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• ‘Thanks emmab Can’t wait ! cheers Pete ’
• ‘Hey Pete apologies for not posting a reply straight away, the answer is… YES – take photos of all 9 cars only, no flash (including for moving image) and no tripods. other than that snap away to your hearts content ’
• ‘Looks like a great show! Is photography allowed ? cheers Pete ’

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• ‘Hi again, This is now fixed. The webcast is available from the URL above. Cheers, Florence ’
• ‘Hi Patricia, Thanks for pointing that out. It appears the page disappeared due to a mistake when we got our new website. I will fix this as soon as possible and will let you know as soon as it’s done. Kind regards, Florence, web admin at Te Papa ’
• ‘links are old and don’t work. . .where can i see this performance? ’

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• ‘Where can i find more information on the influenza pandemic, as I am doing a research on it for history and the only website i can find that is really useful is nzhistory.net, I need some more sites with more information where can i find it help me please !?!?! ’
• ‘thank you so much for this link ’
• ‘Thanks for putting in this link Jamie ’

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• ‘War memorials make us to remember what has happened. ’

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• ‘Thanks, Jamie, for adding the link. ’
• ‘Great stuff, Kirstie – I will add a link from our page: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/collingwood-war-memorial ’

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• ‘Hi Grant, Short answer: I don’t know, sorry. I am not aware of similar reports of black nightshade sap being problematic. And, with my previous weedy garden, I did pull out numerous black nightshade plants without ill effect, but I don’t remember getting the sap on my skin. However, the sap of some plant species can be poisonous/toxic via skin contact, and ***people do differ in their reactions***. Although a lot of people report happily consuming black nightshade, it is I think worth pointing out that the NZ Poisons Centre list it amongst their top 10 poisonous plants; for more, see: http://www.poisons.co.nz/fact.php?f=12&c=22 I hope you’re feeling better by now. Leon ’
• ‘By the way, ref one of the earlier comments, Woody Nightshade is an alternative common name for Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara) in the UK. ’
• ‘Hi, interested to read the comments above. Very strange experience today – tried to pull up a particularly vigorous specimen of presumably black nightshade growing in our compost bin. As I pulled I stripped the outer stem, leaving green juice over my hands. Thinking nothing of it, I carried on with my chores. Ten minutes or so later, I came over very peculiar – sweating, dizziness, disorientation, etc. I had to sit down before I fell down. Several hour later symptoms still persist but milder. Is this a coincidence or was it a result of toxicity from the nightshade? Can it enter the body via the skin? Thanks. ’

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• ‘Glad you’re enjoying these works, Jennifer. Good luck with the essay. ’
• ‘I have been writing an essay on McCahon’s work i’ve found his earlier religious aspects to be very ambitious and out going for the time that he did them. Im very proud to no he was a new zealander and he did in a way stand up for those of us that are lost on our beliefs.:) ’
• ‘I have just been writing about this period and the 1948 reviews of McCahon’s work. I found it really intersting that McCahon and Angus were so mutually supportive considering their huge stylistic differences. Comparing their 1947/48 works side by side was an eye opener. ’

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• ‘Thanks Beaming and Music Hungry for your comments. Hope you caught the performance live or via the webstream. We will have the streaming footage up online soon. There is also the forthcoming response text that Caroline Vercoe is writing about the piece. That will be up on the One Day Sculpture site soon, and there is also The Book of One Day Sculpture which is currently being put together. I will be posting on these things when there is more news! charlotte ’
• ‘[...] seen plus the fact that he’s a Native American artist has me very intrigued. Check out the Te Papa Blog for more [...] ’

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• ‘I don’t know the answer to this question as I’m not involved with the publication of the book. I’d suggest you contact Brian Tyler (bandj.tyler@xtra.co.nz) to see if he can help. ’
• ‘Could you give me the price for the CD please. Thanks Lesley ’

