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Listening to the Juke Box

December 19, 2009 by  
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“Clearly, the fluoride argument is a very complex issue, many differing scientific studies, with many different stakeholders who have many different perspectives, some well meaning and some self-serving, motivated by profit, and many just ignorant of the facts. Cui bono (latin for “as a benefit to whom”) more colloquially, WHO benefits?”

A Tooth for a Tooth

December 18, 2009 by  
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If the Letters to the Editor of my local Newspaper, The CHB Mail (Tuesday December 15, 2009) are anything to go by, the issue of fluoridation to our local public water supply is becoming

White Out

December 17, 2009 by  
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C S Lewis in his book ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ raises the notion of a ‘deeper magic’ (when one who is blameless willingly dies on behalf of the guilty and may return to life). Lewis’ main character, Aslan goes head to head with

High on a Hill

November 17, 2008 by  
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Listening to the tributes about my great grandmother Moewaka Jane Rapana (or Nama as she was affectionately called) it wasn’t hard to imagine her walking between us all standing there. It seemed fitting that she would rest on the high hill overlooking her beloved

Hura Kohatu, the Unveiling

November 16, 2008 by  
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It was an ambivalent day, the day of my great grandmother Moewaka Jane Rapana’s unveiling, ambivalent how? Well, neither the day nor the weather could agree who was going to have first say about how events would pan out and eventually we left them to argue between themselves like siblings in a childhood dust up.

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