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Above
Paekakariki
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To Members of the
Global Network of New Zealanders
From Brian Sweeney, Producer, The New Zealand Edge
Headlines from the world’s
online media
FIRST, OUR LAMENTS
• Arthur Lydiard – Running
Man
• Pat Hanly – Pacific Ikon
• Peter Bennett predicts
extinction by 2100
AND THE WINNERS ARE:
http://www.nzedge.com/media
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Keith Urban wins Nashville
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Trevor Richards awarded
Tambo Companion Award
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Nom D, Zambesi, Trelise
Cooper at global fashion awards
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Anne Geddes and Celine Dion
#1 in USA
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All Blacks’s triumph in
France
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Annamarie Jagose wins
Victoria fiction prize
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Natural Heritage wins in
Beijing with Bad Bugs
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Phil Keoghan’s Amazing
Opportunity continues
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Taika Waititi’s Two Cars
film wins everywhere
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Larry Parr’s Fracture wins
St Tropez
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Peter Bethune to race around
the world
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NZ #1 in Telegraph tourism
poll
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In My Father’s Den – “Melancholy
Masterpiece”
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Peter Boggs wins most
esteemed drawing prize
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Sally Andrews – Best
Actress Her Majesty
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Pinot Noir infatuation in
California
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NZ sci/tech funding model in
EU
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John Hood commences as
Oxford VC
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Telegraph reports “Fairy
Fashion Week”
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Fitzy in the world – The
Irish Times
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Joan Wilton acclaimed
paleontologist in US
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Betchadupa’s remarkable
songcraft – Age
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US liberals enquire about NZ
residency
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NZ not an “echo” in
foreign policy - Goff
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Turanga Mento heads Sydney
Lion King
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“Stunning humdingers” at
Edinburgh Wine Fair
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Russell Coutts’ Gold Cup
in Sweden
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Cuisine
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Finns sibling revelry in
Scotland
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ECO tourism has major
elevation
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3-12 million Moa in NZ
before man?
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NZ college students
internationally aware
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Britons love NZ country real
estate
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What to do in Auckland? –
New York Times
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Chris Carter on Civil Union
Bill – LA Advocate
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Maestro Ric Burch’s book
Master of Ceremonies
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Chills in Guardian great
indie pop singles top 10
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Unknown Soldier from France
to Wellington
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UK Pensions look to NZ
system
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Napier’s Tracey Richardson
a worldwide inspiration
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Tracey King a smoothie in
Europe
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KR’s Lovemarks #1 with Tom
Peters
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Dr Laurie Creamer world’s
top dairy scientist
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Boston Globe ferments over
Brajkovich Chardonnay
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Fonterra a “moo-nopolist”
– Sydney Morning Herald
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First NZ-South Korean Film
Fest
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Massey University checks OZ
blowfly stress points
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Bevan Doherty – world
champion triathlete
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Roger Douglas’s reforms
energise agriculture – BBC
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Cardonna hotel on market -
$7m
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Scott Smith wins $500K at OZ
Quiz show
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Ricky Ellison – NFL and
missile linebreaker
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NZ’s lifelong Philly
friends
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NZer launches broken leg
support website
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MSN rediscovers NZ youth
hostels
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New life forms in NZ oceanic
volcano
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Gossiping is great –
Victoria University study
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Brendan Cole Strictly Comes
Dancing on BBC
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(we're sorry if any of the news links have gone dead since we
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OTHER VOICES, OTHER PLACES
161 messages sent from you, Aotearoa whanau whanui ki te Aonui – the global
community of New Zealanders – about where you are at, about what and who
inspires you, about your cultural symbols, and about your heros –
Freyberg, Tex Morton, Janet Frame, Ed Hillary, Archibald MacIndoe, Bill
Phillips, Aunt Daisy, Richard Gapes, Keith Park, Maurice Wilkins, William
Pickering. New Zealand Edge speaks of a spirit of “radical optimism”-
and yours can be found on this page. Received July-December 04. Best
message for me, from Toronto: “NZEDGE pierces the heart. Opens it.
Lights the flame. Tickles the universal mind. Remembers the fragments.
Remembers who we are - ALL of it. I remember.” http://www.nzedge.com/mailbox/20_december04.html
EMBRACING
THE POSITIVE
Installment #3 of Denis O’Reilly’s Nga
Kupu Aroha: Words of Love. Working the real stuff... a
supported housing community at Waiohiki - a place that might have a
'P-free whare' status... the Waiohiki Creative Arts Village... addressing
suspicion and distrust... looking for keys to unlock a system set on
assuming the worst... the Eagles Foundation of USA... the Mokai Whanau Ora
project, Aotearoa... "working for things other than money"...
working for a high traction entry into 2005...
http://www.nzedge.com/hot/ar-denis03.html
“THE
PUB WAS HEAVING WITH SILVER FERNS”
Kevin Roberts’ journey from Rome to Cardiff, to Sao Paulo, Rio and
Paris. “To a game that was heaven, one of the most brilliant All Black
displays I have ever seen, a day the All Blacks left the field with no
regrets. They delivered on every front. Strategic flexibility, inspired
selection, tactical flexibility, media accessibility, player development,
technical upskilling, all round on-field leadership, inspired player
morale and first class results.”
http://www.nzedge.com/hot/rugby/04_Dec-Jan.html
EDGE AND CENTER
It’s freezing outside here in New York. A month ago I posted an
initiative called NYNZ about an improbable but instinctive relationship
between New Zealand and New York. “Your country is famous, it’s where
I’d love to be” said the check-in executive at my hotel. If you go to www.nynz.com
you’ll find a dozen or so intial messages about the resonance of what
one correspondent calls “geographic promiscuity.” The idea of New
Zealand “annexing” New York as an economic and cultural loadstar might
sound preposterous, but so too was the idea of the New Zealand Edge that
we voiced seven years ago that a million or so New Zealanders living
off-island might have a critical role in the renaissance of the Aotearoa
spirit. Go see - www.nynz.com
2004 CLOSING
It’s been a year of loss – Edge Heroes including Maurice Wilkins, William Pickering,
Janet Frame, Robert Burchfield, Arthur Lydiard, Michael King and Maurice
Shadbolt.
It’s been a year of gain –
a New York office; go the All Blacks! Go King Kong and every other film
director! Go Pinot! Go Fashionistas! Go Exporters! Go the Silver Fern!
I
thank my team Carla Hofler, Clare Marshall, Paul Ward, Humphrey Glennie,
Denis O’Reilly, Stephen Olsen and Kriston Ware, and my mate in this
extremely edgy enterprise, Kevin Roberts.
Kia Kaha!
Best regards
Brian Sweeney
Publisher, Producer
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
http://www.nzedge.com
mailto: brian@nzedge.com
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