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No full textKapahaka meets hip hop.
Collaboration between Kingi Kiriona and Jeremy Mayall.
Performed by Te Iti Kahurangi.
Finalist for 2017 APRA MAIOHA AWARD
Modal shift for New Zealand shippers for various policy scenarios
Get PDFIncreasing transport problems caused by high dependency on road transport, has brought us to investigate various policy scenarios to promote a greater use of rail and coastal transport for freight transport in New Zealand. For this, we examined how factors associated with freight transport (e.g. cost and reliability) influenced the transport decisions of shippers with various operation types. Online stated preference surveys were developed and mixed-logit models were estimated from the data provided by 233 shippers. These models were used to calculate the base mode shares, and subsequently, to test various hypothetical policy options for promoting greater use of rail and coastal transport. The results show that a substantial improvement in reliability of both the rail and coastal freight transport services will lead to a substantial decline in the share of road transport, especially for shippers with short-haul and long-haul operations, transporting either large or small shipment volume
Choral performance of "Beauty In Music" with the North Shore Camerata Chamber Choir, Takapuna, August 19, 2017.
No full textPerforming as a member of the Camerata Chamber Choir provided excellent opportunities for the in-depth exploration of the composition and orchestration techniques employed by some of the great composers of choral music.
The program conducted by Jenny Firth included: Fauré’s Requiem (with soloists Kelly Harris (soprano) and Arthur Adams-Close (baritone) and Janet Gibbs on organ accompaniment.
The repertoire included beautiful music by Mozart, Parry, Stanford, and Harris, including Beati quorum via, Faire is the heaven and My Soul, there is a country, plus works by the more modern composers Morten Lauridsen, John Taverner and Ola Gjeilo, as well as earlier masters like Victoria and Byrd
New Zealand Photobook of the Year 2017 - Commended Finalist
No full textMimetic started out as being a stripped back sampler and playful reference to the artist’s previous publication, From Certainty to Doubt. It was decided to expand the scope and introduce some of Purdom’s process/research as an alternate journey within the publication, along with the addition of new work.
There are three different stocks in the publication. The coated stock being a metaphor for the ‘final selected, articulated work of the artist’ — an idea that is fluid and contentious as some of the photographer’s process work ends up on these pages.
The Cyber Green stock references the outrageous notion of the fluorescent camouflage vest or the absurd synthetic qualities that manufactured ‘organic’ forms imitate (the plastic leaf or faux rock) or the garishly dyed sprayed-on grass seeds.
The uncoated stock and reduced format was purely about the random and poetic quality of research and artistic process. These pages do not have folios and the publication is unbound, suggesting they can be re-organised — referencing the creative process of research and its interplay with the finished work. Indeed, these pages also contain some of the artist’s earlier finished work, causing the viewer to think about the role of self-referencing and the artist’s own habitual exploration of memesis. The loose-leaf quality of these pages also reminded us of the artist’s research: file boxes were supplied to us filled with photocopied military documents, newspaper and magazine clippings, Google location maps, Polaroids, test prints, inkjet prints of downloaded content and other such ephemera that influenced the aesthetic and conceptual direction of the project.
The cover is emblazoned with an ISBN number which mimics the pseudo-science and categorisation of the military content that the artist procured during his research. It playfully manipulates the conventional expectation that the photographic content should be represented in some form on the publication cover
Source-tracking cadmium in New Zealand agricultural soils: a stable isotope approach
Get PDFCadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal, which is accumulated by plants and animals and therefore enters the human food chain. In New Zealand (NZ), where Cd mainly originates from the application of phosphate fertilisers, stable isotopes can be used to trace the fate of Cd in soils and potentially the wider environment due to the limited number of sources in this setting. Prior to 1997, extraneous Cd added to soils in P fertilisers was essentially limited to a single source, the small pacific island of Nauru. Analysis of Cd isotope ratios (ɛ114/110Cd) in Nauru rock phosphate, pre-1997 superphosphate fertilisers, and Canterbury (Lismore Stony Silt Loam) topsoils (Winchmore Research Farm) has demonstrated their close similarity with respect to ɛ114/110Cd.
We report a consistent ɛ114/110Cd signature in fertiliser-derived Cd throughout the latter twentieth century. This finding is useful because it allows the application of mixing models to determine the proportions of fertiliser-derived Cd in the wider environment. We believe this approach has good potential because we also found the ɛ114/110Cd in fertilisers to be distinct from unfertilised Canterbury subsoils. In our analysis of the Winchmore topsoil series (1949-2015), the ɛ114/110Cd remained quite
constant following the change from Nauru to other rock
phosphate sources in 1997, despite a corresponding
shift in fertiliser ɛ114/110Cd at this time.
