title: Anhedonia: He kohinga whiti mai i te tirohanga o ngā wahanga e rima o te pōuri / A collection of poetry themed around loss presented through the lens of the five stages of grief

authors: Nicholls, Rawiri Rangihouhiri Terrence

subjects: Grief

abstract: Anhedonia is a collection of personal experiences centred around loss examined through the lens of the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) and framed within a personal confessional postmodernism style. It was also influenced by the collected works of Federico Garcia Lorca, Sylvia Plath, Cassandra Barnett (Ngāti Huri, Raukawa), Kirsty Dunn (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa), and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (Te Arawa, Tūhoe).

While loss and grief are intrinsically linked to death, within this collection, I further explore other forms of loss and grief. I touch on my loss of cultural identity, mind, and self. As a student, I have been diving deeper into my cultural identity of being Māori and what that means to me. I have lost many things throughout my life at the hands of abuse, depression, grief, and mental health. The poetry within this collection will continue to serve as a blunt reminder of the experiences (both positive and negative) that I have endured or witnessed over the last couple of decades.

I have seen a multitude of losses (in its many variations) as I continue the dance to discover what the mortality of not only myself but those around me means to me. While everyone will experience feelings of grief and loss, I have framed my own experiences in my interpretation of our collective mortality.

text: Anhedonia: He kohinga whiti mai i te tirohanga o ngā wahanga e rima o te pōuri / A collection of poetry themed around loss presented through the lens of the five stages of grief Anhedonia is a collection of personal experiences centred around loss examined through the lens of the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) and framed within a personal confessional postmodernism style. It was also influenced by the collected works of Federico Garcia Lorca, Sylvia Plath, Cassandra Barnett (Ngāti Huri, Raukawa), Kirsty Dunn (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa), and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (Te Arawa, Tūhoe).

While loss and grief are intrinsically linked to death, within this collection, I further explore other forms of loss and grief. I touch on my loss of cultural identity, mind, and self. As a student, I have been diving deeper into my cultural identity of being Māori and what that means to me. I have lost many things throughout my life at the hands of abuse, depression, grief, and mental health. The poetry within this collection will continue to serve as a blunt reminder of the experiences (both positive and negative) that I have endured or witnessed over the last couple of decades.

I have seen a multitude of losses (in its many variations) as I continue the dance to discover what the mortality of not only myself but those around me means to me. While everyone will experience feelings of grief and loss, I have framed my own experiences in my interpretation of our collective mortality.

year: 2024

title: He Taonga te Ta Moko ki Tauranga Moana: A survey of attitudes, opinions, whakāro noa iho, towards ta moko during the Tauranga Moana, Tauranga Tangata Festival (Labour Weekend 2002)

authors: Cairns, Puawai

subjects: Maori

abstract: During Labour Weekend (26 – 28 October 2002) in Tauranga, a celebration called
the Tauranga Moana, Tauranga Tangata Festival was held. The festival
represented the artists, kapa haka, lectures, sports, and personalities of Tauranga
Moana. It was during this festival that a ta moko survey was conducted, with the
support of the lead ta moko artist there, with the aim to canvass opinions and
attitudes towards ta moko. The basis of the survey was to broadly examine the
extent to which ta moko has become a form of inscribed identity for Māori. This is
a first stage in a wider research project to examine Māori attitudes towards ta
moko, but it happens that this initial step was taken in the author’s own rohe.

text: He Taonga te Ta Moko ki Tauranga Moana: A survey of attitudes, opinions, whakāro noa iho, towards ta moko during the Tauranga Moana, Tauranga Tangata Festival (Labour Weekend 2002) During Labour Weekend (26 – 28 October 2002) in Tauranga, a celebration called
the Tauranga Moana, Tauranga Tangata Festival was held. The festival
represented the artists, kapa haka, lectures, sports, and personalities of Tauranga
Moana. It was during this festival that a ta moko survey was conducted, with the
support of the lead ta moko artist there, with the aim to canvass opinions and
attitudes towards ta moko. The basis of the survey was to broadly examine the
extent to which ta moko has become a form of inscribed identity for Māori. This is
a first stage in a wider research project to examine Māori attitudes towards ta
moko, but it happens that this initial step was taken in the author’s own rohe.

year: 2003

title: Constructing integrated software development environments with dependency graphs

authors: Grundy, John C.

subjects: computer science

abstract: Integrated software development environments need to support multiple textual and graphical views of software products under development. MViews, a new model for constructing such environments, provides abstractions for representing the abstract syntax of a program as graphs and for viewing and manipulating these graphs in concrete textual and graphical forms. Graphs are used to represent software system structures using components (graph nodes) and relationships (graph edges). These graph components are modified by graph operations to construct and modify a program. Views of these graph components are rendered and manipulated in either graphical or textual forms. Consistency management between updated graph components is supported by a novel update record mechanism. MViews graphs are dependency graphs: updates to graph components are broadcast to related components as update records. These dependent components, or the inter-connecting relationships, respond to these update records and update the dependent components appropriately. This mechanism is used to support inter-component consistency management, and in particular provides a novel way keeping textual and graphical views of software development consistent. This mechanism can also be used as the basis of a wide range of other software development environment facilities. MViews has been reused to implement a variety of integrated environments and examples of these environments are discussed.

text: Constructing integrated software development environments with dependency graphs Integrated software development environments need to support multiple textual and graphical views of software products under development. MViews, a new model for constructing such environments, provides abstractions for representing the abstract syntax of a program as graphs and for viewing and manipulating these graphs in concrete textual and graphical forms. Graphs are used to represent software system structures using components (graph nodes) and relationships (graph edges). These graph components are modified by graph operations to construct and modify a program. Views of these graph components are rendered and manipulated in either graphical or textual forms. Consistency management between updated graph components is supported by a novel update record mechanism. MViews graphs are dependency graphs: updates to graph components are broadcast to related components as update records. These dependent components, or the inter-connecting relationships, respond to these update records and update the dependent components appropriately. This mechanism is used to support inter-component consistency management, and in particular provides a novel way keeping textual and graphical views of software development consistent. This mechanism can also be used as the basis of a wide range of other software development environment facilities. MViews has been reused to implement a variety of integrated environments and examples of these environments are discussed.

year: 1994-03