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Anamalai Tiger Reserve
Aanaimalai Tiger Reserve
Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary & National Park/Aanaimalai Wildlife Sanctuary
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
Location in Tamil Nadu, India
Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India
10°25′01″N 77°03′24″E / 10.4170°N 77.0567°E / 10.4170; 77.0567Coordinates: 10°25′01″N 77°03′24″E / 10.4170°N 77.0567°E / 10.4170; 77.0567
1976[1][2]
Tamil Nadu Forest Department
Athioda stream at the park
Jambu Malai
Akka Malai (at rear) at top of Bison Ridge
Vulnerable Nilgiri langur at Indira Gandhi National Park
Aanaimalai Tiger Reserve, earlier known as Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (IGWLS&NP) and previously as Aanaimalai Wildlife Sanctuary, is a protected area located in the Anaimalai Hills of Pollachi and Valparai taluks of Coimbatore District and Udumalaipettai taluk in Tiruppur District, Tamil Nadu, India. The Tamil Nadu Environment and Forests Department by a notification dated 27 June 2007,[3] declared an extent of 958.59 km2 that encompassed the erstwhile IGWLS&NP or Aanaimalai Wildlife Sanctuary, as Aanaimalai Tiger Reserve under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. According to the National Tiger Conservation Authority, the Reserve presently includes a core area of 958.59 km2 and buffer/peripheral area of 521.28 km2 forming a total area of 1479.87 km2.[4]
4 Tribal Communities
5.1 Anaimalai Tiger Reserve
5.2 Kozhikamudhi Elephant Camp
6 Flora
7 Visitor information
The park is named after former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi who visited the park on 7 October 1961. The main tourist facilities are located in the northeast corner of the park at "Topslip", so named because of the local 19th century practice of sliding timber logs down the hills from here.[5]
By the mid-1800s, large tracts of Valparai plateau in the Anamalais were under intense tea or coffee plantations after deforestation of the natural forests. By 1866 two-thirds of the plantations were owned by Europeans and the remaining by Indians from coastal towns. Since most native inhabitants either refused to work or were inefficient workers, labour for plantations was brought from the plains of Tamil Nadu to clear forests and grow coffee.
Some parts of the forest however were reserved for timber including large areas around Top Slip. This part of the Western Ghats, under the Bombay Presidency were exploited extensively for teak which was supplied to the Bombay Dockyard for shipbuilding and later for railroad ties.[6]
In 1855, this area came under sustainable forest management for teak plantations by the pioneering efforts Douglas Hamilton and Dr. H. F. Cleghorn of the new Tamil Nadu Forest Department. In the early 1900s, protection of the Karian Sholas was also ensured (Johnsingh 2006a).[7]
The area was notified as Anaimalai Wildlife Sanctuary in 1974. of its unique habitats at 3 places – Karian Shola, Grass hills, Manjampatti Valley were notified as a National Park in 1989. The 108 square kilometres (42 sq mi) National Park is the core area of the 958 square kilometres (370 sq mi) Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary.[1] IGWS was declared a Project Tiger tiger reserve in 2008.
The Park and the Sanctuary is under consideration by UNESCO as part of The Western Ghats World Heritage site.[8] The Sanctuary and the Palni Hills in Dindigul District form the Aanaimalai Conservation Area.[9]
The sanctuary has six administrative ranges;
Pollachi: A southern suburban town of Coimbatore, it has Range Headquarters at Aanaimalai Farm: 109.72 square kilometres (42.36 sq mi)
Valparai: Water Falls: 171.5 square kilometres (66.2 sq mi),
Ulandy Top Slip: 75.93 square kilometres (29.32 sq mi),
Amaravathi: Amaravathi Nagar: 172.5 square kilometres (66.6 sq mi) and
Udumalpet: 290.18 square kilometres (112.04 sq mi).
IGWLS is adjacent to Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary to the west. The core area of Manjampatti Valley is a 110 km2 (42 sq mi)± drainage basin at the eastern end of the park. Manjampatti Valley is contiguous with Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary to the south and the proposed Palani Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park to the east.
Elevation ranges between 340 metres (1,120 ft) and 2,513 metres (8,245 ft) above MSL
There are several named peaks over 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in the park, including:
Akka Malai 2,483 metres (8,146 ft) 10°20′43″N 77°4′10″E / 10.34528°N 77.06944°E / 10.34528; 77.06944
Tangachi Malai 2,380 metres (7,810 ft) 10°20′46″N 77°3′38″E / 10.34611°N 77.06056°E / 10.34611; 77.06056
Thanakku Malai 2,170 metres (7,120 ft) 10°22′22″N 77°4′44″E / 10.37278°N 77.07889°E / 10.37278; 77.07889
Sadayandi Malai 2,240 metres (7,350 ft) 10°19′28″N 77°6′7″E / 10.32444°N 77.10194°E / 10.32444; 77.10194
Kazhuthasuthi Malai 2,250 metres (7,380 ft) 10°19′38″N 77°5′21″E / 10.32722°N 77.08917°E / 10.32722; 77.08917
Kallar Malai 2,270 metres (7,450 ft) 10°18′48″N 77°4′40″E / 10.31333°N 77.07778°E / 10.31333; 77.07778
Jambu Malai 1,395 metres (4,577 ft) 10°15′51″N 77°15′48″E / 10.26417°N 77.26333°E / 10.26417; 77.26333
Pappalamman Malai 2,201 metres (7,221 ft) 10°17′29″N 77°21′04″E / 10.29139°N 77.35111°E / 10.29139; 77.35111
Vellari Malai 2,219 metres (7,280 ft) 10°15′46″N 77°20′56″E / 10.26278°N 77.34889°E / 10.26278; 77.34889
Podu Malai 2,230 metres (7,320 ft) 10°18′44″N 77°5′16″E / 10.31222°N 77.08778°E / 10.31222; 77.08778
Unknown at Kilanavayal 2,350 metres (7,710 ft) 10°14′55″N 77°21′22″E / 10.24861°N 77.35611°E / 10.24861; 77.35611
Paratumba 2,370 metres (7,780 ft) 10°13′39″N 77°17′24″E / 10.22750°N 77.29000°E / 10.22750; 77.29000
Kalabhaathur Malai 2,066 metres (6,778 ft) 10°14′09″N 77°16′13″E / 10.23583°N 77.27028°E / 10.23583; 77.27028
Kadavaari 2,112 metres (6,929 ft) 10°13′40″N 77°17′24″E / 10.22778°N 77.29000°E / 10.22778; 77.29000
Mean annual rainfall is between 500 millimetres (20 in) in the south western fringes and 4,500 millimetres (180 in) on the north east. This Sanctuary is an important watershed for the agricultural economy and power supply in other parts of Tamil Nadu. Major reservoirs like Parambikulam Reservoir, Aliyar Reservoir, Thirumurthi Reservoir, Upper Aliyar Reservoir, Kadambarai, Sholayar Dam and Amaravathi Dam are fed by the perennial rivers which originate from the Sanctuary.[1]
Tribal Communities[edit]
The IGWS has significant anthropological diversity with more than 4600 Adivasi people from six tribes of indigenous people living in 34 settlements. The tribes are the Kadars, Malasars, Malaimalasar s, Pulaiyars, Muduvars and the Eravallan (Eravalar).[10][11]
Fauna[edit]
Threatened species of mammals in the sanctuary include:
the endangered Bengal tiger, Indian elephant, Indian leopard
'asiatic wild dog), Nilgiri tahr and lion-tailed macaque,
the vulnerable brown mongoose, gaur, Malabar spiny dormouse, Nilgiri langur, rusty-spotted cat, sambar deer, sloth bear and smooth-coated otter,
the near threatened Indian giant squirrel, Indian leopard and Indian pangolin.
