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Chris Finlayson is a long-term supporter and patron of the arts. He has also put his money where his mouth is, including with Patronage of the 2004 NZ International Arts Festival, and sponsoring NZSO's Principal Oboeist Robert Orr.
Maybe FrontSeat's target market is Mummy and Daddy, since most artists I know are only awake at 8am on a Saturday if they've been gigging, writing or painting all night. So it's good that we're able to watch episodes via the web site!
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The fact that organisations at the front line of domestic violence (such as Women's Refuge) are in support of the bill's amendments speak volumes.
And that's where the riding crops come out.
aruh???
However, one thought that occurred to me this morning is that parents could start inciting their other offspring to mete out physical punishment to their siblings on their behalf. A twisted thought.
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We evolved from a combo of mainly the paranthropus boisei & the homo ergaster / erectus - both of whom had adaptable hunting styles.
Them pesky neanderthals just didn't adapt fast enough... rolling boulders off cliffs onto migrating woolly mammoths seems like a cinch but evidently they didn't wake up their ideas much further than that.
Take the Caveman Challenge! Each challenge allows you to move along the evolutionary scale from ape to man.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/cavemen/
(No I don't work for government - I'll do some work now I've completed my jigsaw cave art - but it was fun in a Te Papa interactive kind of way)
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No evolution but living to connect... how do these kids explain their increasingly flexible prehensile thumbs after a hard day & night on the keyboard / console / sms?? The boomers' digits are positively rigid in comparison.
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None of the shows that received that sort of financial support and publicity were Charter ones to my knowledge
Charter shows are hard to recognise / measure at the best of times.
Not only do we not know how much is spent on Charter programming, but we don't know how it's broken down - what it's spent on.
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some older viewers are much keener on the morning slot than they were on staying up late on Sundays. Matter of fact, I used to struggle with that sometimes ...
Oh yes indeed so did I.
You can also download episodes from the TVNZ web site after they've been broadcast.
OK so we have Frontseat for half an hour every week - for the duration of its season. With approximately 266 broadcast hours on TV1 & TV2 every day of the year (based on roughly 19 viewing hours per day, not counting BBC World or whatever is broadcast 1am - 6am), you could say that
"9. Programmes that encourage and support the arts, including progammes featuring New Zealand and international artists and arts companies."
is a Charter mandate fulfilled by the State Broadcaster (TVNZ) (via FrontSeat) 0.188% of the time during the show's season, and 0% of the time when Frontseat is not on.
(I wonder how well represented gay artists feel by the Charter!!) -
Charter programming has to fulfil the following 10 objectives:
1. Programming across all genres that informs, educates and entertains.
2. Programming that serves varied interests and informational needs and age groups within New Zealand society, including tastes and interests not generally catered for by other national television broadcasters.
3. Programming that contributes towards intellectural, scientific and cultural development, promotes informed and many-sided debate and stimulates critical thought, thereby enhancing opportunities for citizens to participate in community, national and international life.
4. Programmes that reflect the regions to the nation as a whole.
5. New Zealand films, drama, comedy and documentary programmes.
6. Programmes about New Zealand’s history and heritage, and natural environment.
7. Programmmes that serve the interests and informational needs of Maori audiences, including programmes promoting the Maori language and programmes addressing Maori history, culture and current issues.
8. New Zealand and international programmes that provide for the informational, entertainment and educational needs of children and young people and allow for the participation of children and young people.
9. Programmes that encourage and support the arts, including progammes featuring New Zealand and international artists and arts companies.
10. and programming of an educational nature that support learning and the personal development of New Zealanders.
Hmmm... I have to say that I, for one, do not feel that our state broadcaster lives up to or fulfils its Charter obligations.
How about number 9? This is 10% of the Charter's mission, and I don't know of ANY NZ arts programmes... except Frontseat of course which was recently demoted to some ridiculously inaccessible timeslot.
How is the Charter measured? Who is it accountable to?
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tin foil hats, feather fantails, sequined bosoms, shoes- with-the-curled-up-toes, & compulsory beltbag with assorted "emergency supplies", all compulsory for wellingtonians currently heading to cuba quarter.
(now isn't that a picture)
viva la carnival!
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OK, OK, it was my uncle. Traumatic for his family. It would have been meant with such light humour. We forget how hideous the 80s were for all that "sexual harassment in the office" PC stuff. So much unjust incrimination & finger pointing.
Shame on his Name!!
You are right merc - henceforth "Duck and Cover" should be terms applied only to opening batsmen facing the BCs.
(The power of wishful thinking...)
I don't work for the government *shock horror* but I temped for a govt dept once & they had 10l drums of water under each desk; I bet hardly any private companies bother with this sort of thing. The one I work for doesn't.
(Mind you this sort of denial also means we don't have to endure tedious civil defense workshops.)
Wonder how many AK businesses will start filling up spare stationery cupboards with pull-tab tuna snacks / powerade / barley sugar / transistor radios / powdered milk now, ordering surplus to the "three day" requirements of course, so that some may be donated to the local primary school, for breakfast emergencies.