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Aotearoa Waka question of the day
Did the Left really win in the resent local body elections? If so how do we account for the loss of Peter Wheeler in Awapuni? What a blow!



Peter Cleave on guitar and vocals at the London on George Street Palmerston North- Fridays and Saturdays 6- 8.30pm. The London is one of New Zealand's best restaurants. Come and eat. The gig goes into its second month. It started with a show called Peter Cleave and the British Invasion to go with the theme of the London. Beatles, Stones, Van Morrison and the like and it carries on from there.
Thursday 14th

Te Ao Toi

Rangahau

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He korero moo ngaa whakairo o Rangitaane Paa. He aha eenei whakairo? He aha ngaa koorero e whaingia nei i eenei whakairo.


Subject of the day
The arts

Analysis
A discussion of the carvings at Rangitaane Paa. What are these carvings? What are the stories in these carvings?
http://www.maori.org.nz/whakairo/
Justin Bieber launches nail polish line
October 12, 2010, 4:03 pmReuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teen idol Justin Bieber is launching a line of nail polish inspired by his biggest music hits, nail care company OPI said on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teen idol Justin Bieber is launching a line of nail polish inspired by his biggest music hits, nail care company OPI said on Monday.

With shades like One Less Lonely Glitter (lavender), Prized Possession Purple (grape), Give Me the First Dance (silver) and Me + Blue (dark blue), the first six colours in the line for Nicole by OPI will be sold exclusively through Wal-Mart retail stores in December 2010.

The remainder of the "One Less Lonely Girl" collection from the 16 year-old singer will be released in Wal-Mart stores in January 2011 before being distributed more widely in February.

"We are thrilled to team up with such a widely beloved singer who has made major waves in pop culture," Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, Nicole by OPI's vice president and artistic director, said in a statement.

"The colours in the collection are modelled after the upbeat and emotive nature of Justin's songs, as well as his own unrivalled energy," she added.

"One Less Lonely Girl", from Bieber's 2009 debut album, is one of the most successful singles in the young musician's career after he was discovered on YouTube. His second album "My World 2.0" debuted at No.1 on the U.S. charts in March and he has already sold over five million albums worldwide.

The nail polish line is the latest product tie-in for Bieber, who earlier this year was named the most-searched celebrity on the Internet.

The baby-faced singer recently became the spokesman for anti-acne skin line Proactiv, and a range of Justin Bieber dolls and toys will be in stores this Christmas.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Aotearoa: The Collection
The carvers have come up with the idea of a whare to house these ten volumes by Peter Cleave and this will have inlays of pounamu and/or jasper. Aotearoa: The Collection is being ordered as a celebrity gift and is one of a kind in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
ISBN
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Maori Unpacked continued
Part Four

But what about te and ngaa?
We can't just leave them sitting on their own!

Te is the singular definite article and nga is the plural definite article. Note that ngaa is said long and usually written short as in nga. Let's write it long for the time being.

the person
te tangata

the persons
ngaa taangata

Careful as you unpack the plural .The sounds are delicate!
Note that the first vowel of the plural doubles. Tangata goes to taangata when you put ngaa in front of it. This happens with some nouns but not others.

te tai
the beach

ngaa tai
the beaches

Some things change, some stay the same!

The word tamaiti changes to tamariki as it goes from singular to plural.

te tamaiti
the child

ngaa tamariki
the children








Sometimes te is used to refer to more than one person.

te hoariri
the enemy

te tangata whenua
the locals

There we go! We've unpacked singular and plural markers of definite things!
These definite things are, of course, NOUNS and we can take the singular and plural definite articles, put them in boxes of their own and clip them onto the Noun Box.


Or put them in a little house beside the Noun Family.

Or make a space in a Mind Map for Definite Articles and connect this to the Noun Space. Each space could be like a cloud with lines between the clouds or like suns, moons- its up to you, the Amazing Unpacker!

te kapua
the cloud

ngaa raa
the suns

te whetuu
the star

te maarama
the moon

If we were making a mobile of the Definite Articles we might put this by the door as you can't really go anywhere without them!







