Posts by Steve Barnes
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Meanwhile, Gerry is doing such a wonderful job...
The building industry says the sector is at an all-time low despite obvious work needing to be done in Christchurch.
The Registered Master Builders Federation blames the lack of work on the long recession and slow progress by insurance companies to get the wheels in motion for earthquake rebuilding.
The Canterbury rebuild appeared to have stalled for the moment, but by the middle of 2012 there would be a shortage of people to help the process. "I seriously think Christchurch is going to be massively short of available talent and people," Bagrie said.
"I put big question marks about where the resources are going to come from for the rebuild."
Christchurch builders say they are running out of work as insurance difficulties halt urgent projects and slow the Christchurch rebuild to a crawl.
Clarkville builder Gideon Couper said he and his two-man crew had about a week of work on the books before he ran out of jobs.
Stephens sees very little residential construction currently going on – insurance issues and wariness of further aftershocks. October this year will see the earliest repair work on houses on stable land damaged in February, along with roads and sewerage.
You would think, wouldn't you? that having mates in the financial and insurance sector, having bailed out AMI Insurance and South Cunty Finance, Gerry and pals could get some leverage on this thing that benefited the people of Christchurch rather than their own election sponsors.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to andin,
I can get technical, hows yer tolerance
+/- 2.5%
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to andin,
Your speakers and their placement plays more of a roll than most people give it credit.
True but there is also a lot of bollocks talked about speaker position, sound image for instance. Very few recordings benefit from accurate imaging and to try to achieve such in a home environment is almost always a compromise that can be detrimental to the overall enjoyment of a piece, the exception being orchestral music that, I personally, would not wave a baton at but each to their own.
As to the speakers themselves, well that can be a minefield in itself.
I built a set of these, Kef Concertos for the school studio when I were about 14, they wus sweet.(you could buy a kit that consisted of the drivers, crossovers and baffle and build the box yourself) -
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to andin,
Sir are you suggesting I listen to music stoned!
This ltttle Dancette sounds brilliant Man.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to andin,
Dont leave out the inner sleeve….
And always get the optional plastic cover to protect the artwork when assembling one of these.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I’ve said it before, but I suspect the departures of Mike Munro and Heather Simpson, and their subsequent non-replacement, have a large part to play in the current state of affairs.
+1
August 4 - Organisers optimistic for brewery piss up“Okay, well if anyone asks, blame it on Phil Goff. That seems to be working for everybody else this year.”
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Rich Lock,
I’m about four billion times better informed and engaged than 99% of the voting population, yet I wouldn’t have known...
And that is what worries me. This is not as simple as Labour not doing enough, it is more like whatever they do could not be enough.
The National team have their ducks in a row, they have people in places and they have looked after those people. The sheer size of the media these days means that you can read all day and still miss an entire story, even a whole campaign. Campaigns like this one are expensive and require a complicit Media, they give us the best democracy money can buy.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
You’re confusing press releases with a strategic communications campaign.
Oh, how silly of me.
You, of all people, should be able to acknowledge that running of any kind of campaign through an uninterested media is nigh on impossible. I doesn't need to be a secret agenda or part of some weird conspiracy, it just needs the media to be self interested. You surely can't deny the lack of positive coverage Labour gets in the MSM and to claim that the reason for this is that Labour is a dead duck and they are hopeless, is missing the point.
The point is, that information is just not gaining traction under a torrent of fluffy ducks for National.