title: The structure of the O₂-N₂O complex

authors: Salmon, Steven Ray

abstract: We have investigated the lowest energy structures and interaction energies of the oxygen nitrous oxide complex (O₂–N₂O) using explicitly correlated coupled cluster theory. We find that the intermolecular potential energy surface of O₂–N₂O is very flat, with two minima of comparable energy separated by a low energy first order saddle point. Our results are able to conclusively distinguish between the two sets of experimental geometric parameters for O₂–N₂O that were previously determined from rotationally resolved infrared spectra. The global minimum structure of O₂–N₂O is therefore found to be planar with a distorted slipped parallel structure. Finally, we show that the very flat potential energy surface of O₂–N₂O is problematic when evaluating vibrational frequencies with a numerical Hessian and that consideration should be given as to whether results might change if the step-size is varied.

text: The structure of the O₂-N₂O complex We have investigated the lowest energy structures and interaction energies of the oxygen nitrous oxide complex (O₂–N₂O) using explicitly correlated coupled cluster theory. We find that the intermolecular potential energy surface of O₂–N₂O is very flat, with two minima of comparable energy separated by a low energy first order saddle point. Our results are able to conclusively distinguish between the two sets of experimental geometric parameters for O₂–N₂O that were previously determined from rotationally resolved infrared spectra. The global minimum structure of O₂–N₂O is therefore found to be planar with a distorted slipped parallel structure. Finally, we show that the very flat potential energy surface of O₂–N₂O is problematic when evaluating vibrational frequencies with a numerical Hessian and that consideration should be given as to whether results might change if the step-size is varied.

year: 2015-09-28

title: Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo-Nazi Synthesis

authors: van Leeuwen, Wilhelmus Roelof

subjects: Kerry Bolton

abstract: In 1990 a small self-published journal/magazine called The Watcher was distributed among New Zealand's occult underground.  The Watcher described itself as 'the New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path', and was published as the journal of the Order of the Left Hand Path.  The Watcher and the Order directed its attentions towards those occultists who identified themselves as Satanists and, as such, the journal articulated a distinctly Satanic philosophy and perspective.  However, as the journal evolved and developed, renaming itself as The Heretic and The Nexus in later years, there arose alongside Satanic philosophy an increasing emphases on what could be called esoteric Nazism or esoteric Nationalism.  Given that the editor of The Watcher was Kerry Bolton, a man who has been immersed in New Zealand's Nationalist/neo-Nazi movement since the early 1970s, such an increasingly political orientation was perhaps unsurprising.

This thesis examines the way in which the Order bought Satanic and neo-Nazi ideologies together and the resulting synthesis.  It also looks at the transition from being a Satanic order led by a neo-Nazi to an openly neo-Nazi Order that uses Satanic philosophy to justify and popularise its conception of National Socialism.

text: Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo-Nazi Synthesis In 1990 a small self-published journal/magazine called The Watcher was distributed among New Zealand's occult underground.  The Watcher described itself as 'the New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path', and was published as the journal of the Order of the Left Hand Path.  The Watcher and the Order directed its attentions towards those occultists who identified themselves as Satanists and, as such, the journal articulated a distinctly Satanic philosophy and perspective.  However, as the journal evolved and developed, renaming itself as The Heretic and The Nexus in later years, there arose alongside Satanic philosophy an increasing emphases on what could be called esoteric Nazism or esoteric Nationalism.  Given that the editor of The Watcher was Kerry Bolton, a man who has been immersed in New Zealand's Nationalist/neo-Nazi movement since the early 1970s, such an increasingly political orientation was perhaps unsurprising.

This thesis examines the way in which the Order bought Satanic and neo-Nazi ideologies together and the resulting synthesis.  It also looks at the transition from being a Satanic order led by a neo-Nazi to an openly neo-Nazi Order that uses Satanic philosophy to justify and popularise its conception of National Socialism.

year: 2008

title: Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui river claims settlement) Bill – the endless quest for justice

authors: Te Aho, Linda

abstract: Linda Te Aho continues her review of the new legal framework for Te Awa Tupua (the Whanganui River system) as part of the settlement of historical claims by Whanganui iwi about the Whanganui River.

text: Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui river claims settlement) Bill – the endless quest for justice Linda Te Aho continues her review of the new legal framework for Te Awa Tupua (the Whanganui River system) as part of the settlement of historical claims by Whanganui iwi about the Whanganui River.

year: 2016-08