He kupu hou- some new words

te- the, singular

ngaa/nga- the, plural

tai- coast

tangata- person

taangata- persons

tamaiti- child

tamariki- children

hoariri- enemy

whenua- landt

kapua- cloud

raa- sun

whetuu- star

maarama- moon

whare- house

whare paku- toilet

ipu- bowl

naihi- knife







Eetahi kupu hou- some more new words

kuaha- door

matapihi- window

map- mahere

mahere hinengaro- mind map

teepu- table

turu- chairs

pene- pene

taha- walls

Unpack this list by putting labels on things in your house

waka- car

karaka- clock

pukapuka- book

pene- pen

hoe- paddle

kaupapa- floor

papa- flat area

Isis: the dancing tramp by Benjamin Drum continues
Part Nine
A sighting of Giselle and a whisper of Juan

The message was that if you send the best minds of a generation to do this type of thing then this is what we will do to them. That message was to be presented to the world unless certain things happened said Wolfgang.

Another call from Tom Doon to Sam. Giselle has been seen in Jamaica. This is remarkable firstly because she as on her own without an entourage and also because she was not staying in a swanky hotel butt in a bed and breakfast place.

Tom Doon is in his mid forties. He used to have dreads but he is balding now. In fact his pate is quite shiny. He has false teeth as well. Sometimes he wears a beret.

He has three children. And he has a lot of friends, mostly people he has met running his Bed and Breakfast. And he has cousins like Sam with whom he stays in touch.

His wife left him taking the children to America. The children, now in their teens come to visit at Christmas and he visits them on the mainland at mid year.

He has time on his hands and this is why he likes to get involved in gossip and swapping information. Tom has a global network and in the age of the internet he enjoys being connected from Jamaica to New York and London. Most nights a couple of hours go by as Tom gets in touch.

Tom Doon has a parrot. The parrot greets visitors as they arrive. His name is Fred. His cage is hung from the ceiling not far from the front door and long time tenants greet the bird when they come in and farewell it when they leave.

Tom wears loose clothes. He likes baggy jeans and an oversized teeshirt, usually black. These days he wears shades a lot. He has chains but is not huge on bling.

He is on first name terms with a number of musicians. In some cases they stayed at his Bed and Breakfast as they came up. He is a bit of an expert on reggae.

His colours are green and gold. These are the colours of a cricket team he used to play for. He has sporting interests outside of cricket though. He follows baseball and gridiron on television.

He umpires social cricket. People respect his decision making. He enjoys making critical calls. He wishes he'd taken the job more seriously as a youngster.

Tom liked boxing as well. He has a close relationship with boxing promoters in the West Indies and in Miami. It was more the politics of boxing that fascinated him than the sport itself. Who was training what boxer. The odds.

Tom is a good cook. Curries as well as salads are his specialties. On Sunday nights he has a get together for a meal. All this is quite famous in a small set. His tenants liked him and this was a plus for he Bed and Breakfast.

Tom's best mate was Sam followed closely by her brother Stewart. They were family, tight. He knew that he could ring Sam at any time of the day or night and that they could talk. And he liked Simon as well.

Julio had been staying not far from Tom in another Bed and breakfast. He'd gathered that Europe was his next destination but beyond that he did not know much about the plan. He waited and counted.

The days ticked by, hour after long hot hour. Tom Doon wondered about Giselle. It stood to reason that Giselle might take a holiday in Jamaica, it was not far from the American mainland. But Tom thought it was worth mentioning. Giselle was not on the hotel circuit and that was strange enough. Giselle, slumming?

Tom Doon was sufficiently intrigued to follow her. Walking around the nearby streets he hears a whisper that Do-the-math aka Julio has been and may still be in town.

Julio had left Jamaica a few days ago in fact. At present he was counting the minutes while he and the Tramp waited at the house in London. Eventually the tramp was put in a lorry and taken to Liverpool where the Lorry, tramp stowed safely, was Papers on Social Work 4th Edition by Peter Cleave has been released by Campus Press, There is a discussion of Whanau Ora the New Zealand government's strategy for social work announced in April-May 2010. There is a revisiting of the theme of restorative justice. All this and the classic, prize winning essays on social work education and value systems that have made Papers on Social Work one of the best selling books in the Campus Press set, internationally and locally.


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About the author.
It is said that Peter Cleave has more books in New Zealand Libraries than any other author. Beginning as a collaborator on The Oxford Picture Dictionary of Maori in 1979 there has been a consistent pattern of a book published, an article in a referred journal and then a radio commentary repeated over a long period. With this pattern of published work have come the prizes; the First Class Masterate from Auckland University and a Commonwealth scholarship to the University of Oxford, the Phillip Bagby Scholarship and Rhodes Foundation funds while doing the Oxford Doctorate, the chair of the college common room and on from these to taking the prizes for best paper at conferences like the International Federation of Social Workers in Montreal in 2000.

