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Parliament: Questions and Answers – Feb 21
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Question No. 1—Finance
1. KIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour) to the Minister of Finance: What is the Government's initial response to the independent Tax Working Group report released today?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): The independent Tax Working Group report was released this morning, and I want to thank the group for its hard work and say that we will now spend some time working through the options and the recommendations it contains. We established the Tax Working Group to examine the structure, fairness, and balance of the tax system. Today's report finds that, overall, our tax system is clear and simple, but there is room for improvement. There is some unfairness that needs to be addressed. We will now work through the ways to do this to make the system as fair and as balanced as possible.
Kiritapu Allan: When will the full Government response be announced?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: As I say, we are taking technical advice on addressing the elements identified by the Tax Working Group, and will make further announcements in April on any measures to enhance fairness and integrity in the system, and we look forward to discussing the recommendations with our coalition and confidence and supply partners as we work to find consensus on the best overall package.
Kiritapu Allan: When would any changes arising from the report be implemented?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: I would like to reaffirm the commitment made when the Tax Working Group was established that no changes arising from the report will be implemented this term. We also set out some clear bottom lines: in particular, the family home is off limits, increases to income tax will not occur, and there will be no inheritance tax. Finally, as the working group has said, the Government is not bound to accept all the recommendations that have been put forward. There are options to accept some, or to phase or sequence aspects of the packages proposed by the group.
Kiritapu Allan: How does the Tax Working Group report fit with the Government's wider programme to modernise the economy?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: The Government's tax reform initiatives that are separate to the work of the Tax Working Group will continue while we consider today's report. We remain vigilant to ways that the current tax system fails to address the global economic and social forces which affect our economic activity. We've already made some moves to restore fairness and balance, including that announced earlier this week where we are taking steps to ensure that companies in the digital economy who do business across borders pay their fair share of tax. A discussion document on the options for the design of a digital services tax will be released in May, and we will continue to work with other countries for a global solution to make sure that multinational companies pay their fair share.
•	Question No. 2—Prime Minister
2. Hon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government's statements, policies, and actions?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister) on behalf of the Prime Minister: Yes.
Hon Paula Bennett: Does she agree with comments by the Rt Hon Winston Peters in regards to capital gains tax that, "They won't work in this country. They won't work in any other country. They never have worked."?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister, the responsibility of the Prime Minister is for comments made by Ministers when they were Ministers, not beforehand. And, on behalf of the Prime Minister, I should not have to tell that member that.
Hon Paula Bennett: Does she agree with comments by the Rt Hon Winston Peters that, "You can't possibly go into an election saying, 'My tax policy will decided by a committee.' "?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister, for the second time now, I am not responsible for comments made by members of Parliament before they held a ministerial warrant under my premiership. That's the substance of the matter and whether she agrees or not here's the fine point about a democratic constitutional Government: that is, we're going to consult with the people of this country in the next two weeks. [Interruption] I tell you what we can trust: somebody that hasn't got a massive vested interest in this case, somebody that hasn't got a massive vested interest in property, and is not now thinking about the country but just her narrow, selfish, egotistical self.
SPEAKER: I am going to remind the Deputy Prime Minister that he is speaking as the Prime Minister.
Hon Paula Bennett: No, no, let him go. Does she agree with the comments by the Deputy Prime Minister just yesterday who said, "The farming community, they are in for the long haul and there is no way a capital gains tax would have any effect on them at all.", when today's report says it will cost farmers $700 million a year?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister, I have read the Deputy Prime Minister's comments on the farming show. I know that he comes from a seriously agrarian background and understands the long-term ownership aspirations and intergenerational aspirations of farming families around this country, and not one of them who aspires to that will be affected by any capital gains tax.
Hon Gerry Brownlee: That's not right. That's not right. Read it.
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No, I've done some work in my time, son, not like you.
SPEAKER: Order! The pair of you.
Hon Paula Bennett: If the Prime Minister is correct in her comments, then why on earth would they be saying that it would cost $700 million a year if a capital gains tax is applied to farms?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister, there is the rub. Who is saying that and what do they mean by "if"? I mean, the criteria would be whether or not this is an expanded tax, and at this point in time it is not. It's merely a report with a number of options—all 99—and what I'd like to know on behalf of the Prime Minister is: how come they had only four hours to study this and yet had already put out their views before the report came over their desks?
Hon Paula Bennett: Does she agree with the comments by the Hon James Shaw recently who said, "The only question we should be asking ourselves is: do we deserve to be re-elected if we don't." with regards to implementing a capital gains tax?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister, that is a fact, and I'm glad about that. This is the first fact I've heard thus far in question time—that Mr Shaw said that. Mr Shaw's a visionary Minister and is looking to the full debate and discussion that's going to take place over the next eight weeks. Why don't we all show some patience and be prepared to consult with the public of this country, the businesses of the country, rather than give your own narrow venal views.
Hon Paula Bennett: Can she confirm that any changes as a result of the recommendations in the Tax Working Group's report will be revenue-neutral?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister, it's very difficult to come to a report—
Hon Paula Bennett: Grant just told you to say that you haven't made any decisions.
SPEAKER: Order!
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Unlike that member, doesn't need instructions, able to think for himself, doesn't need a speech writer, not embarrassed by being shown up every day—no. On behalf of the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister and her colleagues are not going to come to a decision until they have had the full consultation. And I must say, the most interested person in this is the Minister of Finance—the consultation process—and when that consultation is finished, we will share with the public our findings.
Hon Paula Bennett: You got that right.
SPEAKER: Question No. 3, the Hon Amy Adams—sorry; just before you go, I am am just going to ask Ms Bennett to think about who she's interjecting to.
•	Question No. 3—Finance
3. Hon AMY ADAMS (National—Selwyn) to the Minister of Finance: Will he commit to ensuring that any changes the Government makes in response to the Tax Working Group's report are revenue-neutral to the Government?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): In light of the last answer, I could just say "What the Prime Minister said.", but no decisions have been taken on how the Government will respond on any aspect of the Tax Working Group's report released today. I would note for the member that the Government specifically asked the working group to include examples of revenue-neutral packages in the final report, and we are analysing those as we speak.
Hon Amy Adams: Why is he unable to commit to that, given that he has previously said about the Tax Working Group's programme, "We are not setting out in this process to increase or grab revenue from hard-working New Zealanders."?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: Because that's entirely true. We set out on this process to ensure that New Zealand has the fairest and most balanced tax system possible, and I would note that the last time there was a Government that had a Tax Working Group—a Government that member was part of—that working group recommended a capital gains tax, and a comprehensive one.
Hon Amy Adams: If this process is not about increasing taxes on New Zealanders, as he has admitted he said, why can't he commit to it being revenue-neutral? It's a simple question.
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: Because we are working through all of the recommendations in the report, and I'd encourage the member to read the whole report, because when she does, she will see a range of packages that include, yes, some suggestions on expanding capital income and some suggestions on cutting taxes. We're working our way through the whole package.
Hon Amy Adams: Does he agree with the Tax Working Group that a bach, a plumbing business, or a hairdresser's salon should be subject to a capital gains tax but a multimillion-dollar art collection should be exempt?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: As I have said in all of my answers, we have not made any decisions about the recommendations of the Tax Working Group. We are working through them to make sure that New Zealand has got the fairest and most balanced tax system it can have.
Hon Amy Adams: Does he agree with the Tax Working Group that it's fair for corporates to be able to set off their capital losses but not families who own lifestyle blocks or baches?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: To repeat the earlier answer: we are working our way through the recommendations of the report. I think it would be good to respect the rights of New Zealanders to go through this report, make sure that their views are heard, and then the coalition Government and our confidence and supply partner will come back with a result.
Hon Amy Adams: Can he tell New Zealanders if he agrees with respected tax expert Robin Oliver, who's also a working group member, that the costs of the capital gains tax will far outweigh the benefits, it will discourage entrepreneurship, and have a negative impact on productivity in New Zealand?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: I'll be working through Mr Oliver's opinion, which is part of the minority report. I do note that within that minority report, Mr Oliver shares the view of all of the members of the Tax Working Group to extend capital income taxation to residential rental properties. So I presume that is now the National Party's policy, to endorse Mr Oliver.
Hon Amy Adams: Is it fair that someone who works hard all their life to build up a small business, create jobs, and save for their retirement faces losing a third of their assets on retirement, but a wealthy art collector with a multimillion-dollar home would be completely exempt?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: I don't believe the member's characterisation fairly represents the recommendation from the Tax Working Group, which we have not worked through, but I am pleased that she is focused on the issue of fairness, because that's why we set up the Tax Working Group, that's why we're prepared to actually answer the hard questions that come up for Governments from time to time, and we'll work through our response respectfully.
Hon Amy Adams: Does he think it's good enough that, having had the report for many days longer than anyone else, he still can't tell New Zealand whether it's his intention to increase taxes overall and still doesn't know, or won't say, what he thinks is fair?
Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: I think what New Zealanders would want from their Government is that that Government works through the report, and I understand why the member doesn't realise this, but actually this is a coalition Government. We're going to work across the three parties here that represent the majority opinion of New Zealanders, and we will come up with the solution for a fairer and more balanced tax system.
•	Question No. 4—Disability Issues
4. GREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu) to the Minister for Disability Issues: What recent announcements has she made to improve employment conditions for disabled people?
Hon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Disability Issues): Yesterday, Minister Lees-Galloway and I announced a proposed approach to replace the minimum wage exemption to ensure all disabled people in New Zealand are paid at least the minimum wage. The proposal will end the minimum wage exemption scheme, which allows certain disabled people to be paid less than the minimum wage. It would be replaced with a wage supplement system, which both Government and the disability sector agree is the best option to address the needs of both disabled people and employers. The proposed model will ensure that disabled workers can continue to have job security and be in rewarding work, while providing every adult New Zealander with at least the minimum wage.
Greg O'Connor: Why is this important?
Hon CARMEL SEPULONI: Currently, around 900 disabled individuals in New Zealand have a minimum wage exemption permit. Many of these individuals are on extremely low wages; 70 percent of them receive under $5 per hour for their work. The disability sector has argued for some time now for an end to this discrimination against disabled people, and the Government agrees. The minimum wage exemption also conflicts with New Zealand's obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. By ending the minimum wage exemption scheme, we can better support disabled people to live their lives to their fullest potential and foster more inclusive workplaces.
Greg O'Connor: What are the next steps replace the minimum wage exemption?
Hon CARMEL SEPULONI: We've started a two-month targeted consultation programme to gain insight and feedback on the wage supplement approach. The consultation process will explicitly target the views of disabled people, their whānau, representatives, and employers. This consultation reflects our commitment to "Nothing about us without us". Our two-month consultation is an important step in ensuring both employers and disabled people support the proposed change and have input into the design of the wage supplement approach.
•	Question No. 5—Regional Economic Development
5. Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National) to the Minister for Regional Economic Development: Does he think that increasing the tax burden on productive businesses would help or hinder investment into regional economic development?
Hon SHANE JONES (Minister for Regional Economic Development): The connection between investment and tax is a complex matter, and the introduction of any such tax is something that will be subject to both coalition discussions and widespread consultation with the very sector he's talking about.
Hon Paul Goldsmith: Does he accept that a lot of regional development depends on private sector investment—someone, somewhere, deciding to put their money into starting a new business and building it?
Hon SHANE JONES: Obviously, every day, Kiwis up and down the country, in agribusiness and related industries, are making investment decisions. They are increasing both in pace and sophistication as a consequence of my efforts.
Hon Paul Goldsmith: Does he expect that substantially increasing the tax burden on investment would lead to more investment in the regions?
Hon SHANE JONES: There is a famous song in the regions of New Zealand. It goes: "Go get your marbles, put 'em in the house, get a little dirt on your hands, son."
SPEAKER: No, the member will now answer the question.
Hon SHANE JONES: The man mentioned the word "regions"; I have responded in a very popular regional way. Of course, the regions are making investments all the time, and they will enjoy great consultation by my good self as we move forward on any tax changes. The reference to "get a little dirt on your hands, son" is the inverse relationship between Epsom and the regions.
Hon Paul Goldsmith: Does he think it would encourage entrepreneurship in the regions if the owners of small regional businesses, such as a sawmill in Northland, could build up their businesses over 30 years by reinvesting tax-paid profits only to be taxed again when selling it?
Hon SHANE JONES: Obviously, the travails of privately owned, small milling businesses—obviously, tax considerations are not necessarily uppermost but will be on their mind, which is why, as the Minister of Forestry, as the Minister for Regional Economic Development, I will engage with them, but I will not be taunted and I will not respond to verbal muck. I will respond to facts.
Hon Paul Goldsmith: What advice has he received on the impact on investment into the regions, first, from the uncertainty over the imposition of a capital gains tax or not, and, second, from the imposition of such a tax, if it was introduced?
Hon SHANE JONES: Obviously, over the last 24 hours the veritable Dr Cullen and his committee have released their report. Now that that report is public, I will turn my attention to studying its provisions and, in good time, we will discuss and debate its application to the provinces.
Hon Paul Goldsmith: Does he support introducing a capital gains tax for every business in regional New Zealand?
Hon SHANE JONES: Obviously, as the "First Citizen of the Provinces", I will engage with the regions. I will talk to the stakeholders along with other Ministers and other parliamentary members of the Government. And, in good time, we will arrive at a rational and sustainable conclusion. But we will not respond, as I've said earlier, to verbal mucus. We won't.
