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artemisia

The story of the swim ladder that stuck out 11cm too far from the jetty. Oh no, can’t have that. Well the owner can have it with the appropriate approvals from – BoP Council’s Maritime Team, the Department of Conservation, Fish and Game, Land Information NZ, and Te Arawa Lakes Trust.

Fortunately a consent was issued. Four years later. Cost $1,175 plus rather a lot of time.

Minister Seymour, come on down.

https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/opinion/bureaucratic-heroes/
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September 22, 2024 8:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well these people have to justify their existence you know, otherwise they might be out of a job and actually have to work for a living.
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:23am
  - Paulus
    
    Well done Jacinda, d0n’t suppose you care anyway, you got what you wanted to the detriment of all of us.
    
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    September 22, 2024 8:37am
- Mike
  
  Given NZ is consistently ranked one of the easiest, often the easiest, places in the world to do business, one wonders what regulatory nightmares lurk in the rest of the developed world.
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:38am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Conflating bureaucracy around a swim ladder with “business”. Lol Mike, you really are unfortunate.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:02am
    - David Garrett
      
      In vino: “unfortunate” is one adjective applying to the clown with multiple names…there are other much more descriptive ones..
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:38am
    - Mike
      
      The ease of doing business is one way of measuring the regulatory burden. No doubt you can cite other comparative data to support your contention. Or just copy a washed-up lawyer and fling mindless insults that only demonstrate how easy it is to trigger the snowflakes.
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:48am
    - bjools
      
      Let me tell you a story
      Every year the “govt” sends me compliance updates, amending my “Quality Assurance Manual” (which I must have to do business).
      For years, it was just a couple of adjustments a year.
      last year there were 50.
      Justifying their jobs?
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:48pm
    - Colville
      
      In Vino.
      Someone(s) was paid to design/install/inspect that ladder…so yeah its business.
      
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      September 22, 2024 1:52pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Unless the owner hung the ladder himself. Its like having a blow up kids paddling pool in your unfenced garden. There’s a reason Government in NZ is way over staffed. They have jobs that shouldn’t exist.
        
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        September 22, 2024 3:28pm
  - john1234
    
    Well I’m sure anywhere in the EU is quite a bit worse, what with their banana curvature regulations etc. Hardly an excuse for putting up with useless over regulation here is it?
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:19am
    - Mike
      
      The bendy bananas nonsense was a typical exaggeration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:44am
      - CJames
        
        Thats Strange mike. There is this rule
        Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”. Those sold as “extra class” must be perfect, “class 1” can have “slight defects of shape” and “class 2” can have full-scale “defects of shape.”
        Abnormal curvature and defects of shape sounds very much like bendy.
        
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        September 22, 2024 1:11pm
      - NothingLeft
        
        Under EU regulations, the ideal cucumber is 30 cm long with a curvature of some 10 mm for every 10 cm. Light curving cucumbers may have a curvature of 20 mm per 10 cm according to regulation No 1677 of 1988
        
        It borders on self-parody. Obviously far too many bureaucrats wielding way too much power.
        
        grapheocrates delenda est
        
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        September 22, 2024 1:43pm
  - RightNow
    
    Wellington hospitality businesses would like to question those rankings
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:45am
  - Gussy Fink-Nottle
    
    A factoid often quoted by people who’ve never run a business.
    There’s quite a difference between setting up a company (which is very straight forward here in NZ) and actually ‘doing’ business.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:59am
  - Ghost
    
    Not sure why people down vote a true comment. We are rated one of the easiest places in the world to Do business , rated number 1 for starting up a small business
    
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    September 22, 2024 11:14am
    - Gussy Fink-Nottle
      
      à la mode de Mike…
      Setting up ≠ doing
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:08pm
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  Or – he could have found out what the requirements were, and complied with them in the first place.
  
  There’s a restriction. It’s there for a reason. Several reasons, it would appear from the number of agencies involved.
  And so there’s a line. Yes, like all regulated lines, it’s a bit arbitrary. But it has to be set somewhere.
  
  If going over the line by 11 cm is not worth bothering about, why not 12 cm? 13 cm? A metre? Three metres?
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:13am
  - David Garrett
    
    i f going over the line by 11 cm is not worth bothering about, why not 12 cm? 13 cm? A metre? Three metres?
    
    I have an answer. In law, there is what as know as the de minimis rule – loosely translated, it means “the law does not concern itself with trifles”
    
    In practice, it means you are most unlikely – if the shop was stupid enough to make a complaint = to be prosecuted for plucking one grape off a bunch in the food and veges section, and eating it – but you might just be prosecuted if you stole a whole box of grapes.
    
    11cm would – or should in a rational world – fall within the de minimis rule while a metre would not.
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:45am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      What if it were 99 cm? That’s less than a metre, so is that de minimis? 90 cm? 72? 37? Which of these is de minimis and which is not?
      
      All you’ve done is add another line that’s arbitrary, untransparent and subjective, to a line that’s arbitrary, clear and objective.
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:40am
    - NothingLeft
      
      “the law does not concern itself with trifles”
      
      Au contraire; there is extensive law surrounding food safety, eg:
      https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2015/0310/45.0/DLM6684211.html
      
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      September 22, 2024 1:46pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        Underrated joke, upvoted
        
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        September 22, 2024 8:09pm
    - Colville
      
      DG.
      
      This is 11cm (110mm which is a real measurement!) outside the boundary of the jetty.
      
      I cant imagine anyone being happy if their neighbour built their garage 110mm over the driveway?
      
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      September 22, 2024 2:00pm
  - artemisia
    
    Well there is the reason the council issued the default notice in the first place. Was a jobsworth travelling around the BoP measuring this that and the other and comparing to the consents? Maybe there was a complaint?
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:05am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      Either you have a rule and you monitor for compliance and enforce it, or you don’t have a rule. Which is better will depend on the circumstances, but in any circumstance having a rule and then doing nothing to check whether people are complying with it is worse than either.
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:43am
    - bjools
      
      Laziness and “Jobsworth”
      Interpretation of intend to break the rule?
      Does this particular case cause harm?
      I too have an example
      Several years ago a council inspector, came to inspect my carport, for it’s “final” sign off (for safety reasons, he said)
      The carport had be built and signed offv by the builder (awaiting council inspection) 5 years earlier.
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:56pm
      - Colville
        
        You when you come to sell it wont be signed off and you have a huge problem.
        They will have sent you a letter , probably to the wrong address, informing you of this and washed their hands of the problem.
        
