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Michelin Local Map No. 344 Luchon Andorre Carcasson Perpignan Aude Pyrenees-Orientales (France), Scale 1:150,000

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November 27.... A Black Day in New Zealand's Aviation History

30 years ago today was the ill fated Air New Zealand flight to Mount Erebus in Antartica...
A sightseeing venture which ended in disaster and the loss of life of all those on board...
20 Crew and 237 passengers... of which 180 were New Zealanders...

I was only 13 at the time, but remember it well... Many people it seems have some sort of connection to the disaster or knows someone who does...
A guy in my class at school was meant to be on that flight... His family had won a competition and free tickets... but for some reason they could go...

For the 30th Anniversary Air New Zealand have chartered a plane to Scott Base to hold a commemorative Ceremony and erect a statue in remembrance of the lives lost. 6 members of families related to the victims have been selected from a ballot to join the expedition.

In another terrible twist of fate...
One year ago today Air New Zealand suffered another tragedy...
The fatal crash of Air New Zealand Airbus A30 off the coast of Perpignan France.
The airplane had been on lease to a German airline by Air New Zealand, and was on a test flight prior to the handing over of the plane back to Air New Zealand.
On board were 2 German pilots and 1 NZ Pilot, 3 NZ Engineers and an NZ Civil Aviation representative. All senior and well respected in their field... All 7 lost their lives.

A terrible tragedy in New Zealand Aviation History....
And all the more tragic that it occurred on the Anniversary of the Mount Erebus Disaster...

At the heart of the sculpture is the theme of momentum. "Momentum" is a living monument capturing the magic of flight, and like anything airborne, its ability to move gracefully and continuously is an interaction between physical and environmental elements - a constant reminder of the fragile nature of flight, and the dynamic forces at play.

"Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300" investigates the gender system at work in medieval Perpignan. Using a series of notarial registers - unique as surviving records for the social history of the thirteenth-century realms of Aragon and Majorca, the political confederations to which this town belonged - Rebecca L. Winer opens a window onto the experiences of women and their families. Her interpretive framework reveals medieval assumptions about the distinct natures of Christian, Jewish, and enslaved Muslim women by analyzing which actions were curbed, controlled, or fostered in these different groups. Sensitive to questions of social rank and marital status, the book departs from traditional women's history by asking how a woman's religious identity factored in determining her economic and legal options in this society. As a frontier town, Perpignan lends itself well to an analysis of relations among Christians, Jews, and Muslim slaves. The later thirteenth century also provides an ideal focus for this inquiry since the politics of Christian expansion and the economics of the western Mediterranean meant that Jewish communities flourished. In contrast, Christian/Muslim relations unfolded particularly tensely due to intermittent conflict and both groups' slave trade almost exclusively in each other's people. Winer reconstructs how the members of these three communities negotiated shared space, conducting all manner of exchanges, making (endogamous) marriages, wills, commercial contracts, and arranging for the care of children whose fathers were lost to war or disease. The first section of the book focuses on women's legal status, work and control of financial resources in the two dominant communities, Christian and Jewish, across the social spectrum. It goes on to compare the ways in which mothers' relationships to their children were understood in the Christian and Jewish communities. The book concludes by entering the homes of Christian and Jewish masters to reveal the multi-faceted positions of Muslim and newly baptized slave women, whose oppression completes the picture of the gender hierarchy in Perpignan. With its analysis of how class, gender, and religious difference shaped everyday practice, "Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300" constitutes a major contribution to the history of inter-faith relations and medieval studies.