Wednesday, 24 June 2009

110 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 24 June 2009



From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/

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Pictured above: Kiri Te Kanawa, Teddy Tahu, Margaret Mahy, John Walker and Doug Howlett.

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in Guardian, Telegraph, The Washington Post, Wine Spectator, The Star, The New York Times, The Times of India, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, International Business Times, The Independent, The Age, Irish Times, Jane's, Cincinnati Enquirer, Los Angeles Times and Art World include:

Kiri Te Kanawa, diva, inducted into Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame
Teddy Tahu Rhodes, baritone, "dashing, roguish" in Cincinnati Figaro
Margaret Mahy's Bubble Trouble best picture book, US Book Awards
Formway, design co, have office chair "test-driven" in Fast Company
Bill Phillips' economic invention, "fresh as the day it began gurgling"
Fotc NZ's "biggest thing"; "wonderful ambassadors", Tourism NZ
NZ Defence Force, small makes big on world military stage – Jane's
Uni of Auckland develops test to measure cancer risk in smokers
New Zealand "unpretentious"; huge range of natural treasures
Michael Parekowhai, artist, coins title for latest work in Sydney
Don Sullivan, 'Pestbuster', and team of trappers snag 530, Nelson
New Zealand knocks Iceland off top spot; most peaceful on planet
Michael Brajkovich, Kumeu winemaker, 47, on screw caps, Burgundy
New Zealand no longer "the cousin at the party in short trousers"
Zespri ad campaign encourages Malaysians to eat two kiwifruit daily
100% Pure NZ, a decade old; Australians crave same success
Doug Howlett, 30, Munster wing, on family, return to NZ and celebrity
Peter Jackson to attend San Diego's Comic-Con, promoting District 9
Cloud9, luxury $1700 a night bach in Bay of Islands, "best of the best"
Roger Dickie NZ offers carbon credit shares, profit, in Onslow Forest
Dan Carter returns to NZ after sojourn in Perpignan "hungry to play"
Christine Jeffs, director, explores sisterhood in Sunshine Cleaning
Ricki Herbert, All Whites coach, sure of a point at Confederations Cup
Judy Millar, painter: "no one really gets what I'm doing; they never did"
Andrea Hewitt, triathlete, 27, nabs photo finish victory in Madrid
Sir John Walker, 57, Olympian, legendary miler, now Knight
Court Ruler, John Wheeler-trained stead, wins Queensland Derby
David Bain, 37, "Without Joe [Karam] I wouldn't have made it this far"
Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers, bags US milk subsidies in WSJ



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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Wednesday, 10 June 2009

109 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 10 June 2009


From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/

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Pictured above: Flight of the Conchords, Anna Paquin, Mils Muliaina, Helen Klisser During, David Thodey

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in Earth Times, NYArtsmagazine, The New Yorker, Guardian, The Times of India, The Toronto Star, Financial Times, The Age, Las Vegas Sun, National Post, The Age, Telegraph, Guelph Mercury, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, The Washington Post, HAMPTONS, The Statesman, Wall Street Journal, Exclaim, The New Yorker and Granta include:

