SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021

THE TEEN BRAIN

New Zealand neuroscience educator and child development expert Nathan Wallis was in Gisborne to share tips with parents and educators on how to interact with the teenage brain. Reporter Akula Sharma went along to Gisborne Boys’ High School to hear him. eing a parent is all about eff ective “I think if we get rid of the stigma natural part of being a human. good decision makers, they have to practise communication, Nathan Wallis surrounding mental health, every parent “To know how to deal with that, how to making decisions. We see the kids who get explained to a capacity crowd at will benefi t from understanding how their respond to that, how to make your children the best outcome come from what we call BBoys’ High earlier this week. teenager’s brain works. Even the parents more resilient, I think that’s really what the backbone style of parenting.” “ e teenage brain is unique so knowing who’ve got the robust resilient teenager, are parents want.” Mr Wallis talked about three types of how to communicate with that brain is what still going to enjoy those years a whole lot Mr Wallis said when he talked about parenting — brick wall (be quiet and do the workshop is about,” he said. more if they understand what’s going on and understanding teenage brain he looked at as you are told), jelly fi sh (let’s just try and Neuroscience and mental health were co- have a better way of communicating with the eff ects of alcohol and drugs. be friends, few boundaries) and backbone relatd in teenagers. their teenager. He said parents wanted to put their (fl exible like a backbone but still gives “When we talk about mental illness we “So I think, mental health is just a part of children at least risk as possible. Most tried structure) mostly talk about anxiety and depression. the spectrum. to protect their child and make decisions for  e fact that teenage brains don’t work We have an epidemic of that, and parents “Anxiety and depression is something kids them, “which causes more harm than good”. as adults understand it, was what made it need to know how to respond. are going to experience a lot because it’s a “If you want your children to become Continued on page 2 News year’s resolution? Home Keep Subscribe delivered or informed... today read online

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From page 1 earlier during the first thousand days when you build their brain. You’ve got until 11 frustrating for parents. years of age to influence their character and “You have four brains inside your head. values. After that you just have to live with The top brain, number four (frontal cortex) them. controls the executive functions, all the “Don’t make it difficult by trying to put things such as controlling your emotions, in place a work ethic, and fight the natural seeing things from other people’s point process of adolescence. Focus on the quality of view, being rational, remembering of the relationship and all will fall into your PE gear and lunch, all of those good place.” behaviours. Basically that brain shuts down Mr Wallis said all children were neuro- for renovations, around about the middle of diverse, it was a part of being a human. adolescence. Instead of labelling children based on where “Your nine year old controls their they fell on “the spectrum”, parents must emotions better than the 16 year old. Nine encourage their child’s potential. year olds don’t have an adult brain but their “That spectrum is a human spectrum, it’s frontal cortex hasn’t shut for renovations relevant to all of us. If you’re at an extreme yet, whereas the 16 year old’s cortex is end of it you might call it autism but it shut for 90 percent of the time, hence their doesn’t mean the spectrum is irrelvant to emotions are left to soar. the person who doesn’t have autism. It’s still “That’s a reason why teenagers have relevant to you because it’s a human trait, massive rates of anxiety, depression, and Mr Wallis said he had ADHD (Attention suicide, because the brakes are on their deficit hyperactivity disorder) which meant frontal cortex. he was “neuro-atypical”. Mr Wallis said the shut down happened “I have never seen it as a disability. For me for the brain to rewire itself for maturation it’s a superpower. I know how to manage it which takes three years. But if the brain as an adult. doesn’t “shut down” it could take up to 40 “There was a problem at school when I was years. expected to be quiet, stay still, sit in a class “During this time, teenagers are immersed with 30 other people and just do as I was in their emotional brain, which is primarily told. It didn’t work very well with ADHD concerned with how things which made it hard for me feel, not with how things Don’t make it to manage it. actually are, or how you “I often say to people with think.” difficult by trying to ADHD, it is up to them to Mr Wallis said a lot of put in place a work make it a superpower or a parents assumed there was a ethic, and fight the disability through self- trick to have a teenage child control. If the child has listen to them. But it’s all natural process of self-control, then ADHD is a superpower.” about role modelling. adolescence. Focus CommuniCation key: Neuroscience educator and child development expert Nathan “If you’re constantly telling Mr Wallis said the Wallis was in Gisborne this week to deliver a workshop at Boys’ High on the teenage them what they should be on the quality of the workshop at Boys’ High brain. Picture supplied. doing, then they’ll think relationship and all was as much for educators you’re nagging them. — for its academic value you’ve got skinny legs”, then you’re not your nurturing to motivate them to study. “If you want your children will fall into place. and practical skills when