title: Shifting realities: Immigrant teacher transitions into early childhood settings in Aotearoa New Zealand

authors: Arndt, Sonja Kathrina

abstract: Imagine you are an immigrant early childhood teacher… this article tells your story of transition and diversity. It interweaves tensions and complex realities and explores issues and concerns for immigrant teachers in the cultural places and relational spaces of early childhood settings.  Based on teacher narratives and a post-structural discourse analysis, it suggests that immigrant teachers’ realities are not always ‘rich’ or celebratory, but are often complex entanglements of struggle and contradictions.  The article urges fresh considerations of early childhood relationships to allow for fluid, shifting identities and cultures – yours, ours, and the centre’s.

text: Shifting realities: Immigrant teacher transitions into early childhood settings in Aotearoa New Zealand Imagine you are an immigrant early childhood teacher… this article tells your story of transition and diversity. It interweaves tensions and complex realities and explores issues and concerns for immigrant teachers in the cultural places and relational spaces of early childhood settings.  Based on teacher narratives and a post-structural discourse analysis, it suggests that immigrant teachers’ realities are not always ‘rich’ or celebratory, but are often complex entanglements of struggle and contradictions.  The article urges fresh considerations of early childhood relationships to allow for fluid, shifting identities and cultures – yours, ours, and the centre’s.

year: 2014

title: Prevalence of mastitis for cows of different genotypes milked for two consecutive seasons

authors: Lacy-Hulbert, S. Jane

abstract: Extending the calving interval from the traditional 12-month to a 24-month calving interval has been suggested as a practical solution for maximizing lactation yield per calving. Somatic cell count (SCC) and the incidence of mastitis were examined in New Zealand (NZ) and overseas (OS) Holstein-Friesian cows fed on pasture alone or supplemented with 3 or 6 kg DM maize/barley concentrates/cow/day during an extended lactation of up to 21 months. Average cow SCC was three-fold higher (P<0.001) in the extended or second season of the lactation compared with the first season, with NZ cows having a slightly higher SCC (P<0.01) in the second season compared to OS cows (191,000 and 115,000 cells/ml respectively). The SCC elevations occurred regardless of infection status of the udder. Although OS cows tended to have twice as many cases of clinical mastitis (P=0.01) in the first season compared to the NZ cows, affecting 59% and 27% of cows respectively, there was no difference in infection status between genotypes in the second season (20% and 18% respectively). Results showed that although cows experienced less mastitis during the second spring of the lactation, the average cow SCC was higher during the extended part of the lactation.

text: Prevalence of mastitis for cows of different genotypes milked for two consecutive seasons Extending the calving interval from the traditional 12-month to a 24-month calving interval has been suggested as a practical solution for maximizing lactation yield per calving. Somatic cell count (SCC) and the incidence of mastitis were examined in New Zealand (NZ) and overseas (OS) Holstein-Friesian cows fed on pasture alone or supplemented with 3 or 6 kg DM maize/barley concentrates/cow/day during an extended lactation of up to 21 months. Average cow SCC was three-fold higher (P<0.001) in the extended or second season of the lactation compared with the first season, with NZ cows having a slightly higher SCC (P<0.01) in the second season compared to OS cows (191,000 and 115,000 cells/ml respectively). The SCC elevations occurred regardless of infection status of the udder. Although OS cows tended to have twice as many cases of clinical mastitis (P=0.01) in the first season compared to the NZ cows, affecting 59% and 27% of cows respectively, there was no difference in infection status between genotypes in the second season (20% and 18% respectively). Results showed that although cows experienced less mastitis during the second spring of the lactation, the average cow SCC was higher during the extended part of the lactation.

year: 2006

title: The day ahead

authors: Webber, Warren

abstract: With a professional background in agriculture and veterinary science, and a decade of participation in water quality issues for the Rotorua Lakes catchments, Warren brings an intense personal, but non-vested interest, to issues of nutrient management on the land and in our waterways. Conference management (international and domestic) helps to pay the bills, but voluntary community interests take up much of his time. As an appointee to the Stakeholder Advisory Group (StAG) which considers land management and land use change policy issues on behalf of the Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group, he is closely involved with the challenges of nutrient allocation and incentives for change.

text: The day ahead With a professional background in agriculture and veterinary science, and a decade of participation in water quality issues for the Rotorua Lakes catchments, Warren brings an intense personal, but non-vested interest, to issues of nutrient management on the land and in our waterways. Conference management (international and domestic) helps to pay the bills, but voluntary community interests take up much of his time. As an appointee to the Stakeholder Advisory Group (StAG) which considers land management and land use change policy issues on behalf of the Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group, he is closely involved with the challenges of nutrient allocation and incentives for change.

year: 2013