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        September 22, 2024 2:09pm
      - Dudley Quaffquaff
        
        “Does this particular case cause harm” – how are the regulatory agencies supposed to assess that, unless they come to the property and have a look, and take some measurements, and talk to the people affected, and report back? That all takes time, and money.
        
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        September 22, 2024 2:52pm
  - john1234
    
    In other words, mindless, unquestioning compliance. As expected by socialist elites from the lumpenproletariat.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:21am
    - kowtow
      
      Attributed to one of the greatest military geniuses ever.
      
      “Rules and regulations are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools”
      
      Arthur Wellesley , First Duke of Wellington.
      
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      September 22, 2024 11:19am
  - Mike
    
    The age-old balance between rules and discretion. Possibly a bit of background to the case other than the owner’s rant could be helpful.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:52am
    - NothingLeft
      
      It is a ratchet system that is destroying the west. Always more regulation never less.
      
      Pervasive pathological safetyism driven by a predominantly anxious unthinkingly ’empathetic’ mindset that brooks no dissent lest critics look ‘unkind’ and suffer career setbacks etc.
      
      It is not subject to sensible and necessary assessment of cost/benefits which results in ever increasing reams of regulation that impose cost without useful benefit. It relentlessly grows bureaucracies and the cohorts of compliance employees needed to appease their dictat.
      
      All these people getting rich off the regulatory waste are then clamorous for more of the same to increase the extents of their empires.
      
      Its the reason why we can’t affordably build or maintain infrastructure anymore, and a large part of why housing has become unaffordable and why our country is languishing economically.
      
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      September 22, 2024 1:57pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  RMA has nothing to do with Seymour does it? I thought it was Bishop that is canning RMA and pushing fast tracking along with Jones
  
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  September 22, 2024 11:44am
  - ChristopherW2
    
    ACT took credit for it in their most recent email news, so it may have been somewhere in the Coalition Agreement.
    
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    September 22, 2024 11:59am
    - Colville
      
      Simon Court.
      Undersecretary for RMA
      
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      September 22, 2024 2:11pm
  - artemisia
    
    Ministry for Regulation. And probably more than a little bit of common sense.
    
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    September 22, 2024 12:27pm
Tauhei Notts

I have been impressed by the rugby union match analysis on this site. Come on, fellows; let’s read what you have to say after last night’s effort.
Sports writers have caught the main stream media malaise. They must spout “the party line” if they are to be invited back. That’s what makes Kiwiblog analysts so good.
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September 22, 2024 8:05am
- Prince
  
  Wellington were lucky to excape with the points, but the ‘Golden Point’ try was a cracker. Those BOP forwards are tough beasts.
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:11am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Just watching the idiot mayor of Wellington on Jack Tame. Our very own Diane Abbot.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:45am
    - newview
      
      Have to agree SB. The minority of councillors who disagree with her ideas are a distraction and are holding Wellington back. Her burbling about temporarily leaving the Green Party to prove she was not political was nonsensical. She didn’t seem to need a break in the interview but would have been better if she had. She thinks it will be hard to get re elected but believes she can convince Wellingtonians she’s good for the City. !!!!. Say no more. JT was soft as.
      
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      September 22, 2024 11:17am
    - leoj
      
      Wellington’s mayor is train-wreck but so are the voters.
      
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      September 22, 2024 11:32am
    - Forrest
      
      If you want 10 minutes of entertainment that even John Clarke would struggle to match watch Jack’s interview with Tori on Q&A.
      The scary thing is that this was Tori answering questions when presumably sober.
      “We will not achieve a majority vote in favour of selling the airport shares”
      “We will not be able to pass our long term plan”
      Followed 5 minutes later by the complete opposite of both.
      At then the flipflops on reasons (that she herself raised) for selling her car.
      You get the feeling that Tori thinks that if she says a few maori words then no rational or logic is required in anything that might come out of her mouth.
      Between herself and Kiri they have done a disservice to the reptutation of Maori women holding public offices.
      
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      September 22, 2024 1:14pm
- Mike
  
  I think the selectors have pretty much got the right squad. Something appears to be off in the approach, especially after the reserves come on and during those dreadful final quarters.
  Problems with leadership and ‘game management’. Scott Barrett has had a disrupted season, and it’s harder to lead when not playing that well. McKenzie will always be a bit erratic, but I don’t see any change being made there this year, at least.
  As for the media, they depend on access, so it takes major dissension in the ranks for anything very critical at all to come out. Robertson has the media on his side now, as he did when the previous coach was being undermined. Even a disastrous northern tour won’t change that, still 3 years from the RWC.
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:28am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Mackenzie is the problem, 3 tries ruled out, he was at the forefront of why all three were ruled out, the sooner he is gone to Ireland or where ever he is going the better, let’s not forget Mounga will have finished his second year of Japan rugby in Feb next year, he will be fast track back and possibly put into the Crusaders with a miraculous injury to someone early on
    
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    September 22, 2024 11:54am
- Biscuit
  
  A few thoughts, TN:
  
  Three disallowed tries and another four, at least, ‘blown’.
  
  I dunno, if Damian McKenzie is the answer as the All Blacks No, 10 then it must have been an (expletive-deleted) stupid question.
  
  Two more yellow cards…
  
  (Wasn’t Razor brought in to, amongst other things, improve on-field discipline?)
  
  And a head-high tackle right at the end that I‘d have doled out another yellow for … leaving the Ocks with a last-ditch attempt at what might well have been a famous win.
  
  But – heavy sarcasm follows – at least the haka (yawn!) was well done…
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:39am
  - pdm
    
    Biscuit good 10’s are in short supply because BB is not the answer. Maybe try Plummer there.
    
    There is a need to sort the midfield too – Lienart-Brown and Proctor deserve another go starting with Ioane back on the Left Wing. If fit both Barretts on the bench.
    
    Not much room to move in the forwards except perhaps Blackadder at 7. Hopefully Taukei’aho will be back soon too because he has a bit more grunt than Aumua.
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:06am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Perhaps the All blacks should take a leaf out of South Africa’s playbook and establish their own bomb squad.
      Save up some of the toughest players and put them on in a group with 20 minutes to go.
      Call it the Razor gang.
      
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      September 22, 2024 9:20am
      - pdm
        
        Gravel – I think there is an element of that but it is not yet working.
        
        BB is one of the two best bench players in world rugby (Marx is the other) and maybe with Jordie and Hotham also on the bench it may work in the backs.
        
        Forwards are problematic though with Finau and Aumua disappointing. Maybe start Darry and have Vaii on the bench and of course Taukei’aho will be back some time. That might add a bit of ooommmph.
        
