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• Jackson and Sarandon big draw for carpet crowd

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 136
  FOR FACEBOOK: Jono Edlin(left) and Mickey Molone tried to get pix for Facebook. Peter Jackson and Susan Sarandon were reason enough for most people to attend the premiere of The Lovely Bones in Wellington last night, others came to get photos to impress their facebook-friends.  SABRINA DANKEL spoke ...
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• Look who has run out of cash

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 139
  Len Brown along with the Mad Mayor Andrew Williams are bleating about the spending limits for the upcoming Super City election. Auckland’s super mayoral race could be bought by a wealthy candidate unless the campaign spending limit is cut back, Manukau Mayor Len Brown claims. Mayoral candidates will next ...
  4 hours ago

• Surely they are taking the piss

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 139
  The Royal Society has released the latest Marsden Fund  grants . A quick glance through and I have come to the conclusion that surely they are taking the piss. For instance Dr CD Moon at AgResearch has been granted $760,000 over three years to study “How air affects mutation and adaptation – a dissection of ...
  5 hours ago

• Taking the Pay Out of Painful

  
  Sense To Dollars — Authority: 122
  Surgery went fine, it took like 15 minutes.  Im so happy its over with and that it wasnt as bad as they said it would be (I researched it online and people said it was VERY VERY PAINFUL).  Doc is 99.9% sure that  its NOT malignant from its appearance, but they are doing some lab tests to be sure.  Whew. Again, so ...
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• And the winners are

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 626
  Don’t really need a drum roll, as people could see the results in the sidebar up until closing, but here goes. The 2009 Kiwiblog MP of the Year is Lockwood Smith . Lockwood was always a hot favourite with rave reviews from the gallery and others for his efforts to make question time more relevant, and opening up ...
  6 hours ago

• It’s the principle

  
  Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Gotcha! — Authority: 139
  A friend of mine was at Warehouse at the weekend buying Christmas presents. He spent a considerable amount of time selecting the gifts he wanted to give and then approached the check-out. After standing in line for a very long time he eventually arrived at the counter and the cashier started ringing up the items. ...
  7 hours ago

• YOUNG SID - "MADE" Australian release date:

  
  Move The Crowd — Authority: 125
  Young Sids single "MADE" will be available digitally in Australia on December 21st.
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• Quotation for Today, Tuesday 15 December

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 483
  It has all the relevance of the American confederate flag. Racism by stealth. Comment by a NZ Herald reader on the proposal to fly the Maori flag on Waitangi Day.
  7 hours ago

• kiwi-travel-writer checks out local maori history

  
  Kiwi travel writer — Authority: 121
  A woman giggles nervously: a man, wrapped in a ripped blanket, has just had his tattooed face close to hers. He leers then swaggers away. “Even though I know they’re acting, that was scary” I hear her tell her partner. Musket warrior at Tamaki Village, Christchurch, NZ Less than an hour ago we had left ...
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• Kiwis Prepared for Track Cycling Changes

  
  Come Cycling With Me — Authority: 134
  WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): BikeNZ is well prepared to meet the new programme released recently for the track programme at the London Olympic Games. The IOC confirmed that the track programme will have an even gender split of five events of the sprint, team sprint, keiren, team pursuit and omnium. Dropped from the ...
  9 hours ago

• Transmission Gully is go

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 626
  Finally after 60 years of dithering, we have a final decision to proceed with Transmission Gully. Steven Joyce says : Once complete, the upgraded route from Wellington Airport to Levin is expected to deliver travel time savings of between 23 and 33 minutes during peak times and between 17 and 23 minutes during ...
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• Editorials on National Standards

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 626
  Three editorials on this topic today – all agreeing. First the NZ Herald : Mrs Tolley is surely right to suggest the unions’ arguments are now purely philosophical. This has underpinned their resistance from the start. It has endured despite the Government concessions and despite the public support for ...
  9 hours ago

• The Tino Rangatiratanga flag

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 626
  I said back in January 2009 when the decision was made, that I think allowing a Maori flag to fly on the Auckland Harbour Bridge on Waitangi Day was more than fine with me, noting that at various times all sorts of flags have flown there – even the EU flag I think. On the day to commemorate an agreement between the ...
  10 hours ago

• Straight And True

  
  Cricket = Action = Art — Authority: 126
  And that refers to both the shot and the pitch.
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• The flag: politics either way

  
  Kiwipolitico — Authority: 504
  It’s impossible to ignore the fact that every single one of those Māori I’ve heard speaking out against the tino rangatiratanga flag has a tribal axe to grind. Shane Jones, Kingi Taurua, Pita Paraone, Winston Peters — they’re all from the iwi of that group of rangatira who established the United Tribes of New ...
  11 hours ago

• Welly’s lovely welcome for new Jackson film

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 136
  The red carpet was rolled out and the first onlookers gathered hours before the New Zealand premiere of Peter Jackson’s latest film The Lovely Bones   at Wellington’s Embassy Theatre yesterday. Wellingtonians came out to support Peter Jackson and to get a glimpse of the movie’s actors, including Susan ...
  11 hours ago

• NZ Pure: Poster hanging

  
  Creative Criminals — Authority: 582
  NZ Pure is a brand of beer from New Zealand, they placed this ad in an aitport. The slogan is: Brewing, like poster hanging, should never be rushed. It’s a pretty nice idea… Company: NZ Pure Agency: Barnes, Catmur & Friends, Auckland Country: New Zealand No related posts.
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• Royal Brunei oneway fare to London from $869 + tax ends 17 Dec

  
  Travelscoop — Authority: 442
  Royal Brunei is pleased to announce oneway Christmas Cracker fares from Auckland to London. Priced from $869 plus tax. Sales – from 15 - 17 December 2009. Travel is based on set departure dates ex Auckland of 02, 09 & 16 February 2010, 15 - 18, 21 - 23, 25 & 28 March 2010 & [...]
  12 hours ago

• Fleetwood Mac Perth Review - Fleetwood Mac Mesmerizes

  
  Stevie Nicks News | Stevie Nicks Fan Blog — Authority: 115
  Very nicely written review of the bands first of two Perth concerts on the Gig Guide of Australias In My Community site. Be sure to click the gallery link at the end for some amazing photos of Stevie doin her thang. Photo: Will Russell Fleetwood Mac Mesmerises By Emilia Vranjes In My Community Gig Guide ...
  13 hours ago

• Scientists Learn From Panicked Tweets After An Earthquake

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 142
  SAN FRANCISCO — A team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists have developed a web service that combines seismic data about an earthquake with Tweets of surprise and angst from the popular microblogging service’s users.The goal of the project is to improve emergency response by providing a crowdsourced window of the ...
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