•	Question No. 6—Foreign Affairs
6. CLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Has he seen any reports on international incidents of slavery and human trafficking?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Minister of Foreign Affairs): [Interruption] Beg your pardon?
Hon Amy Adams: Carry on.
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Can't you wait?
Hon Amy Adams: Not much worth waiting for.
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well, you're going to wait a long, long time if you keep on behaving like that.
SPEAKER: Order! Can I—
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well, she's all the time—
SPEAKER: No. The member will resume his seat. The Hon Amy Adams, you should know better than that, and, the Rt Hon Winston Peters, you should know much better than that. Don't take the bait.
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: It's like taking candy from a baby, Mr Speaker. This is a very serious issue and one that this Government is dedicated to fighting in each and every way. I've seen reports from Europol and Interpol which suggest that of the one million migrants who entered the European Union in 2015, nine out of 10 paid people smugglers to get them there. There are lessons to be learnt from Europe's experience, and international cooperation is vital in ensuring the inviolability of New Zealand's borders and maximising its national interests.
Clayton Mitchell: Does New Zealand have an issue with international people-trafficking?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Immigration New Zealand's website acknowledges that there is a lack of accurate information on the scope and scale of global people-trafficking and migration to New Zealand. This is often due to the lack of accurate data recording systems and a lack of information sharing between agencies, both domestic and international. Ultimately, New Zealand is not immune from the scourge of people-smuggling and human trafficking, which continues to affect much of the developed world, but what New Zealand will not tolerate is a degradation, particularly of women and children, while this happens.
Clayton Mitchell: What forms of international cooperation has the Government undertaken to help ensure that New Zealand is best prepared to address the issues surrounding international people-trafficking?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On 19 December 2018, the New Zealand Government along with 151 other countries voted in favour of the United Nations Global Compact for Migration.
Hon Todd McClay: Ha, ha!
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The compact itself does not enable any party to think it's a joke, because it was the National Party that began the negotiations for it. New Zealand maintains full control of its own borders, retains its sovereign rights around migration policy—explicitly stated in paragraph 7 of the compact itself. It also ensures, in objective one, the collection and utilisation of data to help ensure that women and children remain seen by authorities, thereby reducing the risk that they will slip into invisibility and then, as is seen overseas, into wholesale abuse.
Clayton Mitchell: Is the Minister aware of any senior Government figures previously expressing their support for a Global Compact on Migration?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: That's a very good question. Yes, the UN compact has earned support from figures across the political spectrum. The Speaker at the time realised—and he said—"New Zealand continues to be an open facing country, and to counter any xenophobia and intolerance of migrants", ultimately stating that "We pledge a concerted effort spurred on by the global compact." That was a speech that was approved by the leader of the National Party and the leader in the top echelons of the National Party, as Mr David Carter gave it to an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in March of last year.
Hon Todd McClay: Can he explain to the House why there was so much confusion at the end of last year before he instructed New Zealand diplomats to go to the UN and sign up to this UN declaration, and can he also confirm media reports that there was one heck of a barney in Cabinet over it and that the Prime Minister got her way?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: That puts me in mind of Geoffrey Palmer's famous warning about people spreading rumour with malice. There were two questions there; the second issue can I deal with first of all. This matter was never the subject of a raging debate in Cabinet. In fact, Cabinet colleagues so entrusted their foreign Minister, they let him handle it all by himself. As to the delay in the UN, it was because we were very cautious to ensure that as we gave our support for this document, all the criticisms that were emanating from the trolls internationally as to what it might mean would be debunked, and debunked they have been.
Hon Todd McClay: Just for absolute clarity: can the Minister, the Rt Hon Winston Peters, confirm that it was he and he alone that made the decision to sign New Zealand up to the UN migration treaty?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well, I didn't take that arrogant attitude towards my duties. We approach it with consultative humility as being our central, core operational modus operandi, so to speak. But I can say that it never did go to Cabinet that way. I don't recall us having anything more than a peripheral discussion, because here we were inheriting a National Party – prepared document. We know that now and again the National Party does get it right, and in that sense we didn't have a dispute with them, but we just wanted to make sure—
Hon Dr Nick Smith: It was a sell-out.
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: —that the understanding was clear in this document. No, Mr Smith; selling out is your specialty.
Clayton Mitchell: How did the comments of UN migration compact compare to that of the New York declaration agreed to in 2016 by the previous Government?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Another good question. The reality is that in all respects, the National Party had signed up to this document. They had one of its leading members, a former Speaker, David Carter, give a speech to the IPU—that's a world body—last year bemoaning xenophobic behaviour, and I want to know what happened to the National Party's leadership.
Hon James Shaw: Is the Minister aware of reports that the false claims about the UN migration pact that he's just mentioned, about the right to migrate and limiting domestic legislation, were first popularised on social media by extremist anti-Islamic and neo-Nazi groups based primarily in Europe in September last year, and is he concerned that those false claims have been picked up by New Zealand political parties?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I am indebted to that member for asking that very pertinent question.
Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. There is a very, very unsavoury inference in the question that's been asked by the Green Party, and I think it is very much an unparliamentary question. It could be framed in a different way, perhaps, but not particularly sheeted home in the way it is intended.
SPEAKER: I am going to deal with that because it is a matter which I am separately aware of, the fact that there are international claims that some particular lines originated with the groups that the member referred to and that they are very similar to lines that have been used in New Zealand and overseas by people opposing the particular pact. Therefore I think it is a reasonable question to ask, as long as the foreign affairs Minister does not purport to speak for Opposition parties or to use this as a tool for attacking them.
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I want to say I want to thank Mr Shaw for his question, because, frankly, when you've got debates and discussions and concerns about the involvement of certain interests against democratic outcomes in elections, this becomes a seriously important issue. Then when you see the extraordinary—not coincidence—duplication of the same phraseology, it leads one to suggest that this was what was going on. Above all, it behoves us not just in here but outside of Parliament—and, indeed, the media of this country—to be aware of just what the genesis and origin of some of these attacks might be.
Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would just challenge the way you've just ruled on, firstly, the reasonable nature of that question and it being parliamentary, and then the response from Winston Peters. There are several countries who moved that motion in the United Nations who did not sign up. Switzerland, for example, did not sign up. Does that mean that they are now branded by Winston Peters as being associated with the very unsavoury elements that Mr Shaw put in front of the House?
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Speaking to that point of order, Mr Speaker. First of all, if there was any right of that member to raise that point of order, he had to raise it when the issue was first in front of the House, not when he feels like it—
Hon Gerry Brownlee: I did.
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: —no—not trying to give a ballast—[Interruption]—to an argument he'd lost.
SPEAKER: Order! No, the member will resume his seat. Mr Brownlee, you know that when a point of order is being spoken to, you do not interject. You know it very well, and the member will stop. I'm able right now to rule on Mr Peters' point. He is absolutely correct. While it was taken up directly, if the member had additional information at the time, it should have been taken up then and not afterwards.
•	Question No. 7—Small Business
7. Hon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki) to the Minister for Small Business: Does he think small businesses in New Zealand are facing higher costs because of this Government's policies and actions?
Hon STUART NASH (Minister for Small Business): No.
Hon Jacqui Dean: Does he think any additional taxes will have an impact on small businesses?
Hon STUART NASH: No.
Hon Member: What about GST?
Hon Jacqui Dean: Does he think—
SPEAKER: Order! No, the member can keep going. I just want whoever the member was up the back to be quiet and let her do it.
Hon Jacqui Dean: Does he think small businesses will be more or less productive with the introduction of additional costs, such as a capital gains tax?
Hon STUART NASH: As the Minister of Finance and the Acting Prime Minister have said—I'm assuming that member is referring to the release of the Tax Working Group's report earlier today—this Government has made absolutely no decision whatsoever on the way forward in that.
Hon Jacqui Dean: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I did ask the Minister for Small Business a pretty direct question, which was, "Does he think small businesses will be more or less productive with the introduction of additional costs, such as a capital gains tax?"
SPEAKER: And the member got an answer.
Hon Jacqui Dean: Does he believe a capital gains tax on small business will discourage or encourage investment and innovation?
Hon STUART NASH: That's a hypothetical. I'm not prepared to answer that.
Hon Jacqui Dean: How does tax encourage investment and innovation?
Hon STUART NASH: Well, if you introduce a research and development tax credit like we've done to the tune of a billion dollars, what it does do is it encourages businesses to invest in research and development. If you put GST on online goods and services that are coming across from overseas, you level the playing field, so you help the 26,000 small retailers who employ 61,000 people—just two examples.
Hon Jacqui Dean: Does he think it is a good idea to tax goodwill on a business?
Hon STUART NASH: What I do think it's a good idea to do is to put GST on online goods and services to help mainstream retailers, and that is something that the Opposition refused to support. So could I suggest that if that member was really supporting small businesses, she would support GST on online goods.
SPEAKER: No, that didn't come close to addressing the question.
Hon Chris Hipkins: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Ministers aren't obliged to give opinions. The question clearly asked for an opinion.
SPEAKER: They're not obliged to give legal opinions; they are obliged to give opinions answering questions on policy areas for which they are responsible.
Hon STUART NASH: As the Minister for Small Business, I'm not responsible for tax.
Hon Jacqui Dean: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. The question I asked the Minister was pretty straightforward. I asked him, "Does he think it is a good idea to tax goodwill on a business?", and the Minister in no way addressed that question.
SPEAKER: And he has, in that way, given an answer. I don't think it's that satisfactory, but it did address the question.
8. JENNY MARCROFT (NZ First) to the Minister for Regional Economic Development: What recent announcements has he made in relation to the Provincial Growth Fund?
Hon SHANE JONES (Minister for Regional Economic Development): Recently, the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) that was announced will loan $7.5 million to support the development of Ōpuke Thermal Pools and Spa complex in Methven. It will create 120 jobs directly and indirectly, and it is fiscal evidence of the meaning of "ōpuke": to expand and swell.
Jenny Marcroft: What announcement has he made to help provide other alternatives to 1080?
Hon SHANE JONES: Naturally, the $19.6 million, which was announced by me and Minister Sage, is an overdue step to enabling the Crown to encourage and incentivise other interventions which go beyond the 1080 practitioners. This will not only lead and reward people who entrepreneurially or technologically come up with alternatives, which either can boost the prospects of ridding the landscape of such pests, but also generate, in time, foreign exchange earnings.
Jenny Marcroft: Can the Minister confirm claims that only 54 jobs have been created so far through the Provincial Growth Fund?
Hon SHANE JONES: I can confirm that the miserable, inaccurate amounts that were flung around earlier this year have now been eclipsed by the truth. The reality is that we are well beyond that figure: 10 times; 560 jobs created, and not only are they rising; they are being counted.
Jenny Marcroft: How many projects has the PGF so far supported?
Hon SHANE JONES: To date, the Provincial Growth Fund has supported 229 projects. Seventy of those, admittedly, are for matters that require further viability and feasibility and business cases, but such a standard is required in order for me to fulfil the good governance stewardship requirements of being the champion of the regions and the steward of the fund.
Jenny Marcroft: What recent updates and feedback has he received about the PGF?
Hon SHANE JONES: Naturally, there is an echo chamber from Murihiku to Muriwhenua, Invercargill to Kaitāia, and nowhere was it seen more vividly than when I was recently in mid-Canterbury, where the list member for Epsom was attacking mid-Canterbury but the sitting member was leaking early the results of our deliberations and celebrating this amount of money given to the Ōpuke thermal pools.
Hon Paul Goldsmith: If the Minister is so sure that he has now created 560 jobs, why did he say in this House before Christmas that he'd created 9,000? And given that wide variety, how can we have any confidence in any figures that he provides?
Hon SHANE JONES: Without a doubt, thousands of jobs have been both identified by my good self and are the subject of high-quality feasibility and viability studies. But as the member knows, the machinery of the State moves, from time to time, painfully slowly, and it requires us to tick all the milestones. But rest assured, the figure of 560 is not only authentic, but it is growing and swelling as we speak. And over the next 18 months, he can celebrate, along with me, the many thousands of jobs flowing from this incredibly important initiative.
•	Question No. 9—Whānau Ora
9. JO HAYES (National) to the Minister for Whānau Ora: Does this Government believe in the Whānau Ora model?
Hon PEENI HENARE (Minister for Whānau Ora): Yes.
Jo Hayes: How confident is he that all of his ministerial colleagues across Government parties will share his enthusiasm for increasing funding for Whānau Ora in Budget 2019?
Hon PEENI HENARE: Very.
Jo Hayes: Does he believe all his ministerial colleagues will be open to expanding and growing the model, as recommended by the panel?
Hon PEENI HENARE: In light of the review, I'm confident that this Government will be working hard to make sure that Whānau Ora as a model will continue to empower families right across this country. That member knows and understands the way that the Budget cycle works in this House, and I hope that in the coming months she will be alert to the announcements of positivity from this side of the House.
Jo Hayes: How long does he expect it to take for Te Puni Kōkiri to report back to him on where Whānau Ora can be implemented in the social sector?
Hon PEENI HENARE: Whānau Ora is already active and implemented in the social sector. I am confident, in light of the review, that this year there will be some significant movement in this space for the prosperity of our people.
Jo Hayes: What guarantees can he give to Whānau Ora providers who feel they've been left in limbo about their futures during the period of the review?
Hon PEENI HENARE: I give all guarantees to the Whānau Ora providers, far and wide, in this country. I want to thank them for their good work in the communities and the work that they do with families, and can I remind providers, the general public, and this House that Whānau Ora as a kaupapa is actually bigger than any one individual or any one part. The kind of fundamental shift that we want to achieve for prosperity for our families is far greater than any single one part.
•	Question No. 10—Māori Development
10. RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga) to the Minister for Māori Development: What recent announcements have been made about ensuring Te Reo Māori is a living language in Aotearoa?
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA (Minister for Māori Development): Today, I announced the launch of the Maihi Karauna at Te Matatini ki te Ao. The Maihi Karauna is the Crown's commitment to Te Reo Māori revitalisation, which has been publicly consulted on, as we determine our next steps. One of our goals is that by 2040, 1 million New Zealanders will be able to confidently speak basic Te Reo Māori. This is ambitious, as we take advantage of the momentum we are starting to see across Aotearoa. The Maihi Karauna will form the basis for the Government's strategic focus to protect and promote Te Reo Māori revitalisation across the Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, Te Māngai Pāho, and the Māori Television service in the first instance, and in collaboration and partnership with Te Mātāwhai.