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        September 22, 2024 9:40am
      - Colville
        
        Gents.
        I believe we are just at the bottom of our skill cycle.
        We lost some great men post RWC , when will we get another world class lock??
        
        2 years and we will be ok me thinks and the Saffas will be toast.
        
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        September 22, 2024 2:16pm
    - greybeard
      
      9 Roigard
      10 Plummer
      12 Ennor
      13 Proctor
      11 Clark
      14 Jordan
      15 BB
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:21pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        Ennor is done. Three ruptured ACL’s in 8 years, too much risk to persist with him at top level rugby.
        
        Ratima/Roigard at 9, Plummer at 10 (assuming Mo’unga remains unavailable), Jordie Barrett at 12, Clarke at 11, Tele’a at 14, Jordan at 15, BB and Reiko to the bench.
        
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        September 22, 2024 1:49pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    We got a yellow for the ball being hit down, I note SA had an exact knock down and as usual not din binned just a penalty
    
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    September 22, 2024 11:56am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Turns out that a winning record when coaching Canterbury and the ability to breakdance are not the predictors of excellence as an All Blacks coach that some people thought they were.
  
  Based on my lifetime of watching the ABs, the strongest predictor of an effective coach would be not being a former player.
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:43am
  - Mike
    
    I think they’ve always been former players, just not always former All Blacks. Brian Lochore perhaps being the exception of a great AB player becoming a great AB coach. Of the nine head coaches since Lochore, 5 were former ABs.
    
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    September 22, 2024 8:55am
    - pdm
      
      Fred Allen, former All Black Captain and probably the best record of any All Black coach.
      
      What is more he did it on his own. No hangers on like there are today.
      
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      September 22, 2024 9:48am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Yeah, well, not sure that Fred “The Needle” Allen would pass muster in today’s woke rugby world.
        
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        September 22, 2024 6:51pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Laurie Mains had a very patchy start as All Blacks coach before putting together a team that only missed out in 1995 due to food poisoning.
    
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    September 22, 2024 8:58am
  - pdm
    
    Early days NK once he stops being `Foster lite’ and picks the best players in their best positions things will improve.
    
    Although Perenara did very well defensively the go forward ball was cleared so slowly once he came on – Hotham would have been a better bet if Ratima needed replacing. Surely 22 year olds can play 80 minutes these days.
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:10am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Permits will be off the bench in his last test next week, he will not go on the end of year tour due to retire this year, the top half back will be back with the ever improving Ratana and Hotman the three half backs, also Fakatava is waiting in the wings, he is not far off
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:00pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        I’ve never been that impressed with Fakatava, now that he’s behind Roigard, Ratima, Hotham and presumably Christie the only way he’s getting back in is a freak run of injuries. Not sure how old he is, but if I were him I’d have my agent making late night phone calls to Europe.
        
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        September 22, 2024 8:32pm
  - cmm
    
    Coaching and playing are a different set of skills.
    
    Sometimes they intersect in the same person. Sometimes not.
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:22am
    - Gravelroad
      
      With the Crusaders, Roberston won seven consecutive Super Rugby championships, from 2017 to 2023.
      Robertson is the most successful Super Rugby coach since the competition began.
      And he was head coach of a NZ Under 20 team.
      
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      September 22, 2024 9:35am
      - Gravelroad
        
        These above are facts.
        What prompts people to downtick facts?
        
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        September 22, 2024 10:52am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Is the coach such a big influence on a team as we think?
    What about the captain and the 14 other professional
    players on the field?
    What about the opposition 15 players?
    Ref?
    Once the whistle blows any coaching plan is subject to instant review.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:08am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      “Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth”
      
      Mike Tyson
      
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      September 22, 2024 6:53pm
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    He’s coached 8 games Nigel. Are you seriously basing performance on 8 games? And he has won 5 of them. Sure, he set high standards with Canterbury, Crusaders and NZ under 20’s. You don’t win 80% of those games by being hopeless. Otherwise Foster would have done same.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:19am
- cas
  
  It’s hard for the media to be too critical. They have invested so much in promoting Razor even before he was appointed and they are struggling to make sense of the fact that he is fallible.
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:36am
- Mod88
  
  Too much Haka practice, not enough Rugby practice. Here endeth the lesson.
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:38am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Springboks 28 : Los Pumas 29
  
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  September 22, 2024 11:14am
- Anthony Melchett
  
  If Robertson keeps picking MacKenzie at first five, he better get used to losing.
  
  I have never seen a more sideways running all black 10. He can’t even defend in the line.
  
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  September 22, 2024 1:12pm
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Thank you all for your comments.
    It is people such as those above who help make this the best site on the blogosphere.
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:03pm
Chuck Bird

This shows the difference between Christianity and Islam.

Classic Stossel: Free Speech and Islam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8WG08bdtw
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September 22, 2024 8:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You are a meanie.
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:30am
- mandk
  
  That report makes an argument that most of the 1 billion or so Muslims in the world are not violent.
  
  But many of them celebrated wildly when the twin towers were bombed and when Hamas operatives crossed the border into Israel on 7 October 2023 and burned babies in ovens, and raped and killed many women, old and young alike.
  
  The fact is that Islam is an abomination.
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:04am
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    Many of them did.
    
    But most of them didn’t.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:45am
    - mandk
      
      Yes, but there weren’t many Moslems protesting about the atrocities.
      
      Maybe it’s only an atrocity when a non-Muslim does it.
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:54pm
      - waikatosinger
        
        Hardly anyone is protesting the atrocities of Hamas. Everyone is protesting against Israel. If you display a sign in the UK calling Hamas terrorists, you’ll be arrested. We live in strange and dangerous times.
        
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        September 23, 2024 12:13am
    - NothingLeft
      
      The moderates don’t decry or otherwise call out the extremists though do they? They don’t suffer social opprobrium within the Muslim community, those extremists pray alongside the moderates in the same mosques, and are their brothers and cousins etc.
      
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      September 22, 2024 2:01pm
- David Garrett
  
  Chuck: That Steyn fellow articulates exactly what I have been saying on here for years – if we don’t push back, and push back strongly – we will find ourselves dictated to and our freedoms heavily curtailed by Muslims.
  
