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'Prescribe less' plea to doctors
Home » News » Dunedin
By Elspeth McLean on Sat, 6 Mar 2010

http://www.odt.co.nz/the-regions/otago/96427/039prescribe-less039-plea-doctors




meanwhile
...an influx of internet-order medicines containing everything from arsenic to bird droppings, health authorities warn. ...GNS Science principal scientist Dallas Mildenhall said screening of counterfeit Viagra stopped at New Zealand's border had found the major ingredient was guano – bat and bird droppings....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/3411519/Internet-Viagra-turns-out-to-be-bird-droppings

[Magoo]

screening of counterfeit Viagra stopped at New Zealand's border had found the major ingredient was guano – bat and bird droppings....

I wonder if the library will do a roaring trade now. 

[nitpicker1]

screening of counterfeit Viagra stopped at New Zealand's border had found the major ingredient was guano – bat and bird droppings....

I wonder if the library will do a roaring trade now. 

With our DHB writing a letter asking doctors to prescribe less in an effort to cut costs, patients might be better off with the cheaper internet imports?

[nitpicker1]

  If yr gonna do it, do it good:



'Rogue' exec sells hotel's China assets
By PATTRICK SMELLIE
BusinessWire
Last updated 08:44 13/04/2010


A 'rogue' executive working for Millennium and Copthorne Hotels NZ's Chinese joint venture partner has unlawfully sold Chinese hotel assets worth US$47.8 million, of which US$16.3 million (NZ$22.7 million) belongs to Millennium, the company says.

The disposals appear to represent 62 percent of the joint venture's assets, with only 38 percent of the group's assets, mainly in Sichuan, still under its control, the hotel group said in a statement.

Managing director B K Chiu says Cheung Ping Kwong, owner of a 20 percent interest in the company responsible for hotel developments to which the Millennium group is exposed, last week sold interests in two hotels in the Hainan and Dongguan regions by deceit, intimidation, and unlawful use of the company's seals.

The disposals, which Millennium says it will attempt to overturn, occurred last Thursday and Friday, and followed Cheung's dismissal in March from all office-holder roles, and the issuing of new company seals.   

Under Chinese law, company seals, or "chops," are taken to represent the full authority of a company.

The removal and misuse of chops in cases of corporate relationship breakdowns is a widely documented risk facing foreign investors in China.

Millennium says Cheung took the company seals and corporate documents of the Hainan Hotel Owning Company, 100 percent-owned by Idea Valley, using "unconventional practices, including intimidation and forceful tactics".

The seals of another company, which operates the hotel but is not part of the contested sale, were also taken.

On top of that, Cheung arranged disposal of IVGL's 80 percent holding in a mixed development project in Dongguan province, China, to a close associate.

Cheung had already been removed as chief executive of IVGL in November last year, after failing to meet the conditions of the joint venture, which was established through First Sponsor Capital in September 2007.   

Millennium owns a 34 percent stake in FSCL, which in turn owns 75 percent of Idea Valley Investment Holdings, of which Cheung's company owns 20 percent. 

IVIHL owns 100 percent of IVGL, the company which Cheung headed until November last year when he was removed, and which owned 100 percent and 80 percent respectively of the Hainan and Guanggdong developments.

Chui said IVIHL was now completing relevant filings to confirm Cheung's removal from various I-Vale entities, seeking legal advice on the disposals, reporting Cheung's unauthorised actions to various Chinese authorities, and preparing a police report

"IVIHL is dependent on the assistance and cooperation from the various People's Republic of China governmental authorities and bodies to prevent loss and damage to IVIHL's interests," Chiu said.

The New Zealand hotel-owning group ventured into China in September 2007, saying it had been urged by shareholders to seek higher growth markets.

It said the I-Vale opportunity was a unique opportunity to gain exposure to a high-growth area of China.

"We believe that this investment, in the medium to long term, will deliver financial returns which are better than what we could expect to receive if we pursued our current investment policies", said Chiu at the time.

