Quail Shoot - Far North New Zealand
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2016 marks 30 years since the homosexual law reform in Aotearoa, New Zealand. As a reflection upon this history InsideOUT has repurposed audio from the debates in 1986 into a video campaign for Day of Silence - a day where people remain silent in representation of the silence and oppression the rainbow community faces. The contrast between historical audio with contemporary video shows about how far we have come and how much work there is yet to do.
Our aim is to create pathways for further and necessary progress for our rainbow community both collectively and individually. We present the history of our struggle in hope that we can unify our community by validating and strengthening the identities of its members.
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New Zealand Cuisine
00:00:47 1 Māori cuisine
00:02:21 1.1 Food and religion
00:03:05 1.2 European influences
00:04:28 1.3 Māori cuisine today
00:05:26 2 New Zealand European cuisine
00:05:45 2.1 British Isles settler food
00:07:19 2.2 From Antipodean British fare to Asia-Pacific fusion
00:10:30 3 Other cuisines in New Zealand
00:12:53 4 Contemporary scene
00:17:10 5 New Zealand cuisine in other countries
00:18:34 6 Alcoholic beverages
00:21:14 7 Patterns of eating
00:25:42 8 New Zealand foods
00:25:51 8.1 Developed in New Zealand
00:26:00 8.2 Imported cuisines, now significant in New Zealand
00:26:11 9 See also
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New Zealand cuisine is largely driven by local ingredients and seasonal variations. An island nation with a primarily agricultural economy, New Zealand yields produce from land and sea. Similar to the cuisine of Australia, the cuisine of New Zealand is a diverse British-based cuisine, with Mediterranean and Pacific Rim influences as the country becomes more cosmopolitan.
Historical influences came from Māori culture. New American cuisine, Southeast Asian, East Asian, and South Asian culinary traditions have become popular since the 1970s.
In New Zealand households, dinner is the main meal of the day, when families gather and share their evening together. Restaurants and takeaways provide an increasing proportion of the diet.
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Also known as the Yangtze River Dolphin, this dolphin is listed as critically endangered but most scientists agree that it is already extinct. This dolphin actually died out pretty recently, and so, scientists feel that they can bring them back, or at least try to. The last documented sighting was in 2002 although every so often someone claims to have seen one jumping out of the river.
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The woolly rhinoceros went extinct about 10,000 years ago but some very well-preserved specimens have been found in the ice. Scientists have decided to take advantage of this opportunity and bring back megafauna from the ice age, including the Woolly Rhinoceros.
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The Passenger Pigeon may be one of the truly tragic extinction stories, as the Passenger Pigeon was once one of the dominant bird species in the United States. According to the Smithsonian, there were once around 5 billion of these birds in the United States before the settlers came. Once settlers arrived, they started to destroy their habitat and hunt them for food and sport.
4. The Tasmanian Tiger
Also known as the Thylacine or the Tasmanian Wolf, this animal was the largest carnivorous marsupial to live in modern times. This creature was the Apex Predator of its ecosystem on the island off of Australia. It would hunt all kinds of animals with lethal intent, which actually led to its downfall. The settlers of Australia didn't like that this creature was eating their livestock, so they would actually put bounties on its head, and many, MANY, people were happy to take that up.
3. The Moa
The Moa were flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They went extinct about 700 years ago and now scientists are very close to bringing them back!! They were very tall birds, reaching 12 feet tall at times, and could weigh over a ton. However, with the arrival of humans in the 13th century, they were hunted to extinction.
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The Woolly Mammoth has been documented and studied immensely ever since the first bones were found by modern scientists. And so it should come as no big surprise that there are many scientists trying to bring back this massive creature.
1. The Dodo Bird
The Dodo Bird has always stood out amongst extinct animals as the poster animal for human-induced extinction. So why do we care? This would be the best species for scientists to bring back!
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The Mutton Birds of Bass Strait (1956)
The Mutton Bird (Puffinus tenuirostris) has been the basis of a successful, if little-known, Tasmanian industry for more than a century. Each year millions of fledglings are harvested for their carcasses and oil.
In 1947, in an attempt to assess how long rookeries could withstand such losses, the Fauna Board of Tasmania joined forces with CSIRO to investigate the mutton bird''s life history. The bird''s fantastic migration was one of the most interesting facts they uncovered. The huge flocks that cross the Pacific each year to spend the northern summer in Canada and Alaska, return to their Bass Strait breeding grounds on almost the same day each year.
