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This isn't compulsory.
That's just hilarious.
About as funny as the guy on NatRad yesterday who tried to argue that this is actually a good thing for employees, since if you're in a situation where your employer wants to get rid of you, then summary sacking might be just the incentive you need to get on and find something more suitable.
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Focus - Hocus Pocus
Oh, God, no. Graham posted that tune once and it remains one of the worst musical experiences of my life.
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Crap... I tick a worrying amount of those!
4 out of 6, for me.
Edit: Oh. 5, actually.
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If ya feel like slowing down...
The expansive sounds of the Miles Davis Group at Montreaux, 1973.
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Everyone who has a chronic illness has my most sincere hugs and loves.
Yeah, me too. Right now I'm feeling rather grateful that, physically, I'm pretty much okay.
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What a boring job!
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But, despite the loss of about 15 jobs, I don't think that's necessarily the right way to look at it. The news business is changing – most obviously in that it has come loose from some long-term structural assumptions.
Adapting to changes in your industry is an on-going obligation anyway though, isn't it? That it should be accompanied by another 7% cut in staff is not a given. All the talk of the "introduction of new technology, training to make staff multi-skilled and a reorganisation of news and current affairs gathering processes and practices" just strikes me as an open-faced news sandwich.
Really, I struggle to see the recent massive nose-dive in ad revenue and the above plan for "annual savings of between $3 million and $3.3 million" as mere coincidence, and I guess TVNZ's current and recent approach to news quality just doesn't give me a lot of confidence.
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So that's what a Mayor does. Makes everything look pretty
Well, you know what enormous bills for "flowers" means, right?
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The studios themselves, in my opinion, are guilty of cultural vandalism of barbarian proportions.
Like the Beeb. They don't know what they've got till it's gone.
Frankly, the Italians are the worst for looking after their 'sixties media artifacts. Many of their soundtrack reissues start with a shitty 45 rip because the single version was snipped out of the master tape and lost.
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I did notice the wow and flutter in a number of sequences but I understand that couldn't have been fixed without totally re-recording the sound from scratch.
Yeah, that was the worst of it. What a shame. Judging by the soundtrack CDs even the master of L'Uomo Dell'Armonica, perhaps the film's key track, has been lost.