puff 545 Tuesday 19th

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 aqnd the British Invasion to go with the theme of the London.
Beatles, Stones, Van Morrison and the like and it carries on from there.

Saying of the day
It is very distinctive, the crying of the defeated.
From The Coldest Blood
Jim Kelly
Michael Joseph
2006:45
Weekly Best: October 11, 2010

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:44 PM PDT



Movie Geeks United’s Jamey DuVall and Jerry Dennis join, ah, Forces to welcome Peter Mayhew, who played Harrison Ford’s hairy sidekick Chewbacca in Star Wars. The 7-foot-3 thespian will help our hosts celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back.


Punch Drunk Critics host John Nolan chats with Edward Norton about his starring role opposite Bobby De Niro and Milla Jojovich in John Curran’s Stone, which tells the story of a convicted arsonist planning to secure his parole using his beautiful wife as bait.


BlogTalkRadio rolls into Vegas for live coverage of BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2010. Beginning today at 10:30am PT, we’re interviewing a host of thought leaders, including The Hotline’s Reid Wilson, GeekBeat.TV’s Cali Lewis and Ford Motor Company’s Scott Monty.



Buzzworthy Radio’s NaVell Lee hangs with Tiffany Thornton, who plays Tawni Hart on the hit Disney Channel series Sonny with a Chance. The teen queen—who’s also a budding pop singer—will chat about working alongside red-hot co-stars Demi Lovato and Sterling Knight.


PLUS Model Radio host Chenese Lewis gives it up for America’s Next Top Model winner Whitney Thompson, who’ll be hosting the Hollywood chapter of the National Organization for Women’s 2010 Love Your Body Day weekend, which gets under way Oct. 22.


Paul Simon turns 69 years old today, and in honor of that milestone, Milling About host Robin Milling unspools a never-before-aired 1986 interview with the music legend. “The songs emerge,” he said of his creative powers. “Seldom do they sort of pop. They slowly reveal themselves.”


Life After Dusk host Cedric Collier hangs with Nick (son of Hulk) Hogan who made his name on the VH1 reality series Hogan Knows Best. Nick will chat about getting his life back on track after his 2007 car crash—which landed him in jail for 6 months.

WYMS Radio’s Cha-Boogie asks, Who Murdered Hip-Hop? Was it the artists? The A&R guys? The media? Joining her to explore this issue will be one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time, Pete Rock. Plus: Riggs Moralez, director of A&R for Eminem’s Shady Records.
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Will Smith’s Ex Sheree Fletcher: Jada Pinkett and I Are Friendly—Though We Don’t Do Lunch

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:08 PM PDT

Being the former wife of the biggest movie star on the planet can’t be easy.

But Sheree Fletcher—who was married to Will Smith from 1992 to 1995—handles it with wisdom, sensitivity and aplomb.


"There has to be forgiveness, there has to be compromise," Sheree (above) tells us of parenting with Will. "And it's been a blessing because we've been able to do that."

Interviewed on Marketing Ministry, Sheree chats about her relationship with Will’s second wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, whom he wed in 1997, and about the blended family’s three children:

Trey, Sheree and Will’s son, who turns 18 next month; Jaden, 12, Jada and Will’s son; and Willow, Jada and Will’s daughter, who turns 10 this month.

“Our kids don’t refer to each other—and when I say three kids I’m talking about Willow and Jaden—they don’t refer to each other as half brother and half sister,” Sheree—who, with second hubby Terrell Fletcher, pastors the City of Hope International Church in San Diego, Calif.—tells host Wanda Adams.

“That concept is so foreign to them. They are brothers and sister. Period.

“And one of the things I never did—I know sometimes we have a tendency to use our kids as pawns—and if I’m mad at you then you’re not going to see [your father]. That’s so foolish, because you’re taking it out on your child.”

Sheree goes on to explain how she and Jada keep things in check.

“I’ve had people ask me, ‘Are you and Jada friends?’ Jada and I are friendly, absolutely,” she says.

“And see, too, it depends on your understanding of the word friend. Jada and I don’t do things separately [from the kids]—like, ‘Girl, what you doing today? Let’s get lunch.’ Or ‘Let’s go see a movie.’

“We don’t cross that line. Because, see, now what happens is if we have an issue in our friendship, it affects everything. Now it affects the kids.


The attainment of happyness: Trey (in non-sunglasses) with (clockwise from top) Will, Jada, Willow and Jaden.

“We have to really preserve what we have and guard it. You’ve gotta have boundaries.”

Sheree also touches on how Terrell, a former running back for the San Diego Chargers, deals with her incessantly being referred to as Will’s ex.

“It is what it is. It kind of comes with the territory, unfortunately. And that’s part of the baggage that I come with,” she says.

“It took Terrell five years to propose, and that very thing is probably what dragged it out so long.