We can conclude that to the present day, the Cd in topsoil at Winchmore still mainly originates from historical phosphate fertilisers. One implication of this finding is that the current applications of P fertiliser are not resulting in further Cd accumulation. We aim to continue our research into Cd fate, mobility and transformations in the NZ environment by applying Cd isotopes in soils and aquatic environments across the country
Postcard from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the geopolitics of representation
No full textMy postcard depicts a group of bronze figurines dated from the early-mid Holocene. they are votives (gifts) offered to deities, excavated from rocky outcrops known as peak sanctuaries in Kythera, Greece.
As we enter an era of possible destabilisation of earth systems we might ask what lessons, insights and inspirations these objects offer for any current social renegotiation with the geologic? The answer may be found in the scale of these figures, testifying to a material existence vastly exceeding the measure of the human and the channeling of excess energies as something in the nature of a rift bridging offering or gift
Reflective practice: Voices from the field
No full textThe aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. It presents a series of empirical case studies illustrating many different ways of implementing the reflective practice cycle, and how they can be researched by practitioners and academics. Increasing attention is given by teachers and teacher educators to the construct and implementation of reflective practice as a form of bottom-up, autonomous professional development. The aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. Written by international academics, these studies show how reflection can be interpreted in different cultural contexts. The book concludes with a discussion by Anne Burns of the implications of these case studies for action research. It is hoped that the book will enable practitioners, and their mentors, to consider how best to implement reflective procedures in the specific contexts in which they work. Chapters in the book include:
• Lesson planning: The fundamental platform for reflecting for action
• Reflecting on action: Lesson transcripts
• Pair discussions for reflecting on action: Stimulated recall
• Observation leading to reflection
This book will be key reading for researchers in the fields of teacher education.
https://www.routledge.com/Reflective-Practice-Voices-from-the-Field/Barnard-Ryan/p/book/978113822646
Draft Genome Sequence of New Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Sequence Type 1421
No full textThe spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) has become a challenge to health care infection control worldwide. In 2015, a marked increase in VREfm isolation was detected in acute public hospitals in Tasmania. We report here the draft whole-genome sequence of a newly designated VREfm sequence type, sequence type 1421 (ST1421)
Social work and social media: Educating for a networked profession
Get PDFSocial work educators increasingly use internet related strategies to drive curriculum: e-portfolios, virtual world technologies, online education programmes and social media platforms. There is a parallel need for students to develop clear ethical standards, anti-oppressive and social justice perspectives, and skills in developing professional online relationships. For students to develop mature relationships with social media it is important they learn to analyse it theoretically, to be critical of inherent discourses and the information contained in it, and be aware of its potential to exploit and colonise. There is a call for social work assessments to include the “networked life” of clients, and the parallel need for social workers to understand the dynamics of big data. Finally, there is increasing pressure on social workers to be involved in social change projects, with the internet and social media providing ample opportunity and challenge.
This presentation will focus on current research in Aotearoa New Zealand: What do social workers need to know? How should they learn? And how does this relate to challenges in the context of neoliberal learning and practice environments
Taxation of Cross Border E-Commerce: Avoidance of Permanent Establishment and Multilateral Modifications to Tax Treaties
No full textThis third and final article in the series discusses in more detail BEPS Actions 7 and 15, which have particular relevance to the digital economy. It examines the steps
that New Zealand and other OECD jurisdictions are taking to implement these particular recommendations dealing, respectively, with artificial avoidance of
permanent establishment (PE) status and the development of a multilateral instrument to modify bilateral tax treaties. The article also tries to place Actions 7 and 15
within the context of a recent and intensifying global discussion on the ability of taxing jurisdictions to address perceived revenue leakage from large corporations
that have benefited from, or are leading players in, the rise of the Internet. The simplified issue of the amount of tax that some corporations actually pay has obscured to some extent the specific work being undertaken by the OECD and its member jurisdictions to implement, individually and collectively, BEPS measures addressing the tax challenges of the digital economy.
The most recent and significant example of this action—in relation to large players in the digital world—occurred in August 2016 when the European Commission (EC) announced its finding that Ireland had granted illegal (under EU
rules) tax benefits of up to [euro ]13 billion to Apple, such that Apple paid an effective corporate tax rate of between 0.005 percent and 1.0 percent on its European profits between 2003 and 2014.
The EC’s determination that Ireland must now recover the illegal aid (equivalent to USD14.5 billion) from Apple has fuelled further discussion among governments and commentators about the relationship between such a determination (or tax legislation) and ongoing work by the OECD. It remains to be seen whether a global or multilateral approach to address the action points in the OECD BEPS reports will ultimately prevail over a revenue-salvaging approach by individual jurisdictions