dragon ball super game pc Those who have been reading or listening to my commentaries in recent months will note that I have a pretty bleak view of the immediate future. The New Zealand economy is struggling to grow, the economy of our major export market is not doing much better, we have wars in the Middle East and Europe, and we have the prospect of an even more protectionist United States from January 20. Yet back home the political oxygen is being absorbed by debate on a bill in Parliament that we all know is not going to make it further than Select Committee, and whether public servants should be allowed to work from home. My wish for the year ahead is for a more mature political discourse which focuses on what really matters. So, what really matters? we need to focus on productivity. Our performance is very poor. We have been growing our economy by growing our population or by printing more money. We need to work smarter, invest more in technology, invest more in up-skilling our workforce, and reduce the drag caused by our inferior infrastructure and excessive regulation at central and local government levels. Some good decisions have been taken in the infrastructure space but we have a long way to go. we need to reverse the disturbing performance trend in our education sector. When I was appointed chair of Education NZ in 2011, New Zealand was sitting at No 5 in the OECD PISA rankings. Now we are struggling to stay in the top 20. Our vocational education sector has been through an unsuccessful reform and is now about to be reformed again. And our universities are struggling also. It is no wonder that so many our best school leavers are voting with their feet. Of course, our education system and our productivity performance our linked. To put it simply, how can you grow productivity strongly, if a big chunk of your workforce struggle to read or understand basic mathematics? and also linked to the first two wishes, is a serious debate about how we prepare, as an economy and society for some inevitable disruptions that are coming fast at us down the railway line. We are inevitably going to become more automated at our ports and airports, our trucks, courier vans and taxis will be driverless, and many jobs in manufacturing and service industries will be undertaken by robots. This is not science fiction. I was served by a robot after placing my order on my cellphone at one of my favourite restaurants last year – DinTaiFung (鼎泰豐) Taipei 101 Branch. Wellington lawyer Peter Cullen had several trips in driverless taxis in the US recently. What is going to happen to all those workers who are going to be disrupted by these technologies? And while we are on the topic of disruption, where is the debate in New Zealand about the impact that precision fermentation is going to have on dairy and meat markets globally? It is now cheaper to produce dairy proteins in an urban factory than on the farm. This is not science fiction either. The world’s biggest dairy companies are investing in this technology – Nestlé, Danone and even Fonterra are investors. This is going to be a very real part of the future of dairy and meat. It might solve our greenhouse gas emission problems but what impact will this have on the New Zealand farming model? There is some media coverage, and Radio NZ have covered it in the last year, but most policy thinkers don’t know what I am talking about when. I raise the topic. and linked to the above too, I want us to start grappling with what will fill the gap in our exports should dairy and meat indeed get disrupted. Our services exports have to grow. There is potential low hanging fruit with tourism and international education, but on the former we seem intent on pricing ourselves out of certain markets. And on the second, we have yet to be able to recover to pre-Covid levels even though our major competitors (Australia and Canada) are trying to reduce their international student numbers. We need to focus more on internationalising our professional services companies, the screen sector, our software and other high-tech industries, just to name a few. But I really can’t see any strategy to achieve this. To do this we are going to need to do even better at attracting investment, particularly from very wealthy entrepreneurs. There is also a disruption coming at us in the energy space. Wind, solar, and geothermal, and more investment in batteries will play a bigger role in our future. There may be potential biofuel, methanol, and hydrogen/ammonia opportunities for New Zealand also. Short term, however, we need to keep the lights on. To do this we need natural gas to be available as we transition away from coal. There is actually plenty or resource. We just need to give companies the confidence to keep investing in new wells. Better regulation in this sector is essential. We need a more mature, less partisan, and better informed debate on this also. and most obviously for an old trade policy hand, I hope that President Donald Trump does not implement the tariff plans that he outlined during the campaign and since he was elected. They would be bad for the US, bad for New Zealand and bad for the global economy.Kaski, Dec 28: Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Prithvi Subba Gurung, has said the constitution would be amended with consensus of major political parties. Inaugurating the building of Nanamohan Senior Citizen Day Care Centre constructed at Tuse of Machhapuchhre rural municipality-1 today, Minister Gurung shared that constitution would be reviewed for amendment. Also the Spokesperson of the government, he mentioned, "A high-level political mechanism of two major political parties is formed. Initiating the procedural work for constitution amendment is the first task of this mechanism." He argued that the government had a plan to immediately pass the bills that are under consideration in various committees of the House of Representatives and National Assembly. The Communications Minister further said activities were forwarded to make laws required for province and local levels as well. Stating that establishing a service centre for senior citizens was a laudable initiative, he expressed commitment to providing support from government side for the operation of the centre. "The government is committed to protecting rights of senior citizens", stressed Minister Gurung. On the occasion, the day care centre building, constructed with the financial support of Rs 50 million of a Swiss national, was handed over to Ama Smriti Pratisthan. A local Karna Bahadur Gurung had donated four ropanis of land for the construction of the building in memory of his late mother Nana and father Mohan.(RSS)Kobe Sanders tied a season high with 27 points as Nevada claimed fifth place in the Charleston Classic with a 90-78 victory over Oklahoma State Sunday afternoon in South Carolina. Sanders helped the Wolfpack (6-1) earn a second win following one-possession games against Vanderbilt and VCU. After hitting the decisive 3-pointer with five seconds left in Friday's 64-61 win over VCU, Sanders made 7 of 10 shots, hit three 3s and sank 10 of 13 free throws Sunday. Nick Davidson added 223 points as Nevada led by as many as 19 and shot 58.9 percent. Brandon Love contributed 11 on 5-of-5 shooting as the Wolfpack scored 46 points in the paint and scored at least 85 for the fourth time this season. Marchelus Avery led the Cowboys (4-2) with 15 points and Arturo Dean added 13. Robert Jennings and Abou Ousmane added 11 apiece but leading scorer Bryce Thompson was held to seven points on 1-of-9 shooting as Oklahoma State shot 42 percent and 73.2 percent (30-of-41) at the line. After Avery's 3 forged a 12-12 tie with 13:41 remaining, Nevada gradually gained separation. The Wolfpack took a 24-15 lead on Chuck Bailey's jumper in the paint with 8:28 left but the Cowboys inched back, getting within 33-31 on a dunk by Avery with 4:11 left. Another Bailey jumper staked Nevada to a 40-33 lead by halftime. Nevada began pulling away early in the second half as it scored eight in a row for a 52-40 lead on a basket by Love with 16:44 left. A 3 by Sanders opened a 62-43 lead with 14:06 remaining before Oklahoma State charged back. After Nevada made eight straight shots, the Cowboys countered with 11 straight points and trailed 62-54 with 11:19 left on a 3-pointer by Avery. Thompson made his first basket by sinking a jumper with 10:37 left to get Oklahoma State within 64-56 left, and Keller's triple cut the margin to 70-64 nearly three minutes later. The Cowboys were within 78-72 on a basket by Avery with 3:56 remaining, but he fouled out about a minute later and the Wolfpack outscored Oklahoma State 12-6 the rest of the way as Sanders sank five free throws. --Field Level Media

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