<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/erdogan-bans-academics-from-travel-holds-first-post-coup-security-meeting-ankara-turkey'>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/erdogan-bans-academics-from-travel-holds-first-post-coup-security-meeting-ankara-turkey</a></p>
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<p>the scale of erdogan's crackdown is bloody ridiculous, as expected.</p>

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<p>The BIG thing its done is for battery pack sales - it drains battery like a mofo (not to mention data) so portable USB lithium is running out the door.</p>
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<p>Ha, TR Jnr is at his Nanas and rang up after they had been out geocaching and my brother turned up and took him to look for some pokemon and he's like dad, I have to get Pokemon Go! It uses loads of battery and data, but is so cool! </p>
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<p>Am guessing thats what his uncle told him anyway! </p>

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I seem to remember that Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazzard and Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers in 25th Century had a pretty earth shattering effect on my psyche as I was growing up.</p></blockquote>The urban legend was that Daisy had her legs insured back in her Dukes days. She had fine pins and even got a cut of women's shorts named after her.<br><br>
The first desert storm was significant because it was the first big event for the fledgling 24 hour CNN network. Who knew people wanted so much information all the time

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<p>Varies by region, but around $900 per week. <a class="bbc_url" href="https://www.gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2016-go3295">https://www.gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2016-go3295</a> has the actual amounts.</p>
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<p>sweet thanks, sponge baths here i come.</p>

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<p>Jon and Danae - but, they can't have any kids - so GRRM, will need to write at least another trilogy to tidy all that up...</p>
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<p>He'll be lucky if he finishes this one - his publisher must be really pissed off - three years ago thinking of all the extra money they will make with the interest in the show and all the new fans then the slow realisation that the TV show will overtake the books and all those new fans will not buy the books.</p>

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<p>NZ toured India in 1988, and Jeremy Coney ended up fielding for NZ as a substitute fielder (a lot of Delhi belly apparently), despite being retired as a player and actually being there as a commentator...</p>
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<p>I did the big 5 month backpacking thing there way back & never got the shits & I've been there a few times since & never shit myself, but I literally eat oranges, bananas, samosa, pakora (both deep fried), boiled eggs, naans shit like that. I'm not there for the culinary delights. Tho' the garlic cheese Naans are fricking superb.</p>
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<p>Met so many people who go to Maccas & then shit themselves, or who are on a 1 week trip & decide "You can't come here & not try the local food!!". Yep, you totally can. You might not spend a day shitting after eating that Vindaloo from the cool little restaurant you found in a back street in Paragange, but do you really want to test it when you have a 7 hour 3rd class train ride to Jaipur tomorrow?</p>
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<p>I ate a lot of chinese there too, shit ton of stir-fried chicken. Basically if you can boil it, fry fuck out of it or peel it, eat it.</p>
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<p>I'll happily eat deep fried pakora I buy off a street vendor, as he's got a big arsed pot of boiling (motor) oil there bubbling away, but there's zero chance I'm going into a Subway. India has supermarkets all over the place too, worst case you just rock up, day 1 buy a box of special K & a pound of bananas, get a room that has a fridge (ie pay more than £15 a night for a room) and stick a bottle of UHT milk in there. You will surive for a week, & not shit yourself running for a rickshaw.   </p>

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You'd have to be in a position to make one, yes?</p></blockquote> 1 cuddle from one attempt cunty

<p>holy shit, pretty much every critical element was caught on cctv. Glad those numpty fluffybunnies have been caught </p>

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<p>He might have been a ratbag, but plenty of 17 year olds make mistakes. They just don't give up 21 years of their life for a crime they didn't commit.</p>
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<p>The extent to which the police stitched this guy up is frightening.  What happens to the officers involved?</p>

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<p>So I emailed Westpac, they came up with their bullshit excuse of making sure payments to me aren't dishonoured by the banks of the payee, and then told me they're taking off the $200 limit anyway seeing as I asked. </p>
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<p>When I worked for the National Bank 30 years ago, the making sure payments aren't dishonoured by the bank of the payee, was definitely a valid reason.</p>
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<p>However, in those days most deposits were made physically, were likely to be cheques, and the bank manager couldn't tell what they were until the physical deposit slip was returned from Databank.</p>
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<p>These days, you'd think most deposits would be able to be instantaneously cleared..</p>

As a leftie, their demands would be laughable if they weren't so infuriating.

