Posts by ChrisW
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Spring shower and lillies
what a lovely window capture!
And how you say ... ar - um ... lilies! :-)We had a good show-er of thunderstorm yesterday afternoon.
White-faced heron backon the riverbank, took it stoically for a time, before taking the flight option after a particularly close intense thunder-clap. -
I'll experiment with presenting them at images in our photoblog template, but the embeds here will do for now. Not that you can click them to see a bigger version.)
I noted the access to bigger versions as I read this, thanks.
I noted too what would be tempting to call the parallelism of the first two, manufacturing as percentages of employment and of GDP 1989-2012/13. But then that their declines are not parallel - instead the systematic shift from the employment percentage being below the GDP percentage to above it. That is, that manufacturing has shifted from having lower than average GDP-output per employee to similarly above average.
And it might be tempting to attribute this to a positive choice and policy intent by successive governments. But no - suggest not a result of 'intelligent design' but instead an analogy to evolutionary change driven by 'natural' selection - lower-waged lower-productivity manufacturing has been less able to survive in the economic environment of these decades than higher productivity manufacturing.
I guess this was a small part of what Paul Callaghan was on about. And the point of these graphs - to stimulate analysis and discussion.
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Three of them in fact. After all. they’re so cute, even when caught pink-handed stealing walnuts.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Scaramouch,
scaramouch,easy come, easy go
a little high, little low
anyway the wind blows,
doesn't really matter …Nah, sodit, not rhapsodic –
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Stephen R,
RadioNZ published an apology this morning
To make it clear, it was RadioNZ's apology for broadcasting Hooton's melt-down, not an apology from Hooton.
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Grey morning heron the riverbank,
white-faced New Zealand’s
America’s Cup dream,
aerodynamically foiled,
takes off,
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Curia sets a new reliability standard for question design in political polling -
"If a general election were held today, would you vote for a political party such as the National Party?" -
There was a curious sort of symmetry as a flotilla of clouds drifted down the river, against the silent flow of the incoming tide.
A sort of symmetry?
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On the riverbank this morning
pink clouds drifting past the flax.Pink clouds drifting past the flax.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Jos,
First yellow admiral I've seen, had to Google it.
Beautifully done!
So striking the oddity of its stand-out colour-patterning and camouflage both - looks good against your mosaic background.
You might well be able to sample parts of its wing patterning to spell out a good enough imitation of 'Google' to sell it back to them?I see these now and then, but completely fluffed my only chance to photograph one - too slow. Best look at one I've had - thanks!
