Posted at 8:22pm on 21 Sep 2007
The Green Party says there is no sense of urgency in a proposed emissions trading scheme announced by the Government.
Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says the scheme lets the farming sector off scot-free until 2013 and by the time it is fully operational, it may be too late ... but too late for what?
Too late to institute changes that will potentially crucify our export sector?
Too late before this 'hot anthropogenic pyroclastic flow' of "fear of catastrophic man-made global warming “bites the dust” and the scientific underpinnings for alarm may be “falling apart.”
New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming. A progression of peer-reviewed studies have been published which serve to debunk the United Nations, former Vice President Al Gore, and the media engineered “consensus” on climate change.
This really is the Greens at their irresponsible best.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Was zum Teufel soll das bedeuten? Everyday Life In The Forties?
Now really ... could one have expected anything different in respect to crimes against humanity, other than for them to be perpetrated by normal people with commonly held beliefs and an overwhelming sense that what they were doing was correct?
The execution of this monstrous act could only have occurred in a supportive climate ... the monstrosity of it largely ajudged retrospectively.
Call for hospital 'suicide teams'
A study by Auckland University psychiatrist Simon Hatcher has found that hospitals are failing to intervene before it is too late for many.
Hospitals see between 5000 and 6000 cases of self-harm a year ... but of this range,
* 95 per cent get psychiatric assessments ... and it is presumably on this basis that
* Only 30 per cent get more than a follow-up phone call from a mental health crisis team within six months ... and yet
* Between 5 and 15 per cent are dead within five years.
Now is this really indicative of a need to impose more aggressively on this group of people?
"The ideal way to do it is to have a dedicated self-harm team in the same way as dedicated stroke teams. "They need to be multi-disciplinary, including mental health and physical health and non-health staff from non-government organisations, Work and Income, ACC and social workers, because people who present with self-harm often have multi-faceted problems."
Now I seem to recall that a number of studies have shown that greater contact with professionals created a greater preoccupation with insurmountable problems and hence lesser inclination to partcipate in alternative activity and greater probability of self harm?
... and strokes as an analogy?
Hospitals see between 5000 and 6000 cases of self-harm a year ... but of this range,
* 95 per cent get psychiatric assessments ... and it is presumably on this basis that
* Only 30 per cent get more than a follow-up phone call from a mental health crisis team within six months ... and yet
* Between 5 and 15 per cent are dead within five years.
Now is this really indicative of a need to impose more aggressively on this group of people?
"The ideal way to do it is to have a dedicated self-harm team in the same way as dedicated stroke teams. "They need to be multi-disciplinary, including mental health and physical health and non-health staff from non-government organisations, Work and Income, ACC and social workers, because people who present with self-harm often have multi-faceted problems."
Now I seem to recall that a number of studies have shown that greater contact with professionals created a greater preoccupation with insurmountable problems and hence lesser inclination to partcipate in alternative activity and greater probability of self harm?
... and strokes as an analogy?
Caesareans set to be most common births
Caesareans are likely to be the commonest way of delivering a baby at Auckland City Hospital within five years
Oh yes.
the rate of elective caesareans, which comprised more than a third of all caesareans at National Women's, increased markedly with maternal age.
Oh yes . .. the 'fear factor?'
The proportion of women aged 36 to 40 giving birth has more than doubled since 1991, to more than 20 per cent last year.
Oh yes ... older, less elasticity, no longer having the impulsiveness of youth ... aesthetics?
Oh yes.
the rate of elective caesareans, which comprised more than a third of all caesareans at National Women's, increased markedly with maternal age.
Oh yes . .. the 'fear factor?'
The proportion of women aged 36 to 40 giving birth has more than doubled since 1991, to more than 20 per cent last year.
Oh yes ... older, less elasticity, no longer having the impulsiveness of youth ... aesthetics?
The report also charts an increase in women who haemorrhaged more than a litre of blood following birth, "which is in part due to the increased caesarean section rate".
