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SDHB staff member Tina Hill took the fairly brave decision to publicly criticise her employer on the issue last Friday.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Digging Doug, in reply to Martin Brown,
The precis doesn't really suffice. The whole doc is worth a read.
It really is. When I get a moment, I'll ask RNZ about the radio plugging grant.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Digging Doug, in reply to Martin Brown,
"Another payment of $20,000 was received by the defendants from Radio New Zealand and was on-paid to the defendants. The defendants claim this was income and therefore a commission of $4,000 should have been deducted by the defendants, but was not and is therefore owed to them…I accept Mrs Parson’s evidence that this was a “radio plugging” grant, paid out to cover costs.
Excuse me? Surely a mistake. Payola at RNZ? Yeah, right. But, huh?
My only real guess is that it's a mistake and that the decision should refer to NZ On Air, as it does above, and not Radio NZ.
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Patti Smith sings ‘A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall’ in accepting Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for him.
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Hard News: The Greens' pretty good new…, in reply to chris fowlie,
The old policy said this under Medium Term Steps:
I stand corrected. In my defence, I'm sick.
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Hard News: Greens drug policy 2: the…, in reply to Thomas Lumley,
That is, it’s not a disaster if huge swathes of THC analogues gets turned down by a computer, but it would be a pity if that happened to a new class of diabetes treatments.
Good point. I'd been trying to form a thought around that, and that's it.
The other question is what level of human trials (with what level of monitoring of users) get done before approval.
Which would be extremely relevant for something new, but could you use existing evidence for, say, cannabis or MDMA?
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Here we go: Part 2: The animal testing problem.
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Hard News: The Greens' pretty good new…, in reply to Scott G,
I'm interested to know more about this RB. What's the issue with animal testing?
I'm writing a separate post about it right now, because it's interesting. I meant to have it all covered in this one, but unfortunately the sore throat and headache I've been fending off for a couple of days has fully manifested and rather impacted my productivity.
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Feed: World of Food 3: Algeria (Tadjine…, in reply to Soon Lee,
My goto harissa recipe is from Depot’s
harissa lamb ribs.Oh, I like the look of that. Especially using all of the coriander.
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Aunt Dsisy wishes to correct some of the information about the history of NTK:
Please find below information on Nga Taonga Korero collection - an Auckland based collection that even predates the formation of the Film Archive in 1981. It has been permanently housed in Auckland for decades.
The formal beginning of Nga Taonga Korero (the Treasures of Speech) as a separate collection dates from the early 1960's when the Maori section of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation was set up by Leo Fowler, with Wiremu Kerekere. Fowler's stroke of genius was to second Wiremu Kerekere to the section. Kerekere was involved with every aspect of Maori cultural activity - composer, tutor, performer and leader. The pair became a force as they travelled from marae to marae, from hui to hui - marae openings, the Coronation hui, Hui Toopu, Hui Aranga, cultural festivals both regional and national, nga tangihanga, welcomes and farewells, Waitangi, royal occasions, and Maori cultural clubs were all grist to their microphones. They saved raw and edited tapes together with the programmes compiled from them. Prior to the establishment of the Maori section, stations in the centres of Maori population saved Maori material discs and tapes which were either held locally or more often than not, sent to Sound Archives. Copies of much of this material are also held by Nga Taonga Korero. The collection was held for many years in Papatoetoe, before moving in 1985 with the associated programme unit, then known as Te Reo o Aotearoa, to its present home in Cook St, central Auckland. We pay tribute to broadcasters and technicians, station managers, programme organisers, announcers and producers who not only collected this material, but also kept it. Haere ki nga tipuna
I'll update the post when I get a moment.
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