Monday's statement was released to the market after close of trading.  Millennium shares last traded unchanged at 48 cents.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/3575359/Rogue-exec-sells-hotels-China-assets

[nitpicker1]

Nitz rolls on the floor laughing at http://xtranewscommunity2.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,6052.0/msg,95094.html

How many of the antismoking lobbyists have shares in prescription-free anti Smoking therapies?

is Ash et al setting up a brand new addiction?

http://ezinearticles.com/?You-Can-Easily-Get-Addicted-to-the-Nicotine-in-a-Nicotine-Replacement-Therapy&id=1978609

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Addiction-Substance-Abuse/nicorette-gum-addiction/show/501859



yes, I know a "succesful" non-smoker who I consider is addicted to the gum so I went googling to find out if it is possible

[ssweetpea]

Part of why you can get addited to the gum is that you are swapping one habit for another.

One way to give up the nicotine gum is to replace it with ordinary gum.

Back in the 70s my mother started having a cigarette with her coffee instead of eating biscuits in order to lose weight. Then she substituded a couple of pieces of normal chewing gum for the cigarette.

She stopped smoking completely over 20 years ago.

There is still a fresh packet of chuddy in the glove box of her car if she is feeling peckish. She still has it regularly.

[nitpicker1]

Part of why you can get addited to the gum is that you are swapping one habit for another.


tried that, he says the withdrawal from the gum gives bad temper, irritability and all the "symptoms"  back again.





_{(Personally I think it has probably exposed his natural personality)}

[nitpicker1]

Broadcaster fined for raunchy scenes
KIRSTY JOHNSTON
Stuff
Last updated 14:45 20/12/2010

TV3's owner TVWorks has been ordered to pay $4000 and given a stern warning for airing two "raunchy" and "sexually explicit" segments at inappropriate times.

The fine, from the Broadcasting Standards Authority, related to a 3 News segment featuring numerous sex scenes from drama Outrageous Fortune, while the warning stemmed from the too-graphic opening of a crime movie.

The movie, We Own the Night, played on TV3 just after 8.30pm on May 29.

Its opening scene showed a graphic scene where a female character lay on a couch and moved her hand between her legs, while a male character kissed her.

She was then shown writhing on the couch, moaning and breathing heavily, while her breast was exposed by the male character.

The scene lasted for approximately four minutes, and ended when they were interrupted by a knock at the door.

In its decision the BSA said that the opening scene clearly contained "strong adult material" as envisaged by the guideline.

"While no genitalia was visible, the sexual content in the scene...[it] was graphic, raunchy, and prolonged," the decision said.

It found TVWorks breached the broadcasting standard protecting children's interests because it showed the movie too close to adults only time.

It said the broadcaster did not adequately consider the interests of children when broadcasting the scene just two minutes after the AO watershed.

Meanwhile, the Outrageous Fortune item on 3 News, aired on July 13, was deemed too explicit for its 6.35pm timeslot.

The BSA found that despite being proceeded by a warning from the newsreader, the story breached the good taste and decency and children's interests standards.

During the news item, about the series' final, ten raunchy clips from the programme were shown including; two characters having sex on an outdoor chair; a clothed couple having sex up against a bathroom wall; a partially dressed couple having sex outside on a lawn and a partially dressed couple diving on top of one another and knocking over a couch.

While some of the characters appeared to be naked or wearing very little, no genitalia or nudity was displayed in the news item.

In its decision the BSA said that in its view the numerous clips of couples having sex or engaging in sexual activity went well beyond what is acceptable in a 6pm news item.

"Promoting Outrageous Fortune through the use of extensive sexual material was, in our view, neither newsworthy nor in the public interest."

The BSA noted that the three-minute item contained ten clips from Outrageous Fortune containing sexual material, six of which explicitly showed couples having sex.

As well as the $4000 fine, TVWorks was also ordered to broadcast a summary of the Broadcasting Standards Authority's decision relating to the item.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/4477936/Broadcaster-fined-for-raunchy-scenes


also ordered to broadcast a summary of the Broadcasting Standards Authority's decision relating to the item.



