Free Forms draws upon an artistic language based upon architecture and craft traditions.
This series of work is about care, balance and respect.
Not just towards ourselves and our friends, but all people across all aspects of our lives.
Colin McCahon: from the collection.
Colin McCahon is generally considered to be one of New Zealand's most inventive and influential artists. The gallery collection is an intensely private insight into McCahon.
Annual School Art Exhibition. Every year since 1984 the Forrester Gallery has hosted this annual exhibition of artworks created by children of the Waitaki District.
An exhibition about the progress of the Cultural Facilities Development Project. Have your say!
Flanked by giant Macrocarpa trees, we live the rural life on an acre section isolated and free. With a ram, a sheep and four chickens, we try to live out of Tāne's gardens. Tāne has taught me that if we look after the land, the land looks after us.
Depicting a fascinating link between art and science, history and imagination, this exhibition explores the DIATOMS – microscopic algae found in fossil form in North Otago deposits.
Art and Science meet in our winter wonderlab.
A display of ethnic items brought to Oamaru by migrants from their home countries.
An exhibition of musical instruments from both 'found materials' and materials that 'appear to have lost their way'.
Continuing the series of exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection of the Forrester Gallery.
Colin Wheeler is an important regional artist, well known for his love and painterly documentation of our natural and built landscape. His exceptional ability and skill in observation, recording and drawing technique deserves our attention and respect.
Looking for something fun to do with your friends in the second week of the holidays?
After a ten year break from pottery local artist David Atkinson has returned to clay.
Working from the studio spaces of Pottery on Tyne, David is creating new designs featuring bright modern glazes.
The wonderlab is open again with new programmes in support of the our current exhibition: ART & ANATOMY, highlighting Oamaru's early medical history including the story of local business Lane's Emulsion.
Euan Macleod was born in Christchurch and trained at the Canterbury School of Art. Based in Sydney Macleod constantly returns to New Zealand to make art. This exhibition features works inspired by the Bay of Plenty, Lyttelton Harbour, the Southern Alps, and the Australian landscape.
The Botanical Art Society of New Zealand introduces 'The Canterbury Plains Florilegium Exhibition' consisting of 26 artworks by 14 artists of indigenous plants of New Zealand.


