Daily Review 24/01/2019

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  1. joe90 1
    24 January 2019 at 6:22 pm

    Happy 109th to Django Reinhardt, one of the most important jazz guitarists of all time.

    (dude had only two functional fingers on his left hand)

    https://twitter.com/thefindingeye/status/1088248846474452993

    • McFlock 1.1
      24 January 2019 at 7:16 pm

      That dude is off the chain! [couldn’t resist 🙂 ]

      • joe90 1.1.1
        24 January 2019 at 7:45 pm

        Fun fact, in tribute to Django Reinhard the Allman Brothers Band’s Dickey Betts attempted to write a song that could be played using only two fingers on the left hand.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM_EW9avSgc

        • Dennis Frank 1.1.1.1
          24 January 2019 at 8:43 pm

          It made my collection of four thousand all-time rock classics (few from after the early nineties). The long original version, I mean. It really hums along, and climbs the heights too. I never really considered Betts as a guitarist, actually, having become a fan of the Allmans before Duane died on his motorbike. Same fate for Les Harvey of Stone the Crows same year (I think), and he was even better than Duane!! I actually bought a Django album back then, but it was too jazzy so didn’t keep it. You’re right that Betts deserves credit, for sure!

  2. Kat 2
    24 January 2019 at 6:25 pm

    One of the many examples of why we have a housing crisis: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110119264/mahana-property-owner-fined-10k-for-illegal-alterations

    The Kiwi “can do” “no 8” values only exist if the wee officious bureaucrats allow them.

    • Anne 2.1
      24 January 2019 at 6:46 pm

      … if the wee bureaucrats allow it.

      Yes, it was on TV1 this evening. It seems it is the bureaucrats who are causing the KiwiBuild delays. It’s holding back the builders and property developers from getting involved. Twyford is going to free up the regulations so they will hopefully come on board.

      Not the least surprised. It wouldn’t be the first time these bureaucratic little Hitlers with a modicum of power have trashed govt initiatives. In saying that, I readily concede both Nat. and Lab. led governments have been affected.

      Anyone who has worked for the Public Service in any capacity will know what I’m talking about,

      • ScottGN 2.1.1
        24 January 2019 at 7:54 pm

        Be nice to blame the faceless bureaucrats Anne. But sadly the government’s KiwiBuild travails are pretty much self inflicted.

        • Anne 2.1.1.1
          24 January 2019 at 8:08 pm

          I know what some faceless bureaucrats are like ScottGN. I worked with a few but not in the building industry. I do accept it was a problem Labour should have been alerted to well in advance of implementation.

          Its not the first time Labour has found itself in hot water over a policy plank due to lack of due diligence when cobbling the policy together. However it should be a problem that can be overcome.

        • Kat 2.1.1.2
          24 January 2019 at 8:13 pm

          There are many opinions on the govts “travails” with Kiwibuild, it just depends on which ones you choose to run with.

          • ScottGN 2.1.1.2.1
            24 January 2019 at 8:46 pm

            Maybe Kat but I pretty much can promise you that Kiwibuild’s inherent failings are not the fault of pen-pushers in Council offices up and down the land. Labour needs to own this and try and move the dial. Twyford and his ministry could at least try and get to grips with what makes the building industry tick. Why is he surprised that builders and developers are only really interested in the big builds? They all clip the ticket on every set of taps and shower head and everything else they install for fucks sake.

            • Kat 2.1.1.2.1.1
              24 January 2019 at 9:19 pm

              With regards your comments on Kiwibuild, what makes the building industry “tick” is precisely the point as it is mainly the threat of sustained, long-term economic and urban transformation that is fueling opposing and negative views at the moment. Especially from the opposition and poodles in the media. This govt will continue to build houses one way or another.

            • Doogs 2.1.1.2.1.2
              25 January 2019 at 3:37 pm

              Scott, I have to say from agonising personal experience that dealing with our dearly beloved Auckland Council is not something i would wish on even my worst enemy.

              Having dealt with them over a personal subdivision I was creating by knocking a piece off the property I live on, I was dragged through a series of events over a 2 year period which created for me and my wife the most angst we have collectively experienced in our 35 years together.

