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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/476587/kakapo-too-successful-for-bird-of-the-year-contention
Bird of the Year is back next week but in a contentious decision, the two-time champion kākāpō has been barred from the ballot.
The organisers, Forest and Bird, say this year is all about the underbirds.
What – kakapo cancelled!
(Note – I’m making a joke. I quite agree with F&B, we should be democratic about this and not get fixated on favourites. All we are saying, Is give us a chance, is the songbird’s call.
And that in fact gives them an advantage to be fair, not every bird has a song, the black backed seagulls are mighty raucous.)
I vote for the kea, while I before DOC has finished poisoning them extinct because it’s good for their breeding success.
Is it like the old but remembered ploy of the Great Power of bombing a village to save it? Does anyone else think that sometimes we humans go OTT in war and peace, both literally AND figuratively?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/476596/farming-company-and-contractor-fined-76k-over-damage-to-waikato-stream
A farming company and an earthworks contractor have been fined $76,500 for environmental damage at a north Waikato stream that left 48 eels dead.
Gregan Farms Limited and Steve Barker Limited were last week convicted and fined in the Hamilton District Court for unlawfully excavating nearly 1400 metres of a tributary of the Waitakaruru River in February 2021.
A complaint by a member of the public prompted the Waikato Regional Council to investigate the stream and then take legal action.
The council’s regional compliance manager Patrick Lynch said council inspectors found extensive damage to the stream, including 48 dead eels and significant sediment deposits into the water course…
…”The contractor in this case has 40 years’ experience in the earthworks industry.
“Working around water courses without causing undue damage, and knowing the environmental regulations that apply, should be bread and butter for him.
An example of why we get so much protest from farmers about fronting up to today’s needs and problems. ‘But we’ve been doing this for 20..40…50 years and there hasn’t been a problem till now. Why should we change’, etc..
I hope Phil Maugher in Christchurch hasn’t just been voted in as Mayor over David Meates on Maugher’s performance with diverting storm water with a bulldozer. Pragmatic, practical people without reflection can be poor leaders.
I wish I was hopeful and not cynical about govt and RNZ but part of the problems of today is organisations too lazy to use a whole word like Radio when a letter will do. Acronyms and such are a new language fit for the incrowd and jargon-happy, FGS.
So hearing that they are having difficulty thinking through the premises/promises of the RNZ Charter is unhappily, not surprising. As Smart Lives Matter types say ‘That’s how it is these days’.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2210/S00020/unfinished-business-on-rnz-charter.htm
<iThe public broadcaster’s charter review had special status as being a statutory requirement of Parliament, written into law in the Radio New Zealand Amendment Act 2016. The review had to be undertaken and completed as soon as practicable after Thursday 1 April 2021.
The House’s business committee delegated conduct of the review to the Economic Development, Science and Innovation (EDSI) Committee. Submissions to the inquiry closed on Friday 13 August 2021. The committee then sat on its report for 10 months, eventually presenting it to the House on Tuesday 21 June this year. The report joined other items that seldom get debated down the bottom of the Order Paper. But being a report on a committee’s inquiry containing recommendations it required a response from the Government within 60 working days. That period expired on Tuesday 14 September. A month later there had still been no response from the responsible minister, Willy Jackson.
The committee's report contains four recommendations …
I am sur that they are set out in the Scoop article correctly and there for those who want to be informed. As I expect that gummint action will be no better than private enterprise action, and all hope is lost for intelligent and useful measure to provide for advanced, I am not reading it myself but some are made of sterner stuff than myself thank goodness. Kia kaha!
10pm and ChCh final election results still aren’t out, now I’m not expecting any shifts but today was supposedly the deadline.
Well you know, we all want to save the world! (Beatles) That’s why we let private business in to do everything that otherwise gummint would stuff up, but now if private business can’t keep to their own deadlines, they can’t die. Because they are so essential to us, with gummint just cardboard cut-outs that is, they will plug people into the hole, like the folk story of the Dutch boy holding back the sea.
People will still be doing the hard yakka even in private enterprise, for a while – stuffing it up or not – until the computer programs are refined and the work of robots is defined, (we hope not to go rogue).
Paul Majurey has gone into hiding! He usually likes talking to the press. But now hes changed his tune. Hes got nothing to brag about, like the 750 apartment build in partnership with Ockham Residential worth $500m-$850m. It would be interesting to know where the investment capital come from.
His little iwi treaty settlement is no where near capable of raising that kind of capital and the other iwi settlements are still pending so you couldn’t leverage those settlements assets/equity before you own it can you?
So where is all this money coming from for all of these developments that he is involved in?
here’s one development;
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the-affordable-mt-albert-apartments-with-a-pool/QI5TQUHBBEHTR5QMLQXXJW3GZ4/
And another;
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/council-selling-marutuahu-ockham-partnership-158ha-in-avondale-for-750-apartments/VCZLIEDBK56XESPVDJIQOEWYPY/
So where is all this investment capital coming from?
Oh! It just got better!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/476664/auckland-council-chairman-pushes-back-on-mayor-wayne-brown-s-call-for-him-to-quit
We are all busy concentrating on problems and solutions, various versions, to them. Some thoughts from lively minds that may lift our game!
This –
. “If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem.” African Proverb
Quotes about Problem-Solving
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” …
Albert Einstein
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” …
“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”…C.S. Lewis The Great Divorce
“If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.”– Abraham Maslow
https://www.greatexpectations.org/resources/life-principles/problem-solving/quotes-about-problem-solving/
https://www.therandomvibez.com/solution-quotes-problem-solving/
https://www.awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-quotes-on-solutions/
“Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.” Tina Fey
“When you find no solution to a problem, it’s probably not a problem to be solved but rather a truth to be accepted.” Anonymous
“Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem.” Anonymous
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.” Colin Powell (Me: Fact principles that army leaders run on?)
“A person who sees a problem is a human being;
a person who finds a solution is visionary;
the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.” (Principles that business leaders run on?)
Does a low mind and gutter language get in the way of discussing problems? If there is an impatience and distaste for others how can solutions that are suitable to the vast majority be found.
John McClane – “Asshole? I’m not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV, Dwayne. Now, you listen to me, jerk-off, if you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem. Quit being a part of the fucking problem and put the other guy back on!”
1/11/2020
Best Die Hard movie quotes | It’s A Stampede!
Prof Michael Baker striding up to inform an safeguard our health and the Relief of Mafeking -(sorry got carried away there – the Relief of our Medical System).
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/476643/we-need-that-leadership-baker-calls-for-return-to-covid-alert-level-system