Lprent the only way I could access the standard was to come via the web cache.
[lprent: I was replacing a increasingly noisy cooling system on the my main server last night. Noisy partly due to load from the ever increasing base load of readers and a hot climate change enhanced el nino summer. But also (as I discovered) partially to do with it starting to fail.
While I was at it, I upgraded the case to one with more (and larger) fans, more space for large disk arrays for my own arrays and those of The Standard and shifted to larger and therefore slower fans to limit the impact in my 51 square meter apartment which the computer shares with my usually patient partner Lyn. Noise from a computer isn’t exactly conducive to continued patience and domestic harmony.
The bits all arrived yesterday morning, so I set about it at 0100. Problem was that I found I was missing some crucial standard motherboard lugs that had been removed for the previous cooling system and appaear to have departed in the usual junk clear outs. So I changed cases anyway to move the drives and fans. Then I put in the old CPU cooler. Looks like I caught it just in time.
The server had been running continuously for 85 days wen I shut it down. After the move the pump sounded like it was crumbling bearings on startup, and the CPU was shutting itself down immediately after startup.
So this morning it was off to PBTech to by a new version of the same old motherboard, so I could grab the lugs and put them on the old motherboard. Since they opened at 0930, I didn’t get it up and running until 1130, and put it on the network at about 1200. ]
TS has been off all morning as far as I can tell. And catching webs – what do I know about that? I use a vacuum cleaner for that myself.
What I do want to go on about is the cheek of Dept of Trade and Enterprise using Maori term explanation as a means of promotion. Te Reo is an important thing in itself and when one wants to know tikanga it should be given by a Maori site.
I was looking up Nga Mihi and what do I get – a come-on from Trade and Enterprise. and find two sites under their aegis about it. Get out of Maori concerns you pushy obnoxious government department. I don’t want either money-oriented pakeha or Maori using Maori tikanga to advance and advertise themselves.
Ooh thanks Sacha. I wondered what tone your comment would be – had the feeling it would be negative.
Try not to be so (lower-case) sensitive. You might get called tauiwi or something and imagine that is a big affront. These days with capitals for some things and lower case for others, which I don’t agree with but no-one asked me how I felt about the changes, I suggest you just truck along trying for a better New Zealand and stay staunch on that topic.
Having worked on farms for a while, I tend to find that huntaways that don’t work tend to have a short life expectancy. Doesn’t matter if they lug or not. Although a bad lugging is often operator error, usually due to incoherence.
While culling dogs and operators does seem like the neat solution, I generally suggest that trying to water down the operators neat solution while working usually helps. Besides that helps with the hospital and ACC bills as well as they less liable to contribute to farmbike accidents.
There’s no bad dogs just bad training, and you’re right about acc , a mechanic told me once how a large number of bike repairs are due to fools chasing dogs on quads.
I think it has just now been reset b waghorn.
A very good write up about Annette King in the Herald though it quickly slipped down the order of contents.
“She’s a veteran politician who has achieved that rare thing: respect from both sides of the house. Nicholas Jones reports.”
After looking at the shocking video that Adam has put up it would be helpful to your soul and also bring some pressure to bear on disgraceful vicious powerful groups to join Amnesty International. They have been intervening for decades in a small way to prise open the tight regimes that lock up or kill people around the world with success, so it’s not only a good thing to do, it very often helps.
Auckland next AGM. Saturday 28 May
Local Region:
Auckland
Location:
Potters Park Events Centre – within the Auckland Deaf Society Building at 164 Balmoral Road, Balmoral, Auckland
Event Start:
28 May 2016
Time:
Please arrive between 09.15am and 09.40 – meeting begins precisiely at 09.45 and finish at 17:00
Price:
$20 students, $25 for all others
Phone:
0800 AMNESTY
Email: annual.meeting@amnesty.org.nz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article “The Forgotten Prisoners” in The Observer 28 May 1961,[4] by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Amnesty draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international laws and standards. It works to mobilise public opinion to put pressure on governments that let abuse take place.
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“They should all be tried: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and America’s overlooked war crimes
What the CIA did to Abu Zubaydah was barbarous. That his torturers have gone unpunished is an American tragedy”
“Zubaydah’s story is — or at least should be — the iconic tale of the illegal extremes to which the Bush administration and the CIA went in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. And yet former officials, from CIA head Michael Hayden to Vice President Dick Cheney to George W. Bush himself, have presented it as a glowing example of the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” to extract desperately needed information from the “evildoers” of that time.
Zubaydah was an early experiment in post-9/11 CIA practices and here’s the remarkable thing (though it has yet to become part of the mainstream media accounts of his case): it was all a big lie. Zubaydah wasn’t involved with al-Qaeda; he was the ringleader of nothing; he never took part in planning for the 9/11 attacks. He was brutally mistreated and, in another kind of world, would be exhibit one in the war crimes trials of America’s top leaders and its major intelligence agency.”
“Any exceedence of 35 °C for extended periods should induce hyperthermia in humans and other mammals, as dissipation of metabolic heat becomes impossible. While this never happens now, it would begin to occur with global-mean warming of about 7 °C, calling the habitability of some regions into question. With 11-12 °C warming, such regions would spread to encompass the majority of the human population as currently distributed. Eventual warmings of 12 °C are possible from fossil fuel burning.”
RESPOND: a whole of government response is required, including all levels of government across all states and regions. This response should include:
a. The acknowledgement of heatwaves as a hazard
b. The real time release of impact data and forecasts by government agencies during and immediately following a heatwave, including data on the correlation between heatwaves and mortality/morbidity
c. Development and implementation of a scaled response to heatwaves, similar to the scaled bushfire response
d. Improved understanding of the impacts of heatwaves on human health, the environment, infrastructure and the economy, now and into the future
e. The assessment of current and future response capacity to heatwaves
Quote from Marco link : At least 300 people have died of heat-related illness this month, including 110 in the state of Orissa, 137 in Telangana and another 45 in Andhra Pradesh where temperatures since the start of April have been hovering around 44C.