  And in answer to the inevitable naive comments from newbies “But Muslims cause no trouble here” the answer is “There are not yet enough of them to be bold enough to try. Two percent is the first ‘tipping point’, and our Muslim population is only about 1.5%”
  
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  September 22, 2024 10:18am
  - herb1
    
    Like a lot of issues today , many people aren’t knowledgeable or emotionally able to debate properly.
    When These Islamic issues come up , I stop at telling people I’m not anti Muslim, I’m anti Islamic. Most don’t understand the difference
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:45am
    - PurplePen
      
      And then you’re called racist when the group concerned is a religious group and not a race.
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:57pm
Prince

Media moment of the week.
TVNZ news item on an elderly Otago Uni professor calling for media ban on fast food advertising on TV, ‘cos too many youngsters are obese.
Item propped up by street interviews of well-dressed middle-aged dowagers saying ‘100%’, absolutely’, something must be done’ etc etc.
The last lady, somewhat less affluent than the others from her appearance, but obviously more connected with kids, stuck a pin in the whole item.
‘Nah, kids these days don’t watch much telly.’

So true. Brilliant.
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September 22, 2024 8:18am
- Paulus
  
  Actually my Doctor has told me before now that Obesity is the greatest human danger to New Zealand, as their practice sees a lot of it, both Boys and Girls now (and of course their Parents) – and they can do nothing about it as nobody listen to them, even when they come back as a results, underlying any medical science.
  
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  September 22, 2024 1:56pm
  - Flossie
    
    Stopping fast food ads on TV is (as the wise lady said) a waste as kids don’t watch. Presumably these kids are being provided with such food by their parents so educating the parents makes more sense.
    
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    September 22, 2024 3:03pm
PurplePen

And there it is again. Herald on Sunday reports “many people in part blame the cost-of-living crisis driving ever busier lives ” as the reason less sit down to dinner together.

It’s the “ever busier lives” bit. Media have been dragging this one out for more than 2 decades. You can’t possibly have significantly continually ever busier lives over decades.

While I’m on it, crisis. Can a crisis run for more than a couple of years? Like all the other crises we have at the moment. I thought a crisis was something for which an immediate decision was needed, a rapid turning point if you will. If it’s been going on for a long time and no-one is dying in a ditch, isn’t it just the status quo. Admittedly an unpleasant one in this case.
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September 22, 2024 8:19am
Yvette

Treaty
The differences between the texts and the shades of meaning do not matter for the purposes of this case. What matters is the spirit. This approach accords with the oral nature of Mäori tradition and culture. It is necessary also because the relatively sophisticated society for whose needs the State-Owned Enter- prises Act has been devised could not possible have been fore- seen by those who participated in the making of the 1840 Treaty.
– the Lands case (1987) the Court of Appeal elaborated the principles of the Treaty as required by section nine of the State Owned Enterprises Act 1986 (the SOE Act).

Treaty principles are therefore informed by various sources, including the literal terms of both texts, the cultural meanings of words, the influences and events which gave rise to the Treaty, as far as these can be determined from historical sources, as well as contemporary explanations and legal interpretations. These principles interpret the Treaty as a whole, including its underlying meaning, intention and spirit, to provide further understanding of the expectations of signatories. In the view of the Courts and the Waitangi Tribunal, Treaty principles are not set in stone. They are constantly evolving as the Treaty is applied to particular issues and new situations. Neither the Courts nor the Waitangi Tribunal have produced a definitive list of Treaty principles. As President Cooke has said: “The Treaty obligations are ongoing. They will evolve from generation to generation as conditions change”.
https://www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Publications/WT-Principles-of-the-Treaty-of-Waitangi-as-expressed-by-the-Courts-and-the-Waitangi-Tribunal.pdf
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Speaking about the Treaty Principles Bill at the Hui-A-Iwi in January, Tūheitia said, “There are no principles, the Treaty is written. That is it.”
https://indiannewslink.co.nz/respect-for-kingi-tuheitia-underscores-the-significance-of-the-kingitanga-movement/.

The above two quotes relate to seemingly opposite and incompatible views, which may be emphasised by ACT’s anticipated Treaty Bill, as yet publicly unseen, but are not caused by it, however may be resolved by full and proper consideration of it.

So, perhaps considering Occam’s Razor and Solomon’s Sword, where does Christopher Luxon stand in this?
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September 22, 2024 8:24am
- waikatosinger
  
  Luxon would like to stand somewhere else I believe.
  
  Some would criticise him for that but I reckon he could be onto something. Some issues are better dealt with by not confronting them directly.
  
  If you provoke a direct confrontation on this kind of issue you must win. Seymour has already lost. He let the media frame it as an issue of race. Game over, he loses.
  
  Framing is everything. Once the media framed this as a racism issue everything Seymour said was dismissed as intellectual sophistry and the excuses of a racist. There is no way to win that fight.
  
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  September 23, 2024 12:40am
Flossie

Back in the 90s I started a small retail business in a provincial city. A sandwich board on the footpath seemed like a good idea. Wasn’t long before some “official” from the council arrived to say that it was not allowed…potential hazard to pedestrians – particularly sight impaired persons. However it could be there if an annual fee was paid to the council.
Paid their fee and the board remained there for several years, without any pedestrian incidents.
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September 22, 2024 8:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  There were no incidents because the annual fee made it safe.
  However, if you defaulted the fee there would have been one incident a day.
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:33am
  - pdm
    
    `However, if you defaulted the fee there would have been one incident a day.’
    
    Probably council staff rotated out of the office to fall over it.
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:12am
    - Don Beckett
      
      That’s right – the same as paying the Climate Change tax will stop the world from boiling. 😆
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:10am
- John Loveridge
  
  So a fee to the council automatically made it safe for sight-impaired people?
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:35am
  - john1234
    
    That’s it. Akin to paying “koha” to iwi to placate a “taniwha”.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:27am
    - John Loveridge
      
      It sounds a lot like a protection racket. But more Fat Tony than Don Corleone.
      
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      September 22, 2024 6:16pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yes. The higher the fee, the safer it is.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:56am
- Mike
  
  I guess the fee acts as some control over the private use of public space. Might every business place multiple signs on the footpath otherwise?
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:41am
  - Matt Long
    
    Oh dear, here I am agreeing with Mike, unfortunately bylaws do have a place, in this case, without them the footpath would became an obstacle course as each business pushed the boundaries to force more foot traffic into their store.
    I can see some businesses placing obstacles forcing foot traffic either into the street or into their store, given the opportunity.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:11am
    - Paulus
      
      The Fee was the cost of the Council Clerk’s time in assessing it !
      
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      September 22, 2024 1:58pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    It wouldn’t be too difficult to entitle all retailers automatic rights to put up sandwich boards.
    They are hardly an unusual feature in any city. Why create bureaucracy.
    