listening to them. “There’s no way you can make them do it if to listen to you, then you’ve interacting with teenagers Instead say, “I know it might feel like they are not going to.” got to listen to them, children do as you do, — as for parents. you’ve got fat legs honey. We all have days not as you say.” “I think they’ll get pretty much the same where we feel bloated but honestly, you’ve ■ Whether or not one is controlling the Mr Wallis said talking to your children thing that parents will get because in lots of got beautiful legs, you’re a size 10, your legs child depends on the situation. about the use of drugs and alcohol could be ways teachers are being their parent during are perfectly fine”. There is more chance “Sometimes it can make the person feel difficult if clear boundaries are not set. the day (six hours). It all goes down to they’ll listen to your acknowledgement and incompetent when mum takes over and “It’s about having your children’s respect in communication. the defensive reaction stops. only mum can do it so the underlying a non-abusive and non-violent way. Mr Wallis said many people had message there is ‘I am useless, only Mum’s “If it’s not OK to put your wife in time out, contacted him on social media, asking him ■ If you want your teenager to listen to competent, I am incompetent’, it’s not OK to put your child in time out. to come to Gisborne. 30 seconds of your cortex, spend about 60 “Whereas a person in a trauma situation “Put clear boundaries in place, with seconds reflecting back on their emotions. and under stress — maybe they’ve just had support.” TIPS ON THE TEEN BRAIN Focus entirely on the emotion, and not on a car accident — and mum jumps in and Mr Wallis told the audience about a New correcting anything else. Then the child feels sorts that out for him, that can be a loving Year’s eve in Wanaka, “when everyone was ■ Negotiate with your child. Instead of heard and when your child feels heard there nurturing thing for a mother to do.” getting drunk” saying, “be home by eight” and he doesn’t is way more chance that they’re going to Mr Wallis said this depends on the “My son (14-15 years of age) went out have to make any decision, say, “what do listen to your advice. relationship between the two and it can with his mates, and he didn’t even ask me you think is an appropriate time for you go either way. “Does the person on the to get alcohol because he just knew, that to be home”. If it’s a Friday night he might ■ Parents can’t force studying or any other receiving end feel loved and supported?” there would not be a consideration from me say 10pm, then you can say, “Don’t be action on their children or teenagers. All because he knew those boundaries. ridiculous, 7pm”, now you negotiate for a they can do is nurture. ■ The parent- child relationship is “I think the reason he respected those was while. You might end up with 8.30 or 9pm, “What I would be doing as the parent co-dependent but it can become toxic when because of a nurturing father, who is always later than you wanted but you haven’t really is, I would be bringing them a sandwich. the parent starts enabling dysfunction in there and meeting his needs and I don’t lost. ‘I brought you a sandwich because I know the child. bully and curse him. In the long run you have a child who is you’ll be studying for that maths test and “When I buy my 14 year old a dozen cans to “He has grown up and no, he is not lazy, learning to make decisions, and to negotiate. we want to keep your brain all nice and go out with I am enablng him to become a he’s actually the opposite. He’s used to pumped up’. Then 20 minutes later if he juvenile delinquent. Parents need to realise growing up in a clean house and now that he ■ A 14 year old girl doesn’t want to go still hasn’t started studying I’ll bring him what is having a good relationship and what is an adult he keeps the house clean. to school because she thinks her legs are a bottle of water — ‘Hey I got you a drink is enabling dysfunction.” “If you get into a conflictual relationship too fat. She’s slim and a size 10 and for an of water cause I know you’ll be getting that where you’re standing over them, trying to adult with a cortex, she is being ridiculous maths study done so I want to keep you Mr Wallis said the concern should not be bully them, they lose respect for you, and — you can’t be size 10 and have fat legs, it’s hydrated and ready for it’. Or I’d say, ‘how about changing one’s child’s behaviour, it then you’ve lost your main power base.” a contradiction, in terms. But the teenager is are you going son, you need any help, is should be about changing how one reacts. Mr Wallis said parents should balance absorbed in the fact that her legs feel fat. there anything else I can do?’ You can do it “Parents often come along wanting their own expectations of their teenage The key to problem solving with a teenager through massive encouragement rather than to learn how to get their teenager to do children. is to acknowldge how they feel before nagging or punishing them. something. They think the answer is some “Adolescence is a tough time, and you jumping in to give advice. “Ultimately, you have to get them to make special way but there’s no special way. are not shaping your child’s work ethic or If you go straight to problem-solving and the decision, you can’t actually make it for “If you change what you are doing, they who they are at adolescence, it was done far discount those feelings — “don’t be silly, them. All you can do is smother them with will change their response to it.” SATurdAy, AuGuST 14, 2021 3 PROFILE ‘You can’t want us just for rugby’ Proud New Zealand-born fafine Pasifika (Pacific woman), Susana Jahnke shares with reporter Akula Sharma her experience of growing up during the Dawn Raid years in the 1970s.

