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[] | 2016-08-29T08:51:29 | null | 2016-08-29T07:36:14 | Insurance company Youi is facing new misconduct allegations in Australia, not long after falling foul of the NZ regulator. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2F83690759%2FConcerns-about-insurer-raised-in-Australia.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/p/1/p/y/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dts7b.png/1472456174610.jpg | en | null | Concerns about insurer raised in Australia | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Concerns about insurer raised in Australia
Fairfax Australia Investigation reveals insurance giant Youi has been billing people who provided credit card information in the course of obtaining a quote. Potentially thousands of Australians have been billed monthly without their consent.
Insurance company Youi is facing new misconduct allegations in Australia, shortly after falling foul of the New Zealand regulator.
Australian Fairfax investigations into the insurance firm have revealed customers there reporting similar tactics to that which caused it to get into trouble here.
More than 140 customers said the company had taken their money without authorisation or signed them up for fraudulent policies. The company has rejected the allegations.
Youi operates on both sides of the Tasman.
The Australian regulator, ASIC, has now launched an investigation.
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In New Zealand, Youi has agreed to plead guilty to 15 charges relating to misleading sales practices.
The Commerce Commission said it made false or misleading representations on its website regarding consumers' ability to obtain a quote online, made false statements to customers during phone sales calls, including telling them a card number was needed for a quote, and sent letters demanding payment for unsolicited insurance policies.
Youi offers car and home insurance that it says is tailored to customers' needs because it asks a lot of questions about their specific circumstances.
But critics have said that policy is designed to give the insurer more ways to decline any potential claims, on the basis that false or incorrect information was given.
Youi has been approached for comment.
The worst Youi stories from Australian Fairfax readers
1. I did not want a policy, Youi signed me up for three β Mary*
Mary called for a house insurance quote. Youi billed her for the house and both her cars β and put conditions on one car that it couldn't be driven for work or study. When she called to demand a refund, Youi told her she could get one by cancelling her car insurance policies with her other insurer.
2. Youi rewrote my policy to charge me more β Dan*
Dan had two cars insured with Youi. He noticed Youi had steeply increased his premiums for a year, without telling him. When he asked why, he discovered Youi had changed him from a personal to a business customer, increasing his premiums.
3. Youi made up all my policy details β Shaun*
After reading Fairfax's article, Shaun discovered his Youi policy was incorrect. He's listed as a voluntary worker who drives to work five times a week, does not ride a bike, and has all his cars locked up at home. "I never said any of this," he says. After putting this to Youi, the company is trying to charge him a cancellation fee.
4. Youi told me they would not insure me, then billed me anyway β Ned*
Youi told Ned they would not insure his property because he was in a flood zone. When he checked his statement he discovered they had taken $868 out anyway. They told him they would pay it back β and refunded him $595.
5. I'm insured with Youi! β Annette*
Annette called for a quote in August 2014. "I looked back through my emails today and now realise they also sent me a policy on the same day, even though I had decided not to go ahead with anything. At the time I must have assumed the 'policy' was again just part of the quote. I never rang the company again - meaning the policy should never have been activated - because I decided not to go ahead with them. And I just forgot about it all."
"And yet I now discover β looking back through my credit card statements today - that not only was my credit card billed on September 17, 2014, but somehow they 'renewed' the policy a year later and [I] was billed again last year."
6. That's not my car β Jason*
Jason checked his policy after reading Fairfax's story. "What do you know, one of my cars was listed as white when it is not. I'm 100 per cent sure I would not have given white as the colour, since it's actually a deep purple / grey colour."
7. Youi would not let me cancel β Nathan*
Nathan cancelled his Youi policy. They kept billing him. When he queried it, they asked him to prove he was insured with someone else by sending in his policy. He's still out of pocket $400. "They have never given back my money".
8. I did not have a car, but I had insurance β Don*
Don sold his car, and called Youi to cancel his insurance. They billed him anyway. He complained, and they said it was to maintain his no-claim bonus. He ended up getting only 60 per cent back.
9. We never even bought the car we were insured for β Jasmine*
Jasmine's partner called to get a quote for insurance on a car he was thinking about purchasing. He did not go through with the sale, but his insurance somehow did. Youi refused to give him a refund.
10. Had to threaten legal action to stop cold-calls β Craig*
Craig asked for a quote. It was too high, and he said so. He got 19 cold calls from Youi trying to pressure-sell him into it. He had to threaten legal action to get them to stop.
11. The original salesman calls again β Lyn*
Lyn asked for a quote, and instead got billed for a policy she did not want. She cancelled it. The original salesman called her, asking what had gone wrong and offering her a big discount.
12. A year later, Youi still have not refunded me β Doreen
Doreen cancelled her Youi policy. She says she got many harassing phone calls trying to make her sign back up. She refused, so Youi billed her anyway. After pursuing the company further, she finally received a refund. After checking her statements on reading Fairfax's story, she discovered they still hadn't refunded her the full amount.
13. Sales representative told me to lie β Andrew
Andrew asked for a quote, but the premium was too high. His sales representative told him to change details about car ownership and how often he drives it. "When I pointed out that's not true and would make the policy based on a misleading statement and potentially void ... he wasn't phased and said it doesn't matter"
14. Youi made me provide my AAMI details before they refunded me β Shen*
Shen got signed up for car insurance after he asked for a quote. Youi demanded to see his AAMI policy before they would give him a refund.
15. Youi made me prove I had a new car before they refunded me β Rob*
Rob traded in his car, and so needed new insurance. But Youi billed him thousands, and then would not cancel until he provided proof the car had been traded.
16. Youi lied about my policy β Anon
Anonymous did not read his Youi policy for a few months after he'd signed up. He later found it covered none of the things he'd been assured it did by his sales representative. Youi refused to refund him because he was outside the cooling off period.
*Names have been changed
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/83690759/Concerns-about-insurer-raised-in-Australia | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/4facd972b91f0a49701e45be92c79fe33f28f23289370cf9e64c5c814fbf5ee1.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T08:51:08 | null | 2016-08-28T08:35:22 | Warriors coach Andrew McFadden could barely contain his emotions after the 36-24 loss to Wests Tigers. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Fleague%2F83637716%2FWarriors-coach-Andrew-McFadden-laments-his-side-throwing-away-match-as-they-bow-of-finals-contention.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/w/r/8/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsn9w.png/1472373322317.jpg | en | null | Warriors coach Andrew McFadden laments his side 'throwing away' match as they bow of finals contention | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Warriors coach Andrew McFadden laments his side 'throwing away' match as they bow of finals contention
SKY SPORT The Warriors conceded three tries in the last 10 minutes in a 36-24 loss to the Tigers which ends their playoff chances.
A gutted Warriors coach Andrew McFadden said his team threw away their game against the Tigers on Sunday, while accusing Aaron Woods of milking a crucial penalty.
The Warriors lost 36-24 at Mt Smart Stadium to end any hope of making the finals and did so in the most disappointing manner, conceding three tries in the last nine minutes.
McFadden was still looking shell-shocked at his press conference 30 minutes after the game and didn't pull any punches in his disappointment of how his team played, or two controversially disallowed tries.
GETTY IMAGES Andrew McFadden looked a shattered man after the Warriors blew their game against the Tigers.
"We just threw it away to be honest," McFadden said.
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"Tonight's performance was on the back of the last couple, just too many errors.
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"Gave away soft points and couldn't peg them back."
When Tuimoala Lolohea scored for the Warriors in the 64th minute to put them up 24-18, it looked as if the Warriors would at least be alive in the top eight for another week.
But it wasn't to be and they leaked 18 points, looking in complete disarray.
Bodene Thompson comforts teammate David Fusitu'a after the final whistle.
"We were too loose, a couple of times we defended well and made them kick inside their half, then they get a 40/20 and you can't let that happen at this level. It just changes momentum so quickly," McFadden said of those last 10 minutes.
Warriors captain Ryan Hoffman was more critical.
"If you want to be a semifinal football team you have to have that urgency and desperation to get the ball and defend your tryline.
"We didn't do that in the last 10 minutes and the Tigers took their opportunities. It feels that once again we beat ourselves."
Questions will inevitably turn to McFadden's future as Warriors coach.
But after the game, he was in no mood to reflect on this year or discuss bigger picture questions.
"I'm not going to talk about that now, it's too raw this loss," he said.
"It's really shattering to be honest, we got the chance last night (when the Panthers beat the Titans) and we threw it away today.
"I think I'll decline to comment."
But there were two pivotal moments in the game McFadden was willing to talk about, the disallowed tries in each half for Warriors players obstructing Tigers defenders.
The second one will be hotly debated as Woods appeared to deliberately run into a Warriors player as Shaun Johnson made a run.
"I think it shows a lack of awareness from the match officials to be honest," McFadden said of referees Gerard Sutton and Alan Shortall.
"Certainly [I'm] not going to put the loss down to that, I felt like we had more than enough opportunities in the game and we just weren't tidy enough with our own game.
"That didn't help, but to me there are some real issues around that, both of those tries, if you playing in live motion, they're just not obstructions.
"The second one there with Woods, he's engaged the attacker," McFadden added.
"He's never going to get Shaun there and the rule is that the attacking player has to impede the defender, but when the defender actually engages the attacker, it shouldn't be obstruction. He's just milked it.
"They haven't got the awareness to figure that out."
Hoffman was just as critical.
"It has become a black and white rule, but it's not a black and white situation, there needs to be a bit of game sense around it," he said.
"It's just become you run into a bloke and throw your hands up, it's negative rugby league."
However, Tigers coach Jason Taylor didn't think the Warriors had anything to complain about.
"You can't run around your own player and gain an advantage, it's as simple as that, so I didn't have a problem with it," he said.
Taylor went on to deny he instructs players to milk penalties when defending.
"We don't coach our guys to do that, not at all," he said.
"If the opposition are disappointed in that, they need to have a clear look at the rule because you can't do that, you can't run around a player and take an advantage."
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/83637716/Warriors-coach-Andrew-McFadden-laments-his-side-throwing-away-match-as-they-bow-of-finals-contention | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/e51858536e6cca30a61e52ed83783a717b9adf3aa9c6a5128a4797fde7a685b8.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T04:52:17 | null | 2016-08-31T04:38:15 | John Key reveals he didn't get any say on naming the family pet - but everyone else did. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Fpolitics%2F83757558%2FJohn-Key-admits-he-had-no-say-on-the-naming-of-his-cat-Moonbeam-Smoky-Fluffy-Key.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/etc/designs/ffx/nz/stuff/social-media-logos/stuff-180x180.jpg | en | null | John Key admits he had no say on the naming of his cat, Moonbeam Smoky Fluffy Key | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | John Key admits he had no say on the naming of his cat, Moonbeam Smoky Fluffy Key
ROSS GIBLIN\Dominion Post Prime Minister John Key reveals to pupils at Rata Street School, Naenae he wasn't allowed to help name his family cat which is called Moonbeam Smokey Fluffy Key.
What do you talk about when you're the prime minister and you're visiting a class of new entrants?
It turns out pets, sandwiches and sporting celebrities are a pretty good bet if John Key's banter with Rata St School pupils is anything to go by.
Key visited the decile two primary school in Naenae during a full-day visit to the Hutt Valley with fellow National MP Chris Bishop on Tuesday.
Craig Simcox Supplied David Alexander Supplied Marty Melville Peter Meecham @JohnKeyPM Sadly there are no photos of Moonbeam Smoky Fluffy Key on file. But there are plenty of photos of Key with cute animal friends, like of this little guy way back in 2008. Key has met plenty of guide dogs during his time as Prime Minister, including this little labrador. A week after the September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, Key found another guide dog in the crowd when he was visiting Brooklands. But Key's encounters with the animal kingdom haven't been limited to puppies and kittens - in June 2014 he had a go milking a cow for himself. Even extinct animals have been graced with visits by the Prime Minister. In March 2010 he visited the new visitor centre at the Zealandia sanctuary and found a model of a moa. From time to time Key has introduced his animal friends to his world leader friends. In February 2011, Allegra the turtle met then-Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The most famous of all the animals Key has been able to meet over the years has to have been Bo, the beloved pet of the Obama family. Key met Bo at the White House in March 2016. 1 of 7 Β« Previous Β« Previous Next Β» Next Β»
Although he faced questions about getting in to politics and his responsibilities as prime minister during the visit, by far the most popular topics of conversation were about Key's brush with celebrities - and the name of his cat.
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Key was asked by one student what his favourite animal was.
"My favourite animal is Moonbeam, who's our cat," Key said.
"Her real name is Moonbeam Smoky Fluffy Key. When we got her, [his daughter] Stephie wanted to call her Moonbeam.
"Max, who was six, wanted top call her Smoky. My wife wanted to call her Fluffy and I wasn't allowed a name."
Moonbeam was a "really lazy" cat who spent all day sleeping and eating, though, he said.
Rata Street principal Dave Appleyard said Key was superb at connecting with pupils with his banter about what they ate for lunch, as well as pets, and sporting celebrities.
"He is able to make that connection and talk candidly and easily with with the students about the stuff that they are interested in," Appleyard said.
"As he moved in and spoke to different aged kids the conversations changed.
"He's definitely skillful at connecting with his audience."
Appleyard said when a group of his pupils wrote to Key, inviting him to visit, he never expected it would happen.
"I did think it weas one of those 'yeah right' moments, not in a million years would the prime minister have the time to fit us in."
But on Tuesday, Key was there and Appleyard was chuffed, and so were the students who flocked around the leader of the country.
"They were just abuzz with seeing such a famous person. This was like a Hurricanes visit or an actor from Shortland Street."
Key's discussion of his 15-year-old cat with the students was far from the first time Moonbeam has been front and centre.
According to Hansard records of parliamentary debates, Moonbeam has been mentioned in the House on 11 separate occasions since first mentioned by Helen Clark in June 2007.
"[When] Mr Key was interviewed this week on whom he was leaving in charge while he was away, he listed Moonbeam, the family cat, before he got to [Bill] English," Clark said at the time.
In May 2014, then ACT leader John Banks credited "that beautiful animal" Moonbeam with helping to shape Key's position against animal testing for psychoactive substances.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/83757558/John-Key-admits-he-had-no-say-on-the-naming-of-his-cat-Moonbeam-Smoky-Fluffy-Key | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/fe82f71a9e0b5915c8506befda874213a66c709e264be911ed8fd61249732837.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T08:52:40 | null | 2016-08-31T08:49:21 | South Africa are providing a stern test for the Silver Ferns. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Fnetball%2F83778198%2FSilver-Ferns-starts-as-overwhelming-favourites-against-South-Africa.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/n/q/b/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dvno6.png/1472633361834.jpg | en | null | Silver Ferns starts as overwhelming favourites against South Africa | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Silver Ferns starts as overwhelming favourites against South Africa
Simon Watts/Getty Images Grace Rasmussen, left, and Ameliaranne Ekenasio have taken the court for the Silver Ferns for Wednesday night's Quad Series match.
The Silver Ferns and South Africa engaged in a tight tussle in Wednesday night's Quad Series netball test.
The TAB had South Africa at a whopping $15 to win.
The Silver Ferns had a 46-38 lead after the third quarter, with South Africa providing a tough test.
It's the second match of the Quad Series, which will be the 28th meeting between the two sides.
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The Ferns have won 26 of the 27 so far, most of them by large margins - the one loss came at the 1995 world championship.
New Ferns coach Janine Southby has started with Ameliaranne Ekenasio and Bailey Mes in the goal circle.
The Silver Ferns beat England by 26 goals in their first match of the series.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/netball/83778198/Silver-Ferns-starts-as-overwhelming-favourites-against-South-Africa | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/4b527551a90acc684ce194db12481e47a9bad8d15c8892695e2952a2099d1d22.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:51:59 | null | 2016-08-30T20:49:44 | Apple may have to cough up in Ireland, but in NZ the tax bills may not be as hefty for big overseas firms. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2Findustries%2F83741844%2FNot-such-taxing-times-for-Apple-Facebook-Google-in-NZ.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/w/3/2/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1duvmc.png/1472590184078.jpg | en | null | Not such taxing times for Apple, Facebook, Google in NZ | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Not such taxing times for Apple, Facebook, Google in NZ
ROBERT GALBRAITH/REUTERS Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the company would appeal the decision that would see Apple paying billions of euro in unpaid back taxes to Ireland.
Tech giant Apple has been slapped with a β¬13 billion (NZ$20.08 billion) bill for unpaid back taxes, plus interest, to Ireland, but its tax situation in New Zealand may be far less costly.
A three-year investigation by the European Competition Commission found Ireland had granted lavish tax breaks to Apple over several years, to the extent that its effective corporate tax rate on its European profits dropped from 1 per cent in 2003 to 0.0005 per cent in 2014.
Companies including Google, Apple, Facebook, Starbucks and Pfizer are reported to have routed billions of dollars of profits to Caribbean tax havens using the Irish tax loophole, which exploits the fact that companies can be registered in Ireland but not deemed resident in the country for tax purposes.
RNZ The world's most profitable company Apple has been ordered to pay 20 billion New Zealand dollars in unpaid taxes to Ireland.
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Many technology multinationals do exploit differences between countries' tax laws and route billions of dollars of profit to tax havens.
In New Zealand there appears to be significantly fewer signs of cheating because of the lack of operations here; Apple stores are noticeably absent on our shores.
However, Apple made $17.7m profit in New Zealand in the financial year ending September 2015, with a tax bill of just $8.9m.
Oddly, as John Campbell pointed out, the company's 2014 returns showed it seemed to be spending 97 per cent of its revenue on costs of sale in New Zealand, despite the fact they operate no stores here.
Facebook paid just $43,000 tax in New Zealand in 2014, according to financial statements filed with the Companies Office.
It reported its New Zealand income rose 41 per cent to $1.2m for the 2014 calendar year, but substantial expenses meant the company was able to claim a loss.
Its tax was about the same amount as a mid-range doctor or lawyer would have paid.
Angst over multinational tax rorts has been bubbling in New Zealand for several years, aided by a Dominion Post report in 2010 that Google New Zealand expected to pay just $7726 tax in respect of its previous financial year, less than the average teacher or construction worker.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/83741844/Not-such-taxing-times-for-Apple-Facebook-Google-in-NZ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/98a3867e26bd4a0c1cb194e4e91098b3e5f2ab51ffde32c24e4d652e2b690b40.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T06:51:16 | null | 2016-08-29T05:40:52 | OPINION: The | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2Fopinion-analysis%2F83666501%2FJenni-Rutter-KFC-secret-revealed-who-owns-rights-in-recipes.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/t/q/0/n/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dt9hh.png/1472450045984.jpg | en | null | Jenni Rutter: KFC secret revealed - who owns rights in recipes? | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Jenni Rutter: KFC secret revealed β who owns rights in recipes?
Chris McKeen So is this leaked recipe the real deal? We tried to it out, just for you dear readers.
OPINION: Who owns the intellectual property in a recipe?
Colonel Sander's nephew, Joe Ledington of Kentucky, gave the Chicago Tribune a fried chicken recipe he found in a scrapbook belonging to his late aunt.
No one expects KFC will go out of business in the near future as we all decide to cook up our own fried chicken - but what if it did hurt sales?
SUPPLIED Kensington Swan partner Jenni Rutter says: "Copyright applies to recipes that are written down, but not to the idea behind a recipe."
Who owns the intellectual property in a recipe and how can chefs protect their innovations?
In a nutshell, there are two ways β through copyright and the laws that protect confidential information.
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KIRK HARGREAVES/FAIRFAX NZ Colonel Sander's nephew, Joe Ledington of Kentucky, gave the Chicago Tribune a fried chicken recipe he found in a scrapbook belonging to his late aunt.
Copyright applies to recipes that are written down, but not to the idea behind a recipe.
Take Dominique Ansel, the New York baker who apparently invented the cronut in 2013.
After a craze for cronuts swept the globe, Ansel published his original cronut recipe in 2014.
SUPPLIED Any can baker can make 500 cronuts a day and sell them using Dominique Ansel's recipe.
If someone published a copy of that exact recipe in a cookbook without Ansel's permission, that would infringe Ansel's copyright in the recipe. But a competing baker can make 500 cronuts to the (devilishly complex) recipe every day and sell them without infringing Ansel's intellectual property.
It's also fine to be a food hacker and invent your own recipe for a cronut (some make a business out of this).
Ansel has not been able to stop the flood of fauxnuts and doissants appearing in bakeries worldwide since 2013. And even if Ansel had never published his recipe, provided none of the bakers making their own versions snuck into his New York bakery and stole the recipe, he couldn't stop them making and selling their own versions.
That's because no one can own the idea of a cronut. It's no different to owning the idea of a banana cake or an anzac biscuit.
What about trade secrets though? Some believe the Colonel Sanders original recipe of 11 herbs and spices was until now one of the most famous foodie trade secrets in the world.
Legend has it that the recipe was kept secret for such a long time by being closely guarded, in lots of practical ways.
For example, half the spice recipe is produced by one supplier and half by another, so no supplier has the complete recipe.
Did Joe Ledington have the right to publish the secret recipe? Possibly not, and if it truly was a trade secret then he could be in hot water with the Restaurant Brands business empire.
New Zealand doesn't have the same trade secret laws as in the United States, but recipes can be protected as confidential information, provided they stay secret.
If you're a chef that means you need to make a conscious decision about how you'll treat your recipes.
If you want to to make money through publishing, blogging or competing in bake offs, you'll be sharing your recipes and they won't be confidential.
But if you want to corner the market in sales of a really innovative product like a cronut, you need to take practical steps to protect your intellectual property.
That would include:
- Only sharing your full recipe with those who need to know it
- Using non-disclosure agreements with contractors, suppliers and others
- Having robust employment agreements with staff that cover confidential information and ownership of intellectual property
- Controlling access to your kitchen and preperation areas
- Resisting the urge to skite about your secret ingredients
For companies employing chefs, it's essential to have a contract that deals with ownership of intellectual property in recipes and products created on the job.
There's a fine line between the "tools of trade" an employee is entitled to reuse from job to job and the intellectual property he or she creates that is owned by an employer.
It can be a murky area, but a good contract will help draw that line. The same applies when outsourcing to contract manufacturers or anyone having input into your end product.
A final word on branding. Ansel's company has had some success stopping other bakers from calling their products "cronuts", including in New Zealand.
That's thanks to the company registering a trade mark for the word "cronut" in a number of countries.
So no matter whether Joe's recipe is the real deal or not, there can still only be one true KFC.
Jenni Rutter is a partner at Kensington Swan
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/83666501/Jenni-Rutter-KFC-secret-revealed-who-owns-rights-in-recipes | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/2487137b2e923bd2a946b7aed7c6190af74a4658af39168806a825ae500eb294.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T16:52:03 | null | 2016-08-30T10:27:32 | Ireland has been told it must recover NZ$20 billion in illegal tax benefits from Apple. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2Fworld%2F83739644%2FApple-must-pay-up-to-NZ-20-billion-in-back-taxes-in-Ireland-European-Commission.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/b/p/b/i/1/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dutx8.png/1472571606520.jpg | en | null | Apple must pay up to NZ$20 billion in back taxes in Ireland - European Commission | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Apple must pay up to NZ$20 billion in back taxes in Ireland - European Commission
REUTERS Ireland has been told it must recover NZ$20 billion in illegal tax benefits from Apple.
The European Union says Ireland has given illegal tax benefits worth up to 13 billion euros (NZ$20.08bn) to Apple and must now recover the unpaid back taxes from the US technology company, plus interest.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: "Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies - this is illegal under EU state aid rules."
The announcement was made on Tuesday night, NZ time.
She said a three-year investigation found Ireland granted such lavish tax breaks to Apple over many years that the multinational's effective corporate tax rate on its European profits dropped from one per cent in 2003 to a mere 0.0005 per cent in 2014.
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The Commission said "Ireland must now recover the unpaid taxes in Ireland from Apple for the years 2003 to 2014 of up to β¬13 billion, plus interest".
The Irish government denied granting favourable fiscal treatment to the maker of the iPhone and other consumer electronics products, computer software and online services. "Ireland's position remains that the full amount of tax was paid in this case and no state aid was provided," the Irish statement said. "Ireland does not do deals with taxpayers."
Apple opened its factory in Cork in October 1980, and the company said it had since expanded its operations there from 60 to 6000 staff, becoming Ireland's largest taxpayer in the process.
The Irish finance minister, Michael Noonan, said he would seek approval from the Irish Cabinet to appeal the EU Commission's ruling to European courts.
"It is important that we send a strong message that Ireland remains an attractive and stable location of choice for long-term substantive investment," Noonan said. "Apple has been in Ireland since the 1980s and employs thousands of people in Cork."
APPLE BITES BACK
In a statement, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said there was no basis to the European Commission's ruling, and the company would appeal.
Over 30 years, Apple had followed guidance from Irish tax authorities on how to comply with the law, "and we pay all the taxes we owe".
"At its root, the commission's case is not about how much Apple pays in taxes. It is about which government collects the money."
Cook accused the commission of trying to "rewrite Apple's history in Europe, ignore Ireland's tax laws and upend the international tax system in the process".
He said it was wrong to state the Irish government had given Apple a "special deal" on its taxes.
"This claim has no basis in fact or in law. We never asked for, nor did we receive, any special deals. We now find ourselves in the unusual position of being ordered to retroactively pay additional taxes to a government that says we don't owe them any more than we've already paid."
He said the commission was trying to override Ireland's tax law, and infringing on its sovereignty in the process.
Cook added that Apple was committed to continuing its operations in Ireland, despite the ruling.
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[] | 2016-08-29T12:51:24 | null | 2016-08-29T11:17:07 | Police are investigating a Christchurch dairy hold-up after shopkeeper was threatened by armed man. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fthe-press%2Fnews%2F83694314%2FAxe-wielding-man-threatens-Christchurch-dairy-owner-as-wave-of-robberies-continues.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/e/v/n/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtuy2.png/1472469427320.jpg | en | null | Axe-wielding man threatens Christchurch dairy owner as wave of robberies continues | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Axe-wielding man threatens Christchurch dairy owner as wave of robberies continues
FAIRFAX NZ The incident is the latest in a spate of Christchurch dairy robberies.
Police are investigating after a Christchurch dairy was robbed by a man armed with an axe.
It's alleged the man entered the Curletts Road dairy, west of the city centre, at 1pm on Monday.
Police say he demanded money from the shop assistant before fleeing.
The incident is the latest in a spate of Christchurch dairy robberies.
On Sunday, a 19-year-old and two other teenagers were arrested after they smashed their way into a dairy, again on Curletts Rd, at 11.40 pm.
It was not the same dairy, a police spokeswoman confirmed.
The trio were arrested a short time later.
Police were expected to release further information on Tuesday.
Anyone with information was asked to contact Christchurch police.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/83694314/Axe-wielding-man-threatens-Christchurch-dairy-owner-as-wave-of-robberies-continues | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/72bc03c970451d9a706d529911e6438350f800b1a525d3e1891925b74d0b0da6.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T06:51:39 | null | 2016-08-30T05:56:27 | Mysterious sound used to deter mosquitoes is unintentionally driving teens away from a Christchurch library too. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fthe-press%2Fnews%2F83700381%2FChristchurch-library-blasts-youth-with-high-pitched-sound.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/l/m/s/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtzml.png/1472538516277.jpg | en | null | Christchurch library blasts youth with high-pitched sound | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Christchurch library blasts youth with high-pitched sound
STACY SQUIRES/FAIRFAX NZ The noise from a device used to deter mosquitoes from Christchurch's Papanui Library is having an unintended effect on teens.
A mysterious high-pitched sound used to deter mosquitoes is unintentionally driving teenagers away from a Christchurch library too.
The sound, only detectable by young ears, can be heard by the doors and in the foyer of Christchurch's Papanui library.
Christchurch City Council acting head of libraries Erica Rankin said the sound was beamed from a $1350 "mosquito device".
STACY SQUIRES/FAIRFAX NZ The noise can be uncomfortable to youth if they spend any length of time nearby, the city council says.
"The mosquito device emits a noise that is undetectable by adults and proves uncomfortable to youth if they spend any length of time in close proximity. The alarm is on all the time."
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Papanui High School student Lexie Narbey, 16, said that while the sound was annoying, it had no effect on her.
STACY SQUIRES/FAIRFAX NZ Students from Papanui High School walk past the library on the way to and from school, each day.
Narbey, whose school is across the road from the library, said the library was a popular spot for students who had "literally nothing to do".
On the way to and from school, Narbey said conversations were often interrupted by the piercing sound, some of her friends could not hear it at all.
Fights were a weekly affair inside and outside the library, and the sound did nothing to stop them, she said. If people talked loud enough, the sound was drowned out.
SUPPLIED The Christchurch bus interchange is an example of "youth relevant design," says youth worker Penny Prescott.
Youth from "other hoods" would look for fights outside the library, she said. Some of the fighters, who Narbey thought were in their teens and early 20s, had been banned from the library and nearby mall.
Penny Prescott, of the Canterbury Youth Workers Collective, said areas such as the New Brighton library and old bus exchange faced similar problems, but these issues were allayed through new activities to engage youth.
Prescott suggested the Papanui library hire youth workers or add activities and areas of interest to young people.
The New Brighton library hired a security guard from April to June. Prescott said their role became unnecessary when the library opted to hire a social worker.
The new bus interchange was an example of "youth friendly design", with its open design and proximity to affordable food outlets making youth were happier and less likely to cause havoc, she said.
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[] | 2016-08-27T16:50:28 | null | 2016-08-27T16:24:40 | Stuck on a deserted island, stranded mariners had few supplies and no emergency equipment. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Fsouth-pacific%2F83636382%2FMen-stranded-on-deserted-island-rescued-after-crew-spots-SOS-in-sand.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/m/8/y/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsm8u.png/1472315080860.jpg | en | null | Men stranded on deserted island rescued after crew spots 'SOS' in sand | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Men stranded on deserted island rescued after crew spots 'SOS' in sand
US NAVY The SOS message was spotted by a US Navy aircrew.
Two men have been rescued from an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean after crews spotted the letters 'SOS' written in the sand.
The mariners were marooned on an island in Chuuk State in Micronesia on August 19 "with limited supplies and no emergency equipment" on board, the US Coast Guard said in a statement.
They had left Weno Island en route for Tamatam Island in a five-metre vessel the previous day and when the two men failed to arrive at their destination a day later, a search effort was launched in the western Pacific on August 19, according to a statement released by the US Coast Guard in Guam.
In recent days, crews from Coast Guard District 14 - which covers the Hawaiian islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Saipan area - searched nearly 17,000 square miles using 15 boats and two aircraft, the statement said.
On Wednesday, rescuers caught a break after a search vessel spotted flashing lights on an uninhabited island in Micronesia, the statement said. When a helicopter was sent to investigate, the pilots noticed "SOS" etched into the sand.
The castaways were spotted "on the beach near the makeshift sign."
US NAVY One of the men waves at the US Navy plane.
The men - identified by the US Embassy in Kolonia, Micronesia, as Linus and Sabina Jack, both in their 50s - were picked up on Friday and transferred to Nomwin atoll, the statement said.
"The Search and Rescue Operation for Linus and Sabina Jack has been successfully completed," the embassy posted on Facebook Thursday.
"They are found and are waiting for a ship to take them home."
The searchers had their work cut out for them.
"The Coast Guard 14th District covers an area of responsibility more than 12.2 million square miles of land and sea, an area almost twice the size of Russia," Jennifer Conklin, search and rescue mission coordinator at the Coast Guard Command Center Honolulu, said in a statement earlier this year.
"Often times, we are thousands of miles away from those who need help and because of that our partnerships with the Navy, other search and rescue organisations, partner Pacific nations and AMVER are essential."
AMVER is a voluntary Coast Guard-sponsored global ship reporting system.
It is the second similar rescue in the region in recent months.
In April, three men were rescued from the uninhabited Micronesian island of Fanadik after a large wave capsized their six metre skiff about three kilometres offshore.
Stranded several hundred miles north of Papua New Guinea, the men arranged palm fronds in the sand to spell out 'HELP'.
It would take three days for a crew aboard a Navy plane to spot them waving life jackets next to their sign.
Once found, their families were notified and, in the end, they were put on a small local boat back to Pulap, from where they initially set out to sea. No injuries were reported.
- The Washington Post | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/83636382/Men-stranded-on-deserted-island-rescued-after-crew-spots-SOS-in-sand | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/b63e0b27ef807fc4ababfa6b942dab9a1ae1e197142b1779821a4fdb6b564980.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T20:51:39 | null | 2016-08-29T19:57:25 | Find the new BMW 7 series sedans too staid? What about a coupe? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fmotoring%2Fnews%2F83696236%2FBMW-7-series-coupe-in-works-reports.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/7/7/q/v/6/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtwfg.png/1472500645954.jpg | en | null | BMW 7 series coupe in works - reports | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | BMW 7 series coupe in works - reports
SUPPLIED The German automaker has plans to introduce a two-door version of its flagship car, Bloomberg reports.
