“I had never really done any partner-dance before,” he said. “I found that I really enjoyed the energetic dance as well as the social part of it. “It was really fun to learn how to lead someone on the dance floor to ‘pre-trained’ steps and moves. It gives you a real kick, as well as something to talk about. “Plus, it s pretty cool when you can do twists and turns to a quick song!”
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Daniel Owen at his work station, where he is currently working on drawings for pontoons at Waiheke Island. Owen grew up in Sweden, after his Swedish mother returned there when he was three to attend to her dying father.
Murcia presented the two-day Simplified Figure workshop at the studio of Picton potter Sara Scott. During this workshop, Murcia taught students to break down the body into simple geometrical parts. This makes it easy to understand the volume of the different parts and the core structure of the figure, he said. Students learn proportions and anatomy just deep enough to read through the surface of the skin and get an understanding of the human figure. “What I do is difficult to find, not only in New Zealand, but in the world. You have to go to Paris, or Italy or Barcelona to find this kind of thing,” said Murcia.
Better engineering now protects our most precious people in places such as Tūranga central library in Christchurch.
OPINION: Christchurch isn’t the city it was a decade ago today, when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake turned a sunny Tuesday afternoon into a nightmare. It’s actually now a safer city. That’s thanks to better design and earthquake engineering built into many of the buildings that replaced the ruins of the city centre. A decade of scientific research, much of it undertaken in the Garden City itself, has informed new methods of making buildings more resilient to earthquakes. We’ve also seen a shift in thinking around earthquake engineering. Before the Christchurch quake, the priority was to design buildings so that they would prevent loss of life and avoid collapsing.
Johnston said her priority would be to ensure NMIT could partner effectively with iwi and collaborate with the region s employers, as the transformation of a national vocational education system was rolled out. Wehner, who has served on the NMIT Board in chair and member roles for nearly 12 years, said he was stepping aside from NMIT for professional and personal reasons which had nothing to do with the transition. He said NMIT deserved a chair who “could give it some more focus” than perhaps he could, through the process. Wehner is chief financial officer at Port Nelson, and served as director on the board of a company in the Waikato.
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 8:39 am
Thousands of international students, many of whom have
spent tens of thousands of dollars to study in New Zealand,
and have received study visas, have been unable to enter the
country since it imposed draconian border restrictions in
March.
They are among thousands of people with visas,
entitling them to live in New Zealand, who remain stranded
overseas. Hundreds of migrant workers have protested in
India, demanding the same treatment as NZ residents and
citizens, tens of thousands of whom have been able to return
and spend two weeks in hotels that are serving as quarantine
facilities.