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From Brian
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From left: new head of Abingdon School, Felicity
Lusk; Greywacke winemaker Kevin Judd; moon rock expert Brian Mason
(1917–2009); new General Motors CFO Chris Liddell; Black Cap strke bowler
Shane Bond; Australian Idol winner Stan Walker
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global
media appearing in Global Times, The Seattle Times, BBC, The New York
Times, Telegraph, The Washington Post, The Durango Telegraph, Variety, Yen,
The Toronto Star, The Sydney Morning Herald, Guardian, Time, Los Angeles
Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Age, The Independent, Wall Street Journal,
The Korea Herald, Guardian, Honolulu Advertiser, The Santiago Times, Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, Forbes and Financial Times include:
• Felicity
Lusk first woman to head UK boys’ public boarding school – Telegraph
• Kevin
Judd’s 1st vintage Greywacke “aims to keep NZ wine small but
beautiful” – New York Times
• Brian
Mason, geochemist; moon rock expert; medal recipient, dies, 92
– Washington Post
• Chris
Liddell named CFO of General Motors, key role in automaker's
future – Wall Street Journal
• Shane
Bond, 34, takes eight wickets against Pakistan; man-of-the-match
[retires] – BBC
• Stan
Walker, 18, sings from the soul to win Australian Idol
– Sydney Morning Herald
• Sir
Ed Hillary’s modesty and responsibility inspirational for
business leaders – Financial Times
• Phar
Lap 850kg bronze statue unveiled at Timaru raceway – ABC
News
• Robbie
Deans, Wallabies coach, optimistic about team's future – Sydney
Morning Herald
• Iain
O’Brien, Black Caps seamer, 33, quits international cricket for
Middlesex – BBC
• Michelle
Clark-Smith, 32, US-based skier, poster-girl for Chicago Snowcats
– Durango Telegraph
• Kylie
Wakelin, 36, Twizel pilot, skiing 800km to South Pole – Associated
Press
• Casey
Laulala, Cardiff Blues centre, 27, “hardest player to
contain” – BBC
• DesignLine,
bus manufacturers, to add 87 vehicles to NY fleet by year’s end – New
York Times
• Rocket
Lab launch Atea-1 from Great Mercury 100km into space – iAfrica.com
• YikeBike
makes cover of Time as one of the world’s top 50 inventions in
2009 – Time
• Lovely
Bones “complex and unusual film, alluring, enthralling” –
Rex Reed, NY Observer
• Weta
Workshop’s Skyrunners alien “transparent,
frightening” – Los Angeles Times
• Flight
of the Conchords end series; “the real Bret and Jemaine will
continue to exist” – Variety
• NZ
Book Council promote tradition with animated film using Gee’s Going
West – E Weekly
• Eleanor
Catton, author of The Rehearsal, shortlisted for Guardian
first book award
• Fat
Freddy’s Drop play US West Coast; promise return in new year
– Reuters
• Gin
Wigmore, singer, 23, has “got it going on” alongside Peaches
and Little Boots – Yen
• Ladyhawke
wins two ARIAS experimenting with pop on solo album – BBC
• Topp
Twins gig in New Zealand “like going to a thousand-strong
family reunion” – The Age
• Jane
Campion, Kerry Fox recall first encounter; the one “real”;
the other “nervous” – Independent
• Fat
Freddy’s Drop making waves in US with “boomingly
infectious” beats – Fort Worth Star-Tribune
• Phoenix
Foundation’s latest gets 5 stars; most “potent” band since
Chills – Independent
• Chris
Knox Stroke benefit compilation unites musicians singing
for his recovery – Exclaim.Ca
• Phil
Price, kinetic sculptor, 44, wins on Bondi with “Morpheus”
– Taxi
• Nom*D,
one of 4 NZ designers in Melbourne exhibit dispelling Antipodean stereotypes
• Strip-of-Meat,
Wellington waiters; “dress code involving a lot of skin” – Inventor
Sport
• New
Zealand sauvignon preferred to Australian across ditch – ABC
News
• New
Zealand wine market “one of the great success stories of the
Noughties” – Telegraph
• Craggy
Range surpasses US equivalents in blind testing at NY’s Eleven
Madison – Forbes
• Mike
Paterson, Jackson Estate head winemaker, takes Marlborough to
Seoul – Korea Herald
• Flat
whites on sale in UK Starbucks; first new type since British
outlets opened – Telegraph
• New
Zealand emphasis on variety of Asian cuisine satisfies newcomers
– Global Times
• Plaza
Nueva Zelandia unveiled in Santiago; green oasis in city centre
– Santiago Times
• Little
New Zealand to be built in China; replica city will boost
long-haul tourism
• Wharekauhau
Lodge one of five NZ “sexy and stylish retreats” reviewed –
Guardian
• Rotorua’s
heritage centre a thrill-seeking introduction to Maori protocol – Seattle
Times
• Te
Rauparaha’s stronghold, Kapiti Island, alive with birds – Telegraph