B*****r, I'll miss it

[nitpicker1]

@ http://xtranewscommunity2.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,7026.0.html

and remembers  http://www.goldprice.org/gold-news/

[nitpicker1]

Back in the dimdarks I would probably have asked "Is there a nigger in the Kapiti Coast's woodpile?"

These days I 'spose I should ask "Has the Kapiti Coast Council dropped a spaMMer in the works?"



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from http://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/Our-District/Visiting-Kapiti/Freedom-Camping/

Fully self-contained motorhomes (with onboard toilets and waste disposal) are allowed to stay at 12 Kāpiti Coast District Council designated sites.

Permits are not required but freedom campers are expected to be considerate of council Bylaws, fellow campers and residents.

 
Freedom camping spots are well signposted.  If a public area does not have a freedom camping sign, travellers should assume overnight stays are allowed
 

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Read that last line again 

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

[nitpicker1]

 What brought that on?

[Im2Sexy4MyPants]

Duno

[nitpicker1]

Back in the dimdarks I would probably have asked "Is there a nigger in the Kapiti Coast's woodpile?"

These days I 'spose I should ask "Has the Kapiti Coast Council dropped a spaMMer in the works?"



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from http://www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/Our-District/Visiting-Kapiti/Freedom-Camping/

Fully self-contained motorhomes (with onboard toilets and waste disposal) are allowed to stay at 12 Kāpiti Coast District Council designated sites.

Permits are not required but freedom campers are expected to be considerate of council Bylaws, fellow campers and residents.

 
Freedom camping spots are well signposted.  If a public area does not have a freedom camping sign, travellers should assume overnight stays are allowed
 

Read that last line again 

it only took a phone call and a coupla emails and half an hour   



exerpt from e-mail  today:



                                              All sorted. Now showing the correct wording.

 

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.


xxxx


Freedom camping spots are well signposted.  If a public area does not have a freedom camping sign, travellers should assume overnight stays are not allowed  

[Magoo]

It is the little things that count.

[nitpicker1]

It is the little things that count.

and these are littlies too


 http://xtranewscommunity2.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,1498.0/msg,103939.html

sorry I missed  http://www.orc.govt.nz/News-and-Notices/Media-Releases/Media-Releases---2011/Whitebait-secrets-revealed/



Different varieties from different rivers.  This one from the Taieri River







•īnanga (Galaxias maculatus) ... •Larvae. When another spring tide reaches the eggs, the larvae hatch. Then the falling tide carries them out to sea, where the hatchlings spend the winter, feeding on small crustaceans.

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/whitebait-and-whitebaiting/1

bullshit ? where the hatchlings spend the winter, feeding on small crustaceans. ?

I believe the spawning occurs not on a Spring tide, but on a KING TIDE
I believe the eggs on the spawning medium dry and wait for when the salt content of the next KING tide returns after the spawning, then they are washed off the medium, out to sea, and HATCH there - 

I believe the 'hatchlings' survive on their YOLK SAC for several days in the sea then return to the river preferably the river where they hatched, after the yolk-sac is absorbed.



I believe the silvery part of the lower body of the 'bait in the vid is actually indicative of the new developing gut, and it would be thrown out as GUTTY before it reached the buyer.

The fresh run 'Bait you buy is/should be clear, apart from EYES and skeletal foundation. They develop the colouration and gut when they have been feeding in the river for several days.
 
I have virtually lived with inanga since 1945, in the river, commercial fishing on the Waiatoto and in domestic ponds and aquaria.

I wish the scientists could prove me wrong 

[nitpicker1]

@ http://xtranewscommunity2.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,9207.msg104273.html#msg104273


WHAT MRS TOPPIT DID NEXT

Lorena Bobbitt's story is the stuff of barrio legend, proof that in America grit and guile can still bring golden opportunity.

As an Ecuadorian immigrant, Bobbitt got hers when she cut off her husband's penis in a rage. The husband was John Wayne Bobbitt, perfectly named for his subsequent role as male hero of White Trash culture.

