTHWANG!)
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I only just read the review now. Excellent post ... thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks for that Russel!
Would have enjoyed being there in person as I had planned, but life sometimes has a way of changing one's plans. -
They were indeed, but Weber's is also good and probably comes without all the subsidies, sponsorship and huge price tag of the festival equivalents. So worth giving them a plug.
I've seen the past three versions of the Weber's circus. It's a good circus to take the kids - jugglers, clowns, balancing and acrobatics, wheel of death motorbikes etc. It's what I'd call a 'regional circus' - good enough to tour NZ, Australia etc, bring in the crowds. The 'story theme' scenes with whatever character they've chosen to hold it all together (this summer it's the Jester) annoy the hell out of me.
If you want to see an international quality show, particularly for adults, see a Cirque show. Sadly they don't seem to make the South Island. For twice as much money you'll see a show that will do things that you might not see anywhere else in the world.
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End of tsarism.
Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and creation of modern Turkey.
Beginnings of the collapse of the British Empire (the war was a turning point in British economic fortunes).
Womens suffrage (partly)
Beginnings of a world system to limit conflict.Those are pretty broad claims - both in that they were all good things, and that they arose out of WWI in some significant way. The British Empire 'collapse' I would have argued was more driven by the changing ideas about empire and colonies, and the changing nature of those colonies and their aspirations, which played out post-WW2. Britain wouldn't have held onto India, large parts of Africa etc, if it had been stronger economically - post-colonialism was a worldwide movement. The Ottoman Empire was pretty much done, though like Russia and the Tsars, it was toppled over the edge by the war.
Indeed, the arbitrary slicing up of much of the Western world at Versailles had a significant role in making World War II happen, along with conflicts in Yugoslavia, parts of the Middle East, Russia etc.
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From page 4
Given that most Chinese can't watch CNN and BBC World,
From recent experience, and per the web links I posted elsewhere, this simply isn't true anymore. The data both in the hotels, and in the publicly available information is nowhere as censored as we in the west are led to believe.
Chinese authorities do seem to be making concerted online attempts to disrupt critical expression. Explorers Web reports in some detail about it’s recent experience
To be honest I’ve wished to do a bit of spamming on this website myself as it takes a holier than thou view on a lot of things including regular denigration of New Zealander Russell Brice who is largely responsible for the development of mountain guiding on the northern (Tibet) side of Mt Everest and the employment of large numbers of locals there.
Nevertheless they do highlight what seems to be fairly determined efforts to interfere with them.
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And of course 24 of these Tibetan locals make up the 36 strong party taking the Olympic flame to the summit in the live broadcast that is about to begin. Carrying the loads and laying the trail just as they have done for the nationalist ambitions of various countries since 1921 including ’loyal little New Zealand".
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Live feed here.
The filming is probably from microwave cameras on the helmets of presumably the Tibetans (the only guys who will be able to multi task above 8000m.)
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