Animals of least concern here include: golden jackal, leopard cat, jungle cat, spotted deer, barking deer, mouse deer, wild boar, common langur, bonnet macaque, Asian palm civet, small Indian civet, Indian gray mongoose, striped-necked mongoose, ruddy mongoose, grey slender loris, Indian giant squirrel, Indian crested porcupine, Indian pangolin, Indian porcupine and three-striped palm squirrel.
Over 250 species of birds have been identified in the park. Some of the most important groups are cormorants, ducks, teal, darter, partridge, quail, jungle fowl, spurfowl, Indian peafowl, parakeets, hornbills, barbets, drongos, orioles, shrikes, warblers, Old World flycatchers, woodpeckers, leafbird, trogons, kingfishers, storks, egrets, Lesser fish eagles, hawk eagles, harriers, falcons, kites, owls and nightjars. It is also home to the near-threatened great Indian hornbill.
It is home to 15 of 16 species of birds endemic to the Western Ghats.
Reptiles include toads, spotted leaping frog and Leith's leaping frog, black torrent frogs, anaimalai flying frog, tree frogs, pythons, cobras, kraits, vipers, grass snakes, forest cane turtles, Travancore tortoises, flapshell turtless, star tortoises, flying lizards, chameleons and forest lizards.
315 species of butterflies belonging to five families have been identified in the Anaimalai Hills. 44 are endemic to the Western Ghats.[12]
Anaimalai Tiger Reserve[edit]
IGWS&NP, Grass Hills area, Konalar Hut 10°19′22″N 77°04′17″E / 10.32278°N 77.07139°E / 10.32278; 77.07139
The Steering Committee of Project Tiger granted approval in principle to inclusion of Indira Gandhi WLS and NP under Project Tiger in 2005.[13] IGWS was declared a Project Tiger sanctuary in 2008.[14] Continuance of Project Tiger' in Anamalai Tiger Reserve for FY 2010/11, at the cost of Rs. 23547,000, was approved by the National Tiger Conservation Authority on 31 August 2010.[15]
This tiger reserve, together with the several other contiguous protected forest and grassland habitats, is the core of the Parambikulum-Indira Gandhi tiger habitat landscape complex, with tiger occupancy area of about 3,253 km2 (1,256 sq mi) and an estimated metapopulation of 34 (32 to 36) tigers.[7]
Kozhikamudhi Elephant Camp[edit]
Tourists with Kumki elephant from Kozhikamudhi Elephant Camp after Elephant Pongal at Top Slip
Elephants were earlier trained and used at Anamalai for timber operations till felling of trees was stopped in 1972. The elephant camp has become a popular public attraction since 1976. There are 20 kumki elephants at the Kozhikamudhi Elephant Camp in the IGWSNP. There are 13 tuskers (including three calves) and seven cow elephants. The names and ages of twelve of the working elephants are: Vijayalakshmi (58), Sarada (56), Nanjan (50), Kaleem (45), Paari (31), Kalpana (30), Venkatesh (28), Karthik (27), Bharani (25), Durga (13), Rajvardhan (11) and Suyambu (4).[16]
In 1997, annual celebration of Elephant Pongal at Top Slip was begun. For Pongal, several decorated elephants stand in front of the Pongal pot to mark the commencement of the celebration. The elephants are fed chakkarai pongal, banana and sugarcane while lined up behind a barricade, so tourists can have a close look. In 2011, Elephant Pongal was celebrated on 18 January.[16]
On 24 February 2011 the Kumki Karthik was gored to death by two wild male elephants after it unchained itself in the camp and escaped into the forest. The elephant was in musth and was in search of a female companion. It was gored by the two elephants possibly because Karthik entered their habitation leading to a territorial conflict.[17]
Flora[edit]
Shola/grassland complex at Grass Hills, Indira Gandhi National Park
The park is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna typical of the South Western Ghats. There are over 2000 species plants of which about 400 species are of prime medicinal value. The diverse topography and rainfall gradient allow a wide variety of vegetation comprising a mix of natural and man-made habitats. The former includes wet evergreen forest and semi-evergreen forest, montane shola-grassland, moist deciduous, dry deciduous, thorn forests and marshes. Tropical wet evergreen forest is found at an altitude of 600m to 1,600m.
Tropical montane forests occur at higher elevations and are interspersed with montane grasslands, forming the shola-grassland complex. Much of the original evergreen forest now contains introduced teak plantations. Bamboo stands and reeds occur in the natural forests. Tree cover is provided by Hopea parviflora, Mesua ferrea, Calophyllum tomentosum, Vateria indica, Cullenia excelsa and Mangifera indica, Machilus macrantha, Alstonia scholaris, Evodia meliaefolia, Ailanthus and Malabaricum and Eucalyptus grandis. The area is home to Podocarpus wallichianus, a rare South Indian species of conifer.[1]
Visitor information[edit]
A lodge at Top Slip
The IGWLS is managed by the Wildlife Warden and falls within the administrative control of the Coimbatore Forest Circle headed by the Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore. The park has a large tourist complex at Top Slip that houses many cottages, rooms, and dormitories for visitors. Visitors can get around the park by trekking and a safari van.[1][5]
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^ Sen, Sumit K. "Top Slip Indira Gandhi National Park". Birds of India. Kolkata: Sumit K Sen. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
^ Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, Part II—Section 2, No. II(2)/EF/333/2007, dated 27 June 2007, page 240.
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^ a b National Geographic Channel, OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, Indira Gandhi National Park [1]
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^ a b Y.V.Jhala, Q.Qureshi, R.Gopal, and P.R.Sinha (Eds.) (2011). "Status of the Tigers, Co-predators, and Prey in India" (PDF). 2011: National Tiger Conservation Authority, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2012. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
^ UNESCO, World Heritage sites, Tentative lists, Western Ghats sub cluster, Anamalai, 2007. [2]
^ Sajeev T.K.; et al., "Management of Forests in India for Biological Diversity and Forest Productivity- A New Perspective" (PDF), Volume III Anaimalai Conservation Area (ACA), WII-USDA Forest Service Collaborative Project Grant No. FG-In-780 (In-FS-120), pp. 169–190., archived from the original (PDF) on 15 December 2005
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I can only imagine how slow the news cycle must have been at KDKA in Pittsburgh a few days ago that somehow this story qualified as "breaking news," but thankfully, we all got to experience this ridiculous birthday party tale in all its gruesome glory.
Over the weekend, the Sellitti family from Weirton, West Virginia, rented a party room at Ditka's steakhouse. (Side note, Ditka's is the steakhouse owned by the Pittsburgh-born Super Bowl champ Mike Ditka; who is one of only two people to win Super Bowls as a player, assistant coach and head coach.) While at the party, 48-year-old Tony Sellitti tried to break a wine glass in the face of his 53-year-old brother in law, who then returned the gesture by biting Tony's finger off. Robinson Township found Tony's finger in the public dining area of the restaurant (ew) but were unable to reattach it. Tony is also facing charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct. I have a feeling Da' Coach definitely wouldn't approve.
