Posts by Richard Grevers
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Besides, if you make a playing field precisely level, you will have ponding problems. A correctly installed playing field will have a slight gradient, either linear from one side to another, or from a high point in the centre. If you sat at ground level in AMI stadium, you can see that the pitch block is about a foot higher than the boundary (and you cannae see the feet of a player on the far boundary). I use the past tense, as I believe that stadium surface now undulates randomly.
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I was rather startled by the number of commenters on Stuff who thought that the Green Party was Mathers' employer.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Chris, you forgot to mention that the Chinese tend to cycle at a sedate pace (still 3-4 x walking speed). According to the Vales' Time to Eat the Dog, "Chinese Cycling" is the most energy-efficient mode of transport in existence - and you don't overheat.
On my route home when biking from town, there's a corner with a protected right-turn on demand, and yes, bikes will not trigger the sensor. If there isn't a car also wanting to turn, I find myself having to turn on the red arrow, because the opposing left-turning traffic (unaware that I have a left arrow) is giving way to me anyway.
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Our main sewer truck is seriously munted
I believe the correct word was "trunk"
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Hard cheese - that really goes well with cracker.
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-1000 for “Nom” – that word sums up the worst of social networking – and American cultural imperialism, even if Sesame St is PBS.
I do like Vore and Mise en Place, and am probably too late to the table to come up with anything suitably tasty and original.
Nourishing
Entree (or is that French cultural imperialism?)
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to HenryB,
Just after the election Key said, I think, that under an FPP system, National would have got 65 seats and labour 35.
If we had stuck with FPP in 1996, the formula which determines the number of electorates (based on a South Island quota) would have meant more than 130 MPs by now. Which is why it annoys me so that for some people their sole motive for voting against MMP is that we have “too many MPs”.
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ravaged - because for several months the media were incapable of printing or speaking the word "Christchurch" without prefixing the phrase "quake-ravaged"
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
pm me!
Is there a PM faclity here? I can't see it! Don't want a scholarship, just wanted to extend my reply with things I'd rather not post publically under my own name.
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
First it's necessary to define 'cherry' - the brightest kids aren't always the easiest to teach, and extension work consumes just as many resources as remedial work. Back in the 70's I was streamed into a top class at intermediate school. Such was the range of social maladjustments that we were quite a dysfunctional class. Even more so after our teacher was tragically killed in an accident and the replacement teacher seemed to resent our collective intelligence and was a ruthless bully. Separating bright/gifted/Asperger's spectrum children damages their social development.
The "most profitable" group for a charter school would be the average to above average kids who are relatively undemanding - say the third quartile.