That’s about 4-5C hotter than normal for April, according to state meteorological official YK Reddy. He predicted the situation would only get worse in May, traditionally the hottest month in India.” Quote end.
yes, right, let’s talk about snake bites.
seriously can the National Party Groupies get any less creative?
Weather ( drought , global warming) implications for corporate farming , mono-cropping and Monsanto bio-engineering genetic modification elimination of biodiversity?
This article in New Scientist is interesting ( but you have to subscribe or buy a copy for the full article…sorry):
‘Rain makers: How high-flying bacteria could control the clouds’
” Microbes in the clouds seem able to hijack the weather for their own good, summoning drizzle and downpours. Can we use them to control where rain falls?”
…”The skies are alive with microbes that could be hijacking the weather”
[plant pathologist]”Sands’s proposal that drizzle and downpours are summoned by microbes living in the clouds didn’t go down well with atmospheric scientists…”
[ French National Institute for Ag Research]…”Morris now suspects that a series of wheat rust epidemics may have played a part in creating the Dust Bowl conditions that plagued the North American prairies in the 1930s.”…
…”It is precisely this international solidarity that Israel and its supporters fear most, for it confronts the assertion that Israel stands as a beacon of civilization and progress whose existence is under threat. This is false. The only people whose existence is under threat when it comes to this question is the Palestinians. In this regard, Israel’s Jewish character is not the issue, its apartheid character is. And a world in which apartheid is allowed to exist is not a world worth living in.
Finally, on Ken Livingstone specifically, we are talking about a politician who has spent his entire life raising his voice against and fighting racism. In fact, it would be impossible to identify a politician in the UK who has done more to stand up for the rights of minorities. It is a record that has earned him the enmity of a significant section of the political class and right wing media establishment. To see him labeled anti-Semitic is an absolute travesty of justice, as is his resulting suspension from the Labour Party he has served so loyally and with great distinction over four decades.”
“This is why, despite the very real existence of anti-Semitism and the obligation to confront it whenever it arises, the heart of the matter driving this issue in this context is not anti-Semitism but apartheid – namely, the system of apartheid that underpins Israel and its subjugation of the Palestinian people and their human rights and right to self-determination. By way of a reminder we are talking about the illegal military occupation of the West Bank, the existence and expansion of illegal Jewish settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the ongoing siege of Gaza; the latter involving the collective punishment of its 1.6 million inhabitants, along with periodic military assaults and the slaughter of men, women, and children.
Any one of the aforementioned would result in an uproar of condemnation from the so-called international community, with calls for sanctions and political isolation to be applied. The fact that there are multiple grounds for Israel to be so condemned and yet it is not and, moreover, receives unparalleled political, geopolitical, and economic support from Western governments, constitutes a lamentable case of hypocrisy and double standards.”
Agreed x1000 Chooky. I’ve been listening to BBC Radio 4 reporting of this the last couple of days and it is clear the BBC is part of the “get-Corbyn-out-by-any-means” brigade. The so-called anti-semite position of Corbyn and allies (actually fair-deal for Palestinians position) is being used as an excuse.
The give-away is all the people protesting that the issue is not about the Labour Party leadership; oh no, never.
Quote: “Murray McCully awarded the contract to build the Mataliki to a company in Bangladesh, overlooking a bid for it to be built in New Zealand by local boat builders.” Quote End.
This is what pisses me off the most, what the fuck? This is NZ Taxpayers money going leaving NZ, creating no jobs here, funding absolutly nothing, but a company in Bangladesh.
And than it goes wrong. And the money is lost, shit was produced, and the Taxpayer gets to shell out for replacement and the likes.
Go ahead and tell me that National does it fucking better.
Shocking. Thanks for the link. More wasted ‘aid’. What a joke this government is!
National would never award to NZ boat builders, that would create jobs and produce a quality product in NZ. Better to go with the cheapest even if it does not work at all, is over budget and does not arrive on time.
“Murray McCully awarded the contract to build the Mataliki to a company in Bangladesh, overlooking a bid for it to be built in New Zealand by local boat builders. This is typical of an increasingly arrogant and out-of-touch Government who should back Kiwi businesses.
“So far the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been very reluctant to release details, despite the amount of taxpayer money used, and is refusing to release documents under the official information Act.
IMO, the government should always buy NZ made unless whatever is needed can’t be produced in NZ in which case the government needs to make it possible to produce in NZ.
This government has probably been the most secretive that we’ve had for some time. And the more we hear of the rorts and fraud that this government carries out the more it becomes obvious why they manipulate the OIA.
Brilliant talk.
Brilliant book. ‘How Did We Get into This Mess?’
‘ George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do.
While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, he also develops solutions to challenge the politics of fear. How do we stand up to the powerful when they seem to have all the weapons? What can we do to prepare our children for an uncertain future? Controversial, clear but always rigorously argued, How Did We Get into this Mess? makes a persuasive case for change in our everyday lives, our politics and economics, the ways we treat each other and the natural world.’
You don’t know if that’s beef: The animals mixed into your meat might shock — and disgust — you
Meat substitution scandals are becoming more common: When researchers test meats, they often find unexpected things
I bought meat patties in Scotland into he 90s , it had 50% pork 20% beef 20% chicken and 10% other meat!!! It paid not to think to hard while we chowed down.
It didn’t particularly bother me, but that pork in the collagen being labelled “Halal” is outright fraud.
Every so often I seem to cook some cheap cuts that seem to provide their own braising water, and that sucks, but I have a mate who shifted to the US a few years ago and she was completely unimpressed by their supermarket bacon – practically wetter than a dishcloth.
I’m a bit of an omnivore though – mildly curious as to what rat would taste like. But then maybe the old joke that everything tastes like chicken is because “chicken” has a little bit of everything…
If you ate Kangaroo instead of beef you would never go back to cattle.
Kangaroo is a wonderful meat. It is tender and has low fat and is very easy to cook.
When I lived in Australia we used to eat it in preference to any other of the red meats. Unfortunately the supermarkets stopped selling it. Customers were apparently complaining about them selling poor little Skippy.
I hadn’t realised that you got less methane emissions from horses than cattle though. Is the difference significant?
I might try horse next time I am in France. There are butchers who sell only viande de cheval.