Rino Tirikatene: What initiatives will support the implementation of te Maihi Karauna?
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA: We will be commencing the implementation of this strategy through three initiatives which are focused on rangatahi—young people—and it will support our efforts for the Unesco Year of Indigenous Language 2019: initiatives such as snap Reo, which are micro-lessons; a social marketing campaign to promote the value of Te Reo Māori; and hosting rangatahi regional workshops and a national summit. All Government agencies will also begin to develop their own Te Reo Māori plans so that we can increase the Reo capability of our public sector. A comprehensive implementation plan is currently in development. It will set out what actions will be undertaken to achieve our priorities over a five-year period. The plan will be published in September 2019. I just want to congratulate Te Māngai Pāho, who are supporting a broader range of digital media content, which will extend the reach of Te Reo Māori to a wider audience and to young people, in particular.
Rino Tirikatene: How will the Government know if the Maihi Karauna is making a difference?
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA: That's a really good question. Effective measurement and evaluation will be critical to ensuring the success of the strategy, and we want to know that we're measuring the right things as we work together in collaboration to achieve this. A monitoring and evaluation framework will be developed to ensure that we're tracking these achievements. But, in short, I'm encouraged by the leadership of the Māori Language Commission and Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, who are facilitating collaboration with all sorts of partners to get a better track of what's happening. Also, in the area of language planning, there is the start that has already begun across the public sector to ensure that they can implement the intent of the Maihi Karauna and the Māori Language Strategy.
•	Question No. 11—Energy and Resources
11. JONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth) to the Minister of Energy and Resources: What particular error or errors if any, does she believe NZIER has made in its calculations of the impact of her Government's oil and gas exploration ban outside onshore Taranaki, and what official advice, if any, has she received since the NZIER report's publication on what the actual economic impact will be?
Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Energy and Resources): My concerns sheet back to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) modelling on which the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) report is based. As I said in answer to the member's question yesterday, problems with that modelling have been very well canvassed. Some of the concerns with the data are that (1) it does not take into account the 100 square kilometres of permitted area we are honouring and the pragmatic approach we are taking with current permit holders over drill or drop provisions, (2) it assumed that there would be no Government initiatives into alternative energy industries and the creation of associated jobs, and (3) it takes no account of the costs of doing—as the member seems to suggest—nothing. The report is based on a report by MBIE, which was based on a report by GNS Science, who said their own model attempted to quantify that which is almost unquantifiable.
I also pointed out yesterday that the report does not considered new jobs that may be created via the transition of our economy and growth of new industries. A number of studies point out that renewable energy sources create more jobs than fossil fuels. For example, a Pure Advantage report found that with proper investment almost 30,000 jobs could be created in areas such as the geothermal and bioenergy industries. A third report from Business and Economic Research (BERL) said that developing a bioenergy sector could generate up to 27,000 jobs. In answer to the second part of the question, none.
Jonathan Young: Is NZIER—
Hon Gerry Brownlee: It's all rubbish.
Hon Gerry Brownlee: I was spoken to by Dr Webb.
SPEAKER: But the member's response was delayed until his colleague was speaking.
Hon Gerry Brownlee: I was bullied.
SPEAKER: It is your fault, and you'll be more careful in the future.
Jonathan Young: Is NZIER incorrect to conclude that her Government's exploration ban will result in a $20,774 fall in household incomes each year for the next 30 years for every household in Taranaki; and if so, why?
Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: Yes, because I believe the calculations that the NZIER report have produced are based on a flawed model that was in the original regulatory impact statement (RIS). I've just gone through in my primary answer all the reasons why I think there is a flawed methodology behind the data that is being used.
Jonathan Young: With official data showing less than six years of proved natural gas reserves left, when will the new technologies she believes will mitigate the economic impact, or transitioning away from natural gas, start to come on stream?
Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: First of all, I don't accept the premise of that member's question. Actually, the latest MBIE projections are that we have 10 years of confirmed gas supplies in New Zealand, which has been the case for decades. It simply moves out. And, in fact, industry are making commercial decisions based on their own comfort with the level of gas we will have in New Zealand. We've had a $500 million investment from OMV in Taranaki. We've had Todd invest $100 million in a peaking plant. I don't think they concur with that member's view that the sky is about fall in.
Jonathan Young: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I did quote from the departmental report from the officials to the Environment Committee when I worded the question of "proved natural gas reserves left", and the Minister's answer—
SPEAKER: Well, no. The member might disagree with an answer and he might even have evidence which shows that he's right, but there's never been a point of order which requires a Minister to change their view in that way. Ministers, believe it or not, in the past have been wrong in their answers.
Jonathan Young: Given that the scenarios used for NZIER's modelling are based on the Government's official analysis set out in their regulatory impact statement which accompanied the Cabinet paper prepared in support of the now enacted Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Bill, is she now saying that the regulatory impact statement was incorrect; and if so, how?
Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: I said at the time the legislation was going through the House that I took issue with the data that was in the regulatory impact statement. In fact, the paper that I took to Cabinet refuted a number of the findings of the regulatory impact statement. This is not news, and, in fact, that member asked me questions about it last year in the House, and I gave him the explanations then.
Jonathan Young: What specific inputs to official data that NZIER has relied on does she argue is wrong?
Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: I spelt this out in my primary answer, but I'll go over it again—
SPEAKER: No. The member doesn't need to—she did.
•	Question No. 12—Housing and Urban Development
12. SIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki) to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: What percentage of homes added by Housing New Zealand in the 2017/18 period were purchased or leased?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Housing and Urban Development): I'm advised that the number of homes leased or purchased by Housing New Zealand reduced by 16 percent in 2017-18 from 67 percent down to 51 percent of the additional homes. During that period, Housing New Zealand built 1,033 homes, purchased 305, and renewed or newly leased 805 transitional and State homes. The percentage of new builds increased from 33 percent to 49 percent in 2017-18.
Simon O'Connor: Can the Minister confirm that Housing New Zealand missed its Auckland Housing Programme targets for the 2017-18 year—building fewer houses in Auckland, while buying and leasing more than planned?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: What I can confirm is that Housing New Zealand substantially increased their new build numbers in 2017-18 over every build programme over the last five years—substantially—and it will almost double that in the year to come.
Simon O'Connor: Can he confirm—returning to Housing New Zealand's 2017-18 report—that, of the claimed 2,188 additional homes, 1,152 were purchased or leased, making 52.6 percent of all those additional houses being purchased or leased?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: What I can tell the member is that leasing has increased. I'm advised that of the 805 leases by Housing New Zealand in the 2017-18 year, 795 were renewals of existing tenancies, with three- and five-year terms. All of those renewals—the whole 795—were of leases that were entered into by the previous Government.
Paul Eagle: What reports has he seen on Housing New Zealand's building and acquisition programme?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: I saw claims yesterday on Breakfast TV that Housing New Zealand were building 1,500 homes in 2016. I was very surprised to learn that, so I did a bit of digging, and it turns out that of those 1,500 builds, two-thirds were not built, but were existing homes that the last Government leased or purchased.
Paul Eagle: Why does Housing New Zealand buy existing homes?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: In the last financial year, our Government nearly halved the number of existing homes Housing New Zealand buys as we ramp up their build programme. However, Housing New Zealand will continue to buy some homes for a number of good reasons—for example, the need to acquire more homes for development projects or to rehouse tenants while homes are being built and because Housing New Zealand was previously told by the former Government that, in areas where it was planning to sell off State homes, it could not build additional homes—
SPEAKER: Order! Order! We've gone beyond the area of responsibility.
Simon O'Connor: Does Housing New Zealand purchase homes before they enter the open market, consequently removing an opportunity from taxpaying New Zealanders?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: No. Housing New Zealand buys homes. It has an asset acquisition programme. It buys homes on the open market.
Simon O'Connor: Is the Minister aware of what his advisers and officials said in committee yesterday—that Housing New Zealand is using real estate companies to acquire houses before they reach the open market?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Like everybody who purchases homes on the open market, Housing New Zealand uses real estate agents, but they do not have—as the Opposition have been saying—some kind of sweetheart deal with one particular real estate agency.
Hon Gerry Brownlee: Yes, they do.
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: No they do not.
Hon Gerry Brownlee: He's not being told everything.
Hon Ruth Dyson: What about yours with Fletchers?
SPEAKER: Order! Both of you. Look, Mr Brownlee, you're not having a good day.
Simon O'Connor: Is it fair to first-home buyers—who were promised 1,000 KiwiBuild homes by 1 July—that when trying to buy a house they are competing with Housing New Zealand, who is willing to pay above market value, and has a budget of $1.3 billion?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: First, Housing New Zealand does not pay above market value. It purchases on the open market. But this Government is focused on new builds—for the reasons that I have said—that's why we've cut the number of purchases by Housing New Zealand—
SPEAKER: Order! Order! The Minister has answered the question. He answered it in his first sentence.
Simon O'Connor: Is the Minister aware of what officials and advisers told the select committee yesterday—that Housing New Zealand is prepared to and does buy houses on the open market, up to, and sometimes beyond, 5 percent of market value?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Housing New Zealand has said—and I back them—that they buy homes on the open market on commercial terms, just like everybody else does. I want to point out to the member that of the 249 homes that Housing New Zealand bought, that amounts to 0.3 percent of the more than 72,000 homes that changed hands on the market last year. That is hardly likely to make a difference.
Simon O'Connor: Has Housing New Zealand taken six times as many houses out of private ownership in the last 15 months than the 62 houses KiwiBuild added?
Hon PHIL TWYFORD: I reject the premise of the member's question. His facts are wrong.
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13 February 2017. By Ira Teinowitz.
Some of the speculation about what President Donald Trump will do to boost US exports and reduce imports will end in the next two weeks when he uses the rollout of his tax plan to unveil major elements of his administration's trade strategy.
In seizing on the tax plan as a vehicle for trade policy, the Trump administration will try to integrate trade with broader economic policy much more than did the Obama administration.
Trump has signaled that his pick for Department of Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, would play a much stronger role in setting trade policy than did Obama's Commerce chief. The Trump administration has portrayed the Office of the US Trade Representative as having a lesser role, though both the USTR and the Commerce secretary are Cabinet members.
The use of tax policy could increase the challenges in attempts to revise existing trade agreements or sign new ones. Trump has indicated he wants to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement and has talked in recent days about new pacts with Japan and China.
Several key trade initiatives are expected to be determined by the outcome of the tax plan rollout.
Prominent among those proposals are a controversial border adjustment tax and a 35 percent tariff on goods made overseas by US manufacturers who move jobs elsewhere.
If the tax package does include a border adjustment tax, which has drawn support from Republicans in the US House of Representatives, it could pit the manufacturers who would benefit against the retailers who would get hurt. Such a conflict could continue for years and create uncertainties about the environment for trade.
There have been warnings that a US border tax would draw retaliation from trading partners and complaints to the World Trade Organization over whether it is an unfair barrier to trade. That scenario isn't likely to benefit trade negotiations.
A tax plan without the border tax would increase the incentives for the Trump administration to seek to impose the 35 percent import tariff on companies that move jobs overseas.
Trump so far has aimed his import-tax fire at US automakers and the makers of cookies and air conditioners. But Peter Navarro, who heads the newly created White House National Trade Council, in a recent interview warned German automakers of the possibility of being hit with a similar tax on cars built outside the US.
A US import tariff sanction could invite retaliation, as well as complaints from WTO partners.
The White House has portrayed the proposed border tax as a means of paying for a border wall with Mexico meant to stop illegal immigration. A decision against the tax would increase the chances other taxes could be used to pay for a wall, and some could have an impact on US trade with Mexico.
The White House last week said the tax plan would include steps to make US manufacturers more competitive. Press Secretary Sean Spicer, while not being specific, said the plan will reduce tax incentives for companies to move overseas.
The Trump tax plan is being drawn up while controversy continues to build over the border tax proposal in the House Republicans' tax plan being pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady.
Under the House plan, the US also would cut its corporate tax rate, assess it on income from US sales rather than world sales, and replace some the income lost with a 20 percent tax paid at the wholesale level when goods are bought, whether made in the US or abroad.
Proponents of the border adjustment tax cite the elimination of tax advantages for companies to move manufacturing — or their headquarters — overseas. Critics say the net effect would be to dramatically push up prices of products for consumers, while moving a big chunk of the US tax burden from manufacturers to retailers and consumers.
A spokesman for Americans for Affordable Products, the coalition of retailers and manufacturers opposing the border adjustment tax, said the group fears that tax would devastate their industries.
Spicer last week hinted the border tax adjustment would be part of Trump's tax proposal.
"We recognize — whether it's inversions or other means in which people are shipping jobs overseas or reestablishing themselves or the profits that are kept over there — we need fundamental, comprehensive tax reform," said Spicer.
Trump's press secretary said the tax plan would cut taxes for working Americans but also ensure US manufacturers have a fighting chance to compete.
"I think part of the issue that we continue to see over and over again with businesses is that we're facing competition from abroad because of our tax code. It favors companies for not wanting to stay, and the president recognizes that," Spicer said. "And what he wants to do is create a tax climate that not only keeps jobs here but … incentivizes companies to want to come here, to grow here, to create jobs here, to bring their profits back here."
There are already indications that the congressional debate over the Trump plan could be fearsome, with the split among business interests especially problematic for Republicans.
US Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said in a speech to the US Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 1 that he has concerns about whether the tax burden was merely being shifted, and whether the tax could withstand a WTO challenge.