Find the new BMW 7 series sedans too staid? What about a coupe?
The German automaker has plans to introduce a two-door version of its flagship car, Bloomberg reports.
It follows less than stellar sales of the 7 series.
"The 7-Series hasn't managed the same 'aha' effect as the new S-Class ... It's lacking that special something," Juergen Pieper, an analyst at Bankhaus Metzler, told Bloomberg.
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If reports are correct, the new coupe could be unveiled by 2019.
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[] | 2016-08-29T02:51:17 | null | 2016-08-29T02:17:03 | The structure would answer the prayers of enthusiastic do-it-yourself folk. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Flife-style%2Fhome-property%2F83585603%2FDIY-project-anyone-103-year-old-church-on-sale-near-Thames.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/r/j/6/0/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1drj2b.png/1472437179735.jpg | en | null | DIY project anyone? 103-year old church on sale near Thames | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | DIY project anyone? 103-year old church on sale near Thames
The 103-year old Puriri Church just southeast of Thames on the edge of the Hauraki Plains is for sale.
A house of the Lord is set to become a house of the handyman.
The 103-year-old Puriri Church, just southeast of Thames on edge of the Hauraki Plains, is up for sale and the historic church is ripe for conversion into a character residence.
The forlorn looking structure β sitting on 1053 square metres adjacent to State highway 26 β will go to auction on September 29 through Bayleys Hamilton sales team Karl Davis and Lee Carter.
The 100-square-metre structure will go to auction in September.
The building is 100 square metres and comes with an organ, which was originally housed at the Methodist church in Thames.
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Carter said it would answer the prayers of enthusiastic do-it-yourself folk looking to create a heritage home on a big flat section.
The church has cultural significance because it served local Methodists and other Protestant churchgoers for almost 90 years.
"The church is crammed with turn-of-the-last-century aesthetics and design - from what looks like native rimu and matai floorboards through to high vaulted ceilings and leadlight windows," he said.
It began as a Methodist house of worship before becoming a shared-use ministry over the decades.
However, as congregation numbers dwindled, so too did the secular support. The Presbyterian services ceased in 1970, followed by the Methodist in 1971 and the Anglican in 1973.
Community spirit rallied a decade later and the church was restored and reopened in 1988.
In 2001, the community voted that the local populace was no longer able to physically or financially maintain the native timber and concrete structure and the doors were once again closed.
The church was deconsecrated in 2012 and bought by a consortium of Coromandel and Hauraki Plains locals with heavenly visions of somehow saving and refurbishing the beloved chapel.
One by one, the consortium members either died or were bought out until only the current owners of the Puriri Church remain.
A heritage report on the church said: "The architectural significance of the Puriri Methodist Church lies in its modest Gothic Revival form, which is enhanced by decorative relief mouldings and the fenestration (window arrangements)."
"The church has cultural significance because it served local Methodists and other Protestant churchgoers for almost 90 years. Its place in the life of the community is enhanced by its prominent location overlooking State Highway 26," the heritage report adds.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/83585603/DIY-project-anyone-103-year-old-church-on-sale-near-Thames | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/44503e8ca68b5f18d531d5325167e58adfb399cce01a53197671088e9bec540b.json |
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ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff.co.nz Six-year-old Xanthe is one of the youngest skydivers to have completed a jump with Skydiving Kiwis.
When six-year-old Xanthe finished her first skydive, she immediately wanted to do it again.
The pint-sized adventurer from Christchurch completed the tandem leap from 6000 feet at Skydiving Kiwis in Ashburton on Sunday.
She had "begged" to have a go after watching her stepdad, Jono Townsend, jump from the plane.
SUPPLIED Six-year-old skydiver Xanthe, with mum Miranda Townsend and stepdad Jono Townsend.
"I tried to talk her out of it a little bit, but she wasn't having any of it," said her mum, Miranda Townsend.
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SUPPLIED Xanthe gets ready for her big jump.
"She's absolutely fearless. I'm the opposite - I would never jump out of a plane, I don't even like going in planes."
Townsend said the instructor "spent a while thinking about it", and checked the harness fit snugly.
It did, and so off Xanthe went - becoming one of the company's youngest skydivers.
SUPPLIED Xanthe made the tandem jump from 6000 feet.
"She wasn't at all nervous, just totally excited," Townsend said.
"One of the first things she said when she landed was that she wanted to do it again."
Xanthe, a student at Thorrington Primary School, took a flash drive with all of her skydiving photos on it to show her classmates at school today, Townsend said.
Greg Barraclough, owner of Skydiving Kiwis, said they had also had a six-year-old boy doing a jump a couple of years ago.
"There is actually no age limit in New Zealand for skydiving," he said, although his own company would not take anyone under six.
Barraclough said children tended to enjoy skydiving, as they didn't overthink it.
"They don't really have the realisation of the heights. Adults know falling from a big height can hurt."
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/adventure/83665781/Fearless-six-year-old-jumps-out-of-a-plane-at-6000-feet | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/9886b6aa3b68fa9995026b8cb23df264978a915b3e5c93e90417273df3c6e9ac.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T06:52:42 | null | 2016-08-31T06:04:43 | Stray tackle in under-15s rugby match leads to a 50-person brawl, involving players and spectators. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2F83745254%2FSchoolboy-brawl-escalates-at-Feilding-rugby-match.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/m/8/n/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1duy92.png/1472626162662.jpg | en | null | Schoolboy brawl escalates at Feilding rugby match | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Schoolboy brawl escalates at Feilding rugby match
Kai Schwoerer A Feilding under-15 rugby match was called off after a tackle turned into a brawl.
A Manawatu schoolboy rugby match devolved into an all-out brawl between players and spectators after a tackle went awry.
Police are investigating after reports up to 50 people were involved in the altercation at an under-15s match between Feilding High School and Levin's Waiopehu College on Saturday.
Stuff understands a boy β a spectator β broke his leg in the incident.
Feilding High School principal Martin O'Grady said the injured boy was not a player, but the child of a staff member who was watching from the sideline.
* Did you see the fight? Email us at newstips@stuff.co.nz.
"There was a tackle, arms and legs flying [and it] fell out of the field of play and the kid was knocked.
"In this case, it was a terrible accident."
An eye-witness told Stuff punches were thrown between players after the boy was injured, with spectators running in from the sidelines.
Manawatu Rugby Union operations manager Martin Brady confirmed the match in Feilding was called off.
"Any match that is called off will go to the judiciary," he said.
"Given that it was minors involved, that is all I can say."
When asked if parents or spectators were involved, he said he was "unable to comment".
βFeilding police acting Senior Sergeant Jeff Veale said a call came through at 11.53am on Saturday stating 50 teenagers and adults were fighting on Feilding High School rugby field.
"We have spoken to a number of people but still have a number more to speak to.
"We're still trying to get a full picture of what happened."
Veale said he was unsure if the number of 50 people being involved was accurate.
"There was probably that many people at the game but whether there was that many involved, I don't believe there was."
O'Grady said he thought the vast majority of the adults who were seen on the field were trying to calm people down. "From a distance, to be honest, I think some people have not been able to see what was going on."
After everyone calmed down, the decision was made to abandon the match. "Both teams said three-cheers and shook hands," O'Grady said.
He said they had planned to get the two groups together to have a debrief once the investigation into the incident was complete.
Waiopehu College principal Mark Robinson said the matter was being handled by the Manawatu Rugby Union, but he had spoken to students and parents about it.
"In one sense, I guess it's classic rugby boil-over.
"[However], these things are not OK and it's important the judicial review goes through its process [to let] people know what happened and what can be done to prevent it happening again."
Robinson said he had been principal of the school for 18 months and he had never seen anything like this before.
Holly Carrington, communications manager for Shine, New Zealand's largest domestic abuse-prevention charity, said the incident sounded horrendous.
"It's important that good behaviour is role-modelled everywhere, and a sports field is no different than anywhere else.
"There are some people in society who feel that that's an acceptable place [a sports match] to get angry, and express it as violence towards other people, and we've got to turn those attitudes around."
In 2015, a spectator was hospitalised and required surgery after a rugby brawl in Bulls.
Michael Baker suffered a cracked eye-socket and a broken cheekbone at a game between College Old Boys and home side Bulls in April.
The brawl spilled over the sideline to where team officials and reserves were standing. Baker was nearby and was struck by a player.
He was taken to hospital, before undergoing surgery.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/83745254/Schoolboy-brawl-escalates-at-Feilding-rugby-match | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/b1caeadc4925e498b28e4f25a2c622cc1b5d071eec435148f9609cee99802c74.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T00:52:09 | null | 2016-08-31T00:29:28 | A British DJ who once spun records in NZ was forced to re-enact how he bashed a Balinese cop with a broken beer bottle. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Fasia%2F83752872%2FCop-bashing-re-enacted-by-British-DJ-in-Bali-death-case.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/4/t/s/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dv44o.png/1472604514856.jpg | en | null | Cop bashing re-enacted by British DJ in Bali death case | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Cop bashing re-enacted by British DJ in Bali death case
FAIRFAX Australian couple Sara Connor and David Taylor entering Kuta beach for a reconstruction of the night Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa died.
British DJ David Taylor has re-enacted how he bashed a Balinese police officer with a broken Bintang beer bottle as the officer lay spread-eagled on the Kuta beach.
Clutching the neck of the jagged bottle, Taylor - who spent time working as a DJ in New Zealand - demonstrated how he hit the back of Wayan Sudarsa's head as the officer lay face down in the sand.
His girlfriend, Australian Sara Connor, sat under a tree and bit her nails as Taylor role-played the grisly events of the night of Sudarsa's death.
JEWEL TOPSFIELD David Taylor re-enacts the alleged murder of Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa at Kuta beach.
The disturbing scene was one of more than 40 played out from 4am on Kuta beach on Wednesday morning, with a police officer playing the victim and witnesses, and the two suspects - Connor and Taylor - playing themselves.
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Kuta beach swarmed with police and media as the couple - wearing orange overalls that said "Prisoner of Denpasar police" - acted out the kiss by the edge of the sea just before 5am on Wednesday morning.
YUDI KARNAEDI Sara Connor and David Taylor recreate a kiss on the beach during a reconstruction of the death of a police office in Bali.
Taylor and Connor have been formally named suspects over Sudarsa's death and face charges including unpremeditated murder and assault.
Earlier the couple had mimed how they kissed by the edge of the water before discovering Connor's handbag had gone missing.
It was as if it was a stage production with police playing the role of the victim and witnesses playing themselves.ο»Ώ
AMELIA ROSA Taylor during the reenactment.
"Act seven: David and Sara return from the water edge, find the bag and the bottle missing," a police officer said.
An ojek (motorcycle taxi) with a Russian tourist on the back re-enacted driving past the beach and seeing the couple speak to a police officer.
Connor appeared to shake her head as she stood at the entrance of the beach.
FACEBOOK Taylor, who plays as DJ Nutzo, spent time in New Zealand.
Standing barefoot, his dreadlocks hanging down his back, Taylor later mimed how he had frisked Sudarsa.
"Act 13, the victim pushed David," a police officer said.
COUPLE KEPT SEPARATE
AMILIA ROSA/FAIRFAX Taylor being taken to Sanglah Hospital in Bali.
The couple, who have formally been named suspects and face charges including unpremeditated murder and assault, have been kept separate at Denpasar police station so they can not corroborate their stories.
The differences seem to centre around Connor's level of involvement in the fight during which Taylor has confessed to bashing police officer Wayan Sudarsa.
Connor's legal team insist she was trying to separate Taylor and Sudarsa in order to "protect the victim".
But Taylor's lawyer Haposan Sihombing suggested she played a greater role and her involvement was to stop Taylor being overwhelmed by Sudarsa.
"Sara's hair was pulled, his [David's] hair was pulled, Sara was also bitten," Sihombing said.
"Based on my client's statement they did it together. Because they are under the influence of the drink. What's clear was that Sara was there."
Denpasar police station Hadi Purnomo said there was a "slight difference" in the statements but "all will be seen" after the reconstruction.
LEGAL PROCESS IN BALI
The couple will then be interrogated over the differences in a procedure known as "the confrontation".
Purnomo also said the couple had undergone blood tests - which included a test for drugs - but police were yet to obtain the results.
Asked last week if any drugs were involved, lawyer Erwin Siregar said: "No, no, no, no drugs, no drugs involved".
Taylor faced a psychological test on Monday, to determine if he was mentally capable of committing the alleged crime, and then further interrogation.
One of his lawyers, Yan Erick Sihombing, said Taylor had admitted taking Sudarsa's mobile phone, which is yet to be found, because he "panicked".
"He said he didn't know why he took it, because he was panicked, scared, so it was a chain of reaction."
Asked whether he panicked because he thought the victim had died, Sihombing said his statement did not say whether he knew the victim had died or just thought he had passed out.
"What he knew is that the victim had stopped moving."
NEW ZEALAND CONNECTION
As DJ Nutzo, Taylor came to New Zealand to perform at a winter solstice party in New Zealand in 2010.
Nutzo's blog says he also reached the final of Decknology in 2010 in Christchurch.
Decknology is the main DJ competition in the South Island.
On a 'Career of the Nutzo' page on Taylor's blog, his bio says he played many British music festivals, including Glastonbury, squat parties and held residencies in clubs in the United Kingdom.
- Sydney Morning Herald | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/83752872/Cop-bashing-re-enacted-by-British-DJ-in-Bali-death-case | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/0c1853111979d8afc983f955d5d59e9063f914e6eb18c15cedaef0f9e0fa4263.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T00:52:20 | null | 2016-08-31T00:38:49 | Once more, the Spanish fashion giant is in hot water with another designer. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Flife-style%2Ffashion%2F83750770%2FZara-have-allegedly-ripped-someone-else-off-this-time-its-shoes.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/c/n/c/4/8/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dv2ia.png/1472603930079.png | en | null | Zara have allegedly ripped someone else off - this time, it's shoes | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Zara have allegedly ripped someone else off - this time, it's shoes
Zara have been accused of stealing designs again.
It hasn't been a good few months for Zara. We just keep hearing more stories about them appearing to lift designs from others.
This time it's Aurora James, founder of shoe brand Brother Vellies, who's speaking out. She posted an Instagram on Tuesday showing a shoe at Zara that looks uncannily similar to her own Dhara sandal.
"Stolen from Africa," James wrote, tagging Zara into her post and using an emoji to show she wasn't happy.
BROTHER VELLIES The Brother Vellies shoe is manufactured ethically and costs US$715, Aurora James says.
The designer told Refinery29 a friend of hers texted her the picture.
"I honestly don't go into Zara, because it's not my thing and I know they knock people off a lot," she said.
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ZARA The Zara shoe, priced at US$59.90, is pretty similar.
"But to see [the shoe] actually on the shelf was very disheartening. I actually felt very sick."
While the shoe looks to have been removed from Zara's website, Refinery29 reports that it was priced at US$59.90 (NZ$82.80). The Brother Vellies shoe James says it's copied from retails for US$715, but it's not just about making more money.
Brother Vellies have an emphasis on sustainable, ethical practises and James says the Zara shoe "undermines all of this effort."
"This really isn't about me as a designer β it's about the choices that we make as a company to be sustainable and the opportunities that [Zara is] taking away from other people," James tells Refinery29.
"I can come up with new ideas, and I will come up with new ideas. The point, really, is that we do things in a way that's very sustainable."
James' allegations come just months after Los Angeles artist Tuesday Bassen accused Zara of stealing her work over the course of a year.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/83750770/Zara-have-allegedly-ripped-someone-else-off-this-time-its-shoes | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/5dff6c27f9eb77a7d760b2dfbd755c1b5e7a1b8cdb3d53c24702ebbc7da7912c.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T04:50:55 | null | 2016-08-28T03:32:01 | Pod of | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Flife-style%2Fcutestuff%2F83644020%2FOrca-pod-just-metres-from-shore-at-Aucklands-Kohimarama-Beach.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/etc/designs/ffx/nz/stuff/social-media-logos/stuff-180x180.jpg | en | null | Orca pod just metres from shore at Auckland's Kohimarama Beach | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Orca pod just metres from shore at Auckland's Kohimarama Beach
NICK POORTMAN Orcas were spotted just metres from the shore at Kohimarama Beach on Sunday.
Swimmers were surprised by a pod of orcas at Auckland's Kohimarama Beach on Sunday.
Auckland man Nick Poortman said the orcas came within 10 metres of the shore, delighting beachgoers who flocked to the water.
The pod included an adult and either one or two calves, he said.
"We occasionally saw an extra fin but it didn't come anywhere close to the shore."
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Poortman said he did not know how large the orcas were, but the adult's fin stuck up about 1.3 metres out of the water.
"It was huge ... It was pretty exciting and overwhelming and quite surreal."
He had never seen orcas so close to the beach before, he said.
"There were a couple of people kind of concerned that they were going to beach themselves. I was 50/50, but after a while I realised [the orcas] were just curious."
The pod stuck around at the beach for about five or six minutes before heading back out to sea, he said.
There are about 150-200 orcas in New Zealand waters, according to the Department of Conservation.
Anyone who sees one can report a sighting by calling 0800 DOC HOT or filling out an online form.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cutestuff/83644020/Orca-pod-just-metres-from-shore-at-Aucklands-Kohimarama-Beach | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/9b61a2f27f0edb3baf677e58372c534c453261b4f0e317a9dc4de0eead0ff09c.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T22:51:49 | null | 2016-08-29T22:42:02 | OPINION: The inside word on Helen Clark's UN prospects is that she's far from out of the running despite latest setback. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Fpolitics%2Fopinion%2F83701552%2FTracy-Watkins-Helen-Clark-unlikely-to-pull-out-of-next-vote-on-UN-Secretary-General-race.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/t/x/d/k/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1du0j4.png/1472510523796.jpg | en | null | Tracy Watkins: Helen Clark unlikely to pull out of next vote on UN Secretary General race | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Tracy Watkins: Helen Clark unlikely to pull out of next vote on UN Secretary General race
MORNING REPORT/Radio New Zealand A make or break poll in Helen Clark's bid for the United Nations's top job is underway. She needs to do better to stay in the running.
OPINION: "Steady and respectable" is the inside word on Helen Clark's showing in the latest round of diplomatic arm wrestling over the United Nations top job.
That makes it unlikely Clark will pull out ahead of the next vote, which is potentially weeks away.
Clark emerged seventh among the 10 contenders to replace Ban Ki-Moon as UN Secretary General. That puts her exactly where she placed in the second round of voting but down on the first straw poll.
MIKE SEGAR Insiders suggest that Helen Clark isn't out of the running for the UN top job despite her latest setback.
There were some big movers in Tuesday's straw poll but Clark was not one of them - insiders say that while it's disappointing she failed to get a pick-up, she is far from out of the race.
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MIKE SEGAR There were some big movers in the latest straw poll but Helen Clark was not one of them.
That's because of the clout carried by the so-called P5, permanent members of the Security Council, who hold sway over the top job, and who can take out a candidate at any time by exercising their veto.
Under the UN system, all 15 members of the Security Council - of which New Zealand is one - get to vote by ticking encourage, discourage or no opinion.
But only the P5 can use the veto.
HELEN KLISSER DURING The most recent straw poll puts Helen Clark seventh among the 10 contenders for the UN top job.
Team Clark were initially dismayed in the early round of voting by the high number of "discourage" votes because that suggests at least one of the P5 countries is actively voting against Clark. That raises the prospect of a veto down the track.
But the New Zealand camp believe the votes against Clark are purely tactical at this stage and don't kill her chances off just yet.
Candidates who should be more worried about the veto are the Argentinian, Susana Malcorra ,and Bulgaria's Irina Bokova.
Both are polling higher than Clark but are expected to be vetoed in later rounds - Malcorra because she is backed by the US, and because of Argentina's position on the Falkland Islands, and Bokova, because she is backed by Russia.
Even the consistent favourite, Portugal's Antonio Gueterres, is now picking up opposition, and could also face a veto if the Russians decide to stick to their guns on it being Eastern Europe's turn to head the UN.
Such is the diplomatic shadow boxing that goes on behind the scenes in these votes.
That's why no one is counting Clark out till the dust settles. The big movement in Tuesday's straw poll shows how much things can change between votes.
But the timing of the next vote could be crucial; potentially it could coincide with the UN General Assembly in September, when New Zealand will also chair the security council. That will be an important diplomatic milestone for New Zealand and the Government won't want Clark's candidacy overshadowing its time in the seat - or a debate on Syria.
But there is a prospect of that vote being put off until October because of other events.
That delay might suit Clark, as much as the Government.
It gives both of them more time to call in every favour they own.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/83701552/Tracy-Watkins-Helen-Clark-unlikely-to-pull-out-of-next-vote-on-UN-Secretary-General-race | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/8e2577cb16c0565226546f01e313f3272d5f47e7f050341649518f7647cc50e5.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T22:51:11 | null | 2016-08-27T22:10:31 | Motorway lane briefly blocked after driver crashed into barrier. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fauckland%2F83637992%2FCrash-on-Aucklands-southern-motorway-sees-woman-hospitalised.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/k/n/6/3/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsnhk.png/1472335831877.jpg | en | null | Crash on Auckland's southern motorway sees woman hospitalised | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Crash on Auckland's southern motorway sees woman hospitalised
DAVID WALKER/FAIRFAX NZ Emergency services were called to the crash at about 3.30am.
A woman is in hospital following a crash on the Auckland's southern motorway early on Sunday morning.
A St John ambulance spokeswoman said the driver hit the motorway barrier, near the Greenlane offramp, at about 3.30am.
Police said the crash caused a three-car nose-to-tail.
The fast lane was briefly blocked as other vehicles stopped to move the cars.
The woman sustained moderate injuries.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/83637992/Crash-on-Aucklands-southern-motorway-sees-woman-hospitalised | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/8914e568ed50965b946f18627b0bda069dd0903c703c7e77e36b603e1ef0c4c3.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T00:50:34 | null | 2016-08-27T00:36:21 | A 554-metre long walkway has opened, offering visitors a bird's-eye view of the famous forest. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Ftravel%2Fdestinations%2Fnz%2F83628910%2FThe-Redwoods-Treewalk-allows-people-to-walk-among-giants-in-Rotorua.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/g/h/i/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsgha.png/1472258181739.jpg | en | null | The Redwoods Treewalk allows people to walk among giants in Rotorua | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | The Redwoods Treewalk allows people to walk among giants in Rotorua
ONE NEWS The new addition to the bush lets you explore the trees from high above the forest floor.
The Redwoods has always been a popular attraction with people visiting Rotorua and locals alike.
The Whakarewarewa Forest, or Redwoods, is famous for its hiking trails and is the perfect playground for mountain bikers and horse riders.
The latest addition to the 53,000ha site is The Redwoods Treewalk, a 553-metre-long walk that consists of a series of 23 suspension bridges.
MassiveFilms/Redwoods Treewalk A 554-metre long walkway has opened, offering visitors a bird's-eye view of the famous forest.
The Treewalk gives visitors a thrilling perspective of the majestic trees, 12m above ground.
The walkway was the brainchild of German tourist, turned Rotorua local, Alex Schmid, who was inspired to develop an ecological treewalk after visiting in 2009.
Redwoods Treewalk Stroll at your own pace along the newly-constructed walkway.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/83628910/The-Redwoods-Treewalk-allows-people-to-walk-among-giants-in-Rotorua | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/0d5dd8a8fb180e3d39c4e2bcaa101702e4edadf08a2afc28464d0633511a2cc8.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:51:57 | null | 2016-08-30T17:30:34 | One crucial factor could stand between passing or failing NZ's restricted driving test: where you live. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fmotoring%2F83620588%2FSitting-your-driving-test-Stay-out-of-the-cities-pass-rates-show.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/n/h/1/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsa24.png/1472581772742.jpg | en | null | Sitting your driving test? Stay out of the cities, pass rates show | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Sitting your driving test? Stay out of the cities, pass rates show
DAVID UNWIN/FAIRFAX NZ. A driving test in Manawatu.
When it comes to sitting your restricted driving test, one crucial factor could stand between success and failure: Where you live.
Data shows that failure rates for restricted licence tests vary wildly around the country.
It reveals that one city has a dubious honour. Well over half of its drivers flunk the test, a woefully low rate of success by New Zealand standards.
An analysis of pass rates from all 61 testing stations New Zealand-wide shows more people succeed in the regions than in cities.
While there are some exceptions, the data suggests an easy rule of thumb: more people pass in quiet areas.
Last year, VTNZ in Glenfield north of Auckland had the highest success rate nation-wide, with 85 per cent passing.
It was the first year the station had operated, meaning there was no data from previous years.
The lowest pass rate was at VTNZ Lower Hutt, where 37 per cent passed.
In a double blow for the Hutt, its other testing station also had an unusually low pass rate over the last two years.
Together, more than half of Hutt drivers flunked the test, making it the city with the highest failure rate.
On the other end of the spectrum, Invercargill is the city with the highest average pass rate, with 80 per cent over the last two years.
It was followed by Blenheim, Kaitaia, Gore, and Westport, which all gave licences to at least three in every four applicants.
They were all well above the nation-wide pass rate of around 60 per cent.
The station with the highest consistent failure rate is AA Westgate, in Auckland. For two years running it passed 43 per cent of applicants.
It's only 20 minutes away from the VTNZ in Glenfield, where applicants pass at double the rate: the highest and lowest success rates in New Zealand are virtually down the road from each other.
There's a similarly odd difference in Christchurch.
The VTNZ in Sockburn has a pass rate just over 50 per cent, the lowest in the city. But at the new testing station in Northwood, the pass rate was 82 per cent last year, despite both stations being a short distance from each other.
The differing pass rates between stations did not worry the NZTA, which said it focussed on quality and consistency in testing, not pass rates.
The key reason for the differences came down to preparedness.
"At some sites testing officers have reported that driving instructors are presenting large numbers of students for tests who are well-prepared and confident, which is having a positive impact on pass rates in those locations," said Robyn Elston, NZTA national manager for delivery.
Pass rates also varied for the computerised theory test, which location would have no bearing on, she said.
Broadly speaking, more people were passing the test each year. Virtually all stations had higher pass rates in 2015 than they did the year before.
Since the more difficult test was introduced in 2012, the national pass rate had increased from around 40 per cent to over 60 per cent.
"As word has spread that the new test is more challenging many drivers seem to have taken that message on board and put in more practice and preparation before sitting the test," Elston said.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/83620588/Sitting-your-driving-test-Stay-out-of-the-cities-pass-rates-show | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/d546c50463b6b747537caf11c10dc95fa67889494fd5bf2f32a7754d0cceaf8d.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T10:50:36 | null | 2016-08-27T09:59:54 | The Wallabies had to find a way to get under the All Blacks' skins, so they turned to niggle. It didn't work. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2Fall-blacks%2F83634375%2FWallabies-bring-niggle-but-little-else-as-All-Blacks-keep-calm-and-secure-Bledisloe.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/l/j/5/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dskp3.png/1472292046428.jpg | en | null | Wallabies bring niggle but little else as All Blacks keep calm and secure Bledisloe | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Wallabies bring niggle but little else as All Blacks keep calm and secure Bledisloe
GETTY IMAGES Dane Coles and Quade Cooper exchanged heated words at one point. It seemed a Wallabies ploy.
When your side is clearly inferior, you need to find a way to compete and throw the opposition off their game.
The Wallabies opted for niggle as their weapon of choice during the 29-9 loss to the All Blacks on Saturday night in Wellington.
Their main game plan appeared to be to get under the skin of the men in black, and hope it would be enough to open up opportunities on the playing field.
The logic is sound. New Zealand are penthouse while the Wallabies are ground floor at the moment on the field, so the Australian's had to shake things up and even things out.
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Did it work? In patches, but not like Michael Cheika and company would have hoped.
In the opening five minutes there were three instances where the Australians initiated contact, shirt pulling, nipple twisting, chest shoving, you name it.
That was the obvious stuff. It was off the ball, away from the referee where they were being particularly sneaky about it.
Ben Smith took a flaying arm to the throat from Michael Hooper after he put up a high kick, the Aussie flanker deviating from his path in order to land the swift blow well after the kick was made.
Adam Coleman, preparing for a particularly dirty night, threw Brodie Retallick to the ground five metres from a ruck. He was one man the Wallabies targeted, alongside Dane Coles.
Captain Stephen Moore attempted to shove Coles when a scrum broke down, and knowing he was capable of a brain snap in his younger days, the Wallabies kept at Coles.
The snap came, but a likely sought after yellow card didn't. Quade Cooper and Coles had a verbal sparring session, and moments later Coles drilled his forearm into the neck and head area of Scott Fardy.
Upstairs the play went, and an All Blacks penalty was overturned as a result. Not quite the result the Wallabies would have wanted, but it was something.
The All Blacks were far from saints. Owen Franks could be forced to sweat after his fingers got dangerously close to the eyes of an Australian forward during a maul.
You'd expect the moment to be reviewed following the match, and eye gouging offences can have big punishments.
The first and only card of the match went to Coleman for a dirty, late shoulder charge on Ben Smith late in the first half.
The fastest the Wallabies moved was when there was a chance for niggle, including the moment Franks hadn't heard a whistle, attempted to strip the ball and was then clattered by four yellow jerseys.
At about the 50 minute mark the niggle stopped. It wasn't working. They'd tried to throw the All Blacks off their game and failed.
The Wallabies, and in turn the All Blacks, turned to actual rugby, and there the Kiwis landed a knock out blow.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/83634375/Wallabies-bring-niggle-but-little-else-as-All-Blacks-keep-calm-and-secure-Bledisloe | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/991a26f3b068b0d91daf5b1a15c7ff1a6e5fbef68b8cff591fa9ce2ff17651ea.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:52:27 | null | 2016-08-31T02:37:35 | Black marks on light bulbs are a telltale sign of smoking meth, which was news to this judge. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Fcrime%2F83726133%2FMarlborough-man-caught-with-meth-utensils-in-backpack.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/j/1/r/e/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dujhx.png/1472611055808.jpg | en | null | Marlborough man caught with meth utensils in backpack | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Marlborough man caught with meth utensils in backpack
SCOTT HAMMOND/FAIRFAX NZ The Blenheim District Court.
A man has been caught with light bulbs in his backpack used for smoking methamphetamine.
Richard Donald Lancaster, 27, was caught with two light bulbs and two glass straws in a backpack during a police search on July 7.
Police said the light bulbs had black marks on them, showing they had been used to smoke methamphetamine.
The glass straws also showed signs of being used to smoke methamphetamine.
He told police they were his but he used them so long ago he forgot they were there, police said.
Lancaster, a vineyard worker of Blenheim, admitted possessing the utensils at the Blenheim District Court on Monday.
Judge Bill Hastings said he had never heard of light bulbs being used in such a manner.
Lancaster's lawyer Bryony Millar said it was fairly common.
"It is one of the signs to look for if you're in real estate, sir."
Lancaster was already serving a sentence of supervision from two months ago for an assault charge, which had conditions to attend an anger management course.
He had $12,428 in outstanding fines.
"I think there is truth in the statement you just forgot about them and you haven't used them since February," Judge Hastings said.
"I am concerned, though, about your drug use."
He had previous convictions for drugs in 2009, 2006 and 2002.
Judge Hastings cancelled his existing sentence of supervision and replaced it with a new sentence of six months' supervision, with conditions to complete drug and alcohol assessment and treatment, and to continue his anger management counselling.
His fines were swapped for 150 hours' community work.
- The Marlborough Express | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/83726133/Marlborough-man-caught-with-meth-utensils-in-backpack | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/14052bbbe7433716911e04b335b14eca49e249864b07b43f7152fd8fb9604e99.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T08:52:09 | null | 2016-08-30T07:29:07 | Women really can't have it all - but neither can men, says controversial author Anne-Marie Slaughter. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Flife-style%2Flife%2F83696789%2FAnne-Marie-Slaughter-Why-having-it-all-is-an-issue-for-men-too.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/s/j/a/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtwut.png/1472542147146.jpg | en | null | Anne-Marie Slaughter: Why 'having it all' is an issue for men, too | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Anne-Marie Slaughter: Why 'having it all' is an issue for men, too
123rf 'We are never going to get to gender equality between men and women unless we value the work of care as much as we value paid work.'
To spend a day with Anne-Marie Slaughter is to be convinced that women really can't have it all. Also, that men can't, either.
And that really the whole conversation is kind of a crock, achieving very little beyond inducing a low-grade depression in anyone who happens to be listening.
Slaughter would probably agree with this assessment, despite having risen to national prominence with the publication of a 2012 Atlantic Magazine article entitled, Why women still can't have it all.
You see, since the noise died down and the millions of incensed readers stopped clicking, she's had some pretty significant changes of heart.
RUBEN SPRICH Anne-Marie Slaughter caused an uproar with her 2012 Atlantic Magazine article, 'Why women still can't have it all'.
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For starters: "When people say, 'I'm home with my kids,' I say, 'You're doing really important work,' and I mean it," she says. "Whereas before I was the classic woman that said, 'Oh, what a pity.' Like, 'You're not doing the real thing.' "
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Champion of the Stay-at-Home Mums?