Conchords near end of Spring tour in Vegas, "riotous 90-minute set"
Anna Paquin, actress, 26, relishing her role in HBO's True Blood
Mils Muliaina, Chief, to skipper All Blacks home games in June
David Thodey, NZ-born businessman, takes over CEO role at Telstra
New Zealand 80's indie music scene honoured with two-disc tribute
Bruce Connew, photographer, explores censorship in Granta #105
Suraya Singh launches Filament, UK erotica magazine for women
New Zealand birth rates highest since '91, average per woman, 2.2
Kiwi Paradise, hard "to understand [NZers'] mysterious mentality"
Helen Klisser During, arts advisor, excited about Hye Rim Lee, Kihara
New Zealand banking system healthy for Australian dominance
Marie Jones, UK-based visual effects producer wins Bafta for Dr Who
Billy Bowden, umpire, breaks silence, backs cricket review system
White Island tour guide urges group not to attempt to outrun lava
Martinborough's Kusuda Wines an example of Japanese perfection
Kaikoura, Zero Waste district, no curbside collection, "eco-friendly"
Bernard Beckett, teacher and author, Genesis promoted on WOW
New Zealand given rave reviews by writers from The New Yorker
Pipi Quinlan, 3, bids and wins $20,000 earthmover on TradeMe
Jane Campion urges female directors to take on "old boys' network"
Albiston and Sutherland awarded Cannes distinction for $6.50 Man
Palmerston North City Council banishes no. 13 from mailboxes
Pip Gibbons, RNZ Navy Lt Cdr, poster girl for UN Peacekeepers Day
Richard Gow, renovator, builds house in Canada from bits and bins
Unite, NZ's newest union, calls on bosses to "Supersize" youths' pay
Fiordland kea robs tourist of passport; fear of "fraudulent claims"
Annabel Alpers, aka Bachelorette, latest album "bright, transcendent"
Phillip Wilkins, Mitsubishi, free "hardy" goat with every Triton sold
Montana Winery employs seasonal "vintage" harvest hoppers
Fisher & Paykel signs $75m deal with Chinese appliance maker Haier
Jenny Shipley, former PM, lectures Yemeni women in politics
Richard Nunns, taonga puoro expert, recites Gillian Whitehead piece
Queen Charlotte Track "what Ritz-Carlton is to a homeless shelter"
Michael Hill, finalist in Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year



INSPIRATIONAL EDUCATION ABOUT NZEDGE HEROES

A new schools' resource on Katherine Mansfield is the fifth education feature prepared for nzedge by Liz and Russell Shaw of Starters & Strategies from Turangi: "Discuss the idea of KM using a mask or several layers of masks when associating with her literary friends. Why would she do this? Can students find any evidence of her not fitting in well and of being regarded as an outsider?" Other world-changing New Zealanders featured in our education series are mathematician Alexander Aitken, suffragist Kate Sheppard, China revolutionary Rewi Alley, and aviator Richard Pearse.



RECENT NEW ZEALAND PUBLISHING


Generous publishers have been sending me books and journals which I am pleased to showcase here.

The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngati Hau and the Jerusalem Commune by John Newton (Victoria University Press) is a compelling examination of the community established by poet and seer James K. Baxter on the banks of the Whanganui River. The Jerusalem commune proved to be more than an experiment in idealistic living; indeed, The Double Rainbow is a story of a Pakeha community earning acceptance by living alongside local Maori. It's a situation that bicultural Aotearoa may yet strive to imagine. Readers of nzedge.com social commentator Denis O'Reilly will know him as a "Baxterite".

Me and My Little Blokes: How fatherhood changes life for the better by Graham Lowe (Random House) is a heartwarming book revealing the gentler side of the legendary league coach. The only coach to win championships in three countries, Lowie finds that coaching his own little blokes throws up insights about his own mortality, and the preciousness of family love.

Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary by John Daniell (Ebury Press) is a riotous confessional of professional rugby in France. A Wellington, NZ and Oxford rep, John Daniell takes us deep inside a French provincial scrum to the dark world of the journeyman player as his team ricocheted between fear and ecstasy, battling to save the club from relegation and their careers from the scrap heap.

New Zealand Geographic was founded 20 years ago by John Woods and Kennedy Warne to do for New Zealand what National Geographic has done for the rest of the world. The journal celebrates this land—its geography, its wildlife, its natural heritage—and salutes its people and their pursuits, in science, culture, leisure or adventure. The current issue features kelp forests, the great white shark, Auckland's unique and adored West Coast, and the Wren of Murchison, New Zealand's avian mountaineer.

Landfall, New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal, founded by poet Charles Brash in 1947 and published continuously by Otago University Press. Issue #217 is edited by international New Zealand writer Paula Morris from New Orleans and in fair edge form is titled "Flung"; an entire diaspora issue featuring Max Gimblett and Jenni Quilter from New York, Michael Jackson from Harvard, Nick Ashcroft from Oxford, Martin Edmond (Sydney), Paul Ewen (London), Jolisa Greenwood (Connecticut), John Kinsella (Cambridge), Robert Sullivan (Hawaii), Marcus Truver (Hong Kong), Francis Upritchard (London), and several other luminaries including Peter Wells, Richard Von Sturmer, C.K. Stead, Gregory O'Brien, Owen Marshall, Peter Ireland, Charlotte Grimshaw and Hinemoa Baker.




