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The rising of Matariki (a cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades) marks the beginning of the Māori New Year. Happy Māori New Year from the team at NZ Compare!
It is a wonderful time to reflect, to connect with whānau (family), with our taiao (environment), and to celebrate what has … View moreThe rising of Matariki (a cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades) marks the beginning of the Māori New Year. Happy Māori New Year from the team at NZ Compare!
It is a wonderful time to reflect, to connect with whānau (family), with our taiao (environment), and to celebrate what has passed and what is to come. We hope you have a warm and safe Matariki.
We used to just be wary of clicking links online, and then came the deceptive phone calls, followed by text messages that look to be from a known company.
The latest statistics from Cert NZ show cyber crime reports from January to March incurred financial losses up to $6 million - a 66% … View moreWe used to just be wary of clicking links online, and then came the deceptive phone calls, followed by text messages that look to be from a known company.
The latest statistics from Cert NZ show cyber crime reports from January to March incurred financial losses up to $6 million - a 66% increase on the same time last year. So, it's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid these scams - do you think you can spot a scam?
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Under new direction, Fraser Adult Community Education is offering a range of amazing courses to get your brain ticking and your creative juices flowing.
Take time out for yourself and get inspired by attending evening courses like Cake Decorating, Welding, Woodworking, Te Reo, Spanish, … View moreUnder new direction, Fraser Adult Community Education is offering a range of amazing courses to get your brain ticking and your creative juices flowing.
Take time out for yourself and get inspired by attending evening courses like Cake Decorating, Welding, Woodworking, Te Reo, Spanish, Vietnamese and Korean cooking, Photoshop, Jewellery making, and Crochet (and SO many more!).
Visit our website and see if anything takes your fancy. Or maybe you have an interesting skill you would love to teach others? We are always looking for new and exciting tutors too.
We would love to support you through your learning journey!
Can you find the answer?
Four hours ago, it was as long after 4 a.m. as it was before 4 p.m. the same day. What time is it now?
Answer
2 p.m. The halfway point between 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. is 10 a.m., but that was 4 hours ago. Thus, 10 a.m. + 4 hours = 2 p.m.
Can you find the answer?
While … View moreCan you find the answer?
Four hours ago, it was as long after 4 a.m. as it was before 4 p.m. the same day. What time is it now?
Answer
2 p.m. The halfway point between 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. is 10 a.m., but that was 4 hours ago. Thus, 10 a.m. + 4 hours = 2 p.m.
Can you find the answer?
While looking at a photograph, a man said, “Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son.” Who was the person in the photograph?
Answer
The man’s son
Can you find the answer?
When asked how old she was, Jennifer replied, “In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago.” How old is she?
Answer
12
Can you find the answer?
“That attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother. Who is lying?
Answer
No one is lying. The accountant is the attorney’s sister.
Can you find the answer?
You show up for Monday's class and find that it's been postponed. It will be held three days after the day before the day after tomorrow. What day should you show up?
Answer
Friday
Can you find the answer?
In your pocket you have an equal number of nickels, dimes, and quarters. The total is $4.40. How many of each do you have?
Answer
11
Can you find the answer?
I run but never walk, have a mouth but never talk, have a bed but never sleep, have a head but never weep. What am I?
Answer
A river
Can you find the answer?
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
Answer
Fog
Can you find the answer?
The poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will die. What is it?
Answer
Nothing
Can you find the answer?
Say my name and I disappear. What am I?
Answer
Silence
Can you find the answer?
What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket and becomes larger but weighs less?
Answer
Popcorn
Can you find the answer?
A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later, they go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Answer
She's a photographer
Can you find the answer?
This event is always going down. When you look right at it, you usually get a good feeling. But when you know it’s going to happen, you might have to cancel your plans.
Answer
Rain
Can you find the answer?
When you need me, you throw me away. When you’re done with me, you bring me back. What am I?
Answer
An anchor
Can you find the answer?
Many have heard me, but nobody has seen me, and I will not speak back until spoken to. What am I?
Answer
Echo
Can you find the answer?
Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open my jaws wide. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, I will devour them all.
Answer
Scissors
Can you find the answer?
I may be light as a feather, but almost no one can hold me for very long. What am I?
Answer
Breath
With winter well and truly here now we urgently need your support with good-quality second-hand winter clothing that you'd like to let go for good.
If you have got some pre-loved winter clothing you are happy to donate, please drop them off at our Red Cross Shop at Shop 3/12 Fifth Avenue … View moreWith winter well and truly here now we urgently need your support with good-quality second-hand winter clothing that you'd like to let go for good.
If you have got some pre-loved winter clothing you are happy to donate, please drop them off at our Red Cross Shop at Shop 3/12 Fifth Avenue here in Hamilton during our trading hours:
Mon - Fri: 9-4.30pm
Sat: 9-1pm
Many thanks for your support!