As far as I can put together from the various sources, it seems that horses (and roos) emit about 1/3 the methane per day per kg bodyweight. It’s because they’re not ruminants. So from a global warming perspective, a cow out in the paddock is very roughly about the same as an average car, a horse is about a motorbike. I don’t know if that crude first approximation comparison needs to be significantly adjusted for differences in growth rates, feed requirements, carcass yields etc.
Pigs and chickens are also much better at converting their feed into bodyweight/protein with much lower emissions than cattle. Sheep and deer are a little bit better than cattle, but since sheep and deer are also ruminants there’s not much in it.
Better start building your barricades now. They’ll be coming for you with torches and pitchforks for daring to suggest using that kind of satanical corporate overlord technology…
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is. Terry Pratchett
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/terry_pratchett.html
Auckland’s bus network has failed to deliver at a high quality during the increase in passenger numbers in March of 2016. Major changes are required to restore the confidence of Aucklanders in the bus network and ensure its reliability.
Over 1000 responses were received from bus users on the issues they experienced using the bus network from a combination of convenience and snowball sampling over the course of March.
With public transport accounting for 27 per cent of journeys into the area in 2013, it’s empirical that the issues of buses turning up late, the overcrowding of buses, buses not turning up and extremely long waits for buses, be addressed as soon as possible by Auckland Transport.
This is a problem that can be solved if Auckland Transport accepts the recommendations made by this policy briefing to add double decker buses for peak trips, extends the peak frequency time for increased bus services, increases the all day frequency of buses and increasing the speed and investment into new bus lanes.
I’d like to point out that I think that Auckland Transport is actually doing quite well considering the fundamental under-funding of public transport over the last 50+ years because of both central and local governments insistence on more bloody cars.
This could reshape the destiny of Iraq and maybe the end of the US “democracy” let alone NZ involvement in the training.
“Protesters stormed Iraq’s Parliament in a dramatic culmination of months of demonstrations, casting uncertainty over the tenure of the country’s leader and the foundations of the political system laid in place after the 2003 US-led invasion.” http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11631747
Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit priest and acclaimed poet who for decades famously challenged U.S. Catholics to reject war and nuclear weapons, died on April 30 at the Murray-Weigel Jesuit Community in the Bronx, New York. He was 94. He was a Jesuit for 76 years and a priest for 63 years.
What are you most grateful for as you look back over your long life?” I asked Daniel Berrigan, S.J., who is 88. We were sitting last December in his light-filled living room at the Jesuit residence in Manhattan where he has lived since 1975. He answered immediately: “My Jesuit vocation.” Any regrets? I asked. “I could have done sooner the things I did, like Catonsville,” he replied.
India is busy building it’s economy and working not to be dependent upon trade. Their politicians seem to understand that if it’s produced in their own country then they can afford it and that they thus don’t need foreign exchange.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
“Fletcher did not guarantee that any accredited contractor was capable, the agreement said, which effectively waived the firm of any liability for substandard work.”
Over beers a bloke told me had he known how badly things would turn out he would never have agreed to the Fletcher fix, He’s in the trade himself and was initially quite keen to take the cash and do the work himself but under duress, harassed, he reckoned, he felt he had no option but to accept their proposal.
An argument used to promote TPP by the former Trade Minister, Tim Groser and being trotted out regularly is that “without agreements such as the TPP, New Zealand would be shut out of markets and become the Greece of the South Pacific.”
DEAN BAKER from the Center for Economic and Policy Research addresses this same argument in relation to the US.
This may be an effective sales pitch for these deals, but it has nothing to do with reality.
The United States already had plenty of trade before NAFTA, CAFTA and the other trade deals, just as it already has a huge amount of trade with the TPP countries.
These deals are about putting in place a set of rules that favor some groups and disadvantage others. A major part of NAFTA was the investment chapter that puts in place safeguards to ensure that Mexico’s government will not confiscate U.S. factories or restrict their ability to take profits out of Mexico.
This made it easier for companies like General Motors to set up assembly plants in Mexico. This was good news for General Motors’ efforts to boost profits. It was not good news for U.S. autoworkers who lost jobs.
…… In short, when we debate the merits of the TPP and other trade deals, we are not arguing about trade. We are arguing over specific rules that are intended to favor some interest groups at the expense of others. Making trade the issue is a deliberate distraction.
I am hearing on The Daily Blog that an American warship may visit in November.
Does that mean they have finally come clean on which ships are nuclear and which are not, or has National undermined the nuclear legislation by stealth?
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“You talking about me?”The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Office and the Railways were held up as being both irremediably inefficient and scandalously over-manned. Playwright Roger Hall’s “Glide Time” caricatures were presented as accurate depictions of ...
Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades of insipid productivity growth and crises in healthcare, education, housing and law and order, it is no exaggeration to suggest New Zealand’s first-world status was ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Ministry of Education employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. Earlier this week it was announced 202 of those staff were being cut. When you look up “The New Zealand Curriculum” on the Ministry of ...
Chris Bishop’s bill has stirred up a hornets nest of opposition. Photo: Lynn Grieveson for The KākāTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate from the last day included:A crescendo of opposition to the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill is ...
Monday left me brokenTuesday, I was through with hopingWednesday, my empty arms were openThursday, waiting for love, waiting for loveThe end of another week that left many of us asking WTF? What on earth has NZ gotten itself into and how on earth could people have voluntarily signed up for ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.State of humanity, 20242024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?Full story Share ...
Determining the hardest sport in the world is a subjective matter, as the difficulty level can vary depending on individual abilities, physical attributes, and experience. However, based on various factors including physical demands, technical skills, mental fortitude, and overall accomplishment, here is an exploration of some of the most challenging ...
The allure of sport transcends age, culture, and geographical boundaries. It captivates hearts, ignites passions, and provides unparalleled entertainment. Behind the spectacle, however, lies a fascinating world of financial investment and expenditure. Among the vast array of competitive pursuits, one question looms large: which sport carries the hefty title of ...
Introduction Pickleball, a rapidly growing paddle sport, has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions around the world. Its blend of tennis, badminton, and table tennis elements has made it a favorite among players of all ages and skill levels. As the sport’s popularity continues to surge, the question on ...