Here are the Top 10 titles for May:
  1. Score, short film 1980 – AB's vs France, cut to Tchaikovsky
  2. The Living Room, tv series 2003 – 'worthy' arts magazine show
  3. Tangata Whenua – Waikato, doc 1974 – roots of King Movement
  4. Billy T Live, tv series 1990 – last hurrah for much loved comedian
  5. New Zild, doc 2005 – evolution of New Zealand English
  6. Trio at the Top, doc 2001 – Legends McLaren, Hulme and Amon
  7. The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, trailer 2009 – Topps biopic
  8. Peter Snell – Athlete, doc 1964 – Gold Medalist 800m runner
  9. The Governor, tv series 1977 – historical epic on Governor Grey
  10. Gallipoli, doc 1984 – the pick of the ANZAC Collection


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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Wednesday, 3 June 2009

108 – New Zealanders in Global Headlines 3 June 2009


From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/


Pictured above: Karl Urban, Brendan Hartley, Jane Campion, Francis Upritchard, Phil Keoghan, Fire Poi

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES

New Zealand headlines appearing in this sampling of global media from Time, The New York Times, Victoria Advocate, The Kansas City Star, Guardian, The Age, British Vogue, Variety, The Australian, The Boston Globe, Forbes, The New York Times, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, Grazia, ABC, San Francisco Examiner and Ski Rebel Magazine include:

Janet Frame's Towards Another Summer critiqued in New York Times
Phil Keoghan, amazing racer, rides US on bike, raises money for MS
Xero, Hyperfactory, win at 19th Annual Webby Awards, NY
Brendon Hartley, 19, earns racing super-licence, reserve for Red
Niki Caro, Peter Jackson "local helmers poised to soar again," Variety
Jane Campion returns to Cannes with Bright Star and "few dry eyes"
Sir Keith Park statue in Trafalgar Sq salutes Battle of Britain ace
Maori poi set alight for exercise in Hollywood, alternative to jogging
Andrew Mackintosh, glaciologist, studies difference in hemispheres
Karl Urban, Eomer in LOTR, is Dr Leonard McCoy in 2009's Star Trek
FOTConchords US shows attract rave reviews, thousands sing along
Graeme Hart, reclusive billionaire, tops Australasian wealthy list
David Trubridge's Baskets of Knowledge lights, "water droplets", Milan
Upritchard and Millar, Venice Biennale pair ready for June opening
Queenstown paragliding, "fear worth it", "breathtaking experience"
Auckland Art Gallery gifted $115m of art by US Robertson family
The Datsuns release 4th album, and anagram, Head Stunts in US
Christchurch's contemporary side is SOL Square and Segway tours
Emilia Wickstead, fashion designer, 25, Chelsea, "one to watch"
Treble Cone's unsealed 7km road unnerving, now a shuttle option
Karen Walker's latest eyeware lookbook, pairs fangs with shades
Heather Begg, mezzo-soprano, "mistress of comedy", dies NSW, 76
Jaeha-Alex Kim, designer, 23, wins spot in Spanish store Mango
Martin Phillipps, Chills frontman, on British aversion to NZ 80s sound
Brian Boyd, English professor, defends the art of fiction in new book
Anchor butter "from NZ!" not UK; Sex Pistol promotes local spread
New Zealand ski fields reviewed including Mt Hutt and The Stash
Rawiri Paratene, actor, 'Koro', plays Friar in R&J at London's Globe
Kate Sylvester Takes a Hike at AFW with gaiters, pink Docs, bones
Matt Watson wrestles marlin in Discovery's Extreme Fishermen
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Vintner's wife, 19, signs up to save whales
Terenzo Bozzone, triathlete, 24, wins 26th annual Columbia Triathlon
New Zealand pinot noir second only to sauv blanc in popularity
New Zealand wine preferred by Brits over EU equivalents in Tesco's
Queenstown ready for bumper season, result of cheap Tasman flights
New Zealanders shorter, fatter, but happier, reports OECD
Anna Wilding launches charity for talented, underprivileged children



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