ow based in Gisborne, Susana Jahnke was seven when police started banging on doors at the Ncrack of dawn, in Auckland. For two years, from 1974 to 1976, the New Zealand police were instructed by the Government to go to the homes of Pacific Islanders to check if their documents proved they were in the country legally. “My parents emigrated here from Samoa in late ’60s,” Susana says. “They didn’t know each other before then (her mother is from the island of Savai’i, and her father from the island of Upolu). They met here in New Zealand and we didn’t have a lot of family faMilY: Susana Jahnke with her parents, here. The family my parents stayed with were who are now in their late 70s. Her father has part of the church.” vivid memories of being chased by police in Newmarket during the time of the dawn Susana said as she grew older, what had raids. Picture supplied happened to her family started to make sense. She said she remembered her father Samoa during the raids. being chased by dogs in Newmarket in “It impacted hugely on our family, because Auckland, they had all these plans to work and send “He had finished work. He was walking money back home but they got deported, so down from Newmarket and dogs and police it was really difficult, were chasing him. “All the time we asked, ‘where did uncle He ran all the way to Ellerslie then on to go?’ ‘what happened?’ and the elders would tell us, ‘oh it’s none of your business really, Panmure where he was staying at the time,” a better life: Susana Jahnke came to Gisborne six years ago with her children. She she said. you don’t need to know.’ “They were trying to protect us because works in social services for the Pacific islanders’ Community Trust. She grew up in Susana said her father still remembers this South Auckland, the child of immigrant parents from Samoa, and remembers the dawn experience — it’s imprinted on his memory. they didn’t want us to feel we would be raids of the 1970s. Picture by Liam Clayton Susana and her older brother were children singled out as different.” through the dawn raid years. “It was just a Susana said the effects of always staying on people of colour — the only difference is that is what most migrant parents want for their horrible feeling, you know like fear and just the alert carried on in her life. now it’s behind closed doors. children.” trying to support each other, not knowing “Because you still believe it’s a racist place. “I think it’s up to people like me not to Susana says the community in Gisborne is what was going on.” There’s racism even today, it will always be educate them but to role model for them. If really good but some people are unware of She remembers a lot of toll calls with there. People will experience triggers. I think you want something, you get out there and other cultures in New Zealand. Samoa and other Pacific islands as the pain is less. The memory is there but the work hard, don’t just sit back and complain. “There are people in Tairawhiti who have uncertainty grew in the community. pain is slowly going away.” “That’s what I think our Pacific people have never been out of this region. They don’t “The calls were asking ‘what’s happening?’, Susana said it took her family some years done. We were given an opportunity and know there is a world beyond the Waioeka ‘what’s going on?’, and as a young child there to heal and humour kept them strong. invitation to come here and work, we worked Gorge and so they are scared of other was a lot of fear and hiding.” “We have a big sense of humour — our hard and then we were told to get back, to go ethnicities. Susana said the atmosphere in the culture is to laugh about things even in away.” It’s just ignorance, the fear of not knowing community and her house became extra the worst times. My dad jokes about his Susana said coming to Tairawhiti from — people fear what they don’t know so they cautious and silent. experience now, he says ‘Oh my gosh, lucky I South Auckland was especially hard on her make judgements.” “We weren’t allowed to talk. People were was fit and I was sober, that I was able to get children. Susana said she had first-hand experience saying ‘Don’t talk to this person’ and ‘where away from the police, and jump high fences. “From South Auckland, (a predominantly of ignorance when people couldn’t say her are you going’. We had to be mindful of If I was overweight and drunk I would multicultural/multiethnic area) to Gisborne daughter’s name correctly. where we were going. People would say ‘we definitely be caught’. We laugh about it now was different for them in terms of the “My daughter Suatino is a bull rider could pick you up’ or sometimes four of us but at the time, it wasn’t funny.” community. They felt like they don’t fit and competes as a show jumper and the would walk to get our friends.” Susana said she was proud of Prime because they are a mix of Samoan-German/ rodeo and equestrian announcers couldn’t Susana went to Yendarra Primary School Minister Jacinda Ardern going through the Irish.” pronounce her name properly. in Otara and Ferguson Intermediate School ceremony of ‘ifoga’( a public act of self- Susana said her children did not really “People in the Tairawhiti community before going on to Otahuhu College. humiliation — accompanied by the gift of connect with their culture and she felt should take the time to ask ‘how do There were two groups of teachers, she said fine mats) and when she made an official responsible to educate them about it. you pronounce your name’. I guess its — one supportive and other not. apology to tagata pasifika for the Dawn “It comes back on me to teach my children unconscious bias.” “When we were at school, some teachers Raids. their heritage and they learn it at home, not Susana said her daughters were mocked by were supportive and some would ask us The ceremony took place in Auckland on in school. It’s more authentic when it’s at the word ‘coconut’ (‘coconut’ is a derogatory questions like, ‘who stays at your house?’, August 1. home because I model that to them. term used to describe Pacific Islanders) in ‘How many people stay there?’ ‘Are they your “The formal process is really significant in “In terms of identity, they know who they Tairawhiti. aunties and uncles?’ our Samoan culture.” are. I have told them, ‘No matter where you “I say to my kids, ‘that’s right you are a “Why would they ask questions? Susana said for her the apology did not go in the world be proud of your heritage’ coconut, hard on the outside soft on the What were they wanting to do with that need to have any element of compensation. and that’s the value they have. inside’, I try to turn the negative around and information — that was the part we were “The whole acknowledgment and apology is “Most of all, they will have that strength make it positive for them.” worried about. not about ‘OK, you’ve done this so you have from me, because as a Pacific Islander Susana said she believed the change is “The good thing about tagata pasifika to give us this’. Don’t pay us back. It’s a nice woman, I am proud of what I have achieved coming sooner than later. (people from Pacific Islands) is that we can gesture that scholarships are being offered and what I am continuing to do in the “There’s a browning happening,a brown speak our language and we would talk in but for me, it’s about putting something to community, and how I serve the people. wave which has always been here but now it’s Samoan. We’d say ‘don’t tell them anything, rest. It’s acknowledging people were treated “Even after all the obstacles which my starting to surge if they ask us who’s at home, uncles and like dogs and our people were running for parents faced, I am one of the first generation “We are here, we contribute to society, we aunties, don’t tell them’ ‘just say it’s Mum their lives, they were fearing for their lives.” of Pacific Islanders born in New Zealand to pay our taxes and now we are saying, ‘you and Dad’ or ‘just don’t say anything at all’.” Susana said she believed even today, there attend university (University of Auckland can’t want us just for rugby, we have other Susana’s uncles were deported back to is a sense of hate towards immigrants and and Manukau Institute of Technology). This talents and gifts to offer’.” 4 THE GISBORNE HERALD GARDENING