Abstract: Soccer, the global phenomenon captivating millions worldwide, has a rich history that spans centuries. Its origins trace back to ancient civilizations, but the modern version we know and love emerged through a complex interplay of cultural influences and innovations. This article delves into the fascinating journey of soccer’s evolution, ...
Tinting car windows offers numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy, reduced glare, UV protection, and a more stylish look for your vehicle. However, the cost of window tinting can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article provides a comprehensive guide to help you understand how much you can expect to ...
The pungent smell of gasoline in your car can be an alarming and potentially dangerous problem. Not only is the odor unpleasant, but it can also indicate a serious issue with your vehicle’s fuel system. In this article, we will explore the various reasons why your car may smell like ...
Tree sap can be a sticky, unsightly mess on your car’s exterior. It can be difficult to remove, but with the right techniques and products, you can restore your car to its former glory. Understanding Tree Sap Tree sap is a thick, viscous liquid produced by trees to seal wounds ...
The amount of paint needed to paint a car depends on a number of factors, including the size of the car, the number of coats you plan to apply, and the type of paint you are using. In general, you will need between 1 and 2 gallons of paint for ...
Jump-starting a car is a common task that can be performed even in adverse weather conditions like rain. However, safety precautions and proper techniques are crucial to avoid potential hazards. This comprehensive guide will provide detailed instructions on how to safely jump a car in the rain, ensuring both your ...
Graham Adams writes about the $55m media fund — When Patrick Gower was asked by Mike Hosking last week what he would say to the many Newstalk ZB callers who allege the Labour government bribed media with $55 million of taxpayers’ money via the Public Interest Journalism Fund — and ...
Note: this blog post has been put together over the course of the week I followed the happenings at the conference virtually. Should recordings of the Great Debates and possibly Union Symposia mentioned below, be released sometime after the conference ends, I'll include links to the ones I participated in. ...
The following was my submission made on the “Fast Track Approvals Bill”. This potential law will give three Ministers unchecked powers, un-paralled since the days of Robert Muldoon’s “Think Big” projects.The submission is written a bit tongue-in-cheek. But it’s irreverent because the FTAB is in itself not worthy of respect. ...
One Could Reduce Child Poverty At No Fiscal CostFollowing the Richardson/Shipley 1990 ‘redesign of the welfare state’ – which eliminated the universal Family Benefit and doubled the rate of child poverty – various income supplements for families have been added, the best known being ‘Working for Families’, introduced in 2005. ...
Buzz from the Beehive A few days ago, Point of Order suggested the media must be musing “on why Melissa is mute”. Our article reported that people working in the beleaguered media industry have cause to yearn for a minister as busy as Melissa Lee’s ministerial colleagues and we drew ...
1. What was The Curse of Jim Bolger?a. Winston Peters b. Soon after shaking his hand, world leaders would mysteriously lose office or shuffle off this mortal coilc. Could never shake off the Mother of All Budgetsd. Dandruff2. True or false? The Chairman of a Kiwi export business has asked the ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? In November last year, I was working a very busy day in the newsroom of a large online news site, interviewing whānau about their concerns over the imminent closure of one of the few puna reo ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Knight, Researcher, Queensland University of Technology Have you ever felt sick at work? Perhaps you had food poisoning or the flu. Your belly hurt, or you felt tired, making it hard to concentrate and be productive. How likely would you be ...
Despite heavy criticism and an ongoing select committee process, the Police Minister says the Government will forge ahead with a ban on gang patches. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Whiting, Lecturer – Creative Industries, University of South Australia Shutterstock Everyone has a favourite band, or a favourite composer, or a favourite song. There is some music which speaks to you, deeply; and other music which might be the current ...
A new survey says ‘outlook not great’ for those charged with building infrastructure, while RMA changes delight farmers and depress environmentalists, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. First RMA changes announced ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato Getty Images When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also ...
A leaked document shows the Canterbury/Waitaha arm of health agency Te Whatu Ora is scurrying to save $13.3 million by July. The “financial sustainability target”, which was “allocated” to Waitaha, is consistent with what’s happening in other districts, says Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. ...
A look at the state of the previous government’s affordable housing scheme, and what could come next.Remind me: What’s KiwiBuild again?First announced in 2012, KiwiBuild was a flagship policy of the Labour Party heading into both its 2014 and 2017 election campaigns. With Jacinda Ardern as prime minister, ...
Labour in opposition will be shocked to learn which party had six years in power but squandered any chance to make real change. Grant Robertson’s valedictory speech was a predictably entertaining trip down memory lane. The acid-tongued incoming Otago University chancellor administered a sick burn to the coalition government. He ...
Opinion: It has been announced that nine percent of roles at Oranga Tamariki will be disestablished, presumably to help fund the tax cuts promised by the coalition Government. I am reminded of the graphics used to illustrate pandemic events, where five thousand people are standing in a field and then ...
After more than two sleepless days, running through savage terrain, Greig Hamilton didn’t know if he was going to finish one of the most gruelling psychological assaults in sport. He was metres away from the finish line, a yellow gate made famous in a Netflix documentary; a race he’d dreamed ...
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The following interview with former Green Party MP Sue Kedgley came about because she features in the new memoir Hine Toa by activist Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku; the two knew each other at the University of Auckland in the early 70s, when they were both took on leadership roles in the ...
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is seen some as its ‘silicon shield’ against invasion – but how will overseas expansion affect that protection? The post The state of Taiwan’s silicon shield appeared first on Newsroom. ...
There’s relief for building owners bending under the weight of earthquake strengthening rules – and costs – that came into force seven years ago. Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk has announced a scheduled 2027 review of the earthquake-prone building regulations will now start this year. Owners will also get ...
COMMENTARY:By Murray Horton New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It’s not as if we haven’t done so before. When NZ authorities busted a Mossad operation in Auckland 20 years ago, the government didn’t say: “Oh well, Israel has the right to defend itself.” No, it arrested, prosecuted, ...