Professional business lady Janet Thomson - International Clairvoyant, Spiritual Consultant and Past life healings.
*Book online or instore*
*Instore Thursdays*
What can I gain? When you agree to the reading a contract is set between your spiritual helps and mine to download the information … View moreProfessional business lady Janet Thomson - International Clairvoyant, Spiritual Consultant and Past life healings.
*Book online or instore*
*Instore Thursdays*
What can I gain? When you agree to the reading a contract is set between your spiritual helps and mine to download the information you need right now. Get information about where you are in your life cycles, challenges and goals. The Universal Truth your angels want you to know. Your direction from a spiritual point of view. The colours you pick allows any other information you need to assist your journey, understanding yourself and your communication with Spirit to be downloaded through Janet.
Helping you find solutions for your life. We all have answers within. Sometimes we need help to find those answers or to know the right questions to ask.
Janet helps people understand when we make a choice it creates a powerful direction of accomplishment. The key is to make the healthy choice, that is how our Angels can assist us with our choices. Janet has consciously been on her mystical journey to understand herself and the world around her for over 40 years. “My philosophy has been since a teenager that every person I meet becomes a part of our experience together, being able to work with Spirit and help others has been an enormous privilege and blessing in my life. Therefore I have always sort out the best tools I know to help others and myself.”
Find solutions for:
Learning to work with your Angels clearly.
Getting answers from your Angels to help you make decisions based on what is right for you.
Finding out what Spiritual gift you communicate with your Angels and the world.
Indecision about your future direction in your life.
Pinpointing areas of confusion in your life and where they are coming from.
Healing of confusion that affects personal health, relationships and business practices.
Kia ora, we’re holding a Waikato Disability, Whānau Hauā Forum, and would like you to join us.
At Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand we want to hear your thoughts on health and well-being, and on local health services.
To help us with this, join our friendly online forum and share your … View moreKia ora, we’re holding a Waikato Disability, Whānau Hauā Forum, and would like you to join us.
At Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand we want to hear your thoughts on health and well-being, and on local health services.
To help us with this, join our friendly online forum and share your knowledge and experiences with us so we can improve services for people living with a disability / whānau hauā, and enable information sharing.
As part of this, we’ll update you on key health and disability services related matters, and emerging initiatives.
Topics include - Local community feedback and discussion on the new health system and localities.
We are also going through an organisational change process currently and will share more about this with you.
Waikato Regional Disability Hui/ Whānau Hauā Forum (via Zoom)
When: Monday 17 July, 4 - 6pm
If interested please email norma.taute@waikatodhb.health.nz for a Zoom link to join in this Forum
Disability Health Forums are a gathering of local people living with a disability or whānau hauā who share in a conversation about what matters to their community and hear what’s happening from Te Whatu Ora Waikato, other health and social service providers and local organisations/groups.
We look forward to meeting you online. He whakarongo tātou – we’re here to listen
"What is the meaning of Matariki?"
Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades. It rises in midwinter and for many Māori, it heralds the start of a new year. Iwi across New Zealand understand and celebrate Matariki in different ways and at different … View more"What is the meaning of Matariki?"
Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars also known as the Pleiades. It rises in midwinter and for many Māori, it heralds the start of a new year. Iwi across New Zealand understand and celebrate Matariki in different ways and at different times.
Signified by the Matariki cluster of stars reappearing in our night sky, this is a time to reflect on the past year, celebrate the present, and plan for the year ahead.
On that note, it is time to order your 2024 Calendars and Diaries. Preorder now by coming instore and see Trevor or Michelle. Early orders save 10% off retail price, but only until 24th July 2024.
Learn for free in the waikato! I need 20 people who would like to learn gardening, cooking, history, Kaupapa Maori, rongoa and more enrolments are still open starting the week of 24th July 2023 finishing 12th Dec 2023. please read and share!
The course will begin from the 24th July, numbers … View moreLearn for free in the waikato! I need 20 people who would like to learn gardening, cooking, history, Kaupapa Maori, rongoa and more enrolments are still open starting the week of 24th July 2023 finishing 12th Dec 2023. please read and share!
The course will begin from the 24th July, numbers pending. From Fairfield, the classes are mixed online (Zoom) on a Tuesday evening, Thursday workshop/tutorial from 5.30pm to 9pm.
An outdoor tutorial on a Wednesday is available for students from 10am – 1.30 who prefer a daytime workshop.
There are also weekend wananga that go with this course.
If you would like further information or are interested in enrolling, please do not hesitate to contact me on 0204846626 or on this email address.
Please check out the following link:
www.wananga.ac.nz...
