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Minister responsible for large hadrons
Only if we're the licker cabinet, prehaps. :)
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Doing my bit for the search ratings too..
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(I know a planner who might be able to help, if it's not too late, which I suspect it might be)
Thank-you.Just been down the street posting flyers, Jill Pierce is Heritage if anyone wants to ring and voice objection. Robyn Pilkington @aucklandcity.govt.nz is trying to help, and I suspect Paul Hansen(council arborist) helped with granting consent. They have just found my application (8 months old)to schedule these and others in our street so they have acknowledged they are addressing this. But any one can email or complain.The wood pigeons are busy pecking under them as I write and buds galore on both. Where will the Tui go?
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Sofie - having applied for one of these consents myself, one of the first requirements is gaining the approval of affected neighbours. I take it this didn't happen?
Yes and no they didn't. Our street is quite protective of trees and some of the flyers have had an effect (affect???, can never figure which one to use) .A similar situation happened with one outside Burger King on Dom Rd and my neighbour managed to save that one. It was supposed to be sick. Wasn't. Looks lovely still.
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"Our street is quite protective of trees "
That's what you need as the councillors all work on knee jerk reactions if they feel they're threatened/supported, a bit of rabble rousing (just remeber to look after yourself too).
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Russell,
And with the revelations of The Hollow Men, and now this, it seems reasonable to ask whether the racing industry has anything else it would like to tell us. Because the big money that swings around there seems like a malign influence on the body politic.
More money is involved than you think.
A lot of the gaming trust money taken from pub pokies is funnelled into invented trotting clubs (who do not own race courses) that use the money as prizes on stake races to move the cash on to livestock owning club members. The club members then use the money to acquire more drinking establishments that have pokie machines and pressurise the trusts involved to direct their funds to the same 4 invented trotting clubs.
We should have a Minister for Pokies, as well, just to even up things.
Perhaps the Minister for Racing already has it covered.
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invented trotting clubs (who do not own race courses) that use the money as prizes on stake races to move the cash on to livestock owning club members.
Like a sort of farm-team version of BAE-gate.
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Sacha wrote:
I had no idea just how laden with innuendo kids books were until that momentous eve
Been meaning to say this...gidday Sacha, Ireland St flat, right? Hope things are well, and I still use your recipe for welsh rarebit.
Innuendo and kids stuff...well the drug references in Puf n Stuff and Scooby Doo went right over my head as a kid.
Got the biblical stuff in 'Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe' when it was read to me at the tender age of seven though.
But if you want real innuendo in kids stuff though, a certain notoriety has attached itself to this programme...
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Aye, Rob, and I'm sure I would have been much more fun to live with if I'd discovered whisky by then.
And innuendo. :) -
And just a bit of light relief, Chris Trotter gets nostalgic for "working class justice".
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« Questions for oral answer: PDF Tuesday September 9th, 2008
Working-class justiceIn the seven years I spent as a trade union activist/official, I saw and heard some pretty hair-raising things.
Like the time I watched a senior Christchurch union official expertly shake-down a hapless employer for a bribe not to dob him in to the Labour Department.
Or, the story I was told by a rank-and-filer whose workplace was visited by two burly union organisers. He recalled especially their East-End accents, and the lengths of lead pipe they were carrying. They were there, he said, to “caution” the poor little bloke who was holding-out against joining the union on “conscientious” grounds.
And then there was the hard-bitten union secretary, who responded to one of his members’ demand for a secret strike-ballot with the immortal words : “Ya wanna secret ballot? - Shut yer bloody eyes!”
It was all a little disconcerting for a middle-class lad like me. But, when I discussed my reservations with the comrades, they just laughed.
“Working-class justice, mate! Get used to it!”
Jesus, how do you parody someone who does it himself?
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And just a bit of light relief, Chris Trotter gets nostalgic for "working class justice".
In the seven years I spent as a trade union activist/official, I saw and heard some pretty hair-raising things.
Like the time I watched a senior Christchurch union official expertly shake-down a hapless employer for a bribe not to dob him in to the Labour Department.
Or, the story I was told by a rank-and-filer whose workplace was visited by two burly union organisers. He recalled especially their East-End accents, and the lengths of lead pipe they were carrying. They were there, he said, to “caution” the poor little bloke who was holding-out against joining the union on “conscientious” grounds.
And then there was the hard-bitten union secretary, who responded to one of his members’ demand for a secret strike-ballot with the immortal words : “Ya wanna secret ballot? - Shut yer bloody eyes!”
It was all a little disconcerting for a middle-class lad like me. But, when I discussed my reservations with the comrades, they just laughed.
“Working-class justice, mate! Get used to it!”
Jesus, how do you parody someone who does it himself?
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Well Craig, I've gotten used to agreeing with you more often than is politically acceptable to a self-confessed lefty but on this, I too am genuinely confused by Trotter. I know his reputation for being querulous and unpredictable. That he is unbidden to individuals but not values... yadayadayada... however he's coming across more and more as simply ill-tempered... like we need more of that!
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I know his reputation for being querulous and unpredictable. That he is unbidden to individuals but not values... yadayadayada... however he's coming across more and more as simply ill-tempered... like we need more of that!
Well, I certainly think Mr. Trotter would rather quickly rediscover his taste for "middle-class process" if the multi-national corporates that publish his book (Random House NZ) and columns (Fairfax) decided to *cough* re-negotiate his contracts old school style. Making your point with a cosh (and the threat of more to come if you don't pull your head in) is so much more satisfying. And if you hire someone to do the harassment and intimidation properly, it's also damn efficient.
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9. 11. RIP Got a stay of Execution at 8.30 this morning. Arborist was trying to cut it down. Council requested that they halt until my schedule application that they misplaced for 8 months:(. was addressed which he agreed to.Got home tonight, 4 large trees gone. I have never seen such blatant environmental vandalism in my life. For anyone ever interested in saving any exotic trees in Auckland, you must apply to schedule(no cost) because that is the only way to even be advised of felling. as long as you have the fee, Council will grant a non notifiable resource consent and noone can do anything.
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