NEWSMAKERS:By Vijay Narayan, news director of FijiVillage Blessed to be part of the University of Fiji (UniFiji) faculty to continue to teach and mentor those who want to join our noble profession, and to stand for truth and justice for the people of the country. I was privileged to ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Hugh Chittock/Antarctica New Zealand, CC BY-SA As the climate warms and Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to displace hundreds of millions of ...
The government's plan to reintroduce a three strikes regime is being strongly opposed by lawyers, who argue there is no evidence it reduces crime or helps people rehabilitate. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giovanni E Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Last week in a post on X, owner of the platform Elon Musk recommended people look into disc replacement if they’re experiencing severe neck or back pain. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University anek.soowannaphoom/Shutterstock NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey caught the headlines yesterday, courtesy of a blistering speech condemning the latest GST carve-up. New South Wales, he claimed, would be A$11.9 billion worse off over the ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at Kokoda Station, Northern province, at the start of his state visit to Papua New Guinea. Both Albanese and Prime Minister James Marape will meet with the locals and the Northern Provincial government before they begin their ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Professor, School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra Shutterstock An important principle was invoked by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last week in defence of the government’s Future Made in Australia industry ...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Security forces reinforcements were sent from France ahead of two rival marches in the capital Nouméa today, at the same time and only two streets away one from the other. One march, called by Union Calédonienne party (a component of the ...
A poll last August found that just 16% of New Zealanders oppose bringing back the ‘Three Strikes’ law. The nationwide poll of 1,000 New Zealanders was commissioned by Family First NZ and carried out by Curia Market Research. ...
The solo show from Ana Scotney is both sprawling and intimate, and a must-see, writes Mad Chapman. In the opening moments of Scattergun: After the Death of Rūaumoko, writer and performer Ana Scotney lays out the groundwork, literally. Silently moving around the square stage, Scotney is not so much dancing ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University Who makes the words? Why are trees called trees and why are shoes called shoes and who makes the names? – Elliot, age 5, Eltham, Victoria Good question Elliot! Let’s start with ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne at amRawpixel.com/Shutterstock Roles of health professionals are still unfortunately often stuck in the past. That is, before the ...
COMMENTARY:By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage Israel is raining on Palestinians, is proof positive, since those reports are published verbatim here in New Zealand, that our understanding of the conflict is ...
In the case of New Zealand, the results confirm that there is no popular support for the vicious austerity program being imposed by the National Party-led government, which is backed in all fundamental respects by the opposition Labour Party. ...
The ‘Vampire’ singer has never visited our part of the world, but that might all be about to change. We assess the evidence.Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour is pulling in massive crowds as it whips around the US and Europe, even helping to catapult regular supporting act Chappell Roan ...
Testing of drinking water in rural Canterbury over the weekend by Greenpeace revealed that several public town supplies were reaching levels of nitrate above 5 mg/L - the threshold which a growing body of scientific evidence has linked to increased ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University It may come as a surprise to hear 2023 was Australia’s biggest bushfire season in more than a decade. Fires burned across an area eight times as big as the 2019–20 Black ...
Responding to the Government’s announcement of changes to resource management laws, Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, said: “These changes are a step in the right direction in terms of removing ideological and unworkable ...
More than two years after the Human Rights Council called for the establishment of a national human rights commission, such a body has yet to be formed. ...
Comment:An emergency management system with wide variations in performance, significant capability gaps, funding shortfalls and above all a setup that is not meeting the needs of New Zealanders at times of crisis. The Government’s inquiry into the response to Cyclone Gabrielle and other severe weather events in the North ...
Welcome to the whirring wonders of one brain trying to align its actions with its beliefs within a system it thinks is evil. My brain has been spiralling in a woke conundrum ever since I found out a bookshop I’ve never been to was shutting down. Good Books, a bookshop ...
We repeat our call for criminal justice policy to be based on evidence, something the three strikes regime neglects to recognise – with no evidence that it either reduces crime or assists with rehabilitation. ...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara With only four more seats in the 50-member Parliament yet to be officially declared, there is no outright winner in the Solomon Islands elections. As of Monday, the two largest blocs in the winner’s circle, independents and the incumbent Prime Minister Manasseh ...
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Lprent the only way I could access the standard was to come via the web cache.
[lprent: I was replacing a increasingly noisy cooling system on the my main server last night. Noisy partly due to load from the ever increasing base load of readers and a hot climate change enhanced el nino summer. But also (as I discovered) partially to do with it starting to fail.
While I was at it, I upgraded the case to one with more (and larger) fans, more space for large disk arrays for my own arrays and those of The Standard and shifted to larger and therefore slower fans to limit the impact in my 51 square meter apartment which the computer shares with my usually patient partner Lyn. Noise from a computer isn’t exactly conducive to continued patience and domestic harmony.
The bits all arrived yesterday morning, so I set about it at 0100. Problem was that I found I was missing some crucial standard motherboard lugs that had been removed for the previous cooling system and appaear to have departed in the usual junk clear outs. So I changed cases anyway to move the drives and fans. Then I put in the old CPU cooler. Looks like I caught it just in time.
The server had been running continuously for 85 days wen I shut it down. After the move the pump sounded like it was crumbling bearings on startup, and the CPU was shutting itself down immediately after startup.
So this morning it was off to PBTech to by a new version of the same old motherboard, so I could grab the lugs and put them on the old motherboard. Since they opened at 0930, I didn’t get it up and running until 1130, and put it on the network at about 1200. ]
I had the same problem
TS has been off all morning as far as I can tell. And catching webs – what do I know about that? I use a vacuum cleaner for that myself.
What I do want to go on about is the cheek of Dept of Trade and Enterprise using Maori term explanation as a means of promotion. Te Reo is an important thing in itself and when one wants to know tikanga it should be given by a Maori site.
I was looking up Nga Mihi and what do I get – a come-on from Trade and Enterprise. and find two sites under their aegis about it. Get out of Maori concerns you pushy obnoxious government department. I don’t want either money-oriented pakeha or Maori using Maori tikanga to advance and advertise themselves.
‘Daily Blog’ doesnt seem to be functioning properly either…
Pakeha with a capital, please. We are an ethnicity like samoan or korean.