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Bouldah
Roger Watkins
The story of Bouldah starts in 1973, when I returned to Wellington from the UK where I'd been playing in a band with two other Wellington musicians, Dennis O'Brien and Nick Theobald. I was looking for a gig here, and knew Desna Sisarich, a great singer-songwriter.
Desna was involved at that time with Ziggy's, and her producer, Mike Le Petit, had the "house" band, Isis, at the club. She introduced me to him. He and Dave Orams, ex-The Breakaways and Quincy Conserve, were using whoever was available on drums, so I joined them as their regular drummer. Mike played Fender Rhodes, and Dave was on bass and vocals.
After some time, we decided it would be good to add a guitarist, so I asked Dave "Ned" Knowles, whom I knew from Dennis' band before we went to the UK, to join Isis. Not long afterwards, Orams was offered a gig in Melbourne (allegedly with Little River Band) and Mike got married and moved to Christchurch to work in radio. Knowles and I got a couple of other guys, both called David, one an Australian singer, the other a local guitarist, to join us and we played as David for a while. We briefly called ourselves "Trevor" as well, just for the hell of it. But it was just a stopgap band.
One night, two rather raddled guys staggered into the club and we got chatting. Pat McKenna was a singer and Robbie Harper played bass. They were keen to play, so I asked them to become part of the new band, which I named Bouldah – sort of a play on "hard rock".
I think we had two practices, and then we hit the stage as the new house band. A regular band was badly needed at Ziggy's, so time was of the essence. We didn't fanny about creating a flash repertoire, just pooled our respective knowledge of basic/classic/pop/rock and roll songs and tunes and cranked them out loud and fast. The game was on.
The guys were only too willing to dress up, spray our hair different colours every night, basically do whatever it took to be different.
When I left the UK, glam rock was all the rage – Mud, Sweet, Suzy Quatro, Roy Wood's Wizard, etc. – so I had the notion to do something similar here. The guys were only too willing to dress up, spray our hair different colours every night, basically do whatever it took to be different to whatever else was going on here at the time. Of course, alcohol helped.
So we dressed up, had fun, played loud and fast and people began to come in droves to boogie all night. So it got looser, louder, crazier, faster and the punters loved it. Within a few weeks, we had a packed dance floor every night – they were actually standing and waiting on the dance floor for us to start playing!
Interestingly, there were never any fights at Ziggy's when we played, just a heaving mass of bodies going like mad things while we massacred classic songs in our crazy repertoire. No matter what the song, we thrashed 'em all to death at maximum volume and frenetic pace. I'm sure the sound quality was abysmal but the energy of the band was very high – we didn't care how it sounded too much so long as people enjoyed it.
After a few months, we wanted to extend the sound a bit and Ned brought in a colleague from work, Dave Reid, on piano. Now we were five.
When we started playing at the club, we played on one of the side stages: when you walked into the club, to the left was a seating area and a bar (un-licensed, of course) and in front of that the dance floor; to the right of the entrance was a corridor that also led around to the dance floor. So facing the dance floor, to the left was a low stage and on the opposite side of the dance floor another low stage. At the far end overlooking the dance floor was a high balcony with tables and chairs. We played on the low stages initially.
One night we realised that the original multi-level stage that the Quincy's played on was probably under the balcony. We demolished the balcony and there it was … fantastic! There was even the old band room alongside the stage, so that's where we played from then on. It was cool to have the privacy of the band room, and we could get tanked up out of sight before staggering on to play!
By 1976, Desna and I had become a couple. We were knackered, what with both having fulltime day jobs as well as working the club for all hours. Ziggy's took up all our spare time including most of Desna's regular job salary – there's no money in night clubs, folks! Not in those days, anyway, just lots of hard work. Malcolm was also a casualty, verging on a nervous breakdown, so we decided to call it quits and hand it over to other members of the "society", who had up until then not really been involved much in running it at all. I left the band, and I think Roger Clarke stepped in. We heard the news some months later that the club had been firebombed, allegedly by rival club owners, and the entire city block burned down. Incredible.
It's general knowledge that the club unsuccessfully relocated to the Trades Hall on Vivien Street after the fire. Bouldah staggered on, with Delatour Ranginui, an old band mate of Robbie's from Levin, coming in on drums. It was never going to be the same, and quite soon it all just faded away. The original Bouldah did try to record a few songs at Radio New Zealand's Bowen Street studios, but I never heard any finished product and have no idea what happened to the session tapes.
Bouldah at Ziggy's, August 1975
Photo credit: Roger Watkins collection
Roger Watkins with Bouldah at Ziggy's
Bouldah at Ziggy's, September 1975
Pat McKenna - vocals
Roger Watkins - drums, vocals
Dave Knowles - guitar, vocals
Rob Harper - bass, vocals
Dave Reid - piano
Roger Clarke - drums
Delatour Ranginui - drums
The Quincy Conserve
Anna Leah
Ziggy's

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Official: 58 religious minority associations have permission for activity in Iran
April 28, 2019 - 21:2
TEHRAN – Hamid Molanouri, director general of the political department at the Interior Ministry, has said 58 religious minority associations have official permission for activity in Iran.
Molanouri said the associations include 29 Zoroastrian groups, 16 Armenians, 10 Assyrians and 3 Jews, ISNA reported.
He said the associations conduct religious and social activities.
"These communities have been founded with the aim of resolving religious, sociocultural and welfare problems of the religious minorities," he explained.
"Each of them is somehow responsible for the social affairs of the religious minorities as well as holding their religious and cultural events," he added.
Molanouri further said the followers of Iran's religious minorities have one association per 2,600 people.
He added that due to the Interior Ministry's special attention to the rights of religious minorities and its policy of promoting dialogue with them, last year representatives from the political department at the Interior Ministry held 11 meetings with followers of religious minorities at different levels.
The Islamic Republic of Iran recognizes the rights of religious minorities based on its constitution. All Iranian citizens are equal in benefiting from their basic rights within legal frameworks.
Iranian authorities also argue that the Iranian constitution does not tolerate discrimination against divine religions and guarantees equality for the followers of all divine faiths.
Hamid Molanouri
religious minority associations


