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On
The Way Home
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To Members of the
Global Network of New Zealanders
From Brian Sweeney, Producer, The New Zealand Edge
Taking
it to the world
News of international achievements by New Zealanders
as reported in the world’s media including The New York Times, CNN, BBC,
The Guardian, The Independent, Los Angeles Times, Sydney Morning Herald,
The Age, Seattle Times, National Geographic, MIT Technology Review,
International Herald Tribune, The Observer and more:
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Neil Dawson’s fanfare for Sydney
New Year
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Black
Grace a New York dance highlight of ‘04
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Otago
U pioneers bone reconstruction
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Russell Crowe connects emotionally in GQ
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Fran
Walsh wins Grammy for Rings’ song
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Mark
Wigley on the new Museum of Modern Art
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Lovely
Bones next on slate for Rings team
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My
favourite ape – Peter Jackson on King Kong
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Peregrine
primes the Pinot paradox
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Dave
Jenkins races aid to Tsunami areas
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Christopher
Shaw leads motor neuron research
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RIP
Duncan Forrest, surgeon, anti-torture campaigner
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King
James Bible edited at Victoria U
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Haast
eagle sets world records
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ESR
victim-ID software used for Tsunami
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Ben
Goodger head-hunted by Google
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NZ
Government signs Kyoto protocol
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Christine
Rogers shoots Oz refugee story
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NZ
race politics features in Global Politician
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Tim
Miles rings up Vodafone UK
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Luxury
fibre revolution from Cervelt
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Wendy
Hutton famous Asian foodie
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Tana
Umaga leads Guardian dream team
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Washington
Post wants NZ closer
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Zambezi,
Nom*D, Walker, Sylvester at NZ Fashion
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New
York Times catches angler’s paradise
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“NZ
is Wales with more sheep” – an Australian speaks
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Ta
Moko features in National Geographic
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Rebecca
Taylor’s NY Fashion Week runway show |
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New
flag mooted by Telegraph
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NZ
GMOs in MIT Review
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Kevin
Roberts on the future of everything
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NZ
troops piercing Budda’s back in Afghan
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Kids’
LIT quiz scores big in UK
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Napier
Deco “tragedy and renewal frozen in time”
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Janet
Frame features in NYT ’04 obits
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RIP
Snow Lupton, trainer of Kiwi
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Civil
Union Bill passed in NZ Parliament
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Film
work in progress – Niki Caro, Melanie Linskey, Andrew Niccol,
Marton Csokas, Geoff Murphy, Ellory Elkayem, Anna Paquin, Daniel
Gillies, Kerry Fox, Lee Tamahori, Lloyd Phillips, Tim Bevan, Gavin
Scott
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RIP
John Ziman, physicist and humanist
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NZ
Lodges – “Jaw-dropping nature beauty”
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SA
Premier Mike Rann on global warming
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Billy
Connelly’s “World tour of New Zealand”
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NZ
polo recommended in India
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Brit
colonel loses heart in NZ
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Brit
swimmer Zoe Baker switches to NZ
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Richard
Hadlee turns fast comic
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Natasha
Beddingfield double platinum in UK
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Witi’s
Whale Rider released in US
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Rings
cast want to do Hobbit
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Air
NZ gets Phoenix Award
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“Wacky
and fascinating” – world of NZ wine
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Godley
Lake on best global ski route
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(we're sorry if any of the news links have gone dead since we
first identified the stories).
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EDGE MEETS CENTER
The
New York Chapter of KEA (Kiwi Ex-Pats Association), www.keanetwork.org,
are presenting an event in New York on the evening of Wednesday, March 9,
with Kevin Roberts and myself as the co-founders of The New Zealand Edge,
to talk about the NYNZ
idea, the evolution of the
edge story, and progress on the US-NZ relationship (in Kevin’s capacity
as Business Ambassador for the NZUS Council). Venue is a very cool bar
APT, W 13th Street and 10th
Avenue, 6.30-8.30pm. Price
is US$40, open bar and hors d’oevres. Everyone welcome, love to see you,
but please book early as space is limited. RSVP to info@keanyc.com
or keany@blast.net
SELF,
RACE, DRUGS & JUSTICE IN NEW ZEALAND
Blog
#4 from Denis O’Reilly. Denis and John Wareham (NYNZer who coaches
leadership in the world’s top corporations) team up with Black Power and
the Mongrel Mob, the Eagles Foundation of America and the NZ Sensible
Sentencing Trust for a transformational symposium “Self, Race, Drugs
& Justice in New Zealand” at Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga, Hastings,
4-6 March 2005. If that’s not head and heart-turning enough, Denis tours
the frontline of methamphetamine, and Waitangi 2005.
TE ARA GOES ONLINE
Check
out The Encyclopedia of New Zealand www.TeAra.govt.nz.
Te Ara means ‘the pathway’. Beginning with the theme of Peoples, the
eight year $12m Te Ara project will eventually present a complete guide to
New Zealand – our natural environment, history, culture, economics and
government. The first tranche of content is about the origins of New
Zealanders – the voyages, the stories of settlement and the rich and
diverse heritages. There are two sections: Māori New Zealanders, who arrived by 1300 AD, and New
Zealand Peoples, the ethnicities and nationalities who have settled
in the last two centuries. Each major Māori tribe presents its own
story. The information that is seen as important to tribal identity
includes: canoes, ancestors, tribal boundaries and resources, cultural
icons, major events and the tribe today. There are 44 stories about the
main national or ethnic groups who have settled New Zealand, including
British, European, Pacific Island and Asian. These cover topics including:
when they migrated, where they came from and where they settled, what they
have contributed to New Zealand and retaining their home culture. The Te
Ara project is led by the esteemed historian and good bloke Dr Jock
Phillips.
THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN
I’m writing this 75th
nzedge letter from Monterey California where I’ve been at the legendary
TED (for Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference, where an
extraordinary range of biologists, architects, paleontologists,
economists, rocket engineers, rock stars, physicists, magicians, undersea
explorers, forecasters, security strategists, auto engineers, merchants,
surgeons, storytellers, film composers and software designers have
presented their latest and greatest. The edge metaphor for New Zealand
stemmed directly from a conversation I had with TEDster Kevin Kelly
several years back about the critical role of the outer regions in the
evolution of biological systems. TED is like that, it can be catalytic.
The best line I’ve heard in over the ten or so TED conference I’ve
been to come from philosopher Dan Dennett, who explained that it was an
occupational hazard to be asked the meaning of life. So here was his
soundbite: "the definition of happiness is to find something bigger
than yourself and then devote your life to it."
Go to it.
Brian Sweeney
Publisher, Producer
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
http://www.nzedge.com
mailto: brian@nzedge.com
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