Her defining act took place on the steamy Virginia night of June 23, 1993. Lorena was 23, newly minted as an American by marriage. John Wayne was 26 and had been discharged from the Marines.

Both became instant celebrities. Even as surgeons stitched Bobbitt's penis back together - police found the severed half by the side of the road - a new word went into the language: to Bobbittise. The media leapt into a new era of broadcast freedom: 'penis' became a word for the front pages and unblushing stories to camera.

Now Lorena is being celebrated for 'reinventing' herself as a happy mother of a two-year-old girl with a 'fiancé' of 14 years standing, as a hairdresser dabbling in estate

agency on the side, and, best of all, as the founder of a new charity called Lorena's Red Wagon, devoted to helping abused women.

In that lies the legend for the barrio. Lorena's success comes from an instinctive understanding of the Gringo mind. The spitfire Latina saw that the best way out of the mess was to play the victim. Even now, the Bobbitt case is credited with taking the national debate on marital rape and domestic violence to a new level.

On the fatal night, Bobbitt rolled home drunk and found his young wife Lorena asleep in bed. Bobbitt helped himself in what he considered to be the way of the real man, and fell asleep snoring. Lorena went into the kitchen for a drink of water, saw the 12-inch filleting knife on the counter and got even with John Wayne in one stroke.

Both were charged: she with malicious wounding and he with rape. Bobbitt was found not guilty. Lorena was found not guilty on grounds of temporary insanity. On her arrest she had told the cops: "He always have orgasm and he don't wait for me to have orgasm. He's selfish." She became a feminist icon.

Bobbitt went on a celebrity rampage, a John Wayne for the times. He formed a band called The Severed Parts. It failed. He moved to Las Vegas and

thought he was going to be a porn star. He made three movies but failed again even after more surgery for an extension.

Bobbitt ran up a rap sheet for hitting women and trying to steal $140,000 worth of clothes from a boutique. He gets by as a bartender, limo driver and removal man.

Lorena got a conviction for assaulting her mother, punching her in a fight as they watched television. But that, too, is behind her now. "When I was married, I was really naïve," she says. "But my self esteem is a lot better than it was years ago. I grew a lot. I learned to cope with this."

Now that's the American Way. You go, girl!

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/44732,news-comment,news-politics,what-mrs-bobbitt-did-next,2

[nitpicker1]

Air NZ will be getting a bit concerned about their in-flight safety advertising after this  http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/9132529/air-nz-uses-same-type-of-plane-that-tore-open/ 



How to avoid Air New Zealand's Richard Simmons "Fit to Fly" disco safety video in flight
By John Walton   

Filed under: sydney, Melbourne, Wellington, Brisbane, Auckland, Air New Zealand, safety, video, Christchurch, airline safety, safety video, Richard Simmons
published 1 Apr, 2011


Air New Zealand's new Richard Simmons safety video is ridiculously funny -- at least the first time you see it.

Of course, if the airline carries through with it and actually installs it on their aircraft, frequent travellers with the airline will get heartily sick of spandex and disco lighting.

Just imagine getting to the airport for 0730 for the business shuttle from Wellington to Auckland (which we reviewed a couple of months ago and rather enjoyed) and being confronted with unnaturally energetic lycra-clad loons lurching about on the screen in front of you.

It's enough to make you want to "step, step, step" right off the plane.

But some Air New Zealand flights won't have the new videos, and we're more than happy to help you figure out how to book seats on those flights. No April Fool's day joke!

Trans-Tasman flightsAim for Air New Zealand's larger Boeing 747, 767 and 777 aircraft. The plane shown in the safety video is a smaller short-distance Boeing 737, which hints that the video may well be kept for smaller aircraft.

The airline also recently produced special videos for its new flagship Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, so it's more unlikely to put the new video on those planes. (We've reviewed Business Premier, Premium Economy Spaceseat and Economy Skycouch seating on the new 777-300ER to help you make your decision about what kind of ticket to buy.)