Well, sort of.
It's more like: Anne-Marie Slaughter, long-time law professor, former director of policy planning for the State Department, current head of a major thinktank, possible future Cabinet secretary, non-lead parent of two sons and public advocate for increasing the societal value placed on caregiving - even if that's not the primary path she's chosen for herself.
Make sense? No?
OK, let's back up. Slaughter was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, US. She went to Princeton University and then Harvard Law School. She became a professor and then dean at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She wrote some wonky foreign policy books and in 2009 was tapped by Hillary Clinton to serve in one of the most important roles at the US State Department. She left after two years and then wrote the Atlantic essay that launched a million heavy sighs.
In it, Slaughter wrote of her weekly commutes from Princeton to Washington. She detailed her long days, her exhausting schedule and the psychic pull to be more available to her two teenage sons, one of whom was rebelliously toying with juvenile delinquency. She knew she was writing for an elite audience - professional women with ambition and choices, not the larger majority still grappling with survival.
And her bottom line was this: Even with a supportive spouse, intense professional commitment and a willingness to live life in chapters, the deck is still stacked against any woman who wants to reach the top of her career ladder while also caring for children or aging parents.
CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE
The essay quickly became one of the most-read articles in the Atlantic's history, attracting nearly 3 million clicks. Suddenly, the foreign affairs expert was spending all her time talking about the most domestic of issues.
"I would have these people come up to me and they would have tears," says Slaughter, now 57. "They said, 'You're the first person who said how hard it was, and I thought I was a failure.' "
A book deal naturally followed, but so did a change in Slaughter's perspective on the topic. In an irony not lost on her, the woman who left government office to spend more time with her family was now spending much of her time on the road making public appearances. The travel gave her an opportunity to talk to men and women across a range of ages and socioeconomic levels about the difficulty of balancing family and professional life.
But the biggest change came when Slaughter's husband's aunt sent her a small book called On Caring. Published in 1971 by American philosopher Milton Mayeroff, the book is a treatise on caring for others as the foundational work of society.
"It was like, wow, this is about investing in others. And this is a set of skills," Slaughter recalls. "That was the moment I was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, there's a big idea here'."
NOT JUST A WOMEN'S ISSUE
Slaughter's book, Unfinished Business, which is out in paperback this month, hasn't reached nearly as many readers as the Atlantic article but approaches the topic with much more nuance.
She argues that across the board, we give caregivers the shaft, dismissing stay-at-home parents at dinner parties, barely paying nannies a living wage and punishing those who take career breaks to focus on family with a challenging on-ramp back to the professional world.
But she doesn't define this simply as a woman's issue. Slaughter heard from enough men to see an often overlooked end of the equation: that the pressure to be the breadwinner comes at the expense of time and relationships with family.
But for Slaughter, and a growing number of families, the roles are reversed. Almost a year after the Atlantic article came out, Slaughter was named president of New America, one of Washington's largest thinktanks. The long commutes resumed, and so did the heavy workload.
Her husband is a professor at Princeton, but he has long been what she calls the "lead parent", responsible for most of the cooking, shuttling and caretaking. And though it was Slaughter's choice and ambition that drove this arrangement, she does not let the trade-offs go unacknowledged.
"I vividly remember the first time one of our sons woke up in the night and called for Daddy instead of Mummy," she writes. "My first reaction, to put it politely, was deep dismay."
MAKING PEACE WITH THE TRADE-OFFS
On a recent day packed with Washington meetings, Slaughter confessed that though her sons are long out of diapers, the trade-offs continue today. Her older son, who outgrew his teenage rebellion, is now a theatre major in college. But when he was struggling with a monologue, it was Slaughter's husband, Andy Moravcsik, who got the call to help.
"I talk to him briefly, but this is exactly where Andy is there to spend four hours with him on a monologue. And that's partly just my husband, who is a fanatic perfectionist and will spend forever," she says. "But that is partly time I simply don't have."
And later in the day, while Slaughter is on her way to yet another State Department meeting, their younger son, who's away at jazz camp, discovers an old organ hidden in the recesses of the conservatory. Moravcsik, who happens to be in Washington for the day and is camped out in Slaughter's office, gets the call with an excited, impromptu FaceTime concert.
"Somebody has to be there when they need you, and that is not consistent with this kind of job," says Slaughter, who has a husky voice and a big smile. "I could never do this without a lead-parent husband."
So, looking back with her newfound respect for the work of caregiving, would she have done anything differently?
"I think about that a lot," she says a few days later on the phone from her home in Princeton.
"Knowing what I know now, I wish I had taken one day a week when they were between 0 and 5 to be with them. I could have said, 'Every Friday, instead of day care, every Friday is a mum day.' We would have done fun things. It would have mattered. And it would have been a pleasure for me."
'ENJOY IT. EMBRACE IT'
But Slaughter is also deeply gratified to have a career that is still escalating. At New America, she has put into practice some of the policies she advocates - three months of paid parental leave for both men and women, flexible work arrangements and six weeks of paid time off for all employees. Now her name is appearing on lists of potential Cabinet secretaries in a possible Clinton administration.
At a midday meeting with her two assistants, Slaughter reviews a three-page list of requests from young women (and a few men) who want her mentorship. She can't accept them all, but the ones she does take on will get the same advice she offers staffers and former students who ask how to balance work and family.
It's the same four words she lays out in the afterword of her book: "Don't drop out, defer." Meaning, she writes, "if you keep your hand in the workforce while you are devoting more of your time to care, it will be easier to ramp up than to get back in."
Later, by phone, she adds this: "Enjoy it. Embrace it. Don't look back and think, 'God, I wasn't even there, because I was worried about the logistics and I missed life'."
But maybe that message is really the same: We need to value care as a society, but to do so we must first value it personally.
"The bottom-line message," she says, "is that we are never going to get to gender equality between men and women unless we value the work of care as much as we value paid work - or when both men and women do it.
"That's the unfinished business."
- The Washington Post | http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/83696789/Anne-Marie-Slaughter-Why-having-it-all-is-an-issue-for-men-too | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/420e73c3bb1cb46f732c51d07012ee146e71b95eb47fbdcae887a265625591f4.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T06:50:26 | null | 2016-08-27T04:59:40 | Armed callout not linked to manhunt for Joshua Kite. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Fcrime%2F83632891%2FArmed-Offenders-Squad-callout-in-Thames.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/e/v/n/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsjjv.png/1472274012637.jpg | en | null | Armed Offenders Squad callout in Thames | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Armed Offenders Squad callout in Thames
FAIRFAX NZ Police were executing a search warrant in Thames.
Armed police were involved in an operation in the North Island town of Thames on Saturday afternoon.
A spokesman said police were executing a search warrant in the greater Thames area.
The callout was not related to the ongoing hunt for a man who shot at police and stole a cop car on Friday.
Armed police in Thames this afternoon.
On Saturday morning, police revealed they were searching for Joshua Kite, after officers were shot at and a police car stolen in Northland
READ MORE: Gunman still on the run after firing shot at police, stealing police car in Northland
Joshua Mason Kite, 33, is thought to be in the greater Auckland area but also has links to Wellington and Northland.
He is armed and dangerous and should not be approached, police said.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/83632891/Armed-Offenders-Squad-callout-in-Thames | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/1df65ba4650d5d5f306cd1f211d5424e04777bd763c4828ab02ba11aed44a84f.json |
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[] | 2016-08-29T04:51:36 | null | 2016-08-29T04:50:23 | Hundreds evacuated onto tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport after reports of gunfire. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Famericas%2F83683901%2FReports-of-a-gunman-at-LAX-airport.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/b/v/s/s/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtmwt.png/1472446225780.jpg | en | null | Reports of a gunman at LAX airport | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Reports of a gunman at LAX airport
DANNY MOLOSHOK / REUTERS A sign at the entrance of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from a plane and terminals at Los Angeles International Airport after reports of gunfire.
Images posted online showed crowds of people filing onto the runway, as unconfirmed reports suggested shots were fired in Terminal 5.
Los Angeles airport police say they were investigating unconfirmed reports of shots being fired at Los Angeles International airport.
LAX SHOTS FIRED REPORT: Multiple 911 calls from multiple locations but NO evidence so far of armed gunman, shots fired, or injuries at LAX. β Andrew Blankstein (@anblanx) August 29, 2016 So this is what happens when someone screams "SHOOTER" at #LAX - panic and abandoned everything ππ° pic.twitter.com/c7TrX4SS0m β Andrea Sper (@Andreafsper) August 29, 2016 Police searching LAX after reports. All precautions being taken to ensure safety of public. Remain calm. Thank you for your cooperation β LA Airport PD (@LAAirportPD) August 29, 2016
The police said in a second tweet they were searching the airport and that all precautions were being taken to ensure the public's safety. "Remain calm," the post on Twitter said.
Los Angeles police could not be reached immediately for comment.
The Federal Aviation Authority has issued a ground stop at the airport until 10pm (local time).
More to come
- Stuff, Reuters | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/83683901/Reports-of-a-gunman-at-LAX-airport | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/c498aa9dbf79327f14085c0a6ad20555f025dbd35104169a62183231be7b7396.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T00:51:07 | null | 2016-08-28T00:13:07 | One of Queen Victoria's most important jewels is being sold for a $9.07 million asking price. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Feurope%2F83639689%2FQueen-Victorias-coronet-for-sale.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/p/6/6/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsosp.png/1472343187105.jpg | en | null | Queen Victoria's coronet for sale | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Queen Victoria's coronet for sale
Twitter/ Gryphons Nest The coronet was finally made by goldsmith Joseph Kitching in 1842, using stones which came from William IV and his queen Adelaide.
A coronet worn by Queen Victoria and designed by her beloved husband Albert could be exported unless a UK buyer can be found for the multi-million pound piece of jewellery.
The item has been sold to a buyer who wants to export the item but the government has imposed a temporary bar in an attempt to find a person or institution to meet the Β£5 million ($9.07 million) asking price, plus Β£1 million in value-added tax (VAT), to keep the sapphire and diamond coronet in the UK.
The coronet is considered one of the most important jewels of Queen Victoria's long reign and was designed for her by Prince Albert in 1840, the year of their wedding.
The jewels matched the sapphire and diamond brooch that Albert had given to Victoria on the day before their wedding.
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The coronet was finally made by goldsmith Joseph Kitching in 1842, using stones which came from jewellery given to Victoria by her uncle and predecessor William IV and his queen Adelaide.
Victoria is depicted wearing the coronet in a famous portrait painted that year by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
She also wore the coronet for the state opening of parliament in 1866, the first time she had attended the ceremony since the death of Albert in 1861, possibly as a reminder of her late husband.
The item is decorated with 11 sapphires set in gold with diamonds set in silver.
The decision on the licence has been deferred until December 27 - with the possibility of an extension until June 27 next year if an alternative British buyer emerges with the serious intention of raising the money to buy the coronet.
- AAP | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/83639689/Queen-Victorias-coronet-for-sale | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/2849467b1cd849e682d952be60effccdcb12f27a871c9d170f1398c61d22d859.json |
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BEST IN SHOW: Penny Sage. "Beautifully composed, perfectly proportioned and ideally accessorised," says fashion editor Karlya Smith. And we're putting the beautifully constructed coats - in camel, khaki, beige and brown - straight on our Winter 17 cover-up wishlist. They come in the perfect neutrals to keep cosy and complement pretty much any other hue from blue to orange.
BEST VA-VA-VOOM: Arguably the slickest of this week's shows, Hailwood featured a full choir and some serious catwalk star power - Karl Lagerfeld's muse, Kiwi model Ashleigh Good, opened the show. The Great Gatsby-inspired hair and makeup, spearheaded by MAC's Kiekie Stanners, was the perfect accompaniment to the old-school glamour.
BEST LADYLIKE CHIC: Harman Grubisa. This gorgeous no-spills ensemble at was a show-stopper. (In keeping with conventional Kiwi tastes, it also comes in black.) We also loved the shimmery metallic dresses, and fell hard for a rose-gold skirt and cape ensemble.
BEST WEAR-TO-WORK NUMBER: Rochelle. This Jackie O nod to sixties style at was a winner. This navy and white outfit is office-appropriate but also cool enough for dressy nights out.
BEST FOR MEN: The 1960s mod suit and long hipster hair at French83. This male model looks effortlessly cool in a tailored suit and white button-up shirt. Top marks for the textured lapels and pocket detailing.
BEST COAT: Eugenie. Fashion editor Karlya Smith says this collection had the "best denim of the week, hands down. And the leather trench was one of the best pieces of the week." Black leather definitely adds an edge to this tried-and-true style staple.
BEST PRINT: Lucilla Gray. The the chartreuse marble pattern might be a bit too Mrs Roper for most when worn top to bottom, but one piece at a time - or in small doses such as this halter top - it's stunning. "Succinct, well-cut, interesting but wearable pieces," says fashion editor Karlya Smith of the collection.
WE'RE NOT SURE: The rugs wrapped around the models' waists at Wynn Hamlyn. Granted, they had some kind of interior decor theme going on with the curtain tassel belts and carpet bags. But the rug waist wraps looked uncomfortable and odd. (We think we may have that exact axminster rug on the floor at home.) The carpet coat we did enjoy though.
THE QUESTIONABLE ACCESSORY: The streetwear at Campbell Luke's New Generation show was cool, but this ill-advised hat (worn by several models) looks a bit like Pharrell Williams has had a rummage through Abe Lincoln's closet.
THE WACKO HEADGEAR: Ah, fashion peeps. Often they are not content with showing a perfectly good outfit on the runway. It needs a certain je ne sais quoi, darling. This is where the bonkers headgear comes in. Fun to watch, but not for civilians to ever attempt. (You know how they always say to go back and take off one accessory? This would be it). Donald Trump has his eye on that gun hat for a fun party favour at his next convention. | http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/83625063/Best-worst-dressed-NZ-Fashion-Week-2016 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/a52a4d4e1b22ac779a88173c709970a2640ccccc5313a1d7c8f86cf783c677d9.json |
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THE GREAT: Look. At. God. Nicki Minaj couldn't really walk in this, but who cares when you look like that? The colour is gorgeous, the skirt is a delight, and obviously the fit is insane. Meek Mill's embroidered letterman jacket is very cool too, but the main reason he's in here is his face. That's a man who knows he's won the lottery. Minaj is in Bao Tranchi.
THE BEST BEAUTY: That crotch-high split is stressing me out, but Naomi Campbell's makeup is some of the best I've ever seen. It's by Pat McGrath, obviously. She's in charge of that glittery lip and perfect smoky eye. Aside from the slit, I'm into Campbell's dress - that pale mint doesn't get used enough, and the neckline is gorgeous.
THE GOOD: Yeah, his shirt is unbuttoned a bit lower than it strictly needs to be, but I'm very much enjoying this sleek, slightly '70s look on Future. He's picked an element (the embellished blazer) and let it do the talking, and he knows the power of a pair of Ray Bans. Nice work.
THE GOOD: This is a bit out of character for me, because I don't usually vibe on anything too busy, but I'm slightly obsessed with Hailee Steinfeld's multi-coloured macrame mini. Made by Balmain, it reminds me of one of those knitted bikinis everyone's been wearing all Northern-hemisphere summer, which isn't exactly promising, but it works. Steinfeld looks like she's having a good time, but also pretty fashion-y. Full marks.
THE GOOD: Clearly this is slightly insane, but Beyonce looks like an actual angel from heaven, so I'm into it. The dress is frothy, ethereal and dramatic, and that soft colour is killing me. Also incredible: Bey brought out the mothers of Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Oscar Grant. Making a statement while dressed like this? I won't hear any criticism.
THE PURE JOY: If you haven't listened to Chance the Rapper's recent album Colouring Book yet, please put it on immediately. It's the most fun you're going to have on a Monday afternoon by any measure. With that in mind, these beige overalls are a delight, and so is Chance's paint-splattered denim jacket. Kanye West just called him the future on stage, and I'm hoping he's right.
THE MIXED BAG: The first thing here is that Kanye West has the best and most radiant smile in the world. The second is that Kim Kardashian's dress needs to be sitting on both her shoulders, and maybe be two centimetres longer in the middle. I'm big on the layered necklaces, though.
THE GOOD: It's not strange that as a professional clothes-wearer, model Ashley Graham looks hot. Yes, naked dresses are a bit passe after at least three years of the trend, but that doesn't mean the good ones don't still work. I'm heavily into that steely grey and also her tousled hair. Maybe I'm just feeling pro-Graham because she was photographed over the weekend in a Miss Crabb summertime dress. Bless NZ fashion.
THE GOOD: Literal kiwi (and also Samoan) hero Parris Goebel is wearing E'vana Couture, and she looks incredible. This is such a cool blend of tradition and glamour. Perfect colour, too, and her fluffy ponytail is killer.
THE MOSTLY: I've definitely seen Amber Rose in outfits I liked more, but the simplicity of this is almost selling me. The black suit with her blonde hair, blue glasses and red lips and nails is super graphic and striking, but I wish the fit was a bit better through the waist and trousers. Thoughts?
THE CONSISTENT: In dark, confusing times, the sight of Heidi Klum in a mini dress is a reassuring constant. The colour palette is very much her wheelhouse, and as ever, she has some of the best legs on the planet. Is it ground breaking? No, but it doesn't need to be.
THE WILDCARD: Model Stella Maxwell is pictured here with Jeremy Scott, who made both their outfits. It's a very straight-from-the-runway look, and not exactly wearable by anyone who's not a Victoria's Secret angel, but am I wrong that those flares could be pretty cool with a white t shirt and a denim jacket?
THE FRESH-FACED: Alicia Keys wasn't kidding about giving up on makeup, and I kind of feel the same way as when someone tells me they've quit drinking. Very impressive, and something that's definitely worth thinking about, but not for me. Her dress is a bit of a sack, but I feel like she's taking a completely different aesthetic path, and who am I to tell her not to.
THE OVERCOOKED: Hailey Baldwin is wearing Georges Chakra, and while she's obviously stunning, I wish she'd calm down a bit. The whole look (hair and makeup included) is a direct lift from Kylie Jenner, and while I wish her all the best, her style isn't exactly aspirational. This just seems way too full-on for an event starting in daylight.
THE BAD: Much like Catfish Nev and his midi's open jacket (next slide, I'm apologising in advance), Farrah Abraham's little Wonder Woman costume has me demanding an explanation. Did the Teen Mom star think this was a costume party? It's not. Go get changed.
THE WORST: I hate this. Why is it happening, and for what reason? Haven't we all suffered enough in 2016? Why would Nev Schulman (Catfish host, filmaker) and his girlfriend Lauren Perlongo (works in advertising) do this to us? Pregnancy is a miracle and everything but please. This is the clothing equivalent of over-posting on Facebook about your new kid. | http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/83667485/Best-worst-dressed-MTV-Video-Music-Awards | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/19d01abf7b217e4d54ef19bc4dfb28f338f13bf40346ce8dd32dbade3f3324b7.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:52:28 | null | 2016-08-31T02:44:00 | OPINION: Did Apple rip off the Irish? Or did the EU just try to wreck Ireland's competitive advantage? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2Fworld%2F83758177%2FHow-the-EUs-ruling-on-Apple-explains-why-Brexit-happened.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/w/3/2/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dv881.png/1472611443888.jpg | en | null | How the EU's ruling on Apple explains why Brexit happened | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | How the EU's ruling on Apple explains why Brexit happened
ROBERT GALBRAITH/REUTERS Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the company would appeal the decision that would see Apple paying billions of euro in unpaid back taxes to Ireland.
OPINION: On Tuesday morning, the governing body of the European Union ruled that one of its members, Ireland, had broken its rules by allowing US-based Apple to pay a tax rate of 1 per cent - and sometimes as little as .0005 percent. Ireland's regular tax rate is 12.5 per cent, and the EU's rules state that members can't give special benefits to individual companies, even if it is the most highly valued company in the world.
Under the EU ruling, Apple would be required to pay Ireland more than NZ$20 billion (13 billion euro) in back taxes. Both Apple and the Irish government plan to appeal.
That's is a huge amount of money for a small country like Ireland, which suffered terribly after the 2008 financial crisis and required a massive bailout from the EU. Many in Ireland are salivating over what kind of public infrastructure or personal tax breaks that moneycould be spent on. The sum is roughly equal to Ireland's entire health budget, to put it in perspective.
JACK TAYLOR/GETTY IMAGES Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that the EU was "anti-democratic" and "doomed".
Others, however, see the ruling as exactly why Ireland, just like the United Kingdom did with its Brexit vote, needs to leave an interventionist, anti-sovereignty European Union.
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To put the question a different way: Did Apple, in collusion with the Irish government, rip off the Irish public by arranging a huge tax break? Or did the European Union just undermine Ireland's economic model and strip the country of its competitive advantage, risking Ireland's long-term growth?
RNZ The world's most profitable company, Apple, has been ordered to pay NZ$20 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland.
Much of the debate across the Irish Sea in Britain during the lead-up to their referendum on EU membership in June centred on the idea that bureaucrats with no allegiance to Britain were sitting in Brussels and writing their laws. Proponents of a "Brexit" argued that leaving the EU would allow the country to "take back control" of its economy and borders.
After the EU's ruling on Apple and Ireland on Tuesday, one of the most outspoken Brexit leaders, Nigel Farage, tweeted that the EU was "anti-democratic" and "doomed," and included a video of him on a television show saying "Across the whole continent, people are saying, 'Why are our laws being made somewhere else?'"
Anti-democratic EU project is doomed. Opposition continues to grow right across Europe.https://t.co/6zzD7n9Ui4 β Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) August 30, 2016
Others began using the hashtag #Irexit, or argued that it was the EU, and not Ireland, that had broken its treaty obligations to its member-state.
The EU is suing Ireland because it didn't tax Apple enough. Just in case you wondered why things like Brexit happen. β Aaron Gardner (@Aaron_RS) August 30, 2016
Mehmet Simsek, Turkey's deputy prime minister, even took the opportunity to suggest that Apple shift from Ireland to Turkey, which isn't a EU member, where he'd be "happy to provide more generous tax incentives."
Apple should move to Turkey. Happy to provide more generous tax incentives. Won't have to deal with EU bureaucracyhttps://t.co/9ceOnauGi0 β Mehmet Simsek (@memetsimsek) August 30, 2016
And despite the promise of an unprecedentedly large injection of tax revenue, the Irish government plans to appeal the ruling.
"This is necessary to defend the integrity of our tax system, to provide tax certainty to business and to challenge the encroachment of EU state aid rules into the sovereign member state competence of taxation," Michael Noonan, Ireland's finance minister said in a statement.
Apple will also appeal. At the core of their argument is a denial that they got special tax rates unavailable to others.
"The European Commission has launched an effort to rewrite Apple's history in Europe, ignore Ireland's tax laws and upend the international tax system in the process," read part of a statement from Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook. The ruling, he said, would have a "profound and harmful effect on investment and job creation in Europe."
"Using the Commission's theory, every company in Ireland and across Europe is suddenly at risk of being subjected to taxes under laws that never existed," argued Cook.
Ireland's second and third-biggest parties seemed to align with the ruling Fine Gael party in opposing the ruling. Both the Fianna FΓ‘il and Labour parties spokespersons stated that it was counter to their understandings of Ireland's ability to set its own tax rules, and expressed worry that should the appeals fall through, multinationals would lose faith in Ireland as a destination for investment. Apple employs around 6000 people across Ireland, and made overtures that those jobs would be kept there.
Much further to the left on the political spectrum, the Social Democrats, Ireland's newest political party, echoed the resentment toward Apple that many Irish citizens expressed throughout the day on social media.
"While Small and Medium sized enterprises, which employ seven out of every 10 people in the private sector, struggled throughout the downturn, many going to the wall, this multinational giant was paying the bare minimum in tax," said a statement released on their website.
- The Washington Post | http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/83758177/How-the-EUs-ruling-on-Apple-explains-why-Brexit-happened | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/bc8de685b2bb3494596aa2c22984444fc7410422ffa92a2fbb06d874ee2515dd.json |
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RNZ An Ashburton dairy farmer joins us to discuss the logistics of stealing 500 dairy cows from a local farm. Police are still investigating reports of the theft but are no closer to determining what happened.
A farmer says a huge number of people would have been needed to steal 500 cows from an Ashburton dairy farm.
Farm workers were left scratching their heads after 500 cows were discovered missing from their herd.
Chris Ford farms in the same area and told RNZ News moving such a large number of stock would have required a lot of help.
BARRY HARCOURT Hundreds of cows have disappeared from an Ashburton farm.
"For a general farmer to move 500 cows down the road you'd need five or six people, you'd need motorbikes, vehicles, flashing lights.. a large group of people are involved in the process.
"For this process [of stealing the cows] there's a huge amount of people that would have to be involved. From the people who take the stock, to those shifting the stock, to the people receiving the stock."
He said if the cows' NAIT ear tags were removed, that too, would have involved a great deal of labour.
"There's only way to make these cows effectively disappear is to remove that tag and put another one in. Otherwise you've got a cow from Ashburton that turns up in Wellington and it's not recorded."
Ford said it's not common practice to remove the ear tags.
"If someone turned up, had 500 cows with no NAIT tags, there'd be some serious questions asked."
"Something doesn't add up," he said.
"DISBELIEF" AT DAIRY FARM
Farm administrator Pennie Saunders said they noticed last week that "things weren't adding up as cows were coming back in".
"We're absolutely gutted," she said. "It's just disbelief."
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Saunders said the dairy farm usually had about 1300 cattle.
She said it was likely the cows were stolen gradually over a period of time, rather than in one go.
She was hesitant to give specific details of the incident "while investigations are ongoing", but said there had been several cattle thefts in the area.
In December, more than 120 beasts were taken from three different South Canterbury farms: A farm in Alford Forrest lost 52 Friesian bull calves, a farm south of Hinds lost 17 grown dairy cows and 36 cows disappeared from a Mayfield farm.
At the time, Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury president Willy Leferink believed a cow theft ring was operating because of the high meat price.
In March, nine cattle were stolen from farm in Ohoka, North Canterbury.
"We're not very hopeful of getting them back," Saunders said of the latest incident.
"Chances are their tags have been removed, which makes them pretty much impossible to trace."
Cows were spread around the farm over winter and brought back in as they neared their calving due date, she said.
It was when they started counting the cattle that they noticed the missing herd.
"They could have gone to the works, or could be on someone else's land I guess.
"People do it for the money."
POLICE ISSUE WARNING TO FARMERS
Senior Sergeant Scott Banfield said police were were advised of the missing cows on Thursday and were "making inquiries" after visiting the property.
Banfield said it was important farmers check their fence lines regularly, and watch for "unexpected signs of herding near their boundary lines".
"It's unlikely the theft of hundreds of animals could be completed at once, and is more likely that multiple thefts could be carried out over a period of time.
"Regardless of the size of your property, ideally stock numbers should be checked once a week."
He advised neighbours should remain vigilant of any movement of stock, "particularly if it's at an unusual time of the year".
"If possible, make a note of any suspicious vehicle's registration number, and a description and direction of the vehicle and what it was carrying," Banfield said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Canterbury police by calling 03 363 7400. Information can also be provided anonymously by calling Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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RACHEL THOMAS/FAIRFAX NZ. Mathew Adlam's body was found in a goldfish pond on Hamilton's Lake Crescent in October last year.
Ronald Pengelly called police an hour after his mentally ill grandson did not returned home as planned.
He was told to holdfast until the morning but it would be police who would call Pengelly back, to let him know a body had been found, matching his grandson's description.
The details of Mathew Adlam's last moments of life were heard at a coroner's inquest at the Hamilton District Court on Friday.
MARK TAYLOR/FAIRFAX NZ. Mathew Adlam's body was discovered at a property next to a public walkway.
Adlam drowned in 21cm of water.
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He was found face down, with his feet out of the water, in a goldfish pond on Lake Crs, Hamilton Lake, on the morning of October 9, 2015.
Pengelly said he saw his grandson at 8pm the night before his death and described him as being in a good mood.
"I had no concerns at that time, we had two short conversations where he said he was going out with a friend," Pengelly said.
He told Coroner Gordon Matenga that he was happy to let his grandson go out, as long as returned by 10pm.
By 10.45pm, Adlam had not returned home, so Pengelly called a mental health crisis team. They told him to call police if Adlam had not returned within half an hour.
A call was made to police around 11.20pm and Pengelly was told to call back in the morning.
Adlam suffered from schizophrenia, an illness which saw him admitted to the Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre (HBC) on the grounds of Waikato Hospital.
The 22-year-old was released from HBC days before his death.
His family say he had abused prescription medications in the past but results from a post-mortem toxicology report show he had a "therapeutic level" of drugs in his system.
Adlam had no significant head injuries, but he did have a cut to his lip. Blood was also found on the driveway of the property.
His pants were around his ankles and the autopsy revealed he had a full bladder.
The pond was 30cm high, one of two on the section, and although there was netting around the structure, the left-hand side of the pond was not secured.
Detective Thomas Willis said at the inquest, that for a person of a normal state of mind, it would be possible to pull yourself out of the pond.
Willis said in the weeks leading up to Adlam's death, he had taken a large amount of Tramadol and was described by his family as being in a "zombie-like state".
Adlam recently returned to live with his grandparents after his stint at HBC. His family say he was admitted there after telling them he was hearing voices. Medical staff told the family he would be observed for two weeks.
Pengelly identified his grandson's body on Friday October 9.
The owners of the property were away and a neighbour found Adlam when he went to feed the fish.
A time of death was unknown but a resident on Lake Crs made two calls to police on Thursday evening to say she heard a man who sounded distressed.
The woman, who was alone at the time, told police she heard the man violently coughing and spluttering around 9pm, outside her property.
Police arrived at her home after the second phone call but did not find anyone. They checked the area where Adlam's body was found and did not see him.
Matenga said it was possible Adlam was trying to find a place to urinate and tripped into the pond, however, he reserved his decision until a later date.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/83585249/Hamilton-man-who-died-in-pond-had-been-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/bd3df4bb09de5e47ab3b8738477f769f5c2b9c6cbde2fa17679a38d6726fb6d8.json |
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ANDREA COMAS / REUTERS Real Madrid's Toni Kroos, second left, celebrates his goal with teammates Gareth Bale, Lucas Vazquez and Mariano Diaz.
A late goal by Toni Kroos sealed victory as Real Madrid defeated Celta Vigo side 2-1 to win their first home La Liga game of the campaign.
Alvaro Morata scored his first goal for the hosts since returning from Juventus to break the deadlock on the hour before Fabian Orellana levelled for Celta in the 67th minute.
Kroos then finished off substitute James Rodriguez's cut- back with a low drive from the edge of the area in the 81st minute, giving Real six points from their two league games this season.
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"We were made to suffer against a team that were a lot better than I expected especially in attack," coach Zinedine Zidane told a news conference.
"They caused problems for us on a few occasions but that's normal...it's never easy to win."
Croatia playmaker Modric rattled the bar and tested goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez with two other efforts from distance but it was Celta who squandered the first clear opening.
Theo Bogonda robbed Dani Carvajal and raced down the wing before opting to shoot when John Guidetti was unmarked in the area, the Belgian firing wide to his team mate's frustration.
Gareth Bale clipped the bar at the other end in the second half with a free kick and the breakthrough arrived soon after.
Modric slipped a pass to Marco Asensio and the winger was thwarted by Alvarez, only for Morata to ram the loose ball into the net.
The former Juve forward almost grabbed a second goal a few minutes later when he latched on to a ball from Kroos and his effort bounced off the outside of the far post.
Celta then levelled following a crisp move between Daniel Wass, Guidetti and Orellana, the Chilean sending a rasping drive high beyond Casilla.
Zidane called on substitutes Rodriguez and Mariano Diaz and it was the out of favour Colombian, who started on the bench for the third game running, who made the difference, chasing down a loose ball on the right and sliding it back for Kroos to score.
After facing repeated questions about Rodriguez's future in recent weeks, Zidane praised the player's display on Saturday and confirmed he would not be leaving Real before the transfer window closes.
"When you come on you have to make a difference and he got chances and did well," said the Frenchman.
"He's going to stay here."
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[] | 2016-08-30T08:51:38 | null | 2016-08-30T08:00:00 | Join Eleanor Black as we dip back into the decadent lives of Auckland's most rich and famous. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fentertainment%2Ftv-radio%2F83658565%2FLive-Real-Housewives-of-Auckland-episode-3.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/p/1/5/d/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dt3d1.png/1472545557535.jpg | en | null | Live: Real Housewives of Auckland, episode 3 | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Live: Real Housewives of Auckland, episode 3
JASON DORDAY / FAIRFAX NZ The Real Housewives of Auckland.
When we saw them last, all was not well in world of the Real Housewives of Auckland. What drama will this week's episode hold as Gilda and Angela - natural enemies - spend more time together.
Join Eleanor Black as spend another hour in the company of Auckland's most fascinating women.
Cue the Champagne/tears/luxury cars/snide repartee/more Champagne.