Bro Council ruling: next time, just send a birthday card.


To mark the end of the TRANSITION project, 2016 will kick off with a social innovation incubation conference –Supporting Social Innovations to Grow: TRANSITION's Journey.
Drawing on some of the key lessons and tools developed as part of the TRANSITION project, the conference will bring different players from European social innovation incubation ecosystem(s): social innovators, incubators, investors, foundations, researchers, policy makers together to discuss the approaches, challenges and next steps needed to support social innovations to grow in Europe.
Building on the practical challenges incubators and innovators faced going through the Social Innovation Journey (TRANSITION framework methodology), the conference will reflect on and debate how these various ecosystem actors can come together to improve Europe's capacity to be social innovative and grow.
During the event you'll also have the chance to meet some of the social innovators that took part in TRANSITION Social Innovation Journey (incubation programme) and the Transnational Start-up Lab (acceleration programme). The 20 Social Innovators will participate in an international training and financing event which will take place in Brussels on February 4th.
Participants will also have the opportunity to meet and visit Brussels based social innovation incubation players: Make Sense/Sense Cube.
Please take note that videos and photos of the event will be made public.


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Who Will Protect the Crimean Tatars?
By Natalia Antelava
At first, Rustem Kadyrov could barely make out the mark outside his house, in the Crimean town of Bakhchysarai, but it filled him with terror. It was an X, cut deep into the gray metal of the gate, and its significance cut even deeper, evoking a memory Kadyrov shares with all Crimean Tatars. Kadyrov, who is thirty-one, grew up hearing stories about marks on doors. In May of 1944, Stalin ordered his police to tag the houses of Crimean Tatars, the native Muslim residents of the peninsula. Within a matter of days, all of them—almost two hundred thousand people—were evicted from their homes, loaded onto trains, and sent to Central Asia, on the pretext that the community had collaborated with the Nazi occupation of Crimea.
Kadyrov's grandmother, Sedeka Memetova, who was eight at the time, was among those deported. "The soldiers gave us five minutes to pack up," she told me, when I visited the family on Thursday. "We left everything behind." Memetova still has vivid memories of her journey into exile: the stench of the overcrowded train carriage, the wailing of a pregnant woman who sat next to her, and the solemn faces of the men who had to lower the bodies of their children off of the moving train—the only way, she said, to dispose of the dead. Four of her siblings were among the thousands of Crimean Tatars who never even made it to their final destination, Uzbekistan.
Starting in the nineteen-sixties, the Soviet Union began to allow survivors of the deportation to return. Memetova and her family came back to Crimea almost three decades ago, in 1987. This weekend, at around 3 P.M. on Saturday, Memetova's forty-four-year-old daughter, Ava, looked out the window and saw four young men, strangers to the neighborhood, walking down the street, armed with batons. The men were also carrying pieces of paper, Ava told me—which she believes were lists of homes belonging to Crimean Tatars. Seventy years after Memetova's deportation, her house had been marked once again. "Just as we thought we finally had a future," she said. "How could anyone do this in the twenty-first century?"
When I walked up Chiisty Istochniki Street from the Memetovas' house, I saw similar marks on four other houses, all of them residences of Crimean Tatars, Kadyrov said. The houses of their Russian neighbors, however, had not been touched. Similar markings have been reported in other parts of Bakhchysarai, and in some areas of the regional capital, Simferopol. Kadyrov told me that he called the police, who came out see his gate, but they refused to register a case. He was not surprised. "The police will not help us," he said. "They told me Crimean Tatars are not a priority for them. Of course not—they are punishing us because we do not want Putin here."
Kadyrov's Russian neighbors have noticed the markings but dismissed his worries. "Whoever did it was just joking," one woman, who did not wish to be named, told me. "We get along with our neighbors fine," she continued. "But it would be helpful if Crimean Tatars stopped supporting Kiev."
Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, claims that his country has an obligation to protect the Crimean peninsula's Russians, a majority of its population, from what he called an "orgy of nationalists, and extremists, and anti-Semites" rampaging through the streets of Kiev. "What does that mean for us?" Kadyrov asked. "Who will protect us?"
Crimea is now firmly under the control of a new, pro-Moscow government, which does not recognize the authority of the new administration in Kiev. On Thursday, as the United States and European Union ramped up pressure on the Kremlin—announcing sanctions and visa restrictions against involved individuals—the regional parliament in Crimea voted unanimously to declare the peninsula part of Russia. A previously scheduled referendum on more autonomy for Crimea within Ukraine was moved up from March 30th to March 16th, and changed to a question about merging Crimea with Russia.
There are about three hundred thousand Crimean Tatars on the peninsula, and although they constitute only fifteen per cent of its population they have great political significance. If they do not back the upcoming referendum, it will be far more difficult for the pro-Moscow government in Crimea to legitimize what is in effect a Russian annexation of the peninsula. This, Crimean Tatars told me, is precisely why pressure is growing for them to turn their back on Kiev.
Over the past week, Moscow has sent a series of delegations to meet with the leaders of the Crimean Tatar community. On Wednesday, the President of Tatarstan, an autonomous Muslim republic in Russia, met with members of the representative body of Crimean Tatars, known as the Mejlis. Another member of his delegation, Ilshat Aminov—the head of Tatarstan's state broadcaster—paid a visit on the same day to the journalists at a Crimean Tatar television channel, ATR, which has been openly supportive of the new government in Kiev.
I happened to be at ATR when Aminov arrived. His laughter echoed through the newsroom as he walked around, praising the station's modern equipment and avoiding any discussion of the news. When I asked Aminov about the reason for his visit, he said, simply, "I am here to support my brothers in a time of trouble." Linur Yunusov, a senior journalist at ATR, told me that while no Russian official had ever bothered to visit Crimean Tatars before, Moscow was now sending one delegation after another. "This sudden brotherly love is overwhelming," he joked.
At one point, a journalist inside the newsroom called Aminov's attention to a television screen, which showed masked Russian soldiers blocking the entrance to a military base outside Simferopol. "This is our live position," the journalist said, provocatively. "A perfect view of the Russian occupation." Aminov didn't take the bait. "Which editing software do you use?" he replied.
The delegates visiting from Russia have made many promises to the Crimean Tatars to solicit their political support: seats in the new government, financial assistance, official language rights, and rural-development programs. These offers resonate, particularly as the community feels that its plight has been largely ignored by the government in Kiev for the past quarter century. Many Crimean Tatars remain bitterly disappointed that Kiev has not delivered on its many promises to pass laws that would recognize victims of Stalin's deportation or establish Crimean Tatar-language schools.
"We are on a verge of losing our culture, our language, our identity," Yunusov, the senior journalist, told me. And yet, like most of the Crimean Tatars I have interviewed, he believes that the community will be safer if the peninsula remains part of Ukraine. "For us, a European Ukraine is the only way of making sure that we survive as people," he said. "We need European laws to protect our identity. After what happened in 1944, we can never trust the Russians."