Ooh thanks Sacha. I wondered what tone your comment would be – had the feeling it would be negative.
Try not to be so (lower-case) sensitive. You might get called tauiwi or something and imagine that is a big affront. These days with capitals for some things and lower case for others, which I don’t agree with but no-one asked me how I felt about the changes, I suggest you just truck along trying for a better New Zealand and stay staunch on that topic.
If it’s an ethnicity, it has capitals. Tauiwi is a broader grouping like manuhiri so it doesn’t.
Going above and beyond as usual then,!
Does pbtech sell lugs for a huntaway as the ones on mine appear not to be working.
Sounds like a real dog.
A real bitch
Having worked on farms for a while, I tend to find that huntaways that don’t work tend to have a short life expectancy. Doesn’t matter if they lug or not. Although a bad lugging is often operator error, usually due to incoherence.
While culling dogs and operators does seem like the neat solution, I generally suggest that trying to water down the operators neat solution while working usually helps. Besides that helps with the hospital and ACC bills as well as they less liable to contribute to farmbike accidents.
😈
There’s no bad dogs just bad training, and you’re right about acc , a mechanic told me once how a large number of bike repairs are due to fools chasing dogs on quads.
Brilliant work there Lynne. The absence for a few hours shows how important the Standard is to us all.
+100
Thank you Lynn
I think it has just now been reset b waghorn.
A very good write up about Annette King in the Herald though it quickly slipped down the order of contents.
“She’s a veteran politician who has achieved that rare thing: respect from both sides of the house. Nicholas Jones reports.”
I have always been an admirer of Annette when in her early days as an MP she was often picked as a future PM. I guess Helen rose at a time when had she not, Annette could have.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11631541
Annette King, like Helen Clark is very impressive and charismatic when you meet her face to face.
..yes I agree…both Helen Clark and Annette King are impressive and charismatic politicians because of their competency
….although Helen Clark’s intellect is very far ranging and she is more to the Left ,I think, than Annette King
Think global, and be wigged out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYTP5bKj1E
After looking at the shocking video that Adam has put up it would be helpful to your soul and also bring some pressure to bear on disgraceful vicious powerful groups to join Amnesty International. They have been intervening for decades in a small way to prise open the tight regimes that lock up or kill people around the world with success, so it’s not only a good thing to do, it very often helps.
Auckland next AGM. Saturday 28 May
Local Region:
Auckland
Location:
Potters Park Events Centre – within the Auckland Deaf Society Building at 164 Balmoral Road, Balmoral, Auckland
Event Start:
28 May 2016
Time:
Please arrive between 09.15am and 09.40 – meeting begins precisiely at 09.45 and finish at 17:00
Price:
$20 students, $25 for all others
Phone:
0800 AMNESTY
Email:
annual.meeting@amnesty.org.nz
https://www.amnesty.org.nz/
https://twitter.com/amnesty?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article “The Forgotten Prisoners” in The Observer 28 May 1961,[4] by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Amnesty draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international laws and standards. It works to mobilise public opinion to put pressure on governments that let abuse take place.
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+1 Speaking of human rights violations….
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/30/they_deserved_to_be_tried_george_w_bush_dick_cheney_and_americas_overlooked_war_crime_partner/
“They should all be tried: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and America’s overlooked war crimes
What the CIA did to Abu Zubaydah was barbarous. That his torturers have gone unpunished is an American tragedy”
“Zubaydah’s story is — or at least should be — the iconic tale of the illegal extremes to which the Bush administration and the CIA went in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. And yet former officials, from CIA head Michael Hayden to Vice President Dick Cheney to George W. Bush himself, have presented it as a glowing example of the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” to extract desperately needed information from the “evildoers” of that time.
Zubaydah was an early experiment in post-9/11 CIA practices and here’s the remarkable thing (though it has yet to become part of the mainstream media accounts of his case): it was all a big lie. Zubaydah wasn’t involved with al-Qaeda; he was the ringleader of nothing; he never took part in planning for the 9/11 attacks. He was brutally mistreated and, in another kind of world, would be exhibit one in the war crimes trials of America’s top leaders and its major intelligence agency.”
Welcome to the future; India bans daytime cooking as early heatwave already claims 300 lives.
In perspective 300 deaths over a month. is around a magnitude less then those that die from snakebite.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Snake-bite-fatalities-are-under-reported-in-India/articleshow/11000299.cms
bullshit!
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552.full.pdf
That was not the problem proposed it is the number,ie the elephant in the room.
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/elephants/asian_elephants/areas/issues/elephant_human_conflict/
And from Australia last month
my bold
Further – just released study reported by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Climate change could make parts of the Middle East and North Africa uninhabitable by mid-century
I don’t think that has anything to do with snakes.
Stop concentrating on the counter examples and see the problem for what it is.
And the humidity at high temps is the killer.
How f.cking dismissive Poission. We can do without you too.
Quote from Marco link : At least 300 people have died of heat-related illness this month, including 110 in the state of Orissa, 137 in Telangana and another 45 in Andhra Pradesh where temperatures since the start of April have been hovering around 44C.
That’s about 4-5C hotter than normal for April, according to state meteorological official YK Reddy. He predicted the situation would only get worse in May, traditionally the hottest month in India.” Quote end.
yes, right, let’s talk about snake bites.
seriously can the National Party Groupies get any less creative?
On the subject of weather:
Weather ( drought , global warming) implications for corporate farming , mono-cropping and Monsanto bio-engineering genetic modification elimination of biodiversity?
This article in New Scientist is interesting ( but you have to subscribe or buy a copy for the full article…sorry):
‘Rain makers: How high-flying bacteria could control the clouds’
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030690-400-rain-makers-how-highflying-bacteria-could-control-the-clouds/
” Microbes in the clouds seem able to hijack the weather for their own good, summoning drizzle and downpours. Can we use them to control where rain falls?”
…”The skies are alive with microbes that could be hijacking the weather”
[plant pathologist]”Sands’s proposal that drizzle and downpours are summoned by microbes living in the clouds didn’t go down well with atmospheric scientists…”
[ French National Institute for Ag Research]…”Morris now suspects that a series of wheat rust epidemics may have played a part in creating the Dust Bowl conditions that plagued the North American prairies in the 1930s.”…
‘New McCarthyism: Is London’s ‘anti-Semitic’ scandal a move against Jeremy Corbyn?’