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- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/83658565/Live-Real-Housewives-of-Auckland-episode-3 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/20ff4634f2f5ce551f03914653cb2cf67bd5bfd4f3ef5647a86cf5002656a477.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T10:52:44 | null | 2016-08-31T09:30:06 | They were made to work for it, but the Silver Ferns eventually came away with a 19-goal win over South Africa. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Fnetball%2F83744276%2FSilver-Ferns-overcome-early-struggles-to-beat-South-Africa-in-Quad-Series.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/o/k/z/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1duxhw.png/1472637654848.jpg | en | null | Silver Ferns overcome early struggles to beat South Africa in Quad Series | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Silver Ferns overcome early struggles to beat South Africa in Quad Series
ANTHONY AU-YEUNG / GETTY IMAGES Karla Mostert of South Africa in action against the Silver Ferns.
Two games, two wins.
That's how the Silver Ferns would have wanted to start Janine Southby's tenure as coach, and that's what they've got, after beating South Africa 65-46 in Hamilton on Wednesday night in their second game of the Quad Series.
But when put as simply as that, their record doesn't show that the two wins followed performances vastly different in their nature.
ANTHONY AU-YEUNG / GETTY IMAGES South Africa's head coach Norma Plummer talks to her team before the match.
Against England on Saturday the Ferns were in total control as they racked up a 26-goal margin, but against South Africa this time around, they were off the boil for long stretches, before easing away towards the end.
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In 27 previous matches between the two sides, South Africa had only won once - at the 1995 world championships - and while they couldn't manage another this time around, they came closer than they usually do, with the 19-goal margin a vast improvement on the 39-goal defeat they suffered in Auckland last July.
ANTHONY AU-YEUNG / GETTY IMAGES Grace Rasmussen and the Silver Ferns struggled early on but managed to beat the Proteas comfortably in the end.
After having been left out of the Ferns' starting seven against England on the weekend after taking ill in the buildup, Grace Rasmussen returned at wing attack, with Shannon Francois moving back to centre, Laura Langman to wing defence, and Kayla Cullen shifting to the bench.
The rearranged midcourt was disjointed in the first quarter, with each of them making several errors as they tried to press forward, both on attack and on defence. As a result, they were never able to give shooters Bailey Mes and Ameliaranne Ekenasio the service they would have liked.
The Proteas were a model of composure in contrast, not afraid to pass backwards if that was the best way to find a clear path towards goal, and they opened up a three-goal lead midway through the quarter, that shrunk only slightly to be two at its end.
Southby rang the changes at that point, bringing on Jane Watson to replace Phoenix Karaka at goal keep, and Cullen at wing defence, with Langman moving forward to replace Francois at centre.
Pushing Langman up court seemed to stabilise things somewhat, as the Ferns brought the scores level five minutes into the spell, though the occasional basic error still crept in, such as when Langman threw a centre pass straight into the hands of her South African marker who was standing just a metre away.
That turnover allowed the visitors to open up a small lead again, but the Ferns defence, led by captain Katrina Grant, stood strong, winning some turnovers of their own that helped them take their first lead, 24-23, with six minutes to go before the break.
From that point, the Ferns never looked back, quickly opening up a five-goal lead by halftime, the largest of either side at that point.
Having taken the lead, they were determined not to let the Proteas back in the game, and at the end of a hard-fought third quarter, they had grown their advantage to eight.
At that stage, an upset was off the table, and the Ferns were able to run up the score, winning the final quarter 19-8 and eventually finishing with a 19-goal lead.
With two wins from two under their belt, the Ferns now head to Melbourne, where Australia lie in wait on Sunday.
They currently hold a two-game winning streak against their traditional rivals, but will have to pick their game up from here if it is to become three.
Silver Ferns 65 (Bailey Mes 30/35, Ameliaranne Ekenasio 35/40) beat South Africa 46 (Lenize Potgieter 33/38, Renske Stoltz 11/14, Lindie Lombard 2/2)
Q1: 14-16 Q2: 32-27 Q3: 46-38
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:49 | null | null | Chiefs coach Dave Rennie wasn't up last Sunday morning to watch the live telecast of the Brumbies beating the Bulls. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsunday-star-times%2F9000179%2FCoaching-nous-puts-warrior-spirit-in-dynasty.json | en | null | Coaching nous puts warrior spirit in dynasty | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Coaching nous puts warrior spirit in dynasty PHIL GIFFORD
BEN CURRAN/Fairfax NZ GAME-CHANGER: Dave Rennie has brought consistency to the Chiefs as their coach. Relevant offers
Chiefs coach Dave Rennie wasn't up last Sunday morning to watch the live telecast of the Brumbies beating the Bulls.
OPINION: When he watched the game he wanted to know who had won, because that was the only team he was interested in.
An odd twist in rugby now is that, as players get bigger and stronger, as the physical clashes get more brutal, the tactical planning has become more and more scientific and technical.
And in Rennie and his coaching team the Chiefs have men of international standard, shrewd and imaginative.
Last night they would have wanted, as the Chiefs did in pouring rain in last year's final against the Sharks, to start like maniacs, keeping the ball in play as much as possible.
The aim? To suck energy early out of the team that had travelled from South Africa.
As a cunning plan it had a lot to recommend it, but like most cunning plans there can often be a counter-plan.
In Jake White the Brumbies had a brilliant thinker in the coaching box too. You might have thought, considering how he coached the most boring World Cup-winning team ever, the 2007 Springboks, the Brumbies would have come to Waikato Stadium planning to kick and chase all night.
They didn't turn into a Fijian sevens side, but there were definite signs that players like Christian Lealifano, Henry Speight and Clyde Rathbone were not there to just run after footballs booted by first-five Matt Toomua.
And in George Smith, the Brumbies have a man so finely tuned to referees and offside lines he will slow delivery of the ball, even when he doesn't actually steal it. His capture of Tawera Kerr-Barlow five minutes into the second half, which led to Lealifano's fourth penalty, was potentially a killer blow.
Luckily for the local fans, there's no give up in this Chiefs squad. The grit appears in many areas, some of them a little unexpected.
The All Blacks' selectors have made it brutally clear they think prop Ben Tameifuna is too tubby, yet put the big boy in a big game in a Chiefs jersey and he's so vigorous and persistent it almost makes a mockery of skin-fold measurements and beep tests.
Tanerau Latimer also struggles to get onto the national scale now, although certainly not on fitness issues. But against high level opponents in Super rugby, he's a one man world of hurt.
He lives for the chance to fire his body, which appears have been constructed from recycled barbed wire, into the most painful places he can find on a football field.
We also saw probably the best performance of the season from Liam Messam, who abandoned the agile footwork that's a legacy of his brilliant career in sevens rugby, for brutal, direct drives that sucked up metres, bruised tacklers, and led to his terrific try from No 8, which was as simple and brilliant as a perfectly thrown right cross to the jaw.
They love the Maori warrior motif in the Chiefs, and last night Messam was the living embodiment of the whole idea.
That type of commitment permeates this Chiefs team, and if Aaron Cruden was having a weird night with his boot, it didn't actually matter in the end.
Because, when the game hit the home straight, it was the Chiefs who had the petrol in the tank, while the Brumbies looked, guess what, like a side that had energy sucked out of them early in the game.
The sellout crowd got a final that deserves to be ranked as one of the greatest since 1996. Last year the Chiefs earned a terrific victory. But this year it feels they've started a rugby dynasty.
- Sunday Star Times
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Wellington musician Rodger Fox.
Two established Wellington bands will combine their drastically different musical styles in a concert that will tour New Zealand next month.
While the Rodger Fox Big Band is a jazz group and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra plays classical, they have merged their styles for a concert tour entitled Swing into Spring.
Musician Rodger Fox said this blend was so "historic" it was hard to pinpoint a genre.
NZSO The Rodger Fox Big Band are joining the NZ Symphony Orchestra for a concert tour.
"It's definitely contemporary, but without losing the elements of the symphony orchestra and the elements of the big band," he said.
Wellingtonians will have their chance to see the performance on Saturday, September 3, at the Michael Fowler Centre.
Both bands originate in the capital, but this will be the third stop on the tour after New Plymouth and Palmerston North.
The concert will be performed in 12 locations around the country.
Music will include altered arrangements of the New Zealand pop hits Wandering Eye and Royals, every song from the musical West Side Story, and a new piece based on the rebuilding of Christchurch called The Red Zone.
Fox invited United States trumpeter Allen Vizzutti to be the tour's special guest.
Vizzutti has performed with different bands in many countries and has also contributed to the film soundtracks of Back to the Future, Star Trek, and others.
Fox considered Vizzutti an ideal addition to the tour because of his skill playing both jazz and classical music.
"He's a phenomenal classic trumpet player and he's at home in playing jazz, which is somewhat unusual.
"You tend to be either jazz or classical at the level he's playing."
Vizzutti was also able to switch seamlessly between the two styles.
"One week he'll be playing symphony orchestra and be doing solo recitals with a piano accompanist and then the next he'll be up fronting a big band," Fox said.
βBefore leaving New Zealand, Vizzutti will host a workshop at the New Zealand School of Music on September 25.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/83687585/Concert-tour-combines-jazz-and-classical-with-Rodger-Fox-and-NZSO-hitting-the-road-together | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/6120fc3962c57cf990083eff1039ac23d26c9d98e6df58daffa542e87dea3738.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T08:50:55 | null | 2016-08-28T08:44:10 | Police search Northland home for gunman on the run since Friday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Fcrime%2F83646452%2FPolice-search-fails-to-uncover-armed-fugitive.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/g/u/h/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsu0k.png/1472373850955.jpg | en | null | Police search fails to uncover armed fugitive | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Police search fails to uncover armed fugitive
NZ POLICE Police are still looking for Joshua Kite.
A heavily armed man remains on the run in Northland.
Police and Armed Offenders Squad members failed to uncover Joshua Kite when they searched a house near Kaiwaka shortly before 8pm.
Kite has been on the run since Friday, when he crashed a car in Whangarei while being chased by police.
After firing a shot at two unarmed police officers with a "large calibre firearm", he took off in an unmarked police patrol vehicle.
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Police eventually located the vehicle abandoned on Bickerstaffe Rd in Maungaturoto, 60 kilometres south of Whangarei.
Earlier on Sunday a large police presence was reported in Warkworth, 40 kilometres further south of Kaiwaka.
Stuff readers reported at least 10 police cars, an ambulance and the Armed Offenders Squad rushed along State Highway 1 towards the township.
Brown Rd in Kaiwaka was cordoned off by police in relation to the search.
"The situation [in Kaiwaka] is contained at the address and at this stage there is not considered to be any risk to the wider public," a police spokesperson said.
Brown Rd resident Grant Stewart said that a police helicopter was flying "up and down above our road."
"You're always a bit on edge in this sort of situation, but we trust the guys in charge... We don't feel too at risk," he said.
Police warn Kite is armed and dangerous and should not be approached.
Anyone with information about where Kite may be is asked to contact police immediately.
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PETER DRURY/FAIRFAX NZ A North Island brown kiwi.
Kiwi are weird.
The bumbling flightless birds have long snouts with nostrils at the tip, they're nocturnal, and they smell a bit like mushrooms.
Now, a groundbreaking DNA study of more than 200 birds suggests there are more species than the recognised five types and 16, or 17, distinct genetic forebears.
RACHEL HAY/NIWA The Tasman Glacier, South Island. The study suggests kiwi diversified when they were cut off geographically by glaciers.
At least five, possibly six, of these genetic lineages are extinct species, the study says.
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FAIRFAX NZ A little spotted kiwi.
Research published in the the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences by the University of Toronto on kiwi DNA says the modern birds - genetically speaking - evolved more recently than previously thought.
A team led by University of Toronto Scarborough professor of biological sciences Jason Weir discovered that instead of the five known species, there are 11 types of birds alive now, with six species extinct.
Scientists in Canada worked alongside the Department of Conservation.
They have not concluded whether the 11 types represent separate species, or subspecies, but the lineages do represent separate populations.
"In the early 1990s only three species of kiwi were recognised. Genetic work by [New Zealander] Allan Baker extended this number to five species.
"Our work here built on these earlier studies but included a lot more individuals from throughout each species geographic range. Unlike earlier studies which relied on genetic evidence from a single genetic marker, our study used a genome-wide perspective by including approximately 6000 genetic markers.
"The key finding was a clear genetic signature that 11 distinct kiwi lineages were involved, as well as several additional extinct ones.
"While we do not yet know if these lineages represent distinct species, they do represent genetically unique sets of populations," Weir said.
Scientists think the different species evolved during a period of extreme glaciation, when the birds were cut off by advancing and retreating glaciers and ice sheets.
Earlier research appeared to show kiwi developed into different species before the Pleistocene ice age, which spanned eons from around 2.6 million years ago to 11,000 years ago.
Weir's DNA technique shows kiwi species experienced explosive genetic variation, evolving into species or subspecies, during the Pleistocene.
As ice caps and glaciers spread across New Zealand, the birds retreated to isolated regions where they evolved new characteristics and features over tens of thousands of year. As glaciers advanced and retreated these patterns of evolution repeated at least seven times over 800,000 years, the research says.
The study has implications for diversifying the conservation methods for kiwi management.
Te Papa research fellow Dr Lara Shepherd said the study was - so far - the most in-depth look at the genetic evolution of kiwi.
"By examining DNA sequences from kiwi across New Zealand, including from areas where kiwi are now extinct, the authors were able to show that there are 16 to 17 distinct genetic lineages of kiwi, far more than the five species currently recognised.
"This study highlights how much we still have to learn about New Zealand's animals and plants.
"If we are still finding new types of kiwi, one of our most iconic and well-funded birds, then how much of the diversity are we overlooking in under-studied groups?"
The Department of Conservation estimates the kiwi population at 68,000. The closest living relative is the elephant bird of Madagascar and the birds are also related to emus, cassowaries and the extinct New Zealand moa.
All five species - the brown kiwi, the great spotted kiwi, the little spotted kiwi, rowi, and tokoeka - are classed as threatened or at risk.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/83703329/DNA-study-says-there-may-be-11-kiwi-species-ancestors-driven-apart-by-glaciers | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/7ac565dfa9e021e03b506fc9a4d64a6cd89c8dd87c7878d95c4059a2452d64ab.json |
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Supplied Doctor has come out criticising chef Pete Evans for giving 'potentially deadly' diet advice.
Celebrity chef Pete Evans has been criticised for giving "astounding" and "potentially deadly" diet advice to his followers on social media, with one doctor taking to Facebook to remind Evans he isn't a trained health professional.
Dr Brad Robinson, a gynaecologist and obstetrician from Brisbane, penned an open letter to Evans after the chef advised a woman who said she has been diagnosed with osteoporosis to avoid dairy.
"I would strongly suggest removing dairy and eating the paleo way as calcium from dairy can remove the calcium from your bones," Evans wrote on his verified Chef Pete Evans Facebook page on August 21, in an exchange that appears to have been deleted.
Along with a link to his website The Paleo Way, Evans added: "...most doctors do not know this information."
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This advice was refuted by Dr Robinson, who was quick to remind Evans in an open letter: "You are a chef, NOT a doctor".
"[Y]ou are not someone who magically knows things that the sum total of generations of medical research has determined," Dr Robinson said.
"You do not have access to information that we uneducated doctors do not. Your astounding advice about osteoporosis would be amusing if it wasn't so potentially damaging to anyone at risk who actually believed you."
Dr Robinson said other advice given by Evans, including an apparent recommendation to cease the use of anti-cholesterol medication, was "potentially deadly".
"Can we make a deal?" Dr Robinson wrote.
"You don't give medical advice and I won't tell you how to best shuck oysters. Agreed?"
In response, Evans dug in his heels, responding on his Facebook that "food is medicine".
"The wisdom of crowds far outweighs the corruption and fear mongering of the media," Evans wrote.
The controversy is the second time in a month that doctors have criticised Evans, a judge on cooking show My Kitchen Rules, for giving health advice.
In July, Evans wrote in a similar question and answer session on Facebook that sunscreen was full of "poisonous chemicals" and people should think twice before using it.
This comment was criticised by Dr Tony Bartone, the vice-president of the Australian Medical Association, in advice that is perhaps evergreen.
"I wouldn't tell Pete Evans how to cook a chook," Dr Bartone said.
"We should all stick to our fields of expertise and leave medical treatment to appropriate medical professionals."
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Tim Brummel/YouTube When US dad Tim Brummel suspected his wife was pregnant, he rang the clinic, which confirmed his vasectomy procedure was unsuccessful.
"Surprise, you're pregnant!" These are not words many men get to say to their partner, especially not six months after they've had a vasectomy.
But that's how Tim Brummel broke the news to wife Rachel that they were expecting their fourth child.
The US dad had a vasectomy at a Florida clinic in December after he and his wife decided they were happy being parents to their three boys.
Tim Brummel/YouTube Tim Brummel did a secret pregnancy test for his wife, which turned out positive.
But in recent weeks Tim noticed Rachel was experiencing early pregnancy symptoms such as tiredness, increased hunger and some nausea.
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Rachel's symptoms prompted Tim to think about the vasectomy, and he realised he had never received results stating the procedure had been successful.
Tim Brummel/YouTube It's not every day a man gets to tell his wife she is pregnant.
Tim told People he went for a routine follow-up examination five months after the procedure to make sure "there were no more swimmers still swimming around".
"I never got my results back, so I figured no news was good news," Tim said.
"But when Rachel began showing signs of pregnancy in July, I called the clinic who said that one side was unsuccessfully clipped.
"We're definitely not upset, we had wanted to grow our family through adoption anyway. It's a little unprofessional not to let us know, but those [procedures] aren't perfect, so I don't fault them for not working."
Rather than tell his wife about the failed operation, Tim decided to confirm her pregnancy himself first.
"How many guys get the chance to tell their wife she is pregnant? I wanted to surprise her!" he told People. "I turned off the toilet water in the middle of the night and flushed so there was no water in it."
"And the test came back positive!"
After Tim confirmed he and Rachel were expecting another baby, he surprised his wife with the news and captured the emotional moment on video.
"I'm not quite sure if I really believe you," a surprised Rachel says in the video, which has been viewed more than 156,000 times since it was posted on YouTube on August 19.
The couple kept the news a secret until they were able to find out their baby's sex, before revealing they are expecting a boy.
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JOSUE DECAVELE/REUTERS Zika virus is transmitted through bites from the same kind of mosquitoes that can spread other tropical diseases, like dengue fever, chikungunya and yellow fever.
Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus, local media reported on Sunday, citing the city-state's health ministry.
The cases include 36 foreign construction workers employed at a site in Aljunied, in the southeast of the island, the Straits Times newspaper and Channel News Asia television reported.
On Saturday, the health ministry confirmed Singapore's first case of a local transmission of the virus, which in Brazil has been linked to microcephaly, a rare birth defect.
That case was also in the Aljunied area.
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Authorities have tested 124 people, primarily construction workers.
Seventy-eight have tested negative and five cases are pending, the reports said. In all, 34 patients have fully recovered.
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[] | 2016-08-28T06:50:53 | null | 2016-08-28T06:47:40 | When the Obamas leave the White House in January, we will not just be losing a respected leader in the president, but in the first lady as well. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Famericas%2F83648442%2FHow-Michelle-Obama-got-the-job-of-being-first-lady-so-right.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/v/n/b/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsvju.png/1472366861245.jpg | en | null | How Michelle Obama got the job of being first lady so right | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | How Michelle Obama got the job of being first lady so right
AAP Michelle and Barack Obama dance at the Inaugural Ball, 2009.
When Michelle Obama took to the stage at the recent Democratic National Convention, she reminded millions of people in America and around the world that when the Obamas leave the White House in January, we will not just be losing a respected leader in the president, but in the first lady as well.
The 52-year-old's speech was a genuine show-stopper - forceful, authentic, dignified and full of heart, just like her. "Our motto is, when they go low, we go high," she said of her husband's critics, staring down the camera.
The speech came during a period of bitter partisan division in America. But instead of responding in kind to the ugly and juvenile rhetoric of Republican candidate Donald Trump, she elevated the tone by expressing an enduring optimism about the American dream - in a way that only a woman with her extraordinary life story could have.
GETTY IMAGES In a Narciso Rodriguez dress at the State of the Union Address, January, 2016.
"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," she said. "And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, young black women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn ... so don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great!"
That exhilarating moment, and the awareness that the family's time in the White House is drawing to a close, has brought the proud legacy of Michelle Obama into focus.
With her approval rating in America fluctuating at between 60 and 80 per cent, it is hard to imagine she was once greeted with scepticism, even hostility, by some in the public.
GETTY IMAGES To meet the Queen, 2009. "You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater," griped Oscar de la Renta. Wrong. Suddenly the humble cardie was deemed chic.
While many people immediately warmed to this funny, sharp, politically astute woman - as much a product of her working-class upbringing in Chicago's predominantly black South Side as she was of her dual Ivy League degrees - others were unsure what to make of Michelle at first.
Racist stereotypes were evident in the way she was portrayed in parts of the media. A remark that her husband's 2008 campaign was the "first time" she had been "proud of my country" was seized on as evidence she was un-American, while jabs about Barack's domestic shortcomings were twisted to paint her as an "angry black woman".
According to Peter Slevin, author of Michelle Obama: A Life, the criticism and its potential effect on her husband's campaign concerned her.
"It rattled her, but she is supremely disciplined and focused, and she rebounded," he tells Sunday Life.
"Aides call her the most strategic person they've ever met. In telling stories about her working-class upbringing and the obstacles she faced, particularly as a black woman, she came across as authentic."
Once in the White House, conscious of the scrutiny she faced but determined to use her time effectively, she walked the line between fulfilling the expectations of a very antiquated role and remaining true to her values.
Funny, sharp, politically astute, she's as much a product of her working-class upbringing as her dual Ivy League degrees.
She became a globe-trotting advocate for education who used Snapchat and rapped with Missy Elliot on Carpool Karaoke; a proud feminist who was also a fashion icon; a fierce political surrogate for her husband while being America's devoted "mom in chief". Most would agree she walked this line effectively, and rarely put a step wrong.
She has been a warmer and more energetic figure than most in political life, but rigidly disciplined in the face of intense scrutiny. Her appeal transcends the political and racial divide, but her tenure has been particularly meaningful for black women, making "many of us feel more comfortable in our skin," as Alicia Garza, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, told the BBC.
Michelle's deep devotion to her two daughters and husband has been central to her public persona, but she has always projected a strong sense of her own identity and strength, too.
Her marriage to Barack is a partnership of equals, imbued with mutual adoration and respect, buoyed by the odd ribbing of each other in public and even a little public flirtation.
"Watching my husband walk off of [the presidential helicopter] Marine One and go to the Oval Office, it's like, mmm, mmm, mmm," she told Oprah Winfrey recently in an interview, describing him as "swagalicious".
But despite being one half of a modern marriage to a self-declared feminist man, Michelle has nonetheless inhabited a very traditional role, putting her own distinguished career - which includes stints as an attorney after attending Harvard Law School, and in public service - on hold.
Liza Mundy, who wrote Michelle: A Biography, tells Sunday Life she does not think Michelle had been able to transform the role itself.
"I think in her own contemporary way, she fulfilled the very old-fashioned mission of a first lady, which is to provide sort of comfort and domestic succour to the president," says Mundy.
"The public sense is that she has inhabited the role comfortably and happily and made her peace with it."
Michelle has nevertheless used her time strategically, becoming an effective advocate on social issues that are simpatico with her maternal image but that also, in Slevin's view, are "grounded in her lifelong understandings of inequalities in race, class and gender".
Michelle has advocated for the education of girls throughout the world with the "Let Girls Learn" campaign, for military families, and championed the fight against childhood obesity by promoting healthy eating and exercise with the "Let's Move" initiative.
Though attention focused on the footage of her hula-hooping at the White House, the news website Politico reports the campaign involved plenty of lobbying of fast-food corporations and successfully "transformed the American food landscape in ways considerably deeper than the public appreciates".
Despite her effectiveness and celebrity status, this hugely capable woman has had to hold much of herself back. "When your husband's the president of the United States and you have children, something's gotta give," Michelle told Winfrey.
There is some mystery about what will come next for Michelle. We know the Obamas will vacate the White House in January, but will stay in Washington DC for a few years to allow their younger daughter, Sasha, to finish high school. Michelle is working on a memoir, according to Slevin, and tells anyone who asks that she is relishing some privacy.
"I want to open my front door, without discussing it with anyone, and I want to walk out that front door, and just walk," she told Winfrey.
Her speech to the Democratic Convention supercharged discussion that she too might run for office - even for president - but Michelle has rejected the idea. However, she says she plans to continue her advocacy in an "unbiased way".
"She is in great demand among Democratic candidates, and she will campaign for them and raise money for them this year," says Slevin. "But elective politics is most definitely not her thing."
Michelle told Winfrey that the key to managing the accommodations she has made was reminding herself that life is long, and runs in phases: "If you're compromising through one phase of your journey, you're not giving it all up ... there's another phase that's coming up."
Though her departure from the White House will be lamented, her many admirers note that she will now be even freer to be herself. No wonder they're looking forward to Michelle Obama's next phase.
This article originally appeared in Sunday Life magazine.
- Sydney Morning Herald | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/83648442/How-Michelle-Obama-got-the-job-of-being-first-lady-so-right | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/8d56593667b278bd446d30f9bab5a8ff97c8db897f788044576960d44d45f7d0.json |
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JASON DORDAY/FAIRFAX NZ About 45 young models took part in the Kids Show at New Zealand Fashion Week.
There were tears and tantrums backstage, but the promise of Denny's made sure young models put forward their best blue steel pose on the catwalk.
The children, aged between two and 10, strutted their stuff on the runway at the Kids Show at New Zealand Fashion Week on Saturday.
Designer Lucy Wildman said despite the odd backstage meltdown, the kids created a "high energy, fun show".
JASON DORDAY/FAIRFAX NZ Chloe Meier, 11 months has a look around before the start of the show.
Encouraged to flaunt their personalities, the young models took to the runway with skateboards, bikes, mountain buggies, and the odd parent.
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Some of the top kids' brands designers included Little Flock of Horrors, Hello Stranger and Radicool Kids.
JASON DORDAY/FAIRFAX NZ One of the young models lost a shoe on the runway.
And the models - about 45 - were sourced from families and friends.
Former model Anna Reeve and her ZM radio host husband Jay Reeve walked their social media sensation twins, know as the 'Nuggets', down the catwalk for Little Flock of Horrors.
Wildman, the brand's designer, said her own children, aged 5 and 7, have been modelling since Little Flock of Horrors began four years ago.
JASON DORDAY/FAIRFAX NZ Parents lined the catwalk to catch a glimpse of the young models during the "high energy" show.
"We've got them trained up pretty well - you just have to say 'photo face' and they turn all blue steel," she said.
They were in the show too, with the "bribe of Denny's afterwards" to ensure best behaviour.
Wildman explained that kids fashion shows have a rather different backstage vibe than adult shows.
JASON DORDAY/FAIRFAX NZ Blue steel poses were the name of the game on the runway.
"Little kids turn into limp fishes backstage - they need someone to pull of each sock, which gets a bit hectic when you've got to get a 4-year-old into four different outfits in 10 minutes," she said.
"I also brought a suitcase full of caramel popcorn, chocolates and juice boxes to keep them occupied behind the scenes."
The kids fashion show is in its third year, and is the only one of its kind in New Zealand.
JASON DORDAY/FAIRFAX NZ Parents were part of the accessories on the catwalk.
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REUTERS Colin Kaepernick's decision to not stand for the US anthem in protest of oppression of minorities has brought race relations discussions to the fore.
From the White House to San Francisco police union headquarters, Colin Kaepernick's name came up as his decision to sit down during the US anthem reached far beyond the NFL.
And many aren't thrilled with the San Francisco quarterback's strong words about why he is doing it: To instigate change and challenge authority when it comes to race relations and what he considers police brutality.
Even his former coach, outspoken University of Michigan leader Jim Harbaugh, chimed in from afar in disagreement with Kaepernick's tactics - clarifying some earlier remarks that questioned the quarterback's motivation.
"I apologize (sic) for misspeaking my true sentiments. To clarify, I support Colin's motivation. It's his method of action that I take exception to," Harbaugh posted on Twitter.
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A day after Kaepernick called Donald Trump "openly racist," the Republican presidential candidate fired back on Seattle's KIRO radio.
"I have followed it, and I think it's personally not a good thing. I think it's a terrible thing," Trump said. "And you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try, it won't happen."
Kaepernick, who has sat through the anthem for all three 49ers preseason games so far, is prepared to keep fighting for what he believes in, even alone.
"The fact that it has blown up like this, it's a good thing. It brings awareness," Kaepernick said on Sunday. "Now, people are really talking about it. Having conversations about how to make change. What's really going on in this country. And we can move forward. ... There is police brutality. People of colour have been targeted by police."
Martin Halloran, the San Francisco Police Officers Association president, sent a letter on Monday to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and 49ers CEO Jed York denouncing Kaepernick's "ill-advised" statements and a "naivete" and "total lack of sensitivity" toward police, along with an "incredible lack of knowledge" about officer-involved shootings.
"There is some depth and some truth to what he was doing," Seahawks star Richard Sherman said of Kaepernick. "He could have picked a better platform and a better way to do it, but every day they say athletes are so robotic and do everything by the book, and then when somebody takes a stand like that, he gets his head chopped off."
The police union invited Kaepernick or anyone else from the league to visit the San Francisco police academy to build communication and understanding about the profession.
"In short, Mr Kaepernick has embarrassed himself, the 49er organisation, and the NFL based on a false narrative and misinformation that lacks any factual basis."
At the US Open tennis in New York, top-ranked American John Isner spoke of Kaepernick after winning his first-round match.
"I thought that was pathetic from him. The cause he was going for, fine by me - but don't do it in that fashion," Isner said. "For him doing it in that way really irked me. I'm a big Blaine Gabbert fan now."
Gabbert and Kaepernick are competing to be San Francisco's starting quarterback.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he was confident President Barack Obama was aware of Kaepernick's actions, but hadn't spoken directly with the president about it.
"In general, what I can say is that I certainly don't share the views that Mr Kaepernick expressed after the game in explaining his reasoning for his actions, but we surely would all acknowledge and even defend his right to express those views in the settings that he chooses," Earnest said. "That's what he's done, and even as objectionable as we find his perspective, he certainly is entitled to express it."
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[] | 2016-08-29T22:52:05 | null | 2016-08-29T22:09:16 | He paid $130m for Trump's mansion; now a Russian billionaire is tearing it down. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Flife-style%2Fhome-property%2F83699879%2FTrumps-former-130m-Palm-Beach-mansion-now-being-demolished.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/t/z/v/l/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtz8n.png/1472508557018.jpg | en | null | Trump's former $130m Palm Beach mansion now being demolished | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Trump's former $130m Palm Beach mansion now being demolished
THEMOSTEXPENSIVEHOMES.COM Maison de l'Amitie, formerly owned by Donald Trump and sold for $95m in 2008, is now being demolished by its Russian billionaire owner.
In 2008, Donald Trump sold a Palm Beach, Florida, estate for US$95 million (NZ131m), making it the most expensive single residential property ever sold in town. Now the property is about to set another record β as Palm Beach's most expensive tear-down.
Backhoe loaders and dump trucks have started crushing and carting away the 5736 square-metre French provincial home on the 2.4ha beachfront estate known as Mason de l'Amitie.
Also coming down is 7618 square-metre tennis house, a pool house and a carriage house. While such tear-downs have become common in Palm Beach and other high-end resort towns, the demolition of this famous estate represents a new level of disposable wealth.
Bought by Trump in 2004 for $41 million, the residence has featured as one of the top ten most expensive homes in the world. It has sat empty since the sale to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev β a monument to the housing bubble and to Trump's salesmanship.
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Locals are asking what will come next for one of Palm Beach's biggest white elephants, and whether its value can ever reach its 2008 record price?
According to town planning documents, the owner plans to split the property into three parcels that will be sold. Last week, the Palm Beach Town Council approved a proposal to subdivide the property. It's unclear when the properties will be listed. Brokers say each parcel, at around 2 acres, would have to sell for $35 million to $40 million for the owner to make a profit.
"It's an aggressive price," says Gary Pohrer, a real estate agent in Palm Beach. "It's possible. But it could take a long time."
When Trump bought the property at auction following a bankruptcy sale, he topped at least two other bidders with his offer of $41.35 million. After the sale, he told The Palm Beach Daily News that he would turn the estate into the "second-greatest house in America," after his Mar-a-Lago home down the road. He would then sell it to "create terrific value".
Trump put the home on the market in 2006 for $125 million, making it the most expensive listing in America at the time. When no buyers emerged and Trump replaced several brokers, he trimmed the price to $120 million, eventually selling to the current owner.
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GETTY Taylor Swift and Kanye West - will there be even more bad blood after this?
Kanye West has held a 'secret' art exhibit in LA to show off the very life-like replicas of celebrities, which included Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, George Bush and Bill Cosby from his latest music video for the song Famous.
