Reading New Zealand Within The New Global Order: Sport and the Visualisation of National Identity

Globalization has emerged as one of the most controversial and debated issues of our times. In particular the potential impact of global products and processes on political, economic and cultural life in all of the world’s ‘global villages’ has met with a range of responses from celebration to condemnation. This essay examines the relationship between globalization and national identity with respect the phenomenon of corporate nationalism. Focusing on New Zealand, the analysis provides a preliminary examination of how global and local corporations appropriate dominant cultural themes, moments and stereotypes as part of their advertising and marketing campaigns. Such strategies enable corporations to localize and establish a sense of loyalty amongst citizens and consumers. Overall, the paper highlights the implications of the corporatization of contemporary life with respect to local, national and indigenous cultures.Peer Reviewe

Shutter problems in Carnarvon in 2015 February

The shutter motor keeps tripping out, and causing the dome to become stuck open. The dome and shutter motors were swapped over to eliminate a fault with the motor. It was discovered that there was no keyway on the shutter motor shaft which was allowing the motor to slip. A second fault was found on one of the SSR relays in the relay box. A keyway was installed, and the faulty SSR bridged out. The shutter now operates correctly. Additional work was done on the weather arm, replacing the rain detector and repairing the anemometer

Sedimentary Record of Cretaceous and Teritiary Salt Movement, East Texas Basin: Times, Rates and Volumes of Salt Flow Implications to Nuclear-Waste Isolation and Petroleum Exploration

Post-Aptian strata (younger than 112 Ma) in the East Texas Basin were strongly influenced by halokinesis and record the evolution of associated salt structures. Comparisons with model diapirs and dome-induced changes in patterns of sandstone distribution, depositional facies, and reef growth indicate that thickness variations in strata surrounding domes were caused by syndepositional processes rather than by tectonic distortion. Salt domes in the East Texas Basin exhibit three stages of growth: pillow, diapir, and post-diapir. Each stage affected surrounding strata differently. Pillow growth caused broad uplifting of strata over the crest of the pillows. The resulting topographic swells influenced depositional trends and were susceptible to erosion. Fluvial-channel systems bypassed pillow crests and stacked vertically in primary peripheral sinks on the updip flanks of the pillows. Diapir growth was characterized by expanded sections of shelf and deltaic strata in secondary peripheral sinks around the diapirs. Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) reefs on topographic saddles between secondary peripheral sinks now host major oil production at Fairway Field. Post diapir crestal uplifting and peripheral subsidence affected smaller areas than did equivalent processes that occurred during pillow or diapir stages. Pre-Aptian domes grew in three areas around the margin of the diapir province, apparently in pre-Aptian depocenters. Maximum dome growth along the basin axis coincided with maximum regional sedimentation there during the mid-Cretaceous (Aptian, Albian, and Cenomanian stages). In the Late Cretaceous, the sites of maximum diapirism migrated to the margin of the diapir province. Diapirism began after pillows were erosionally breached, which led to salt extrusion and formation of peripheral sinks.Bureau of Economic Geolog

Suitability of Salt Domes in The East Texas Basin For Nuclear-Waste Isolation: Final Summary of Geologic and Hydrogeologic Research

This report summarizes results of the East Texas Waste Isolation program from January 1, 1978, to March 30, 1983. Using an extensive database, the study comprised 33 different lines of research by 67 scientists and research assistants. The program covered both basin-wide and site-specific (mainly around Oakwood Dome) studies using surface and subsurface data. A wide range of pertinent geologic and economic data for all 15 shallow salt domes is summarized in Appendix 2. Mesozoic opening of the Gulf of Mexico accompanied thermal processes that controlled sedimentation during filling of the East Texas Basin. The basin contains up to 7,000 meters of shallow-marine and continental sediments overlying the Louann Salt. Deformation in the basin resulted from subsidence of its floor and gravitational flow of salt. The East Texas Basin is divided into four provinces based on the shape of salt structures. Five forces drive salt flow; they operate from near surface to the deepest parts of the basin. Salt flow began in pre-Gilmer (Late Jurassic) time with the growth of salt pillows. Three groups of diapirs can be differentiated based on age and distribution. The growing salt structures affected topography, thereby influencing depositional facies. Low-permeability facies generally surround the salt stocks. Two types of structural inversion affected the structure of strata during diapirism. Geomorphic evidence does not preclude Quaternary uplift over Oakwood Dome, but its southern flank may have subsided. The rates of dome growth declined exponentially with time to rates less than 0.6 meters per 10^4 years. All regional fault systems in the basin appear to be related to slow gravitational creep of salt. Nevertheless, at least eight probable earthquakes were recorded near the southern margin of the basin in 1981 and 1982, and their probable focus - the Mount Enterprise fault - is poorly understood.Bureau of Economic Geolog

Delay-bandwidth and delay-loss limitations for cloaking of large objects

Based on a simple model of ground-plane cloaking, we argue that the diffculty of cloaking is fundamentally limited by delay-loss and delaylbandwidth/size limitations that worsen as the size of the object to be cloaked increases relative to the wavelength. These considerations must be taken into account when scaling experimental cloaking demonstrations from wavelength-scale objects towards larger sizes, and suggest quantitative material/loss challenges in cloaking human-scale objects.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure

The dynamics of shelf forcing in Greenlandic fjords

Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2018. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Physical Oceanography 48 (2018): 2799-2827, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-18-0057.1.The fjords that connect Greenland’s glaciers to the ocean are gateways for importing heat to melt ice and for exporting meltwater into the ocean. The transport of heat and meltwater can be modulated by various drivers of fjord circulation, including freshwater, local winds, and shelf variability. Shelf-forced flows (also known as the intermediary circulation) are the dominant mode of variability in two major fjords of east Greenland, but we lack a dynamical understanding of the fjord’s response to shelf forcing. Building on observations from east Greenland, we use numerical simulations and analytical models to explore the dynamics of shelf-driven flows. For the parameter space of Greenlandic fjords, we find that the fjord’s response is primarily a function of three nondimensional parameters: the fjord width over the deformation radius (W/Rd), the forcing time scale over the fjord adjustment time scale, and the forcing amplitude (shelf pycnocline displacements) over the upper-layer thickness. The shelf-forced flows in both the numerical simulations and the observations can largely be explained by a simple analytical model for Kelvin waves propagating around the fjord. For fjords with W/Rd > 0.5 (most Greenlandic fjords), 3D dynamics are integral to understanding shelf forcing—the fjord dynamics cannot be approximated with 2D models that neglect cross-fjord structure. The volume flux exchanged between the fjord and shelf increases for narrow fjords and peaks around the resonant forcing frequency, dropping off significantly at higher- and lower-frequency forcing.This work was funded by NSF Grant OCE-1536856 and by the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship