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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/133034601/arthur-taylor-hits-out-at-bloody-cheek-of-effort-to-recoup-over-200k-in-legal-costs
This could work well at political meetings – an outbreak of chanting 4 times of 5 points for them to refer to in their otherwise warble. It should stop pollies and make them think.
Say a group come out with – 1 OUTCOMES, 2 BUDGET, 3 APPROPRIATE 4.TIMELINE 5 NZ MADE
(Appropriate sounds wishy washy but in fact it is discriminating when applied to some action or construction. We definitely need to tie these people down to what positive actions they have planned with the extra details, and let’s have less of the ‘I’m passionate about….’ which brings me out in itchy spots.
I’m reading coverage by Tom Frewen of Public Service broadcasting which has continually surprised and confounded me. He has been tracing its shaky path and I liked this term about some involved:
““experts”, mainly drawn from the television industry’s recycling bin of executives put out to graze on the lush pastures of consultancy.”
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2204/S00001/merger-charterchat-part-4.htm
And so NZ on Air celebrated the success of its plan, hatched around 2014, to use the internet to expand its programme funding role and avoid its inevitable demise should the government decide to have a commercial-free television channel, adopting the model used in almost every other western country by funding the broadcaster directly.
At the same time as NZ on Air was manoeuvring, in the words of the current chairwoman Ruth Harley, to get their “big fat foot inside the policy machine”, Radio New Zealand’s board appointed a new chief executive who believed radio was a medium on its last legs.
“We are now in a different age,” Paul Thompson wrote in his speech notes for the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Conference in Glasgow on 12 May 2014, “one that is characterised by information abundance and the ease and affordability of its creation, distribution and access…
Radio stations and television channels would be replaced by multi-media platforms carrying video, audio and text.
The internet platform’s potential for carrying advertising in text and video would have appealed to Radio New Zealand’s board, appointed by a National Government with an irrational aversion bordering on superstition to taxpayer-funded broadcasting.
About now: the end of the species has arrived.
What to say? All the politics is about the present comfort.
How do we escape?
How did the Left, and so Rationalists, not deal with it when we could?
What to say.
I don’t think much of that – it doesn’t rhyme – needs more work!
Reading about avalanches and the dogs that have been trained to do their clever thing – they can find someone within ten seconds. They have been able to scent someone 7 metres down.
…Snow persists in the mountains until late summer, and by then it is saturated with water, extremely heavy and just waiting to slide.
“I was nearly caught out myself once, rock climbing in the Darran Mountains,” says Goddard. “It was summer. We were wearing shorts and not carrying avalanche rescue gear. We crossed a gully and were wandering among the alpine herbs and flowers, carefree and soaking up the sunshine, when there came this tremendous roar from above, a free-falling cascade of snow, and within moments the gully where we had been only minutes earlier was gone, choked to the brim with blocks of snow as big as cars. I still felt sick the next day.”
It seems you cannot know enough about avalanches, and what you might know is no guarantee of safety….
Hoar frost, for example, grows on the surface of snow during cold and clear nights when temperatures linger below freezing. It looks like icy mould, sparkling and beautiful, but under a magnifying glass (which every snow professional carries) it resembles a glassy cityscape, each crystal a miniature high-rise. New snow falling upon this frost buries the crystals but does not break their structure. Tonnes of snow can be perched upon these precarious turrets. All it takes is the weight of a skier, the fine edge of a ski, sometimes even a noise, to trigger the collapse of that fragile layer.
The crystals collapse, Goddard explains, like trillions of tiny domino pieces, and all the snow accumulated on top of them goes down the mountain in one big slide at speeds reaching 200 km/h….
Good for a donation when you have spare money. Avalanches in NZ are a bit trickier than some other places, ours are a bit wetter and heavier. And can go later on in the season than expected. We will get less snow no doubt. But the avalanche wisdom and help will still be needed.
https://avalanchesearchdogs.co.nz/donate/
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499137/family-of-young-man-killed-at-mt-roskill-bar-speak-out-for-the-first-time
Forgiveness rather than hate or revenge, which injure the holder, is a thing that is better. But when someone hurts or kills someone, atonement should be called for. What is that person going to do to make up for this, how will they make change, starting now and what actions and practices will they adopt to prevent or stave off a mindset leading to anger, attack and injury??
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018909045/keep-eating-it-kumara-growers-need-help-to-leave-dismal-season-behind
Northland kumara growers are hoping they will rebound from a dismal season as planting for new-season crops gets underway.
Following Cyclone Gabrielle in February more than 70 percent of the about-to-be-harvested kumara crop was either destroyed or wasn’t good enough quality to be stored for very long.
Ruawai kumara grower Warwick Simpson says the poor yield has a flow-on effect as 5 percent of each grower’s crop is used for seed the following season.
However, the Vegetables New Zealand director says there is hope for growers thanks to a Kumara Seed Contingency scheme funded by the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) to ensure growers will have at least 77 percent of the required seed for this planting season…
Simpson says he would typically use part of his crop to go into seed, however, thanks to weather events which led to rot in the kumara, he was only able to harvest 10 percent of his usual crop….
Kaipara district, where Simpson is based, is the heart of kumara growing in New Zealand. There are about 40 growers in the area that grow most of the country’s kumara. ..
“During that planting season, it was very wet and really limited to how much we could plant. So that was putting us on bad foot to start with.
He says a lot of growers were down 80 percent at that point.
And then Cyclone Gabrielle happened. …
“The best way to support is if you can afford to buy kumara then please do.
“And then certainly when we get into the next season when the price will come down, definitely support your growers and buy local kumara – keep eating it.”
I’ve noticed kumara is dear. Now I know why. It’s not to be blamed on the supermarket. We have to pull together and support our NZ suppliers, bite the bullet and help them on to hopefully a better season.
Chippy tries to resuscitate a withered covid on life support
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499146/bugger-labour-leader-chris-hipkins-tests-positive-for-covid-19-at-crucial-point-in-election-campaign
1. One variant of a covid virus affected the elderly 4 years ago
2. All ‘Covid’ restrictions ended on August 2023
3. Chris Hipkins personal health records have nothing to do with the public, and vice versa