Tunnels can unlock congestion, create efficiency, make cities more functional and livable. Harry Asche and Anthony Bennett, two of Aurecon's tunnelling experts, explore how we are delivering better solutions through smarter tunnels.
Road operators can now precisely manage traffic flows within tunnels. Systems can connect with built in vehicle technology to deliver improved traffic management solutions and safer driving. Existing tunnels can be retrofitted or widened, in some cases, while they continue to operate. Metro rail systems can respond to increased passenger demand and seamlessly schedule driverless train fleets to handle such variable, peak passenger periods. Constructing tunnels is safer and operating them is cleaner and greener. The future is now.
Humans began constructing tunnels with picks, shovels and manual labour. Today, tunnelling is highly mechanised, using enormous Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) capable of operating 24 hours a day seven days a week. Constructing tunnels is increasingly automated and the equipment used is growing in size and technical sophistication.
In the world of civil contracting and geotechnical engineering, the TBM is the equivalent of the modern commercial airliner. These mighty pieces of equipment are pushing the boundaries of what is possible and they continue to grow in diameter and capability. The largest TBM in the world measures a 'whopping' 19.25 metres in diameter. The machine was constructed to deliver the (now) mothballed Orlovski Tunnel project in St Petersburg. The largest TBM currently in operation measures 17.5 metres and is in operation in Seattle, Washington in the USA. While in Australasia, the 15.1 metre TBM excavating the Waterview Tunnel in Auckland, New Zealand holds the title for the biggest diameter machine.
With increases in the cutting diameter of TBMs, it is now possible to create a tunnel cavity that is capable of accommodating a double deck, three lane road design – something that would have been considered impossible 15 years ago. Is there a limit to TBM size? For the moment, it seems not.
Talk to tunnelling experts and they will tell you that technology is playing an increasingly important role in the field. The heavy work is done using TBMs and there are two major categories of these machines – hard rock and soft ground machines. TBMs themselves consist primarily of a cutting head to pulverise material, a conveyor to remove the spoil and a system to move the machine forward to facilitate the actual tunnelling.
"In the past, TBMs either dealt with the softest ground or the hardest rock but they are now capable of effectively dealing with mixed face conditions," says Harry Asche, Unit Manager Transport Services at Aurecon.
"There is an increasing range of highly accurate measurement options for use on tunnelling projects. We can scan strata at the excavation face, employ highly accurate bubble detectors and manage machine performance via multiple, web-based data acquisition tools which can be reviewed on remote computers, tablet devices and even on smartphones," adds Harry.
"Tunnel systems are entering a whole new era where smart technology is allowing us to deliver improvements in how we operate systems that use the infrastructure."
Financially rewarding drivers of vehicles with desirable features such as a low fire load, low emissions hands-off technology, etc.
In New South Wales, Australia truck operators whose vehicles emit heavy exhaust smoke are being fined when they use tunnels. This technology has virtually eliminated such vehicles from tunnels and improved internal air quality dramatically. As a result of these and other technology-based solutions, user safety and vehicle flow is greatly increased as the variability of human error, accidents, emissions and vehicle hazards are significantly reduced.
By using driverless trains, it is possible to rapidly scale (up or down) rolling stock capacity to meet passenger numbers. As operators do not have a fixed cost of labour (drivers), system performance can be enhanced without the need to schedule drivers that may not be required.
This flexibility offers improved system performance for passengers and cost benefits for owner/operators. In addition, the design specifications around such factors as fire load within the metro system can be modified, resulting in a reduction in the overall cost of design and construction of the asset and the rolling stock. Critically, the system is scalable in that it copes seamlessly with the steady growth in passenger numbers, typical of urbanised societies.
In mature markets, such as Europe, approximately 50 per cent of work undertaken on tunnels is actually refurbishment of existing systems. In the past, reconfiguring a tunnel's capacity (e.g. changing from two to three lanes or increasing the tunnel diameter) was impossible. In Europe, there are examples of tunnels being widened using a technique that incorporates a box-like structure constructed outside of the existing tunnel lining, in which the construction engineering is undertaken, while the tunnel remains in either full or part-time use.
In some instances, tunnel boring machines have been used to undertake parallel excavation works. The capability to increase capacity has been utilised across tunnel infrastructure servicing roads, rail and utilities. The flexibility to widen tunnels results in a once fixed capacity asset being able to be reengineered to meet increased capacity requirements. This capability allows engineers to take advantage of the embodied energy in the existing structure to create a better system that uses less energy to operate, in contrast to constructing an entirely new system.
At a smaller scale, a conventional steel box constructed around an existing tunnel allows widening of tunnels to be undertaken using machines known as 'Pipe Eaters.' These machines are capable of excavating around existing tunnels such as sewers, while allowing water flow to continue as the sewer diameter is increased.