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41251-01 SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 2021 5 FOOD Yummylicious chutneys

Chutney is a great way to spice up a meal. Preeti Maheshwari BEETROOT CHUTNEY CARROT CHUTNEY says it is an important part INGREDIENTS Prep Time: 10 mins • 1 beetroot (peeled and roughly chopped) Cook Time: 15 mins of Indian cuisine and adds • A handful of raisins another depth of fl avour to a • 2 dried red chilli (deseeded) INGREDIENTS • 6-8 tbsp white vinegar • 1½ – 2 tbsp oil delicious dish. Chutney can be • 2-3 tsp sugar • 1 cup carrots — grated • Salt to taste • 8-10 shallots made out of a variety of fruits, • 4 cloves garlic vegetables and herbs, and is METHOD • 2-3 green chillies or as per taste Take beetroot, chillies and raisins in a bowl and soak • 2.5cm piece ginger a good way to use ingredients them in white vinegar for 15 minutes. • 1 tbsp lemon juice Put all the soaked ingredients in a blender and grind • Salt to taste that might otherwise go to them to a smooth paste. Transfer chutney to a large waste. bowl. FOR THE SEASONING Add sugar and salt. Mix everything well and the 1 tsp oil chutney is ready to serve. 1 tsp mustard seeds CORIANDER CHUTNEY A sprig of curry leaves (optional)

INGREDIENTS COCONUT CHUTNEY PREPARATION • a packet of coriander (100 grams) Wash, peel the skin and grate carrots. Peel the • 1 green chilli or to taste INGREDIENTS skin of ginger and chop it. Keep it aside. Peel • ½ inch ginger • 1.5 cups grated coconut (190 grams), use fresh coconut shallots and cut into half, if it is big. • ¼ tsp roasted cumin powder • 1-2 green chillies roughly chopped, adjust to taste • ⅛ tsp chaat masala (optional) • 2.5cm ginger piece, roughly chopped METHOD • A pinch of black pepper • Salt to taste Heat oil in a pan, add, garlic, ginger, green chilli • ½ tsp salt or to taste • ¾- 1 cup water (to be used as needed) and saute until the rawness of the shallots goes and • 2 tsps lemon juice • Tempering it turns pink. • ½ tsp sugar • 1 tbsp oil Add grated carrot and salt. Saute it for two • ¼ cup plain yogurt • ½ tsp mustard seeds minutes. • 2 dried red chillies broken Add lemon juice and saute until the carrots are METHOD • 10-12 curry leaves (if you have it) well cooked, stirring from time to time. If required Remove all the hard stems/stalks from the you may add 1-2 tbsp of water. Avoid adding too coriander and wash the coriander. METHOD much water. Grind together coriander, green chili, ginger, To a blender add coconut, green chillies, ginger, salt Once the carrots are soft, switch off the heat and cumin powder, chaat masala, black pepper and and water. let it cool. salt. Add yogurt to the blender. Blend it all Grind to a smooth paste. Transfer chutney to a large Put the cooled mixture in a blender and grind together to a smooth consistency. bowl. it into a smooth paste with a little water.Transfer Add lemon juice and sugar. For the tempering, heat oil in a small pan on medium chutney to a large bowl. If your chutney has a runny consistency, you heat. Once the oil is hot, add the mustard seeds. Let Heat a teaspoon of oil, add mustard seeds, when may add a teaspoon of roasted peanuts and blend them pop and then add red chillies and curry leaves, stir it splutters, add curry leaves. Pour the seasoning it with the chutney to make it thicker. and remove the pan from the heat. over the chutney. Mix well and enjoy. Transfer chutney to a large bowl and refrigerate. Pour the tempering over the bowl of chutney, stir and Tips: You can substitute shallots with one big Use the chutmey as needed. serve. onion but shallots add more taste to the chutney.

6 THE GISBORNE HERALD TRAVEL

TINY VILLAGE: The fairy houses were individually made with love by Maggie Fenton. A SPECIAL P AT WHAK

Sophie Rishworth drives through the W a garden delight in the Eastern Bay o hakatane is one of Tairawhiti’s closest neighbours. It has an estimated population of 37,100, and takes 2 hours Wand 45 minutes to get there through the wild Waioeka Gorge. En route you will drive through three towns that start with O -- Opotiki, Ohiwa and Ohope. The gorge has a bit of a bad rap because of the winding road’s effect on some tummies. But this stretch of road has beauty in its seams, a wildness that reflects how New Zealand used to be and we counted at least 12 waterfalls on the drive through. As soon as you drive down the hill to Whakatane, if you’ve come in through the beachside settlement of Ohope, you feel a bit more “connected”. After being in the splendid isolation of Gizzy, suddenly you have access to 20 different towns all within a one hour THE SECRET GARDEN: Maggie Fenton (left), and Maria Hyland (right) with Maria’s granddaughter Olive Bunbury (left), and radius. Sylvie Whitworth, at the entrance to Maggie’s Funtastic Garden’s Western Town. Pictures by Sophie Rishworth The i-Site there reports domestic tourists are keeping them busy during New Zealand’s time of closed borders. Something off the beaten track but well worth a REMEMBER THIS CAR?: look, and you do have to book, is Maggie’s Funtastic Olive Bunbury and Sylvie Garden at 34 McCracken Road, RD2, Whakatane. Whitworth sit in an The prices are ridiculously cheap — $5 for adults, old-school car that only and a gold coin donation for kids. It is basically to their parents remember — it’s a copy of The cover the paint and plywood for Maggie’s future Flintstones’ car from creations. the popular TV cartoon It is set among sprawling gardens, with pathways originally broadcast that lead you through a child-size western town, in the 1960s. The flower varieties and trees you have never seen before. Flintstones was the most As the adults enjoy the gardens the kids run ahead financially successful and to see the pirate ship, the plane, the time travel longest-running network animated television machine and the fairy woodland and dinosaur series for three decades, section, And that’s not naming it all. until The Simpsons, Maggie’s mother and father, Joan and Tracy Fenton, which debuted in late had a dairy farm and a pig farm on the property in the 1989, overtook it. ’60s. Maggie said her mother started the garden with “a few gladdys”. “She also had a plant nursery for about 30 years called Easy Grow Nursery. To this day I still have people who remember her.” Her mother’s original garden has been transformed. LAND AHOY: The pirate ship is a very popular attraction. It was built by Maggie and has stashes of gold, and a plank.