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/341478-new-mccarthyism-corbyn-antisemitism/
…”It is precisely this international solidarity that Israel and its supporters fear most, for it confronts the assertion that Israel stands as a beacon of civilization and progress whose existence is under threat. This is false. The only people whose existence is under threat when it comes to this question is the Palestinians. In this regard, Israel’s Jewish character is not the issue, its apartheid character is. And a world in which apartheid is allowed to exist is not a world worth living in.
Finally, on Ken Livingstone specifically, we are talking about a politician who has spent his entire life raising his voice against and fighting racism. In fact, it would be impossible to identify a politician in the UK who has done more to stand up for the rights of minorities. It is a record that has earned him the enmity of a significant section of the political class and right wing media establishment. To see him labeled anti-Semitic is an absolute travesty of justice, as is his resulting suspension from the Labour Party he has served so loyally and with great distinction over four decades.”
Big lies remain fiercely defended
They won’t be contained much longer
Good link Chooky. Also liked this extract…
“This is why, despite the very real existence of anti-Semitism and the obligation to confront it whenever it arises, the heart of the matter driving this issue in this context is not anti-Semitism but apartheid – namely, the system of apartheid that underpins Israel and its subjugation of the Palestinian people and their human rights and right to self-determination. By way of a reminder we are talking about the illegal military occupation of the West Bank, the existence and expansion of illegal Jewish settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the ongoing siege of Gaza; the latter involving the collective punishment of its 1.6 million inhabitants, along with periodic military assaults and the slaughter of men, women, and children.
Any one of the aforementioned would result in an uproar of condemnation from the so-called international community, with calls for sanctions and political isolation to be applied. The fact that there are multiple grounds for Israel to be so condemned and yet it is not and, moreover, receives unparalleled political, geopolitical, and economic support from Western governments, constitutes a lamentable case of hypocrisy and double standards.”
Agreed x1000 Chooky. I’ve been listening to BBC Radio 4 reporting of this the last couple of days and it is clear the BBC is part of the “get-Corbyn-out-by-any-means” brigade. The so-called anti-semite position of Corbyn and allies (actually fair-deal for Palestinians position) is being used as an excuse.
The give-away is all the people protesting that the issue is not about the Labour Party leadership; oh no, never.
“Is London’s ‘anti-Semitic’ scandal a move against Jeremy Corbyn?”
In short – yes. There’s no other explanation that isn’t bullshit.
Overlooked in all the other rorts – McCully stuffs it up again In Tokelau.
Have we ever had a more corrupt and incompetent government?
Murky McCully will never come clean; it’s not in his nature.
Talking about weasels screwing things up, has everyone seen this?
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider
It seems like an extreme way to cull weasel populations
yes I saw that and laughed…bloody weasels..probably thought it was a rabbit burrow
Yes, I’d seen that one. I’d be more concerned about flying insects and creepy crawlies: Why ‘Crazy Ants’ Swarm Inside Electronics.
Quote from your link
Quote: “Murray McCully awarded the contract to build the Mataliki to a company in Bangladesh, overlooking a bid for it to be built in New Zealand by local boat builders.” Quote End.
This is what pisses me off the most, what the fuck? This is NZ Taxpayers money going leaving NZ, creating no jobs here, funding absolutly nothing, but a company in Bangladesh.
And than it goes wrong. And the money is lost, shit was produced, and the Taxpayer gets to shell out for replacement and the likes.
Go ahead and tell me that National does it fucking better.
Shocking. Thanks for the link. More wasted ‘aid’. What a joke this government is!
National would never award to NZ boat builders, that would create jobs and produce a quality product in NZ. Better to go with the cheapest even if it does not work at all, is over budget and does not arrive on time.
Idiots!!!
+1
IMO, the government should always buy NZ made unless whatever is needed can’t be produced in NZ in which case the government needs to make it possible to produce in NZ.
This government has probably been the most secretive that we’ve had for some time. And the more we hear of the rorts and fraud that this government carries out the more it becomes obvious why they manipulate the OIA.
I’m no fan of our Penny but there’s something very unsettling about Slater, or one of his minions, stalking her and posting images of her property.
@ Joe90
I hope she lays a police complaint. Stalking anyone, especially mayoral candidates should be investigated.
One wonders where the spawn of privilege will stop.
Closing comments on the article suggests the slobbering oaf may have realised he’s over cooked things.
Slater? Does he still exist? Shame that.I don’t wish anyone any harm but his existence is a blight on a decent race of people. i.e – us Kiwis.
Seeing as it May day – including a wonderful piece on Lucy Parsons – one of my hero’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apc9oyol7HM
Brilliant talk.
Brilliant book. ‘How Did We Get into This Mess?’
‘ George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do.
While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, he also develops solutions to challenge the politics of fear. How do we stand up to the powerful when they seem to have all the weapons? What can we do to prepare our children for an uncertain future? Controversial, clear but always rigorously argued, How Did We Get into this Mess? makes a persuasive case for change in our everyday lives, our politics and economics, the ways we treat each other and the natural world.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Tc8Yv92Mk
scary stuff…
You don’t know if that’s beef: The animals mixed into your meat might shock — and disgust — you
Meat substitution scandals are becoming more common: When researchers test meats, they often find unexpected things
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/30/you_dont_know_if_thats_beef_the_animals_mixed_into_your_meat_might_shock_and_disgust_you/
I bought meat patties in Scotland into he 90s , it had 50% pork 20% beef 20% chicken and 10% other meat!!! It paid not to think to hard while we chowed down.
cats and lemmings?
Tasted like road kill
Sure that’s not tahr? 🙂
excellent! mc flock.
Another good reason to relocalise our food supply. Shorten the supply chain and the quality of food improves.
It didn’t particularly bother me, but that pork in the collagen being labelled “Halal” is outright fraud.