Eskandar Baiibov, a deputy in the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, told me firmly that his community is unanimous in its backing for the government in Kiev, and that Crimean Tatars would boycott any referendum on joining Russia. But he is also terrified, he admitted, of the price that they might have to pay for refusing to give the Kremlin the support it wants.
"We are already seeing signs that they are trying to intimidate us, to split us, to stir trouble," Baiibov said. "Ukrainians are also vulnerable, but at least they have Ukraine to go to. Where will we go? Crimea is our only home." After the regional parliament voted to merge Crimea into Russia on Thursday, the chairman of the Mejlis, Refat Chubarov, released a statement to the press, calling for the United Nations to "immediately consider" sending a contingent of international peacekeepers into Crimea, "in order to deëscalate the military conflict … which can lead to mass casualties among the entire civilian population of the peninsula."
But the prospect of U.N. peacekeepers landing on the peninsula anytime soon is less than slim. And so, as Crimea prepares for a referendum on its future, its native people are preparing for the worst. In Bakhchysarai, Ava's husband has cut up metal rods and placed them throughout the house so the family can use them to fight off any possible intruders. The men of Chiisty Istochniki Street now take turns patrolling the neighborhood at night, and Rustem Kadyrov has applied for travel documents for his children.
"Many of us want to get wives and children out of here, to somewhere safe," Kadyrov told me. The men, he said, will stay.
Above: Crimean Tatars hold a rally near the parliament building in Simferopol. Photograph by Baz Ratner/Reuters.
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Sneak preview of new Highlanders' jersey
People are seeing red over the new Highlanders' jersey.
Here's a sneak preview of it which shows why:
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Decrescent – decreasing gradually, lessening; waning.
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Self control, and farming online
Today's discussion with Jim Mora on Critical Mass started with a look at self-control in the age of abundance. Over at Reason.com Daniel Akst looks at stickK.com which encourages people to make commitment contracts:
The Commitment Contract concept is based on two well known principles of behavioral economics:
1.People don't always do what they claim they want to do, and
2.Incentives get people to do things.
From there we went farming online. My Farm is a fundraising initiative by the National Trust.
They're inviting people to pay a 30 pound annual subscription which will allow them to help run a real farm on the internet:
The farm is on the National Trust's Wimpole Estate. You'll be part of a group of 10,000 online Farmers working with farm manager Richard Morris to decide how it should be run. You'll vote once a month, discuss the issues with other members and explore the world of farming.
The first vote will go live on Thursday 26 May 2011. From then onwards Farmers will vote at least once a month on different issues to do with the everyday running of the farm. The three big themes are the crops we grow, the livestock we breed, and the wider impacts of the farm on our environment and wildlife.
It's an innovative way to help people bridge the urban-rural divide by letting them reconnect with farming and learn more about how food is produced.
If this comment is anything to go by some of the on-line farmers have a lot to learn:
How long does it take for the seed to germinate? I am wondering how many days of day we are gambling on here? And how much money? Can half the field be done at a time? Or is this an all or nothing decision?
With1,000 members signed up in the first couple of days the fundraising and education aspects should be successful. It will be interesting to see what impact the farming by vote has on production.
(Hat tip: Offsetting Behaviour).
We went from there to lost in a book at the Mail Online which introduces the concept of inattentional deafness.
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South Island tourism hit by quake
Anecdotal evidence that visitors have been put off coming not just to Christchurch after February's earthquake but the whole of the South Island has been backed up by Statistics New Zealand. It reports a decline of 24% in guest nights in the Mainland.
Guest nights fell 5.4 percent in March 2011 compared with March 2010, Statistics New Zealand said today. The decrease was driven by a fall in international guest nights in the Canterbury region and throughout the South Island. International guest nights in the South Island fell by 24 percent compared with March 2010.
"Nationally, capacity has dropped, driven by the decrease in the Canterbury region," business statistics manager Louise Holmes-Oliver said. "Due to the earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011, less accommodation was available in Canterbury. Available capacity was down by half for hotels and by a third for backpacker accommodation, compared with March 2010. This should be kept in mind when looking at figures for the Canterbury region."
Although the South's loss has been the North's gain:
All five South Island regions had fewer guest nights in March 2011 compared with March 2010, recording an overall decrease in guest nights of 15 percent. Canterbury had by far the largest regional decrease (down 30 percent), due to fewer international guest nights. The North Island recorded an overall increase in guest nights, led by increases in Auckland (up 8.0 percent) and Wellington (up 4.4 percent).
Losing thousands of beds from Christchurch which is the gateway to the south can't help but impact on the rest of the island. Some people will by-pass the city and go somewhere else in the South Island but many others are staying away from the Mainland altogether.
Wanaka is never very busy between Easter and the start of the ski season but it seems to have been even quieter this year; a tourism business owner in Omamara told us visitor numbers had plummeted since late February and even Queenstown seemed a bit subdued on a couple of recent visits.
The news that there's a 23% risk of another big earthquake somewhere in Canterbury will be very concerning for people who live there and it will be another deterrent to visitors to the province and the rest of the South Island.
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More rationalisation of govt agencies
Finance Minister Bill English and State Services Minister Tony Ryall have announced more rationalisation of government agencies.
If you follow the link above you'll see the proposals which include disestablishing five crown entities and three tribunals, merging two government agencies, establishing shared corporate services across the government's three central agencies and consolidating the services of a number of others.
Thirty nine government departments, more than 150 Crown entities, excluding school boards, and more than 200 other agencies is far too many for a population of four million.
The aim of the rationalisation is to make government administration more efficient and reduce costs, duplication and waste.
It's difficult to argue with the logic of that although no doubt those who aren't concerned about the dead weight of government will.
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Voting made difficult
An information pack arrived from the electoral Commission yesterday. The front page of the pamphlet said: voting in the referendum made easy.
On the other side was a flow chart which I reckon was more voting in the referendum made difficult. I found it left me with a lot more questions than answers.
If a political tragic who knows quite a bit about the referendum found it wanting, how useful is it to people who know little and aren't particularly interested?
A website and telephone number were given and the website makes the process and options much clearer.
But what happens to all the people who are put off by the pamphlet, don't try the phone number or website or don't have access to a computer?
The results of the election will determine who governs us for the following three years. The results of the referendum could determine how we're governed for decades.
It's a very important process which deserves a much better explanation than this pamphlet provided.
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Welfare back on agenda
The Welfare Working Group's report slipped off the radar when the Christchurch earthquake struck the day after it was released.
But the government has put welfare back on the agenda.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has announced the formation of a special Ministerial group to work on reforms.
The report had a wide range of recommendations and Paula says:
"At this stage Ministers aren't ruling out any recommendations, except requiring sole parents to look for work when any additional child born while on welfare, is 14 weeks old. That is a step too far for this Government."
Not ruling out the other recommendations doesn't mean they will be adopted. It means the group is taking an open minded approach to a very serious problem.
The group's members are: Hon Paula Bennett – Social Development and Employment; Hon Bill English – Finance; Hon Simon Power – Justice; Hon Tony Ryall – Health and State Services; Hon Anne Tolley – Education; Hon Steven Joyce – Tertiary Education; Hon Hekia Parata – Women's Affairs
Other Ministers will attend meetings as required.
This is a very high powered group, reflecting the importance of the work it must do.
A compassionate society must provide assistance for those in genuine need. But it is not good for the people receiving the help or those paying for it if those who could look after themselves don't.