TINY VILLAGE: The fairy houses were individually made with love by Maggie Fenton. AL PLACE T WHAKATANE h the Waioeka Gorge and finds ay of Plenty. Maggie always wanted a pirate ship and a Western town and today she has both, built by hand and sprawling over the second generation garden, with twisty paths that take you from one garden delight to the next. The plants themselves are fascinating. There is even an old plane for kids to jump in — a nod to Maggie’s past. In 1981 she qualified as a pilot. When asked what kind of pilot she was, Maggie says, ”not a very good one — I crashed in 1983.” She was piloting a small aircraft to fly three hunters in to Te Urewera. The aircraft went down but passengers and pilot survived with just a few cuts and bruises, and a night in the bush. The next day they were rescued by the air force. “I don’t waste time buying a Lotto ticket. I believe in fate and think that was my luck.” In 2005 Maggie switched to helicopters and became an instructor until the company she was working for went bust. Today she uses her intelligence and attention to detail to create this magical garden. Maggie loves Pinterest, getting inspiration from the posts. She builds using fibre glass and/or plywood, and completes the job with paints. VROOOM: We’re not just talking small fairy houses — In a nod to Maggie’s past although those exist as well — but huge dinosaurs, as a pilot, a a time travel machine and a pirate ship. two-seater Maggie loves seeing children having fun on her plane was creations. During orange season you can pick your built in the own, and there is a picnic area. perfect size for Next on her list are pedal cars for kids to ride on kids to hop in and “fly”. roads she will create. She hosts birthday parties for children, and other family celebrations. “I’m constantly adding to it. I want to make a monster tunnel and where kids can go through — little bit scary but not too scary.” The garden is just 20 minutes from Whakatane. Make a day of it and take your togs to visit Awakeri Hot Springs just down the road.

• Call Maggie on 027 272 9828 to make a booking to visit this extremely fun garden in Whakatane. 8 THE GISBORNE HERALD COLUMN Conquest of Americas ‘inevitable’

riday, August 13, is the 500th writer’s novel “Civilisations”, which started sails all the way down the coast and up The first generations anniversary of the Spanish winning prizes as soon as it was published in the Amazon River, finally conquering and of local victims die in conquest of Mexico. The capital of 2019, has now been translated into English intermarrying with a native Amerindian swathes, but by 500 years Fthe Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, and offers an alternate history in which the group. later their descendants fell to the invaders after a long siege, and Incas and Aztecs conquered Europe. It’s This is the key plot device, because this have all the same became Mexico City instead. It was a major fiction, of course, but it makes you think. stray Viking group not only gives the locals immunities as Europeans. historical event, still mourned by millions Binet starts 1000 years ago with the Viking the technique for making iron tools and So when Columbus shows and celebrated by millions more than five voyages to “Vinland” (Newfoundland), weapons. It also gives the native Americans up in the Caribbean in centuries after it happened. But was it an interesting historical fact that had no all the Eurasian quick-killer diseases: 1492, the local people are by Gwynne actually inevitable? known impact on the rest of the world. But smallpox, cholera, influenza, bubonic plague, as well armed as his crew, Dyer Laurent Binet doesn’t think so. The French in Binet’s version a single band of Vikings typhoid, etc. they don’t fall ill, and they eat the European explorers for lunch (metaphorically, of course). 1503 Then an exiled Inca ex-monarch in Cuba has ACROSS 50 Skyward (2) DOWN 40 Tranquil (4) his men reverse-engineer 1 Severe (5) 51 Rain moat (anag)(8) 2 Reproduced (6) 45 Conflict with (5) Columbus’s ships, builds 4 Head straight towards 55 Earthenware beer mug (5) 3 Weary (5) 46 Mediate (7) some of his own, and (4,1,7,3) 58 Sworn statement (9) 5 Throb (4) 47 Lose colour (4) sets out to Europe to 14 Distress light (5) 59 Trampers (6) 6 Sincere (7) 48 Veined (anag)(6) see what he can conquer 15 Left over (5) 60 Got away (7) 7 Window-shop (6) 49 Banquet (5) or steal. There follows a 16 Temperature-regulating 61 Take to court (3) 8 Penetrate (5) 50 Inaudible (7) picaresque story in which a band of 300 Inca device (10) 63 Toss (4) 9 Chanted (7) 52 Heat-proofing (10) “conquistadors” first overthrows the King of 17 Hot drink (5) 64 Feel remorse (6) 10 Engrave with acid (4) 53 Acclimatised (7) Spain and then, modestly reinforced by other 19 Drops of condensation (3) 65 Total (3) 11 Live in (6) 54 Seas (6) Inca adventurers, takes over Italy, Germany 20 Jewellery item (7) 66 