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I don't know if it's allowed here, but i matched with some cousins on ancestry. We figured out that their cousin Robert Little must be my grandfather. They say they don't have much contact with Bob and were unable to give me a phone number for him. Google searches for him have come up empty.

This is all the information i have, and im hoping someone can help me.

Robert little lives in Whanganui and has a son named Roderick. Roberts parents were Winifred White and Tom Little.

We're 95 percent sure this man is my grandfather and would like to find him before it's too late. I don't think he knew he had a daughter, (my mother) and i want them to meet.

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Lemmy users, you can now vote for your favourite song in Lemmyvision's song contest, an Eurovision-like song contest, in which various instances submitted a song of their choice!

My sincere thanks everyone for your submissions, I have created a form where you can rank your favourite songs, it's available here :

➡️ Lemmyvision Voting Form - https://tally.so/r/nWNgKQ ⬅️

I'll leave the form open for a week and then collect the results!

Make sure to check each submitted song thanks to the playlists @[email protected] has created:

• Youtube Link
• Spotify Link
• Invidious Link

Full list of songs:

• 🇦🇺 Royel Otis - Heading For The Door (aussie.zone / Australia)
• 🇧🇪 Puggy - Lost Child ([email protected] / Belgium)
• 🇨🇦 Lu Kala - Hotter Now (lemmy.ca / Canada)
• 🇩🇰 Pil - Dronning Af Månen (feddit.dk / Denmark)
• 🇫🇷 Bagarre - ON EST LES MÊMES (jlai.lu / France)
• 🇭🇺 Azahriah - introvertált dal ([email protected] / Hungary)
• 🇬🇧 The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (feddit.uk / UK)
• 🇦🇶 Casette Beasts - Your Inception (programming.dev / Programming)
• 🇳🇿 Tiki Taana - Tangaroa (lemmy.nz / New Zealand)

You will be asked to rank the songs from your favourite to least favourite ; you may notice that users from specific instance cannot rank the song their instance has submitted, in order to keep things fair. Users from non-participating instances can still participate in the voting, and self identify as third party. Let me know if there's any issue with the form!

Enjoy! 🎶

By the comments made by the person being interviewed, it sounds like this was also a case of arson?

Rees said he was having a nap in his room on the second-storey on Sunday afternoon when he heard someone walk up the stairs and say, "set fire to the place".

"All of a sudden, smoke came billowing over my door," Rees said.

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A woman who saw three orca whales in Wellington harbour this morning says it was a joyful way to start the day.

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"Some of you have heard my story. I had a cane, I had a long cane. When the law says don't smack your kids well, I broke the law.

"I had a cane. Bend over, whack! The other son comes. Bend over, bend over, stop lifting your head, whack!"

He then goes on to joke about smacking one of his children more for resisting punishment.

I love the work The Spinoff does.

This is great news, and something that should have been done a long time ago. Also, fuck Fletcher building.

In the 1960s, workers' frustration was bubbling over. Measly compensation payments were not enough to make ends meet if they were injured and could not work.

Supreme court judge Sir Owen Woodhouse saw people battling the legal system to prove their injuries were caused by employers' negligence, and chaired a royal commission investigation.

He recommended a radical change - introducing automatic cover for injured people.

In 1973 the original Accident Compensation Act covered work injuries and car accidents, and an amendment the following year made it more comprehensive.

New Zealanders gave up their right to sue for damages, and in return got the no-faults scheme that still stood 50 years on.

This is exactly why I made sure when buying my house/section that it was more than 5m higher than sea level and inland from the coast. Not that that will mitigate the societal collapse following the glaciers'.

The world might be able to geoengineer saving one maybe two glaciers. But not all of them, not Greenland's icesheet and not the entire Antarctic icesheet.

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An employee at the hospital, who the Herald has agreed not to name, said a man entered the ED about 11pm on Saturday.

He allegedly approached the receptionist and asked where his "wife" was being treated. When told, the man entered a cubicle, pulled a machete out from his hoodie and struck another man who was accompanying the female patient in the head.

"There was a lot of blood - as with all head wounds - [on the] walls, floor [and] hallway," the employee said.

The female patient and a junior doctor allegedly disarmed the man after the attack. The assailant then stood with his hands behind his back and surrendered to police when they arrived.

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I'm not saying anyone should, just that they would have ample legal funding if they did...

Still haven't seen any prosecution for when they blocked the motorway either.

For a dollar and some change, Patchy makes paper cup orders out of a supermarket trolley using instant coffee, boiled water stored in a Thermos, white sugar, and blue cap milk.

Pay $2, and Patchy will throw in two biscuits for your troubles - a stark difference in price compared to the cafés sitting above him in Commercial Bay, where you're more likely to purchase a coffee and cookie for $10 and above.

Patchy was told on Thursday morning by Auckland Council he will need a permit to continue operating his wallet-friendly business.

Luckily, sudden TikTok fame and his can-do attitude has won him over a group of supportive fans - some of whom have even set up a Givealittle page to help him pay for the permit and the tools needed to make his business official.

TL;DR

An Australian pharmacy will continue to send lower-cost diabetes equipment across the Tasman, despite a cease and desist from a medical manufacturer.

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“This is $130 that my whānau, and many other whānau, could have in their pocket each month,” she told them.

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manufacturer Medtronic had sent David Jones Pharmacy a letter threatening legal action if the company continued to supply Kiwi customers with the sensors.

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The pharmacy was “not a legally authorised distributor of Medtronic diabetes products in New Zealand”

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“We have chosen to ignore [the letter] as it was built upon unsubstantiated accusations,” Le said.

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“It creates a massive inequity for families who don’t have the financial means to pay a weekly amount, and it’s also a contributing risk to longer term health outcomes.

“It's really expensive to keep them alive. By not funding [sensors] you are risking the lives of kids who don't have that layer of privilege.”

I fucking hate this bullshit. Hong Le is a hero.

See the previous post for the list of songs: https://lemmy.nz/post/8465782

If you haven't already, vote here: https://survey.lemmy.nz/index.php/152314

It's tight so I need a few more voters to get us a clear winner!

Voting ends at 12 noon-ish on 30/3/2024 or whenever we have a leading song if it's still a tie at 12.

And if you don't recognise any of the songs, that's because it has to be a 2023 song and you're old 🙂

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A late afternoon display over the lake today - just spectacular. Looking forward to the main event tomorrow!

It sounds like we have a lot to learn from this, to be honest.