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10:23pm - 9 September 2020 War Peace|Business Insider SAS One of Top Special Ops Forces in the World Special operations forces have become some of the most prominent and active military units in the world, Stavros Atlamazogkou writes for Business Insider. US units like Delta Force and the Navy SEALs are well-known and highly regarded, but many other countries also field top-tier special operators, including the New 7:08am - 5 September 2020 General|Sydney Morning Herald (The) “I forgive you: Why victims empathy was kryptonite to the Christchurch killer” Reflecting on four days of victim impact statements prior to the life-without-parole sentence of the Christchurch mosque killer, Sydney Morning Herald columnist and senior journalist Jacqueline Maley wrote “The more 3:11am - 4 September 2020 Film TV|Variety Magazine Story of WWII Spy Nancy Wake To Hit TV Screens Anonymous Content, the company behind True Detective and The Revenant, has acquired the TV rights to the New York Times bestselling novel Code Name Hélène written by Ariel Lawhon about Wellington-born World 3:11am - 4 September 2020 Business|Deadline Why Everyone Wants A Piece Of Shift72 Many film companies have taken a battering during the pandemic. The opposite is true of New Zealand-based video streaming platform Shift72, which has grown by 400 per cent. Andreas Wiseman reports 7:10am - 3 September 2020 General|Men's Journal Pete Oswald Skiing to Reforest Madagascar New Zealand freeskier and photographer Pete Oswald, 35, speaks with Men’s Journal journalist Eliot Grover about his efforts to reforest Madagascar and alleviate poverty.This June, in a partnership with Eden Reforestation 4:07am - 2 September 2020 General|Washington Post (The) Though NZ Is Confronting a New Outbreak It Is Still Way Ahead of the USA WashPost “Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, New Zealand has drawn global attention for the effectiveness of its response,” associate professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law 2:33pm - 1 September 2020 Business|Houston Chronicle Fix Fogg Opens First Outpost in Houston Wellington-based gourmet peanut butter company Fix Fogg has set up shop in Montrose, Houston in the US and you can get it at a walk-up window.Fix Fogg was founded 10:06pm - 30 August 2020 Film TV|Screen Daily Director Jessica Hobbs Charged with Crown’s Finale For New Zealand-born Jessica Hobbs, being asked to direct episodes of feted Netflix period drama The Crown was one thing but being tasked with helming the season finale was quite another, 10:06pm - 29 August 2020 Writers|Japan Times (The) Kendo Expert Alexander Bennett Has Hand in WWII Kamikaze Pilot’s Memoir New Zealand-born scholar of Japanese history and martial arts Alexander Bennett has joined forces with fellow kendo practitioner, Shigeru Ohta, to write the English version of World War II kamikaze pilot 10:05pm - 28 August 2020 Music|Vogue US Vogue Promotes the Soulful Teeks You’re about to hear a lot more from Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi, who goes by Teeks. The Māori soul singer is well known in New Zealand but is about to step onto 10:05pm - 27 August 2020 Travel Tourism|Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure Takes in the Best of Auckland Parnell’s Pasture was recently named one of the World’s Best Restaurants by Travel + Leisure and Food Wine. “It’s worth planning a trip around,” New Zealand-based writer and editor 10:05pm - 26 August 2020 Z-Files|Stuff Wellington Library Book Returned after 118 years A book has been returned to a Wellington library 118 years after it was checked out, Yahoo News Australia reports. The Earl of Derby by George Saintsbury was borrowed from the 10:04pm - 25 August 2020 Film TV|Varsity Taking Māori Narratives to Hollywood a Good Thing In a story published by Cambridge University student newspaper, Varsity, Emily Moss argues that we have “nothing to fear” from New Zealander Taika Waititi’s move into the mainstream, “as he seems 10:04pm - 24 August 2020 General|Independent (The) Journalist Laura Pitcher Chooses NY Over NZ Friends and strangers told writer, editor, and designer Laura Pitcher she was “crazy” to leave New Zealand after a four-month visit “home” to return to the United States during the pandemic . 