All wax celebrity replicas are naked.
TSwift laid on her back alongside Kanye, while Kim Kardashian West - turned on her tummy to display her famous behind, was placed on the other side.
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So...Kanye West held a private viewing of the Famous set. This shit is creepy as fuck. #chrisbrown#taylorswift#kanyewest#kimkardashian#wax#famous#music#video#husband#wife#makeup#likelikelike#donaldtrump#rihanna#body#gross#wtf#damn#lmfao#eww#billcosby#naked#follow#gaining#gaintrain#caitlynjenner#fuck A photo posted by David ValencΓago (@d_ciago) on Aug 27, 2016 at 8:29am PDT
At the opening event, Kim tweeted photos of herself - together with sister Kendall Jenner - checking out her own replica as well as others.
Kim at the private exhibition of "Famous" by #KanyeWest last night in LA. (8/26/16) A photo posted by Kim, Kanye, North & Saint West (@bound2west) on Aug 27, 2016 at 2:20pm PDT
Will this add more fuel to the feud fire? Taylor was furious when she saw the music video - this may feel like round 2 of the attack.
The video is said to be inspired by Vincent Desiderio's painting Sleep.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:59 | null | null | Stamping out the feel-good factor around new Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie is the All Blacks early focus as they brace for a tough Rugby Championship opener in Sydney. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2Fall-blacks%2F9027531%2FAll-Blacks-aim-to-end-McKenzie-feel-good-factor.json | en | null | All Blacks aim to end McKenzie feel-good factor | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | All Blacks aim to end McKenzie feel-good factor TOBY ROBSON
Stamping out the feel-good factor around new Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie is the All Blacks early focus as they brace for a tough Rugby Championship opener in Sydney.
The All Blacks believe McKenzie's arrival will give their trans-Tasman rivals a major boost this season and particularly during his first match in charge.
"You only have to look back to when they had Robbie Deans in his first test - they gave us a good touch-up," All Black centre Conrad Smith said.
"We have to expect the same. It brings a big fizz and it brings a whole new energy about it. They'll have the feeling they are going to create something new with a new coach so we've just got to expect that and deal with it."
Deans ended his six-year tenure as Australia coach with a poor record of three wins from 18 tests against New Zealand, but in his first match conjured a comprehensive 34-19 win in Sydney.
That was before All Blacks No 8 Kieran Read's time, but he echoed Smith's sentiments when asked what he expected from the McKenzie coached Wallabies.
"You look at the Aussies and they've played some test matches at a very high intensity [against the Lions]. So you look at where they've come from and you have to think they will be pretty primed.
"Then the circumstances around the new coach will have them excited, and give them that little bit of extra confidence.
"Its our job to go over there and try and smack that out of them pretty early." While Australia became a bit of a known quantity during the Deans reign, the All Blacks coaching staff are wary of innovations McKenzie might bring.
Smith said changing from year to year had become a major weapon in the modern game, when teams met so regularly.
"I look back to when the South African team were dominating us in 2009, and then suddenly in 2010 it was a whole different psyche, and I think they'll [Australia] approach this year in the same way.
"Last year we went really well but you have to change your game. If you try and play the same stuff and do the same things other teams will pass you by.
"We've looked at the competition this year and we think both Australia and South Africa will be better than last year. It's the old thing that if you stand still you will get overtaken, so we will keep trying things.
"It's hard sometimes. The easy option is to keep doing what you are doing, but we have to make a few mistakes to go forward and try a few things and take a few risks and that's what we are doing."
McKenzie has quickly named eight new caps in his 30-man squad and recalled mercurial Queensland first-five Quade Cooper. He's also signalled an intention to change Australia's fortunes at scrum time by dropping veteran Benn Robinson and opting instead for the mobile pair of Scott Sio and James Slipper.
The scrum has been a major focal point for both camps, with the All Blacks discovering plenty of issues during their first full hit-out under new rules designed to lessen the impact on engagement.
Read noticed the ball arrived at the back of the scrum more slowly and sometimes down a different channel than he was used to during Friday's training match against Wellington and a Cantabrians XV.
Of the three injuries picked up by the All Blacks during that match - to Julian Savea, Steven Luatua and Francis Saili - midfielder Saili's is the most serious.
And though prop Wyatt Crockett is unlikely to be available for the first test of the Rugby Championship, second five-eighth Ma'a Nonu (ankle) is expected to be fit.
- Sunday Star Times
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ANDREW CORNAGA/PHOTOSPORT Auckland Coach Nick White
Eden Park hosts the NPC second round clash between Auckland and Northland.
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[] | 2016-08-31T02:52:20 | null | 2016-08-31T02:26:05 | MakingΒ Chasing GreatΒ didn't distract Richie McCaw from the task of winning his second World Cup, he says. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fentertainment%2Ffilm%2F83756564%2FFilming-Chasing-Great-didn-t-distract-Richie-McCaw-from-winning-World-Cup.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/7/8/9/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dv6z8.png/1472610369300.jpg | en | null | Filming Chasing Great didn't distract Richie McCaw from winning World Cup | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Filming Chasing Great didn't distract Richie McCaw from winning World Cup
Chris Skelton/FAIRFAX NZ Former All Black Richie McCaw talks to the media about the film Chasing Great.
Filming Chasing Great didn't distract Richie McCaw from the task of winning his second world cup, he says.
In a press conference on Wednesday, McCaw said making the film had no impact on his performance in England last year.
"There's no way I would have even considered doing it if I thought it was going to have any impact at all on my form or my other duties," the former All Blacks captain said.
Chris Skelton/FAIRFAX NZ Former All Black Richie McCaw during a press conference about the film Chasing Great.
He said co-directors Michelle Walshe and Justin Pemberton had been good at making sure he wasn't distracted by their filming.
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Walshe, who had worked with the All Blacks for several years, said she'd been careful not to overstep the line.
"I trusted [McCaw] that he'd let me know when it was okay to shoot," she said.
Pemberton said there was almost no chance of distracting McCaw because he was focused on winning the cup.
Walshe said that from the start of the film she and Pemberton wanted to make an "accurate portrayal" of the All Blacks legend.
They ended up focusing on the mental demands of being a professional rugby player because they thought most people could relate to that aspect of McCaw's career.
"As Richie talks about, the mental side of playing rugby was as much or even more of a toll on him than the physical. That's one of the big surprises that I'd certainly not known, and the amount of work that goes onto that," Pemberton said.
"It becomes almost an addiction in a way, to push yourself, but that's not sustainable for a life."
Walshe said that had resonated with her, particularly as she was working on such a high-profile project.
"It resonated so much with us because we could apply it to our own lives, and we saw such a huge value for people watching the film to go, I can relate to that. There are so many things that go through my head now that I've taken out of the film."
McCaw said his friends and family had responded well to the film when they saw it at the premiere on Tuesday night, although he had been embarrassed about the scenes of him doing crosswords.
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[] | 2016-08-27T18:50:38 | null | 2016-08-27T18:23:59 | OPINION: The 'All Blacks' sevens team played joyless rugby and Rio was an embarrassment, says Mark Reason. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2Fopinion%2F83589182%2FMark-Reason-Its-time-for-Gordon-Tietjens-to-go-but-NZR-must-also-share-blame-for-sevens-debacle.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/q/p/q/a/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1drltq.png/1472322242906.jpg | en | null | Mark Reason: It's time for Gordon Tietjens to go but NZR must also share blame for sevens debacle | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Mark Reason: It's time for Gordon Tietjens to go but NZR must also share blame for sevens debacle
GETTY IMAGES RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 11: Gordon Tietjens, coach of New Zealand looks on after the Men's Rugby Sevens placing 5-6 match between New Zealand and Argentina on Day 6 of the Rio 2016 Olympics at Deodoro Stadium on August 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
OPINION: What happened to the joy? The All Blacks look to be having fun. The Hurricanes, the Chiefs and the Highlanders have had a ball this year. So why did Sir Gordon Tietjens' sevens team look like they were sucking on lemons? Where did all the good times go?
New Zealand Rugby were having various meetings last week and this question should be near the top of the list. Sevens has almost been airbrushed out of the national picture since the Rio disaster, when it should be what everyone is talking about. It is in Fiji.
The Rio sevens were the unexpected success story of the Olympics. Even the American media got involved, But for New Zealand, and especially the men's team, the competition was an embarrassment. Quite a few people sniggered when Japan beat South Africa at the World Cup, but the joke suddenly wasn't so funny when they did the same to the 'All Blacks' sevens team.
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Some people wanted to remove the All Blacks moniker from association with sevens. They wanted to pretend it hadn't happened when what we really need to do is recognise the importance of sevens to New Zealand's kids, to our women and to the history of the All Blacks. Jonah Lomu would never have stunned the world at the 1995 World Cup without making his name at sevens.
So looking back on Rio we should see a string of broken promises and demand better of this country's rugby administration. Where was Damian McKenzie, where was Beauden Barrett, where was Julian and Ardie Savea, where was Ben Smith, where were all this country's song and dance men when we should have been putting on a show for the world?
Steve Tew promised us, "We've said we will pick the best team possible to win a gold in Rio."
Did you see that happen?
Steve Hansen said that Tietjens "will have a plan with what he wants to do and we've got to support that."
Did you see that happen?
Right now we should be getting answers as to what went so catastrophically wrong. NZR should be appointing a coach for the future and promising that they will hand over players to the sevens programme at the end of the 2019 World Cup.
So far all I have heard is Tietjens' excuse that New Zealand lost because it didn't have a centralised programme. Cue centralised laughter. Leaving aside the fact that the Great Britain squad had to merge the English core with players from Scotland and Wales at the last minute, let's take a look at Fiji's 'centralised programme'.
When Ben Ryan was appointed coach of Fiji in 2013, his pay packet mysteriously never materialised. So for the first few months he paid his own way. He also paid for the petrol for the team bus. In 2014 Fiji's players weren't under contract and were all working jobs because they weren't being paid.
Ryan said, "There was no point in my kicking up a fuss. I'd agreed to something, and I was going to keep to my word. We didn't have any resources at home for the basics of running things, like bottled water, petrol to get us to training, rugby balls or any expenses for the players. Staff were let go as well."
What Fiji did have was centralised poverty. Its funding had been suspended by World Rugby. And after the prime minister had finally made some money available ahead of the Olympics, the country was hit by cyclone Winston. The islands were devastated by 295 km winds. Forty-four people lost their lives. Some players were left homeless.
So when Sir Gordon points to the lack of a centralised programme as the cause of New Zealand's demise, it is hard not to wonder if he has lost the plot. The man has done great things for New Zealand sevens.
Bernard Lapasset credited Tietjens as the inspiration behind rugby's return to the Olympics. His teams have won four Commonwealth gold medals. He has set the standard for two generations of All Blacks.
And now his contract and his time is up.
Tietjens failed to provide an environment that the likes of Ardie Savea were desperate to stay in. He gambled on an attritional style of rugby and his team were run off their feet. His legendary fitness methods contributed to the type of fatigue that leads to bodies snapping under stress.
In April last year Julian Savea said he was "really keen" to go to the Olympics.
What happened? He could have done a Lomu. 20 years ago I think Tietjens would have embraced him. He would have made playing sevens part of a fun education. Savea could have found some purpose in his life.
He could have found some joy in Rio.
Instead, like so many, he did not go. Tew said he offered Ben Smith to Tietjens at the end of June but Tietjens didn't want him. He didn't want Kurt Baker, either, even though Baker had played more sevens minutes this year than anyone.
Tietjens, having run Baker into the ground, said he was compromised by injury. Baker said, "I felt quite used."
Tietjens says the pressure was too much for his young players. It didn't used to be, not for Jonah, or Christian Cullen or Cory Jane or even Julian Savea. New Zealand used to play with a smile on its face. Where did that smile go?
Hansen says "We've just got to make sure we don't paper over things - we've got to look at it honestly and genuinely as a rugby-playing group, the sevens, the All Blacks and the rugby union itself, and see how we can do it better because it's an opportunity to showcase rugby from New Zealand."
Somewhere in Fiji an 80-year-old man is walking eight hours to a training session so that he can shake the hand of a red-haired, bespectacled Englishman.
This is the team that played together and prayed together. Fiji has much to teach us about joy, faith and humility. That's how we can do it better.
- Sunday Star Times | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/opinion/83589182/Mark-Reason-Its-time-for-Gordon-Tietjens-to-go-but-NZR-must-also-share-blame-for-sevens-debacle | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/106ffde1f495b86c904605b5c1bcf3cf1074c0fb37d6c67a45284c647774723c.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:52:11 | null | 2016-08-31T02:29:19 | Waikato may seek replacements for James Tucker after his season-ending knee injury. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2Fprovincial%2F83757772%2FJames-Tuckers-injury-a-massive-blow-as-Waikato-consider-cover-options-for-NPC.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/a/h/j/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dv7ws.png/1472610559575.jpg | en | null | James Tucker's injury a 'massive blow' as Waikato consider cover options for NPC | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | James Tucker's injury a 'massive blow' as Waikato consider cover options for NPC
Bruce Lim Waikato are considering cover options after James Tucker suffered a serious knee injury.
We haven't seen the last of James Tucker.
The 22-year-old forward suffered a season-ending knee last Saturday, as Waikato defended the Ranfurly Shield with a 26-15 win over North Harbour.
But Waikato's forwards coach, Carl Hoeft, says Tucker's character will see him come back stronger.
This year was Tucker's first playing Super Rugby for the Chiefs, but it ended with him struggling with a hernia problem.
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And after starting Waikato's opening two matches at blindside flanker in the national provincial championship, Tucker's year is over after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
"James had been playing really well for us. We've moved him to six [from lock] and he'd been showing really great performances there," said Hoeft.
"So it's a massive blow, not only for us but for himself. He's had a couple of years of injury, so we wish him all the best and I'm sure we haven't seen the last of James because he's that sort of character. He's competitive and he wants to do well."
Tucker's absence leaves Waikato considering a move to boost their back row, which may see Tucker's older brother, Brad, join the squad.
Adam Burn has missed the first two weeks of NPC with a knee injury, but he's back in contention for another defence of the shield against Manawatu in Hamilton on Sunday.
Whetu Douglas, who replaced Tucker against Harbour, could be recalled to the starting XV.
Murray Iti and Jordan Manihera started at openside flanker and No 8 respectively, with Mitch Jacobson and Leva Fifita also in the mix.
Jake Ale could be called up from the wider training squad.
Captain Stephen Donald is still sidelined with a lat injury, while fullback Shaun Stevenson is running at training, as he recovers from the knee injury he picked up in the opening round loss to Tasman.
Damian McKenzie is back with the squad after spending a week with the All Blacks, for the second Bledisloe Cup test with the Wallabies in Wellington. Anton Lienert-Brown and Tawera Kerr-Barlow remain unavailable.
The All Blacks squad will reassemble on September 4 in Hamilton for the Argentina test.
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123RF For five agonising minutes, a US woman fought to keep her toddler above water until a relative pulled him onto the boat back to safety.
Chelsey Russell was enjoying a pleasant day out on a family boat trip when she heard a scream and a splash.
Her two-year-old son had slipped off their houseboat and into the waters of Lake Powell.
The 35-year-old mother of two from Lakewood, Colorado, jumped in to rescue her son.
For five agonising minutes, she fought to keep her toddler above water until a relative pulled him onto the boat back to safety.
But by that point, Russell was unconscious.
She was pulled from the water and rushed to shore at the nearby marina, where bystanders and officials performed CPR Tuesday afternoon.
After about 30 minutes, they determined they couldn't save the woman who just rescued her son.
Officials with Glen Canyon National Recreation Area said the boy was in stable condition and flown to a hospital about 322km away in Flagstaff, Arizona, as a precaution.
The houseboat had been travelling about 13kph towards shore when the boy, playing with another child, somehow lost his balance, said San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge.
After Russell jumped in, her brother stopped the boat and hopped in after his sister, leaving Russell's mother and at least one other child aboard.
The boat had kept moving after Russell went in and the man realised he was too far away from her and the child, Eldredge said. So he returned to the vessel to retrieve a motorboat they had been towing. The knots tethering it were so tight that he had to cut them with a knife.
Russell was in the water for at least five minutes before her brother could reach them and take the conscious toddler from her chest. Throughout that time, she kept her son above water, her family told authorities.
"She was holding the baby out of the water the best that she could," Eldredge said.
The sheriff said neither Russell nor her son wore life jackets. They are required for boaters under 12, according to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
"There are no words to convey the tragedy of losing a loved one like this," Teri Tucker, acting superintendent for the recreation area, said in a statement. "Our hearts are with the family and friends of the victims during this time of unexpected pain and loss."
Russell's co-workers at a Denver law firm remembered her as a "superstar" attorney, mother and marathon runner who competed in a 160km race last year.
"She was a talented lawyer, loved by everyone in this firm," attorney Keith Tooley said Friday.
"She was just a rockstar here. Her passing has just crushed us all."
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MARTY MELVILLE / PHOTOSPORT New Zealand's Nick Willis will press on to Tokyo in 2020 after winning his second Olympic medal in Rio.
Double Olympic 1500m medallist Nick Willis has already switched focus to Tokyo in a bid to contest a remarkable fifth Olympic Games.
Fresh from snaring a bronze medal in the blue riband event in Rio, New Zealand's top middle distance runner confirmed Tokyo was in his sights in 2020 when he'll be 37.
Speaking from his base in Michigan, Willis told Radio Live he was committing to another four year Olympic campaign.
DOMINIC EBENBICHLER/REUTERS Matthew Centrowitz of USA wins the Olympic 1500m final ahead of Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria and Nick Willis of New Zealand.
However, while he plans to stick with the 1500m event for next year's world championships and the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, he said a switch to the 5000m for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was in line.
"It might also be interesting to give another distance a crack down the line, but still stick with the 1500m for the next couple of years," he said.
"But I think my best hope for another podium chance would be in the longer distance in four years time."
DYLAN MARTINEZ/REUTERS Something to shout about: Nick Willis, right, claims Olympic bronze in Rio behind silver medalist Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria and gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz of USA.
Earlier, Willis announced his plans on Twitter.
"Committing to another 4 year Olympic campaign. Likely 1500m in 2017, 1500/5000 in '18, then focus on the 5000m for Tokyo," Willis posted on Twitter from his US base, adding he was hanging up the spikes for the rest of the current season.
The 33-year-old Wellington-raised athlete became the oldest male Olympic 1500m medallist in Rio when he finished third to American Matt Centrowitz and defending champion Taoufik Makhloufi from Algeria.
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It added to his silver from Beijing eight years earlier, as he became the first New Zealander to win more than one Olympic 1500m medal and elevated his name alongside champions Peter Snell, Jack Lovelock and John Walker.
"It's more just a satisfying 'yeah, I proved to myself I still had it in me'," Willis said in Rio. "You're never quite sure when you start getting greys in your hair, but I guess I still do."
Willis hinted at a move to the longer distance when contesting the 1500m and 5000m at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014, and looks likely to attempt both on the Gold Coast in 2018 before switching focus solely to the longer distance.
Committing to another 4 year Olympic campaign. Likely 1500m in 2017, 1500/5000 in '18, then focus on the 5000m for Tokyo β Nick Willis (@nickwillis) August 27, 2016
Athletics New Zealand high performance director Scott Goodman said last week he was confident Willis would continue to lead the middle-distance programme.
"He's a fulltime pro, he makes good money running in the US and through other opportunities, and if he can manage the lifestyle he wants to keep on going," Goodman said.
There was another potential factor that would lengthen Willis' career, Goodman said.
"The serious efforts now to drug test in Ethiopia and Kenya and some of those countries are helping him because some athletes who supposedly had a cloud over them are now not running so well because they are being scrutinised.
"Unfortunately it may be a bit late in his career but it might allow him to keep going a bit longer because he's getting cleaner opposition."
Willis has been a vocal campaigner against alleged doping among his middle distance rivals, and again blasted the ante-doping system.
"I don't think anybody should be confident about anyone, I don't think people should be confident about me, and the reason for that is because the system is corrupt," he said when asked if he was confident the gold and silver medallists from the 1500m race in Rio were clean.
"There has been absolutely no proof that the people at the highest point have any desire to really make a difference, a lot of it seems to be for show," he added.
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Dean Kozanic/Fairfax NZ MATT TODD: The openside flanker is just one of a number of Super Rugby stars and All Blacks defending champions Canterbury will field in the NPC. Relevant offers
Todd Blackadder was a raw Canterbury kid marking Waikato captain John Mitchell in 1992.
OPINION: "John just turned around," Blackadder recalls, "and gave me a good whack straight in the side of the head and said, βwelcome to the first division son'."
The brutality has been toned down, but the learning curve in what is now the NPC remains very much the same.
There is just no substitute for the experience rookies gain playing with and against veterans, especially veterans with international experience.
Club rugby doesn't provide it any more, because star players now largely sidestep club play, going straight from first XV rugby to academies, to a provincial team.
As controversial as rotation in the All Blacks became, a worthwhile byproduct is, despite the flow of talent to Japan and Europe, the number of All Blacks who will be pulling on provincial jerseys.
Then there's Rene Ranger, an All Black still wanted by the selectors, who instead of playing Australia, South Africa and Argentina will be captaining Northland.
A bizarre side-effect of professional footy is how, when Ranger behaved like a decent, normal, new father and chose not to spend weeks away from home, it took several days for the simple truth to sink in.
An All Black putting family ahead of the jersey? Surely not? Err, yes, as it happens. And among those benefiting outside Ranger's immediate family will be the young guys in Cambridge blue who'll now train and play alongside a man in Ranger who has scaled new heights in fitness and commitment this year.
And while Ranger's setting the standards in Whangarei, other men still striving for the All Blacks, like Piri Weepu in Auckland, Jeremy Thrush in Wellington, Hika Elliot in Pukekohe, and Andy Ellis and George Whitelock in Christchurch will be doing the same.
Canterbury's record five successive titles in the cup is extraordinary, and the veteran factor is the main reason for them to be favourites again.
A team that can field Ellis or Willie Heinz at halfback, Tom Taylor and Ryan Crotty in the midfield, Colin Slade at fullback or first-five, George Whitelock, Nasi Manu and Matt Todd as loose forwards, and Corey Flynn in the front row is not so much bringing guns to a knife fight, but M109 howitzers, backed up by Aim 9 Sidewinder missiles.
Of course, once the avalanche of rugby that is the competition begins on Thursday in Pukekohe when Wellington (think an angry Victor Vito) play the Steelers, reputations are there to be made.
Before the 2012 competition for Counties Frank Halai was a very good sevens player. By the time the Steelers' season had ended he'd shown he was good enough for Super rugby, and he's now just a tick away from the All Blacks.
As well as the emergence of new stars, we'll also see the latest system aimed at making scrums less of the sweaty, grunting, colossal timewasters they are now.
By demanding the front rows are set before the packs start shoving there will hopefully be a drop in the number of scrums that crash to ground with the first hit.
Peter Thorburn, an extremely astute coach and analyst, suggests the long-backed props, like Wyatt Crockett and Jamie Mackintosh, who often suffer at referees' hands, will benefit from a less dynamic scrum. During the week at the ITM Cup launch in Auckland I mentioned Thorburn's theory to Mackintosh, who was more cautiously optimistic.
He too hopes the scrums will collapse less, but also thinks there will be enormous pressure on front rowers as power is unleashed more steadily, and possibly for longer. "It'll be a grind in there."
A season can be tough for a young man starting out, learning the tricks of the provincial trade.
Thankfully, history shows not every veteran puts a newcomer through a painful baptism. When a 17-year-old Kevin Boroevich played his first game for King Country he was marking Auckland's All Black prop Brad Johnstone. At the first scrum a delighted Boroevich was told by Johnstone, "Don't do anything silly son, and nobody's going to get hurt." He didn't and nobody did.
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FAIRFAX NZ Emergency services were called to Riverview Rd, Panmure, just before 2am on Saturday.
A man was left with serious injuries after being assaulted by a group of people in south-west Auckland on Saturday morning.
Police were seeking witnesses to the assault, which happened on Riverview Rd, Panmure at about 1.40am.
The victim was rushed to hospital but his condition had since improved, police said.
He was likely to be sent home from hospital later on Saturday.
Police were asking anyone with information to call Detective Nathan Bland on 09 302 6657 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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CHRISTEL YARDLEY/FAIRFAX NZ There would be some situations where cops couldn't make it to the crime - but the expectation was that they would.
From today Police will attend all house break-ins, in an effort to curb slowly rising burglary numbers.
Police Minister Judith Collins congratulated Police as the policy came into effect on Monday.
"This shows police are serious about tackling burglary and also sends a clear message to offenders," Collins said in a release.
The policy raises "dwelling burglary" from a "volume crime" to a "priority offence".
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There would be some situations where cops couldn't make it to the crime - but the expectation was that they would.
βGiven the nature of policing there will be occasions where they cannot attend a dwelling burglary for a range of reasons, including adhering to the wishes of the victim. However, the Commissioner of Police has made his expectations clear," Collins said.
βPolice have assured me that they continue to make burglary a priority with ongoing work in every district to reduce this crime type while also focusing on increasing resolution rates.β Residential burglary numbers are below that of recent years, but have been rising over the last 12 months. Police introduced a new measurement system for crimes in 2014. That system, which focuses on victimisations, showed an increase of 12,060 crime victims between the 2014/15 and 2015/16 year, a 3.1 percent rise. Almost three quarters (72 percent) of that rise was due to home burglaries.
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BAYLEY MOOR/FAIRFAX NZ Teuarangi and Kingiteahuahu Tana in their New Zealand tracksuit ahead of their trip to Noumea.
Multi-talented Kingiteahuahu Tana is off to Noumea to represent New Zealand in the Oceania Karate Championships.
The 11-year-old Moerewa School student has made the team alongside his sister Teuarangi.
Kingi has been competing in the sport since he was five and has achieved a brown belt with black tip.
He is aiming to be at the 2024 Olympics.
"It is worth all of the travelling and training."
Kingi says the sport is a great way to learn to defend yourself.
"My favourite part is going away to different tournaments, we are always going to different places."
The Kawakawa-born, Paihia based siblings travel to Whangarei at least three times a week after school to train and often have a Saturday training as well.
Mother Rachael Harding says 17-year-old Teuarangi had trialled twice for the New Zealand team and finally made it.
"Kingi was the real surprise getting selected after only five years in karate.
"I am very proud of both of them."
Harding says the pair trained at Kawakawa then Moerewa before a decline in numbers and increased travel costs forced the move to the main Whangarei dojo Miyagi Kan under sensei Craig Nordstrand.
Teuarangi has competed in karate for the past nine years with many gold medal wins to her name and has achieved a black belt white stripe.
Her results also include silver in the open girls 16-17 year old kumite section at the Australian Open earlier this year.
Kingi is also a successful speaker having won his section at the Maori Women's Welfare League Pu Korero Speech Competition.
He will represent Te Taitokerau at the national conference on September 27.
The Miyagi Kan Karate Club that Teuarangi and Kingi attend will have six students representing New Zealand at the Oceania Championships.
They will compete in the kata and kumite sections.
Kingi says kata is a series of blocks and attacks with kumite the fighting discipline.
The Tana family will fly out on September 10 and will have a week to prepare for the competition which begins on September 15.
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A category one typhoon is expected to make landfall in Japan on Tuesday, prompting evacuation warnings for thousands of people. Over 100 flights have also been cancelled.
Typhoon Lionrock made landfall in Japan's Tohoku, the area devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, becoming the first typhoon to come onshore in the region since records began in 1951.
The storm came onshore at about 6pm (local time) near Ofunato in Iwate prefecture, a city where 340 people were killed and almost 3,000 homes destroyed in the 2011 disasters.
The cyclone took a boomerang-like route away from Japan before U-turning back over the past week and is expected to move faster over the northern part of the Japanese archipelago and into the Sea of Japan by Wednesday, where it will weaken into an extratropical cyclone.
KYODO High waves triggered by Typhoon Lionrock crash on a coast of the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Heavy rains have fallen, and more is expected across eastern and northern Japan, with more rain expected in 24 hours in parts of the country than in a typical month of August, the Japan Meteorological Agency earlier said.
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The risk of landslides is "very high" in areas of northern Japan on the Pacific coast, the agency said, with Kyodo News reporting of a landslide blocking a national highway in Iwate.
KYODO High waves triggered by Typhoon Lionrock crash against a "torii" gate on a coast of the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on August 30, 2016.
Evacuation orders were issued for more than 4,000 people in parts of Iwate prefecture, with thousands more advised to seek refuge. Citizens were told to be wary of "violent" winds and high waves near coastal areas.
The Cabinet office warned of the dangers of flooding from rivers bursting their banks, and advised against unnecessary trips outdoors, though there were only limited reports of damage and injuries as the storm made landfall.
Toyota earlier suspended production for two shifts at plants in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, where the automaker produces models including the Sienta and Prius c, spokeswoman Kayo Doi said by telephone. Plants are scheduled to resume production on Wednesday. Refiners in the region delayed shipments due to strong waves, public broadcaster NHK reported, with JX Nippon Oil & Energy and Cosmo Oil halting deliveries from refineries in Ibaraki, Miyagi and Chiba prefectures.
Lionrock is the fourth typhoon to make landfall in Japan in 2016, with Typhoon Mindulle last week becoming the first in 11 year to hit the vicinity of Tokyo. Four typhoons have now come onshore in each of the past three years. Landfalls in Japan are most common in August and September, though approaches by cyclones can continue as late as December.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the devastated Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, earlier braced for Lionrock's arrival. Workers secured power cables, hoses and heavy machinery, and monitored groundwater levels and seawater quality at the plant as the typhoon neared, according to the utility. The typhoon's storm area had passed Fukushima prefecture as of 5.45pm (local time), the weather agency said.
Transport services across Japan were affected, with Japan Airlines canceling 59 domestic flights and ANA Holdings scrubbing 37 flights, according to statements from Japan's two largest carriers. Some Shinkansen bullet trains on lines servicing northern Japan's Akita and Hokkaido were halted, East Japan Railway Co. said, though there was little disruption in the nation's capital.
Lionrock earlier prompted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to cut short his visit to Kenya, where he had been leading a conference on African development, to oversee preparation for the storm.
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Sky Sport Referee Romain Poite quietens Wallabies captain Stephen Moore.
The Australian Rugby Union is planning an official complaint to World Rugby over a meeting between All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen and referee Romain Poite some time in the week leading into the Wellington test.
An assistant was also present at the meeting β and under World Rugby regulations, if one coach asks for a briefing with match officials, the other country needs to be informed.
Wallabies coach Michael Cheika also expressed his disappointment in the refereeing performance from Poite after his side was summarily dispatched 29-9 by New Zealand on Saturday night in the capital.
ANTHONY AU-YEUNG/GETTY IMAGES Australian coach Michael Cheika wasn't pleased with the refereeing by Romain Poite.
"Well, I was bitterly disappointed, to be honest," Cheika said of Poite's officiating.
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"I'm on record with the referees' boss, Alain Rolland, about the treatment to our captain and to our players by Romain Poite and also by Nigel Owens over this past year.
GETTY IMAGES Stephen Moore had few answers to explain the shambolic Wallabies lineout.
"I'm not quite sure why, I'm not quite sure why, but there was a time there in the game, in a break in play, where the national captain of Australia was asking the referee, 'when might be a good opportunity for me to talk to you?'.
"He just ignored him. He's got the whistle, I understand, but there's a place where that guy, the captain has an opportunity to speak with the referee. The referee might not like the captain personally, that might be his prerogative, but he has to afford him that opportunity if he's affording it to his opponents.
"I think that attitude showed right through. I don't know if it's subconscious or not, but it's there. It's got to be dealt with, because it can't be that the opponent can have every player discussing with the referee.
"It's pretty blatant to anyone listening to the referees."
WALLABIES IN TROUBLE
Only 301 days since they played a World Cup final, the Wallabies find themselves in bad shape.
Six losses on the bounce stretching back to the 2015 Rugby World Cup final in London, a 3-0 series loss to England on home soil, and now a complete humiliation against the All Blacks with a Bledisloe Cup on the line.
New Zealand scored 10 tries in two matches against the Australians, restricting them to just one. The set piece was dominated by the men in black, as was the ruck.
In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere the Wallabies excelled.
You could see the tension on Cheika's face, and the disappointment in Moore's eyes. They looked like men with few answers.
Their default position was to take aim at refereeing decisions, when the quality of ball for their backs has been appalling. A referee can't fix that.
Maybe it's masterful deflection from Cheika, who also said he expected All Blacks prop Owen Franks to face a judicial hearing over an alleged eye-gouging attempt on Kane Douglas.
He didn't have much to say about the performance of his forwards, but did say his side lacked quality ball.
That was due to a dreadful set piece, particularly a lineout that looked a shambles throughout.
Moore still has confidence in his lineout, however.
Asked if he had lost confidence when throwing into the lineout, he was short and sweet with his answer.
"No."