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• ‘Thanks Antony, You’re correct in that CHR specimens of D. filix-mas don’t appear to include any from CMS plots. I will be checking with Landcare for plot records later in the year. ’
• ‘Hi Graeme. I was there in October 2003, establishing CMS (now LUCAS) plots. From memory we were in the Clarence river valley. I suggest you request LUCAS recce data from plots in southern Marlborugh / northern Canterbury, from Hazel Broadbent, Landcare Research, Lincoln Check recces for records of Dryopteris. It would be advisable to physically check which Dryopteris species is at the site yourself as it could have been incorrectly ID’d. I doubt any vouchers were retained by CHR. It was certainly Dryopteris and very numerous. It was located on river gravels within the flood zone. Good luck with the project. ’
• ‘Hi Antony, Which river north of Kaikoura? Under Buddleja, does this mean on very recent river gravels? I am currently collecting records and site information for Dryopteris filix-mas and finding that it is widespread but patchy through the North Canterbury foothills. Often just a single plant but mature plants often have clusters of smaller plants within five meters, suggesting that dispersal is a factor in its current distribution. Otherwise, I have seen it along the Canterbury side of the Lewis Pass Highway, at Murchison, along the Motueka Valley and at Ikamatua. It is reported as well established in Arthurs Pass Village by Hugh Wilson. ’

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• ‘Hi Nathan, I understand your concern regarding the acrylic. Each hole was sanded by hand and flamed, then we checked each one before putting the lid back on the tank. By time we had to put the lid on and bolt it down, the majority of the liquid had come up to ambient temperature. Even so, I was still wary of the danger of the acrylic stressing with the last of the liquid being filled and pressurisation with gas production, so we didn’t do a complete fill, leaving air gaps down either side, and leaving valves open to a spill chamber so that gas and air bubbles exit the tank as they develop. Once we see that gas is no longer being produced, we’ll recycle a percentage of the liquid via gravity feed to remove the bubbles from the lid and do a final fill. We hope to be able to do that this Wednesday 1st. You should come on down and check it all out! ’
• ‘Awsome, glad to hear that it went well, the sanding of the acrylic tank concerns me, i work with acrylic quite a bit, building custom resivoirs and the like, and seeing sanding come into play i do hope that they inspected after the sanding, to make sure no small cracks or fractures had started, since as a liquid changes tempeture with most acrylics the acrylic can start to stress and fracture. love that you added the wheelchair ramp, and am looking forward to the day i can vacation from Canada and come see your lovely island. ’

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• ‘Hi Fed, As far as I know James doesn’t have plans to return to NZ anytime soon. He has been to Europe. In 2005 he was the representative of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), part of the Smithsonian, at the Venice Biennale. You can find info about that, plus a whole lot of other things he has done, on his website http://www.jamesluna.com. I’m sure James would be interested in an invitation to the Edinburgh Festival. Contact details for him and his agent Nola are also on his website. thanks for your comment charlotte ’
• ‘Do you have any news on when James will next be visiting? I have watched his performances on you tube and like the way that he mixes sense of humour with the sense of tradition he so readily evokes. I enjoy his understandings of the human condition. And the way he criticises the stereo-types we all adhere without thinking things through. Has he ever travelled to Europe? I am originally from Edinburgh, in Scotland UK, and I know that there would be a lot of interest if he chose to give a performance, especially around the time of the festival (August). ’

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• ‘WOW! I would love to see that colossal squid! I know unmanned subs are expensive but couldn’t people use them to search for colossal squid or would a squid of that size take down a sub? It would be great to see some footage of the colossal squid alive in the abyss. ’

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• ‘[...] posted a blog shortly after Cloud was installed earlier in the year, click here for the full story and also a video of John talking about his [...] ’
• ‘An update for Cloud lovers: John Reynolds’ Cloud is now going to be on exhibition until January 2010. Exact closing date yet to be confirmed, but if you haven’t been in yet, or if you haven’t had enough, there’s more time! Also Cloud will be the focus of the Art After Dark on 20 August. Programme details to be announced. I’ll be sure to post about this – confirmed closing date and Art After Dark as more information is confirmed. Charlotte ’
• ‘Hey thanks Pamela, good spotting! Some of the art works that come up in the search for ‘cloud’ are paintings that are currently on exhibit in the Collection Focus section of Toi Te Papa. (That’s on Level 5 at the opposite end of the high stud exhibiton space). You can see Ian Scott’s Leapaway Girl http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=35839&coltype=art®no=1971-0023-1&term=ian+scott and also two works by Michael Illingworth Untitled, 1971, which is on the cover of the soon to be released Art at Te Papa book. http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2009/01/27/art-book/ http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=220896&coltype=art®no=1995-0020-38&term=illingworth and Pah Hill also by Illingworth http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=660946&coltype=art®no=2004-0020-2&term=illingworth ahhh clouds! ’

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• ‘[...] My colleague Leon Perrie has blogged previously about generating genetic data, including extracting DNA and analyzing microsatellite markers for Pseudopanax species, and detecting differences in DNA sequence data for maidenhair fern species.   [...] ’

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