There are few, if any answers to welfare reform and some of the solutions will be more expensive than the status quo, at least in the short term.
But for economic and social reasons we can't keep letting people languish on benefits as a way of life if they could be supporting themselves.
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May 31 in history
1279 BC – Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) became pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
526 A an earthquke in Antioch, Turkey, killed 250,000.
1223 Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River – Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeated Kievan Rus and Cumans.
1578 Martin Frobisher sailed from Harwich, to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1669 Samuel Pepys recorded the last event in his diary.
1678 The Godiva procession through Coventry began.
1759 The Province of Pennsylvania banned all theatre productions.
1775 American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolutions adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
1790 Alferez Manuel Quimper explored the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 – The United States enacted its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1813 Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1819 Walt Whitman, American poet, was born (d. 1892).
1859 The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, started keeping time.
1862 American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1864 American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engaged the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade.
1866 In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill led 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara Riveras part of an effort to free Ireland from the English.
1872 Heath Robinson, English cartoonist, was born (d. 1944).
1884 Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, Maori king, to claim protection of Queen Victoria.
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people died after a dam break sent a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1898 Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman, was born (d. 1993).
1902 The Treaty of Vereeniging ended the second Boer War war and ensured British control of South Africa.
1910 Creation of the Union of South Africa.
1911 The ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic was launched.
1916 World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engaged the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proved indecisive.
1921 Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the official death toll was 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll was much higher.
1923 Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, was born (d. 2005).
1924 The Soviet Union signed an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promised to respect.
1927 The last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1930 Clint Eastwood, American film director and actor, was born.
1935 A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed Quetta, Pakistan,: 40,000 dead.
1935 Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand, was born.
1938 Peter Yarrow, American folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), was born.
1939 Terry Waite, British humanitarian, was born.
1941 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin claimed 38 lives.
1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines began a series of attacks on Sydney.
1943 Zoot Suit Riots began.
1961 Republic of South Africa created.
1962 The West Indies Federation dissolved.
1962 Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel.
1965 Brooke Shields, American actress and supermodel, was born.
1967 Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-born US televison personality, was born.
1970 The Ancash earthquake caused a landslide that buried the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people were killed.
1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 The United States Senate voted to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1975 Mona Blades, an 18 year-old htich hiker disappeared, after last being seen in an orange Datsun.
1977 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
1981 Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka.
1985 Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
Sourced from NZ History Online & Wikipedia
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Untrue colours
Towards the end of my time at high school the board decided on a uniform change.
The grey gym frock which we wore with short sleeved shirts and socks in summer and long sleeved shirts and black tights in winters was to be replaced with a red tartan kilt in winter and a blue dress in summer.
"Blue? Why blue when the school colours were red and black?" we asked.
Those on the right side of the Waitaki River who are interested in rugby, and some who are not, are asking a similar question today: green, why green?
The question comes in response to the decision to change the Highlanders' jersey from blue, gold and maroon the colours of Otago, North Otago and Southland, to green the colour of um, the grass they play on and some other province.
Respondents to an ODT poll have voted 90% (1321) to 10% (148) to keep the southern colours.
The Facebook page has attracted 1,853 likes and lots of comments including this from National's Dunedin MP (and rugby referee) Michael Woodhouse:
. . . As for this happening because of the many players drafted in from outside the franchise area – sorry to be blunt but it's not about you! You will leave. The fans won't. this is about the thousands of fans who support this team through thick and thin over the past 15 years. Not a single one of them relates to anything but blue, maroon and gold. C'mon guys, be big enough to stop or reverse the announcement.
And an online petition has been launched saying:
Tradition and recognition is a huge part of the sport and yet the Highlanders Management seek to dissociate the Highlanders from the region. Sign this petition and Boycott the Force game!
The Highlanders have struggled for several seasons, severely testing the loyalty of fans. This year they've had some good wins and have been regaining support. This silly change in colours threatens to lose it again.
Have the people behind it spent too much time at the bottom of rucks?
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Paying a fair share
Jamie Mackay in praising Maori Television makes an interesting observation:
It is also to be congratulated for being brave enough to go where the major networks feared to tread by running a telethon for the Canterbury Earthquake, raising $2.5 million in the process. Of that, Fonterra contributed $1 million, or roughly $90 per dairy farmer. The remainder of New Zealand contributed $1.5 million, or roughly 35 cents per man, woman and child. And the Dom Post says dairy farmers are not paying their fair share?
Fonterra also gave another $500,000 towards production costs so all money raised went to earthquake recovery. And who knows how much of the other $1.5 raised came from dairy farmers?
Labour's line on dairy farmers not paying tax was classic wedge politics based on a selective use of numbers. As Jamie says:
It's now abundantly clear the dodgy Dom Post beat-up was a softening-up process ahead of Labour's attack on farming at its annual conference. The politics of envy is alive and kicking (farmers in the groin). It's a shame some in the Beehive don't take a moment to reflect on agriculture's contribution to society and the economy, rather than being hell-bent on making it a divisive election issue, pitting town against country. Rich farmers are not the problem. Rich farmers are the solution.
Dairy farmers do pay a fair share of tax – most of us would say we pay more than enough. At the moment we're also doing more than our fair share for the economy and like most other New Zealanders, businesses and individuals, also contribute to worthy causes.
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No danger of mad chooks pigs and fish?
European Union MPs are considering lifting the ban lift the ban on feeding animal by-products to pigs, chickens and farmed fish.
The ban was imposed after cattle developed BSE (Mad Cow Disease) after eating such feed and people who ate the meat developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease – vCJD.
Chickens, pigs and fish are omnivores. The danger to health is thought to come from feeding processed animal products (PAP) to cattle and sheep which are not and the ban on feeding PAP would still apply to them.
The potential U-turn comes as concerns escalate about how the world will continue to feed itself against a backdrop of rapidly inflating food prices and a soaring population. At the moment, animal feed producers import vast quantities of soya from countries in South America, grown on land that could otherwise be used to feed people living there. Demand for soya-based animal feed is also fuelling the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
Although altering the composition of animal feed would make ecological sense, Britain's livestock industry fears that the move would prove commercial suicide. A debate at the annual Pig & Poultry Live event earlier this month revealed many farmers were horrified by the EU proposal.
I think there would be strong market-resistance to this. I'm not allowed to be a blood donor in case I'm carrying vCJB because I was in Britain for several months in the early 80s.
Changing the law doesn't force force farmers to give processed animal proteins (PAP) to their stock and those which didn't would have a marketing advantage over those who did.
But even if it is safe to feed PAP to omnivores and there's no danger of mad chickens, pigs and fish how could they stop anyone buying the feed and giving it – accidentally or on purpose – to sheep and cattle?
A better way to tackle feed-shortages would be to get rid of subsidies which lead to inefficient production.
Hat tip: PM of NZ
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SMOG – campaign word of the week
It's only Monday but it would be hard to beat SMOG as the campaign word of the week.
It comes from Keeping Stock and it stands for Social Media Own Goal.
Labour has an online game which jokes about rape. Maia at Capitalism Bad Tree Pretty (cross-posted at the Hand Mirror which has attracted comments) writes:
One of the basic rape-myths that help uphold a culture where sexual assault is endemic is that sometimes consent doesn't matter. If you ever say that some people's violation doesn't matter – if you ever set some people up as unrapeable – then you, or in this case the Labour Party, are upholding that rape myth.