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Neurofascins are required to establish axonal domains for saltatory conduction.
Title Neurofascins are required to establish axonal domains for saltatory conduction.
Voltage-gated sodium channels are concentrated in myelinated nerves at the nodes of Ranvier flanked by paranodal axoglial junctions. Establishment of these essential nodal and paranodal domains is determined by myelin-forming glia, but the mechanisms are not clear. Here, we show that two isoforms of Neurofascin, Nfasc155 in glia and Nfasc186 in neurons, are required for the assembly of these specialized domains. In Neurofascin-null mice, neither paranodal adhesion junctions nor nodal complexes are formed. Transgenic expression of Nfasc155 in the myelinating glia of Nfasc-/- nerves rescues the axoglial adhesion complex by recruiting the axonal proteins Caspr and Contactin to the paranodes. However, in the absence of Nfasc186, sodium channels remain diffusely distributed along the axon. Our study shows that the two major Neurofascins play essential roles in assembling the nodal and paranodal domains of myelinated axons; therefore, they are essential for the transition to saltatory conduction in developing vertebrate nerves.


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Q: Mongoose: How to query field in document I have a document that has array of questions, I want each time I submit button the function is run that request next question in the array of question, basically its quiz app where I want to show questions from database that is saved in the document and all questions are saved in the array
Is it right the way I structured data i.e all question in an array and in single document
My question is how can I retrieve each question in the array that is saved in single document, I did something like this:
var schema = new mongoose.Schema({
question : []
})
var quizz = mongoose.model('Quiz', schema );

var firstDoc = new quizz({
question: ['question 1', 'question 2', 'question 3', 'question 4']
})

firstDoc.save(function(err, res){
 if(err){
   console.log("error occured while saving document object " + err )
 }else{
   console.log("saved data");
 }
})

should I have to make some ID to identify each question in array so that I can pull question based on ID or this is right what I'm doing

A: To look at documents with specific value in the array you have to use $in:
quizz.findOne({ question: {$in: ['question 1'] }, function (err, doc) {
   console.log(doc);
});

A correct schema for your purpose should be like this:
var QuestionSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
   question: String
});

Then you can use the schema to create a document for each question you have.
var firstQuestion = new quizz({
   question: 'question 1'
});
var secondQuestion = new quizz({
   question: 'question 2'
});

etc...