Peter Cleave is without peer at the meeting place of language, culture and criticism, locally and internationally and this is seen in the sale of his books to libraries in New Zealand and Australia and around the world.

At the same time Peter Cleave, a former captain of the Manurewa High School First Fifteen in South Auckland, works on community radio and touches base with working people. He left school to work on the MV Tofua, a Banana Boat and began to learn about the Pacific, something he is still doing.

About Campus Press
Campus Press is the biggest academic press outside the universities in New Zealand. It was established in 1992 and for the last twelve years has been based in Palmerston North. Campus Press mostly supplies libraries.

Papers on Social Work, 4th Edition follows other releases in 2010 like Takutai: the Foreshore and Seabed, New Zealand’s most topical book with implications for US, European and other coastlines. ISBN 978-1-877229-46-6 See the attachment for the cover.



Takutai, the foreshore and seabed by Peter Cleave gives an historical background and then an analysis of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and the 2009 Ministerial Review. There is a wide range of examples of co-governance and co-management by iwi and councils of the foreshore and seabed from around Aotearoa/New Zealand. International case studies are also given. The Conclusion sets the scene for the Repeal of the Act and the introduction of new legislation in 2010.

What the critics had to say about the advance article;

one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. …an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Professor Paul Moon

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Full Review of Peter Cleave’s Ten Volume Set

By Paul Moon

July 2009

The very nature of academic publishing is that it serves a niche market, and in a country as small as New Zealand, that niche can be so narrow that some books probably never see the light of day because they are simply uneconomic to produce. So when a ten-volume set of books is released, written by Professor Peter Cleave – one of New Zealand’s respected academics – attention is bound to be aroused by the scale of the venture, and by the promise of a substantial body of content.

The work’s opening volume comprises a collection of articles, some of which are new, and some of which are revised versions of existing articles that Cleave has written or presented. The relevancy of the work is underscored by the first paper, which contains suggested options for dealing with the vexed issue of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004. The Government has indicated that it will reach some conclusions on this matter within the next two months, but regardless of what is decided, it will be interesting to see the extent to which Cleave’s recommendations are reflected in Government policy, and for academics to debate some of the themes raised long after any settlement has been made at a political level. This article stands out as being the most detailed in this volume, and certainly one of the most well-conceived discussions of the present state of the Act that exists in print anywhere. For this piece alone, the first volume in this collection makes an extremely useful contribution not only to academic discourse, but to issues affecting the national life of the country.

Other articles in this volume focus on issues surrounding Maori language – its survival, its transition from an oral to a written language, and its re-emergence as an oral and written language. To this is added a highly original and possibly even provocative piece on conceptual interpretations of pa; a reflection on issues associated with the 1981 Springbok rugby tour to New Zealand, and concludes with a series of brief but brilliant articles which tackle a variety of culturally-charged concepts, and which, among much else, challenge the reader’s understanding of meanings associated with them.

From a collection of articles, Cleave then provides in the second volume of this collection a book. Starting points? A discussion of contemporary Maori society and culture, is primarily about New Zealand historiography, into which is injected a broad range of arguments and perspectives relating to issues such as culture, identity, tradition and modernity, and the media. One of the great strengths of this volume is the extent to which Cleave is able to draw on international material and examples to illuminate his arguments, without the reader ever getting the sense that he is being overwhelmed by comparative examples from other countries. It is a difficult balance to establish, but when handled as masterfully as in Starting Points? The benefits are immediately apparent. The theme of literacy raised in the first volume reappears briefly in this one, but in a substantially different context, with a strong connection with the way in which history works in cultures that had/have strong oral components. In the central sections of this volume is a series of analyses of the works of other writers, in which Cleave adopts the format of quoting passages from articles, and then providing a commentary on them. This is an approach to criticism that is too seldom utilised. In the case of this volume, it has enabled Cleave to deconstruct and then reconstruct ideas and themes, using these sources as interchangeable building blocks – able to be assembled in a variety of forms according to the writer’s perspectives.

Following on from Starting Points? is the third edition of one of Cleave’s seminal works: Rangahau pae iti kahurangi: Research in a small world of light and shade. This work, on themes and approaches to research in a broadly Maori context, has become a recommended text book for many tertiary course around the country, and draws heavily on traditional concepts of learning and understanding as part of the basis for one of the frameworks of research. The traditional is not closed off from critique, however, and Cleave’s great strength in this area is his ability to combine an in-depth cultural knowledge with recent scholarship on research, producing insightful and useful conclusions for anyone engaged in this area of study.