8:42am - 21 August 2020 Music|American Songwriter The Phoenix Foundation Returns With Hounds of Hell The Phoenix Foundation’s latest single, ‘Hounds of Hell’ features fellow New Zealand artist Nadia Reid, and it’s a momentous occasion, Tina Benitez-Eves reports for American Songwriter magazine. It’s the sextet’s first 8:41am - 20 August 2020 Visual Arts|Apollo Te Puna O Waiwhetū Reorients With Te Wheke “That Aotearoa New Zealand offers a rich vantage point from which to consider the tensions and affordances of displacement is the central claim of the generous, sprawling exhibition ‘Te Wheke: Pathways 8:41am - 19 August 2020 Sport General|South China Morning Post Bayern Munich and Nuremberg Share Sarpreet Singh It has been just over a year since Sarpreet Singh, 21, officially joined the Bundesliga giants, Bayern Munich, at number 10. The former Wellington Phoenix player is not only the first 8:41am - 18 August 2020 Visual Arts|Sydney Morning Herald (The) Artist John Ward Knox Paints a Prime Minister Fortune has favoured John Ward Knox. The Auckland-born artist’s dual-layer portrait of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been recently released from Australian customs just in time to be entered into the 8:41am - 17 August 2020 Media|Channel News Asia Media Mogul Sinead Boucher Challenges Online Giants Tucked away in Sinead Boucher’s sock drawer is the one-dollar coin that transformed the former journalist into New Zealand’s biggest media mogul, giving her a platform to challenge Facebook and other 3:34am - 15 August 2020 General|New York Times (The) Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free Recently granted refugee status and now living in Christchurch, Behrouz Boochani fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps – from the inside. He survived, stateless, for seven years . 3:33am - 14 August 2020 Music|London Daily Post Prodigious Singer Aleisha Malcolm in the Limelight Christchurch teenager Aleisha Malcolm is far from your average eighteen-year-old. The bright and accomplished singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and activist has impressed global audiences as her seemingly unstoppable career trajectory continues to 3:33am - 13 August 2020 Sport General|ESPN NBL’s Hawks Sign Teen Rising Star Max Darling Australian professional basketball team The Hawks has added one of New Zealand’s top young players for the 2020-21 NBL season, signing forward Max Darling to a three-year deal, Olgun Uluc reports 3:33am - 12 August 2020 Taste|BBC Pavlova’s Origins Date Back Two Centuries New Zealanders and Australians have long argued over who invented the pavlova, but the authors of a new book called, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets have found the dessert’s 3:32am - 11 August 2020 Sport General|PSA World Tour Looking Back at a Squash Legacy With Susan Devoy In recognition of Rotorua-born squash player Susan Devoy’s exalted status PSA website caught up with the sport’s only ‘Dame’, who ranks only behind the great Heather McKay and Malaysian legend Nicol David 3:32am - 10 August 2020 Nature|Guardian (The) New Zealand’s Glaciers Testament to Climate Change New research has found extreme melting of New Zealand’s glaciers in 2018 was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused global heating, Graham Readfearn reports for The Guardian.Twice a 9:13am - 9 August 2020 Music|Happy Persian Influences Define CHAII’s Unique New EP CHAII is of New Zealand’s “most formidable new artists”, according to Happy s Dan Shaw. On top of a string of singles, she provided the soundtrack to a Fendi campaign and is 5:13am - 7 August 2020 Media|Scoop Director Sam Stuchbury Wins Cannes Prize Aucklander Sam Stuchbury has won a Silver Screen Young Director Award at Cannes for his work in raising awareness about the effects pornography has on children, directing the government-funded viral porn 5:12am - 7 August 2020 Obituaries|Japan Times (The) Lock Andy Haden Key Player in AB History All Blacks lock Andy Haden, who “was an exceptionally talented, intelligent and resilient lock, among the best in the world in his era,” has died in Auckland, aged 69. The Japan 9:13am - 6 August 2020 Media|Guardian (The) Robin Hammond’s Zimbabwe Images Show in France New Zealand-born Robin Hammond is one of ten photojournalists whose work is currently on show at Fondation Carmignac’s newly opened private museum on Porquerolles island, France. Fondation Carmignac is exhibiting each 9:12am - 6 August 2020 General|New Zealand Herald (The) London Health Worker Natalie Scott a Free Sister Clinical lead physiotherapist for critical care at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, New Zealander Natalie Scott, has received the Freedom of the City of London – a recognition awarded to people who have achieved success, 9:13am - 5 August 2020 Fashion|GQ Like Obama Allbirds Have Widespread Centrist Appeal Monthly men’s magazine GQ highlights former US president Barack Obama’s penchant for Allbirds, a wool trainer created by New Zealander Tim Brown and American Joey Zwillinger, and a Silicon Valley go-to.According 7:25am - 4 August 2020 Theatre|Stage (The) Gillian Lynne and Peter Land Foundation Encourages Students in Performing Arts Launched last year, the Gillian Lynne and Peter Land Foundation continues the work of choreographer Gillian Lynne, whose widower, Taihape-born actor Peter Land tells Nick Smurthwaite, a