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They're here!!! Michael's first photos from New Zealand!!!
This just in from Kiwi Land:
"Ok here are a couple of pictures you can post. When I arrived in AucklandAlan Carr who manages Elite Tours transferred me to the Weston and then
after lunch I stopped back and he had to go up north to his beach home and
asked if I wanted to go so I did. these pictures are from an area about 45
kilometers north and east of Auckland along the coast. The first picture is
what New Zealanders refer to as a New Zealand Christmas tree because this
tree blooms these red flowers in December- the species is very close
relative to what South Floridians refer to as a bottle brush tree.
Also you will see picture of some fellows getting ready to snorkel - there
is a National Park - a very small island called Goat Island which is
preserved by the New Zealand Government - and around this Island are shallow
water reefs with many different types of small fish, turtles, and other
marine life. The park received its name from the Whalers who fished the
waters around NZ in the 1800s and use to put their livestock (aka food) on
the island while they fished for a couple of weeks - the idea was they would
return and then slaughter and eat the livestock - mostly goats and some
sheep and occasionally a cow. Well the story goes that when the whalers
returned the livestock had swum to the shore of the mainland (only about 100
yards) and escaped.
I also took a few pics of a small town we stopped in to get a coffee (NZs
call it a "flat white") and I thought the sights were pretty interesting -
especially the sign with the killer eels on it - what a hoot!"
Giapo Secret Santa - put a smile on Starship Children's faces!
The first thing you read on the Giapo Credo is "we are in business to put a smile on children's faces!" Of course we see a lot of smiles from children who come to Giapo, but what about those who can't come?
Starship Children's Hospital seemed the best place to start. There are a lot of children there who need more smiles in their lives.
At the end of October I met Jessica Sullivan and Samantha Binks from the Starship Foundation, and we came up with the idea of Secret Santa Givers. On November 28th we launched the programme, and we would love you to be part of it!
It's simple to be a Secret Santa Giver. There are three ways to do it:
- Bring a $35 value toy gift and so we can put it in the gift net strung up in our windows.
- Donate $35 in store to go towards Christmas presents for the children, and as a thank you from the children, you'll receive a voucher for five free waffle cones.
- Be a virtual Secret Santa! Visit our Givealittle page (https://www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/giveachildasmile )
These kids deserve something special this Christmas, so your $35 will buy presents. The waffle cones are genuinely a gift to you, Giapo is supporting this cause up to $10,000.
We're also looking for Secret Santa Ambassadors to help us enroll more Secret Santa Givers. Just ask in store for more details.
We'll be delivering the presents on Tuesday, December 22nd. Would you like to come with us? Just think how good it would be to see the smiles on those children's faces.
We want to make the world a better place. This is a start!
Posted by
Gianpaolo Grazioli
Founder of Giapo
The Genuine Italian Gelato company now with the spinning wheel.
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Where Books Come to Life
Having tried a teeny bit of paper cutting, I'm in awe of this beautiful stop motion animation from Andersen M Studio for the NZ Book Council. My friend Sarah McIntyre posted this vid the other day, as tweeted by Neil Gaiman, so it's already garnered a lot of comment about the place. The voice over is in the evocative spirit of Gee's writing, and it made me think about my own association with some of the locations mentioned... living in the inner city suburb of Kingsland, taking a shortcut each day across those tracks to work on Mountain Road, opposite the castle-like prison, (Mt. Eden), just downhill from Auckland Grammar where the boys enjoy a lofty view of the prison yard.... The selected text is so rich visually. Yeah, I love all the NZ scenery, but it's somewhat refreshing not to see a mountain/river/lake in this advertisement. I'd only been to Auckland once as a kid, and apart from the harbour bridge, my main visual cue was the prison. Which to a kid is more like a castle, turrets and all. It's an unusual NZ landmark, and it makes a superb paper sculpture. Oh, and as for the delicious voice over, I'm going to stick my neck out and say that's Alan Dale, (aka Jim from Neighbours, also in Lost, West Wing, Ugly Betty etc) reading the script in his native Kiwi accent. (OK, I could get shot down....)
NZ Music - Open Souls "Telephone Song"
Telephone Song by Open Souls
Cracking retro sounding track from Open Souls who hark from New Zealand...
Untitled
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Gig review: Pearl Jam in Auckland | Stuff.co.nz
It's taken them 11 years to perform in New Zealand again, but Pearl Jam's Auckland show felt like a homecoming celebration. Chris Schulz was there.
Pearl Jam
Where: Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland
When: Friday, November 27Long hair, flannel shirts, extreme guitar solos, a Neil Young cover, an appearance by at least two members of the Finn family and Eddie Vedder sculling wine straight from the bottle.
It might be 11 years since Pearl Jam last played in New Zealand and 18 years since their debut album Ten was released in grunge's heyday, but things haven't changed that much for Vedder and the boys.
Their shows still sell out, the angsty front man likes to bring his friends on stage, and Pearl Jam's hugely enthusiastic fans still know every single word of spine-tingling ballad Betterman and can sing it without assistance.
