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Interview with Tom Dawe
No full textTom Dawe is an award-winning Newfoundland author and visual artist, best known for his poetry.
He was born in 1940 in Long Pond, Manuels, Conception Bay. Dawe was a Professor in the English Department at
Memorial University until his retirement in 1988. He was a founding editor of the literary magazine, TickleAce,
one of the co-founders of the publishing company, Breakwater Books, and an editor of The Livyere folklore journal.
He also worked on Scruncheons, a creative writing journal at the University, and helped organize some of the
first poetry readings on campus. He is a winner of multiple Provincial Arts and Letters Awards, including a special
gold medal for visual arts in 1973; recipient of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Arts Achievement Award (1999);
Bruneau Award (2008); Canadian Authors' Association Poetry Award (2010), Heritage and History Book Award (2010); The Order
of Canada (2011); and The Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (2012); American Folklore Society Aesop Accolade (2018). He
was appointed Poet Laureate of the City of St. John's from 2010-2013. Among his books of poetry are: Hemlock Cove and After (1975),
In A Small Cove (1978), Island Spell (1981), In Hardy Country (1993), Sea Foam Swings in the Bluebell (2005),
Caligula's Horse (2009), Where Genesis Begins (2009), and New and Collected Poems (2019). His children's books include:
A Gommil from Bumble Bee Bight (1982), Lings and Things (1986), Winter of the Black Weasel (1988), The Wonderful Dogfish
Racket (2013), An Old Man's Winter Night: Ghostly Tales (2015), Spirited Away: Fairy Stories of Old Newfoundland (2017).
His poetry has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies around the worl
Overview
No full textThis book of readings was commissioned to enable a better understanding of the past,
present and future role of the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector in
business innovation. This collection considers what the innovation process in business
means for Australian workers and identifies the contributions of the VET system.
International comparisons offer insights into those elements missing or under-emphasised in
the current Australian innovation system. Finally, strategies to enable the VET sector to
engage with business innovation are illustrated through examples. This overview introduces
the book and discusses important findings and common messages from its chapters
Decadal Shoreline Stability in Eastbourne, Wellington Harbour
No full textMixed Sand and Gravel (MSG) Beach research in recent decades has
overwhelmingly focussed on open-oceanic environments, however, those
found in fetch limited settings remain poorly understood. This thesis has
examined spatial and temporal morphological change through such a
system in Eastbourne, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. This site has
only recently prograded following several decades of erosion. This
accretion has been the result of a northward migrating gravel front, which
is introducing gravel sized sediment into the previously sandy system
resulting in significant changes in beach morphology and volume.
The aim of this study is to quantify these spatial and temporal changes
and to assess shoreline stability on a decadal timescale. Additionally it
aims to ascertain whether the current progradation is a long term change
to the system or the result of a short term sediment increase.
This assessment has been conducted in the form of topographic
surveying, grain size and aerial photograph analysis. The topographic
surveying and grain size analysis provides an accurate description of
beach morphology. This is compared to the established MSG beach
morphology models for the open coast, but operating on a smaller scale
because of the lower energy fetch-limited environment of the study area.
Aerial photograph analysis is used to show the longer term changes in
beach width and the northern migration of the gravel fraction of the
sediment supply regime.
The spatial analysis results show that the beach morphology is highly
variable. In the embayments that are more exposed to oceanic swell
waves beach profiles are broad and steep, and in the beaches in the
northern sections of the coastline which are more sheltered from oceanic
swell waves, profiles are flat and narrow. The temporal results show that
the coastal accretion observed through the study area has been initially
rapid, followed by sustained increased beach width.
These results suggest that the morphological variation on this coastline is
part of a long term adjustment to a change in sediment supply, initiated by
tectonic uplift and subsequently driven by longshore sediment transport.
The observed mechanism of longshore transport has been suggested to
be a function of sediment properties, relative wave energy and
bathymetry/topography. The findings of this research are used to develop
a conceptual model of shoreline evolution for the study area in response
to changes that have occurred over the last 154 years
Social Norms, Dual Identities, and National Attachment: How the Perceived Patriotism of Group Members Influences Muslim Americans
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Who pays for youth disengagement and unemployment? A case for smarter thinking and for investment
No full textBackground: In March 2015 a Working Group was established by Andrew Neophytou (CEO, Inner Eastern Local Learning & Employment Network) on behalf of the Inner Metro Youth and Community Partnership (IMCYP).