journalist for The Stage, 7:25am - 3 August 2020 General|Aljazeera New Zealand Grants Behrouz Boochani Refugee Status Behrouz Boochani, 37, a Kurdish-Iranian refugee who wrote the award-winning book, No Friend But the Mountains on his mobile phone while held in one of Australia’s notorious Pacific detention camps, has 7:24am - 2 August 2020 Rugby|BBC Sport Scarlets Names Sean Fitzpatrick Board Member Welsh rugby team Scarlets has appointed legendary former New Zealand captain and World Cup winner Sean Fitzpatrick, 57, as a new board member, the BBC reports.Fitzpatrick joins as a non-executive director 7:24am - 1 August 2020 Visual Arts|Scottish Sun (The) Oscar Hetherington Wins Photo Award for Backwash Otago-based Oscar Hetherington has won the Grand Prize at the Sony Alpha Awards 2020, Kiro Evans reports for The Scottish Sun.Hetherington was awarded the accolade for his submission ‘Backwash’, which 7:24am - 31 July 2020 Education|Fox 34 News Tim Dodd Appointed Dean of Texas Tech College of Human Sciences After two years as acting and interim dean of Texas Tech University’s College of Human Sciences, New Zealander Tim Dodd is taking the reins in his own right, Fox 34 News 6:23am - 30 July 2020 Politics and Economics|Washington Monthly How New Zealand Is Beating the Coronavirus Pandemic “The United States is a pandemic-policy mess, and the whole world is watching the meltdown,” Markos Kounalakis writes for the Washington Monthly. “How did such a small place 4:38am - 30 July 2020 Nga Kupu Aroha – Words of Love|Denis O'Reilly Calling All Change Agents In the mid 1980’s when the Whakatu meatworks closed we ran a programme at Waiohiki to support workers made redundant by the extraordinary restructuring of our economy. Men and women who 9:20am - 29 July 2020 Motorsports|New York Times (The) Third Straight Win for Scott Dixon at Road America Winning an IndyCar race is nothing new for New Zealander Scott Dixon, particularly this year. But getting to celebrate as fans cheered him on for the first time all year made 9:16am - 28 July 2020 Sport General|ESPN UFC Champ Israel Adesanya on Cover of Video Game The newest Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) video game has been announced – and on the cover, is New Zealander Israel Adesanya (pictured right). ESPN’s Marc Raimondi reports.Middleweight champion Adesanya and American 9:15am - 25 July 2020 Music|World (The) New Zealanders Pen Music for Dalai Lama’s Album New Zealand couple, musicians and producers Junelle and Abraham Kunin, have recorded the music of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s debut album, Inner World, an album with 42 minutes of mantras 9:15am - 24 July 2020 Agriculture|Farmers Weekly Eric Watson Breaks Own Wheat Yield World Record Ashburton farmer Eric Watson has taken the Guinness World Record for the highest wheat yield for the second consecutive time, with a staggering 17.398t/ha crop, Andrew Swallow reports for UK magazine, 9:15am - 23 July 2020 Film TV|New York Post Actor Michael Dorman Star of Creepy New Thriller Veteran actor Auckland-born Michael Dorman, 39, stars as Jack Shaughnessy, an ambitious TV sports reporter in the new six-episode Australian thriller The Secrets She Keeps screening on US channel, Sundance Now. The 9:14am - 22 July 2020 Politics and Economics|Guardian (The) Judith Collins Named National Party’s New Leader Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, widely known for her exhortations to kindness and compassion, will face Judith Collins – a combative, tough-talking conservative lawmaker who styled herself after Margaret Thatcher – in 1:15am - 21 July 2020 Music|Guardian (The) The Beths Brand With Self-Doubt When The Guardian’s Brodie Lancaster’s video call connects with Auckland songwriter Elizabeth Stokes, he writes that he realises she’s opted for an audio-only chat and switches his camera off too. It’s 9:14am - 20 July 2020 General|CNN How NZ Became an Apocalypse Escape Destination In Queenstown – a picturesque ski spot that often attracts comparisons to Aspen, Colorado – rumours about foreigners investing in apocalypse-proof bunkers have been swirling for years, CNN correspondent Julia Hollingsworth 1:15am - 19 July 2020 Business|Bloomberg New Zealand Live Lobster Exports to China Surge New Zealand exports of live lobster are surging as Chinese gourmets return to restaurants, Bloomberg reports. More than 300 tons of the crustaceans were airfreighted to China in May, up 53 1:14am - 18 July 2020 Design|Designboom Kiwa is Isaac Burrough’s Sustainable Superyacht Daily web magazine Designboom features New Zealand-born Amsterdam-based designer, Isaac Burrough’s “forward-thinking superyacht concept … developed to maximise both current and future sustainable technologies. “Named after the Māori guardian of the ocean, 5:21am - 17 July 2020 Sport|ABC Hugh McCutcheon’s Minnesota Gophers