Saturday, May 31, 2014
NZ's fastest-growing sector...
TECH INDUSTRY
NZ's fastest-growing sector
Exports doubled over six years to more than $7 billion
Third-largest export earner behind dairy and tourism
The highest per-capita earning industry in NZ
ICT contributes nearly $20 billion to our economy
Employs more than 62,000 people
Contributes 5 per cent of GDP
(Source: NZ Technology Industry Association)
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Socialism v Nazism
Dr. Ernst Winter, the son-in-law of Col. Von Trapp whose father was the vice mayor of Vienna in the early 1930′s, when Austria, and especially Vienna, was being torn apart by armed paramilitary groups: the Nazis and the Communists. His father made an alliance politically with the socialists. He explained to his son the following: “The socialists are totally incompetent, but the Nazis are serious.”
Friday, May 23, 2014
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Snowy Hydro - Snowy 69 (1969)
Clip description
Using a graphic, this clip outlines each of the individual projects completed to date on the Snowy Mountains Scheme, and their relationships to one another.
Watch video clip 1 here
Clip description
The Murray 1 Project, in the Snowy Mountains Scheme, is officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Holt in July 1967.
Watch video clip 2 here
Clip description
Shows the cycle of drilling, firing and hauling of materials in the construction of Talbingo Reservoir on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
Watch video clip 3 here
Friday, May 16, 2014
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Southern Alps hydro and irrigation scheme planned for Canterbury...
...based on the following model that will drought proof Canterbury and export water and electricity to Otago and Marlborough. ..
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