This Working Group was formed to discuss and consider actions around youth transitions and pathways, as a response to worrying levels of youth disengagement and unemployment, whether viewed from a regional, state or national perspective.
Part of the impetus behind the Groupâs formation was concern for the wellbeing of young people (largely but not exclusively those aged 15 and over) who were at risk of disengaging from education, or were already disengaged.
Like the IMYCP, e2e has these aims:
Advocacy and strategic input and advice to government about children and young people, and the organisations that support them
Sharing information and research around transitions and pathways
Building relationships with key stakeholders to develop a cross-sectoral response to address issues relating to transitions and pathways
Identifying potential pathways and referral options for young people that are most at risk
Providing best-practice examples / models for work and professional development.
A dozen stakeholder organisations / bodies have embraced these aims, and form the nucleus of the e2e Working Group:
Representatives from the following stakeholders form the nucleus of e2e:
Ardoch Youth Foundation
Capital City LLEN
City of Stonnington â Youth Services
Education Engagement Partnership (EEP)
Inner Melbourne VET Cluster (IMVC)
Melbourne City Mission (MCM) / SKYS
Melbourne Polytechnic
Prahran Community Learning Centre (PCLC)
SouthPort Uniting Care (SPUC)
Taskforce Community Agency
Victoria Police
As a first step, this Working Group agreed to develop a Discussion Paper. This Paper, completed in late July 2015, provides key reflections arising out of discussions the network members have had, and the reading weâve done.
This discussion paper is intended for a broad readership. It includes some introductory pages (eg background; a note about terms and definitions used; statistics; and five principles for smarter thinking and investment). The bulk of the paper covers eleven themes, each followed by a number of recommendations (averaging about six per section), which are aimed for a range of stakeholders, including government departments, peak bodies, and NFP organisations.
The eleven themes are: policy; consultation; funding / youth specific programs; workforce strategy â including professional learning; partnerships â including with industry; education disengagement; VCAL & VET; disabilities; âmiddle yearsâ; abuse and trauma; and diversion. 
Can I ask...? An alcohol and drug clinicianâs guide to addressing family and domestic violence
No full textThere is a growing impetus for a more comprehensive approach to understanding and addressing family and domestic violence (FDV) across the broader welfare system. This includes an increased focus on prevention and the interrelationship between sectors such as alcohol and other drugs (AOD), child and family welfare, child protection and FDV. This change is reflected in a number of national policies related to the protection and wellbeing of children and the support provided to their families. This resource explores the relationship between AOD and FDV, with a focus on identifying how the AOD sector can better support clients who have co-occurring AOD and FDV issues, and minimise associated harms experienced by their children.
Authors: Michael White, Ann Roche, Roger Nicholas, Caroline Long, Stefan Gruenert, Samantha Battams.
Produced by the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) and Odyssey House Victoria (OHV)
The rangitikei-manawatu purchase
No full textOn the 14th April 1866, Dr. I.E. Featherston, Superintendent of the Wellington Province, accepted in his capacity of Land Purchase Commissioner a tract of land known as the Manawatu-Rangitikei Block. He accepted the land from an assembly representing the following tribes: Muaupoko,.Ngatiapa, Ngatitoa, Rangitane, Ngatiraukawa, Whanganui, Ngatiawa, Ngatikahungunu, and Ngatipokoiri. Of these tribes only four could claim to have any interest in the block, these being Muaupoko, Ngatiapa, Rangitane and Ngatiraukawa. However the whole assembly was asked by Dr. Featherston to give or withold their consent to the sale, and when all but Ngatiraukawa were found to be unanimously in favour of the sale, made it quite clear that the will of such a large majority could not be thwarted by a section of one tribe. He therefore accepted the block from the assembled tribes.
The purpose of this thesis is first to show that when Dr. Featherston spoke of a section of one tribe (Ngatiraukawa) he was emphasising an apparent, not a real, unanimity among the owners of the block. In other words the fact that the other tribes approved of the sale was of very little importance, when some of the Ngatiraukawa, which had the overwhelmingly greatest, if not exclusive claim to the block, were divided on the question of selling the land. This thesis is, then, in the first place an attempt to show that the Ngatiraukawa tribe owned the Manawatu-Rangitikei Block
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