Creating the effect or 12 Bow-legged (5) 55 Make jump (7) and the Netherlands as well. 21 Paper for dailies (9) appearance of (10) 13 Linking (7) 56 Ability (5) The message seems to be that native 22 Indifference (6) 68 Hypothesis (6) 14 True (7) 57 Weapons (4) 25 Sure thing (9) 69 Of ruddy complexion (6) 18 Coach (10) 62 Specks of soot (5) Americans, given the opportunity, 27 Pandemonium (6) 71 Courage in adversity (9) 23 Fulcrum (5) 67 Rock (7) would have been slightly nicer and more 28 Set (6) 76 Heavy gun (6) 24 Small axe (7) 68 Pair (7) enlightened imperialists than the Europeans 33 Diligently thorough (10) 77 Pigheaded (9) 26 Do like (7) 70 Construct again (7) who filled that role in the real history. Which 35 Signal (3) 79 Pass sentence on (7) 27 Separation (5-2) 72 Projecting rock (7) may be true, but is not very relevant, since 36 Boat weight (6) 81 Polite address for man (3) 29 Long dry spell (7) 73 Miniaturised tree (6) the whole scenario is entirely incredible. 37 Heart (4) 84 Sample (5) 30 Skin disorder (6) 74 Grab (6) Not much in history is inevitable, but the 39 Intention (3) 85 Of no real importance or 31 Loose hillside stones 75 Board (6) conquest of the Americas was. It might have 41 Punishment (7) relevance (10) (5) 76 Hunger for (5) been done by the Chinese or the Muslims 42 Adorn (6) 86 Fill with horror (5) 32 Natural fabric (6) 78 Entice (5) rather than by the Europeans, but whichever 43 Alienated (9) 87 Film (5) 34 Storage building (4) 80 Extent downward (5) of the older Eurasian civilisations reached 44 Knock over (5) 88 Just beaten (6,2,3,4) 36 Accumulate over time (5) 82 Seaweed (4) the Americas first was bound to supplant the 89 Wobbly (5) 38 Senior tribe member (5) 83 Planet (4) 45 Happy-go-lucky (8) local, younger civilisations. 12345678910111213The problem was the sheer biological vulnerability of “New World” populations to 14 people coming from the “Old World”, and Binet’s device of having Greenland Vikings 15 16 17 accidentally bestow immunity on the New 18 19 Worlders 500 years before Columbus just doesn’t work. The then new Greenland 20 21 22 settlements were so far from Europe, so small, and so rarely visited that they lacked 23 24 lasting immunity themselves. Moreover, their explorations in 25 26 27 28 29 Newfoundland and around the Gulf of St. Lawrence were undertaken in the hope of 30 31 32 finding some valuable resource that they 33 34 35 36 37 38 could trade with Iceland and Norway in return for all the things they could not 39 40 produce themselves. As soon as the Greenland Vikings found 41 42 43 something that filled the bill closer to home — walrus and narwhal ivory from Disko Bay 44 on Greenland’s north-west coast — they 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 shut the Newfoundland base down and stopped sailing westward. The idea that they 55 56 57 could ever have reached the Caribbean, let alone the Amazon, is preposterous. 58 59 60 The New World’s population in 1500 was probably around 50 million people, mostly 61 62 living in the big but relatively new mass 63 64 65 66 civilisations. That population fell by about 90 percent 67 in the following century. So many farms were abandoned that the global temperature 68 69 70 71 72 dropped (the “Little Ice Age”) as the forests grew back and absorbed enormous amounts 73 74 75 of carbon dioxide. 76 77 78 79 80 What killed those 45 million missing people? Maybe one million died at the hands 81 82 83 of the European invaders, but the vast majority fell victim to the Eurasian quick- 84 85 86 killer diseases. If the Chinese had crossed the Pacific and reached the Americas first, 87 the result would have been exactly the same. 88 89 Those civilisations were doomed. Saturday, auguSt 14, 2021 9 TELEVISION on tv this weekend

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Saturday, August 14 ▶ Gisborne Ballet Group Dancing Competitions (to Aug 15). Watch local dancers perform tap, hip-hop, modern and ballet. War Memorial eatre, 159 Bright St, 6.30pm. Cash-only tickets from the venue; session price: $5A, $2Ch, entire weekend concession pass: $15A & $5Ch, programme $5. ▶ Troops of Doom. Come along for rock and metal covers. Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 9pm, $10 door sales, R18. Sunday, August 15 ▶ Gisborne Runners and Walkers Club. Join in for a 7km walk, a cuppa and chat. Meet: EIT Submit photos: www.gisborneherald.co.nz/photo-of-week, or e-mail: [email protected] staff room, Derby St, 8am or txt 027 900 9622. By submitting a photo, the entrant agrees to allow The Gisborne Herald Co Ltd permission to use the image now and in the future for printed material and online. Where possible The Herald will make contact fi rst. ▶ Gizzy Trail Run Series: Sponge Bay Farm. A fun family-friendly course for all abilities. ▶ Gisborne Hibernian Club Indoor Bowls. 