Posts by Sam F
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Sacha,
Text of Obama's Arizona speech.
Plus a bit of somewhat unfortunate advertising...
The speech itself is excellent. Sincerely hope its message is heard and acted upon.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Andre,
I've also taken time out to be told off by Brian Edwards:
Bizarre...
Have to admit though, despite all else I laughed heartily at Whale's doomed attempt at grammar-based attack questioning.
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Oh no.
Versions of this image are currently winging around Twitter at roughly the speed of light.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Re trams on the waterfront, I noticed this this morning.
As well as securing a lease of two heritage trams from a museum in Bendigo, Victoria, the Auckland Waterfront Development Agency also hopes to borrow an electric light-railcar for demonstration purposes during the Rugby World Cup.
The trams will run clockwise on a 1.5km circuit of Wynyard Quarter - between Jellicoe, Halsey, Gaunt and Daldy Sts - to draw visitors to the developing precinct and to provide them with on-board information about its attractions.
But development agency chief executive John Dalzell said yesterday that the council-controlled organisation also wanted to use the circuit as a demonstration pilot for a possible light-rail extension across Viaduct Harbour to the Downtown ferry terminal, Queens Wharf, or even further along the waterfront.
"We want to gauge the public's appetite for this form of transport."
Oh, this could be good. This could be really, really good.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Russell Brown,
A post with heaps of details is up at Auckland Trains (where else?).
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Hey, have the associated competitions with this post been drawn?
Heh, that's right - never did find out who scored the beer!
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Although there’s a faint attempt at feigning outrage in the text, the real emotion of the paper’s holiday-season editors on discovering that a “celebrity” was in court over a minor social infraction – and that he had been granted interim name suppression – must surely have been celebratory. Who could have expected such a windfall in the silly season?
For services to circulation...
This may be the year I quit clicking through to Herald stories critiqued on the web - suspect it only encourages them.
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I wasn't clued into the debate at the time - but was there similar hooha over the Northern Busway when that was put in?
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I give about three days maximum before that makes it into the NZ Herald - possibly front page lead, or at very least jumping out of the zero-attention-span "goodie box" under the masthead.
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If anyone happens to possess a PDF copy of Jan Gehl's Auckland Public Life Survey 2010 findings (previously on the ACC website), could they email it through to me? Would be much appreciated.