Posts by David Hood
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And one from my 15 year old daughter.
Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
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My personal favorite traveling picture I took was Grassmere from the air. A dusk flight between Dunedin and Wellington.
Taking it through a commercial flight window is why there are a few odd out of focus bits on it.
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Nice visualisations of the leaked chapter
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/18/the-united-states-is-isolated-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations/ -
Unrelated to the TPP (except as a sign of how the U.S.A. responds to treaty issues)- It must be said , the slowly unfolding U.S.A./ Antigua WTO dispute has been hilarious from the outside.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/avast-me-hearties-antigua-legally-pirate-us-copyrighted-works -
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting on a leak of the IP Chapter
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/trade-deal-could-be-bitter-medicine-20131113-2xh4p.html
It sounds pretty bad for NZ from that. -
Capture: Two Tone, in reply to Lilith __,
Thanks. I was taking my daughter out to get picked up by a boat, and said "I'm stopping to take a photo of that boat as I come back".
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Otago Harbour late yesterday afternoon/ early yesterday evening
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Here is something from the BBC I remembered from last year
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
Basically being awake for a while would be thoroughly normal if we hadn’t all been up late due to artificial lighting.
[Edit, others got there first while I was writing this I see :) ] -
Capture: Two Tone, in reply to Chris Waugh,
One captured this morning. I can’t quite get the lamppost to stand out the way it did in the flesh.
One technique would be to apply a darkening effect on the blue? of the sky then convert to black and white.
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The physical requirements of police arguement is pretty minor, as a proportion we do not have as many women sworn officers as Australia or the U.K. Also, the real lack of women police officers is the difference between constables and senior ranks (the ones that run investigations). See the graph on page 22 of this
http://www.police.govt.nz/resources/2008/nz-police-barriers-to-recruitment/nzp-barriers-to-recruitment.pdf
Each of those women constables who can meet the physical requirements for being a constable would be able to meet the physical requirements for the senior ranks. Any argument about meeting the requirements is both rubbish and a distraction. Women are meeting the physical requirements to enter the building of policing, they are just stuck in the lobby as they aren't getting to the member's club on the first floor.