Kai Oranga – kaupae tuawhā
Course introduction and outline
Welcome to this important kaupapa in these interesting times! Times when ensuring you, your whānau and your community has kai security, kai sovereignty and the knowledge and skill to make that happen, is becoming more important than ever. This course will help you achieve that.
Hua Parakore – the overarching framework
The topics of the course are explored through the hua parakore principles.
Literally, hua parakore means ‘hua’ or ‘fruit / produce’ without contamination. This is much broader than no pesticides or herbicides.
Hua parakore is a kaupapa Māori based framework for growing kai, developed by Te Waka Kai Ora, the Māori Organics Authority. It is also a verification system for growers. Although developed with growing kai in mind, it is also a framework for living, consistent with a Māori world view - living as part of the interconnected web of whakapapa from Ranginui and Papatūānuku. The framework consists of six principles – whakapapa, mana, mauri, te ao tūroa, māramatanga and wairua.
Te reo Māori
You do not need to speak te reo to do this course! We will learn and use kupu (words) in our classes as we go and after a while you won’t even realise, you’re using them – it will just become normal. All assessments require the use of appropriate kupu Māori so it’s a good idea to keep a note of them in a notebook. We will learn appropriate karakia for different occasions which will always be explained. We will learn at least one waiata, appropriate to the course, and if we have keen singers/guitar players then we can learn more!
Aromatawai / assessments
There are 11 assessments, most of which are made up of a number of bite sized parts. All assessments except one can be done in a group or individually – your choice. I encourage you to work together to enrich your learning and to make your lives easier. We will work through all assessment topics in class and complete as many as possible in class time as well. I do not believe personally that assessments are the be-all and end-all of learning. They are however necessary to prove to the funders of the course that the content has been taught successfully. The Law of Nature says you must give what you take. In Māori we would call it utu or reciprocity. Completing the assessments and the course is our way of reciprocating for it being provided free of charge, and our way of paying it forward for those who want to do the course in the future. None of the aromatawai are hard as the course is level 4 on the National Qualifications Framework – university level work is not required!
I will collect the bite-sized parts of assessments as we go, so we don’t have a big panic at the end. Please send things to me by email if at all possible Georgianne.crawford@wananga.ac.nz.
Kaupapa (themes / topics) we will cover
The course is organised into four kowae ako or groupings and the kaupapa are listed below in this way. However, the threads of all four are woven together as we go rather than being addressed in a linear fashion. In this way we model what we are learning ie everything is connected, and it wouldn’t make much sense for us to leave planting the maara until last!
KAI401
· Maramataka
o As part of a Māori system of time
o Observations of Hina-marama (the moon)
o The effects of lunar phases
o Appropriate times for different mahi maara (gardening activities)
· Seasonal and regional factors that affect our mahi maara
· Tohu (signs) that indicate ideal planting or harvesting times
· Earth / soil
o Historical importance of earth/soil to Māori
o Mauri of earth/soil (including moroiti or soil life)
o Earth/soil assessment
o Crop rotation
o Whānau plantings (companion planting)
KAI402
· Hua parakore
o Exploration of the six principles – what do they mean?
o How do these principles apply to maara kai?
· Nutrition
o Nutritional properties of kai grown in a maara.
o The effect on nutrition of different preparation techniques
o Kai to boost gut health and our immune systems
o Kai storage
· Seeds
o Seed sovereignty
o Observation and comparison of different seed cycles
o Annual, biennial, perennial life cycles
· Introduction to permaculture
o What is permaculture?
o Permaculture design principles
KAI403
· Permaculture cont.
o How does permaculture relate to the hua parakore principles?
o Design
§ What can we learn from nature?
§ Basic design process
§ Design project – application of design principles
KAI404
· Rongoā
o What is rongoā Māori?
o Exploration, discussion and application of a number of forms of rongoā
· Distribution of kai
o Manaakitanga – what is it and what are its effects?
o Kai security and kai sovereignty
o Class project to demonstrate how the hua / produce of maara kai can be distributed in a way that enhances the mana of all parties.
· Practical mahi maara (growing kai)
o Different methods of gardening
o Different types of kai - annual and biennial vs perennial
o Using our developing knowledge of the maramataka
o Recording our mahi, observations and results in our rātaka for future reference
o Preparation, including mahi pūwairākau (composting)
o Planting
o Hauhake (harvesting)
o Review of a maara according to Māori principles
If you have any questions, please ask.
Mauri ora
Georgianne Crawford
Gain knowledge and life skills! Free maara kai and mahinga kai course in Fairfield, level 4 NZQA.
We will be Learning about soil seasonal and regional tohu and maramataka, preserving and preparing kai from your maara, permaculture principles, there is a small rongoa and healing component.
Now taking enrolments for The level 4 kai oranga course is now here in the Waikato! An NZQA course through Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, delivered right here in the Waikato!