“But, obviously, it’s not an easy thing. I’m his current wife and to always be referred to as someone else’s ex-wife, that can’t be easy.

“But you know, he’s such an amazing man. And who else would really put up with and walk into this situation? It’s not really an easy thing to do. But it takes a secure man, it takes somebody who knows who they are.”

Click here to hear Sheree Fletcher’s full interview.



Weekly Best; October 4, 2010

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 03:22 PM PDT



The Joe Show host Joe Crawford whoops it up with fellow Canadian funnyman Howie Mandel, who’s appearing Oct. 13 at Brock University’s Centre for the Arts in St. Catherines, Ontario. Howie will chat about judging duties on America’s Got Talent and hosting duties on Deal or No Deal.


In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Suncera “That Writing Chic” Johnson gives it up for Hector Elizondo and Jackee Harry, stars of the upcoming short flick Knight to D7, which tells the story of 2 best friends grappling with the reality of cancer.


Marketing Ministry host Wanda Adams welcomes Sheree Fletcher, Will Smith’s former wife who’s now married to former NFL running back Terrell Fletcher, with whom she pastors the City of Hope Church. Sheree will chat about sharing parenting duties with Will for their son Trey.


Olivia Wilder got up close and personal with Eric Roberts, who chatted about reconciling with sister Julia Roberts after years of frosty relations. “I was a rather negative person, and she got tired of it,” he said—before adding that, now, “We talk almost every day via email.”


Keeping It Reel host Tim Gordon peeked into the ego of Edward Norton. “There’s no chase scenes, no weapons,” he said of his new film, Stone. “The drama comes from this corkscrewing tension that evolves only in conversation. So if you’re an actor, it’s like, At last I matter!”


Aaron Johnson, who plays young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy, chatted about the Beatle’s widow’s reaction to the new biopic. “Yoko gave her blessing and basically stayed out of the way while we were making the film,” he told host Robin Milling. “And she cried when she saw the movie.”


Marina Anderson, who was married to actor David Carradine from 1998 to 2001, suspects foul play in the star’s 2009 death. “I totally believe this was not an accident by himself,” she told host Robin Milling. “There had to be other people in the room with him.”

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Tuesday 19th
Kaupapa korero mo te ra nei
Te moana me te ngahere

Rangahau
He koorero moo ngaa tuhinga naa Tracey Whare moo te takutai moana. Ka haangai aa Tracey koorero ki a Ngaati Porou. He aha te pai o ngaa ture moo te takutai moo Ngaati Porou?

Subject of the day
Te moana me te ngahere

Analysis
A discussion of Tracey Whare’s writings about the foreshore and seabed. Tracey’s discussion applies to Ngaati Porou. What is the value of the legislation regarding the foreshore and seabed for Ngaati Porou?
www.courts.govt.nz/.../foreshore-and-seabed/foreshore-and-seabed...foreshore-and-seabed...ngati-porou/nga-hapu-o-ngati-porou-ne...
Teaspoon of This Each Day Can Optimize Cholesterol Levels... Posted By Dr. Mercola | October 12 2010 | 5,019 views Share60
Previous ArticleNext ArticleA 12-week London study was recently conducted involving 58 type 2 diabetics with hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels over 7 percent. Hemoglobin A1c is a marker for long-term glycemic control in diabetics.

After 12 weeks on 2g of cinnamon per day, study subjects had significantly lower HbA1c levels, as well as significantly reduced blood pressures (systolic, SBP and diastolic, DBP).

The researchers’ conclusion:

“Intake of 2g of cinnamon for 12 weeks significantly reduces the HbA1c, SBP and DBP among poorly controlled type 2 diabetes patients. Cinnamon supplementation could be considered as an additional dietary supplement option to regulate blood glucose and blood pressure levels along with conventional medications to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus.”

In related news, a new study out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill points to a connection between magnesium in the diet and lowered risk of diabetes.

According to Reuters:

“It's plausible that magnesium could influence diabetes risk because the mineral is needed for the proper functioning of several enzymes that help the body process glucose.”

Researchers studied magnesium intake and diabetes risk in about 4,500 men and women aged 18 to 30. None of the participants were diabetic at the start of the study.

Over the ensuing 20 years, 330 of the test subjects developed diabetes. The people with the highest magnesium intake – about 200 milligrams for every 1,000 calories consumed – were almost 50 percent less likely to develop diabetes than men and women who consumed about 100 milligrams per 1,000 calories.

The study also revealed that as magnesium intake increased, inflammation levels decreased, as did insulin resistance.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Reuters reports one wildly inaccurate conclusion: that consuming whole grains (which are high in magnesium) is associated with lower diabetes risk.

This is simply not true.