9am, $5. Details: Raewynne ph 027 256 4351 Get a worm farm started in your backyard and 81 Sponge Bay Rd, 9.15am check-in, 10am New/existing players come along for a roll-up. or [email protected] minimise food waste. Tairawhiti Environment start. Register: Michelle ph 021 271 5171, Gisborne Intermediate School Hall, ▶ Tairawhiti Menzshed, 9am-2pm. See Aug 17. Centre, 386 Palmerston Rd, 11am-midday. cash only on the day; $15A, $5 7-19s, 156 Roebuck Rd, 7-9.30pm, $3 incl supper. ▶ Te Pihinga: Little Sprouts. Fun sing-along Register: ph 867 4708 or Facebook, $5 pay in free 6/u & Harriers members. Details: Wally ph 868 0951. and read for ages 2-5. HB Williams Memorial advance to 38-9023-0158186-00. ▶ Gisborne Ballet Group Dancing ▶ Fun Dancing Gisborne. Modern, sequence Library, 34 Bright St, 10.30am, free. ▶ Tennis for players of all skill levels. Competitions, 9.30am. See Aug 14. and social ballroom. St Andrew’s Church ▶ Mahjong Club, 1pm. See Aug 17. Ormond Tennis Club, Hill Rd, Ormond, ▶ Gisborne Petanque Ladies Singles. Join in Hall, 176 Cobden St, learner class 7.30-8pm, ▶ Build-a-Band. Let’s jam. Smash Palace Bar, 2-4pm, ph 862 5741 or 862 5856. for round-robin games. No experience needed. advanced fi nishing 8-10pm, $5 door sales plus 24 Banks St, 7-11pm, free entry, R18. ▶ Heartland Championship Rugby, Kahutia Bowling Club, 165 Cobden St, 9.30am, supper, ph 867 0074, [email protected] ▶ Gisborne Caledonian Society Practice. Poverty Bay vs King Country. Rugby Park, $5 each on the day. Register in advance at Social, modern and sequence dancing. St Childers Rd, 2.30pm. tinyurl.com/eme5393p or Graeme ph Tuesday, August 17 Mark’s Church Hall, 776 Childers Rd, 7.30- ▶ Heartland Championship Rugby, 027 204 8053. 9.30pm, $5. Details: Pat ph 021 049 7148. Ngati Porou East Coast vs Buller. Whakarua ▶ Junior Badminton Tournament. Come ▶ Gisborne Senior Citizens: Indoor Bowls. ▶ Gisborne Camera Club. Photography Park, Ruatoria, 2.30pm. along and watch u/13, u/15 and u/19 youth Come along, have a roll-up and meet others. enthusiasts welcome. Blind Foundation ▶ Gisborne Aerial Silks: Showcase. compete in single/double matches. Badminton Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, 9-11.30am, Rooms, 39 Grey St, 7.30pm. Details: Local aerialists perform their own routines. Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd, from 9.30am. $3, ph Arnold 868 5529. [email protected] Gisborne Gymnastics Club, Electrinet Sports ▶ Gisborne Sceptic Group, 11am. Details: ▶ Tairawhiti Menzshed. Work in a fully- Centre, 537 Aberdeen Rd, 5.30-6.30pm, koha Topics and venue ph 867 3715 or 867 7122. equipped woodwork or carpentry workspace. entry at the door. ere will be an opportunity ▶ Lions Express Train Rides. Take the kids Tairawhiti Menzshed, cnr Parkinson & Innes Friday, August 20 for spectators to have a go; wear comfortable for a train ride around the playground. Starts St, 9am-2pm. Details: ph/txt 022 465 0396. ▶ Gisborne Senior Citizens: Indoor Bowls clothes without zips. near Gisborne Wainui Lions Junior Cycle Park, ▶ He Kakano: Little Seeds. A fun sing-along & Housie. Have fun and meet others. Senior Centennial Marine Dr, 11am-3pm, $2. and read for under 2s. HB Williams Memorial Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, Bowls 9-11.30am, ▶ Gisborne Caledonian Society: Annual ▶ Gisborne Country Music Club. Singers and Library, 34 Bright St, 10.30am, free. $3 and Housie 1-4pm, ph Arnold 868 5529. Daff odil Fundraising. Dress in yellow or green musicians welcome. Blind Foundation Rooms, ▶ Mahjong Club. Enjoy a friendly fellowship. ▶ Te Aka Rangatahi: e Teen Vine. Writers and support the Cancer Society; modern 39 Grey St, 1-4pm, $3 incl afternoon tea, Gisborne Town & Country Women’s Club, Hub for ages 14-18; collaborate, be inspired, sequence and social dancing with supper. ph Flo 867 7637 or fl [email protected] 42 Emily St, 1pm, ph Liz 281 0187. and develop writing in any format or genre. St Mark’s Church Hall, 776 Childers Rd, ▶ Classical/Jazz Music Meld. Gisborne Civic ▶ Dune Restoration Seminar, Uawa Factory HB Williams Memorial Library, 34 Bright St, 7.30-11pm. Orchestra and John Mackill’s Jazz Collective Road Native Nursery, 51 Tauwhareparae Rd, 3.30pm, free. ▶ Eagles Tribute: Motel California. present a concert featuring music from various Tolaga Bay, 1-3pm. See Aug 15. ▶ Gisborne Boardriders Winter Fundraiser- Celebrating one of the great country-rock classical and jazz composers. Holy Trinity ▶ Patutahi Badminton Club. All welcome. Beer Tasting Competition. Join in for an acts in music; from Tequila Sunrise to Witchy Church Hall, 70 Derby St, 2.30-4.30pm. Patutahi Hall, Biggs St, 7.30pm, ph 862 7783. auction of donated goods, food and beer Woman. Dome Room, PBC, 38 Childers Rd, Tickets: $15A, $10Snr/student at the door. tasting. Wainui Surf Club, 11 Moana Rd, 8pm, R18. Tickets+Bfee: $30 at ▶ Dune Restoration Seminar (Aug 16 & 17). Wednesday, August 18 Okitu, 6pm. Eftpos bar. eventfi nda.co.nz or e Aviary (cash only). Coastal scientist Jim Dahm will share his ▶ Fifties Forward. Low-impact aerobics class ▶ New York Nights. A cabaret-style themed ▶ T-Bonez. Come along for a one-man show knowledge and experience in the management for all fi tness levels. YMCA Stadium, concert for fi rst-time to seasoned performers. that gets the dance fl oor cranking. Smash of coastal erosion and dune restoration. 