Posts by Jake Pollock
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Yeah I understand that but the point is that it has created public space around it. Parks and stuff. As well as restaurants.
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If this is incorrect please state where in the world a waterfront stadium works as public space on the waterfront.
PNC Park, in Pittsburgh is home to the Pittsburgh Pirates. They're the worst team in baseball and have the best staduim. It was built on the North Side of the Allegheny River, with views of downtown. The riverbank now features a lot of park area, there are numerous bars and restaurants built into the outside of the stadium and in once-empty buildings in the blocks east of the stadium (there's also a lot of carparking, but they built it in a post-industrial ruin).
During games they close off the nearest bridge so that you can easily walk across from downtown. I don't particularly like baseball but I go there at least a couple of times a season, just to be in the stadium.And it's only about seven years old. There's an American Football stadium right next door, but tickets are incredibly expensive so I've never been. A bit further down the river, Carnegie Mellon has a science centre, and there is also the Andy Warhol Museum a few blocks away. Those stadiums are contributing to the redevelopment of the once-industrial waterfront in a big way.
ETA: the obvious objection is that these stadiums were built in an area with ample space for development, and not on a wharf. I'm addressing the specific question above, not saying that exactly the same thing would work in Auckland.
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She wants us to accept that no one knows anything, because then no policy is really valid, meaning that the only way forward is a highly deregulated society (and economy) where everyone from the CEO to the factory worker is "free" to behave as they please; basically an ACT stance.
I can see your point, but I think that implies a coherence and consistency of thought not evident in any of her writing.
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Deborah Hill Cone finds your research-based journalism cold-blooded and oleaginous, Russell.
Can't we just let our feelings guide us through major policy changes?
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Oh I don't know about that. And I might be wrong -- it could be that they I just haven't seen any of the episodes that they're in. I just conducted some market research, and the clip that I posted above was shown. It might be that they start up again a bit later in the season. But it's something to watch out for.
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Speaking of Breaking Bad, I may be wrong, but C4 seem to have cut out a lot of scenes that run throughout season two, and lead up to the finale. I've watched the last few episodes that have shown in New Zealand having already seen the whole thing in the States, and they're just not there. Without it, the end of the season will come completely out of the blue.
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'Off-site Backup Copy' on some remote server which you can synchronise with your system whenever you need to. Some people may have this already.
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This was the weirdest part for me:
In this country we have many people who have made a thriving industry out of making excuses for criminals.
In the past decade these people have overwhelmed the debate on law and order with their views on the rights of offenders.
The Sensible Sentencing Trust is the most vocal lobby group in this country, isn't it?
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Ms Collins really gets on my tits.
Perhaps Campbell Live will do a story about that.