              The little tin Hitlers in that meandering rabbit warren called ‘council offices’ led us on a protracted and unnecessarily troublesome journey that could have been achieved in a third of the time. They charged us for every single minute they interacted with us, and that was on top of the regular set charges which are written down in their little book of words and numbers.

              They were unhelpful, difficult, arrogant, contradictory, threatening, ignorant, unapproachable, hard to contact and a dozen other things which I am disinclined to list here. It cost us somewhere between 40 and 50 thousand in council costs and fees just to subdivide off a 467 sq metre section.

              Usurious, uncaring and fucking disgraceful as a public service. You can’t go anywhere else. They’ve got you, and they let you know that in all they do and say.

              Thus – I heartily concur with those who say that tiny little puffed up bureaucratic numpties are probably the major cause of road blocks in the Kiwibuild process.

    • tc 2.2
      24 January 2019 at 6:49 pm

      So what you’re saying is any kiwi should be able to do What they like even if it’s possibly unsafe, unsound and let the buyer beware.

      Regulations are there to pull up cowboys like him, especially when an indoor fire is in the mix. Note there’s no mention of what an inspection revealed……if ones been done at all.

      • greywarshark 2.2.1
        24 January 2019 at 7:06 pm

        I can quote family member good builder now retired as to bureaucracy and housing. The right regulations properly implemented are what is needed. (Auckland based.)

        • Tamati Tautuhi 2.2.1.1
          24 January 2019 at 7:27 pm

          WE USED TO DO THINGS PROPERLY IN THE 1930’S=1970’S WHY DID THINGS CHANGE ????

          • Kat 2.2.1.1.1
            24 January 2019 at 8:30 pm

            Creeping bureaucracy and red tape. Theory over practice became the norm. Lack of proper training in the building trade as apprenticeships were given the heave ho. We the sheeple are the masters of our own demise. Thats what happened.

        • McFlock 2.2.1.2
          24 January 2019 at 7:30 pm

          I certainly agree with that, but most of the problem is that the council services are money-making but not customer-focused. The worst of both worlds.

          You get charged through the nose in order to sit on your arse and wait.

          In this particular case, though, I have no sympathy. If you can’t work within the plan, you don’t just ignore the consent issue.

          • Kat 2.2.1.2.1
            24 January 2019 at 8:08 pm

            If it can be shown that the building work is up to standard then what is the problem, why are we sanctioning punitive fines just for the sake of rules. This is the creeping web of bureaucratic autocracy that is infecting the spirit of people in New Zealand and quashing any form of self reliance.

            So a house plan is submitted and consent is given. The house is under construction and the builder discovers a window, door or wall is in the wrong place or should be changed, enlarged, made smaller or removed. That just can’t be done on site like it once was, it has to be redrawn and the amended plan submitted for consent with an extra fee before modification on site.

            We have become a nation of comfortably numb sheeple.

            • joe90 2.2.1.2.1.1
              24 January 2019 at 8:19 pm

              If it can be shown that the building work is up to standard then what is the problem

              Aside from planning issues, the purpose of the consenting process is to show that the building work is up to standard.

              Although there was that time when accredited persons were permitted to carry out inspections. But it didn’t work out too flash.

              • Kat …
                24 January 2019 at 8:22 pm

                Up to standard like the “leaky buildings fiasco”……that planning worked well didn’t it.

                • joe90 …
                  24 January 2019 at 8:26 pm

                  The permitted codes might have been shit but ultimately, it was the inspection processes that failed.

            • McFlock 2.2.1.2.1.2
              24 January 2019 at 8:29 pm

              Nah, this case is more than that – they asked to build a barn and instead built a house. Logburner emissions, plumbing, power, even access and road use – you can’t just increase the population density of a property and pretend it affects nobody else.

              The only problem I have with that case is that the fine wasn’t ten times bigger. Ten grand is probably within the budget estimate for the illegal house.

              • joe90 …
                24 January 2019 at 8:34 pm

                Dude’s about to find out just how big the fine could be.

                A man has admitted to doubling the floor area of a house without getting building consents for the work.