I USE MY ARTISTIC VOICE TO SHARE A TALE OF THE UNSEEN, SHOWCASE ABILITY FOUND WITHIN DISABILITY AND DOCUMENT DAILY LIFE. MANY WORKS THAT TRANSPIRE RELATE TO MY EXPERIENCES WITH MSIDS, LYME & CO-INFECTIONS. I CREATE MOVEMENT AND FLOW IN MY PIECES BY COMBINING PAINTING AND COLLAGE. CUTS OF PAPER SCRAPS PASTED INTO BACKGROUNDS SUPPORT MY IMAGERY AND BITS LEFT EXPOSED AID IN STORY TELLING, LENDING EVERY WORK A TIME CAPSULE-LIKE FEELING. SYMBOLS AND FRAGMENTS THAT FILL MY WORLD BECOME VISUAL HISTORIES. WHEN PIECED TOGETHER YEARS FROM NOW, THESE CAPTURED MOMENTS WILL SERVE TO ILLUSTRATE MY LIFE. BROWN PAPER BAGS ARE SUBSTRATES THAT I LOVE TO WORK ON IN ADDITION TO TRADITIONAL CANVAS PAINTINGS.
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FROMKES DOCUMENTS HER JOURNEY THROUGH ALTERED PHOTOS. CREATIVE POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES SPOTLIGHT INVISIBLE ILLNESSES USING ART IN A CONTEMPORARY RELATABLE WAY.
RED SHOE DAY IS AN ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR ALL PATIENTS LOST TO LYME AND INVISIBLE ILLNESSES WORLDWIDE. E.B. IS A CONTRIBUTING ARTIST EACH YEAR TO HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR GLOBAL LYME INVISIBLE ILLNESS ORGANIZATION.
" LITTLE BOWS BANNER" THOUGH TOO SICK TO ATTEND THE LYME RALLY, E.B. USED ONE OF HER BED ART DRAWINGS AS THE INSPIRATION TO CREATE HER HAND PAINTED PROTEST BANNER. HER DONATED ART PIECE "SILENCE WONT STOP AN EPIDEMIC" MARCHED THROUGH THE STREETS OF ARLINGTON VIRGINIA TO PROTEST THE IDEAS OF CURRENT LYME DISEASE GUIDELINES, THOSE WHICH MISREPRESENT SCIENCE AND RESTRICT ACESS TO CARE.
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Bones? More Possible Evidence Not Looked Into?
As reported last night on CNN – Paula Zahn, Paul Reynolds, Natalee Holloway's uncle is stating that he has learned of more possible evidence that may have not been looked into. After hearing the interview, I spoke with Paul to get the facts that had been brought to his attention.
After talking with EquuSearch the yesterday, the non-profit search group that Paul was instrumental in helping bring to Aruba to help search for Natalee, Paul was made aware of the following:
Last week, Wednesday, two tourists were snorkeling in shallow water and came across two bones.
They took the bones to the Aruban Police station.
Since last Wednesday nothing had been done with the bones. When asked whether the police had done anything or examined the bones they said, not yet. The individual that could examine them was unavailable, on vacation or out of the country.
To make matters worse when the police received the bones they also did not contact EquuSearch of the possible lead to search. Last Wednesday EquuSearch had forensic divers in Aruba that would have been able to have searched the area that the bones were found. Unfortunately those divers have since returned to the US.
I would believe stories like this that occur have to make Natalee's family wonder and worry about the investigation. When added to other misadventures in the investigation and questionable events in the beginning it certainly makes me skeptical. When asked of Paul's reaction to these events he said similar to his previous comments, "Kind of Unbelievable! I would hate to think that the investigation is being handled in such a manner."
Developing …
UPDATE: Paul Reynolds will also be on Scarborough Country this evening at 10:00 pm EDT discussing these events and others.
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Adam Yauch, AKA MCA From The Beastie Boys, Is Dead
MCA, far right, progressed from party boy to peace activist.
You cannot say enough about pioneering rap group The Beastie Boys. Three Jewish kids from New York named Mike D, Ad Rock, and MCA took punk rock and metal and fused it with the growing hip-hop sound and thus straddled two genres. They rapped over beats from the Dust Brothers and they rapped over music they played live with traditional rock instruments. They combined macho bravado with comedy and science fiction nerdery, and no one was more important to their sound than the gruff, tough MCA, AKA Adam Yauch, who has lost his battle with cancer. Adam Yauch was 47.
However, MCA was important for far more than his rapping; he was also an activist and a film producer. He was one of the founders of arthouse distributor Oscilloscope Pictures and–when he wasn't busy selling 40 million albums, winning 3 Grammy awards, getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and putting out 8 iconic albums–was one of the organizers of the Tibetan Freedom Concerts, a series of all-star benefit concerts to benefit Tibet and Tibetan independence.
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Q: Ambiguous column - Laravel 5.1 Bom dia! É o seguinte... tenho essas 2 tabelas no meu banco postgresql:
tipos_risco
--id
--nome