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    September 22, 2024 11:10am
    - Paulus
      
      C’os Council’s cannot survive without Bureacracy – that is what they are there for.
      
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      September 22, 2024 2:00pm
    - Flossie
      
      It would make sense to let businesses have one board each, and have a maximum size and footprint allowed.
      Naturally there’d have to be a fee….
      
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      September 22, 2024 4:19pm
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Laws are made to be ignored by councils – for 25 years & counting
  “…the AFFCO plant in Napier has been discharging trade waste into the city’s wastewater system at non-compliant levels since monitoring began in 1998.”
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350416424/private-communication-worksafe-says-never-occurred
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:42am
- MCōs
  
  At least you knew who was running the protection racket
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:45am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I just had to uptick you for that MCos.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:59am
- Biscuit
  
  Flossie, I was in Wellington on Friday and walked from LQ right up to CP…
  
  I passed – just on my side of the street, too – eleven street people, nine begging, two sleeping rough.
  
  No room for your sandwich boards even if the council was of a mind to support local businesses…
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:47am
  - artemisia
    
    If you think that’s a lot of beggars around Lambton Quay wait till the cruise ships start arriving.
    
    Here’s another cool game alongside that bike rack daily number – count the number of boarded up storefronts LQ to CP.
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:32am
- cmm
  
  Ironically, I once almost broke a bone tripping over a safety cone.
  
  Yes, it really is ridiculous how paying a fee can somehow make something safe and allow blind people to see it.
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:24am
- David Garrett
  
  Flossie: What a disgrace that council was! I had a similar battle with the New Plymouth District Council back in the 80’s
  
  My first house had no garage, so no vehicle crossing. I built a garage, and then enquired about the cost of a vehicle crossing – which had to be made by the council’s designated contractor, who just happend to be my flatmate. The crossing cost the ratepayer $650 – a tidy sum in 1984 – but Brian the contractor only got paid $350 per.
  
  My first step was to have two “plates” made which allowed a car to drive smoothly over the kerb, onto the footpath, and thence onto the property. Some council wallah removed them, scrawled “illegal” across the bottom, and threw them on my lawn.
  
  I re-installed them – but this time dyna-bolted to the road with the threads damaged so they couldn’t be easily removed. It took them a week, but finally they removed them again.
  
  I then conceded (partial) defeat, and instructed Brian to make me a vehicle crossing, for which I would pay him the same amount as the council. He agreed to do it, but only if I didn’t disclose he had built it (he wanted to keep his lucrative contract). He warned me I was going to have trouble with the council – and I did.
  
  Long story short – after threats of litigation – Garrett 1 – NPDC nil.
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:31am
- JackRabbit
  
  Wasn’t long before some “official” from the council arrived to say that it was not allowed…potential hazard to pedestrians – particularly sight impaired persons.
  
  You paying a fee to the council magically restores full sight to the “sight impaired” people.
  
  I guess that is believable. After al, paying a climate tax stops sea level rise. ///
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:58am
- kowtow
  
  Danger to pedestrians?
  
  And now , in the name of saving Gaia they allow , even encourage, the use of those motorised scooters on pedestrian pavements .
  
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  September 22, 2024 10:06am
pdm

LQ – were you in the `alphabet people’ part of town?

Okay settle, settle – even I, from Hawkes Bay know LQ is Lambton Quay and CP is Courtenay Place.

That is a long walk for you though. I hope you rested up yesterday.
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September 22, 2024 9:16am
sirknz

Senior Stuff journalist admits he’s too useless to remember what bins go out each week.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350421407/how-i-fell-love-rubbish-app

Seriously, how do these people manage their lives?
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September 22, 2024 9:34am
- Ghost
  
  Our council gives out a little bin calendar. It’s handy, I can never remember what bins are due out.
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:47am
  - Flossie
    
    I just check what bins the rest of the street is putting out!
    
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    September 22, 2024 9:58am
    - Ghost
      
      Yeah we use that method if someone has their bin out, our neighbour puts her out at midnight….
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:10am
    - Handyman
      
      The person who puts their (correct) bins out first is known as a binfluencer.
      
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      September 22, 2024 11:06am
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        Nice one!
        
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        September 22, 2024 4:51pm
- pdm
  
  We use a non council bin, costs about $10 a week and pick up has been the same day of the week since 2002. Everything goes into it because a few years ago our recycling was not picked up 3 weeks in a row so bugger them.
  
  We are in Hastings.
  
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  September 22, 2024 9:56am
  - Ghost
    
    We have 4 bins. Garden food scraps is weekly. Then the glass bin, household rubbish bin, and the recyclables are each fortnightly. Then there are all the rules that go with the glass and recycle bins. Oh and now if you break the rules, your bin will get a white lid put on it to advise the truck driver not to empty it. Each bin also has a radio/gps tag on it so that the truck can identify the bin is with the right property and not stolen.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:09am
    - john1234
      
      Christ. Where is that police state?
      
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      September 22, 2024 10:30am
      - Ghost
        
        The place that had to put up with these god awful billboards around town for a few months back then
        
        https://www.facebook.com/TimaruDC/posts/in-timaru-we-recycle-toplessmayor-nigel-bowen-and-councillor-barbara-gilchrist-a/1848036482030711/
        
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        September 22, 2024 11:22am
      - kowtow
        
        In Dunedin they now have Rubbish Cops checking the bins with a threat to de rubbish you.
        
        From their website ;
        
        “The recycling bin inspectors will make follow-up checks, leaving letters with advice. If, by the third inspection, a property’s bin still has a high level of contamination, the recycling bin will be removed and the service will be suspended for three months. After that, the service will resume, but the householder will be required to pay a fee for handling and delivery of a new bin.”
        
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        September 22, 2024 11:41am
      - Ghost
        
        I wonder if they realise for that 3 months the rubbish will be dumped where ever the household wants to.i also wonder if refusing to pick up a houses rubbish is a health issue.
        
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        September 22, 2024 11:45am
      - Taieri
        
        Sorry kowtow, clicked “report” by mistake.
        
        In Dunedin they now have Rubbish Cops checking the bins
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        Wish I was young again, what a great career…
        
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        September 22, 2024 12:32pm
    - Taieri
      
      We have 4 bins.
      ———–
      
      Just imagine, there are now automated rubbish sorting lines that don’t require separation by householders. May be we will get them in the 23rd century…
      
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      September 22, 2024 12:35pm
    - Flossie
      
      We have all of that (four different bins) plus we have to pay $8 for a tag to go on the General Waste bin in order to have it collected. Nevermind the charges we’ve already paid for this service in our rates bill, And huge problems with tags going missing (nicked?) and rubbish therefore not collected.
      This is Coromandel Peninsula.
      
