Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Signs of the times…
Toy Love signs to Deluxe Records
Here’s the band on that fateful day pictured with Tim Murdoch (WEA boss), Michael Browning (Deluxe & exAC/DC manager) and Terence Hogan (WEA A&R and friend).
.. and another pic celebrating after the deed with an ‘abnormally puny roadie’ off to the side at the back.
:- )Not sure who took the pics, possibly Phil Peacocke or Murray Cammick?
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The Crazy continues - as Key just makes shit up again...
The Salvation Army has confronted the Government about giving incorrect statements on visiting homeless people.
Prime Minister John Key said the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) had teamed up with the Salvation Army to engage with homeless people, of which the Salvation Army denies.
A spokesperson for Key said the comments were based on the advice given to him at the time.
Key had said on Thursday "MSD and the Sallies went around and knocked on eight cars that they could find.
"All eight of those people refused to take support either from Sallies or from MSD."http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80725620/salvation-army-msd-homeless-visits-didnt-happen-and-the-pms-wrong
I heard him say this on the radio (or tv), and I thought that sounds 'convenient' - he just loves involving the Salvation Army without ever consulting them, perhaps he thinks they'll be too nice to correct him - not any more John! -
Access: The Universal Basic Income and…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Longish Australian article asks whether it could happen there
Not if you are a Kiwi working and paying taxes there but getting nothing in return, no access to welfare or representation - those Aussies like to have their cake and eat it too...
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Hard News: Medical cannabis advocacy you…, in reply to Bill Smith,
Nature throws out many anomalies...
Indeed, there are many factors involved...
Many modern health problems, ranging from depression to nicotine addiction, could have their origins in the limited interbreeding between early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals more than 40,000 years ago, scientists said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mental-health-problems-could-have-origins-in-neanderthal-interbreeding-a6868286.html
and I recently read there were three neanderthal groups that interbred with humans, creating regional and diasporic propensities for certain conditions
it was in this article I think
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030692-500-missing-y-chromosome-kept-us-apart-from-neanderthals/
but most of it is behind New Scientst's pay wall, dammit
and
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077269-our-neanderthal-genes-linked-to-risk-of-depression-and-addiction/
andAccording to a study published in the journal Science, Denisovans – relatives to both Neanderthals and humans – somehow managed to cross Wallace’s Line after 600,000 years ago, and later interbred with anatomically modern Homo sapiens moving through the area on the way to Australia and New Guinea.
more here
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Jammy bleeders…
Some other minor classics from last century….Plus
if it’s moody ya want, here’s some London magick – from a bona fide ‘working’ class hero – Alan Moore… The Highbury Working -
Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
a couple of bridges just waiting to turn into a pile of rubble.
That includes the reckless and feckless Simon Bridges I assume...
I'm also guessing there will be some large public sculptures involving non-load bearing steel tubes all round the Waikato soon...
...or perhaps they could be turned into sleeping pods for the homeless?*
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2220053/The-Mexican-hotel-rooms-recycled-drain-pipes.html*(Not sure what size the naff 'steel' ones are though...)
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
no credible media company
Where do I look for one of those in NZ?
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One less cog as the clockworks seize up?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/80713087/mediaworks-close-gossip-website-scout -
Capture: Tribute - Dr Chris Ward, in reply to Hebe,
Light hearted image…
Of no merit …
I beg to differ,
that is a fine photonic confluence.
Bifrost bisects the posts
with a thaw in the air
at a ruddy red light!
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
But that would have made no difference whatever to the number of Labour or Green MPs, which is entirely determined by the party vote.
http://www.elections.org.nz/voting-system/mmp-voting-system
aaah I see - all the electorate MPs are part of the 'party vote percentage' and the 'List MPs' comprise of any shortfall in electorates won.
So ideally the push has to be on upping the Party Vote - it is ...complicated!