Another third edition in this collection is Papers on Social Work. His volume is made up of seven papers dealing with subjects from the more standard ones, such as ethics, to the some unlikely choices, such as the city space and social work, and the thematically-related article on places of inquiry. Yet, whether predictable or otherwise, Cleave brings new insights and challenging perspectives to the reader. Even the most experienced social work practitioner would be bound to have the perceptions of their profession augmented as a result of reading this book and absorbing some of its ideas.

Papers on Social Work is followed by the 244-page volume Papers on Language. Made up of thirteen articles, this work has Cleave again drawing on a useful quantity of international scholarship, and revealing why he is so highly-regarded in the academic community. There are too few writers in this country capable of combining material from so many different disciplines and in a way that produces such a wide variety of perspectives. Again, there is some material here that appears elsewhere, but its precise employment this volume avoids any sense of repetition. A few of the shorter articles in this volume would be suited mainly for teachers of te reo, but otherwise, the tenor of the works as a whole is well-suited to the general academic reader.

The next book in this collection is the 197-page What do we know about the mark on the wall? Images, rules and prior knowledge. As for its subject, Cleave opens with the teasing line: ‘As the author I still have difficulty saying what his book is about’. But rather than answer with a pithy summary, Cleave allows the ideas contained in this work to speak for themselves – no more, no less. Themes about the meaning of ideas, place, and memory compete with topics on historiography, sociolinguistics, and social geography, among many others. This is probably the most challenging book in the collection. Cleave moves, sometimes with great speed, from one topic to another, often leaving just hints of whole new areas of potential exploration. The reader might feel settled with an idea, and then in the next paragraph, Cleave might challenge that idea from several angles, before hauling the topic elsewhere, with a series of careful thematic links. There is no stated topic for this book, and nor ought there to be. It is like a rhapsody, with different motifs surfacing at various points, connected by very little at times, yet, at the conclusion, it all seems to have a link of sorts to the idea of knowledge. This is possibly one of the most satisfying yet challenging works in the collection.

Te Pu Tapere- the impulse to perform, formerly known as Depot Takirua, is the third edition of this work, and focuses mainly on the electronic media. At 204 pages, it is as substantial a work as any of its companion volumes in this collection, and for those studying film and television in New Zealand, it would be indispensible. This most certainly ought to be a prescribed text for all media students. The portrayal of Maori in film and television comes in for close scrutiny here, and Cleave seizes on several deficiencies and stereotypes in the way culture is presented in popular culture. The chapter on Jane Campion’s The Piano is one of the outstanding portions of this book, and as all the other chapters, offers insights that hitherto have not been available to readers interested in these areas of study. Some of the essays in this work date back to the 1990s, but have been revised where appropriate to maintain their currency.

Iwi Station: A Discussion of Print, Radio, Television, and the Internet in Aotearoa/ New Zealand also has a string media focus, as the title suggests. However, in keeping with the general approach of the other volumes in this collection, Cleave has added elements of history, sociology, and anthropology into the mix. And instead of merely being descriptive about the topics he has chosen, Cleave continually probes and questions to elicit deeper meanings behind them. This is most certainly a text that should be compulsory reading for every journalist and person involved in the media in New Zealand. In particular, it lifts the lid on the sorts of conceptual developments in thought that have led to the status the media currently has in New Zealand.

This collection, coming out as a single set, is unique in New Zealand academic writing. But the format and quantity side, the lasting value of these works is in the ideas they express and the changes in perception that they will bring about for the reader. Cleave deserves full praise for the contribution he has made in these works to the intellectual conversation about New Zealandness.

Paul Moon is Professor of History at Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Maori Development at AUT University.

There are ten books in the basic Campus Press set. All of these are 200 pages or more in length. Terms of Trade are that the books are available from Campus Press for 57.00 NZD as individual titles or for 400.00 NZD for the Collection.

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978-1-877229-32-9 Maori Unpacked Second Edition

978-1-877229-37-4 Iwi Station Second Edition

978-1-877229-39-8 Papers on Language Third Edition

978-1-877229-42-8 Papers on Social Work Third Edition

978-1-877229-43-5 Rangahau pae iti kahurangi Third Edition

978-1-877229-44-2 What do we know about the mark on the wall Third Edition

978-1-877229-43-5 Te Pu Tapere- the Impulse to perform, formerly titled, From the Depot Takirua, Third Edition

978-1-877229-41-1 Papers to conference Fourth Edition

978-1-877229-38-1 Starting Points


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