Eruptions in Iceland and Hawaii produce beautiful and sometimes destructive scenes of molten rock shooting into the air in a style that we call lava fountaining. This is when lava ascends to the surface very…
Eruptions in Iceland and Hawaii produce beautiful and sometimes destructive scenes of molten rock shooting into the air in a style that we call lava fountaining. This is when lava ascends to the surface very…
This article’s title expresses a reality applicable to many individuals throughout history who in their own way have inspired, impacted and changed other’s lives for good. Some are well known, some not so much –…
That horrible word stagflation has appeared in the New Zealand media recently. Stagflation is the simultaneous appearance of slow or negative economic growth and high or rising unemployment with high or rising inflation. New Zealand…
Last week was busy in town with lots of visitors here for the annual Fieldays event. It went off without problem, although things did at times get a bit soggy! It was great to see…
Starting at 9 to 10 pm on August 21,1986, heavy gases crept along the ground from the volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, moving silently towards villages and homes. Over the following six to 36 hours…
I wonder if we realise how much what we think about, the type of thoughts we allow in our ‘headspace’, plus their accompanying emotions, determines the outcomes of our life? I was visiting someone in…
The previous government elected to re-shape the national health service by demolishing district health boards. In part I supported this move as I had never had faith in poorly-elected inexperienced wannabees (as governance people) dictating…
I first read Dr Janine Krippner’s column in this paper when I was thinking about making a podcast for the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group. Janine’s ability to communicate the history and the science…
The centre-piece of this year’s Budget was the implementation of the tax cuts that National had ‘promised’ during last year’s election campaign. They did this by raising the three lowest tax brackets by about 11.5…
Last week was another busy one that saw us dealing with offences including two thefts from cars and two thefts of car, six shoplifting cases, public drunkenness, shoplifting, multiple reports of petrol drive offs, five…