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Critical collections: why museum collections matter
Alec Coles, Chief Executive Officer, WA Museum
In the digital age, it has been claimed, collections are no longer important: after all, surely we can find what we are looking for on the Web? Alec Coles could not disagree more! In a world where authenticity is at a premium, he believes that collections are a museum’s unique product and museums and their collections have never been more relevant.
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Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1939 classic film of the same name. John Buchan (1875-1940) was Governor General of Canada and a popular novelist. Although condemned by some for anti-Semitic dialog in The Thirty-Nine Steps, his character’s sentiments do not represent the view of the author who was identified in Hitler’s Sonderfahndungsliste (special search list) as a Jewish sympathiser. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)
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00:02:22 1 Pleistocene or Ice Age extinction event
00:08:51 1.1 Africa and southern Asia
00:17:12 1.1.1 Megafauna that disappeared in Africa or southern Asia during the Late Pleistocene
00:23:54 1.2 The Pacific (Australasia and Oceania)
00:31:17 1.3 Europe and northern Asia
00:49:04 1.4 spanNorth America
01:08:27 1.5 South America
01:16:23 2 Later extinctions
01:18:07 3 Hunting hypothesis
01:23:33 3.1 Overkill hypothesis
01:24:00 3.2 Objections to the hunting hypothesis
01:30:28 4 Climate change hypothesis
01:34:06 4.1 Increased temperature
01:35:55 4.2 Arguments against the temperature hypothesis
01:37:12 4.3 Increased continentality affects vegetation in time or space
01:37:47 4.3.1 Vegetation changes: geographic
01:38:54 4.3.2 Rainfall changes: time
01:41:13 4.4 Arguments against the continentality hypotheses
01:45:42 5 Arguments against both climate change and overkill
01:46:31 6 Hyperdisease hypothesis
01:46:41 6.1 Theory
01:50:08 6.2 Arguments against the hyperdisease hypothesis
01:51:44 7 Second-order predation
01:51:55 7.1 Scenario
01:54:28 7.2 Support
01:56:15 7.3 Second-order predation and other theories
01:57:20 7.4 Arguments against the second-order predation hypothesis
02:00:10 7.5 Arguments against the second-order predation plus climate hypothesis
02:00:47 8 Comet hypothesis
02:01:43 8.1 Arguments against/for the comet hypothesis
02:05:25 9 See also
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The Quaternary period (from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present) saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly megafaunal species, which resulted in a collapse in faunal density and diversity and the extinction of key ecological strata across the globe. The most prominent event in the Late Pleistocene is differentiated from previous Quaternary pulse extinctions by the widespread absence of ecological succession to replace these extinct species, and the regime shift of previously established faunal relationships and habitats as a consequence.
The earliest casualties were incurred at 130,000 BCE (the start of the Late Pleistocene). However, the great majority of extinctions in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas occurred during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch (13,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE). This extinction wave did not stop at the end of the Pleistocene, continuing, especially on isolated islands, in human-caused extinctions, although there is debate as to whether these should be considered separate events or part of the same event.Among the main causes hypothesized by paleontologists are overkill by the widespread appearance of humans and natural climate change. A notable modern human presence first appeared during the Middle Pleistocene in Africa, and started to establish continuous, permanent populations in Eurasia and Australasia from 120,000 BCE and 63,000 BCE respectively, and the Americas from 22,000 BCE.A variant of the former possibility is the second-order predation hypothesis, which focuses more on the indirect damage caused by overcompetition with nonhuman predators. Recent studies have tended to favor the human-overkill theory.
Monarch Research and Advanced Topics
Join Dr. Sonia Altizer, Dr. Lincoln Brower, and Dr. Karen Oberhauser in this advanced topics webinar about monarch research. You will learn about cutting edge monarch research using new techniques to answer questions about things like migration and population genetics. Additionally, learn about research in the areas of overwintering monarchs, disease spread, natural enemies, population trends, and climate change. You will also get a short overview about the new monarch book, titled Monarchs in a Changing World: Biology and Conservation of an Iconic Butterfly.
