Posts by Russell Brown
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Aaaand ... the runsheet for this evening. It helps if people can RSVP, but just come on down anyway.
ORCON IRL: HOW WAS YOUR YEAR?
THE GOLDEN DAWN, PONSONBY
7/12/166.15: STINKY JIM
7pm: INTRODUCTION
7.05: RUSSELL and CHARLOTTE interview ROSEANNE LIANG and JUSTIN HARWOOD
7.25: BREAK: STINKY JIM
7:35: CHARLOTTE interviews RACHAEL KING
7:50: BREAK: STINKY JIM
8:00: RUSSELL interviews SIMON WILSON
8:15 EVERYONE JOINS PANEL (No break)
9:00-ish PANEL WRAPS and VOOM play. STINKY JIM plays in the courtyard.
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Some interesting context from an email in response to this post:
It’s worth noting that DIA are currently building a purpose-designed facility that is intended to house the Sound Archive and all its material in a state-of-the-art vault and office space, in Chch – something similar to the outstanding TVNZ Archive building at Avalon. However no-one thought to ask what the annual lease would be – it turns out to be more than this organisation can afford. So we’ve pulled out of the deal and can apparently expect no help from the Govt. And DIA are left trying to find a tenant that wants such a unique space.
So again we ask why the archival output of New Zealand’s two public broadcast entities was handed to a charitable trust, which is left to fend for itself financially.
The short answer is because the former Film Archive CEO Frank Stark sold Chris Finlayson on the concept (although my guess is that Frank himself is most unhappy with this latest turn of events). I did warn five years ago that this was not a good idea.
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The Facebook Live stream starts at 6.30pm:
https://www.facebook.com/Radio95bFM/videos/10154113267377043/
And the YouTube does too:
Voom will be streamed live to the nation shortly after 9pm.
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Wellington police follow Waitemata and offer help, not harm, to users identified in a meth bust:
Detective Senior Sergeant Tim Leitch of the Wellington District Drugs and Organised Crime team said: “This syndicate is believed to have been active for a significant period of time dealing methamphetamine to people in the central city. The investigation has also uncovered the regular trading of stolen property, including phones, designer bags and jewellery in exchange for drugs by the syndicate.”
“Our investigation has again shown the terribly damaging effects that methamphetamine abuse and addiction has on the lives of everyday New Zealanders and their families. The investigation team is making contact with each of the people identified as customers of this syndicate to provide advice and referral to support agencies who can help them to confront and deal with any drug-related problems affecting them and their families.
"We are also offering support to the people charged, so that the intervention by Police can be turned into a positive start point to face their own addiction challenges, where applicable, and reduce the detrimental impact and affects their drug use is having on them.”
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Access: No seclusion in schools!, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
And….I am hoping that you, or others with similar lived experience, have been engaged by the Ministry of Education as consultants…visiting schools and helping teachers and students better manage meltdowns.
In a more rational world, this would happen. I can't overemphasise how important to me the shared experience of ASD adults was in understanding my sons and what they were going through.
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This might have something to do with the popularity of e-bikes in certain European countries.
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Hard News: From Zero: The Meth Episode, in reply to william blake,
Yes the godwinning of methamphetamine does need to be taken with a pinch of something, especially when the author contextualises his thesis with his own use of ecstasy and LSD.
This brings to mind the infamous 2002 study that claimed even controlled doses of MDMA were so neurotoxic that casual users were at risk of Parkinson's disease and other conditions.
The study was later retracted after the researchers discovered they'd actually been subjecting lab monkeys' brains not to MDMA, but methaphetamine.
The paper was kinda bullshitty in other ways too though.
And it was around long enough to assist the passage of America's execrable RAVE Act.
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I was jesting – having an open source software bike would let you change MAX_SPEED=20 to something more exciting…
At present, there's no limit on speed like there is in Europe. Thus, imported European e-bikes are all limited to 25km/h (at which point the assist drops out), but not local models.
But there is an official limit of 300W of power output.
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to Allan MacLachlan,
I’m curious as to why an e-bike changes your behaviour – is that because the bike is heavier than a non-ebike, or something inherent in the fact that you have power, so don’t feel the need to duck and dive?
It's way heavier than my nippy little standard bike. And feels more like a vehicle that warrants its own lane. I'm less inclined to nip through gaps etc.
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