To check which flights to New Zealand have these larger aircraft, hover over the flight number during the booking process.

http://www.ausbt.com.au/how-to-avoid-air-new-zealand-s-richard-simmons-fit-to-fly-disco-safety-video-in-flight


US jet lands after hole in roof  

AFP/Washington


Southwest Airlines passengers were terrified to look up and see the sky instead of the roof of the cabin during a recent flight, which made an emergency landing after a hole opened in the fuselage.
Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento diverted late Friday to the city of Yuma in the midst of what the airline clinically described as a sudden “depressurisation event,” bringing a safe end to a harrowing trip for 118 passengers and five crew.
Southwest announced yesterday it was grounding 81 of its Boeing 737 jets to conduct an “aggressive inspection” with Boeing, focusing on aircraft skin fatigue, and that it was working with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration to determine what caused the fuselage to rip open.
“The safety of our customers and employees is our primary concern, and we are grateful there were no serious injuries,” Southwest’s chief operating officer Mike Van de Ven said in a statement.
The airline said one flight attendant and at least one passenger were treated at the scene for minor injuries, but no one was taken to hospital.
Passengers told US media they heard a loud bang like a gunshot, then felt wind rush through the cabin.
“My husband and I looked up, you could see blue sky, you could see the wiring, the cabling,” passenger Debbie Downey told CNN.
“We looked at each other and thought - oh my gosh, this is not a good sign.”
The plane went into a steep nosedive, and oxygen masks quickly deployed. The pilots eventually got the plane under control and landed in Yuma.
Shawna Redden said her “heart was pounding out of my chest” in the disorienting first minutes of the incident, and had begun to think that “this is it,” but then managed to stay calm and try to help other scared passengers.
Redden told Fox news she used her cell phone to text a possible farewell message to her husband, then found herself taking the hand of the stranger next to her “and just praying that we were going to make it down okay.”

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=425870&version=1&template_id=43&parent_id=19

[nitpicker1]

Gaddafi and the blondes

Philip Chandler
07 Jan 2010
A bubbly Queenstowner tells how she was one of a bevy of blondes hand-picked to party into New Year with Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi’s son.


Gaddafi’s second-eldest boy Saif and his free-spending entourage toasted in 2010 by buying women thousands of dollars of drinks at an upmarket resort bar.


Spa boss Jenny Hodgson was among those rounded up for the mega-bash in a guarded private lounge.


She reveals: “There must have been 10 or 12 blondes. Whatever we wanted, we ordered it.”


Barmuda doorman Regan Pearce says a ponytailed member of Gaddafi’s entourage told him: “Find me beautiful blondes – no fat ones. We buy them drinks, we will look after them.”


Pearce was approached about midnight on New Year’s Eve by the man who asked if a group could have exclusive use of the lounge.


Pearce was amazed when the Gaddafi gofer peeled a wad of banknotes from a gold money clip.

“He said ‘We want that room’, he tipped me $200 and said, ‘See you in 10 minutes’,” Pearce says.


“Unfortunately, I had to ask a couple of people to move out.”


Pearce and a fellow doorman then invited female bar patrons to join the private party, he says.


“I said, ‘Hi girls, he’s shouting champagne, want to go and hang out with him?’, Pearce says.


Hodgson and blonde workmate Renee Little were happy to oblige.


“You go into Barmuda and don’t expect to be whisked into a private room with free drinks flowing,” Hodgson says.


The two Queenstown women joined 37-year-old bachelor Gadaffi’s Barmuda bash at 2am – but Hodgson says she didn’t know who he was until next day.


“I wondered who they were, I just knew it was someone rich,” Hodgson says. “We were just dancing with them and they were nice, fun and polite.”


She was never made to feel uncomfortable but insists Gaddafi’s crew weren’t her type.


The two women eventually left to hang out with other friends who hadn’t been invited into the private room.


Apart from blondes, London-based Gaddafi also roped in a Maori haka group during his five-day Queenstown trip – to farewell him on the airport tarmac last Saturday.


“Apparently he bought up every All Black jersey in town and mentioned that he hadn’t seen a real haka,” local Maori leader Darren Rewi says.