If you’re looking for ways to increase the magnesium in your diet, avoid grains and opt for healthier choices like avocados, almonds, certain types of beans and peas.
Sources:
Diabetic Medicine: A Journal of the British Diabetic Association October 2010

Reuters September 24, 2010

Diabetes Care August 31, 2010 [Epub Ahead of Print]



Dr. Mercola's Comments:


As I discussed in yesterday's article on the insanity of Avandia, drugs are not the answer for type 2 diabetes. In that article, I described the natural and most effective way to address type 2 diabetes. If you haven't already read this article I would strongly encourage you to do so.

The two reports above are related in the sense that they demonstrate the power of natural therapies – as opposed to drugs -- to combat this epidemic problem.

However, like drugs, supplements such as cinnamon or magnesium should not be misconstrued as cures. They are safer alternatives than drugs, but you cannot properly address your diabetes if you still maintain a sedentary lifestyle and a poor diet -- with or without helpful supplements.

How Cinnamon Can Benefit Diabetics
Researchers have investigated the "insulin-like" effects of cinnamon for a number of years now, and as the latest study in Diabetic Medicine shows, cinnamon keeps proving it's a viable contender in the fight against diabetes.

Among this spice's most impressive health benefits is its impact on blood sugar and ability to improve glucose control.

For example, just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day has previously been shown to significantly reduce blood sugar levels, triglycerides, LDL (bad) cholesterol, and total cholesterol levels in people with type 2 diabetes.

Another study found that the spice increased glucose metabolism by about 20 times, which would significantly improve your ability to regulate blood sugar. Cinnamon has even previously been indicated as a potential insulin substitute for those with type 2 diabetes due to a bioactive component with "insulin-like" effects.

Interestingly, cinnamon lowers your blood sugar by acting on several different levels.

It slows the emptying of your stomach to reduce sharp rises in blood sugar following meals, and improves the effectiveness, or sensitivity, of insulin.

It also enhances your antioxidant defenses. A study published last year stated that "polyphenols from cinnamon could be of special interest in people that are overweight with impaired fasting glucose since they might act both as insulin sensitizers and antioxidants."

Yet another bioflavanoid compound called proanthocyanidin may alter the activity of insulin signaling in your fat cells.

Researchers have suggested people with diabetes may see improvements by adding 1/4 - 1 teaspoon of cinnamon to their food, and I see no reason not to give this a try if you enjoy cinnamon (along with doing the other essentials to improve diabetes, including eliminating fructose and grains from your diet and exercising daily).

Other health benefits of cinnamon include:

•Supporting digestive function
•Relieving congestion
•Relieving pain and stiffness of muscles and joints
•Anti-inflammatory compounds that may relieve arthritis
•Helping to prevent urinary tract infections, tooth decay and gum disease
•Relieves menstrual discomfort
•Blood-thinning compounds that stimulate circulation
Clearly, adding ample amounts of cinnamon to your diet is an incredibly inexpensive and great tasting tool for diabetics, and the likelihood of this food causing any long-term complications is very small.

Just remember that unless you're adding it to a proper diet – high in vegetables and extremely low in fructose and grains -- you likely will not experience any benefit whatsoever.

Whole Grains Do NOT Lower Your Diabetes Risk!
Reuters makes a grave mistake when claiming that "the results may explain in part why consuming whole grains, which are rich in magnesium, is associated with lower diabetes risk."

The results they're talking about is that people who consumed the highest amounts of magnesium, from foods and vitamin supplements, were half as likely to become diabetics over two decades as those who consumed the least amount of magnesium, according to a recent study.

According to the researchers, magnesium may decrease your diabetes risk because magnesium is required for the proper functioning of enzymes involved in glucose processing.

This has nothing to do with whole grains, and does not support the claim that whole grains are good for diabetics.

In fact, if you're diabetic or want to avoid becoming diabetic, then grains – including whole grains -- are at the TOP of the list of foods to AVOID, right after fructose and other sugars.

Why?

Because just like sugar, grains typically are a primary cause of insulin insensitivity, which is at the root of diabetes.

Healthful Sources of Magnesium
As for magnesium, the study found that those who consumed about 200 mg of magnesium for every 1,000 calories consumed were 47 percent less likely to develop insulin resistance and diabetes, compared to those who consumed half that amount of magnesium.

In addition, the researchers also discovered that as magnesium levels rose, markers of inflammation decreased.

Magnesium serves many important metabolic functions in your body, but if you want to increase the magnesium in your diet, please stay away from grains and opt for healthier choices, such as:

•Avocados
•Almonds
•Green vegetables, such as spinach
•Raw broccoli
•Black beans
•Peas
Other Great Anti-Diabetic Foods
Aside from cinnamon and magnesium-rich fare, other foods shown to be particularly beneficial for diabetics include:

•Broccoli - Eating broccoli could reverse the damage that diabetes inflicts on your blood vessels. The key is likely a compound in the vegetable called sulforaphane.