Asked what needed to be fixed in the lineout, Moore was either keeping the answers secret, or didn't know himself.
"I think we just need to use our options which are going to give us ball in space," he said.
"There are some things we need to do to help us improve there. A lot of things go into it, timing is obviously important, but I think there's other things as well."
They'd better have a great review, because the Wallabies are almost starting from scratch with their set piece. They have two weeks before the Springboks arrive in Brisbane, and that's a side who won't have issues at set piece time.
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SIMON MAUDE / FAIRFAX NZ "It looked like the car was reversing to park up, but went too far," one eyewitness told The Sun.
An elderly couple died in Britain after their car reversed off a 6-metre cliff while they were trying to park.
The yet-to-be-identified couple drowned at Hooe Lake in Devon after the driver tried to reverse and accidently plunged down the cliff.
The car overturned and submerged with water, trapping them inside.
Despite rescue attempts by bystanders, police and rescue services, they were unable to free the couple from the trapped car in time.
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"It looked like the car was reversing to park up, but went too far," one eyewitness told The Sun.
"It careered off the side straight into the estuary. People are really shocked about what has happened. It's awful."
A memorial has been planned for the couple of Hooe Lake tragedy.
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123rf Are there enough youth-centric facilities in Feilding?
A complaint about rowdy teens eating and creating mess in the Feilding Public Library has raised questions over the facilities available to youths in the town.
The complaint from Feilding man Gary Barnett was echoed by other Feilding residents, centring on misuse of the facility by youths and the feeling that traditional library users may no longer feel comfortable at the space.
The concerns involve the rising number of teenagers eating takeaways and creating noise and mess in the library, as well as people smoking outside the entrance.
Murray Wilson/ Fairfax NZ Gary Barnett's complaint about youths misusing the Feilding Library has sparked debate about whether kids have enough places to go in Feilding.
Barnett took his gripe to the Manawatu District Council in the hopes of finding a solution.
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The complaint has led to discussion over whether the town has enough youth spaces - where else can the youth go?
Manawatu District mayor Margaret Kouvelis said she liked the concept of a designated youth space, but raised concerns about its sustainability.
"I think there is a place for a youth space, having said that, I think there are already a lot of spaces youth can take part in already.
"With fixed youth spaces they tend to go through a life cycle where they start with a hiss and a roar, but are then slowly disengaged with and not used," she said.
"Trying to accommodate all youth can be difficult."
Kouvelis said there would have to be a very specific direction and purpose set out for the use of a youth space if it were to eventuate.
Pikiora Wylie, team leader for youth services at the Palmerston North Youth Space, said youth spaces could flourish if systems were put in place to work with community groups and schools.
The youth space in Palmerston North was designed to provide teenagers and children with a place to socialise, read, listen to music and play games.
Wylie said they had up to 300 people under the age 18 come through the doors daily.
Feilding Intermediate student Lucye Gardiner has been an advocate for a youth space in Feilding. She was part of a cooking vegan group that went to the Palmerston North Youth Space every Wednesday.
"Petrol costs a lot of money and parents can't afford to drive their children everywhere they want to go.
"Some people have it really rough at home and they don't have anywhere to go or anyone to talk to," she said.
"A lot of kids suffer from mental issues and depression. Youth space would be the perfect place to hold groups for all the people with those issues."
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/83599088/Library-misuse-complaints-lead-to-youth-space-idea | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/c3562a8098bddf8c4270ef1385349c718536c591bca4a594c2ff6bb3c65b3a68.json |
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EDDIE KEOGH/REUTERS Chelsea's Victor Moses celebrates scoring their third goal.
Goals from Eden Hazard, Willian and Victor Moses sent Antonio Conte's Chelsea to the top of the Premier League on Saturday with a 3-0 win over promoted Burnley in a one-sided match at Stamford Bridge.
Belgian Hazard picked up the ball in his own half in the ninth minute and with a burst of speed wrong-footed defenders, cut inside Michael Keane and sent a right foot shot low past a diving keeper Tom Heaton.
Willian's contribution came in the 41st minute after an exchange of passes between Hazard and Spain striker Diego Costa. Costa sent the ball to the Brazilian who sidestepped Stephen Ward and drilled the ball into the net.
Heaton was called into action constantly in the second half as Chelsea peppered the Burnley goal with shots. But he could not keep out Moses, who got on the end of a ball from fellow-substitute Pedro in the dying minutes, ensuring a 100 percent start to the campaign for the London side.
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LEICESTER CHASE TITLE DEFENCE
Leicester earned the first win of its Premier League title defense, beating Swansea 2-1 thanks to goals by star striker Jamie Vardy and captain Wes Morgan on Saturday.
It should have been an even bigger win for the champions in a dominant display at a rain-lashed King Power stadium, with English football's player of the year Riyad Mahrez having a 56th-minute penalty saved.
And it wound up being a nervous end for the hosts after Leroy Fer pulled a goal back for Swansea in the 81st.
Vardy put Leicester ahead in typical fashion when he ran onto a lofted pass forward by Danny Drinkwater, nudged the ball forward, and thumped a finish into the net off the post in the 32nd minute. The England striker is off the mark this season after scoring 24 goals in Leicester's surprise run to the title in the 2015-16 campaign.
Morgan smashed home the second goal in the 52nd minute at a corner, after the ball had popped up off centre-back partner Robert Huth's arm as the pair challenged for a high cross.
Aside from Mahrez's failure from the penalty spot, the other negative for Leicester was an injury to goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, sustained as he came out to challenge Swansea striker Fernando Llorente.
Leicester, which won the league at odds of 5,000-1 last season, started its defense of the title with a surprise loss at Hull before drawing 0-0 at home to Arsenal.
This was Claudio Ranieri's 100th win as a Premier League manager, including a spell at Chelsea.
OWN GOAL HANDS EVERTON WIN
Shay Given scored a bizarre own goal as Everton beat Stoke City 1-0 at Goodison Park in an exciting game on Saturday to extend the visitors' wait for a first Premier League win of the season.
Given initially saved Leighton Baines's penalty after Ashley Williams fell under pressure from Phil Bardsley, only for the ball to bounce back off the post and deflect over the line off the goalkeeper's head.
The home side enjoyed the best of a thrilling match and both Romelu Lukaku and Williams could have given Everton the lead during the first half, the latter denied a debut goal by Peter Crouch's goalline clearance.
Stoke responded well to going behind, Marko Arnautovic going closest when his effort rattled the bar in the 58th minute.
ARSENAL WIN AT WATFORD
Alexis Sanchez scored one goal, set up another and also earned a penalty as Arsenal used a dominant first-half display to beat Watford 3-1 for its first win of the Premier League season on Saturday.
The Chile forward was brought down by Younes Kaboul's elbow, giving Santi Cazorla the opportunity to slot a penalty kick down the middle to put Arsenal ahead in the 9th minute.
Sanchez made it 2-0 in the 40th in slightly fortuitous circumstances. Meeting Theo Walcott's low cross from the right, Sanchez fell over while applying the finish but still managed to get the ball past Watford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes and over the line before it could be cleared.
Mesut Ozil then made a late run into the box and headed in Sanchez's pinpoint cross from the left, giving Arsenal a 3-0 lead in first-half injury time.
Roberto Pereyra, recently bought from Juventus as Watford's record signing, came off the bench at halftime for his debut and reduced the deficit in the 57th with a powerful shot from a rebound.
The win will be a relief to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who has come under renewed fire at the start of this season after his team failed to win either of its first games. A failure to sign any marquee players this transfer window has also infuriated some disillusioned fans, although Arsenal is on the brink of competing the signings of two players _ Germany defender Shkodran Mustafi and Spanish striker Lucas Perez _ before the window shuts on Wednesday.
Arsenal started the season by losing 4-3 at home to Liverpool, then drew 0-0 at Leicester.
The team's attack looked more potent with the return of Ozil, who was given extra time off following the European Championship.
TOTTENHAM EQUALISE WITH LIVERPOOL
Liverpool drew 1-1 with Tottenham in its third straight away game to open the Premier League season after conceding a second-half equaliser by Danny Rose on Saturday.
James Milner capped a dominant first-half display by Liverpool by converting a 43rd-minute penalty after Roberto Firmino was tripped by Erik Lamela.
Rose preserved Spurs' unbeaten start to the season by scoring from one of his team's rare sights on goal, striking a slightly mis-hit shot inside the near post in the 72nd after Lamela flicked on Eric Dier's right-wing cross.
Tottenham has five points from three games, one more point than a Liverpool side that has played all of its matches away from Anfield while the club completes the rebuilding of the Main Stand.
Liverpool hosts Leicester at Anfield on Sept. 10.
"It seems a long time since we've been there, it was a tough start as well," Milner said, referring to games against Arsenal, Burnley and Spurs. "Three points from four games - we probably could have had more."
Both Tottenham and Liverpool have been tipped to challenge for the top four this season, but Spurs aren't yet showing the kind of form that almost took them to the title last season.
Tottenham's winless run against Liverpool extended to eight league games - dating back to 2012 - and they couldn't handle the pace and energy of the visitors' sprightly forward line in a frenetic, entertaining first half at White Hart Lane.
Sadio Mane was a constant menace, bringing three last-ditch tackles on him from Tottenham goalkeeper Michel Vorm in the "sweeper-keeper" role and having a goal disallowed near the hour mark for a narrow offside, which would have made it 2-0.
Firmino - a midfielder playing up front - also found pockets of space and from one situation he got in front of Lamela, who clipped the Brazilian's heel and gave away a penalty.
Milner sent Vorm the wrong way from the spot.
By that time, Tottenham right back Kyle Walker had been substituted because he was feeling unwell, forcing a reshuffle with Dier going from centre midfield into defense, and Liverpool deserved its halftime lead.
Liverpool started the second half better, too, with Premier League debutant Joel Matip glancing a header against the crossbar from a corner, only for Spurs to equalise against the run of play.
Rose didn't hit his shot cleanly but it crept inside the post, leaving Liverpool without a clean sheet so far this season.
"Liverpool are a team who want to play and win titles," Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino said. "I think we are in the same way and it was a fair result."
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[] | 2016-08-30T08:52:02 | null | 2016-08-30T06:52:58 | Push to decriminalise abortion in Queensland takes a step backwards. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Faustralia%2F83736988%2FQueensland-rejects-bill-to-decriminalise-abortion.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/r/w/u/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1durvg.png/1472539978791.jpg | en | null | Queensland rejects bill to decriminalise abortion | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Queensland rejects bill to decriminalise abortion
CHRIS HYDE Independent MP for Cairns Rob Pyne introduced the Women's Right to Choose bill in May.
After 1400 submission, scores of expert appearances and public hearings, Queensland's Parliamentary inquiry into abortion law reform has rejected a bill to decriminalise abortion across the state.
Cairns Independent MP Rob Pyne, who introduced the Women's Right to Choose bill in May, said the decision was politically motivated and that it was "disappointing that some of the politicians can't be a little more courageous in their approach to some reform".
However, chairwoman and Labor MP Leanne Linard said careful consideration was given to the complex issues in regulating termination of pregnancy.
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"The committee was unable to support the Bill as it failed to address a number of important policy issues and to achieve a number of its own stated objectives," she said.
Far from being a fatal blow to the process to end antiquated laws that prevent women from seeking terminations to pregnancies, academics agreed, suggesting recommendations were made on constructive grounds and that the "door to reform is not closed".
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Heather Douglas from the University of Queensland's Beirne School of Law, who has long advocated for reform and gave evidence at the inquiry, believes Friday's "comprehensive" report highlights the fact that while a majority of Queenslanders and Australians are supportive of access to terminations, the demands of the bill were not thorough enough.
"The report is a really helpful document. It would have been difficult for them to come to a different conclusion based on the people who appeared before them. Many of those people wanted more than what the bill was demanding," Professor Douglas said.
Missing from the proposal were details around gestational limits, conscientious objection and safe access zones. A second bill introduced by Pyne in August included those additions - but not decriminalisation.
Professor Douglas hopes that a revised bill combining the two might forge a workable path to true reform.
"The door isn't closed, it's very much an open question. I'm very hopeful," she said.
"We've had an enquiry process for the first time that really gets some facts on the table."
The 135-page report showed 10,000 to 14,000 abortions had been performed annually in Queensland in recent years, despite the criminal code. It drew no clear causal nexus between mental health and termination - an argument that is oft-used by those in favour of retaining the legislation that dates to 1899. Further, it recognises the links between domestic and family violence and termination.
Current laws place Queensland at the bottom of a tally of Australia's state and territory legislation around access to abortion.
In Queensland any person who carries out, or assists with, an abortion may be liable to criminal prosecution, including the woman herself - unless continuing the pregnancy poses serious danger to the mother's life or her physical or mental health.
The code does not reflect advances in medical technologies around the detection of foetal abnormalities that might lead to termination. In such cases, for example, women in Queensland are often forced to "manufacture mental illness to justify termination", said Professor Douglas.
As Pyne noted, while reform is still on the cards, the delay does little to help women and their doctors who, in the meantime, remain in fear of prosecution.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/83736988/Queensland-rejects-bill-to-decriminalise-abortion | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/744b7577bae53ce6553cab25695dfa89eb48bcab123ebdd841e195d6c05f373c.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T18:50:41 | null | 2016-08-27T17:00:00 | Gardeners and school children are being invited to run the very first | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fenvironment%2F83627978%2FThe-Great-Kiwi-Bee-Count-We-need-to-look-after-bees.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/f/s/5/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsfre.png/1472296735947.jpg | en | null | The Great Kiwi Bee Count: 'We need to look after bees' | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | The Great Kiwi Bee Count: 'We need to look after bees'
Chris Skelton/Jason Dorday/FAIRFAX NZ We asked the preschoolers at ABC Mt Eden what they think about bees ahead of the Great Kiwi Bee Count.
Gardeners and school children are being invited to run the very first "citizen science" survey of bee numbers in New Zealand.
NZ Gardener magazine, Stuff.co.nz and scientists from Plant & Food Research have teamed up to run The Great Kiwi Bee Count, intended to provide a base line for generations of research into the bees that are responsible for pollinating a third of everything we eat and drink.
Throughout September, Kiwis young and old are encouraged to get into their gardens, parks or neighbourhood β preferably on a sunny day β pick a plant, and count how many bees they see.
CHRIS SKELTON / FAIRFAX NZ Agnes Archer-Rush, 2, will be taking part in the Great Kiwi Bee Count at ABC Mt Eden nursery in Auckland. "We need to look after bees because they give honey to their babies, and I think it's yummy too."
They can then record the results on stuff.co.nz/greatkiwibeecount.
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The data gathered from across New Zealand over the month will help scientists work out the state of bee health and numbers in the country, and provide a baseline figure for a future "bee census".
And It's not just home gardeners that are getting behind the Great Kiwi Bee Count.
At ABC Mt Eden nursery in Auckland, teachers and preschoolers are preparing to plant bee-friendly shrubs and sow wildflowers in a disused corner of the property.
The children have really got into the spirit of citizen science, says centre manager Harriet O'Sullivan. "It has been great to be talking about mini-beasts and gardens as we prepare for spring time and planting our new wild urban space."
Agnes Archer-Rush, 2, who attends the ABC centre, said: "We need to look after bees because they give honey to their babies, and I think it's yummy too."
- Sunday Star Times | http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/83627978/The-Great-Kiwi-Bee-Count-We-need-to-look-after-bees | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/07efc0f3d2e0d07417125ae9d03a43687f6f01324230aa98133ca8de2ddb0c9d.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T04:50:20 | null | 2016-08-27T03:24:56 | The farming couple failed to renew their UK visas and now face deportation - but not without a fight. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Feurope%2F83629666%2FKiwi-couple-say-they-would-rather-go-to-prison-than-be-deported-from-UK.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/h/r/w/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsh2a.png/1472269286840.png | en | null | Kiwi couple say they would rather go to prison than be deported from UK | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Kiwi couple say they would rather go to prison than be deported from UK
cuttingthecurd.co.uk Louise Talbot says her fight with immigration authorities in the UK has been "an utter nightmare, so cruel".
A New Zealand farming couple living in Britain who failed to renew their visas on time are prepared to go to prison to stop being deported.
John and Louise Talbot have lived in Dorset England for the past six years helping their sons to establish a cattle farm.
Louise Talbot, 52, who also teaches cheese making, said they have been ordered by the Home Office to leave the country after they missed a deadline to file their immigration application.
An immigration judge said there is no reason they cannot stay and backed their case, The Daily Mail reported.
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The Talbots have appealed to UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill to stop their deportation.
"I would serve a prison sentence to sort this out," Louise Talbot told the Daily Mail.
"It has been an utter nightmare, so cruel," she said.
"It was one simple mistake. It was just a slip, an unintentional error.
"We were not trying to bend the rules. We are utterly distraught at the thought of our lives being devastated because of a technicality.
"This is our home. I would serve a prison sentence to sort this out."
She said the decision by immigration staff to rejected the application because it was out of time was "criminal".
The Talbot moved to Dorset in 2010 after visiting the county for 30 years.
Louise Talbot's grandmother was born in the UK and her family members fought and died for Britain in World War 1 and World War 2.
Their two sons were enrolled in agricultural schools in the UK.
The couple knew the visa's expired in May 2015 and intended to apply for indefinite leave to remain 28 days before the expiry date.
Both passed a "Life in the UK" test and other criteria in the application but one of their sons Charles failed to meet the deadline due to university exams.
Their passports were seized and right of appeal has been denied.
They must leave the UK voluntarily, or be liable for enforced removal.
Immigration judge Justice Jay said there was no reason why the application should be refused if the applicants met all the requirements, such as ancestry and passing the application test.
- The Marlborough Express | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/83629666/Kiwi-couple-say-they-would-rather-go-to-prison-than-be-deported-from-UK | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/240564d4bab9c4d64160629c8625be3e74babb26b36ae633c28d7c1a0845e65d.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T10:51:03 | null | 2016-08-28T10:13:51 | Helen Fielding's hapless heroine introduced almost 21 years ago has finally achieved her | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fentertainment%2Ffilm%2F83650838%2FRenee-Zellweger-told-not-to-gain-weight-for-Bridget-Joness-Baby.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/i/h/k/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsxee.png/1472379232073.jpg | en | null | Renee Zellweger told not to gain weight for Bridget Jones's Baby | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Renee Zellweger told not to gain weight for Bridget Jones's Baby
Lap Phan Renee Zellweger and Patrick Dempsey reflect on almost 16 years of Bridget Jones clumsily tripping over the screens and why she is a hero to so many women around the world.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Bridget Jones' main vices are Daniel Cleaver and diets.
In the books, and subsequent film versions which premiered in 2001 and 2004 respectively, each diary entry began with a snapshot of her calorie intake.
Her weight has been a common trope of the hapless heroine's narrative that began in the '90s via Helen Fielding's column in The Independent newspaper.
Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones' Diary.
"8st 13, alcohol units 2 (excellent), cigarettes 7, calories 3100 (poor)," is how Jones was introduced to the world on February 28, 1995.
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Renee Zellweger and Patrick Dempsey reflect on almost 16 years of Bridget Jones clumsily tripping over the screens and why she is a hero to so many women around the world.
Fast forward 21 years and Jones, in the new film Bridget Jones's Baby, has achieved her "ideal weight".
"In her mind she had a weight issue. She didn't have a weight issue it was just this imagined ideal that she was trying to achieve. What I love is that while she's achieved it her life isn't anymore together, she makes it OK for people to be imperfect and I think that's what we connect to," star Renee Zellweger said.
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While Zellweger was looking forward to piling on the 13 kilograms again like she did for the first two instalments in the franchise, director Sharon Maguire wanted to put Jones' body image issues to bed to focus on the issues impacting on her life as a 43-year-old pregnant single woman.
"It was a decision the director had made, she was hopeful that we could show that just by achieving this personal ideal of about how you're supposed to be it doesn't necessarily mean that your life is suddenly going to be perfect and make sense," Zellweger said.
"I like the message in that.
"It was a matter of choosing how she has evolved so that the ways in which she hasn't stand out more prominently. Because I think the ways she hasn't changed are much more important."
Zellweger too has evolved since she was cast in the breakout role 15 years ago. She disappeared from Hollywood for five years, returned to study, wrote scripts, travelled the world and fell in love after she had her four-month marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney annulled in 2005.
Bridget Jones's Baby marks her return to the big screen and the versatile actor, who already conquered indie, period drama and musicals before her sabbatical, is hungry for more.
"It's fun. You want to evolve. You want to keep going. I don't want to keep doing the same thing, telling the same stories, I'm ready, let's go. Human experience gives you character and it makes the characters that you are prepared to play much more interesting."
- Sydney Morning Herald | http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/83650838/Renee-Zellweger-told-not-to-gain-weight-for-Bridget-Joness-Baby | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/084d9f8a9155d69590f1899e4290b4bb148163256cf5a781c42067e3c9d8c5b2.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T06:50:19 | null | 2016-08-27T06:00:00 | A Southland personal trainer is helping people text their way to their goal weight. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsouthland-times%2Fnews%2F82833068%2FTexting-your-way-to-a-fitter-healthier-life.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/o/7/b/k/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dbeek.png/1472271937669.jpg | en | null | Texting your way to a fitter, healthier life | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Texting your way to a fitter, healthier life
Joanna Griffiths/Fairfax NZ Melissa Aitken urges Southlanders to find the time to get fit.
A Southland personal trainer is targeting people who say they are too busy for fitness.
Melissa Aitken is a registered personal trainer, sport massage therapist, boxing instructor, boot camp leader and fitness entrepreneur.
She has run fitness programmes through her business Otatara Fitness for about 6 years.
Aitken's latest business endeavour is a personal training service via text message.
"It is something I started for people who don't have time to see a personal trainer but still want guidance."
People's lives were busy, she said.
"A lot of people work fulltime and have family commitments. They have to squeeze in their fitness whenever they have spare time."
People who signed up for the programme, called PT by Text, received a daily exercise plan for $20 a Month.
"It needed to be cost effective as well an convienent."
Workouts varied from a list of fat burning exercises that included burpees, squats, crunches, and jumping jacks to interval running, cardio and a rest day once a week.
"People can text me anytime to ask me questions.
"It is very important that people use the correct technique when exercising because the wrong technique can lead to injury, which is the last thing we want."
The programme was good because the exercises were different each day, and didn't focus solely on one area of the body, Aitken said.
"It should improve people's overall fitness."
The great thing about the programme was that the people got to choose when they did their exercise.
"I know a lot of shift workers who work odd hours and couldn't commit to a regular class."
As part of the programme Aitken also sends out nutritional tips at least one a week.
"It's not a meal plan. Just helpful reminders like drinking more water and less caffeine or suggesting healthy alternatives like greek yoghurt for breakfast instead of something full of sugar."
The programme was not a one way street, with Aitken setting personal goals, asking questions and checking in with clients regularly.
"As a personal trainer my job is to motivate people, and that is what I will do."
Find out more at www.OtataraFitness.co.nz or on facebook
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Transmission Films/YouTube Former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw stars in his own movie, which is coming to cinemas next year.
CHASING GREAT (G, 105mins) Directed by Michelle Walshe and Justin Pemberton β
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My relationship with rugby has been rather complicated.
It started with cheese toasties in front of middle-of-the night tests. Then came the 1981 Springbok Tour and a paternal decree that we would not support the NZRFU in any way, shape or form.
Supplied The Chasing Great crew spent a year following Richie McCaw ahead of the 2015 World Cup.
Relations thawed after the excitement and euphoria of the 1987 Rugby World Cup and I finally saw my first live provincial game at Lancaster Park in early 1991. It only took 90 seconds for my father to make us public enemies No. 1 after he shouted "you one-eyed Canterbury bβ¦tard" at the ref from an almost empty main stand. We just frequented our home turf of Carisbrook from then on.
Sitting in "Cookie's Corner" each week, we watched an exciting Otago side claim the NPC in 1991 and then watched in horror as Richard Loe's fingers and a certain Timaru traffic cop (twice!) denied the blue and golds further glory. Such repeated frustrations and injustices saw my interest in the sport start to wane, not helped by being run down humiliatingly by a then All Black Captain in a mud run (although even I felt for him years later when he lost five tests in a row).
So I came to this documentary of recently retired All Black captain Richie McCaw as something of a lapsed supporter. In some ways that makes me the perfect audience for this film, someone who has an interest in rugby, but doesn't pore over every detail and maul. Because for those wanting plenty of rugby action or intimate insight into the All Blacks camp are going to be sorely disappointed. The Ground We Won β The International Edition this isn't.
A scene from the Richie McCaw film, Chasing Great, in cinemas from September 1.
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Directors Michelle Walsh and Justin Pemberton weave the story of how Oamaru-born Richard Hugh McCaw achieved his goal of becoming a "Great All Black" around his final season, when he strove to sign off with the William Webb Ellis trophy firmly in his grasp.
There's some nice use of McCaw family "home movie" footage and plenty of shots of a relaxed-looking Richie in the pilot's seat and making dinner or doing The Press crossword with fiancΓ©e Gemma Flynn. But the now popular documentary style that lets the subject tell their story in their own words (Cobain: Montage of Heck, Listen To Me Marlon) here works against the story's intimacy, giving a feeling that our subject, or his former employers, were always in control.
Supplied Yes there are moments of intimacy and insight, but Richie McCaw always seems to be the one in control in Chasing Great
Most of the unguarded or insightful moments come from other interview subjects β Dan Carter confessing that McCaw was so obsessed with winning the 2011 World Cup "he thought he'd lost his mate", Steve Hansen calling his captain "a complicated rooster" and his first coach lamenting one "tackle" young McCaw put on him which left him clutching his ribs for days.
Richie's Crusaders days don't get much airtime, the 2011 victory feels somewhat hurriedly dealt with, but one area that is handled well is the immediate aftermath of the 2007 World Cup loss to France.
Pemberton and Walshe have managed to get their hands on some terrific footage of the All Black dressing room and post-match conferences.
Supplied Chasing Great co-director Justin Pemberton chats with his subject Richie McCaw.
Coupled with some enlightening McCaw hindsight, "we hadn't really talked about drop goals", "it was a humbling place to be", it is a rare moment where the veil and public image appear to be lifted.
It was a watershed moment for McCaw's captaincy and hence a pivotal, key point in Chasing Great. It leads to lengthy discussions with forensic psychiatrist (and former All White) Ceri Evans about his and McCaw's approach to dealing with pressure in the future. These scenes are what could give the film a wider appeal than to just rugby fans and McCaw-idolisers.
However, it feels like there's a key piece of the puzzle missing. His 2011 potentially World Cup-ending foot injury is highlighted, but his brushes with and history of concussions fail to rate a mention. That seems a strange omission given that such "losses of control" could have been central to his motivation to seek help with the mental side and potentially jeopardise his hard work on that side of his game.
In the end, Chasing Great isn't quite the Amy or Senna, or even In Bed With Madonna it wants to be. It's no hagiography, but neither does it really gives us a warts and all look at life as an All Black.
It's not that we wanted Richie to be spouting poetry or talking to pigeons a la Mike Tyson, but the slick, impressive production values are mirrored by a lack of grit in the subject matter.
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TARA HUGHES/RACE IMAGES Sofia Rosa (inside) noses out Fanatic (No 13) in the NZ Oaks in March before Fanatic was declared the winner on protest.
Three of New Zealand's top three-year-old fillies of last season head a small contingent of Kiwi-trained nominations for this year's Melbourne Cup.
Just four New Zealand-based gallopers - Fanatic, Provocative, Mime and Pentathlon - were among the 124 nominations which closed on Tuesday for the great race at Flemington on November 1.
Waikato-trained Fanatic, the New Zealand Oaks winner in March, will be on trial for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups at her next two group one starts at Hastings over 1600m and 2000m.
Te Awamutu trainers Graeme Sanders and daughter Debbie Sweeney were satisfied with the Shocking mare's sixth in a nine-horse rating 85 1400m at Hastings in her first race for five months.
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"We won't see the best of her until she's over a mile and a half . . . she'll stay all day," Sanders said.
"If all goes well [at Hastings] we'll go to Caulfield and Melbourne."
Provocative, trained by Tony Pike, ran 12th over 1700m at Caulfield last Saturday in her first start since winning the Queensland Oaks in June.
Mime, trained by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, was a close-up eighth behind Kawi in an impressive first-up run in the group 1 Makfi Challenge Stakes at Hastings last Saturday.
The John Wheeler-trained Pentathlon was among the top two-milers in New Zealand last season, finishing second in the Wellington Cup and fourth in the Auckland Cup.
Another top New Zealand galloper from last season, Tavago, is among the Melbourne Cup nominations.
The Australian Derby winner - now trained at Cranbourne in Victoria after a trans-Tasman shift by Trent Busuttin and co-trainer Natalie Young - is back on track after missing Saturday's Memsie Stakes at Caulfield.
Tavago was scratched after pulling a tooth but ran a strong second in a Cranbourne jumpout on Monday.
Busuttin said the Caulfield Cup was Tavago's primary spring focus.
"He'll only have the two runs going into the Caulfield Cup, the Underwood might be a bit unorthodox but he's a horse that doesn't need a lot of racing and third up into a mile-and-a-half (2400m) he'll be fine," he told Racing.com.
Former Melbourne Cup winners Prince Of Penzance and Protectionist headline the first nominations which include 31 overseas-trained stayers: one-quarter of all entries.
Among the top overseas raiders are Japanese star and dual Tenno Sho placegetter Curren Mirotic; Aidan O'Brien gallopers Order Of St George, Idaho and Sword Fighter; Godolphin horses Manatee, Hartnelland Scottish; the American-trained Da Big Hoss; French horse Erupt; Michael Bell's Big Orange; Ebor Handicap winner Heartbreak City and Jockey Club Stakes winner Exosphere (not to be confused with his Australian namesake, who was retired to stud earlier this year).
For the first time, a horse prepared by a trainer from the Czech Republic has been nominated: Trip To Rhodes, trained by Pavel Tuma.
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Robyn Edie/Fairfax NZ Ezekiel Sopoaga and older brother Lima are both set to line up for the Southland Stags against Auckland in Invercargill on Friday night.
Lima Sopoaga has notched up some special milestones in recent years.
A Super Rugby title, the 2015 Super Rugby player of the year gong, and an All Blacks debut - they are all significant moments.
Friday night's occasion at Rugby Park in Invercargill won't create the same sort fanfare, but don't be mistaken, there is a fair level of excitement brewing for Sopoaga.
ROBYN EDIE/FAIRFAX NZ Ezekiel Sopoaga, left, and older brother Liam are both set to line up for the Southland Stags against Auckland in Invercargill on Friday night.
The first five-eighth has been released from the All Blacks to play for Southland against Auckland and will start at fullback in the round three game.
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His younger brother Ezekiel has been named on the bench as the brothers prepare to play in the same team together.
While Wellington is home for the two brothers after growing up in the capital, it will be in the maroon jersey of Southland that they get to play their first top-flight provincial game together.
"It's a funny old thing how rugby works these days. I guess you just come down here for an opportunity, obviously I made the move first and then Zek sort of followed," Lima said.
"He came down and played club rugby and did his building and he was lucky enough to force his way into the Stags.
"I'm pretty proud of him and he's got some good mentors with Brayden Mitchell, and the coaching staff are pretty good. So he's a young hooker trying to figure it all out and I think he's going alright."
It will be the first time they have lined up together since Ezekiel joined the Wellington College first XV in Year 11 in 2009 while Lima was in his final year at school.
"If he gets the opportunity to come off the bench, hopefully it will be a good night for us and for Rugby Southland," Lima said.
Ezekiel agreed it would be a moment to cherish on Friday night to play alongside his older brother.
There are six siblings in the family with Lima the oldest and Ezekiel in the middle.
"It's not every day you get to play alongside your brother, especially being a few years apart," Ezekiel said.
For Lima, Friday night's game will be a chance to pull on the boots again in a game situation after he has spent plenty of time on the training paddock with the All Blacks in recent weeks.
He did play for the All Blacks in their training matches against Counties and Northland, but his last proper fixture was for the Highlanders in their Super Rugby semifinal loss to the Lions in Johannesburg.
"It's cool to come down here and have a run around with the young boys and some fun," he said about the prospect of playing provincial rugby again.
Sopoaga arrived in Invercargill on Tuesday and he has had just one full team training with the Stags on Wednesday to quickly adjust to the Southland systems.
"It is just rugby at the end of the day. Apart from set piece you just grab the ball and try run as hard as you can and try not get tackled and try score some tries I guess, and if you have to kick some goals, kick some goals I suppose.
"But we'll see how we go out there, the boys are definitely in good spirits. They've been pretty well but just haven't got the rub of the green, so hopefully we can get the rub of the green this weekend."
Southland
Lima Sopoaga, Mike Molloy, Dylan Collier, James Schrader, Jay Thompson-Te Muunu, Wharenui Hawera, Jimmy Cowan, Mika Mafi, Phil Halder, Bill Fukofuka, Matt Phillip, Mike Mckee, Morgan Mitchell, Brayden Mitchell (c), Joe Walsh.
