Dragon band member dead. Alan Mansfield, Sharon O'Neill's partner has died from cancer in Sydney.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5310...field-dies

From the looks of press coverage Jacinda is looking radiant these days. Quite a contrast to the sallow and drawn look she displayed towards the end of her time as PM. Makes you appreciate how much vitriol and negativity she was enduring from the toxic sector of our population.

She's got a gong from Prince William! How lovely, how well earned...

After an intervention threat from govt, Wgtn CC is to hold an urgent meeting. Simeon Brown won't confirm when he'll meet with Tory Whanau. The council voted to stop the sale of its 34% stake in Wellington airport.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5309...ion-threat

Balancing Medical Ethics and Legal Risks in Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZnVDnsvJM

The amount of misinterpretation of the instructions implemented in Waikato Hospital is a sad indictment on the comprehension levels of many people combined with poorly worded media coverage of the issue.

My sister is a senior (~50 years experience) nurse who works in a large public hospital in Auckland. She has on numerous occasions over the past few years raised the fears and frustrations she is experiencing during her working day of immigrant nurses who struggle with English medical terminology and persist in talking between themselves in their native tongues in clinical and bedside situations. The hospital department where she works has instructed nurses to speak in English during their work, with non-English conversations tolerated in social surroundings such as in the canteen.

The language used by health professionals is often highly technical and specialised in order for rapid and precise transferral of patient's afflictions and treatment regimes. There is no place for miscommunications and misinterpretation of vital signs, nature of injuries or disease symptoms and/or pharmaceutical regimes is not an option as this can easily result in life threatening situations.

Comments being bandied around accusing Waikato Hospital of racism and failure of patient care levels are totally out of line. Where communications with patients are compromised due to lack of English skills interpreters are employed to allow full evaluation of their health issues and this is ongoing and not due to change but the large numbers of immigrant nurses now present in our health system is making for difficulties for senior staff and even NZ trained junior nurses as communications are tested by the prevalence of E2L staff members in their workplace.

Its been happening for some time now.

This was rumoured for a while now but now its confirmed.
Im not sure how this will play out and/or if it will escalate the situation there, but its safe to say that North Korean soldiers will likely not be very useful to the Russians.
I think it tells us how desperate Putin is to take this measure, I also expect a good amount to surrender to Ukraine too.

This at last might be some good competition for AMD, will wait and see.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleath...s-for-amd/

The booster landing of starship went down to textbook accuracy, just catching up on the livestream now.
Shame these happen so late at night for us down here!