Rape is rape. It's a crime. It's never funny.
The game is called Let's Not.
Any political party which wants to be taken seriously should have enough sense to think "let's not make jokes about rape".
If Heather Simpson was still there she'd be saying "Let's not have any more SMOGs."
This isn't the first SMOG Labour has made in the last few weeks but it's definitely the worst.
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Deliberate sabotage or stupidity?
Campaigning 101: a) stay on message. b) don't take attention from the leader.
You could excuse Labour MPs for ignoring the first rule when the party hasn't got much of a message to stay on. But flouting the second is either an act of deliberate sabotage or plain stupidity.
Which is it with Labour's campaign manager who was silly enough to challenge Cameron Slater and backed-off when he didn't like the counter-challenge.
Then in another desperate attempt to gain attention he does a tabloid blog post. (I'm not going to link to it, but here's Keeping Stock's reaction.
Did Mallard fall on his head when he fell off his bike?
That might provide an explanation for what is bizarre behaviour for a senior MP but it's no excuse for taking attention away from his leader who whichever poll you look at – NZ Herald, TV3, TVNZ, – needs all all the help he can get.
If he can't depend on getting it from the party campaign manager who else is going to give it to him?
UPDATE: – Cameron has accepted the bike challenge without requiring acceptance of his counter-challenge.
What's going to get more interest in the next couple of months – Labour's leader or its campaign manager preparing for the challenge?
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70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breached the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreated to the First Wall. The Romans built a circumvallation, all trees within fifteen kilometres were cut down.
1416 The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burned Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 Hundred Years' War: 19-year-old Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
1434 Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeated and almost annihilated Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
1536 Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay, Florida, with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1574 Henry III became King of France.
1588 The last ship of the Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1635 Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague (1635) was signed.
1642 From this date all honours granted by Charles I were retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
1757 Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was born (d. 1844).
1806 Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) was signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
1832 The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario opened.
1842 John Francis attempted to murder Queen Victoria as she drove down Constitution Hill with Prince Albert.
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweller, was born (d. 1920).
1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1859 Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
1868 Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day) was observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
1871 The Paris Commune fell.
1876 Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz was deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1879 New York City's Gilmores Garden was renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1883 A rumour that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
1911 At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ended with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1913 First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, set sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1815 The East Indiaman ship Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, the loss of 372 lives.
1917 Alexander I became king of Greece.
1922 In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.
1941 World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
1942 World War II: 1000 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River broke, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1955 Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash), was born.
1958 Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, were buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour was officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.
1961 Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1962 Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), was born.
1963 A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1966 Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1967 Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.
1967 The Nigerian Eastern Region declared independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1971 Mariner 9 was launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 The Angry Brigade went on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1972 In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1998 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
2002– 272 days after the September 11 attacks, closing ceremonies were held for the clean up/recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York City.
2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy were killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but was arrested soon afterwards.
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Another of those fortnights
It's been another of those fortnights this week and the one before that and the one before that:
Monday: Home – Oamaru (sorting books for Rotary book fair) – home.
Tuesday: home – Dunedin – home.
Wednesday: home – Wanaka.
Thursday: Wanaka – Queenstown – Wanaka.
Friday: Wanaka – Millers Flat – Wanaka.
Saturday: Wanaka – home.
Sunday: home – Dunedin – home.
Monday home – Oamaru – home.
Tuesday: home – Dunedin – Wanaka.
Wednesday: Wanaka – Queenstown.
Thursday: Queenstown – home.
Friday: home – Christchurch (for National Party Mainland conference which I co-chaired on Saturday and Sunday).
Sunday: Christchurch – home.
Monday: home – Oamaru (more book sorting) – home – Wanaka.
Tuesday: Wanaka – Invercargill – Riverton (didn't spot Mr Guyton) – Otahuti – home.
Wednesday: home – Christchurch – Wellington.
Friday: Wellington – Auckland.
Sunday: Auckland – Christchurch – home.
Memo to self: staying in the bar chatting until 1am, after a National Party Northern Regional convention dinner, even when not drinking, isn't a good idea when you have to fly back to the Mainland then drive for 3 1/2 hours the next day.
I got home an hour ago and am about to take myself to bed with the book I started reading in the plane – Joy Cowley's Silent One.
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Jackass – a foolish or stupid person; a blockhead; a male ass or donkey.
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Not another by-election!
The headlines said: Winston staying quiet on by-election plans. The story below it began:
NZ First leader Winston Peters is keeping his cards close to his chest over whether he'll suit up against John Banks in the Epsom by-election. . .
But if you follow the link : http://www.3news.co.nz/Winston-staying-quiet-on-by-election-plans/tabid/423/articleID/213081/Default.aspx the story has disappearred.
Someone must have realised that it's not another by-election. John Banks is Act's candidate for Epsom in the general election.
Even if Epsom MP Rodney Hide resigned (and there's absolutely no indication he will), we're it's less than six months to the election and parliament can agree to leave the seat vacant until the country goes to the polls on November 26.
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Photovoltaic energy neutral grass based dairy farms – Pasture to Profit writes:
Two grass based dairy farmers in the Pasture to Profit Network(one in Herefordshire & the other in Brittany, France) have or are about to achieve "Energy Neutral" status (with regard to electricity use on farm). Both have installed solar panels on their farm shed roofs. http://www.solon.com/global/
Energy neutral status is where 100% of the energy that is consumed is actually generated by the farmer user. . .
Lancashire biogas plant is go – Paul at Business Blog writes:
A £3m farm-based anaerobic digestion plant in Lancashire has been officially "switched on".
The Carr Farm plant, near Warton, will produce biogas from silage and energy crops grown on surrounding land to generate 800kW of electricity, enough to power more than 1,000 homes. . .
2010 kiwifruit season lifts return to growers:
A strong 2010 kiwifruit season has lifted total payments to growers above season forecasts, with a particular highlight being a significant boost in returns to GREEN kiwifruit growers over the 2009 season, ZESPRI's 2010/11 financial results show.
Total returns to growers in 2010/11 improved from $849.0 million to $883.3 million compared to the prior year, an increase of four percent, with average Orchard Gate Returns to ZESPRI GREEN growers increasing nine percent to $32,234.
Net global kiwifruit sales increased one percent to $1.511 billion in 2010/11, despite the global volume of ZESPRI(r) Kiwifruit sold falling one percent in the same period. . .
Daily grind taking for the dairy farmer –
The alarm clock shrills. It's half- past-bloody-four and another farming day is under way.
At least it's not raining, but he still needs the Swanndri. It's cold. And actually the farm could do with some rain. Too dry; too wet. Seldom just right.
It's a long haul to the shed from this night paddock. Always a toss-up whether to go for the best feed overnight and accept extra distance and time required in the morning.
He pressures the tailenders with the farm bike and acknowledges there are times when a dog might come in handy. The heifers at the back of the mob are playing up a bit, skirmishing across the track, head-butted by a few dominant older girls in the herd.
The lights in the shed snap on, a startling line of illumination ahead in the rural darkness, so Toni will be washing down the concrete, getting organised. . .
Hat tip: Lou at No Minister (The comments on his post make interesting reading too).