Reserves; Ezekiel Sopoaga, Peni Ravai, Guy Millar, Mike Stewart, Wade McRae, Jahvis Wallace, Junior Ngaluafe, Tauasosi Tuimavave.
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[] | 2016-08-31T04:52:25 | null | 2016-08-31T04:15:52 | Civil Aviation Authority confirms Air New Zealand Dreamlines has same engines as grounded Japanese planes. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2F83740918%2FAir-NZ-Dreamliners-use-same-engines-as-Japanese-jets-grounded-due-to-cracks.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/8/1/3/v/4/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1duuwm.png/1472616957746.jpg | en | null | Air NZ Dreamliners use same engines as Japanese jets grounded due to cracks | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Air NZ Dreamliners use same engines as Japanese jets grounded due to cracks
SUPPLIED Dreamliner Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, the same as those used by Air New Zealand, were found to have cracking problems for one Japanese airline.
Air New Zealand's Dreamliners are fitted with the same type of engine as those found with cracks in Japan, the aviation regulator has confirmed.
Up to 50 All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes have been grounded after corrosion and cracking problems were discovered on the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman Mike Richards confirmed the Air NZ fleet was fitted with the same engines.
"From our point of view there have been no operational issues in New Zealand with the engine and we understand Rolls-Royce is working with airlines about repairs."
Air New Zealand is one of a handful of airlines which also flies the 787s with the Trent 1000 engines.
Its fleet of seven Dreamliners each carry 302 passengers on routes from Auckland to Buenos Aires, Honolulu, Perth, Shanghai, and Tokyo.
The fleet has been flying for an average of 1.2 years and the airline has five more of the planes on order.
Air New Zealand has not yet responded to requests for comment.
Japanese airline ANA cancelled nine flights scheduled for its Dreamliner fleet last week.
ANA deputy senior vice president of engineering and maintenance Takeo Kikuchi, told reporters in Tokyo it may have to scrub more than 300 trips through to the end of September as it deals with cracking in the medium-pressure turbines of the engines.
"According to analysis by Rolls-Royce, the issue was determined to be fatigue cracks in the blades of the engine's intermediate pressure turbine," Kikuchi said.
The cracks were caused by chemicals in the atmosphere and the propagation of the cracks was related to the number of flights an engine had flown, ANA said in a statement.
"We have been working with Rolls-Royce, the designer and manufacturer of the engines in question, to implement permanent technical solutions to this issue."
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[] | 2016-08-31T02:52:26 | null | 2016-08-31T02:25:10 | What happens when a franchise worker lets the public in on its secrets? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2Findustries%2F83754350%2FSubway-managers-job-at-risk-after-spilling-the-beans-on-companys-inner-workings.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/b/q/g/d/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dv59q.png/1472611561243.jpg | en | null | Subway manager's job at risk after spilling the beans on company's inner workings | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Subway manager's job at risk after spilling the beans on company's inner workings
HAANA HOWARD What happens when a franchise worker lets the public in on its secrets?
A Subway staffer in the UK could lose his job after telling the public the good and bad about the popular fast-food operators' food.
Subway has been left embarrassed by an anonymous poster, claiming to be a shift manager for a Subway franchise, who went on social media site Reddit and invited users to ask him questions.
According to a Daily Mail article, he - or she - revealed that the chicken "stinks" as it came out of its packaging and advised fans to avoid certain chicken sandwiches.
supplied The worker also gave advice such as how to get the best value "sub" for money.
After stressing his opinions were his and not the company's, he happily answered questions on a range of subjects including which was the freshest filling.
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The answer was steak, and he urged users to avoid teriyaki and chipotle chicken subs.
"Chicken is given a two-day shelf life, once in the counter. However, these two [sandwiches] bypass this and get four days, and can get a little stinky."
Generally the writer upheld Subway's commitment to fresh food, saying "Subway (at least my Subway) is very strict on quality control and dates".
Other times he gave readers tips such as the best value sub deals, and reminded them about Subway's cheaper prices after the post-dinner rush.
The anonymous manager even had some advice about what to order if customers wanted a longer sandwich.
Subway was working to ensure its foot-long rolls were the full foot but the bread suffered minor shrinkage in the baking process, he said. Flatbread rolls were 14 inches long.
Whether the worker was well-meaning or not, he could well find himself in hot water if his identify is revealed.
Peter Cullen, a New Zealand employment law expert, said employees who went on the Internet and "bagged the company" were putting their jobs on the line.
The comments about the chicken, especially, could bring the company into disrepute, and stressing one's opinions were their own did not override a worker's obligations to their bosses.
"If you're an employee of a company you've got an obligation to behave in a way that promotes trust and confidence, you've got an obligation of fidelty to your employer, and you've got an obligation not to bring the employer into disrepute publically."
Companies faced a real challenge preserving their reputations in the internet age, Cullen said.
But there had been cases of giant corporates joining in the conversation and putting their views across rather than shutting it down.
The recent case of Air New Zealand staff making private videos ridiculing their jobs were also a good case of employees putting their employment at risk, he said.
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SIMON MAUDE/FAIRFAX NZ Police are investigating a fatal crash in the Bay of Plenty.
A woman is dead following a two-car crash on Te Puna Station Road early on Sunday.
Police and emergency services were called to the crash about 12.30am.
In a statement, police said a woman in her 40s died as a result of the smash and the driver of the other car was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Neither car had passengers.
The Serious Crash Unit is investigating the smash. Officers are in the process of contacting the dead woman's family.
The death has been referred to the Coroner.
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[] | 2016-08-27T00:50:42 | null | 2016-08-27T00:05:10 | Fans of the EPL in NZ will have one option after rights holder cancels plans for separate online streaming service. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fworld-game%2F83627398%2FBeIN-Sports-cans-plans-for-separate-English-Premier-League-streaming-service-in-NZ.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/f/q/r/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsfba.png/1472256310215.jpg | en | null | BeIN Sports cans plans for separate English Premier League streaming service in NZ | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | BeIN Sports cans plans for separate English Premier League streaming service in NZ
REUTERS EPL fans in New Zealand hoping to watch Wayne Rooney and Manchester United this season will not be able to do so via a separate online streaming service.
Fans of the English Premier League in New Zealand will not be able to watch this season's action on a separate online streaming service, according to pay TV company Sky
Rights holders beIN Sports had indicated they would offer the option as an alternative to signing up for their football package as part of a subscription to Sky.
But with the two round of matches in the 2016-17 season already complete, Sky said the separate streaming option had been canned by beIN.
"We have been advised they're not going to launch it independently," communications director Kirsty Way said
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"I had two reactions. One I felt a bit disappointed because I'd said so whole-heartedly on the radio two days before [we found out] that it was happening. In hindsight it is to Sky's advantage, but certainly not one we saw coming or planned for."
BeIN Sports had been contacted for comment.
Sky TV subscribers can pay an extra $11.96 a month for the beIN Sports football package, while those customers will also have access to the beIN Sports Connect online streaming service when it is available in New Zealand.
Way said Sky did not have a date when that would happen, but ο»Ώexpected that could be confirmed "any day now", pending an update from beIN.
Held by online sports streaming operator Coliseum Sports over the past three seasons, the EPL rights for New Zealand were won by beIN late last year.
The Dubai-based, Al Jazeera-run company initially attempted to on-sell the rights and although Sky had said the asking price was well beyond what they were prepared to pay, the two eventually struck a deal for the Kiwi pay TV provider to screen the EPL in New Zealand in June.
At that time, Way said Sky would not get any revenue from the football package, with all of the money instead going to beIN.
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[] | 2016-08-27T18:50:44 | null | 2016-08-27T17:00:00 | Libraries and halls are being converted into classrooms as schools struggle with overcrowding. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Feducation%2F83303455%2FOvercrowded-classrooms-force-schools-to-lose-libraries.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/m/y/v/j/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dlhcv.png/1472262872377.jpg | en | null | Overcrowded classrooms force schools to lose libraries | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Overcrowded classrooms force schools to lose libraries
ALDEN WILLIAMS/FAIRFAX NZ Students at Methven Primary School have had to bunker down in a non-insulated hall in sub-zero temperatures. From left, Hyacinth McMichael, Megan Barr, Ethan Riddle and Georgia Monk.
Explosive growth in classrooms is forcing schools to teach out of libraries and halls and in sub-zero temperatures.
About 60 of the 68 state schools in central and south Auckland are working at or above their student capacity.
Most have converted their libraries or halls into teaching spaces to cope while they wait on temporary relief from relocatable classrooms.
In the South Island, some students were being taught in an asbestos-clad woodwork room in sub-zero conditions and had to give up their library for extra classroom space.
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Methven Primary School near Ashburton had no choice but to relocate four classrooms to their library and a derelict woodwork room that doubled as a hall.
The coldest morning they had this winter was -7C and students and teachers in the non-insulated hall bunkered down in ski-jackets.
A mobile library was arranged since two classrooms took over the space more than a year ago.
Principal Chris Murray said their backs were up against the wall as pupil numbers increased after growth and development in the area.
The rural school was designed for 220 students but over the last four years has peeked at 320.
"It's been trying times. The [Board of Trustees] had to be strategic about where to put students and where we had the spare space," he said.
"It came down to that we don't have an alternative. Every nook and cranny was full."
But two weeks ago, they were able to move into a brand new classroom fitted with a heat pump and "all the bells and whistles".
Murray said the Ministry of Eduction funded more than $1 million for the new room after eventually visiting the school earlier in 2016.
However, the library will still house two classrooms until the end of September.
Rowendale Primary School in south Auckland gave up their library five years ago to make for teaching space.
"We haven't had a proper library for so long that these kids don't know what a library is," said principal Karl Vasau.
They created a pop up library in a tiny room where only 10 students at one time can visit.
Currently, there are 628 students packed into a building designed for 480.
"We're using every part at the school as possible because of the overcrowding," he said.
They received six relocatable classrooms delivered by the Ministry last year.
Two were brand new and another two were asbestos-clad taken from another school.
It's been a temporary fix, but they still don't have a library.
Lynda Stuart, principal representative of the New Zealand Education Institute said principals are doing the best they can with what they have.
She said schools working above capacity had no choice but to forfeit libraries and halls and that choice threw the whole school out of function.
"That means other children can't use it and it's not a school-wide facility anymore. It's also the fact that the children are in a temporary place," she said.
"It's not their learning environment to specifically meet their needs."
Michael Maher, Auckland Primary Principals' Association representative said if a school is working to capacity it was highly likely neighbouring schools are as well.
He said migration and immigration were the main factors for significant roll growth in Auckland over the past few years and that overcrowded schools were an effect of the region's housing crisis.
But Rob Giller, acting head of education infrastructure for the Ministry of Education said they were looking ahead 30 years and working closely with local bodies.
"It is no secret that the population and therefore student numbers are growing not only in Auckland, but also in Hamilton, Tauranga, Central Otago and Queenstown," he said.
"The Ministry is forecasting the impact of this growth on the school network and working to ensure it will be accommodated."
In 2014, a growth package of $350 million over four years was announced for Auckland to get ahead of demand and ensure necessary school infrastructure was in place to meet population growth.
He said the Ministry's school property guide calculator makes different allowances for space depending on variables such as the years of the students, whether the school is operating in a Maori medium, and whether there are special needs students enrolled.
"School rolls are also prone to short-term fluctuations, so if a school is calculated as operating at capacity today, it doesn't imply that it will be tomorrow, or that it has an ongoing shortage of facilities," he said.
- Sunday Star Times | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/83303455/Overcrowded-classrooms-force-schools-to-lose-libraries | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/743e86591c839de533bc288e5ba26cfee3510c431469e0510cc3eed5cde629e4.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T08:50:36 | null | 2016-08-27T06:52:55 | You have to ask yourself if anyone's phone is worth the price this friend paid. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Feurope%2F83634425%2FMan-rescued-after-becoming-trapped-in-Norwegian-toilet-during-cellphone-retrieval-mission.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/k/r/3/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dskqh.png/1472280775082.jpg | en | null | Man rescued after becoming trapped in Norwegian toilet during cellphone retrieval mission | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Man rescued after becoming trapped in Norwegian toilet during cellphone retrieval mission
Cato Berntsen Larsen/TWITTER Cato Berntsen Larsen struck a slight problem while fishing his friend's mobile phone from the bottom of a Norwegian public toilet.
When his friend's mobile phone fell in to a public toilet in Norway, this 20-year-old drew the short straw and had to fish it out.
Somehow Cato Berntsen Larsen managed to squeeze himself into the bowels, so to speak, of the public toilet - one similar to New Zealand's long-drop. As he stood there, thigh-deep in faeces, Larsen wished he hadn't bothered, VG reported.
"I was obviously slim enough to get into it, but not slim enough to get out. I was down there for one hour, and it was very unpleasant", Larsen said to the local newspaper, Drammens Tidende.
"I panicked. I hate confined spaces. It was difficult to move," Larsen said, according to One News.
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Larsen's friends called emergency services, who were able to free him.
"We sent a fire truck with four men to the location. It took them about 10 minutes to get the man out, the fire personnel had to demolish the toilet. It's now out of service," said Kristin Rodnes, from Vestviken emergency central.
Larsen emerged from the toilet with no serious injuries, just a scratched shoulder.
Section manager Kristine Hoibraaten said this was the first time anyone had fallen into the toilet tank, since its installation in the 1990s.
"The tank is normally emptied only once a year. Normally it shall be very difficult to fall into this toilet", Hoibraaten said.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/83634425/Man-rescued-after-becoming-trapped-in-Norwegian-toilet-during-cellphone-retrieval-mission | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/a9f676ea0d46bb5ea4f06e64e25951bda93e53944eb22085663b97d10edb8e60.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T08:52:49 | null | 2016-08-31T07:02:03 | Moving from his house into a rest home was one of the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2F83330419%2FRest-home-move-the-biggest-step-for-81-year-old-bachelor-Fred-Cockram.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/j/j/1/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dm25v.png/1472628010615.jpg | en | null | Rest home move the 'biggest step' for 81-year-old bachelor Fred Cockram | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Rest home move the 'biggest step' for 81-year-old bachelor Fred Cockram
IAIN MCGREGOR/FAIRFAX NZ Every item in Fred Cockram's room tells a story and helps him to recall his "happy memories".
For 81-year-old Fred Cockram, moving into an aged care facility was one of the "biggest steps" of his life.
"I never ever expected to end up in a place like this. I had so many chattels.
"Every room could tell a different story in the house . . . I thought I had settled in that unit for life," Cockram said.
IAIN MCGREGOR/FAIRFAX NZ Fred Cockram was recently forced out of his over 60s unit because of ailing health.
The bachelor had no children. He lived alone for most of his life, most recently in Woolston after the earthquakes claimed his Bexley Rd home.
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Diabetes took his left leg, right toes and left eye. Earlier this year, it landed him in hospital.
DAVID WALKER/FAIRFAX NZ Brad Fraser, left, and Paul Lawrence have started Senior Move Managers in Christchurch.
His twin sister was in care. Doctors eventually told him: "You're not going home."
"I thought 'what am I going to do with all my chattels?' I've lost all my strength," Cockram said.
Cockram hired Senior Move Managers to help. Such firms have appeared around the world in response to aging populations.
They pack and unpack boxes and furniture, organise moving companies, and set up a new property according to a pre-arranged floor plan.
Brad Fraser and Paul Lawrence, both 27, launched their Christchurch senior relocation service in May. They helped Cockram shift from his home to Bupa Parklands Hospital.
Freddy the frog, a writing desk, a painting of buses, ornamental vespa, model trains, his mobility bed and a flag that once flew at the 1966 football World Cup at Wembley Stadium were among those that made it into his new room.
"I'm getting used to it. It's a move from a three to four bedroom house into one room. You take the best things, that have memories. I still smile. Don't leave your smile behind," Cockram said.
Lawrence said the senior move management model was needed "everywhere" because of aging populations. Christchurch was no different.
According to Statistics New Zealand, half of all Kiwis will be older than 46 by 2051.
Bupa community liaison Sarah Radburndβ said cases like Cockram's, where there was limited external support, came across her desk on a weekly basis.
In a busy week, three would be brought to her attention.
"A lot of old people just have nobody anymore and no-one to support them."
Radburnd welcomed the senior moving agency, because it saved rest home staff work.
"I would do as much as possible as I could do myself. I would take people home to get their belongings, help them to finish up bills, all that kind of stuff."
Age Concern Canterbury chief executive Simon Templeton said a couple of senior move firms had identified a gap in the market.
"We certainly have a large number of older people that don't have family members living close by.
"Possibly, you could see it as sad that we need that service but that is where society has moved. You don't live in the same village anymore and it's a reality of modern life."
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/83330419/Rest-home-move-the-biggest-step-for-81-year-old-bachelor-Fred-Cockram | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/7b623e0778d87c43b0af8bef170aca7144d4bcb9129516395969c021a9beccfd.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T10:50:25 | null | 2016-08-27T09:00:00 | Christchurch crime writer Paul Cleave wins top award for his | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F83632233%2FChristchurchs-Paul-Cleave-wins-Ngaio-Marsh-crime-writing-award-for-third-time.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/j/s/h/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsj1l.png/1472281316054.jpg | en | null | Christchurch's Paul Cleave wins Ngaio Marsh crime writing award for third time | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Christchurch's Paul Cleave wins Ngaio Marsh crime writing award for third time
supplied Author Paul Cleave pictured winning the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. Cleave is also the 2016 winner.
Christchurch crime writer Paul Cleave has become the first to win the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel three times.
Cleave was awarded the prize in a ceremony at the Christchurch Art Gallery on Saturday night for his ninth novel Trust No One (Upstart Press) about a crime writer diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's who confesses to murders depicted in his books.
He took home the award in 2015 and 2011.
supplied Ray Berard won the 2016 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel for his book Inside the Black Horse.
The Ngaio Marsh Awards judging panel praised Trust No One as "a stunningly audacious novel that functions as a literary hall of mirrors β¦ it succeeds brilliantly on many different levels".
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The other finalists for the Best Crime Novel Award were: Adam Christopher for Made to Kill (Titan Books), Tanya Moir for The Legend of Winstone Blackhat (Vintage) and Ben Sanders for American Blood (Allen & Unwin) and Ray Berard for Inside The Black Horse (Mary Egan Publishing).
Trust No One by Paul Cleave was described by judges as "brilliant on many levels".
Berard, a first time author won the award for Best First Novel for his tale Inside The Black Horse.
Judges described it as "a lucid and potent portrait of good people and gangsters that is unmistakably Kiwi in flavour and tone... a fine crime story with considerable depth."
It was the first time the award for debut authors was made but the category had received a large number of entries.
The other finalists for the award were John Daniell for The Fixer (Upstart Press), Jen Shieff for The Gentlemen's Club (Mary Egan Publishing) and Jane Woodham for Twister (RosaMira Books).
Award founder Craig Sisterton said it had been a long and tough "investigation" with a record number of entries, a new category and several rounds of judging.
"Overall, the international judges were blown away by the quality and variety of our Kiwi crime tales."
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/83632233/Christchurchs-Paul-Cleave-wins-Ngaio-Marsh-crime-writing-award-for-third-time | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/af38abf98bb07fbaafecf15e2cc00e534775802acae8dbebe80025ad0ad0b35a.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T08:52:26 | null | 2016-08-31T08:34:42 | Right whale mother and calf seen frolicking together off the coast of Auckland Islands. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2F83778306%2FBeautiful-drone-footage-of-right-whales-off-coast-of-NZ.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/n/x/j/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dvnr6.png/1472632975088.jpg | en | null | Beautiful drone footage of right whales off coast of NZ | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Beautiful drone footage of right whales off coast of NZ
ONE NEWS University of Otago researchers filmed the huge mammals at the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands.
University of Otago researchers have released stunning drone footage of right whales frolicking off the coast of the Auckland Islands.
The Auckland Islands - not to be confused with Auckland's various islands - are located roughly 465 kilometres south of the South Island.
The footage was captured as part of a three week survey on the status of right whales who breed in Port Ross, a natural harbour in the Auckland Islands.
University of Otago Two right whales prepare to mate.
"We fitted our drone with a tiny laser range finder to measure altitude with a high degree of precision. Because of this we can measure the size and shape of right whales photographed from above," researcher Steve Dawson said in a release.
"This helps us understand the population at the Auckland Islands, and is crucial for figuring out why some right whale populations (such as ours) are recovering strongly, while others, such as the North Atlantic right whale, are not."
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Drones could be especially useful in future expeditions as the whales appeared not to notice them. Whales usually notice boats.
"The pictures were taken while the drone hovered 25-35m above the whales and the whales did not seem to react," said Dawson.
"I don't think they knew the drone was there which means this technology provides a powerful non-invasive tool to assess the condition of individual whales."
In the 12 days of the visit, when the weather was calm enough to allow drone usage, 136 flights were managed.
"We gained measurement quality images of over 100 different individuals β about a third of the whales present. That's a great sample, but we're most excited about getting measurement images of over 50 mothers and calves because these are the ones driving the population's recovery," Dawson said.
The survey was funded by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/83778306/Beautiful-drone-footage-of-right-whales-off-coast-of-NZ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/934dbaf7674ec6449e6c9220d97e0e5a237d88adb80cf8979c46c676456ee301.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T06:51:52 | null | 2016-08-30T06:12:02 | Leon MacDonald will continue to coach Tasman next year, despite being appointed as an assistant coach for the Crusaders. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2Fsuper-rugby%2F83723584%2FHe-was-my-man-my-preferred-candidate-Crusaders-coach-Robertson-grabs-new-assistant-MacDonald.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/h/t/1/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1duhj4.png/1472537522944.jpg | en | null | "He was my man, my preferred candidate": Crusaders coach Robertson grabs new assistant MacDonald | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | "He was my man, my preferred candidate": Crusaders coach Robertson grabs new assistant MacDonald
KAI SCHWOERER Former All Blacks and Crusaders fullback Leon MacDonald will work under new Crusaders coach Scott Robertson for the next two years. MacDonald is in his first season as the Tasman head coach, having previously worked as Kieran Keane's assistant.
Leon MacDonald didnβt have to memorise a speech or prepare a powerpoint presentation prior to accepting a two-year contract to be the Crusadersβ assistant backs coach.
Unlike the assistant forward coachβs position, which will be filled after several candidates have been interviewed this month, this job was MacDonaldβs if he wanted it.
Quite simply, new coach Scott Robertson wanted him as a replacement for the departed Tabai Matson. The role wasn't advertised. βHe was my man, my preferred candidate,ββ Robertson said.
This time there was no confusion. Previous coach Todd Blackadder also thought he had convinced MacDonald to join his crew for when Aaron Mauger left at the end of the 2015 Super Rugby season but, for whatever reason, was unable to draw MacDonald away from Nelson where he coaches Tasman.
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That resulted in Brad Mooar being hooked from Southland, and he assisted Matson with the teamβs attack this year.
Now MacDonald and Mooar have been charged to work with the backline as Robertson continues to shape a new coaching model for the Christchurch-based club.
Robertson and MacDonald are certainly not strangers. They played together in the All Blacks, Crusaders and Canterbury and later coached the New Zealand under-20 side.
MacDonald, 38, had a long playing career and could operate at fullback, in the midfield or at first five-eighth: he experienced 56 test matches, in addition to 122 appearances for the Crusaders and seven for the Chiefs. His coaching career began with Tasman in 2011 and this year he replaced Kieran Keane as head coach, a job he will continue with next year.
The fact MacDonald, who wasnβt shy of contact and eventually retired because of concussion issues in 2010, played in a variety of positions appealed to Robertson.
βHe is just like as he was when he played - he just gets it,ββ Robertson said. βHe understands it; if people are defending in a certain way, he picks it up in an instant.
βBecause he played in multiple positions he can have a conversation with players and give them extremely detailed feedback.ββ
MacDonald wonβt arrive until Tasman have completed their duties in the national provincial championship in late October. There will be no commuting when the Super Rugby season begins.
Robertson, who is also coaching Canterbury in the NPC, will lean on Mooar to ensure the Crusadersβ operation isnβt compromised by having two coaches involved with other teams.
While Robertson only has three or four slots to fill in his playing roster, he accepts that it would be negligent to not closely monitor other parts of the business.
βBrad has a great strategic mind, is good at statistics and trends and will do some planning while Leon is at Tasman. Then Leon can come in and collaborate with us.ββ
While Mooar will monitor the overall attack, MacDonald will work with the backlineβs launches in attack, defence, counter-attack and kicking out of hand.
MacDonald first played for the Crusaders in 1997. He represented the Chiefs the following season before returning to the Crusaders in 1999. In 2004 he played in Japan and then linked with the Crusaders from 2005 to 2009.
βAs coach he also has a lot of games under his belt,ββ Robertson added. βWhen we worked in the under-20s, he would come and say to me and say βwhatβs going on hereβ and challenge me in a way that would make me really think about it.
βIt is a really open and strong relationship. And he has done a great apprenticeship under Kieran Keane.ββ
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/83723584/He-was-my-man-my-preferred-candidate-Crusaders-coach-Robertson-grabs-new-assistant-MacDonald | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/13a6fb779a767cbf212d8fa439adeaa63be22d168c86dea4edb592dbaff4f03a.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T14:51:53 | null | 2016-08-30T13:31:06 | A night of drinking turned to tragedy when Ross Mobbs plunged from a Bangkok hotel balcony. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Fasia%2F83740247%2FNew-Zealander-dies-in-Thailand-after-fall-from-Bangkok-hotel-balcony.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/u/g/d/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1duudz.png/1472564558828.jpg | en | null | New Zealander dies in Thailand after fall from Bangkok hotel balcony | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | New Zealander dies in Thailand after fall from Bangkok hotel balcony
FACEBOOK Ross Mobbs died after falling from a hotel balcony in Thailand.
A New Zealander is dead after falling from a fourth-floor hotel balcony in Thailand after a night drinking with friends.
Ross Anthony Mobbs, 30, of Dunedin, was found dead at Bangkok's Chillax Resort about 3.30am on Tuesday (8.30am NZ Time).
It appeared he had tried to climb from his balcony to the room next door, where a friend was sleeping, when he fell to his death, a hotel spokeswoman told Stuff.
Ross Mobbs had been staying at the Bangkok hotel for four nights when the accident occurred. FACEBOOK
She said the trio of New Zealanders - Mobbs, another man, and a woman - had been drinking beer, and it was believed that Mobbs was drunk at the time.
The friends had been staying at the luxury, self-proclaimed "romantic hotel", in the riverside Khet Phra Nakhon district, since August 26.
The spokeswoman said the group hadn't caused any trouble during their stay.
Mobbs' friends had made a statement to local police, and had since checked out of their hotel.
Police translator Mine Jariyaphod said the trio were drinking in one hotel room, when the woman decided to go to sleep in the adjacent suite. Mobbs later tried to climb across to her balcony.
Jariyaphod added: "The window was not strong". It was not immediately clear whether that had contributed to Mobbs' fall.
Police had been in contact with the New Zealand Embassy in Bangkok, she said.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/83740247/New-Zealander-dies-in-Thailand-after-fall-from-Bangkok-hotel-balcony | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/6c4d83419745a89bdfa65747851245e41829fdca7cfc03713e58ed73e19d4a84.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T02:51:04 | null | 2016-08-28T01:55:58 | Girl on the run from police asks media to use 'better photo' of her when reporting. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fworld%2Faustralia%2F83642662%2FCheeky-jail-break-girl-asks-media-to-use-better-photo-on-Facebook.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/s/r/2/e/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsr3a.png/1472349358902.jpg | en | null | Cheeky 'jail break' girl asks media to use 'better photo' on Facebook | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Cheeky 'jail break' girl asks media to use 'better photo' on Facebook
The images of Amy Sharp released by NSW police last week.
A woman allegedly on the run from police has caused a social media storm after she asked a TV station to use a 'better photo' of her when reporting her escape.
Teenager Amy Sharp is alleged to have broken out of a police station in Sydney on Friday, August 19, before running away.
And as is fairly standard practice, police issued a statement accompanied by two photographs they had taken of the 18-year-old in a bid to find the youngster.
Clearly the teenager wasn't a fan of the original police shots.
But the search took an unexpected turn when the pictures and police statement were uploaded onto Sydney's 7 News Facebook page.
Brazenly, the first person to comment on the story and the photos was Amy Sharp herself.
Clearly unhappy with how she looked in the police mugshots, in which she wore a glum expression and a red blanket draped over her shoulders, she uploaded a more flattering shot in the comments section of the page with a simple request:
The original photo sent out by police, and Amy Sharp's immediate request on social media.
"Can you use this photo please, and thank you. Yours truly Amy Sharp XX"
The comment, which was accompanied with a smiling emoji with a halo, was liked more than 47,000 times and attracted numerous comments.
Bec Sackville posted "Haha that's a classic. Think the cops have found a new way to catch crims. Just put out an ugly photo and the crim will be in touch to give you a better one lol."
Police said that shortly after 3pm on Friday, August 19, Amy Sharp was in the Surry Hills Corrective Services Cell Complex when she fled from staff and was last seen running down Riley street.
Police did not consider her a risk to members of the public saying she had been in custody for property offences.
She was later caught in Wentworth Park, not far from where she allegedly escaped and is expected to be charged.
- SMH | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/83642662/Cheeky-jail-break-girl-asks-media-to-use-better-photo-on-Facebook | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/c1b585deabba74906b08fa81807a84676dab68db2dcddf8d2c4e9d5b5375fef1.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T00:51:37 | null | 2016-08-29T00:34:07 | Auckland mum is alleged to have smuggled in a huge amount of drugs through the Customs backdoor. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Fcrime%2F83657739%2FJury-told-of-almost-perfect-crime-in-drug-trial.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/t/6/q/v/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dt2q3.png/1472430848035.jpg | en | null | Jury told of 'almost perfect crime' in drug trial | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Jury told of 'almost perfect crime' in drug trial
BEVAN READ/FAIRFAX NZ Yixin Gan (centre) at the High Court in Auckland flanked by a security officer and her translator.
The trial of an Auckland mother accused of importing a huge amount of drugs into the country has begun.
Yixin Gan has pleaded not guilty, at the High Court in Auckland, to four charges of importation and possession for supply of a class B drug, linked to an 18-month police investigation codenamed Operation Ghost.
The case is linked to the importation of pseudoephedrine, one of the principle precursors used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
It is alleged Gan hid the drugs, in the form of cold and flu remedy Contact NT granules, in food shipments from China to Tonga, then offloaded them while in transit in Auckland.
On Monday, Crown prosecutor Scott McColgan told the jury Gan's method of importing the drugs was the "almost perfect" crime.
"What this trial is really about is money, and lot's of it."
Gan had discovered that goods in transit through New Zealand on route to another destination were held in a customs-controlled area that was rarely examined.
Posing as a legitimate importer of goods between Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gan cultivated an "inside man" at the warehouse.
The man would take out specific packages containing the drugs and replace them with others of the same size and weight.
Gan did not have any contact with the drugs, but maintained control over how they were moved and disposed of.
But her plan unravelled in October after she was linked to two other men under surveillance by police.
A shipment of at least 250kg of pseudoephedrine was found hidden as potato starch in the warehouse.
Upon examination of Gan's bank accounts by police, "vast amounts" of cash deposits were discovered that coincided with previous shipments that were being shipped through New Zealand.
The trial in front of Justice Matthew Downes is set for two weeks.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/83657739/Jury-told-of-almost-perfect-crime-in-drug-trial | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/c3331a8c789438f039c995a18c8b955d27ccc6d2ac470962d0b3d4bdf52b4a24.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T02:50:58 | null | 2016-08-28T02:32:53 | Mayoral hopeful says limiting migrant numbers would give Auckland housing market a chance to recover. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Fpolitics%2F83642545%2FAuckland-mayoral-hopeful-Phil-Goff-Limit-immigration-to-fix-housing-crisis.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/b/d/z/k/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dsr01.png/1472351799023.jpg | en | null | Auckland mayoral hopeful Phil Goff: Limit immigration to fix housing crisis | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Auckland mayoral hopeful Phil Goff: Limit immigration to fix housing crisis
LAWRENCE SMITH/FAIRFAX NZ Phil Goff launched his campaign for the Auckland mayoralty on Sunday.
Immigration needs to be slowed to curb Auckland's growing housing crisis, mayoral candidate Phil Goff says.
The Labour MP officially launched his campaign for the mayoralty at Corban Estate in west Auckland on Sunday.
The region was growing by 825 people every week, he told the crowd.
More than two thirds were new migrants to New Zealand, "from Brits escaping post-Brexit to those coming from Asia".
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Immigration brought "skills and energy" to Auckland but needed to be at a slower rate for the region's infrastructure to cope.
However, he said he had no set figure in mind for a new limit on immigrants.
"I haven't got a figure, it's not sensible to have a number."
Goff said he welcomed foreign property investors, but called for them to "build houses and add to the economy, rather than buy and drive up the housing prices".