447 Childers Rd, 9.30am, $4, fi rst class free. Evolution eatre Company, 75 Disraeli St, Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 9pm, free entry, R18. Wainui Beach School Hall, 2.30-4.30pm, free. ▶ Gisborne Proactive Club. Retired persons 7pm, koha at the door. Register to sing: interest group. Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club, evolutiontheatre.org.nz Sunday, August 22 Monday, August 16 190 Derby St, 9.30am, free. ▶ Rockshop Bandquest. Come along and ▶ Gisborne Runners and Walkers Club, 8am. ▶ Badminton Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd. ▶ Mainly Music. A fun music group for support young local musicians. War Memorial See Aug 15. New players welcome and rackets available. pre-schoolers. St Andrew’s Community Centre, eatre, 159 Bright St, 7pm. Tickets+Bfee: ▶ Gisborne Petanque Junior Singles. Social morning, 9-11.30am, $4, ph 867 2584. 176 Cobden St, 9.45am, $4/Fam. Details: $20A & $10 students at ticketek.co.nz or For ages 9-10; join in for games and a chance to Kiwi Badminton; Yr 3-7 players, 4.30-5.30pm, Trish ph 867 2789 or 868 5513. Gisborne i-Site, 209 Grey St, ph 868 6139. win a trophy/medal. No experience needed. $5, ph 027 350 9482. Gisborne Badminton ▶ Hot Shots Badminton. For Yr 7-13 players/ ▶ Bridge Street Blues Band. Come along for Kahutia Bowling Club, 165 Cobden St, Club; Yr 12-13 & seniors, 7-9pm, ph all abilities; fi tness, social games and fun. blues, rock and pop. Gisborne Cosmopolitan 9.30am, $5 each on the day. Register in 027 253 1062. Wear sports shoes. Rackets available. Club, Boulevard, 190 Derby St, 8pm. advance at tinyurl.com/eme5393p or Graeme ▶ Spud-in-a-Bucket. Collect your bucket of Badminton Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd, ▶ e Wairoa Invasion: Blurred Lines & ph 027 204 8053. spuds and get growing. Alzheimers Gisborne/ attend one session only; 5pm or 6.30pm, $7. Hybrid Blues. Come along for blues music ▶ Lions Express Train Rides, 11am-3pm. Tairawhiti, Gate 2, Gisborne Hospital, Details: Linda ph 027 264 8660 or galore. Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 8pm, See Aug 15. 421 Ormond Rd, Mon/Wed/Fri 9am-4pm, [email protected] free entry. ▶ Vintage Car Club of NZ: Daff odil Rally for $10/entry. Details: ph 867 0752, ▶ Basic Beeswax Wraps Workshop. Learn Cancer. For all ages and vehicle types; come [email protected] how to make cotton wraps; a great alternative Saturday, August 21 along and join a fun trip to Tolaga Bay for ▶ Dune Restoration Seminar (& Aug 17), to plastic wrap. Tairawhiti Environment ▶ Gisborne parkrun. A 5km run or walk. afternoon tea. Meet: from midday at the Tairawhiti Environment Centre, Centre, 386 Palmerston Rd, 5.30-6.30pm. Meet near Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club, Roebuck Rd/Childers Rd carpark for a 1pm 386 Palmerston Rd, 10am-midday. See Aug 15. Register: ph 867 4708 or Facebook, $10 pay 280E Grey St, 7.45-10am. Register: start, $10/vehicle. All proceeds donated to the ▶ Kaiti Exercise Class. Over 60s strength in advance to 38-9023-0158186-00. parkrun.co.nz/register local Cancer Society. Details: Graeme ph and balance exercises. Dunblane Conference ▶ Gisborne Floral Art Club. Come along and ▶ Tairawhiti Coffi n Club. Design and 027 284 5844 or Rodney ph 021 161 0455. Room, 107 Iranui Rd, 10.30am, Noel ph learn fl oral art techniques. Kahutia Bowling decorate a personalised coffi n; constructed by ▶ Gisborne Orphans Club Concert. 027 314 3893, [email protected] Club, 165 Cobden St, 7-9pm. a joiner. BCR Joinery, 522 Gladstone Rd, All welcome. Senior Citizens Hall, 30 Grey St, ▶ Bowlers’ Club: 500. Come along and have 9am-midday. Details: [email protected] 1.30pm, free, smoko provided, ph Mike some fun. Learners welcome. Poverty Bay ursday, August 19 ▶ Tairawhiti Menzshed, 9am-3pm. See Aug 17. 867 5247. Bowling Club, 111 Ormond Rd, 1-4pm, $2 incl ▶ Bridge & Rummikub Club. Enjoy a friendly ▶ Gisborne Farmers’ Market. Locally-grown ▶ St Andrew’s Concert Series. A performance smoko, ph Tony 863 3468. fellowship. Gisborne Town & Country produce, fl owers and seedlings. Cnr Stout & by Christian singer-songwriter Peter Shaw ▶ Gisborne Senior Citizens: 500. Play cards Women’s Club, 42 Emily St, 9am, ph 281 0187. Fitzherbert Sts, 9.30am-12.30pm. Details: with his own works. St Andrew’s Church, and meet others. Senior Citizens Hall, ▶ Casual Badminton Group. Come along for gisbornefarmersmarket.co.nz 176 Cobden St, 2pm, koha/donation for 30 Grey St, 1-4pm, $3, ph Arnold 868 5529. a game. Badminton Centre, 134 Roebuck Rd, ▶ Intro to Vermicomposting & Bokashi. Family Works Guardian Angels.