Payout good for NZ – Sally Rae writes:
"It's a great time to be a farmer." South Otago farmer Stafford Ferguson was responding yesterday to Fonterra's announcement of a record payout for the season.
Describing the news as very positive, Mr Ferguson said it was a good time to pay debt back, while the forecast third-highest payout on record for next season "just eases pressure" looking forward a year out . . .
Win from Wheelchiar special – Sally Rae again:
Grant Calder pulls no punches when he says "life in a wheelchair is a bit of a s … ".
However, he hopes his remarkable success at the recent South Island sheep dog trial championships will send a message to disabled people that "it's not the end of the world". . .
Find true quality? The scan man can – more form Sally Rae:
Peter Clulee is enjoying a well-deserved break.
Mr Clulee, who operates Otago Ultrasound, doing both eye muscle and pregnancy scans on sheep, has had a hectic few months.
Since the end of January, he has been travelling the South Island doing muscle scanning, working as far north as Blenheim and right down to Southland. . .
Sir Michael Fay still milking it – Bevan Hurley writes:
Sir Michael Fay, one of the country's richest men, has swapped the bank for the barnyard and bought a $9.2 million slice of New Zealand's dairy heartland.
The investment banker and island owner now lists "farmer" as his occupation when filling out immigration forms. . .
Strawbwerry pav pigues US media interest–
Luxury Queenstown hotelier The Rees and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise have showcased the country's fine wine and cuisine at US culinary institution The James Beard Foundation, described by Time magazine as the "Oscars of the food world".
The event, dubbed "Flavors of New Zealand", was hosted by New Zealand's consul general in New York, and included a themed luncheon followed by an evening banquet featuring handpicked ingredients from 14 producers, matched with wine varieties from eight vineyards represented by Complexity Fine Wine Group. . .
An insatiable thirst for knowledge –
Each day, as he goes around the dairy farm he manages, checking on the health and welfare of his human and animal friends and the land they share, Jason Halford carries with him two other dairy farmers.
"Geoff Arends is on my left shoulder and Bruce McCluskey is on my right," he says. "I look at each situation and think what they would do. One day I'm Geoff, another I'm Bruce."
They are the farmers who have influenced him most in the 17 years since he left school at 16 to go into dairying. . .
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6/10 for the NZ Herald's Question Time.
Memo to self: read questions properly before clicking answer.
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Quick service at the front desk. Friendly, clean and great options for breakfast. I have to hand it to the wait staff for the breakfast buffet, because people can be rude and entitled, and they kept their composure and did a great job trying to accommodate everyone.
A few quirks but overall a nice place.
The only issue was that the air thermostat didn't control the temp in our room. They tried to fix it but it didn't work. We had already unpacked so we didn't move. The beds were soft. Dont get to close to the end you will fall off. The desk chair was uncomfortable. The restaurant was limited but the breakfast was great. The pool was cold and I wish they had a hot tub. But we swam any how.


The 50 fastest-growing tech companies in the UK claim an average growth rate of 2,176% and a combined revenue of £1.2bn, according to Deloitte.
Launched in 1998, the global professional services firm's UK Technology Fast 50 awards recognise growth over the past four years, driven by innovation and entrepreneurship.
They are part of a wider programme run by the company, with Ireland's fastest-growing tech firms also recently announced.
Here we profile the 11 fastest-growing tech companies in the UK.
Founded by former investment banker Will Shu and software developer Greg Orlowski in 2013, fast-food delivery platform Deliveroo has reached a valuation of more than £1.5bn in just five years, raising $900m (£700m) in funding since its inception.
It also topped Deloitte's list last year, with an astronomical growth rate of 107,117% between 2013 and 2017, and now serves every major city across Britain.
Another former investment banker, Guillaume Pousaz, started Checkout.com in 2012 with the aim of creating an online payment platform that used its own technology rather than relying on external sources.
His firm has proved a major success, now processing more than 150 currencies for some of the world's top brands including fellow Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 member Deliveroo, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin and clothing giant Adidas.
In order to cater to this wide range of clients, Checkout.com has opened offices across the globe – from Paris and San Francisco to Dubai and Hong Kong.
In 2014, hospitality expert Nakul Sharma walked away from a promising career working for the likes of InterContinental and Starwood Hotels to launch Hostmaker.
The company aims to make homesharing an easier process, managing everything from in-person check-ins and cleaning to general maintenance – as well as listing properties across a range of platforms for short, medium and long term stays.
It is now the leading home rental management service in Europe, with more than 2,000 homes listed across nine major cities, and has posted a total revenue of £50m since its founding.
Cyber security firm Darktrace was founded in 2009 by a coalition of mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, cyber operations experts from UK intelligence services, and former accountant Poppy Gustafsson.
She said: "The spooks, who came from MI5 and GCHQ, all felt that a cyber breach was inevitable.
"The geeks were mathematicians from Cambridge University, all specialists in artificial intelligence (AI), and I was the chief financial officer.
The Cambridge-based firm has since become a unicorn, with a valuation of £1.26bn, and its technology has been deployed more than 7,000 times around the world.
London-based Adaptavist is an IT services company providing professional services, support, hosting and licensed products to more than half of the Fortune 500 and a range of major organisations including NASA and the BBC.
Established in 2005, the firm now has offices in the US, Canada, the UK and Germany, and helps its customers plan, deliver and manage their IT assets.
Integrated software sales platform Paddle has tripled its revenue every year since its 2012 launch, raising more than $25m (£20m) in funding during that time.
Today, the company has more than 130 employees serving over 700 software business in 238 countries across the globe.
Founded in 2012 by Oxford University graduates Husayn Kassai, Eamon Jubbawy and Ruhul Amin, Onfido has raised more than $60m (£47m) in funding and now claims to be the world's best identity verification engine.
Using machine learning technology, it validates a user's identity document by comparing it with their facial biometrics before cross-referencing against international credit and watchlist databases.
Capping off an eclectic career trajectory that saw him go from a pilot to a computer scientist before becoming an entrepreneur, Jonathan Nicol founded online private jet charter Stratajet in 2011.
In a bid to upend the traditional modern private jet business, the firm seeks to change the way people travel by making jets more accessible and helping operators improve their prices and efficiency.
Rather than quotes or estimates, users are given the final prices for booking a private jet online, which they can do in a few steps with mobile payment or credit card like they would for a chartered flight.
Omertria serves as an online platform for retailers, designed to help them make their interactions with customers more meaningful.
Users gain access to multiple features, including a data hub that build unique customer profiles, a real-time syncing tool that tracks every customer purchase on the go and machine learning capabilities that analyse customer behaviour.
Loan company Lending Works offers personalised quotes in two minutes and, following approval, can have the money in your account within one working day.
It claims to value transparency over anything else, and includes various jargon-busting methods on its website designed to simplify the process of peer-to-peer.
Having come from a background in IT services, outsourcing and enterprise software at companies like IBM and General Electric, Terry Walby founded Thoughtonomy in 2013.
His company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud-based platform that's designed to improve productivity for office-based "knowledge workers" – those who handle information, such as software engineers, architects, scientists and lawyers.
Thoughtonomy's "virtual worker" AI tool can replace humans in carrying out repetitive tasks to free staff up so they can offer more value to a business.
Could Alibaba be the world's smartest online retailer?