And, continuing the mayhem that marked both the band's shows in 1995 and 1998 at the Mt Smart Supertop, the moshpit at the front of Pearl Jam's shows still looks like one of the world's most dangerous places.
An obviously concerned Vedder was forced to issue the first of the night's many warnings at the band's sold out show at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland after just the first two songs, pleading with the crowd to take "three steps back" and singling out a particular rowdy group of guys holding up proceedings.
"I've got my eye on you," he warned, waving his finger at them. "You keep your promise to behave and we'll pay you back - don't worry about that."
A wine-sculling Vedder kept his word as the band worked its way through a greatest hits set list that ran for more than two hours and included covers, B-sides, guest appearances and tracks from each of their nine albums.
They opened with Daughter, a song that soon had the stadium's 45,000 fans up on their feet rocking, swaying and singing in unison, before finding their stride with a stunning Faithful as Vedder punched the air for added effect.
Showing no signs of the cold that cut the band's show short in Sydney earlier in the week, Vedder was in fine form, whether he was stealing the spotlight for solo versions of Just Breathe, Life Wasted and Betterman, cooing seductively through a stunning Black, or tailoring Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town to make light of the band's 11 year absence.
"It won't be 11 years till the next time we come," he promised to cheers. "Maybe we'll come stay for 11 years."
The 44 year-old may have lightened up a little these days, but he still has the steely-eyed intensity that made him a hero to millions of teens in the early 90s. His trademarks - gripping the microphone with both hands, shaking his head when he's in the middle of a gravelly howl and pulling sweat-drenched hair out of his eyes - should be studied by all young rock stars.
Vedder was happy to take a back seat too, letting guitarist Mike McCready lead the way with a Guinness World Record-threatening guitar solo during Even Flow, inviting opening act Ben Harper on stage to play slide guitar on a squealy Red Mosquito, and singing back up vocals for Neil and Liam Finn as the father-and-son Kiwi duo dedicated a stirring rendition of Not Given Lightly to the song's creator Chris Knox.
Pearl Jam were at their best when they were giving that moshpit a reason to bounce, from an epic Corduroy and Matt Cameron drumming showcase Given To Fly, to fast-paced early tracks Porch and Why Go from Ten. And songs from this year's acclaimed comeback album Backspacer - Among The Waves, Johnny Guitar and current single The Fixer - stood up surprisingly well against their older material.It was a shame their second encore was cut short with brief versions of Neil Young's Rockin' In The Free World and Yellow Ledbetter played as the stadium's floodlights came on. Are there noise restrictions in South Auckland?
But despite that, and the 11 year wait, tonight's show - from Vedder's obvious affection for the country, to Hawaiian keyboardist Boom Gaspar's All Black top - felt somewhat like a homecoming celebration.
Yep, just like your favourite flannel shirt, Pearl Jam still seem to fit just right.
* Pearl Jam perform in Christchurch at AMI Stadium on Sunday night.
via stuff.co.nz
WHITE RIBBON DAY 25 NOVEMBER
Living Free Without Violence Network at Relationship Services Wellington are organising a White Ribbon Day Race through the streets of Wellington at lunch time on White Ribbon Day, with the support of the Wellington City Council and NZ Police.
The aim is to have 200 men from 20 major industries in Wellington running in teams of 10 carrying a “white ribbon”. The organisations will be Banks, Supermarkets, Government Departments, Sports Bodies, Trade Industries, and other major groups. They hope to involve a large number of men from a diverse Business Network across Wellington to highlight the theme which is that “we are in a race to create positive change in our homes for the safety of our women and children and the future of our community’.
The race will end with messages about the need to address Family Violence to the people of Wellington from the 20 organisations displayed on sheets which will be hung on a line in Civic Square.
To register your team, contact Susie Colien-Reid on susiec@relationships.org.nz or phone 04 385 1729.
About the WRD Campaign
About the White Ribbon Day Campaign
White Ribbon Day was created by a handful of Canadian men in 1991 on the second anniversary of one man’s massacre of 14 women in Montreal. They began the White Ribbon campaign to urge men to speak out against violence against women.
In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW).
The White Ribbon Campaign in Australia unites these two, commemorating White Ribbon Day on November 25th.
The White Ribbon Campaign first began in Australia in the early 1990s. A network of Men Against Sexual Assault groups took up the campaign and ran it for several years. From 2000, the Commonwealth Government Office for Women ran awareness activities on the International Day, and, in 2003, the Australian branch of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, began a partnership with men and men’s organisations to make this a national campaign. Ten thousand white ribbons were distributed this year.
In 2004, 200,000 ribbons were worn by men and women across Australia – men at work; men and women in all Australian police forces; men in national and local sporting matches and organisations; men in the media; men and women in politics; men in the defence forces; men and women in capital cities and in rural and regional Australia.
In 2005 the campaign grew even stronger and almost 250,000 ribbons were distributed across the country and beyond.
The 2006 campaign is already gaining strength and we expect to have at least 150 ambassadors Australia wide, more events across the country and more organisations and individuals participating. The ribbons will again be assembled by the Sobhana Foundation in Phnom Penh.
Nov 25: White Ribbon Day Race, Wellington