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Cuisine of Indonesia | Wikipedia audio article
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Cuisine of Indonesia
00:03:32 1 History
00:08:43 2 Customs, serving and consumption
00:11:40 3 Staples
00:11:48 3.1 Rice
00:14:24 3.2 Wheat
00:15:43 3.3 Other staples
00:17:07 4 Vegetables
00:18:47 4.1 Vegetarianism in Indonesia
00:20:03 5 Meat and fish
00:20:24 5.1 Poultry
00:21:29 5.2 Meat
00:24:20 5.3 Fish
00:26:07 5.4 Insects
00:27:45 6 Spices and other flavourings
00:29:05 6.1 Sambal
00:30:25 6.2 Sauces and seasonings
00:31:03 6.3 Peanut sauce
00:32:55 6.4 Coconut milk
00:35:18 7 Cooking method
00:37:28 8 Regional dishes
00:37:37 8.1 Jakarta
00:38:22 8.2 West Java
00:39:14 8.3 Central Java
00:40:04 8.4 East Java
00:41:01 8.5 Madura
00:41:51 8.6 Bali
00:42:34 8.7 Aceh
00:43:07 8.8 North Sumatra
00:43:41 8.9 West Sumatra
00:45:18 8.10 East Sumatra
00:46:54 8.11 South Sumatra
00:48:17 8.12 North Sulawesi
00:49:34 8.13 South Sulawesi
00:51:16 8.14 Nusa Tenggara
00:52:29 8.15 Maluku and Papua
00:53:07 9 Foreign influences
00:53:16 9.1 Indian influences
00:53:58 9.2 Chinese influences
00:54:54 9.3 Dutch influences
00:56:32 10 Influence abroad
00:56:55 10.1 Malaysia
00:58:18 10.2 Thailand
00:58:57 10.3 Netherlands
01:00:19 11 Meal times
01:02:04 12 Feasts
01:02:13 12.1 iTumpeng/i
01:03:46 12.2 iNasi Padang/i
01:05:01 12.3 iRijsttafel/i
01:05:39 12.4 iPrasmanan/i
01:06:43 13 Beverages
01:06:52 13.1 Non-alcoholic beverages
01:09:44 13.2 Alcoholic beverages
01:10:52 14 Eating establishment
01:11:16 14.1 Restaurant and warung
01:12:42 14.2 Street food
01:14:48 15 Snacks
01:14:57 15.1 Kue
01:15:54 15.2 Traditional crackers
01:17:06 16 Fruits
01:19:39 17 Health
01:19:48 17.1 Nutrition
01:21:19 17.2 Food safety
01:22:21 17.3 Hygiene
01:23:18 18 See also
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Indonesian cuisine is one of the most vibrant and colourful cuisines in the world, full of intense flavour. It is eclectic and diverse, in part because Indonesia is composed of approximately 6,000 populated islands of the total 17,508 in the world's largest archipelago, with more than 300 ethnic groups calling Indonesia home. Many regional cuisines exist, often based upon indigenous culture and foreign influences. Indonesia has around 5,350 traditional recipes, with 30 of them considered the most important. Indonesia's cuisine may include rice, noodle and soup dishes in modest local eateries to street-side snacks and top-dollar plates.
Indonesian cuisine varies greatly by region and has many different influences. Sumatran cuisine, for example, often has Middle Eastern and Indian influences, featuring curried meat and vegetables such as gulai and curry, while Javanese cuisine is mostly indigenous, with some hint of Chinese influence. The cuisines of Eastern Indonesia are similar to Polynesian and Melanesian cuisine. Elements of Chinese cuisine can be seen in Indonesian cuisine: foods such as noodles, meat balls, and spring rolls have been completely assimilated.
Throughout its history, Indonesia has been involved in trade due to its location and natural resources. Additionally, Indonesia’s indigenous techniques and ingredients were influenced by India, the Middle East, China, and finally Europe. Spanish and Portuguese traders brought New World produce even before the Dutch came to colonise most of the archipelago. The Indonesian islands The Moluccas (Maluku), which are famed as the Spice Islands, also contributed to the introduction of native spices, such as cloves and nutmeg, to Indonesian and global cuisine.
Indonesian cuisine often demonstrates complex flavour, acquired from certain ingredients and bumbu spices mixture. Indonesian dishes have rich flavours; most often described as savory, hot and spicy, and also combination of basic tastes such as sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Most of Indonesians favour hot and spicy food, thus sambal, Indonesian hot and spicy chili sauce with shrimp paste, is a staple condiment at all Indonesian tables. Seven main Indonesian cooking methods are frying, grilling, roasting, dry roasting, saut� ...