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      September 22, 2024 3:08pm
- PurplePen
  
  Two bins or bags for wgtn. that’s all. One for glass and one for everything else. Plastics have gotten complicated and they weren’t being recycled as far as I could tell anyway. Food scraps and tins on the garden compost heap.
  
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  September 22, 2024 10:09am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    You compost tins? 🤔
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:18am
    - PurplePen
      
      Yeah. They break down eventually. Takes a while. Dad used to and he had a massive vege garden fed by compost heap.
      
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      September 22, 2024 1:01pm
  - AitchW
    
    PP, the company next to ours has two bins, one for rubbish and one for cardboard. One truck collects both. The cardboard goes straight to landfill.
    
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    September 22, 2024 2:22pm
- JackRabbit
  
  If he has a rubbish app he has a smart phone. A smart device with a calendar, which allows you to enter recurring events.
  
  In the event that a bin is damaged which might be a 1 in two decade event, you phone the council.
  
  You put your bin on the specified day, before the specified day, and it is picked up like clockwork. If the council screw up that, their processes are flawed, and an app just introduces another process that can be flawed.
  
  And if said reporter is that dumb that he cannot figure out how to use a calendar on his smart phone, and is unable to use his said smart phone to make calls, why would you trust anything this reporter writes?
  
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  September 22, 2024 10:12am
  - pdm
    
    Jack we are old fashioned.
    
    We have a calandar on the wall – big squares too and every meeting etc goes on it.
    
    We flip it over on the 1st of each month and update it.
    
    Much more user friendly for 70/80 year olds.
    
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    September 22, 2024 10:50am
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      A calendar with small squares in useless.
      To read a calendar I do not have to remember a password that is at least ten characters long and includes upper case and lower case alphabetical characters as well as numeric characters and at least one symbol that is neither alphabetic nor numeric.
      The information technology industry has a lot to answer for.
      
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      September 22, 2024 11:45am
      - Jack5
        
        And you don’t have to remember where you left the phone and when you charged it last.
        
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        September 22, 2024 11:57am
      - lifesgood
        
        I woke up in the small hours once to see a man with a headlamp and a clipboard inspecting my bins. Ever since then I’ve put them out after breakfast on the day of collection.
        
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        September 22, 2024 1:26pm
- John Loveridge
  
  THAT was senior journalism?
  
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  September 22, 2024 6:25pm
kevn

Meanwhile in the jungle…
https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/the-world-bank-confirms-150-developing-nations-are-on-track-to-overtake-nz-as-a-succession-of-natio
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September 22, 2024 10:49am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “For the past Labour government, well, don’t ask: NZ has recorded a drop in GDP per capita of 4.6%,”
  Gee, I wonder why?
  
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  September 22, 2024 11:17am
  - imalwaysright
    
    S.O
    If the 4.6% was adjusted to reflect that only about a quarter of the population actually produce anything it would show the much greater magnitude of the damage done by adern hipkins and robertson.
    
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    September 22, 2024 12:05pm
    - AitchW
      
      History will not judge Ardern and Robertson kindly.
      I have nothing but contempt for them and for the idealogues who keep pouring cash into their bank accounts.
      Maybe once we climb out of the chasm they dug for us the scales will fall from the adoring eyes of the sycophantic historians and there be some real analysis of the carnage they wrought upon this country.
      
      [Mod – keep family out of it, thanks]
      
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      September 22, 2024 2:20pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    “NZ has recorded a drop in GDP per capita of 4.6%,”
    
    Actually the drop in real GDP is a lot higher, as the way GDP is measured is not solely about production. Govt spending also figures in the total.
    
    Despite falling, GDP was artificially boosted, softening the fall, by the rampant printing and borrowing, which also masks the closing of businesses, loss of jobs, and contraction in farming.
    
    No different to seeing your next door neighbours with his and her new cars, new jet boat, mobile home, new tech gear, etc.
    
    They may no income (production) increase, in fact they may have lost their jobs, but just lots of debt and credit card bills.
    
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    September 22, 2024 5:44pm
Jack5

Dairy farms disappearing in the United States …

More than 60 per cent of milk in the United States comes from farms with each more than 2,500 cows.

Dairy farms have been growing in size in NZ, too, but the American consolidation is dramatic.

From 1970 to 2022 the number of producing dairy farms in the United states fell from 648,000 to 24,470.

This article from “Wired” magazine says one of the ways Americans can help their dairy farmers is to buy direct from farms.

https://www.wired.com/story/americas-dairy-farms-have-vanished/?u
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September 22, 2024 10:51am
- cmm
  
  The US dairy industry is highly subsidized and industrialised, meaning that the profitability per cow increases with with herd size.
  
  According to some recent data, per-cow profitability is between 3x and 5x on farms larger than 1000 cows.
  
  “The most profitable parts of the U.S. in 2020 will be the Northwest and Northeast, but smaller farms in those regions won’t participate in this success. On average farms with less than 250 cows will make just $125 to $170 per cow in 2020, while those with more than 1000 or 5000 cows will earn about three to five times that level.
  The least profitable region is expected to be the Southwest, and farms below 250 cows are expected to lose money in 2022. The Southeast is close behind. In both cases farms between 250 -1000 cows will make about half the income per cow of their neighbors with over 1000 or 5000 cows.”
  
  When adjusting for inflation, the retail price of milk is falling due in part to to industrialisation and huge subsides. USA milk is around $4US/gallon = $NZ1.50 a litre. If it was inflation adjusted from the 1995 prices ($2.80/gallon) it would now cost $5.80/gallon ($NZ2.20 a litre).
  
  The only way to reverse that trend is through people being prepared to pay small farmers more to un-tilt the playing field. To do that they would need to pay a lot more to make up for the subsidies etc.
  
  https://www.dairyherd.com/news/business/which-dairies-will-be-most-profitable-2022
  
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  September 22, 2024 11:58am
  - wsk12345
    
    In NZ people pay much more for less industrial milk that is actually just milk.i pay $4.50 for a litre glass bottle at my local, bottle returned to get that price. Milk has cream on the top and tastes like it did 30+ years ago.
    
    Others pay $7 for a 1.5 litre at the super if it’s organic or otherwise unadulterated.
    
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    September 22, 2024 1:14pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Some of it is driven by rising regulatory compliance costs that are substantially per-farm. Bigger farm = smaller compliance overhead
  
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  September 22, 2024 2:09pm
Ghost

Pass, not even when the book is in the bargain bin.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350420190/patrick-gower-everything-and-trademarking-meme
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September 22, 2024 11:27am
- cmm
  
  You wonder how narcissistic someone has to be to write a book about themselves – especially just after they’ve been kicked to touch.
  
  Going to be pulped for egg cartons.
  
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  September 22, 2024 12:00pm
  - rouppe
    
    He still thinks he is the news…
    
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    September 22, 2024 12:11pm
- Jack5
  
  Paddy Gower says in that link that he couldn’t trade mark his infamous “This is the f—g news” because you can’t trademark a swear word.
  
  However, a search at the Intellectual Property Office shows it’s under consideration, and that Gower seeks to trademark the words for:
  
  1. Marketing, merchandising, business marketing, influence marketing, and event marketing.
  
  2. Journalism services, investigative journalism services; freelance journalism services; freelance journalism being news reporting; freelance journalism being writing of texts.
  
  https://app.iponz.govt.nz/app/Extra/IP/Mutual/Browse.aspx?sid=638626033438001552&op=EXTRA_PS_CB&headerVisible=0&idMark=1259120&tyApp=1
  
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  September 22, 2024 12:07pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Here’s some of his best work
  
  https://youtu.be/mUR9U6Srj7g?si=JJ62XXgiKeB4nuT7
  
  Molyneaux and Southern trying to not punch down.
  
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  September 22, 2024 12:15pm
  - lifesgood
    
    How did that moron keep his job? FFS!!! I have seen some halfwits in my time but he takes the cake.
    
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    September 22, 2024 1:42pm
- mandk
  
  The book should be called “How two Canadians turned me into a wimp”
  
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  September 22, 2024 12:58pm
- John Loveridge
  
  So is he a journalist or a comedian?
  
  Either way, he’s f#$%ing crap.
  
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  September 22, 2024 6:33pm
Ghost

So taken out of context but you failed to correct it? Liar comes to mind

“No, I actually didn’t,” she said. “It’s a shame because it was taken out of context. It was an hour-long interview. You get a bit relaxed. The main reason, actually, was because it’s a walkable city. I don’t need a car living in the city centre.”

Article
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September 22, 2024 11:32am
- Ghost
  
  Hmmm, both articles from this month, she looks so different in each
  
  https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/09/17/wellington-mayor-tory-whanau-now-walks-to-work-after-selling-car-to-pay-bills/
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/22/wellington-mayor-on-councillor-dysfunction-selling-her-car/
  
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  September 22, 2024 11:38am
- cmm
  
  “It was an hour-long interview. You get a bit relaxed.”
  
  Is that an admission she couldn’t keep her lies consistent for an hour?
  
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  September 22, 2024 12:18pm
  - Ghost
    
    A follow up question is needed. Do you use the mayoral car?
    
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    September 22, 2024 12:40pm
  - alwyn.a
    
    “You get a bit relaxed”.
    She sounds like a woman who follows my recommended approach to life.
    “I drink to relax. Sometimes I get so relaxed I can’t stand.”
    
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    September 22, 2024 3:29pm
  - Scooter
    
    So getting “relaxed” is spin for I just make things up. And this is who is running Wellington Council. Keep digging Tory, you might like to fix the pipes at the same time.
    
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    September 22, 2024 5:41pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Calling elected councillors who, oppose her, “dysfunctional” and “political riff raff” isn’t a sign of someone who is in control of her position.
  I think she is under the impression that the mayoralty is akin to a dictatorship.
  
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  September 22, 2024 1:01pm
- John Loveridge
  
  So Tory’s been caught bullshitting. Again.
  
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  September 22, 2024 3:31pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  But from my recollection she said it right at the start of the interview so she can’t even try not to mislead again. Or did she arrive “relaxed” and had she remembered to pay the bill before scuttling off?
  
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  September 22, 2024 8:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

DeSantis launches probe into assassination attempt.
Will the truth come out about the Secret Service screwing up twice?

https://crystalclearnews.com/desantis-launches-state-probe-into-attempted-assassination-of-trump-on-golf-course/?
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September 22, 2024 11:45am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Billionaire Plans Drastic Action If Kamala Wins.
There is no telling what she will do to the economy and the Country.
Ardern 2.0 on steroids.

https://pjnewsletter.com/billionaire-kamala-harris-economy/?
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September 22, 2024 11:50am
- imalwaysright
  
  Many wealthy Brits fled the country when Starmer became PM, there will be the same reaction if this idiot manages to get in.
  
  Good opportunity for NZ to offer them safe refuge for them and their money and their talents.
  
  Can’t see it happening though…
  
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  September 22, 2024 12:20pm
  - cmm
    
    There is a difference though.
    
    It is common for the reasonably wealthy Brit to have a holiday/retirement home in Europe or elsewhere. This is quite uncommon in USA.
    
    In USA it is really only the insanely wealthy that would consider this seriously.
    
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    September 22, 2024 1:05pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      It’s extremely difficult for wealthy Americans to expatriate themselves – high taxes are imposed if they attempt to move their assets offshore.
      
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      September 22, 2024 2:11pm
      - cmm
        
        Sure, but if you’re obscenely rich (say a billion or more) you can afford to throw more than half your wealth away and still be rich enough to do anything you want.
        
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        September 22, 2024 3:13pm
G the giant from Dunedin

I know most people hate Cane in the ABs but he is very strong defensively last night, and done go forward play around the rucks, he puts Popalihi in to perspective, they should try and lure him back because as yet they have no answer for open side, unless they put The number 8 to 7 and bring the 6 into 8
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September 22, 2024 12:05pm
- Anthony Melchett
  
  He literally missed a one on one tackle for Australia’s second? try.
  
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  September 22, 2024 1:29pm
- Hard Cheese
  
  Check out his “strong defense” in Faessler’s try for Australia /s His missed tackle was essentially responsible for it being scored.
  
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  September 22, 2024 2:05pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Let’s have a bit of word salad.
Two examples to give you a headache.

https://pjnewsletter.com/kamala-harris-price-gouging/?
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September 22, 2024 12:10pm
cmm

Nanny state trying to replace individual responsibility again – this time over the consumption of N2O.

Good luck with that!