Aha ... so there is a cost, and in the USA, neonatal mortality rates were higher among infants delivered by cesarean section (1.77 per 1,000 live births) than for those delivered vaginally (0.62) ... cesarean birth is associated with higher maternal morbidity.
"I don't think women are being given good information about the risks involved, not only for them but for their babies, in having a caesarean."
But perhaps they are ... perhaps this is a risk older women are prepared to accept for ... what were those 'payoffs' again?
Ellis In Wonderland.
No complaint on Marc Ellis streak.
New legislation means streakers at major events can be jailed for up to three months or fined $5000.
A political statement?
"It was definitely a finger at the Government," Ellis said of his streak ... but wrong finger Marc ... any red blooded kiwi male knows that that is the 'please Miss, may I ..." finger, not sticking it to anybody. Sooo ...
Mind altering substances?
Egotistically driven exhibitionism?
A sad attempt to reclaim that lost public acclaim?
Even if it was a bet undertaken in a disinhibited state, the pose is definitely a 'notice me' one and it would appear no one gave chase, no one took him to the ground, no one took him away ... West Coast police were unaware ... bugger.
Police called after 9-year-old goes berserk at school
"Police were called after a nine-year-old boy went berserk at a Palmerston North primary school leaving teachers fearing for their safety." ... and I am sure for the safety of their other charges.
"The teachers were unable to get the stick off him, they were worried about their safety and the repercussions of manhandling a student." ... and hence the safety of their careers.
This really is a sad indictment on the extent to which child 'rights' have progressed - that those charged with providing 'a safe learning environment' for them are so disempowered by the system that they are simply unable to provide this 'safe learning environment' for the offending child (do not feel they can do what is necessary to stop the behaviour), for other children in their care or for themselves ... and of course involving the police will disempower them further. What chance now for this child to acquire that mandated education in this school?
Now if such a beserk child were to injure another child while teachers watched and waited for the police, would they be culpable by ommission?
This level of immobility by caregivers (teachers), principally out of a fear of the potential consequences of their behaviour on them, is really neither safe nor acceptable practice.
"The teachers were unable to get the stick off him, they were worried about their safety and the repercussions of manhandling a student." ... and hence the safety of their careers.
This really is a sad indictment on the extent to which child 'rights' have progressed - that those charged with providing 'a safe learning environment' for them are so disempowered by the system that they are simply unable to provide this 'safe learning environment' for the offending child (do not feel they can do what is necessary to stop the behaviour), for other children in their care or for themselves ... and of course involving the police will disempower them further. What chance now for this child to acquire that mandated education in this school?
Now if such a beserk child were to injure another child while teachers watched and waited for the police, would they be culpable by ommission?
This level of immobility by caregivers (teachers), principally out of a fear of the potential consequences of their behaviour on them, is really neither safe nor acceptable practice.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Spare The Rod And ...
And quite a number of these children are similarly far too young for the 'rod.' Pharmac records suggest thousands of prescriptions a year are being written for children under 10 ... For children and adolescents, it said, the risk of suicidal ideas and behaviour from newer antidepressants called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) generally outweighed their benefits.
Older "tricyclic" antidepressants were not generally recommended for those under 18 because of the risk of heart problems.Causing most alarm are the figures for babies, even though they dropped sharply during the three years.
For one-year-olds, 768 prescriptions were written in 2004-05, down to 24 by last year. For those under one, there were 453 prescriptions in 2004-05 but only nine last year.
The numbers also declined for every other age group under 10, but each group remained in the hundreds last year.
The reduction in such prescriptions is good .. that they still occurr in the hundreds for most age groups uder ten is a cause of grave concern.
Older "tricyclic" antidepressants were not generally recommended for those under 18 because of the risk of heart problems.Causing most alarm are the figures for babies, even though they dropped sharply during the three years.
For one-year-olds, 768 prescriptions were written in 2004-05, down to 24 by last year. For those under one, there were 453 prescriptions in 2004-05 but only nine last year.
The numbers also declined for every other age group under 10, but each group remained in the hundreds last year.
The reduction in such prescriptions is good .. that they still occurr in the hundreds for most age groups uder ten is a cause of grave concern.
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