agentes_risco
--id
--nome
--id_tipo_risco (foreign key)

O problema é que não estou conseguindo extrair os dados delas juntas, pois ambas tem as colunas id e nome, ai da esse erro quando eu faço uma busca:
QueryException in Connection.php line 651:
SQLSTATE[42702]: Ambiguous column: 7 ERROR: column reference "nome" is ambiguous
LINE 1: ...sco"."id" = "agentes_risco"."id_tipo_risco" where "nome" ILI...
^ (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from "agentes_risco" left join "tipos_risco" on "tipos_risco"."id" = "agentes_risco"."id_tipo_risco" where "nome" ILIKE %frio%)

e esse:
PDOException in Connection.php line 321:
SQLSTATE[42702]: Ambiguous column: 7 ERROR: column reference "nome" is ambiguous
LINE 1: ...sco"."id" = "agentes_risco"."id_tipo_risco" where "nome" ILI...

essa é a query da minha função de busca:
return DB::table('agentes_risco')
                ->leftJoin('tipos_risco', 'tipos_risco.id', '=', 'agentes_risco.id_tipo_risco')
                ->where('nome', 'ILIKE', '%'.$busca.'%')
                ->select('agentes_risco.*','tipos_risco.*')
                ->orderBy('id', 'asc')
                ->paginate(10);

como posso resolver isso?

A: O problema está na ordenação, ambas as tabelas tem um campo chamado id, então especifique por qual id deverá ser ordenado, o mesmo se aplica para o campo nome lá na cláusula like.
->orderBy('id', 'asc') // errado
->where('nome', 'ILIKE', '%'.$busca.'%') //errado

Faça:
->orderBy('tipos_risco.id', 'asc')
->where('tipos_risco.nome', 'ILIKE', '%'.$busca.'%')

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The NCS library/media center is a busy place, serving students with a broad range of interests. The library is linked to the Northern New York Library Network, which offers automated interlibrary loan services, online encyclopedia references, and online database services that provide full-text magazine documents — from National Geographic to Newsweek. Full-text local, national and international newspaper articles are also available.
Title Trekking is an optional, independent reading challenge designed to encourage students (and adults) to read for pleasure. To participate, readers choose titles of interest, often from a list kept by the librarian. After reading a book, participants submit Title Treks, which are journal entries exchanged with the librarian or another faculty member that creates a written dialogue about the book. After a reader completes 46 Title Treks, he or she becomes an NCS Literary 46er, an honor inspired by the Adirondack High Peaks hiking group. At the end of each school year, the most prolific Title Trekkers in each grade receive special recognition, and Literary 46ers are recognized at graduation.