Sulforaphane encourages production of enzymes that protect the blood vessels, and reduces the number of molecules that cause cell damage -- known as Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) -- by up to 73 percent.

People with diabetes are up to five times more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes -- both of which are linked to damaged blood vessels

•Probiotics – Researchers have found that bacterial populations in the gut of diabetics differ from non-diabetics, and that modifying your gut microflora with probiotics and prebiotics can help improve the health of diabetics.
•A Mediterranean-style diet rich in vegetables can also help ward off diabetes. The benefits are likely from the use of healthy fats and increased veggies -- NOT from the large amount of grains. Swapping out your grains and sugar for high-quality sources of protein, healthy fat (which INCLUDES saturated fat) and vegetables, can set you off on the right path.


Ideally, you'll want to customize your diet according to your nutritional type. To help you do this, I now offer the entire online nutritional typing test for FREE!

For more information about diabetes, and the full guidelines for preventing and treating diabetes, please see this link.




Related Links:
Cinnamon Can Help Control Your Blood Sugar

How to Finally Make Type 2 Diabetes Disappear

Diet & Exercise Beat Drugs for Diabetes Heart Risk


Maori Unpacked continued
7

Address

E

E hoa!

O friend!

Use E before words of one or two syllables

Where to put Address?

On the door of course!

We could put it in a box called the Address Box.

Or hang it on the wall next to a name.

Or make a mobile of it and hang it over the sink to remind the flatmate to tidy up!

Or even make a little sign for the flattie saying;

E Hone, waihotia! Hone, leave alone!

And put the sign on your food in the fridge and hope for the best...

Or put a mailbox on a street in your Mind Map and write E on it.



He kupu hou- some new words

waa- occasion, time

tau- year

miniti- minute

haora- hour

marama- month

wiki- week

hau- quarter hour

hau rua- half a hour

i- from

ki- to

rau- hundred

mano- thousand

tahi- one

rua- two

toru- three

whaa- four

rima- five

ono- six



whitu- seven

waru- eight

iwa- nine

tekau- ten

tekau maa tahi- eleven

tekau maa rua- twelve

aapoopoo- tomorrow

inanahi- yesterday

Isis: the dancing tramp by Benjamin Drum continues
Part Twelve
In the blink of an eye

Wolfgang called the Torturer. There was a scenario to be worked through now and everyone had to be bought up to speed The Ringmaster, Julio, lorry drivers, everyone had to know what was going to be demanded of them.

The Torturer wore black suits pressed so that the folds looked sharp. And very white shirts. With a thin black tie. He also liked good strong liquor on occasion.

He liked Russian food. In fact he was something of a Russophile. He liked Ballet, caviar, trips to St Petersburg which he preferred to think of as Leningrad.

He likes mountain climbing, austere silences. He liked cold mountain rivers and icy dawns. He liked fir trees. He had a favourite mountain hut that he would use from time to time in Peru. It was like one that he had used in Germany and he'd paid for it to be modelled accordingly.

Occasionally he would fish. He liked using a rod and he liked to fish in solitude. He never fished near a bridge or anywhere that he felt that people were watching him.

For Simon it is a mystery without clues. Two people have disappeared. Simon has no idea who took them out or took them away. The Police have been informed but so far there is no evidence of foul play.

Simon knows nothing of the Stasi involvement. He suspects Six of being involved in anything and everything though. Simon thinks there are a number of small intelligence or ex intelligence groups which have effectively turned terrorist or criminal out there in the world.

Unsure what to do Simon rings his Dad, Paullie, in the States. Its all a little outside of Paullie's sphere that being America or, at a pinch, his native England. Paullie looks for the payoff. Someone, he tells Simon must benefit from all this.

The days tick by. For the Don it is the time of sores. All over his body. He had no idea from whence they came. He waits, swinging in his crate. His vertigo has been replaced by a kind of stupor.

Ex Stasi in South America tell their counterparts in Germany that they will proceed to embarrass them unless the ransom is paid. There is also the question of Wolfgang's bail.


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.

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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.

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1 Aotearoa, Papers of Contest, Third Edition, Peter
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2 Papers to Conference, Fouth Edition Peter Cleave x.....
3 Papers on Social Work, Fourth Edition, Peter
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4 Te Pu Tapere, the impulse to perform, Peter
Cleave x…

5 Papers on Language, Third Edition, Peter Cleave x...

6 What do we know about the mark on the wall? Third Edition, Peter Cleave x...

7 Iwi Station, a discussion of print, radio and television in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Peter Cleave x

8 Maori Unpacked, Peter Cleave x...

9 Starting Points, a discussion of contemporary Maori culture and society, Peter Cleave x...

10 Rangahau pae iti kahurangi, research in a small world of light and shade,
Peter Cleave x...

11 Takutai; the foreshore and seabed x...

12 Ten Volumes, a Collection by Peter Cleave x.....


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