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Absolutely delighted – new weight loss update 27 Aug 2013 | 05:19 am
Much to my very pleasant surprise, the scales this morning revealed new weight loss. Since starting on my effort to lose weight, I have now lost 20 kilos. Yes folks, 20 kilos. Still finding the MyFi...
GCSB ‘media’ coverage 22 Aug 2013 | 02:46 pm
It is rather unfortunate that given the pretensions of the media in NZ , see commentary by many in media re Vance/Dunne and the ‘ invasion’ of privacy claimed, that so much coverage of the GCSB matter...
Weight Loss Update 22 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
Adam has now lost 19 kilos since he started his diet. He is now near end of week 15. Impact has been good, health beginning to improve.
China announces new regulation of milk baby formula market 10 Aug 2013 | 09:24 am
From China Daily:- China Food and Drug Administration, the nation’s top food quality regulator, urged food safety authorities across China on Friday to intensify their supervision of baby formula man...
100% Pure – not such a brilliant strapline after all! 10 Aug 2013 | 08:33 am
Adam has thought for many years that the 100% Pure NZ advertising slogan was singularly ill advised conveying as it does a false sense that NZ and all its’ products are pristine, spotless etc. Unfortu...
A disquieting element in Fonterra coverage and comment in NZ 8 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
Reading the press, looking at blogs and comments thereon and in the press; plus listening/watching TV/Radio; plus the comments by various politicians it is clear that many people in NZ, including many...
Fonterra – some peculiar and disturbing viewpoints 8 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
Fran O’Sullivan wrote a useful piece for the NZ Herald. This piece looked at a number of aspects of the matter. Adam will post on the article itself later, probably tomorrow. The immediate subject tho...
Fonterra – a non NZ perspective #2 8 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
From the UK’s Guardian website comes this Chinese ‘man in the street’ comment on the Fonterra botulism scare:- Yang Jing, a father from Zhengzhou in Henan province, said that he and his wife fed the...
Fonterra – a non NZ perspective #1 7 Aug 2013 | 02:16 pm
There is some interesting coverage on the BBC Asian news pages, including some video where the quality of the Fonterra response is discussed and considered to be quite sound. This is not necessarily ...
The Fourth Estate 5 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
Given the angst currently suffered by so many NZ ‘journalists’ it is perhaps appropriate to remember what Oscar Wilde once noted in regard to the Fourth Estate, so called:- In old days men had the ra...