Fees Free!
20 weeks
3 x 3 day weekend noho over the 20 weeks.
Two evening classes per week and a day tutorial for those wishing to have a daytime session.
Minimum requirements to enter:
-Aged 16 - 100
-You will have a commitmemt to attend the kaupapa, and a willingness to learn, share and participate in developing a beautiful maara.
To enrol you will need to be:
-A New Zealand citizen or permanent resident
-Have a passport or birth certificate.
If you do not have either we may be able to assist you for the purposes of enrolling.
To put in your expression of interest or if you have any questions Pm me or email me: georgianne.crawford@wananga.ac.nz
You will need to contact me to sign up.
www.wananga.ac.nz...
Picture this: an ancient Greek philosopher wandering around, plucking olives from trees, and pondering the secrets hidden within those little green orbs. Fast forward to the present, and we're still obsessed with olives - particularly the golden nectar they produce: olive oil.
Today, I'm… View morePicture this: an ancient Greek philosopher wandering around, plucking olives from trees, and pondering the secrets hidden within those little green orbs. Fast forward to the present, and we're still obsessed with olives - particularly the golden nectar they produce: olive oil.
Today, I'm diving into the glorious world of olive oil. That's right, that golden elixir that has been cherished by civilizations throughout history. Not only does it add flavour and depth to our dishes, but good quality olive oil also comes with a plethora of health benefits.
I've also whipped up a simple pasta dish, a soul-satisfying dish of spaghetti aglio e olio, which basically means olive oil spaghetti. It's the culinary equivalent of a warm hug from Nonna.
With just a few ingredients like garlic, chilli flakes, and a generous pour of good quality olive oil, you can create a dish that dances on your taste buds.
Plus, it's a quick and easy option for those busy days when you need a meal faster than your delivery app can say “arrivederci.” This recipe has the added crunch of almonds too, and you can make a dairy free, gluten free version.
Grab your spaghetti fork and the recipe here.
Happy Cooking,
Lee xo
When you move to a Ryman village, the last thing you need to think about are unexpected costs. We offer financial security with rates, home insurance, exterior maintenance and gardening all covered under one fixed base weekly fee*, meaning once you’ve moved in you can focus on the things you … View moreWhen you move to a Ryman village, the last thing you need to think about are unexpected costs. We offer financial security with rates, home insurance, exterior maintenance and gardening all covered under one fixed base weekly fee*, meaning once you’ve moved in you can focus on the things you enjoy.
Find out more about our living options today and get ready for a new lifestyle.
*Weekly fees only increase if you change from independent living to serviced apartment living, or you add extra care options.
Connection issues got you feeling sad? Extra charges making you mad? We encourage you talk to your provider first, often they will solve it quickly.
However, if it remains unresolved or if you need some help making your complaint, talk to TDR – your free and independent complaint service.
… View moreConnection issues got you feeling sad? Extra charges making you mad? We encourage you talk to your provider first, often they will solve it quickly.
However, if it remains unresolved or if you need some help making your complaint, talk to TDR – your free and independent complaint service.
We’re here to help when phone and internet disputes go bad.
One week left to enter the Hamilton Brick Show Kids Lego competition.
Submit your creation to win great prizes, and a chance for it to be featured at the Hamilton Brick Show on the 5th and 6th of August.
Details and entries here:
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Monthly AEA Web Events
The AEA Web Event is a monthly online meeting where AEA members from all over the world come together to share their experience, strength and hope. Three members speak for 10 minutes each, followed by member sharing.
The Event is between 8.00 and 9.00 am on the 3rd Sunday… View moreMonthly AEA Web Events
The AEA Web Event is a monthly online meeting where AEA members from all over the world come together to share their experience, strength and hope. Three members speak for 10 minutes each, followed by member sharing.
The Event is between 8.00 and 9.00 am on the 3rd Sunday of the month which is Sunday 16 July (except in October 2023 when it will fall on the 4th Sunday).
ALL NEWCOMERS WELCOME.
Lesieli and Tāne embody the power of paying it forward through the Graeme Dingle Foundation.
Lesieli, ex Kiwi Can student, is now a Kiwi Can Leader teaching life skills such as respect and resilience to tamariki. Tāne, an ex Career Navigator student, returned to the Foundation as a Kiwi Can … View moreLesieli and Tāne embody the power of paying it forward through the Graeme Dingle Foundation.
Lesieli, ex Kiwi Can student, is now a Kiwi Can Leader teaching life skills such as respect and resilience to tamariki. Tāne, an ex Career Navigator student, returned to the Foundation as a Kiwi Can Leader, driven by his desire to make a positive impact. Their experiences have ignited a passion to empower the next generation of young people and give back to the Foundation.
Help us, help young people realise potential by donating today.
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