Cheaper and more successful – is this city the new Silicon Valley?


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The Laplace's Demon
A glass in free fall. Have you ever thought if it is possible to calculate into how many pieces it can break into? After numerous experiments, a team of researchers succeeds in doing just this apparently impossible task. Attracted to their experiment, a mysterious professor invites the scientists in his isolated mansion to know more about their studies. However, when they arrive, they are not greeted by their host but they are faced with a strange model of the mansion, in which some absolutely normal but incredible actions are acted. The researchers will soon understand to be involved in a new experiment in which they'll have to play a very different role than usual: that of the glass in free fall.
Director: Giordano Giulivi
Actors: Alessandro Zonfrilli, Carlotta Mazzoncini, Duccio Giulivi, Ferdinando D'Urbano, Silvano Bertolin, Simone Moscato, Simone Valeri, Walter Smorti
Keywords:The Laplace's Demon
4 Dead Girls: The Soul Taker
A horror feature film about 4 girls who move into their first off-campus house only to find that the owner is a soul-eater.
Ji-yeon, a tollgate ticket girl, is frightened by a mysterious black car, which pays a bloodstained ticket fee at midnight. Her fear deepens after her colleague, Jong-sook, tells her that…
O Negative
A young woman and the man who cares for her race to find shelter in a roadside motel so they can feed her addiction, in this intriguing, wordless story about…
Genre: Horror, Romance
Night Train to Terror
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One…
Eyes of Laura Mars
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Wind Walkers
A group of friends and family descend into the Everglades swamplands for their annual hunting trip only to discover that they are the ones being hunted. A malevolent entity is…
Demon Seed
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
Leprechaun 3
It was a normal night in Las Vegas, Nevada, all the lights were flashing brightly, until a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn…
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Ghost Team One
Two roommates deathly afraid of ghosts both fall in love with a girl who believes their home is haunted.
Scott (Jon Foster) is a filmmaker in need of inspiration. He and his girlfriend Penny (Sarah Jones) move into a desolate house hoping to make a breakthrough. Then they discover…
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies
As Abraham Lincoln labors over the Gettysburg address, the importance of which he is fully aware, he learns that a menace from his past has returned, threatening to tear the…
The Nights of Terror
Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in…
Trailer: The Laplace's Demon


And I thought I was the only one morbidly fascinated by The 700 Club! Today, we meet a Detroit repping Booth newcomer who digs Pat Robertson and his tele-fundamentalist ilk so much that he goes by the name "Christian TV." Or maybe it's because Christian is his actual name, and my explanation is totally made-up—you be the judge. In any case, the Universal Motown signee is more Justin Timberlake than Oral Roberts, judging by album leak The Girl I Used to Know. Here, the headliner does double-duty on the mic and behind the boards, crafting a haunting arpeggiated-synth beat to back him as he cryptically warns fellas about a female whose alluring exterior hides deep, dark secrets. Fellow Motown native Boldy James echoes Christian's sentiments on the guest tip, affirming his allegiance to the streets (aka, "Concrete Connie") over any other woman. Sure to be a hit with femmes fatales and the men who (tragically) love them, this moody banger is just one of many to be found on Diary of an 80s Baby. The album is currently unscheduled but, in the meantime, fans can cop official lead single I'm in Love at all major online retailers.


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A Framework for Design-Led Culture within the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry
Lee, Y. & Evans, M., 08/2012, Leading innovation through design. p. 654-665 12 p.
A fragment of time in the pure state: painting in search of haptic time
Harland, B., 05/2009, In : Journal of Visual Art Practice. 8, 1-2, p. 37-58 22 p.
A fair trade?: Staging female sex tourism in 'Sugar Mummies' and 'Trade'
Aston, E., 2008, In : Contemporary Theatre Review. 18, 2, p. 180-192 13 p.
A Displacement by Patrick Anderson
Shah, R., 04/2017, Imagined Theatres: Writings for a theoretical stage. Sack, D. (ed.). London: Routledge, p. 64-65 2 p.
A detailed study of factors controlling atmospheric concentrations of PCNs.
Lee, R. G. M., Thomas, G. O. & Jones, K. C., 1/07/2005, In : Environmental Science and Technology. 39, 13, p. 4729-4738 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A design for life: futures thinking in the design curriculum
Evans, M., 2007, In : Futures Research Quarterly. 23, 3, p. 5-20 16 p.
A Design Approach to Trends and Forecasting
Evans, M., 17/11/2004. 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
A Delicate Presence: the Queer Intimacy of Drawing
Casey, S., 1/11/2016, In : TRACEY. 10 p.
A Deleuzian Imaginary: the films of Jean Renoir
Rushton, R., 07/2011, In : Deleuze Studies. 5, 2, p. 241-260 20 p.
A critical step to the side: Performing the loss of the mother
Aston, E., 07/2007, In : Theatre Research International. 32, 2, p. 130-142 13 p.
A credit to her mother.
Kuhn, A., 2004, Not just any dress : narratives of memory, body, and identity. Weber, S. & Mitchell, C. (eds.). 220 ed. New York: Peter Lang, p. 111-125 15 p. (Counterpoints).
A colourful presence: the evolution of women's representation in Iranian cinema
Ghorbankarimi, M., 1/12/2015, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. 225 p.
A choreography of the senses: the painter's studio
Dickens, P. A., 02/2017, Sensory Arts and Design. Heywood, I. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, (Seonsory Studies Series).
A Casey Study in Drawing Royal Underwear: Hidden Drawers
Casey, S. M., 2017.
A Broadcast: Looping Pieces
Etchells, T. J., 2014
Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Performance
A Belgian transect: field broadcast in the expanded field of ecology
Arnold, B. T., Birch, R. J. & Smith, R., 2015, In : Digital Creativity. 26, 1, p. 40-47 8 p.
6 Degrees Below the Horizon
Quick, A., 2010, N/A.
5th International Drawing Biennial
Casey, S., 2009
48 dictionary entries on contemporary Italian practitioners.
Giannachi, G., 2000, Who's who in contemporary world theatre. Meyer-Dinkgräfe, D. (ed.). London: Routledge, p. various (Routledge who's who series).
3D virtual tracing and depth perception problem on mobile AR
Gombač, L., Čopič Pucihar, K., Kljun, M., Coulton, P. & Grbac, J., 9/05/2016, CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, p. 1849-1856 8 p.
3D Space-Time Visualization of Player Behaviour in Pervasive Location-Based Games.
Coulton, P., Bamford, W., Cheverst, K. & Rashid, O., 05/2008, In : International Journal of Computer Games Technology. 2008, p. 1-5 5 p.
3D Motion Control of Connected Augmented Virtuality on Mobile Phones.
Chehimi, F., Coulton, P. & Edwards, R., 10/07/2008, Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality. Gwangju: IEEE Computer Society, p. 67-70 4 p.
2020 Vision - The UK Design Industry 10 Years On: Implications for Design Businesses of the Future.
Williams, A., Cooper, R., Evans, M. & Sun, Q., 2009, Designing for the 21st Century: Research Methods & Findings. Inns, T. (ed.). Farnham: Gower, Vol. 2. p. 39-54 16 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
12 Annual MIX Festival, Anthology Film Archives: New York, New York
Devereaux, E., 20/11/1998
100 years of climate change : project development and trial.
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