Every so often I seem to cook some cheap cuts that seem to provide their own braising water, and that sucks, but I have a mate who shifted to the US a few years ago and she was completely unimpressed by their supermarket bacon – practically wetter than a dishcloth.
I’m a bit of an omnivore though – mildly curious as to what rat would taste like. But then maybe the old joke that everything tastes like chicken is because “chicken” has a little bit of everything…
Remember kids, when in Otago/Southland don’t eat the meat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_meat_adulteration_scandal#Compass_Group
If beef eaters acquired a taste for horse (and kangaroo) instead of beef, methane emissions from livestock farming would drop significantly.
So you could look at it as Compass trying to do their bit on the sly to counter global warming. Or not.
If you ate Kangaroo instead of beef you would never go back to cattle.
Kangaroo is a wonderful meat. It is tender and has low fat and is very easy to cook.
When I lived in Australia we used to eat it in preference to any other of the red meats. Unfortunately the supermarkets stopped selling it. Customers were apparently complaining about them selling poor little Skippy.
I hadn’t realised that you got less methane emissions from horses than cattle though. Is the difference significant?
I might try horse next time I am in France. There are butchers who sell only viande de cheval.
As far as I can put together from the various sources, it seems that horses (and roos) emit about 1/3 the methane per day per kg bodyweight. It’s because they’re not ruminants. So from a global warming perspective, a cow out in the paddock is very roughly about the same as an average car, a horse is about a motorbike. I don’t know if that crude first approximation comparison needs to be significantly adjusted for differences in growth rates, feed requirements, carcass yields etc.
Pigs and chickens are also much better at converting their feed into bodyweight/protein with much lower emissions than cattle. Sheep and deer are a little bit better than cattle, but since sheep and deer are also ruminants there’s not much in it.
http://sharingshed.farmersweekly.co.nz/index.php?/blog/2/entry-220-get-off-the-grass--if-it’s-gm/
There is a possible solution to cut farm emissions .
Better start building your barricades now. They’ll be coming for you with torches and pitchforks for daring to suggest using that kind of satanical corporate overlord technology…
A quick quip from quirky Terry Pratchett
A Better Bus Network for Auckland: The case for urgent attention to the city’s bus issues
I’d like to point out that I think that Auckland Transport is actually doing quite well considering the fundamental under-funding of public transport over the last 50+ years because of both central and local governments insistence on more bloody cars.
This could reshape the destiny of Iraq and maybe the end of the US “democracy” let alone NZ involvement in the training.
“Protesters stormed Iraq’s Parliament in a dramatic culmination of months of demonstrations, casting uncertainty over the tenure of the country’s leader and the foundations of the political system laid in place after the 2003 US-led invasion.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11631747
and,”If Iraq PM Abadi fails to survive chaos, fears for US Isis plan
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11631777
A rather Christ like Christian has passed.
The peacemaking legacy of Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit priest and acclaimed poet who for decades famously challenged U.S. Catholics to reject war and nuclear weapons, died on April 30 at the Murray-Weigel Jesuit Community in the Bronx, New York. He was 94. He was a Jesuit for 76 years and a priest for 63 years.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/poet-and-prophet
sorry to hear this.
satyagraha and ahimsa, no matter the ism
What are you most grateful for as you look back over your long life?” I asked Daniel Berrigan, S.J., who is 88. We were sitting last December in his light-filled living room at the Jesuit residence in Manhattan where he has lived since 1975. He answered immediately: “My Jesuit vocation.” Any regrets? I asked. “I could have done sooner the things I did, like Catonsville,” he replied.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/702/article/looking-back-gratitude
He will be missed. Really quite a sad day now.
If you want to know a little of what he did, this is a good start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxWaV_QZAzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODE99vSoDsc
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11631811
“Trade officials, in their “NZ Inc India Strategy”, once hoped New Zealand would ship $2 billion of goods to India by 2015.
Instead, the value of goods exported to India annually has fallen since 2011, from $900 million to $637 million last year.”
So FTA or not that’s another fail then Mr Key?
India is busy building it’s economy and working not to be dependent upon trade. Their politicians seem to understand that if it’s produced in their own country then they can afford it and that they thus don’t need foreign exchange.
Meanwhile the media feeds the populace these distractions….
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11631851
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11631482
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
Go back to bed New Zealand, your government is in control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4izBNlpt6s
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/79176677/no-performance-targets-for-fletcher-eqr-until-2015
and….
“Fletcher did not guarantee that any accredited contractor was capable, the agreement said, which effectively waived the firm of any liability for substandard work.”
Great work if you can get it.
Over beers a bloke told me had he known how badly things would turn out he would never have agreed to the Fletcher fix, He’s in the trade himself and was initially quite keen to take the cash and do the work himself but under duress, harassed, he reckoned, he felt he had no option but to accept their proposal.
Crony capitalism at it’s best.
you can guarantee the cash offer would have been insufficient in any case
Something to ponder
If our PM on a salary of $452,500
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11408306
Would pay PAYE of $140,245
https://brc1.ird.govt.nz/web-determinations/screen/Tax+on+Annual+Income+Calculator/en-GB/summary?user=guest
Yet if he donated all to registered charities he would be refunded at a rate of 33.33% or $150,818 ie a net tax refund of $10,517 so our pm also is someone who pays no income tax. 🤑 Based on this premise
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/04/almost_half_of_britons_pay_no_income_tax.html
An argument used to promote TPP by the former Trade Minister, Tim Groser and being trotted out regularly is that “without agreements such as the TPP, New Zealand would be shut out of markets and become the Greece of the South Pacific.”
DEAN BAKER from the Center for Economic and Policy Research addresses this same argument in relation to the US.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20160501/OPINION/160509997/-1/661415jyb.com?Title=Point-America-had-trade-before-these-pacts&tc=ar
+1…..
“Making trade the issue is a deliberate distraction.”…..aint that the truth
I am hearing on The Daily Blog that an American warship may visit in November.
Does that mean they have finally come clean on which ships are nuclear and which are not, or has National undermined the nuclear legislation by stealth?
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/04/29/to-the-barricades-kiwis-key-is-letting-a-filthy-us-war-ship-into-our-waters-rage-and-prepare-to-fight-now/