                Failing to get consents means Manawatū District Council is unable to check if Richard James Easther’s work complies with the Building Code, the Palmerston North District Court heard on Tuesday.

                […]

                He did extensive work on the house between 2011 and 2018, putting in a new kitchen, bedroom and covered deck, as well as other internal renovations.

                He effectively doubled the floor area of the house, but failed to get any building consents for the work.

                […]

                Easther is scheduled to be sentenced in February.

                He faces a fine of up to $200,000.

                https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/110078659/man-faces-massive-fine-for-doubling-houses-floor-area-without-consent

              • Kat …
                24 January 2019 at 8:43 pm

                Who said there is any pretending and how does a fine solve anything. The reality is the barn is most likely a reasonably built building affording shelter and a home to humans. Has to be more aesthetic in that particular environment than a Keith Hay type box or some cheep move on.

                • McFlock …
                  24 January 2019 at 9:05 pm

                  Barns don’t tend to have a kitchen, bathroom, mezzanine, logburner, and chimney.

                  Times might have changed since the last time I was on a farm, though.

                  • Kat …
                    24 January 2019 at 9:35 pm

                    Yes times have changed, what were once American style barns that gave shelter to hay, chickens, model T fords and the occasional cow hand are now country lifestyle-block homes.

      • A 2.2.2
        24 January 2019 at 9:10 pm

        Friend says he isn’t allowed to put in his own gib. Has to be a register builder ffs. One eg of many I’m sure.

      • Kat 2.2.3
        24 January 2019 at 9:22 pm

        “So what you’re saying is any kiwi should be able to do What they like even if it’s possibly unsafe, unsound and let the buyer beware….”

        No, and in this particular case if the building is shown to be unsafe, unsound and dangerous then it should be pulled down. But its most likely not and that is the point.

        • mpledger 2.2.3.1
          25 January 2019 at 8:51 am

          Once all the linings are up then how can you tell if the wiring and plumbing are sound? Electricity is so dangerous.

          We had a garage built and there were 11 checks that had to be done by council (IIRC) although the builders were able to work around that so that a lot of the checks could be done on the same day – something like 3 or 4 visits. And that was just for a garage!

    • joe90 2.3
      24 January 2019 at 7:04 pm

      The barn now had a kitchen, bathroom, mezzanine and logburner installed with all of the work, including the plumbing, done by Reilly himself, despite not being a registered plumber

      Yeah, the risks of the improper installation of heating and sanitary services – house fires, scoldings, legionella, hepatitis, campylobacter etc, etc, are a fucking doddle.
      /

      • greywarshark 2.3.1
        24 January 2019 at 7:08 pm

        Just burst pipes every ten years or so are a bit of a nuisance. That was from dodgy grey piping installed in the 1980s about.

      • Cinny 2.3.2
        24 January 2019 at 9:30 pm

        Lolz Mahana $$$ JS, funny, will have to check out the clip.

        Beautiful spot mind you.

  3. ianmac 3
    24 January 2019 at 6:55 pm

    Fancy the National Party being “blindsided.” Blinkered perhaps?

    “The National Party and a female MP whose text to disgraced MP Jami-Lee Ross triggered a police investigation appear to have been blindsided by the move.

    Ross revealed on Tuesday police had approached him about the text in which he said the woman told him he deserved to die. ……”

    “….National had no idea police were investigating till Ross dropped his bombshell on Tuesday – and has confirmed that the female MP at the centre of the investigation had been just as much in the dark.

    She has not responded to messages and National said she would not be commenting.”

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110119860/police-inquiry-into-text-to-jamilee-ross-text-takes-national-by-surprise

    • Tamati Tautuhi 3.1
      24 January 2019 at 7:29 pm

      Which woman was that one ?

      That is not very nice obviously a bit sour about the relationship breakdown ?

    • ScottGN 3.2
      24 January 2019 at 7:34 pm

      Wonder if there will be a by-election down south before this is over?

    • mickysavage 3.3
      24 January 2019 at 8:40 pm

      I am amazed it took so long to investigate. These sorts of complaints usually take a week or so to finalise.

