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Pictured: Richard O'Brien, Melanie Lynskey, Ursula Bethell,
Suraya Singh, Gin Wigmore
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling
of global media appearing in Variety, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Indian
Country News, Sky News, The Miami Herald, The Ecologist, Wall Street
Journal, Guardian, The Age, Drift Magazine, The New York Times, The Georgia
Straight, Courier Mail, Dumbo Feather, The Independent on Sunday, Los
Angeles Times and The Australian include:
• Richard
O’Brien, Rocky Horror writer; career began on
horseback in Tauranga – Guardian
• Melanie
Lynskey, 32, actress, has "small but pivotal" roles in
three films at TIFF – LA Times
• Ursula
Bethell, a “seminal figure in 20th century New Zealand
poetry” – Guardian
• Suraya
Singh, 30, UK erotic mag editor, first to publish erection
pictorial – Guardian
• Gin
Wigmore, 23, singer, releases debut album Holy Smoke;
dedicated to dad – Courier Mail
• Jason
Wynyard, 36, lumberjack, chops to first place in World Champs
• Topp
Twins, Toronto darlings, massage NZ identity with affection – Variety
• Scott
Dixon, 29, wins Indy Japan 300, tops leader board, one race to go
– The Miami Herald
• Jonah
Lomu, 34, 114kg, second in over-90kg class at bodybuilding comp
– Guardian
• Robert
Pearson gains second place in IPA's Fine Art: Abstract Pro
section for ‘Entrophy’
• Taieri
Gorge a Telegraph one of the ‘world’s most
remarkable places
• New
Zealand a campervanning mecca, scenery like The Alps, Lake
District – Daily Mail
• Auckland
University scientists develop $122,000 wireless heart pump
• Dan
Simon, art collective leader and Mayfair squatter “with serious
purpose”
• Linda
White Wolf, Chickasaw and Maori US TV host, discovers NZ roots
– Indian Country News
• Wanganui
now Whanganui; spelling debate dubbed the ‘H’ bomb – Sky News
• Ewan
Kingston, blogger, on limited budget forgoes air travel from UK
to NZ – The Ecologist
• Julian
& Camilla's World Odyssey broadcasts to 117
countries – Travel Channel
• New
Zealand’s Emissions Trading Review “green PR gone wild”
– Wall Street Journal
• Ladyhawke
and artist Sarah Larnach, both 30, collaborate on Becks label – Independent
on Sunday
• Brendon
Hartley, 19, Red Bull Formula 3 driver, wins maiden Euro
Championship race, England
• David
Trubridge, furniture creator, considers localising quality design
– Dumbo Feather
• New
Zealand researchers find living with animals longer wards off
sneeze – The Age
• ASR
Ltd, Raglan-based reef designers, create surfable waves with
geotextiles – Drift Magazine
• Black
Magazine one of 23 independent “style bibles” featuring on FTape
• Hoki,
McDonald’s filet-o-fish staple; “bounty it seems, is not limitless”
– New York Times
• Nick
& Val Martin, Pelorus Sound posties, deliver to “people
varied as terrain” – Georgia Straight
• Jane
Campion, to adapt Alice Munro’s Runaway in current
preoccupation with love – NY Times
• Dr
Kerry Spackman, The Winner’s Bible author, to help All
Blacks rewire
• Haast’s
eagle, extinct fearsome predator, not scavenger, attacked moa –
Reuters India
• Andrew
Prieditis, 30, “self-confessed letter addict”, published in
60 global papers in past six weeks
 DIGITISING
OUR CULTURE
Set up in 2002, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) is a
fantastic and precious resource initiated by the Victoria University of
Wellington, with the aim of creating a digital library providing open access
to significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials. The
standards-based collection is delivered through an Open Source framework and
offers full and free access to a range of materials in multiple formats for
download or online browsing. Today the NZETC collection contains over 2,600
texts (around 65,000 pages) and receives over 10,000 visits daily. To read
the news on developments at the NZETC visit their blog.
There you can find out what texts have been added to the collection and what
projects they have been working on.
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