the #1 USA Women’s College Volleyball Pick for 2020 Christchurch-born Olympic Gold Medal volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon, in his eighth year as coach of the University of Minnesota’s women’s volleyball team The Gophers, is preparing for the 2020 season with 1:14am - 17 July 2020 Nature|Forbes World’s Newest Dark Sky Park Announced in NZ New Zealand is quickly becoming one of the top dark sky destinations on earth, Valerie Stimac reports for Forbes, with the country home to two International Dark Sky Association (IDA) certified Dark 1:14am - 16 July 2020 Music|Stuff Emma G Battling Bigotry With Music in D.C. Few could have foreseen the landmark events that would embroil the US in upheaval but for former Hamiltonian Emma Ghaemmaghamy, better known as Emma G, the situation has proved surprisingly fertile 7:47am - 15 July 2020 Te Ao Maori|Psychology Today A Country Can Best Heal When it Acknowledges Past Injustices says Sociologist What would happen if you lost your land and ended up as a second-class citizen in your own country? asks American medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew in an opinion piece for Psychology Today. “New Zealand 4:22am - 14 July 2020 General|Reuters Helen Clark to co-Lead WHO COVID-19 Panel on Global Response, Future Prevention Avowed multilateralists New Zealander Helen Clark and Liberian politician Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a World Health Organization (WHO) panel scrutinising the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic just as international Receive our NZEDGE newsletter and keep up to date with latest news about New Zealanders around the world. Warriors Charles Upham Acknowledged widely as the most outstanding soldier of the Second World War, Captain Charles Upham is also the Endurance Edmund Hillary He explored places no man had gone before, conquered Everest and captured a world’s imagination. Yet where others Culture Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield revolutionised the English short story. Her best work shakes itself free of plots and endings and Change Rewi Alley Rewi Alley: social reformer, educator, fireman, writer, poet, translator, great internationalist, industrialist, revered citizen, potter, hero and friend Warriors Nancy Wake Nancy Wake was the Allies most decorated servicewoman of WWII, and the Gestapo’s most-wanted person. Code-named The White Originators John Britten John Britten was a revolutionary motorcycle designer whose home-brewed machine won international ovations with its stunning design, engineering Scientists Alan MacDiarmid Information Age pioneer, Alan MacDiarmid and his colleagues discovered that plastics could conduct electricity. Awarded the 2000 Nobel Endurance Jean Batten Jean Batten stood for adventure, daring and exploration. She was the manifestation of triumph and hope through the Change Ettie Rout Ettie Rout was infamous for breaching social norms in sexual health and practice while working in Paris during Scientists Harold Gillies The introduction of ferocious weapons and trench warfare in WWI resulted in devastating injuries that required a new Originators Bill Hamilton Hamilton loved speed. From his homegrown jet propulsion laboratory on the Waitaki river and its tributaries, Bill Hamilton Originators Richard Pearse Richard Pearse: self-taught inventor, prophetic designer, trail blazing aviator, and eccentric visionary, a modern-day Icarus from down under Change Kate Sheppard Kate Sheppard was the leader and figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand, which became the first Scientists Alexander Aitken Alexander Aitken was one of the world’s greatest mathematical minds, able recite Pi to 707 decimal places. His Originators William Hudson New Zealand Engineer Sir William Hudson was the man and motivator behind the Australian Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, Originators Colin Murdoch Colin Murdoch designed and invented the disposable syringe, a device that has saved millions of human lives. He Originators Bill Phillips Engineer, crocodile hunter, innovator and war hero; Bill Phillips trod an unconventional path to become one of the Originators Bruce McLaren Starting from an early age, Aucklander Bruce McLaren was a brilliant and visionary race-car driver. He became engineer, About You We are the community “living at the edge of the universe”. Whether literally on-island or virtually off-shore (we call the New Zealand community that doesn’t live in Aotearoa "NEONZ"). Please submit here your location and occupation.Shenzhen, ChinaShenzhen, ChinaTokyoSwitzerlandMunichLondon ukWairoaNew YorkNew YorkBellinghamNew ZealandLondonWellingtonLondonWantagh, NY, USAMelbourne, AustraliaTownsville. Qld. AustraliaCardiff, WalesAustraliaBangkok, ThailandSee full list

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