      • ScottGN 3.3.1
        24 January 2019 at 8:56 pm

        Tracy Watkins article says that National was aware of media reports of an investigation so I don’t really know how they could have been blindsided by the revelations that police were investigating?

        “National had no idea police were investigating till Ross dropped his bombshell on Tuesday – and has confirmed that the female MP at the centre of the investigation had been just as much in the dark.

        She has not responded to messages and National said she would not be commenting.

        A party spokesman said it was aware of media reports of an investigation but had not heard from police.”

        • Robert Guyton 3.3.1.1
          24 January 2019 at 9:00 pm

          “the female MP at the centre of the investigation had been just as much in the dark.”
          It’s these sorts of gratuitous details of the affair we just don’t need to have splashed all over the newspapers!

      • aj 3.3.2
        25 January 2019 at 1:43 pm

        I think she may have familial connections to police force.

    • Robert Guyton 3.4
      24 January 2019 at 9:03 pm

      “The National Party and a female MP whose text to disgraced MP Jami-Lee Ross”

      Shouldn’t that read, “The disgraced National Party and the disgraced female MP whose text to disgraced MP Jami-Lee Ross…”?

  4. ScottGN 4
    24 January 2019 at 7:39 pm

    46.6 degrees in Adelaide.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-24/sa-heating-up-with-records-expected-to-be-broken/10745220

    And BOM is warning that businesses in Melbourne May need to power down overnight if Victoria is to escape widespread heat related power outages tomorrow.

    https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/watchdog-widens-warnings-on-power-as-victoria-swelters-20190124-p50tat.html

    • Exkiwiforces 4.1
      24 January 2019 at 10:05 pm

      That’s not unusual for Melbourne to have what they cal “brown outs” since they flog off the power companies under old Kennett. When I was based in Melbourne from 2009 to the end of 2011 they happened a lot during the summer and to be quite frank the wife and while glad to get out of that shit hole called Melbourne.

  5. ScottGN 5
    24 January 2019 at 7:50 pm

    Trump’s approval rating has slumped below 40% on fivethirtyeight’s aggregated tracking. And today he got totally owned by Nancy.

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo

  6. A 6
    24 January 2019 at 9:14 pm

    Simon Black, Sovereign Man, is offering to pay rent of employees affected by the shutdown.

  7. WILD KATIPO 7
    24 January 2019 at 9:31 pm

    Meanwhile, … out on the tundra something strange is happening … that sorta… just shows how myopic things seem at times…

    https://youtu.be/jzlpK5g5quk?t=338

  8. greywarshark 8
    24 January 2019 at 10:30 pm

    Please can someone who remembers seeing that simple and telling image or chart rather than shows outlines of the countries of the world and the livable days at certain temperatures from yellow to dark red.

    Please can you tell me where on this blog you saw it, give me link? I think I need it to remind me each day of what is important to keep in mind.

      • Exkiwiforces 8.1.1
        24 January 2019 at 10:43 pm

        The Northern Australian Monsoon has finally arrived, mth and half late. So go figure and the gap between the a good season and a bad season is getting smaller weather you are in the Northern or the in the South.

        • joe90 8.1.1.1
          24 January 2019 at 10:51 pm

          Here on the Whanganui coast we’re experiencing equinox like (Oct-Nov) gales coming out of the NW rather than the SW.

          They’re sucking the heat and moisture out of the ground and making gardening tough.

          • Exkiwiforces 8.1.1.1.1
            24 January 2019 at 11:00 pm

            Yeah, I notice the storms of late in NZ are a little unusual for this time of the yr. Until the Monsoon turned up all our winds were coming from the west, south west instead of the Nth west through to the Nth East as we would expect for our Northern Wet Season.

            Then we have the Polar blasts in the Norther hemisphere as well.

            Not good atm.

  9. WILD KATIPO 9
    24 January 2019 at 10:53 pm

    Stop whinging about your gardening. One volcano caused the sunsets to be red and hazy continually as far away as England for fives years and caused a mist of the same to last even longer, globally.

    One volcano.

    Dwarfing anything man could ever do.

    Krakatoa – The Great Volcanic Eruption – YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sszOpnHgx78

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