Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Looking for a new TV show to watch? Tara Ward joined Jack Tame this morning to reveal the best shows on TV this week! 
The Gulf: New Zealand’s latest crime drama series about a detective on Waiheke Island, whose life begins to fall apart as she investigates three different cases (Three, Mondays, 8:30pm)
Runaway Millionaires: Sunday Theatre is back on TVNZ1 and this week’s offering is a drama about Kara Hurring and Leo Gao, who in 2009 fled the country with $10 million that was mistakenly put in their bank account (Sunday, 8:30pm)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: fans of Jim Henson’s classic 80s movies The Dark Crystal will love this new prequel series on Netflix, which explores the world of Thra created for the original film.
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With suicide rates hitting record levels this week, the work of Steve Biddulph has never been more relevant. He’s a family therapist and educator with men, probably most famous for his parenting books Raising boys and raising girls.He’s just released an updated version of his international bestseller Manhood, which looks at what is “healthy masculinity”, and how to avoid falling into dangerous patterns that often lead to suicide and family violence.
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A Bacon & Egg Buttie for DadMy favourite bacon butties have a lovely chive-spiked omelette tucked in there as well as crispy bacon, mustard and relish. Make these for dad this Fathers’ Day.
Streaky bacon – allow 2-3 rashers per person
1 tbsp maple syrup
Fresh eggs – ½ per person
Chives, chopped finely
Salt & pepper to season
Splash of water
Butter
White bread - 2 slices per person
A good relish or tomato sauce
A swipe of wholegrain mustard

Roll each bacon rasher up and place on a tray to cook under a hot grill – you can cook a lot at once like this. Cook until getting crispy then turn and cook other side.
Whisk eggs with chives and seasoning and a splash of water. Heat a pan to medium and grease it with some butter. Pour in enough of the egg mixture to make a thin omelette. Make a few batches until you’ve used all the egg mixture. Keep omelettes warm.
Unravel bacon and cook in the pan on medium until crispy, adding a small of splash maple syrup towards the end and cook until sticky.
Toast the bread and butter. Wipe one slice with mustard and top with bacon, some omelette (cut to fit), a dollop of relish and another piece of toast. Cut the buttie, always cut the buttie!    

Tip:
There’s some tips and tricks to cooking a lot of bacon well; I prefer grilling the bacon first then finishing in the pan, adding a dash of maple syrup towards the end of cooking (it transforms bacon with it’s caramelised flavour) and always buy the best quality bacon you can afford.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE

Dan Carter: A Perfect 10
Documentary on All Black legend Dan Carter, focusing on his World Cup campaigns and promising to reveal the rugby superstar's personal side. "It’s definitely more of myself than I’ve been comfortable giving in the past. I’ve been incredibly lucky in my life with the opportunities I’ve been given, but I’ve also had some dark times along the way," says Carter. "I hope audiences take away from the film that you can reach your goals no matter where you come from and what you come up against."
Apollo 11Experience the first moon landing as it happened 50 years ago, with Todd Douglas Miller’s awe-inspiring and utterly epic documentary that takes us from the launch pad all the way to the lunar surface.
“Assembled from a newly discovered archive of 65 mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Miller’s film opens with a shot of an enormous, hangar-sized crawler hauling the towering Saturn V rocket to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. And the film looks so crisp and pristine, it feels like it was shot yesterday instead of a half-century ago…
The KitchenBetween 8th Ave. and the Hudson River, the Irish mafia runs 20 blocks of a tough New York City neighbourhood known as Hell's Kitchen. But for mob wives Kathy, Ruby and Claire, things are about to take a dramatic and radical turn. When the FBI sends their husbands to prison, the three women take business into their own hands by running the rackets and taking out the competition.

What does Kevin look for in a car? And is it time to go electric? LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE

It’s amazing how fast technology moves in the America’s Cup.
A boat which just two years ago was top secret, cutting edge, state of the art, the clandestine culmination of millions of dollars in innovation and design, is now bolted in place for the whole World to see outside of Emirates Team New Zealand’s base.
“Why would you do that?” I asked Grant Dalton.
Think about it.. he said. The cycling grinders. The crane you need to take it in and out of the water. The temperamental nature of the AC50s and the exhilarating racing. There are only a handful of people in the World who can safely sail the boat and they’ve all had to move on. So unlike the old 90s monohulls the winning boat from Bermuda isn’t good for anything today except a bit of decoration. 
Grant Dalton gave me the tour inside.
We started in the design room rows of engineers sitting at their screens. Most of them he explained, don’t come from sailing backgrounds. Many of them know next to nothing about boats. They’re mainly aeronautical engineers mathematicians who are experts in drag, streamlining, and aerodynamics. They could be designing cars or planes, but they’re designing what they hope will retain the America’s Cup. 
On the ground floor. An impressive gym with a line of grinding machines. The men who will power the boat are training twice a day, then picking up tools and working on the boat in between their sessions. Keep in mind the America’s Cup will run on hydraulic power. So they’re not just grinding when their tacking or gybing. For the next cup, they’ll stand in a hollowed out part of the hull... they won’t even have to changes sides and run across the deck. They’ll spend the entire race with their heads down, pumping their arms. The morning I arrived, they’d just finished a 90 minute endurance grind. They’d recorded their numbers, showered off, and hit workshop floor. It’s a good thing our grinders are all pretty handy.
Next door a room with a locked door and a Top Secret warning. A sign telling visitors and staff that no photography or recording is allowed. I’ll give you a quick gizz said Grant. What did I see? I can’t tell you. I’m sorry! I can’t tell you.
But then, we walked out onto the main workshop floor... and there she was. The first full size boat for Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup defence. Sleek and elegant, in a way that only single hull sailing boats can ever be. There were two massive slots on the side for the foiling arms. The hole where the grinders will shelter. And a position up the back from where Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will run the show.
‘Think about how fast the Cats went in Bermuda’ said Grant.
‘This thing will finish a race six minutes faster.’
Later this week, the whole World will see Team New Zealand launch boat one for their America’s Cup defence. They’ll practice in it, make some adjustments and produce one more vessel. And that’ll be it.
“The cup feels like it’s a long way away’ said Grant, staring up at the new cutting edge.
“The funny thing is, it’s already been won and lost.’