The Book of Mormon is fucking piss funny

Awesome Rembrandt! <br>
The more finds you do, the better your ideas will be for placing our own cache. Found a couple of amazing ones this week. One of them I had to blow down a pipe to create pressure to raise the cache out of a tube in a garden. So well done!

<p>Pprune has all sorts of people on there - a bit like here where some know their rugby very well - others not so much.. There, some are pilots, some pretend to be. Not a terribly reliable source, it does stand for "rumour network" after all.</p>
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<p>As for transponders and GPS - not really linked. The transponder is for SSR (secondary surveillance radar) although a lot of aircraft these days are equipped with ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast) which replaces SSR and doesn't require those sphere things that you see on hills. ADS is already mandatory in Aus and some other places, it will become the norm in future. It is getting more advanced and will certainly help in cases like MH370 and MS04 although they still don't broadcast continuously.</p>
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<p>A kiwi company is actually producing small, cost effective, trackers that can go in helicopters and smaller aircraft which won't have ADS (yet anyway).</p>
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.spidertracks.com/'>http://www.spidertracks.com/</a></p>
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<p>The link posted above has this from the ACARS (aircraft communication addressing and reporting system)</p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times, 'Time New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,192);">00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW<br>
00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR<br>
00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE<br>
00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE<br>
00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR<br>
00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT<br>
00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT<br>
no further ACARS messages were received</span></p>
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<p>These are faults that have been sent from the aircraft to the company - usually straight to engineering who monitor aircraft "health". It is easy to jump to conclusions, but those messages indicate that something happened on the co pilots side in the flight deck, there was then smoke detected in the toilet, then in the avionics bay (under the flight deck) which lead to some pretty important things failing. FCU is what the pilot uses to control the aircraft (there are 2 channels and only one has failed at this point) and F/CTL is the flight control computer. That is only a secondary one and there are 5 of them in total (that run the fly by wire system) but it could be an indication that a fire was burning them all. Not nice. They also think that pilot turned off the airway which is a first reaction if in trouble to avoid hitting other aircraft.</p>
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<p>What caused the failures, fire? All speculation but could be several things. </p>
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<p>Looks like they have found wreckage now:</p>
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-36328976'>http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-36328976</a></p>

<p>Stuff is having a shocker today.  Lead story is that KFC Blenheim is under-staffed.  You can't make this shit up.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/80187690/lack-of-staff-at-kfc-blenheim-and-others-around-new-zealand-results-in-long-wait-times-for-fast-food'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/80187690/lack-of-staff-at-kfc-blenheim-and-others-around-new-zealand-results-in-long-wait-times-for-fast-food</a></p>

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<p>No it categorically doesn't. I quoted the regulation. IF it is to be halal then it must have its throat cut and it must be stunned, and the stunning has to comply with regulations about that. But it doesn't have to be halal by regulation. FYI what I posted was a cut and paste from the regulation and it clearly has the word "unless" in it. So there is a choice.<br><br>
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<p>Yeah I think that was Hydro's point. That the animal must be stunned if it's going to be slaughtered halal-styles.</p>
<p>I think it goes without saying that stunning is not necessary if you're going to kill the thing instantly.</p>
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<p>Honestly I don't have a problem with the NZ method. I know that to be halal they must be conscious but I certainly don't remember lambs coming down the shoot before they had their throats cut like they are anything but completely out. I guess that's why lamb etc from NZ is very much in a grey area when it comes to halal or not.</p>
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<p>From my time at the freezing works, it never looked cruel.</p>
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<p>It's probably about time that the EU came into line with NZ law and removed their religious exceptions.</p>
<p>Pretty backward eh.</p>

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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80094729/the-overcrowded-south-auckland-house-that-wasnt-overcrowded'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80094729/the-overcrowded-south-auckland-house-that-wasnt-overcrowded</a></p>
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<p>What happens when you employ clowns as advisors.</p>

<p>I worked with Grant and Polly a few years back. He's a really nice bloke and up for a yarn, she looks like the joker with the potentially deranged personality to match.</p>

<p>So Master, who does Gaillfrey give their 12 points to?</p>
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