• Whakatane
Kiwi Project releases kiwi chick Te Kauhoe; one of 90 in 8 years
– Toronto Star
• Beehive
“a slide projector that fell on a wedding cake that fell on a
waterwheel”
• Kevin
Percy, antique dealer, claims ownership of 700-year-old Alnwick
Castle – Telegraph
• Al
Fastier, explorer, off in search of Shackleton’s missing
whiskey – ABC News
• Erebus
“disaster etched onto New Zealand psyche” – Brisbane Times
• Koiwi
Tangata returned from Welsh and Swedish collections – BBC
• New
Zealand pushes for cruise ship regulations in Antarctica – Washington
Post
• New
Zealand’s possum numbers down from 70m to 30m in 20 years – ABC
News
• New
Zealand may have been settled by Hawaiians, Stanford study – Honolulu
Advertiser
• New
Zealand accused of greenwash; cows, cars, lead to more emissions
– Guardian
• New
Zealand the least corrupt country in the world; Transparency
International – Reuters
 DENIS
O'REILLY: NGA KUPU AROHA/WORDS OF LOVE, BLOG #37 – The
Practice of Love
At year's end Den tells of
the extraordinary partnership between the Mongrel Mob Notorious and the
Salvation Army in establishing a methamphetamine rehabilitation programme at
Kakahi. He recounts the recent journey of the Mob and their arrival at the
gates of the Citadel and how through leadership on the part of Roy Dunne the
Notorious chapter's captain, pro-social change is afoot. Den describes the
Consultancy Advocacy and Research Trust's (CART) entry into its 20th year of
community action and the opening of its new facility in Wellington by the
Governor General His Excellency Sir Anand Satyanand. He says that the
presence of the Governor General and senior officers of the New Zealand
Police at this event, and the presence of Ngati Tuwharetoa paramount chief
Tumu Te Heu Heu at Kakahi for the graduation for the Mongrel Mob families
who completed the rehab programme, are in themselves profound demonstrations
of leadership and antidotes to the language of hate currently being used by
some politicians. Den outlines his plans for 2010, the Parihaka Peace
Festival, Maori Motown (with a message), and the quest to get more meth
rehab units up and running. He wishes readers blessings and hopes they get
to hear and speak words of love each day of the New Year. (3,761 words)
 Fabulous
Face-Off. Two visitors to New Zealand have
provoked a fabulous stream of online invective that is as good a mirror on
our society as any other held up in 2009. Model impresario Tyra Banks was in
New Zealand this month filming an episode of “American's Next Top
Model”. A NZ Herald headline said of her emotion-overcome speech at an
Auckland lunch: “[She] came, she saw, she cried.” Ms Banks remarked
"I find that the girls [here] are so like, beyond warm and polite. I
don't know, do you guys have haters? America's all about haters. I don't
feel that here." The Herald's “Your Views” page has 160 opinions on
“What
is unique about Kiwi women.” At the other end of pointy-headedness,
Robert Lord Winston, professor of science and society at Imperial College
London, has been visiting for an international symposium at Auckland
University. He is an expert in how genes and the environment combine to
develop human identity – and remarked last week that New Zealanders do not
value intellectuals and ignore the worst behavior of our sports stars.
"New Zealand celebrates attributes which really aren't that
important," he said, believing that believes the stars of the
entertainment industry and of the sports field are built up out of all
proportion to their value or their attributes. Stuff has 135 pungent
comments on the subject “Worship
of Kiwi celebrities a false idolatry.”
 The
EDGE OF ELSEWHERE
Opens January 14-15 as part of the Sydney Festival, featuring New
Zealand artists Shigeyuki Kihara and Lisa Reihana. Produced by Gallery
4A and sited principally at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, the three year
project brings together contemporary artists from across Australia, Asia
and the Pacific to develop new work in partnership with Sydney
communities.
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THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
is a new way of presenting our identity, people, stories,
achievements and our role in the world. Home to a global
community of New Zealanders. Aotearoa whanau whanui kite ao nui
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Top picture, Paradise Valley, Central
Otago; above, Lake Ferry, Wairarapa. More pictures at www.paradiseroad.com.
Fern symbol via www.nzflag.com.
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