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Health care data has traditionally been stored across multiple health care organizations, with incompatible computer systems, making care coordination, real-time analytics and knowledge discovery difficult.
Developing a solution carries the responsibility to make it future proof and adaptable.
Value based healthcare, personalised medicine, and patient-centered care can all be made possible by structured clinical data.
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Q: core data Migration - Can we have mutiple .xcmappingmodel files in xcode? I've been using Core Data for my app and upgraded many times around (10-11 times) but users now complaining about the data lost stored in the core data database after app
up gradation.
Previously, after releasing new build I am creating new model version from the old one and working on the same model and change it if required. Before releasing I am updating my .xcmappingmodel model.
Now I am ready for the next release and I have few questions in my mind:-
1) Can we have multiple .xcmappingmodel files in xcode?
2) Do we need to perform manually for the data transferring from model to model. Example :- model version 1.0 to 1.1 , 1.1 to 1.2 , 1.2 to 1.3 and soon.
Suppose any app user didn't take upgrade and working on the older version of the app (lets say 1.0) and now I am ready for 3.0 release. Do we need to provide functionality for the step by step migration ?
example:- 1.0 to 1.1 , 1.1 to 1.2 and soon till 3.0 OR his database will be automatically upgrade to the newer version with retaining of previously stored data.
Any advice on how to approach this scenario would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: Yes, you not only can but need multiple mapping models, for each step in data model versions. So one for 1.0 to 1.1. and one for 1.1 to 1.2
That way the store coordinator can upgrade an old model 1.0 to for example an new model 3.0. You need to tell the store coordinator to update. It is called migration.
see for example: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/reference/CoreDataFramework/Classes/NSPersistentStoreCoordinator_Class/NSPersistentStoreCoordinator.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSPersistentStoreCoordinator/addPersistentStoreWithType:configuration:URL:options:error:
More information on CoreData migration https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/CoreDataVersioning/Articles/Introduction.html

A: Core Data doesn't automatically support progressive migration when you have several models. For example, you have model versions 1, 2, and 3. The app created a persistent store using version 1. The newer version of the app was installed with the version 3 of the model. Core Data will not automatically sequentially update the store from version 1, to version 2, to version 3. Neither if you're using the lightweight migration, nor if you're using the normal, heavy migration.
The lightest type of migration is, of course, a lightweight migration. You should try to use it until you can't for some reason. It is much faster and significantly easier on the memory.
When doing the lightweight migration, Core Data has to infer the mapping model from the model that was used to create the store that is being opened to the model that is currently used in the app. In our example this means that it must be possible to infer a mapping model from version 1 to version 2, from 1 to 3, and from 2 to 3.
If for some reason lightweight migration can't be used, and you're creating mapping models and using migration manager, it still won't do the progressive migration automatically for you. So you have mapping models from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3. The app is launched, the store was previously created using version 1, and the current version is version 3. You'll need to specify to the migration manager model 1, model 3, and the mapping model from 1 to 3.
Of course, this is totally insane. One cannot afford having mapping models between all combinations of source and destination models. The solution to this is to write your own code that would control the progressive migration process. The code would basically open the existing store, find the mapping model for it, migrate the store to the next version, and repeat.
You can find a good example on how to do this in Marcus Zarra's Core Data book.


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Home Books McGraw-Hill's NPTE (National Physical Therapy Examination), 2e
Chapter 10. Pulmonary Physical Therapy
Chapter 10. Pulmonary Physical Therapy. In: Dutton M. Dutton M(Ed.),Ed. Mark Dutton.eds. McGraw-Hill's NPTE (National Physical Therapy Examination), 2e. McGraw Hill; 2012. Accessed January 16, 2022. https://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=478&sectionid=40174789
Chapter 10. pulmonary physical therapy. Dutton M. Dutton M(Ed.),Ed. Mark Dutton. (2012). McGraw-Hill's NPTE (National Physical Therapy Examination), 2e. McGraw Hill. https://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=478&sectionid=40174789
"Chapter 10. Pulmonary Physical Therapy." McGraw-Hill's NPTE (National Physical Therapy Examination), 2e Dutton M. Dutton M(Ed.),Ed. Mark Dutton. McGraw Hill, 2012, https://accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=478&sectionid=40174789.
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The pulmonary or respiratory system (Figure 10-1) consists of the sternum, 12 pairs of ribs, the clavicle, and the vertebrae of the thoracic spine, which form the thoracic cage (Table 10-1).
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Consists of three parts: the manubrium, the body, and the xiphoid process.
The articulation between the manubrium and the sternum serves to allow the pump-handle action of the sternal body during respiration.
The Rib cage
Formed by twelve pairs of ribs, each different from the others in size, width, and curvature, although they share some common characteristics.
Ribs 1-7 are considered to be true ribs and have a single anterior costochondral attachment to the sternum. Approximately 32 structures attach to the first rib and body of T1.
Ribs 8-10 are referred to as false ribs as they share costochondral attachments before attaching anteriorly to the sternum.
Ribs 11 and 12 are termed floating or costovertebral ribs as they have no anterior attachment with the sternum.
Based on the orientation of the joint axes of the thoracic vertebrae, movement of the upper ribs is primarily in an anterior and posterior direction (pump handle), whereas the transverse diameter increases for the lower ribs allowing movement primarily in the medial-lateral direction (bucket handle).
Costovertebral articulation
Forms an intimate relationship between the head of the rib and the lateral side of the vertebral body.
The first, 11th, and 12th ribs articulate fully with their own vertebrae via a single costal facet, without any contact with the intervertebral disk (IVD).
The remaining ribs articulate with both their own vertebra and the vertebra above, as well as to the IVD.
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External respiration: the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and the blood.
Internal respiration: the exchange of gases between the blood and the cells of the body.
Ventilation: The movement of air through the conducting airways (see "Pulmonary System Physiology").
Respiration: A term used to describe the gas exchange within the body.
The primary function of the respiratory system is to exchange gases between the environment and the tissues and blood so that arterial blood oxygen (O2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and pH levels remain within defined limits throughout many different physiological confines.1 In addition, the pulmonary system contributes to temperature homeostasis via evaporative heat loss from the lungs, and protects the remainder of the respiratory system from ...


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Q: MS BotFramework: collecting users credentials Apologies for the lack of code or detail but I honestly don't know where to start!
I am building a bot to run a couple of reports and update a bunch of stuff in SharePoint (currently 2013 but moving to Online later in 2017).
I don't want to store them in plain text within the folder structure of my bot but I don't want them visible when you type them into the chat bot either.
Is there a way to asterisk out the password as the user types it in?
Cheers!

A: Per my understanding, you want to mask the password input for your users. If any misunderstanding, please feel free to let me know.
So it seems that there is a similar question in GitHub at [Question] Masking Password field in Adaptive Card?

Password masking is not currently a feature. We recommend using the Sign-in Card workflow.

Using Sign-in card:
Activity replyToConversation = message.CreateReply("Should go to conversation");
replyToConversation.Attachments = new List<Attachment>();

List<CardAction> cardButtons = new List<CardAction>();

CardAction plButton = new CardAction()
{
    Value = $"https://<OAuthSignInURL",
    Type = "signin",
    Title = "Connect"
};

cardButtons.Add(plButton);

SigninCard plCard = new SigninCard(title: "You need to authorize me", button: plButton);

Attachment plAttachment = plCard.ToAttachment();
replyToConversation.Attachments.Add(plAttachment);

var reply = await connector.Conversations.SendToConversationAsync(replyToConversation);

Then leverage https://github.com/MicrosoftDX/AuthBot in your bot for authentication.


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Малая Парья — река в России, протекает в Гайнском районе Пермского края. Устье реки находится в 64 км по левому берегу реки Лолог. Длина реки составляет 15 км.

Исток реки у деревни Иванчино в 25 км к юго-западу от села Гайны. Течёт главным образом в южном и юго-восточном направлениях. Приток — Туляч (правый). Впадает в Лолог чуть выше посёлка Сергеевский (Иванчинское сельское поселение).

Данные водного реестра
По данным государственного водного реестра России относится к Камскому бассейновому округу, водохозяйственный участок реки — Кама от истока до водомерного поста у села Бондюг, речной подбассейн реки — бассейны притоков Камы до впадения Белой. Речной бассейн реки — Кама.

По данным геоинформационной системы водохозяйственного районирования территории РФ, подготовленной Федеральным агентством водных ресурсов:
 Код водного объекта в государственном водном реестре — 10010100112111100002980
 Код по гидрологической изученности (ГИ) — 111100298
 Код бассейна — 10.01.01.001
 Номер тома по ГИ — 11
 Выпуск по ГИ — 1

Примечания

Реки Гайнского района
Притоки Лолога

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We don't often associate social networking with good things. The conventional wisdom, as it were, is that Twitter, Facebook and the like are engaging and fun, maybe dangerous, and definitely a big, shallow waste of time. When it comes to faith, is there any value? Some point to horror stories of illicit behavior simplified by the connections it creates. Others point to its effectiveness as a tool for networking Christians with prayer chains and referrals. But what is really going on here?
Maybe you have resisted all social networking, you consider tweeting a frivolous fad and your Facebook account is dusty. Maybe you post several times a day. In either case, do you understand the power and depth of this new medium—in community building, spiritual formation, and yes, even evangelism?
The Book of Psalms contains a wonderful collection of songs known as the "Kingly Psalms." The Kingly Psalms inspire people with hope and encourage us in our faith, give us a window to the past and a connection with our brothers and sisters of long ago, and connect the worlds of the First and Second Testaments as we see a people praising a King and longing for the Messiah-Jesus-who has revealed himself to us. This book is a musical and poetic journey. It's a little bit of a history lesson. But more than anything, it's an invitation into the throne room of a living King who has an invitation of His own to hand out.
Relationships are like records. Remember those things? Vinyl? Larger than a CD? Some would argue the purest audio recordings are vinyl records. But, they are fragile. Records require special care. you can't toss them around, leave them in the sun, or let them get dusty. Still, they develop hisses, pops, and scratches. It's inevitable. And, because life is what it is, our relationships get hisses, pops, and scratches–it's the nature of the beast. This book is about the records we have saved for and purchased, the ones we have been entrusted with. It's about properly taking care of them and playing them over and over again until they become part of us. Become a relational audiophile. Learn to listen carefully to the music, to appreciate it beyond the initial, most obvious instrumentation. Fall in love with it, maybe all over again.