Queenstown’s Kiwi Haka group started with a Maori challenge but didn’t invite Gaddafi to pick up a dart or fern leaf, as is normal protocol.


“We were told we weren’t allowed to get within a metre of [Gaddafi] and there were supposed to be no sudden moves,” Rewi says.


The 15-minute performance continued with two Maori songs, a haka and nose-rubbing hongi before the party flew out.


Gaddafi was “pretty relaxed”, Rewi says.


“I was told to address him as His Excellency at all times and only offer to shake his hand if he put his hand out.”
Saif Gaddafi – an architect and artist – is tipped as the son most likely to take over from his strongman father, who’s ruled Libya for more than 40 years.


Last August Saif brokered the release of cancer-stricken Libyan Abdel Basset Ali-al-Megrahi, convicted of placing an explosive device on a Pan Am flight that blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 280 people.


Saif has vigorously maintained Megrahi’s innocence.

http://www.scene.co.nz/198017a1.page
 

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Inside the mind of Saif – son of Libya’s tyrant ruler Gaddafi
Ryan Keen
07 Apr 2011

Man, this bloody battle for my country of Libya is getting me down.

How I wish I was back in New Zealand, in Queenstown – such an amazing place where the deer run free and the women even more so. The hunting of both is the best I’ve experienced. What a trip.
I don’t know why my father has to be so difficult. But you can’t say no to him. I told him the other day it would be far better to democratise – but with him in charge, of course.

He was not so interested. What if I don’t actually get elected, he asked. I told him that in such an unlikely event, we could probably then start shooting people and the international community would completely understand.

But alas, he did not go for it.

Oh, for Queenstown. It’s just wall-to-wall blondes there. The other thing I remember is there were no fat ones.

Not one.

Although right now with all this bloodshed and fighting, I would be happy with a fat one. Or even two. I would give a lot to quit this stinking civil war – sorry terrorist uprising – and return to the Barmuda backroom. That was a fantastic New Year’s. It began on the deck at Botsy with great food and awesome fireworks.

I did have to calm down one of my security detail when the first explosions began. He pulled his piece and wanted to start firing into the night sky and randomly out at the lake in celebration but I told him that probably wouldn’t go down so well with the local people.

And I had to remind him of the time he got a bit excited and actually mistakenly shot the pyrotechnics technician at a previous New Year party in the Caribbean. That was an expensive exercise. Ah, my guys ...they are such a gas.

Although my main security adviser Aziz said something strange to me that night in Queenstown. I was talking to him about how the whole place – every bar we went – was seemingly overrun with the blondest, non-fattest women on earth.

He smiled wanly and said: “Ah Saif, you’re like the Queen of England – she thinks the entire world smells like fresh paint.” I had no idea what he was talking about – and still his riddle baffles me.

I almost shot him there and then. It infuriates me when I don’t know what people are talking about and if they have a joke at my expense. I’m like my old man, in that way. I let it pass, given it was a special occasion.

And we were having a super good night in Barmuda, though I spent an absolute bomb on Heineken.

Even the send-off was memorable at the airport. Although it was essentially a traditional welcome ceremony by the natives, so that was odd. We say goodbye and you say hello. But I’ve found that most things are for sale in this world ...

Anyway, the Maori warrior was lucky he did not get any closer – old Aziz was this close to blowing his head clean off.
Thankfully, it all went smooth which was lucky really – I was running a little light on cash after the New Year’s Eve blowout.

http://www.scene.co.nz/inside-the-mind-of-saif--son-of-libyas-tyrant-ruler-gaddafi/286826a1.page

[nitpicker1]

http://www.nzcpr.com/Weekly279.pdf

[nitpicker1]

Tariana Turia disturbed by artwork
Newstalk ZB
June 7, 2011, 10:14 am

Tariana Turia is hitting out at a piece of artwork she claims is offensive to a great New Zealander.

Artist Jason Beca has created an 'erotic chair' plastered with hundred dollar bills featuring Lord Ernest Rutherford's face.

