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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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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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