We are looking at hold downs for secondhand tanks.These tanks will hold tallow and are approx. 4m dia. x 8-10m high.Our current design does not meet the new seismic standard.Anyone have ideas, recommendations?Needs to meed the code for the vertical up thrust and rolling EQ's. Allow tallow is quite a heavy viscosity it does have a slopping affect with EQ'skene
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Auckland Airport has been recognised for its commitment to employing and developing young Aucklanders at the annual ‘Young at Heart’ Youth Employer Pledge Awards.
In the past year Auckland Airport has directly employed almost 50 young people and through Ara, the airport’s jobs and skills hub, connected many more to full-time employment with companies working on the airport’s 30-year development programme.
Anna Cassels-Brown, Auckland Airport’s general manager – people and safety, says, “We’re thrilled to be recognised and so very proud to be playing a part in helping young Aucklanders into jobs and careers. There are so many talented, motivated young people in Auckland and they’re the city’s future workforce. Everyone benefits, including businesses like ours, when we give them opportunities to work and build their skills.”
The airport has won the Industry Leadership Award for launching Ara and the School Engagement and Work Experience Award for its work with students and teachers in local schools. The Young at Heart Awards recognise the efforts of businesses like Auckland Airport that have signed the Auckland Council’s Youth Employer Pledge and are making a commitment to employ Auckland’s young talent to grow their workforce and business.
Ms Cassels-Brown says that helping young people into employment and careers is a partnership.
“We value the support we’ve had in the past year from the team at Ara, our airport jobs and skill hub, from local schools, businesses located at the airport, government agencies, training providers and the South Auckland community.”
“This award recognises that we’ve put a good foundation in place and we’ll be building on that in coming years to help more young Aucklanders into careers at and around the airport.”
The airport is working with 15 South Auckland secondary schools to prepare students for work, offering work experience, careers seminars and scholarships to support students’ tertiary study. In July the airport awarded 19 South Auckland teachers scholarships to fund their professional development.
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today announced the High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge is investing $3 million in its Consumer Insights and Science of Food research programmes.
“The research into high-value nutrition is hugely important in moving our food production from volume to value”, Mr Joyce says. “These projects will help product development that brings maximum returns for New Zealand food exporters.”
The Consumer Insights research programme is focused on understanding consumers’ beliefs, perceptions, attitudes and behaviours.
“Up to $1.5 million has been allocated to research the science of consumers, with a focus on health and wellness needs of Asian consumers. It will research what is needed to establish a habitual consumption of high-value nutritional foods, which is vital in ensuring investment is directed in areas that will resonate most with consumers.
“The completed first phase of this work studied the information currently available to New Zealand businesses, and their knowledge gaps in understanding consumers’ needs and behaviours.”
This programme will provide direction to clinical research supporting the development of high-value foods and beverages for Asian markets. Companies will also get better information on how to market their products to demonstrate how they meet the needs of consumers.
“The Science of Food research programme will also receive $1.5 million to address the technological challenges in protecting the health promoting compounds (‘bioactives’) in food during the journey from raw ingredients to finished food products, through to digestion,” Mr Joyce says.
The team will design ingredients and processes that keep those bioactives in top condition within food products, so that when eaten, the bioactives are released to the body at the right stage of digestion needed to deliver their identified health benefits.
The Consumer Insights research programme is led by Dr Roger Harker of Plant and Food Research, and is a collaboration between Plant and Food Research, the University of Auckland, the University of Otago, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Trace Research.
The Science of Food research programme is led by Distinguished Professor Harjinder Singh, co-Director of the Riddet Institute at Massey University, and involves experts from Massey University, the University of Otago, the Cawthron Institute, AgResearch and the Israel Institute of Technology.
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce has announced that applications are now open for the 2017 Endeavour Fund with a series of roadshows to be held this week for potential applicants.
“The Endeavour Fund is New Zealand’s biggest contestable scientific research fund”, Mr Joyce says. “$209 million in research funding was allocated in the just-completed 2016 round, and a similar amount will be invested in the 2017 round.
“The Endeavour Fund invests in excellent research that has potential to positively transform our economic performance, create environmental sustainability and integrity, and help New Zealand society.
“The roadshow sessions being run by MBIE are a great opportunity to provide potential applicants with the information they need to complete applications that demonstrate the impact and excellence in their research.”
The Endeavour Fund, previously known as the MBIE Contestable Science Fund, is one of the Government’s main mission-led science investments. The National Statement of Science Investment (NSSI), published late in 2015, set a ten year strategic direction for the science and innovation system, including a review and refresh of the Contestable Fund (Endeavour Fund). The Fund was renamed as the Endeavour Fund in 2016 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Captain Cook’s landmark scientific voyage to New Zealand.
The change of name reflects its mission to support transformational research, science or technology and to give effect to the Vision Mātauranga policy.
There are two routes for applying for the funding: Smart Ideas and Research.
· Smart Ideas – Generating Ideas. Fast-fail support to catalyse and rapidly test promising, innovative research ideas with high potential for benefit to New Zealand.
· Research Programmes – Developing Ideas. Supports the development of ambitious, excellent, well-defined research ideas which, collectively, have credible and high potential to positively transform New Zealand’s future in areas of future value, growth or critical need.
“The Endeavour Fund provides the opportunity to invest in ideas that will positively benefit New Zealand. The priorities that are signalled through the Investment Plan demonstrate the economic, environmental or social objectives and give flexibility to our applicants and to those assessing application and deciding on funding,” Mr Joyce says
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242
Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242