The "Kiwi dream" of owning a home was eluding growing numbers of Aucklanders and rents were becoming unaffordable for large sections of the population.
Goff said the housing crisis was a multi-faceted issue and Auckland Council, the Government, private businesses and non-government organisations needed to work together to solve it.
The council could also streamline the consenting process to speed up development, he said.
"As mayor I will institute a review to determine how [the] consenting process can be faster, cheaper and in line with best practice."
The mayoral hopeful has previously said that the region's homeless could be housed at the old Mt Eden Prison.
"The prison can serve as a temporary shelter, it has walls, beds, kitchens, toilets and has been empty for seven years," he said at a Talk Auckland session on August 25.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/83642545/Auckland-mayoral-hopeful-Phil-Goff-Limit-immigration-to-fix-housing-crisis | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/ab71f20c20a5be8223497ea7eaaa244b2e2d90a54ba5c1c2655e389707b6a965.json |
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SUPPLIED The racer is part of the hype train for the brand's new LC500 sports car which is due to hit Australian showrooms in 2017.
Lexus has revealed its LC500-based race car, which is slated to compete in the 2017 Japan Super GT500 series.
The racer is part of the hype train for the brand's new LC500 sports car.
The Japanese brand's new halo car has been shown off in two guises before, the 348kW/530Nm 5.0-litre V8 LC500 Coupe from the 2016 Detroit motor show and the more mellow 3.5-litre V6 hybrid LC500h shown at the 2016 Geneva motor show, all of which followed on from the brand's LF-LC concept unveiled back at the 2012 Detroit motor show.
SUPPLIED Unlike the production concepts the racing version will weigh slightly more than one tonne and will be powered by a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbocharged engine.
The LC500 is building on the Japanese brand's back to the future sports car renaissance, which was first kicked off by Lexus' LFA supercar and then parent company Toyota's everyman's 86 sports car.
Unlike the production concepts the racing version will weigh slightly more than one tonne and will be powered by a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbocharged engine.
Lexus believe that while the LC500 was designed as a grand tourer of sorts it is easily adaptable for racing enhancements.
The LC500 race car is kitted out with widened fenders, muscular skirts, large spoiler and rear diffuser and multiple vents for downforce and heat extraction.
- Sydney Morning Herald | http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/83723013/Lexus-reveal-new-LC500-based-race-car | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/fc3368554f91c9bdb1ba65fa47e3df8b955fe03099ba31b2b579959561b797d6.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T08:51:17 | null | 2016-08-29T07:45:00 | Kiwi star has a temperature, so his programme is pushed back. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Fracing%2F83656208%2FXtravagants-return-in-Melbourne-delayed-by-temperature.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/t/b/h/i/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dt1jk.png/1472456721501.jpg | en | null | Xtravagant's return in Melbourne delayed by temperature | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Xtravagant's return in Melbourne delayed by temperature
Trish Dunell Outstanding galloper Xtravagant is likely to have the first run in a new campaign at Flemington.
New Zealand star Xtravagant's first Australian start for the season has been delayed and he will not run at Moonee Valley.
Te Akau Racing said the four-year-old left some feed on Sunday morning and had a slight temperature.
He was treated and back to normal by Monday but connections decided he would miss Saturday's Listed Chandler Mcleod Stakes (1200m) and wait a week for the Group II Bobbie Lewis at Flemington.
Affectionately known by the stable as Blake, Xtravagant has not raced since he won the Group III Breeders' Stakes at Te Rapa on April 30 after his disappointing eighth as favourite in the Australian Guineas.
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"... we do not think it is in Blake's best interests for us to gallop him tomorrow morning. Be assured that this is a disappointment not a serious problem just a frustration and an untimely one!" Te Akau said.
"He will remain on target. Instead of having three weeks until his next race after his fresh-up run he will have a fortnight which should not have any significant impact at all."
The race his Matamata trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards are aiming for after the Bobbie Lewis is the Group I Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on September 24.
The Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on October 22 is under consideration for Xtravagant but his participation will hinge on whether the entire can stay beyond 1600m.
He will run in the Toorak Handicap (1600m) after the Rupert Clarke.
"Then the Cox Plate is there, if 2040m around Moonee Valley looks like the thing, then we will be there otherwise a race like the Waterford Crystal Mile is an option," Autridge said.
"We will take our time and make some plans when we see how much he finds with a bit more pressure on him."
Former Cambridge trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young scored their breakthrough win on Sunday since relocating to Cranbourne.
Old Farm Road who moved with them won a A$23,000 maiden at his new home track by five lengths.
It was the 3-year-old Thewayyouare gelding's seventh start, having placed in three of his six starts in New Zealand.
"We can pick some nice races for him now and see how far he can go," Busuttin said.
Their stable star Tavago will be nominated for the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes this weekend after recovering from a dental issue, which saw him scratched from the Memsie Stakes.
The Australian Derby winner ran second to stablemate Natural Achiever in a Cranbourne trial on Monday pleasing his trainers.
However, there's a good chance they will wait for the Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) the following week for his campaign debut.
"It wasn't ideal to miss the Memsie but he can overcome that," Busuttin said as he sets the son of Tavistock for his main mission the Caulfield Cup.
"There's three million reasons to keep that race in mind."
The horse that beat Tavago on Monday, Natural Achiever, will be set for a midweek city race in the short-term.
"He will be really hard to beat," Busuttin said.
The 4-year-old Savabeel gelding had two New Zealand runs winning impressively both times.
Busuttin and Young have another New Zealander about to join their barn.
Lord And Master won at Ruakaka on Saturday for Donna Logan and Chris Gibbs but transfers to Victoria seeking better staying opportunities.
- Stuff and AAP | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/83656208/Xtravagants-return-in-Melbourne-delayed-by-temperature | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/5d3b1aa9e97b9972f5a9d3457d7347bc910157f581b71cd4a7e6e2449111d290.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:52:32 | null | 2016-08-31T02:46:32 | Long days lay ahead for Waikato daffodil growers as spring officially arrives on Thursday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2F83747790%2FUgly-bulbs-spring-beauty.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/9/u/u/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dv07i.png/1472611739440.jpg | en | null | Ugly bulb's spring beauty | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Ugly bulb's spring beauty
MARK TAYLOR/FAIRFAX NZ Clandon Daffodils' Ian Riddell is doing 15 hour days during peak season.
Spring has officially sprung and for daffodil grower Ian Riddell it means 3am starts, 15 hour days and a trek up the Auckland motorway three times a week.
His 21-acre Clandon daffodil farm in Gordonton is producing in excess of 1200 bunches a day.
But having been in the business for over 20 years he used to the arduous task of dealing with peak season, which runs until mid October.
MARK TAYLOR/FAIRFAX NZ A milder winter has been kinder to lambs in the Waikato.
And he can understand the spring flower's popularity.
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"They are pretty amazing as they come from an ugly looking bulb into a stunning flower," Riddell said.
MARK TAYLOR/FAIRFAX NZ Clandon daffodils have over one million bulbs and harvest around 80,000 annually.
Meanwhile, a warmer winter has meant more lambs for farmers in the region.
Pukeatua farmer Nigel Anderson normally supplies 20 to 30 lambs from his 700 ewes to school students for pet day, however with fewer abandoned lambs on his hands, he has struggled to find his own kids motherless lambs to adopt.
"It's definitely been a mild winter but very, very wet. During lambing it would rain for weeks on end and normally that would be quite disastrous for us but because it was so warm it wasn't too much of an issue.
"It's been a lot better for the lambing than most years. There was only a few days which were very, very cold. For lambs if it's cold and wet they don't survive very long if they haven't been fed," Anderson said.
The phones at lawn sowing companies are also starting to ring off the hook as it's prime time to lay the new lawn.
Director of Urban Lawns and Civil, Tanya Cooke, said it will only get busier over the next few weeks.
"It's definitely a great time [to lay lawn] especially for lifestyle blocks because they are solely relying on rainfall, whereas small residential lawns can actually use town supplied water.
"It's a good time of year as the air temperature is warming up. They're going to get good germination from the seed - it's not too hot like summer," Cooke said.
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- Waikato Times | http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/83747790/Ugly-bulbs-spring-beauty | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/17c3aa6a148f36864118efca5a2a54b43208e486aa49a1acf62b67079786625a.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T04:51:27 | null | 2016-08-29T04:30:50 | A dozen squad members made available for National Provincial Championship duties this week. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2Fall-blacks%2F83685840%2FAll-Blacks-release-12-squad-members-to-provincial-teams-for-latest-round-of-matches.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/8/g/c/i/f/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtoeo.png/1472445050063.jpg | en | null | All Blacks release 12 squad members to provincial teams for latest round of matches | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | All Blacks release 12 squad members to provincial teams for latest round of matches
IAIN MCGREGOR/FAIRFAX NZ Charlie Faumuina is one of four All Blacks squad members returning to the fold for the Auckland provincial team this week.
A dozen All Blacks squad members have been made available for National Provincial Championship duties this week.
Four players who featured in the 22-9 Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship victory over Australia in Wellington on Saturday night are part of the group.
Prop Charlie Faumuina is set to turn out for Auckland against Southland in Invercargill on Friday, midfielder Seta Tamanivalu at Taranaki's disposal for their clash with Tasman in Nelson on Saturday and hooker James Parsons will line-up for North Harbour against Wellington on the same day.
Auckland will also have the services of lock Patrick Tuipulotu, young prop Ofa Tu'ungafasi and sevens star Rieko Ioane, while first five-eighth Lima Sopoaga is available for Southland.
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Elsewhere in the provincial competition, hooker Liam Coltman returns to the Otago squad for their matches against Northland on Wednesday and Bay of Plenty on Sunday.
Canterbury receive a similar boost to Auckland, with lock Luke Romano, hooker Codie Taylor and midfielder Ryan Crotty back for a clash with Northland on Saturday, while rising young utility back Damian McKenzie re-enters the fray for Waikato's encounter with Manawatu on Sunday.
Coltman, Tamanivalu and McKenzie will reassemble with the All Blacks squad next weekend as injury replacement players and Parsons and Ioane will be released to their NPC teams.
The All Blacks squad reassembles on Sunday in Hamilton to prepare for the Rugby Championship test against Argentina on September 10.
All Blacks squad members available for NPC duty:
Otago v Northland, Wednesday August 31 and Bay of Plenty v Otago, Sunday September 4: Otago - Liam Coltman
Southland v Auckland, Friday September 2: Southland - Lima Sopoaga. Auckland - Patrick Tuipulotu, Ofa Tu'ungafasi, Charlie Faumuina and Rieko Ioane
Tasman v Taranaki, Saturday September 3: Taranaki - Seta Tamanivalu
Wellington v North Harbour, Saturday September 3: North Harbour - James Parsons
Northland v Canterbury, Saturday September 3: Canterbury - Luke Romano, Ryan Crotty and Codie Taylor
Waikato v Manawatu, Sunday September 4: Waikato - Damian McKenzie
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/83685840/All-Blacks-release-12-squad-members-to-provincial-teams-for-latest-round-of-matches | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/5fe19c12667e161b33fae9a0dab3a4612d3ad7f42a33f9370c52dd991cd90984.json |
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SCREEN GRAB/YOUTUBE Officer Victor Ortiz pulled a man from the tracks of a New Jersey subway shortly before a train arrived.
A quick-thinking police officer is being hailed as a hero after pulling a man off the track of a New Jersey subway.
Transit police officer Victor Ortiz saw the man jump onto the tracks and kneel down as a train approached.
According to authorities, Ortiz then climbed onto the tracks and dragged the man to safety.
Ortiz told CBS New York he made a split-second decision and had no time to think about himself.
"At that point he's like, 'I just want to die, I just want to die'," Ortiz told CBS News.
"He pretty much went down on his knees and down on his arms. At that point I said, 'You're not going to die, you're not going to die'."
Video footage shows Ortiz struggling to drag the man off the tracks as an oncoming train approaches.
New Jersey Transit said in a statement they "could not be more proud" of Ortiz.
"We hope this serves as a stark reminder of what these men and women do every single day to keep us safe throughout this state."
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/83730355/Transit-officer-pulls-man-off-train-tracks-in-US-with-seconds-to-spare | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/4459402d43fc3ee97abb94c855d1d400d633d7e97b405f13057eb2a2b7e0c264.json |
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CARLO ALLEGRI Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated his promise to build a wall on the Mexican border.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised a tracking system for arrivals and departures so that anyone whose visa expires will "quickly" be expelled.
"I'm going to... develop an exit-entry tracking system to ensure those who overstay their visas are quickly removed. If we don't enforce visa expiration dates, then we have an open border - it's as simple as that," Trump said on Saturday at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
The magnate also promised to deport "these international gangs of thugs and drug cartels... from the first day in office," but avoided saying what he would do with those who have no criminal record.
SCOTT MORGAN Donald Trump said those who overstay their visas will be "quickly removed".
"In this task, we will always err on the side of protecting the American people - we will use immigration law to prevent crimes, and will not wait until some innocent American has been harmed or killed before taking action," he said.
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"We will move justly, but we will move fast, believe me, and we will move tough," he said.
He also repeated his promise to build a wall on the Mexican border and said that if he wins the election, he will "stop illegal immigrants from accessing welfare and entitlements".
With these moves, though spoken in a more measured manner than usual and with the aid of a teleprompter, Trump tried to make it clear that his immigration message is a tough as ever in a week when he spoke of a possible softening in this area as a strategy for attracting Hispanic voters.
- AAP | http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/83642946/Trump-flags-tracking-to-deport-illegals | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/2c8449531d7626f046dca09f0a1bbedbe64806736765a5c1bd4fb34ab9139b76.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:52:33 | null | 2016-08-31T02:46:07 | OPINION: Howling louder doesn't make you right. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Frugby%2F83399500%2FWhy-NZ-fans-battle-to-entertain-the-prospect-Brian-O-Driscoll-might-be-right.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/v/b/0/w/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dnjgs.png/1472611825527.jpg | en | null | Why NZ fans battle to entertain the prospect Brian O'Driscoll might be right | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Why NZ fans battle to entertain the prospect Brian O'Driscoll might be right
John Selkirk Brian O'Driscoll swoops against the All Blacks.
OPINION: Could New Zealand sports fans be so colour blind they can't see failings by athletes in black, yet little good in those clad in (let's say) gold and green?
Pyschological studies indicate the answer to that question is yes, but they can't help it; being a sports fan gives you a deep emotional investment in the outcome of something ultimately quite meaningless.
If love of black sends us blind, we're not alone.
Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport. All Blacks prop Owen Franks.
For the Irish green is great, for the English it's wonderful white, Aussies cherish gold. They too are, if not blind, abjectly shortsighted to identifying with other hues and pigmentations.
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So if All Blacks prop Owen Franks puts his hands on the face of another player, to the sports fan it's more about the colour of his jersey than his act.
A fan clad in black and one with a Wallaby hat presented with exactly the same evidence, are emotionally inclined to view the incident differently, psychologists would argue.
To one it's an outrageous act of unpunished thuggery, to the other there's nothing to see here, move on whining losers.
supplied Andy Haden dives in a lineout against Wales in 1978. Photo: YouTube.
So thank god for match officials, who at least should be impartial. And they found Franks, not noted as a dirty player, had no case to answer.
Cue complaints about favourable treatment for All Blacks from across the world, one from Irishman Brian O'Driscoll, the fabulously talented centre who was invalided out of the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour after a nasty spear tackle from Tana Umaga and Keven Mealamu.
O'Driscoll, a veteran of 133 tests for Ireland and eight for the Lions, said the Franks incident "makes a mockery of citing. If nothing comes of this it's a farce".
Gallo Images English referee Wayne Barnes.
If sports fans on the stuff website are representative, many feel O'Driscoll should get over himself and stop whining about the tackle that destroyed the most important tour of his life in 2005.
So his comments were not taken objectively, and probably were not made objectively either.
Fan reaction is in no way indicative of sporting justice. Howling louder doesn't make you right. Calling someone a whinger for complaining after losing smacks of a closed mind.
In New Zealand sport is akin to religion, with beliefs that have survived down through the years.
Rugby fans quick to label O'Driscoll an 11-year whiner could well be the same ones who argue Bob Deans was robbed of a try by Wales in 1905.
Other aspects of Kiwi sporting faith to be accepted without question: it was a clever move by Andy Haden to dive out of a lineout in 1978, so Brian McKechnie could kick the winning penalty against Wales; Susie the poisoning waitress cost us the World Cup in 1995; we would have won the World Cup in 2007 had English referee Wayne Barnes spotted a blatant forward pass by France; Aussie Quade Cooper is a villain who beat up on Richie McCaw and must be booed.
How much of this you believe depends on your level of indoctrination.
Just don't expect worshippers of green, gold, red, white or blue to hold the same beliefs.
And they could be the ones who are right.
- Stuff | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/83399500/Why-NZ-fans-battle-to-entertain-the-prospect-Brian-O-Driscoll-might-be-right | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/bfaf0138f498b91ad8655e18825d8232bd03fe67f60b704d1afdc9d2c1ea6166.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T14:51:22 | null | 2016-08-29T13:04:25 | Mercedes driver shocked after teammate stormed back from last place to finish on the podium and maintain points lead. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fsport%2Fmotorsport%2F83694772%2FNico-Rosbergs-Belgian-GP-win-soured-by-Lewis-Hamiltons-comeback.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/t/v/b/5/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtvas.png/1472475865351.jpg | en | null | Nico Rosberg's Belgian GP win soured by Lewis Hamilton's comeback | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Nico Rosberg's Belgian GP win soured by Lewis Hamilton's comeback
YVES HERMAN/REUTERS Lewis Hamilton roared onto the podium from last place, stunning winner and teammate Nico Rosberg.
Nico Rosberg was handed a much-needed break in the Formula One title battle which he duly converted by winning Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix, but victory could have tasted much sweeter for the German.
Rosberg went into the weekend knowing this was his race to lose.
Mercedes team mate and title rival Lewis Hamilton was set to start at the back of the field after taking a planned series of engine-related grid penalties.
CHARLES COATES/GETTY IMAGES Nico Rosberg eased to victory in the Belgian GP.
That gave Rosberg the perfect opportunity to reignite his title challenge after a run of lacklustre form and make major inroads into the Briton's 19-point advantage in the standings.
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Instead, he came away still trailing Hamilton by nine points after the reigning triple world champion took full advantage of collisions involving his rivals, race disruptions and some spectacular overtaking, to finish a shock third.
"I just saw at the end after the chequered flag I looked at the results and I knew Daniel was behind me and then I see Hamilton in third," said Rosberg, who cruised to a comfortable win from pole-position in a chaotic race ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
"I was like 'What, seriously?'. I don't know what happened, I haven't looked at the details, but for sure he must have done a great job."
The pair have had a years-long feud, which has seen them threatened with fines and suspension from their team after trying to crash each other out of races.
Rosberg, runner-up to Hamilton in 2014 and last year, opened the season with four wins in the first four races.
He led Hamilton by 43 points following May's Spanish Grand Prix, but has steadily lost ground to his former childhood friend who blitzed to six wins from seven races leading up to the Belgian Grand Prix.
The race at Spa-Francorchamps was Rosberg's one "free race", as Hamilton referred to it, in which the Briton was set to serve his long-pending engine-related penalties.
With the championship now heading to Monza for the Italian Grand Prix, before the Asian leg which Hamilton has dominated the last two years, Rosberg was asked if he had hoped to come away with more from Sunday's race.
"That's not what I'm focusing on," he told reporters.
"I came here, Belgian Grand Prix, and I wanted to win it. So, just happy it worked out, perfect weekend for me."
Hamilton, meanwhile, who now has three new engines, was upbeat.
"Definitely things have happened in the right way in that second quarter of the season and to go into the break 19 points ahead and now only lose 10 today I'll take it," he said.
- Reuters | http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/83694772/Nico-Rosbergs-Belgian-GP-win-soured-by-Lewis-Hamiltons-comeback | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.stuff.co.nz/2cd536ee73cf4b1c3cea1e9fad70fec366aea9fecb8653bd2445d7c3fb0a1734.json |
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Chris Skelton/FAIRFAX NZ Former All Black Richie McCaw talks to the media about the film Chasing Great.
Imagine inviting the whole nation to watch the home videos at your 21st.
That's the situation All Blacks legend Richie McCaw finds himself in with the premiere of the film Chasing Great.
The film makes use of the McCaw family video archive, which contained more than 50 hours of footage of the young Richie.
JASON DORDAY/FAIRFAX NZ Director Justin Pemberton, Gemma Flynn, Richie McCaw and director Michelle Walshe at the red carpet premiere of Chasing Great at the Civic Theatre in Auckland.
Unfortunately for McCaw, some of that footage is pretty embarrassing.
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He singles out scenes of him leading his pet lamb to a primary school pet day as particularly "cringe".
Chris Skelton/FAIRFAX NZ Former All Black Richie McCaw during a press conference about the film Chasing Great.
"It was one of those things that if you're going to do this, you've got to do it properly," McCaw said.
"That footage was there, and I wanted to show that my upbringing was very similar to a lot of other kiwi kids, and the best way to do that was to have the real footage."
Most of the footage was shot by McCaw's father, Donald, on a home video camera.
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"At the end of the day it was great Dad took all that footage. In the 80s video cameras weren't all that common, I don't know how we ended up with one but it's pretty awesome," McCaw said.
Chasing Great co-director Michelle Walshe said the footage was almost identical to any other kiwi family's.
"It was like any other family, it was like the Christmases and birthdays and snow outside and all those kind of things, so it was a nice way to get to know his family and his upbringing," she said.
"You could have replaced any other Kiwi family's footage with that footage."
Walshe and co-director Justin Pembleton had no idea McCaw's father had the footage when they signed on to make the film, but discovering it was like striking gold.
"When Richie mentioned that he had this box of archival footage, we just about died. It's such a gift for a filmmaker to find, it's like a pot of gold really," she said.
Choosing which parts to use was tricky, she said.
"Pet day at school was a great find."
One News Now Richie gives an insight into the making of Chasing Great, and how it went down with his teammates.
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[] | 2016-08-29T22:52:07 | null | 2016-08-29T22:25:36 | Crash between fire truck and car slows busy Auckland intersection to a crawl | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fauckland%2Flocal-news%2Fcentral-leader%2F83703943%2FCrash-between-fire-truck-and-car-in-Aucklands-Sandringham.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/u/2/9/5/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1du2dj.png/1472509536231.jpg | en | null | Crash between fire truck and car in Auckland's Sandringham | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Crash between fire truck and car in Auckland's Sandringham
ELESHA EDMONDS / FAIRFAX NZ Scene of the crash - intersection of Balmoral and Sandringham Roads
Emergency services are in attendance following a collision between a fire truck and a car in central Auckland.
The crash has knocked out the traffic lights at the busy intersection of Sandringham and Balmoral Roads.
Police are directing traffic.
The car is seriously damaged though the fire truck appears to only have scrapes to the side of it.
Traffic is affected in all four directions and motorists are advised to avoid the area.
More to come
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SUPPLIED Auckland Airport says the strong performance from its retail outlets gives it the confidence for a new international retail hub.
Auckland International Airport will give staff a $1500 bonus after what it says was an excellent year of growth.
The airport said on Monday its after tax profit rose to $262.4 million in the year to June 30, up 17.4 per cent.
Revenue grew 12.9 per cent to $573.9m, as income from the airport's retail outlets, as well as landing and passenger charges, lifted.
Auckland Airport chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden said it had been an excellent 12 months for the company, in which it achieved growth across the business.
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As a result, it announced a $1500 performance bonus for all permanent employees who were not involved in a short-term incentive scheme.
"We have seen a significant lift in the number of international airlines and capacity servicing Auckland," van der Heyden said.
"We have added new retailers and passenger products and we have also completed several large property developments this financial year."
Passenger numbers for the year increased 9.1 per cent to 17.3 million, with international passenger numbers slightly ahead at 8.8 million.
Auckland Airport said the strong growth in its retail revenue, to $157.5m, gave it confidence to construct a new international retail hub as part of the international departure area upgrade.
"We have added new retailers and passenger products and we have also completed several large property developments this financial year," van der Heyden said.
"To support this growth, we have commenced a major upgrade of our international departure area, and have continued the planning and design work required to successfully construct our 30-year vision's combined domestic and international terminal building and second runway."
The company said it would pay a final dividend of 9 cents a share.
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[] | 2016-08-29T08:51:34 | null | 2016-08-29T07:42:15 | They're deemed a distraction in class, and a safety risk in the hallways. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fnational%2Feducation%2F83670464%2FSacred-Heart-College-in-Lower-Hutt-lets-students-use-cellphones-only-at-lunchtime.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/c/h/5/i/3/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dtcjk.png/1472456535572.jpg | en | null | Sacred Heart College in Lower Hutt lets students use cellphones only at lunchtime | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | Sacred Heart College in Lower Hutt lets students use cellphones only at lunchtime
Jason Oxenham The school has not had any negative feedback since the rule was introduced, principal Maria Potter says.
A new rule at a Lower Hutt school means teenage girls are allowed to check their phones only at lunchtime.
Sacred Heart College has introduced a rule that means cellphones are not to be used during school except in the lunch break, or if the phone is being used as a learning tool in class.
In July, it alerted parents to the change in the school newsletter, asking them to contact their daughters only at lunchtime. They could also get in touch before and after school.
ROBERT CHARLES/ FAIRFAX NZ Sacred Heart College principal Maria Potter has banned phones from classrooms, unless being as part of the school's bring your own device policy.
Mobile phones were a distraction in class, and there was also concern around girls walking the school halls and up stairs with their eyes on the screen, principal Maria Potter said.
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The rule was simple β no phones in class unless permission had been granted to use it as part of the school's bring your own device (BYOD) policy.
Students caught with their phones were asked to put them away, or put them on the front of the desk.
"They go through a warning system. If girls choose not to do that, a teacher can take the phone off them."
Students were not allowed to use their phones at interval, but that had not posed a problem, Potter said. It meant the girls were talking to each other, and socialising in a more conventional way.
Parents needing to contact their daughters urgently could do so through the school office, and students could reach their parents in the same way.
The school had not had any negative feedback from parents or students around the new policy, which was not a ban, but a way to teach students how to use their phones appropriately.
Other principals in Wellington did not see the need for a similar rule, but said they had processes in place to make sure phones were being used appropriately.
At Wellington High, students could use their phones if they needed to during class, but there were times when a teacher could direct students to put them away, principal Nigel Hanton said.
There was not a blanket rule restricting use, but the school expected students to recognise there was a time and a place for texting and phoning, and a time for learning.
Secondary Principals' Association president Sandy Pasley said the Sacred Heart ban was not out of the ordinary.
"It is really important students get from one class to another. If they can't get to class on time, that's a real problem."
Some schools had adopted banning cellphones and laptops during lunchtimes as a way to incentivise interacting with classmates, she said.
Kapiti College principal Tony Kane was "pretty comfortable" with how most students used their phones.
"If the kids have got a cellphone out in class without it being requested specifically for learning, they're asked to put it away."
He did not think there was an issue of cellphones decreasing face-to-face socialisation, and said often students used phones at break times to text friends and meet up.
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[] | 2016-08-28T22:51:07 | null | 2016-08-28T22:36:55 | MTV rolls out it's annual circus tent and gives music's biggest stars an opportunity to rudely interrupt each other in front of an international audience! | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuff.co.nz%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2F83658737%2FMTV-VMAs-to-feature-Kanye-West-Rihanna-Britney-Spears.json | http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/0/8/5/u/q/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dt3ht.png/1472423815299.jpg | en | null | MTV VMAs to feature Kanye West, Rihanna, Britney Spears | null | null | www.stuff.co.nz | MTV VMAs to feature Kanye West, Rihanna, Britney Spears
Getty Images Blue Ivy, Jay Z and Beyonce together at the MTV VMAs.
What will be the spectacle at the MTV Video Music Awards this year? A long rant from Kanye West? A surprise appearance from Beyonce? It's all possible, and likely.
The show is returning to New York City on Sunday (US time), where Beyonce is the leading nominee with 11, though it's not confirmed if she will or won't attend the show.
She outshined her peers at the 2014 VMAs, closing the show with a 16-minute medley of songs from her self-titled surprise album that dominated that night.
Miley Cyrus poses in the press room during the MTV Video Music Awards, August 24, 2014
West has had even more history with the awards show: He famously jumped onstage and stole Taylor Swift's microphone at the 2009 show and last year gave an 11-minute speech onstage - after being introduced by Swift - and announced he was going to run for president in 2020.
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He'll have another chance to own the night since his controversial Famous music video - featuring what appears to be naked images of West, Swift, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump - is nominated for best male video and video of the year.
Beyonce's Formation, Justin Bieber's Sorry, Drake's Hotline Bling and Adele's Hello are also up for the top prize. Adele, though, won't attend the show at Madison Square Garden, her representative said. Reps for Drake and Bieber didn't return emails asking if they would or would not attend the show.
Rihanna will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award and kick off the show with a performance. The VMAs will air live on MTV at 9 p.m.
Robyn Beck Iggy Azalea performing Black Widow at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
Other performers include Britney Spears, Ariana Grande with Nicki Minaj, Future, Nick Jonas and The Chainsmokers.
Presenters include Jimmy Fallon, Alicia Keys, Puff Daddy and the recent Olympian gold medalists Michael Phelps and the Final Five gymnasts - Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman.
Nominees for best female video include Beyonce, Adele, Rihanna, Sia and Grande. The best male video nominees are West, Drake, the Weeknd, Bryson Tiller and Calvin Harris, whose nomination is for This is What You Came For, which he co-wrote with former girlfriend Swift.
Coldplay, Desiigner, Fergie and Alessia Cara earned multiple nominations, while David Bowie - who died from cancer earlier this year - is nominated for best direction, cinematography, art direction and editing for Lazarus. The music video, which shows him looking frail in bed with bandaged eyes, was released just days before the icon's Jan. 10 death.
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Maarten Holl Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy said the costumes were "deeply offensive".
Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has condemned a series of images of Manawatu-based party-goers dressed in blackface and depicting blood-streaked terrorists.
Photos of the inflammatory costumes emerged in the wake of a 'Too Soon' party held at a Palmerston North bar on August 19 by the Massey University Veterinary Students' Association (MUVSA).
Among them is a smiling woman with a moko and blackface makeup, a man wearing a bloody terrorist costume, and a man dressed as a terrorist in a truck in a reference to the Nice terrorist attacks, appearing to run into a blood-spattered person holding a baguette.
The photos were released by a student who said she was "disgusted" by them.
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The woman, who declined to be named for fear of repercussions, said she was not at the party and was not sure if the images were visible publicly online. But at least two were widely available on Facebook.
The photos were being discussed by students at the Massey campus, many of whom were shocked, she said. .
"I found it upsetting that someone would role play something that killed 84 people [the Nice attack] - these are people's families, and you don't know the connection that other people have had to that."
"The theme is 'too soon', so you know [they know] it's inappropriate."
Another image she supplied was from a MUVSA party last year, and showed a group of men wearing blackface, and dressed in Indian outfits.
Race Relations Commissioner Susan Devoy called the costumes "deeply offensive".
"Muslim New Zealanders and Maori New Zealanders are more than a costume for anyone to dress up in and think they're hilarious ... grow up β you are not funny."
Devoy said a friend of hers had been seriously injured in terrorist attacks, and she noted that last year a Muslim woman was accused of being an Isis supporter and her husband punched at The Plaza shopping centre in Palmerston North in front of their 2-year-old.
"Stereotyping and humiliating entire communities leads to ignorance and violence. This is not us," she said.
Manawatu Multicultural Council president Meriam Findlay said she found the costumes offensive, and worried the culturally offensive jokes could be shameful to Palmerston North.
"We have a French community here. If it was for a drinking group, I don't think that's really appropriate."
MUVSA president Corey Regnerusβ said there had been no formal complaints made about the event or costumes. He was not at the party, but said it was not open to the public, and less than 100 people were there.
"MUVSA acknowledge that while the theme ... 'Too Soon' was intended to be light-hearted and encourage a fun work-life balance, individual interpretation on the evening, portrayed in a few costumes, was inappropriate.
"We do not encourage entertainment at the expense of others."
He did not respond to questions about whether any action would be taken, or whether the 'Too Soon' parties would be held again.
Massey University Students' Association president Nikita Skipper said she was pleased MUVSA had "positively initiated" discussion about "what is culturally correct when interacting with diverse and different groups".
"MUSA supports students having a good time, and letting off steam.
"What MUSA doesn't support is an instance where the use of someone's ethnicity, race, or nationality is used at the expense of someone else for a laugh."
Manawatu Muslims' Association president Zulfiqar Butt said MUVSA should not have let students wear the costumes.
"We will try to talk to them and make sure that next time they are more careful.
"Overall, it's a very peaceful community in Palmerston North and at Massey, so I'm not sure why they did this."
A Massey University spokesman said the party was privately organised, and they had received no complaints connected to it.
He did not respond to questions about whether the matter would be investigated.
The university's code of student conduct requires students to treat other students, staff and the public with courtesy and respect.
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