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The Anti-Elitist Elite
Sept 28, 199912:34 PM
Dear Nat,
Maybe I was too prickly about Lemann's treatment of the California Civil Rights Initiative, but let me explain why. CCRI, and opposition to affirmative action generally, is popular with middle-class Americans. Meanwhile, CCRI was extremely unpopular with the educated elites. One of the things the educated elites did during the CCRI fight was to use the full power of their influence in the media and the culture to oppose, discredit, and in many cases smear the supporters. That's one of the reasons most of the normal big-money people in the Republican party wouldn't go near it.
In the end, the educated-elite assault was not enough to drive public support of CCRI below 50 percent. That shows that the influence of the educated elite is not dominant in American society (if it were, campaign-finance reform would have passed long ago).
But Lemann is writing a book lamenting the fact that America has this new elite, selected at an early age by SAT scores and other academic factors. He says this system of selecting people so young is unfair to most Americans. Good point. But if that is your argument, then in the major public-policy dispute you cover in the book, you had better bend over backwards to give voice to the majority of high-school grads who supported CCRI. Instead, the story is told–for the most part–through a bunch of Ivy League lawyers and highly educated political activists. To simplify Lemann's supple narrative a bit: He decries the existence of the educated elite, but when push comes to shove he seems more a creature of that elite than an opponent or a detached cultural observer.
But I don't want to say that Lemann is an old fashioned elitist. That is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the educated elite, of which Lemann seems to be a paragon. The reality is much more paradoxical. This is an elite raised to oppose elites. This is an elite with an egalitarian sensibility. That's why it supports affirmative action–out of concern for the less fortunate. That's why its members write books like this one. When members of the elite oppose the middle class and sometimes trample all over them, they are usually doing it in the name of egalitarianism. The elites are more egalitarian than the masses.
One of the things that shines through Lemann's writing is his concern for people less fortunate than himself. He is never self-righteous or showy about this. Instead, his penchant for exhaustive research seems to flow from a genuine social commitment. I've never met the man, but I admire him through his writings. From what I know about him, he seems to have had all the educational advantages. And here he is arguing against the privileges of his class, but without any radical-chic bravura–and most members of the educated elite will agree with him.
That's why this elite, for all its flaws, is fundamentally different than and better than the Protestant Establishment that it replaced. That's why I'm not convinced by Lemann's concluding section in which he says we should change the way we select our elites. The ethos he describes in his heroes undercuts his case. If we are going to have an elite–and we are–we should have one made up of people as egalitarian as Lemann. The current university system seems to inculcate such values. I mentioned yesterday that I just finished a book about the manners and morals of this educated class. When I wrote the proposal, I said that my last chapter would be about the revolt against this class, for some of the same reasons that Lemann hints at (without sufficiently detailing) in his book: They are selected too early; they live in a culture that is detached from the rest of the culture; the income gap between them and the rest of the culture is widening. But as I traveled around doing my research, I couldn't find any evidence of this class revolt. There didn't seem to be any mass movement to upend people like us who went to or work at selective colleges. Indeed, the rest of America seems to want to learn how to drink espressos like we do. The only people who seemed genuinely upset about the educated elite were members of the educated elite themselves.
This sensibility oozes from the pores of Molly Munger, one of the liberal lawyers Lemann describes fighting CCRI. This sensibility plays out over many spheres. This is an elite that dresses casually so it won't appear elite (visit Microsoft). This is an elite that practices conscientious consumption instead of conspicuous consumption. This is an elite in which six-figure-income intellectuals like Robert Reich churn out books on widening wealth disparities. This is not too say they are hypocrites. It is to say they go to extraordinary lengths to mitigate their social advantages, at least compared to the old Protestant Establishment.
Indeed, I have a half-baked theory that America tolerates left-wing universities because they serve as finishing schools for the new ruling class. They give the coming elite an egalitarian sensibility, so when they rise to the top, they won't give off offensive vapors that might arouse class resentments in the middle and lower class. In this way Marxist professors actually serve to solidify the current class structure.
But that wacky theory aside, the point for Lemann's book is this: He brilliantly shows how the Protestant Establishment gave way to the educated elite. He tells for the first time how the selective mechanism for the educated class–the SAT–came to occupy its current dominant role. He underlines the problems with this arrangement. He makes a truncated plea for reform. But he never shows the great harms perpetrated by this system. He doesn't show how the new elites have been corrupted by their status, or of the misery of How the Other Half Lives. On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome. I don't agree with Lemann on a lot of issues, but I'm glad the central flaw of this elite is excessive egalitarianism. That's the least bad flaw for an elite to have.
You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section. I'm looking forward to that.


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Q: Bitmap quality is very low I'm trying to build an app, that captures a picture and sends the picture to another activity.
I'm trying to display this picture in the second activity and apparently the quality of picture is very low.
Here is my code so far
Intent cameraIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
startActivityForResult(cameraIntent, PICTURE_TAKEN);

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

        if(resultCode == RESULT_OK){
            Intent canvasIntent = new Intent(this ,canvas.class);

            Bundle extras = data.getExtras();
            bmpCameraResult = (Bitmap)extras.get("data");
            canvasIntent.putExtra("bmp_Image", bmpCameraResult);
            startActivity(canvasIntent);

        }

and in the canvasActivity, I'm trying to receive the bitmap in the conventional fashion and trying to display it.
Intent intent= getIntent();
        Bitmap bmp = (Bitmap) intent.getParcelableExtra("bmp_Image");
        ImageView iv = new ImageView(this);
        iv.setImageBitmap(bmp);
        setContentView(iv);

What could be the reason for this reduction of quality? What is the optimized way of getting the high quality image?
Thank You.

A: Did you try to set jpegQuality (setJpegQuality) in your Camera Parameters (Camera.Parameters) as you can read here: Camera Feature Documentation?
I think you should also read these answers about the same issue:

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*Android: Not able to get original photo captured by camera (Able to read compress photo only)

*Low picture/image quality when capture from camera