Dr. Schmahmann is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Director of the MGH Ataxia Unit and the Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, and a member of the MGH Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit.
Jeremy D. Schmahmann, M.D. is Founding Director of the MGH Ataxia Unit, a member of the Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He graduated with distinction from the University of Cape Town, winning the Nestle Prize (pediatrics) and Wilfrid Exner Bauman Prize (best student). After residency in the Boston City Hospital Neurological Unit, and fellowship in the Boston University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, he joined the MGH faculty in 1989. He has been cited in The Best Doctors in America since 1996, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, and the American Neuropsychiatric Association, member of the National Ataxia Foundation medical research advisory board, the Cerebellar Research Consortium, and the Multiple System Atrophy Global Working Group.
Dr. Schmahmann won the 2000 Norman Geschwind Prize from the American Academy of Neurology and Behavioral Neurology Society for pioneering research on the cerebellum and cognition, the 2008 Distinguished Neurology Teacher Award from the American Neurological Association, and the 2013 Special Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching in from HMS. His neurological and neuroanatomical research has been funded by NIH and private foundations. Dr. Schmahmann was a Founding Co-Director of the HMS Dementia Course, and has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals and academic texts. He has authored and edited 5 books: The Cerebellum and Cognition (Academic Press), MRI Atlas of the Human Cerebellum (Academic Press), Fiber Pathways of the Brain (Oxford University Press), Cerebellar Disorders in Children (Mac Keith Press), and Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders (Springer).
We use MRI techniques (DSI - diffusion spectrum imaging) to conduct research in the human brain, both living and deceased, to find out how the human brain is hard wired. In collaboration with MGH investigators who invented this new technology, we analyze the wiring of brain regions relevant to many neuropsychiatric conditions (schizophrenia, autism, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post-concussion injury), and neurological disorders (Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis), and we use this connectional approach to explore how cerebellum is linked to the cerebral hemispheres. This ability to study the connections, functions and anatomy of the human brain in living individuals across time is an exciting and major development that has implications for the understanding and treatment of disorders of the nervous system.
Schmahmann JD. An emerging concept: The cerebellar contribution to higher function. Arch. Neurol. 1991;48:1178-1187.
Schmahmann JD and Pandya DN. Anatomic organization of the basilar pontine projections from prefrontal cortices in rhesus monkey. J. Neurosci. 1997;17:438-458.
Schmahmann JD and Sherman JC. The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome. Brain. 1998; 121:561-579.
Levisohn L, Cronin-Golomb A, Schmahmann JD. Neuropsychological consequences of cerebellar tumor resection in children: Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome in a pediatric population. Brain. 2000; 123:1041-50.
Schmahmann JD, Weilburg JB, Sherman JC. The neuropsychiatry of the cerebellum: insights from the clinic. The Cerebellum. 2007; 6:254-67.
Schmahmann JD, Pandya DN, Wang R, Dai G, d'Arceuil HE, de Crespigny AJ, Wedeen VJ. Association fiber pathways of the brain: Parallel observations from diffusion spectrum imaging and autoradiography. Brain. 2007; 130:630-53.
Schmahmann JD. The role of the cerebellum in cognition and emotion: Personal reflections since 1982 on the dysmetria of thought hypothesis, and its historical evolution from theory to therapy. Neuropsychol Rev. 2010;20(3):236-60.


Money saving life hacks you should know and helpful tips and tricks to save money!
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does the app work in canada? btw loved your video!
that coffee you made looked so good!
where did you get your planner and the starbucks coffee mug from?
I always do the first hack..its actually helpful because when you know you only have a certain amount on you, it restricts you to buying more stuff for less money. I will definitely try out iBotta .I've heard of it but never actually tried it.
I can never make good coffee😩. Great tips!
The Ibotta app looks awesome!
Pretty helpful tips, just in time for the holiday season ,when we'll be having tons of expenses.
Nice tips. What editing software do you use?


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Fangyu Peng, M.D., Ph.D.
Department Radiology | Advanced Imaging Research Center
Graduate Programs Biomedical Engineering
Fangyu Peng, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of its Nuclear Medicine Division. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Advanced Imaging Research Center. His clinical interests include general nuclear medicine, PET imaging, and computed tomography (CT), with a particular interest in oncology and neurology.
Dr. Peng earned his medical degree at Jiangxi Medical College in Nanchang, China. He then earned a master's degree in molecular virology at Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine's Institute of Virology in Beijing. He earned a doctoral degree in microbiology and immunology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa. He then completed a research fellowship program in hematopathology at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana, before completing his residency in pathology at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Peng then completed a residency in nuclear medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, and in anatomic pathology at Hartford Hospital. He completed his formal training with a fellowship program in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Before being recruited in 2008 to enhance the Nuclear Medicine Division's translational research, Dr. Peng served as an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.
At UT Southwestern, he troubleshoots and improves imaging protocols, and actively participates in educational endeavors, in addition to his regular clinical responsibilities.
Dr. Peng focuses his research on inherited and acquired copper metabolism disorders in Wilson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and traumatic brain injury, and investigates molecular imaging and targeted radionuclide cancer therapy with copper radionuclides. His research has been published in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. He also invented and received a patent for intracellular trapping of radionuclides by enzyme-mediated reduction.
Jiangxi Medical College (1982)
Other Post Graduate Training
University of South Florida (1994), Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Ball Memorial Hospital (1996), Hematopathology
SUNY Upstate Medical University (1998), Pathology
University of Connecticut Health Center (2000), Nuclear Medicine
Hartford Hospital (2002), Anatomic Pathology
Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NIH (2003), Nuclear Medicine
Molecular imaging and targeted radionuclide cancer therapy with copper radionuclides
Positron Emission Tomography of altered copper fluxes in Wilson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and traumatic brain injury with copper-64 chloride
Isolated Hepatic Metastasis of Prostate Cancer with Variable 18F-fluociclovine Uptake by PET/CT Imaging.
Sorra E, Aziz MU, Peng F, Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2020 Feb 54 1 53-57
Ectopic Thyroid Tissue in the Mediastinum Characterized by Histology and Functional Imaging with I-123 SPECT/CT.
Hummel J, Wachsmann J, Carrick K, Oz OK, Mathews D, Peng F Case Rep Radiol 2017 2017 9084207
Asymmetric radiotracer activity of enlarged cerebral spinal fluid space on radionuclide cisternography with SPET/CT.
Bulman JC, Wachsmann J, Peng F Hell J Nucl Med 2016 Nov
Immune-mediated Disease in Ipilimumab Immunotherapy of Melanoma with FDG PET-CT.
Wachsmann JW, Ganti R, Peng F Acad Radiol 2016 Nov
Detection of Widespread Metastasis in a Case of Aggressive Carcinoma Showing Thymuslike Differentiation (CASTLE Disease) Using 18F-FDG PET/CT.
Iyamu I, Wachsmann J, Truelson J, Mathews D, Peng F Clin Nucl Med 2015 Apr
Alteration of Copper Fluxes in Brain Aging: A Longitudinal Study in Rodent Using 64CuCl2-PET/CT.
Peng F, Xie F, Muzik O Aging Dis 2018 Feb 9 1 109-118
Radiopharmaceuticals for Assessment of Altered Metabolism and Biometal Fluxes in Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease with Positron Emission Tomography.
Xie F, Peng F J. Alzheimers Dis. 2017 Jun
Age-dependent changes of cerebral copper metabolism in Atp7b (-/-) knockout mouse model of Wilson's disease by [(64)Cu]CuCl2-PET/CT.
Xie F, Xi Y, Pascual JM, Muzik O, Peng F Metab Brain Dis 2017 Jan
Molecular imaging and therapy targeting copper metabolism in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Wachsmann J, Peng F World J. Gastroenterol. 2016 Jan 22 1 221-31
Detection of Increased 64Cu uptake in Traumatic Brain Injury with 64CuCl2-PET/CT.
Peng F, Muzik O, Gatson J, Kernie S, Diaz-Arrastia R J. Nucl. Med. 2015 Jun
American College of Nuclear Medicine (2019)
Chief Resident in Nuclear Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center (1999-2000)
International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (2016)
American Board of Nuclear Medicine (2001)
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (1998)