1. Which mountain’s name means the five treasures of the snows?
2. Who said: “Why was I a writer? Why hadn’t I gone in for soemthing easy like running the country?”
3. Who wrote the poem which begins A little piece of heaven fell from out the sky one day.It landed in the ocean not so very far away. . . and ends . . . But that wouldn’t bring three million, seven hundred, and sixty eight people back. Would it?
4. What is a korimako?
5. What is New Zealand’s oldest daily newpaper and who was its first editor?
Paul Tremewan gets an honourable mention for inspiring the first question but I didn’t take the bait for his other four answers.
David W got two right, a half for the Himalayas and a bonus for amusing me with the oddity.
That makes him equal winner with Swinestien with three right and a 1/2 point bonus for naming the poem as well as its author.
Just? There’s no “just” about nine different recipes.
I cooked lunches for our staff for 20 years and thought I was doing well to have five variations on soup and something in winter and salad and something in summer.
The somethings were pizza, quiche, roulade, cheese toasties and pasta. I tried very hard to serve something different each day in a week but didn’t even pretend to try to vary the diet from week to week.
My dinner staples were even less imaginative – grilled meat (usually chops, lamb rack or rump) served with salad or steamed vegetables and potato. The potatoes were boiled with mint in summer and baked in their jackets in winter (because if God had wanted me to peel potatoes he’d have called them oranges).
Occasionally the lamb was replaced with steak or blue cod and every now and then we had a roast. When the fussiest eater in the house grew up and time and energy allowed I got a bit more imaginative. But then as now most meals I cook regularly are those I can make on auto pilot as quickly as possible.
I enjoy cooking when I can choose to do it or not. But every day meals are a duty which I aim to do in the shortest time with the least effort possible.
Families with a mother who serves nine different meals should count their blessings.
P.S. Did anyone ask how many meals the fathers have in their recipe repertoires? Or is Ex-expat right that cooking is still women’s work?
She is an Associate Professor in Farm and Agribusiness Management at Massey University and has been a partner in a Pohangina Valley farm running 960 cows for 23 years.
She has worked with MAF, Wrightsons and Agriculture New Zealand, is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Primary Management and co-authored the textbook ‘Farm Management in New Zealand’.
Sitting directors John Wilson and Colin Armer were re-elected but Stuart Nattrass was not.
Young people who take the easy options at school limit their options later.
This was one of the messages from Professor Jacqueline Rowarth, who was speaking on Generations for the future – helping them help themselves.
She said some young people were working up to 32 hours a week after school and things like sport and drama which used to be after school activities were now part of the school curriculum.
“This is eroding academic credibility, ” she said.
It is also holding New Zealand back with too few people studying agriculture, engineering and sciences and too many studying business, media studies and communications.
“We need more people sticking with the hard stuff.”
That included maths, science and English, which provided a foundation for learning.
Young people had a lot more choices than their parents had but are less resilient.
Professor Rowarth said many young people who got to university were ill prepared for the discipline needed for tertiary education. They had poor motivation, poor time management and were reluctant to take responsibility.
One of their characteristics was SEP – someone else’s problem.
When they get to university or their first real job they face a quarter life crisis because they don’t have the foundations for resilience – patience, personal responsibility and realistic expectations of normality.
They lack real life role models and their expectations are based on what they see on television.
To build resilience parents should use intelligent neglect – letting the kids stuff up. We should encourage accuracy and attention to detail – which is fostered by rote learning; reward persistence and restore after school activities.
Professor Rowarth is Director of Agriculture at Massey University and is the inaugural Federated Farmers’ agricultural personality of the year. She was speaking at a combiend Federated farmers and Rotary meeting in Oamaru last night.
1. Which mountain’s name means the five treasures of the snows?
2. Who said: “Why was I a writer? Why hadn’t I gone in for soemthing easy like running the country?”
3. Who wrote the poem which begins A little piece of heaven fell from out the sky one day.It landed in the ocean not so very far away. . . and ends . . . But that wouldn’t bring three million, seven hundred, and sixty eight people back. Would it?
4. What is a korimako?
5. What is New Zealand’s oldest daily newpaper and who was its first editor?
Business New Zealand has released a paper analysing claims that farms and other businesses will be subsidised by households under the proposed emissions trading scheme.
The subsidy myth is based on the mistaken belief that ‘households are good and business is bad’ and that business should be punished for any emissions.
“The truth is not so one-sided. In reality, we are all in this together. Businesses are consumer-driven, and consumers need to see a price signal on carbon in order for carbon emissions to be reduced.
“By making an early start on emissions trading we will be putting NZ export companies in a vulnerable position – they will have to compete against companies overseas that won’t be paying any carbon charges. Allocating carbon credits is simply a way of reducing that vulnerability in the short term, and is in the interest of all New Zealanders.
“Once other countries also adopt emissions trading that vulnerability will cease, reducing the need for carbon credit allocations. So, alarmist publications about ‘decades of subsidies’ are wrong in fact as well as assumption.
“Emotive statements about ‘bludging business’ have the effect of undermining confidence in emissions trading. They reflect an anti-business attitude that could harm our future prosperity.
“We have an altogether more positive view on how businesses and consumers can adapt to carbon pricing,” Mr O’Reilly said.
One of the questions about the ETS no-one seems able to answer easily, is where will the money go? Paul Henry tried to get an answer from carbon credit expert Seeby Woodhouse on Breakfast this morning, but he wasn’t entirely successful.
If no-one can say where they money’s going how can anyone know if it will do any good?
Especially when, as Matthew Hooton pointed out in Friday’s NBR (print edition not online) that any government which seriously proposes paying a liability will be kissing re-election goodbye.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Wyatt Creech, Doug Martin of MartinJenkins and Associates and independent consultant Greg Hill will look at ECan’s resource management performance.
Civil engineer Doug Lowe, consultant Julie Clausen and economist Alison Dalziel will look at the regional council’s governance, policy functions and relationships with other councils.
It might be only a tiny step with many giant steps needed before anything actually happens, but President Obama’s support for a Trans-Pacific Partnership is a welcome move towards a free trade agreement.
It’s frustrating that so much time and energy goes into these country by country negotiations when it would be so much better to have a global agreement.
. . . why I posted videos to mark the birthdays of Petula Clark and Frida Lyngstad but not one for Mantovani’s, I decided that some things are best left to memory.
Labor has agreed to a keystone Coalition demand that agriculture be excluded permanently from the carbon pollution reduction scheme, raising hopes that Government legislation will pass through Parliament before the Copenhagen climate summit in December.
. . . confirmed the government had agreed with the Coalition to exclude agriculture from its proposed emissions trading scheme, to be debated in Parliament this week.
This is one of the reasons that an ETS won’t be imposed on farming in New Zealand when it’s first introduced.
If our ETS isn’t in step with Australia’s we’ll be exporting production across the Tasman, making no reduction in global emissions and depressing the economy in the process.
I’d forgotten that she sang Sailor but I remember it on 4ZB’s Listeners Requests which provided the background music to Sunday dinners when I was a child.
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