People will always pursue highs, be that with grass, alcohol, nitrous oxide,…

Does criminalisation ever work?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nang-ban-government-cracks-down-on-selling-and-inhaling-nitrous-oxide/QFPIPJLGIFGCXPRSL7EZNU723U/
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September 22, 2024 12:16pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Diddy gets a visit.
Lefties, this is satire, don’t watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5z1tR6NYxo
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September 22, 2024 12:31pm
Benedict Yu

Honestly, is this the worst mayor in history?😕

“When asked by Tame whether she sold her car to pay the bills, Whanau said: “No, I actually didn’t”.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350424909/wellington-mayor-tory-whanau-says-walkable-city-main-reason-she-sold-car-not-pay
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September 22, 2024 12:33pm
- cmm
  
  Tory lying is nothing interesting.
  
  What is interesting is the ever-fawning Stuff throwing her under the bus.
  
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  September 22, 2024 1:03pm
  - mandk
    
    Yes, it figures that she lied.
    
    She’s a Green.
    
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    September 22, 2024 1:23pm
- artemisia
  
  She didn’t lie, her comment was taken out of context. Yeah nah.
  
  I am predicting she will not stand for mayor again and will leave it as late as possible to announce that. She will head back to the Green Party, nice safe place out of reach of the slings and arrows.
  
  Those slings and arrows are pretty much daily now. Not a good environment for a person with issues who needs rests.
  
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  September 22, 2024 1:04pm
  - cmm
    
    “She will head back to the Green Party”
    
    You mean as an MP?
    
    Would the Greens really want to taint their brand even further (though at this stage it is rather tattered).?
    
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    September 22, 2024 1:08pm
    - artemisia
      
      Not necessarily as MP. She has been chief of staff previously, a nice quiet researcher / adviser back room role could suit well.
      
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      September 22, 2024 1:54pm
      - cmm
        
        I somehow doubt that a Green staff job such as researcher would provide the money she’s used to.
        
        She really would need to sell the car to pay the bills.
        
        Nope, once someone this useless gets addicted to money they will hang on to it as long as they can.
        
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        September 22, 2024 4:05pm
- Hugh Jarse
  
  She is like our previous female PM, she opens her mouth and words just come tumbling out like water down a West Coast river after heavy rain, equally chaotic and uncontrollable.
  
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  September 22, 2024 1:46pm
- John Loveridge
  
  I bet she needed a nice long nap at her desk to recover from that interview.
  
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  September 22, 2024 3:33pm
Ghost

Falling asleep at the wheel. There needs to be a charge

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350423448/brief-news-bites-saturday-september-21

A 30-year-old fell asleep at the wheel of the truck they were driving and crashed into a parked vehicle on Evans St, Timaru, on Wednesday night. Senior Sergeant Richard Quested said there were no injuries and no charges have been laid yet.
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September 22, 2024 12:47pm
Swifty

It’s funny you know, I don’t recall reading news report after news report about:

Ian Lees-Galloway’s ongoing contact with his union colleagues once he became Minister, or Little’s, or Grant Robertson’s ongoing contact with his CTU mates, or Jackson’s contacts with the Maori gravy train occupants once he was put in charge of Maori Development, or Tinetti once she held education, or Andersen once she got Police, or Wood once he got Transport and tens of other examples I could name.

Why is that I wonder?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/in-the-pocket-of-the-gun-lobby-firearms-minister-nicole-mckees-messages-with-gun-owners-group-revealed/LOHV3HGCQFGG7JUFTZUHQA73JM/
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September 22, 2024 1:29pm
- kowtow
  
  Same way we don’t read constant stories about how whacked the behaviour of Maori Party members in the House has been recently.
  
  Gate keeping , self censorship in the legacy meedia..
  
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  September 22, 2024 2:38pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Please let us know when an article you point to is paywalled.
  
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  September 22, 2024 5:16pm
Chuck Bird

Hysterical Kamala Harris parody ad goes viral after being banned by Gavin Newsom

Elon Musk is encouraging a hilarious parody ad mocking Kamala Harris to go viral on X after California governor Gavin Newson signed a law to eliminate deepfake and other AI generated content in the lead up to the election.

The law was sparked by a series of parody videos created by AI and using deepfakes to mock Kamala Harris on social media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIz-aoZFzM4
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September 22, 2024 2:44pm
Benedict Yu

Trying to find Jacinda is like that kids game “Where’s Wally?”😳

She recently popped up in Venice with Oprah to accept an award for being ‘one of the world’s great women leaders’. 😳

https://www.vanityfair.it/gallery/oprah-winfrey-dvf-awards-diane-von-furstenberg-premi

I can’t see her residing in New Zealand for a long time to come.
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September 22, 2024 2:49pm
- Flossie
  
  That’s good.
  
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  September 22, 2024 3:13pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Where’s the Wally?
  
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  September 22, 2024 3:21pm
  - Mod88
    
    Canada, sprung by Rebel News today leaving a meeting with bestie Justine. Given his popularity and calls to Resign the saying, Birds of a feather stick together, fly with the crows you get shot at” springs to mind.
    
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    September 22, 2024 4:54pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Her travels will be confidential I guess.
  Heaven forbid some extreme right wing protesters turn up for the media to exploit instead of focusing on her!
  
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  September 22, 2024 3:36pm
- Taieri
  
  I can’t see her residing in New Zealand for a long time to come
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  Who knows? Once she fuels up her tank anything is possible…
  
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  September 22, 2024 3:37pm
- John Loveridge
  
  Praise the Lord.
  
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  September 22, 2024 3:39pm
- rockape
  
  Funny how she wanted to serve NZ and save us all with hugs . Right up till when her popularity faded and big dollars were offered elsewhere. Doesn’t seem to have much interest in us now ! Don’t tell me it was all a lie !!
  
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  September 22, 2024 4:44pm
  - AitchW
    
    Well she did grow up in a middle class family….
    
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    September 22, 2024 4:54pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350425020/she-took-solo-honeymoon-after-her-fiance-died-and-found-community
How could her fiance die and then find a community ?
How stupid are Stuff writers ?
The above link implies that it was her fiance who died and found a community.
Not that she took a honeymoon after her fiance died, and by doing so found a community.
Do NZME contributors have no basic knowledge of the English language ?
The correct writing would be:
“She took a solo honeymoon and by doing so found a community, after her fiancé died “.

But I suppose we should make allowances for the Stuff contributors.
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September 22, 2024 4:56pm
- Ghost
  
  Ummm, it’s a Washington post article
  
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  September 22, 2024 5:07pm
Ghost

I was watching testimony from Jelly Roll several months ago. His opening comment should be listened to by all celebrities.

“I am a musician and I have no political alliance”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_NULoJyNAw
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