Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 24, 2009, 5:37 pm
Peter Brookes - The Times - 24 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 24, 2009, 2:19 pm
As it is, it seems the cheats win – right up to and including the highest level. This is a dark day indeed in the history of NZ culture. Valerie Grant, PhD, honorary senior lecturer at the Psyc...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 23, 2009, 9:09 pm
Walking down Queen Street this morning Adam wondered just what the Auckland City Council had spent over NZ$40 million on. The pavers seemed badly laid and many were such as to present a possible dang...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 23, 2009, 2:02 pm
Peter Brookes - The Times - 20 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 23, 2009, 1:57 pm
Schrank - The Independent - 22 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 23, 2009, 1:53 pm
“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.” G K Chesterton
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 22, 2009, 12:17 pm
When I see Dick Cheney on television, receiving awards for what he did with Rumsfeld, or Sarah Palin trying to pretend that she has any rational political ideas at all, (laughs) I think it’s one...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 8:53 pm
In Auckland on a rather drizzly Sunday afternoon.; half watching Frost/Nixon on the TV. Great movie, not just the main performances, and an excellent cast overall, but some of the comments and allusi...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 5:49 pm
Which of these two women is Tracy Watkins? Last week the one on the left was identified as Tracy Watkins, this week the one on the right was called Tracy Watkins. Which one is the real Tracy Watkins...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 4:36 pm
Dave Brown - Independent - 17 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 1:16 pm
The question is if Maori interests increasingly become the Crown’s preferred partner in New Zealand’s economic development, will other competing interests be squeezed out? And if so, what ...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 4:00 am
Finally we finish tonight with a rendition of Apeman from 1970 A great band much under appreciated.
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 3:30 am
From 1966 the great Sunny Afternoon
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 2:35 am
A recent, 2007, performance by Ray Davis of the 1970s Kinks hit – Dedicated Follower of Fashion, enjoy
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 1:29 am
Next song tonight is from the fantastic Who, with a version of Substitute from 1974
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 21, 2009, 12:30 am
Down the Hall is back tonight featuring some songs from that great British band – The Kinks. To lick off here is Ray Davis performing Lola, originally released in 1970
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 20, 2009, 11:03 pm
Investors in various finance companies who must be wondering why the law and regulatory authorities did not do more to protect them. All right investors should perhaps have been more careful, but rea...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 20, 2009, 9:41 pm
A new category of award, and one which is unlikely to be awarded every week – unless of course there are choice entrants. This week though the winner has to be Auckland University for the magni...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 20, 2009, 9:28 pm
Much as it hurts to come to this conclusion, Adam is of the view that Hone Harawira is the winner. Claire Trevett writes in the NZ Herald on growing support for the controversial and to Adam’s ...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 20, 2009, 7:10 pm
Adams - The Telegraph - 21 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 20, 2009, 6:04 pm
Plagiarists usually defend themselves by insisting that the correspondence between their own work and the complainant’s are coincidental. That is, they draw from the same well but not from each ...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 20, 2009, 12:59 am
From Beau Bo D’Or a suitable comment to mark 40th anniversary of The Sun.
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 19, 2009, 3:43 pm
Nancy Franklin , of The New Yorker, takes a look at Glenn Beck. The opening gives the flavour:- If you sensed something of a quiet spell about ten days ago, a lull in the usual media storm, it may h...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 19, 2009, 2:28 pm
Rod Emmerson - NZ Herald - November 19
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 19, 2009, 1:26 pm
The deal between Hanover and Allied announced this week is extremely complex and will require considerable analysis to understand the impact on the various parties who stand to be affected. These are ...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 18, 2009, 7:57 pm
Adams - The Telegraph - 17 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 18, 2009, 4:55 pm
“New Zealand’s largely unexplored petroleum resource could be one of the country’s most significant economic opportunities,” Mr Brownlee said. “The industry has been negl...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 17, 2009, 8:31 pm
NZ Herald - Letters to the Editor - 17 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 17, 2009, 6:53 pm
Dave Brown - The Independent - 16 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 17, 2009, 3:46 pm
If anyone can get this mangy three-legged dog of a law through Parliament it’s National’s Excitable Boy, but I’m starting to wonder whether even Smith himself wishes National hadn&#...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 17, 2009, 2:05 am
All entries gratefully welcomed. Example:- Was that a trougher flying past? No, just another pig, looking for a hidey hole!
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 16, 2009, 8:49 pm
Adam’s title for this post which comments on the sad and desperately seeking attention Phil Goff was brought to mind when Adam read a snippet in today’s print edition of The Dominion Post ...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 13, 2009, 2:37 am
Well yet again there were several candidates, Andrew Williams, Phil Twyford – a regular contender, but does not quite make it, someone keeps getting in the way, but no worry Adam is sure that so...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 13, 2009, 2:25 am
A different approach this week. It has been rather dispiriting in many ways. The week has been dominated by the Harawira saga, perks and other matters. Yet at the end of the day, one clear winner eme...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 13, 2009, 2:14 am
Just to Auckland, but this and other work is keeping Adam busy, so blogging will continue to be light, except for regular features and such other posts as he gets time for.  
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 12, 2009, 5:22 pm
Adams- The Telegraph - 13 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 12, 2009, 4:24 pm
“We should beware of any ethnic or religious group that seeks power. “The world is cluttered with tragic examples of what happens when race and religion take over politics. Remember North...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 11, 2009, 4:35 pm

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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 11, 2009, 4:12 pm
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 10, 2009, 9:03 pm
Today is 11 November, later tonight NZ time will be the 91st anniversary, European time, of the Armistice taking effect to end hostilities in World War One – The War to End All Wars as it was initia...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 10, 2009, 8:58 pm
“that at the hour when the Armistice came into force, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, there may be for the brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all our normal act...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 10, 2009, 1:50 pm
Adams - The Telegraph - 10 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 9, 2009, 7:10 pm
“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.” G K Chesterton
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 9, 2009, 7:02 pm
Colin Espiner highlights a significant issue in respect of what Harawira said and appears to believe, if he is correct, considerable difficulties are likely to emerge:- Hone said he was sorry for the...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 9, 2009, 6:54 pm
At the end of an interview with Willie Jackson on Radio Waatea, Hone Harawira after an aplogy which was not an apology then went on to say:- Harawira: “I’m about to hammer Labour again, o...
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 9, 2009, 3:36 pm
Adams - The Telegraph - 7 November
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 8, 2009, 3:32 pm

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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 4, 2009, 2:29 pm
Off to listen to Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong, former EU Commissioner, who is speaking at lunchtime today at the WRCC. Will report back later.
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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 4, 2009, 2:25 pm

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Adam S. posted an article on The Inquiring Mind - Nov 4, 2009, 12:18 pm
As a rule, corporations turn to strategy when they can’t justify their existence in other way, and they start planning when they don’t really know where they are going. Matthew Stewart &#...
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