It is on display at Pataka Museum near Wellington, and has a video camera under the seat and monitors on its armrests.

Maori Party Co-leader Tariana Turia says while she appreciates the argument that art should provoke a reaction, she doesn't believe it should be a case of 'anything goes'.

Ms Turia says it's important to have respect for ancestors, and believes decorating a sex chair with the face of the father of modern physics is inappropriate.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/9591840/tariana-turia-disturbed-by-artwork/


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Nitz is intriguiged, goes searching  keywords  JASON BECA EROTIC CHAIR IMAGES

finds it at http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts

lol,  beats the old spyhole in the girls toilet wall at school gyms!


Last time I saw anything like that mentioned was 

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/pope.htm...  In his 1999 book, The Legend of Pope Joan, British writer Peter Stanford reports visiting the Vatican and inspecting an unusual chair inspired by the trouble with Joan. The wooden throne, with a potty-style hole in the seat, is said to have been used until the 16th century in the ceremony of papal consecration. According to medieval accounts, each prospective pope would sit on the hole while an examining cleric felt under the seat. A moment later, the examiner would withdraw his hand and solemnly declare: "Our nominee is a man." Stanford, a former editor of London's Catholic Herald, argues that Pope Joan was a historical figure, although he doubts some of the story's details  ...

But before that book there was comment that the seldom seen but genuine "commode" style Papal Throne was indeed used with a receptacle below because a Pope was required to sit long hours without leaving the seat.


As for Rutherford, perhaps the world would be a different better place if he had never existed.

[nitpicker1]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/new-zealand/4994908/Love-motel-opens-in-Auckland

meanwhile

More surfing, less sex, in hotel beds
June 16, 2011, 2:58 pm AAP

A new global survey has found more travellers prefer using their hotel bed to browse the internet than to have sex.

More travellers prefer using their hotel bed to surf the internet than to have sex, a new survey shows.

In a study of global sleeping habits by travel website Hotels.com, 36 per cent of those surveyed choose to browse the web when not sleeping in their hotel bed.

But only 21 per cent want to have sex.

Australian travellers bucked the trend, with almost a fifth (18 per cent) preferring to engage in sexual activity over the 12 per cent who surf the web while lounging on bed.

Watching movies and reading were, by far, the most popular ways to use hotel beds while travelling.

The survey of more than 1000 people from across 18 countries also found that alcohol was the preferred method of sleep assistance for travellers from the UK.

One in four British tourists and one in three Irish said they favoured a nightcap to help them doze off at night.

Only 12 per cent of Aussies said they needed to use a sleeping tablet when travelling.

When it comes to sleeping styles, the survey found a third of Asian travellers, especially those from Hong Kong, China and Korea - lay like a starfish.

A quarter of Europeans, on the other hand, prefer to sleep on their side like a log, while one in five Aussies sleep belly down with arms open in a free falling position.

http://nz.totaltravel.yahoo.com/news-opinions/news/a/-/9653556/more-surfing-less-sex-in-hotel-beds/

[nitpicker1]

at


 
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby-world-cup-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=522&objectid=10746470


and at what they won't see

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby-world-cup-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=522&objectid=10746486

 

[nitpicker1]

Why is it that All Blacks coaches look like such sour-pusses during a game?

Anyone would think they are too scared to even smile in case they crack their face.

Grizz was a real classic, and Graham Henry is exactly the same.

After all, it's only a game! 

Once the Final is in the bag there will be a smile. By the way it isn't a game, it is a multi million dollar business. And given it is worth so much, the ref tonight should be put  lynched for allowing that second French try. If that try had have had any outcome on the score, he would have been assainated.

it isn't a game, it is a multi million dollar business
yep, it isn't even a sport any more.

I usually manage to understand what a poster means when a word is mis-spelled and I usually avoid commenting but this time I wonder @ If that try had have had any outcome on the score, he would have been assainated.  assainated ummmm do ya mean "saint"iated  ?

[Kiwithrottlejockey]