This week, Catherine Raynes reviews two new exciting books for you to read.
Into the Raging Sea – Rachel Slade On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system, and cutting-edge weather forecasting could suddenly vanish—until now.
Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves—whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder—journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officers’ anguish and fear as they struggled to carry out Captain Michael Davidson’s increasingly bizarre commands, which, they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm. Taking a hard look at America's aging merchant marine fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about modern shipping—a cut-throat industry plagued by razor-thin profits and ever more violent hurricanes fueled by global warming.
A richly reported account of a singular tragedy, Into the Raging Sea takes us into the heart of an age-old American industry, casting new light on the hardworking men and women who paid the ultimate price in the name of profit.Six minutes - Petra McGovernHow can a child disappear from under the care of four playgroup mums? One Thursday morning, Lexie Parker dashes to the shop for biscuits, leaving Bella in the safe care of the other mums in the playgroup.Six minutes later, Bella is gone.Police and media descend on the tiny village of Merrigang on the edge of Canberra. Locals unite to search the dense bushland. But as the investigation continues, relationships start to fracture, online hate messages target Lexie, and the community is engulfed by fear. Is Bella's disappearance connected to the angry protests at Parliament House? What secrets are the parents hiding? And why does a local teacher keep a photo of Bella in his lounge room?What happened in those six minutes and where is Bella?The clock is ticking…
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Mike Yardley has been in Bogota, Colombia’s sprawling, high-altitude capital.
You can read his review here
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Being green at work 
Hidden power usage
Ok, we turn off the lights when you leave the room, use efficient light bulbs. But did you know, when you turn off your machines, computer, printer etc - if it is still on stand by mode it is still using as much as 15 to 20 watts? Studies of homes say standby mode uses 10% of all energy. This is the hidden price of a little more convenience. 
Paper
55 percent: the amount of water saved by producing recycled paper as compared to virgin paper. Recycled paper also takes 60-70 percent less energy to produce than paper from virgin pulp.
Do you need to print that? Is your machine set to print both sides as the default? Can you use one sided printed paper as your note paper for random thoughts and spontaneous mind maps? I kept a folder on my desk just to store this used paper.
Lunch
* Bring your own, and promote discussion of good food. * Don't eat el desko, eat with others. Introducing shared meals once a week was the best thing I did at ecostore.* If you bring food in from local cafes, take your own reusable containers like tupperware instead of the single use containers you usually get with takeaway.

As sure as eggs
In the Gardening world there are a lot of mysteries and good tips, best practices and “proven techniques” that are the biggest urban myths on the planet. Using egg shells is one of the top contenders for the mis-use of science prizeRobert Pavlis (Blogger from North America) nicely summed up the various hopeful claims around this calcium/sulphur/magnesium/potash/sodium/organic matter – containing material.
Of course, all these minerals and nutrients are very useful for plants, when they break down. Problem is: it takes a long, long time to break down an egg shell!! People that throw egg shells into compost heaps know that. The only way they work is by grinding them into a fine powder. How about using it as a mulch (looks nice – light, reflective colour), to suppress weeds and keep moisture in the soil?  
Yep – no doubt would work well, but just calculate a layer of mulch, say 2 to 3 inches thick: how many tons of egg shells will you need? And… do you live near an egg-processing plant?
Egg shells as as organic pest prevention/control? Crushed egg shells become an almost white powder that may look like diatomaceous earth (But isn’t)
Some folk believe it has the same properties as diatomaceous earth and would assist in killing beetles, caterpillars, larvae etc. The crushed egg shells are totally harmless to these creatures.
Here’s a trial I did with a snail crossing a new Stanley blade.
Blossom End Rot? Just add egg shells under the tomato plant to prevent it?
Blossom End Rot in tomatoes is said to be caused by calcium deficiency – yes and no: more precisely it’s a problem of the plant not moving the calcium to the developing tomato fruit; often caused by irregular watering. Adding egg shells is not going to remedy that!
Best thing to do with egg shells? Crush them and feed them to the birds: they can use the calcium to create their own egg when they are ready to reproduce
Some gardeners still believe that crushed eggshells are too sharp and hard for the soft feet of slugs and snails, thus providing an effective barrier for these molluscs around your lettuces etc.
Molluscs never have direct contact with the substrate they glide on: they glide on their slime!