Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Oh say... what rhymes with "merchant banker" then?
Oh me! Pick me! I know this one. It's... ooh it's right on the tip of my tongue!
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Why would anyone pay $4+?
The supermarket on Rarotonga sells fresh milk for $14.95 NZ/2 litres. That's A2 fancy milk, they don't seem to have regular fresh milk there.
Most of the milk consumed on the island is long-life milk in just juice type litre containers. About $3.50/litre.
It confused me shopping for a minute until I realised there was no dairy industry in the Cooks to speak of.
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Man I want to shop where StatsNZ shop. My 2 litres of milk cost me a heap more than that - up over $4.
Having said this, I checked at the supermarket last night, $3.30. A case of thinking things are more expensive than they are.
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That descriptive passage is the key to the rest of the profile. If you're saying it shouldn't be there, you're wrong.
Oh it fits with the story. It's the way of writing. "His voice crumbles, his eyes brim with tears." Feels more Mills & Boon than a leading NZ newspaper. Talk about painting him as a completely wet bus ticket.
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DON BRASH is fighting his emotions. His voice crumbles, his eyes brim with tears.
He is telling the story of a "profound" old Labour Party minister who once advised an aspiring political candidate don't do it. Don't enter parliament.
"He said, `when you start you've got all these principles. And in the political process, you have to hide some of them'.
"So you put them in to a box, like roses," says Brash. There is a very long pause. He looks away, and sniffs.
"And when you open the box. They're dead.
Is this a Sunday Star Times story, or a Womens Weekly dribble? Wah wah wah.
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Anyway, things have changed a lot here in a decade, and now public hoickers are liable for a 50 yuan fine. I have yet to see this law being enforced, but according to a fascinating report in China Daily, "Spitting cases fell from 4.9 percent to 2.5 percent," from 2005-2007.
Percent of what? one wonders.
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Do you think the providers of the container load of spinach I just bought might call you tomorrow; I might need some support canceling the deal...?
Sure, as long as I don't have to moo at them.
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It seems pretty simple to me Paul. Cows obtain the calcium that is in their milk from the same source as we should - leafy greens.
Not being a cow, and only having one stomach, and also not having the ability to produce milk, I suspect my body wouldn't work so well in this regard.
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You can't buy locally caught fish at any resturant on Waiheke Is. it's all caught there, processd in Nth AKL, trucked to Sth AKL, and ferried back to Waiheke Is. - simple & efficient - Not.
Subsistence fishers have no provision under our fishing regeime - so flicking a line in the sea isn't quite as simple as it once was.
That's not subsistence fishing, that's commercial fishing.
Subsistence fishing is just as easy as it used to be, I do it every summer, and spend about a week catching fish for my family in the Marlborough Sounds.
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As pointed out in this article by an associate professor at U Auckland, animals don't generate CO2 and methane from nowhere. They take it in through their food and release it subsequently.
I'm no scientist, but this doesn't make sense to me:
When it comes to methane, it is not clear why methane emitted by farm animals counts as a net source of a greenhouse gas. The emissions from animals, whether from the lungs or the gut, are all produced from the food the animal took in. Animals do not add to the stock of atmospheric carbon and methane, they simply return it.
He's basically saying that it doesn't matter where the carbon is - ground, plants, cow, air.
Clearly it does matter where the carbon is. If we burn a big forest, all the carbon gets released into the atmosphere. That's an environmental problem.
With cows, fertilizer gets put onto the land, turned into grass, eaten, and then released as gas into the atmosphere. The cow and/or its milk get taken away for our use.
It's only a neutral system if no fertilizer goes in, and no milk/cow comes out. And there's enough green grass and trees around the cow to convert all the gas that it releases back into a solid state.
Perhaps someone with science qualifications that don't relate to computers could confirm.