Archive / January 2014
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Wellington’s champion club teams: Part 5
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Hutt Old Boys Marist celebrating with the Jubilee Cup at Westpac Stadium in 2007.
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A warning to those with rivers.pro tagcloud code in their Tumblr themes
- Jack Yan
- Does anyone have the rivers.pro tagcloud code in their Tumblr theme? If so, it’s time to remove it. The code forwards to a website which McAfee SiteAdvisor labels dodgy. It is very hard to remove from a customized theme, since every time the page loads, the forwarding takes place. You’ll have to find a way […]
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Library closed on Waitangi Day
- Victoria University Library
- All of our libraries will be closed on Thursday 6th of February for Waitangi Day. We will be open for usual Trimester Three hours on the 7th of February.
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Interloan Service Unavailable 17th - 19th of February
- Victoria University Library
- Our Interloan service will be unavailable from the 17th to 19th of February 2014, due to an upgrade affecting all participating Interloan libraries in Australasia.
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Wellington’s champion club teams: Part 4
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Onslow players drinking from the Jubilee Cup in 1955From the beginning of competitions to right up to the present day, we’ve chosen 25 of the most noteworthy or memorable Wellington club rugby Senior/Premier championship winning teams, Here’s the stories of five club teams that stood out between 1952 and 1975, some of the most memorable seasons in club sport.
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Wellington Newcomers Network
- Multicultural Services Centre of Wellington
- New in Wellington? Want to make friends? A Newcomers Network has started in Wellington with plenty of opportunities to meet people from around the world. Join them on Facebook or see their website for the latest events. Wellington Newcomers Network
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Planned eTV outage
- Victoria University Library
- eTV will be unavailable from 7pm on Tuesday 28th of January to Thursday 30th of January in order for maintenance to be carried out. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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Behind-the-scenes with Kings of the Gym Stage Manager Oscar Mulheron.
- Circa Theatre
- Kings of the Gym Stage Manager Oscar Mulheron talks to drama on the waterfront about his accidental career, working with his uncle and the highs and lows of stage management.
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Circa Theatre, Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Do they care about Lower Cuba Street in Hong Kong?
- Wellington Scoop
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Community Market - Saturday 1st February
- Hataitai Community Website
- The community market is on again on Saturday 1st February between 10am and 1pm. Come along to the Hataitai Bowling Club, 157 Hataitai Road to see what's new, pick up something tasty to eat, or to find a bargain! See you there!
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New Artwork in the Kelburn Library
- Victoria University Library
- A new artwork has been installed in Level 1 of the Kelburn Library. Several attentions (2009) by Ruth Buchanan is a looped video installation, running for 20 mins 02 seconds. Buchanan, a New Zealand born, Berlin based artist explores her relationship with the artist Virginia Woolf and seeks to articulate the ways in which life and art mix.
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Show Your Love For The Basin Reserve This Valentine’s Day
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Save the Basin invites you to come show your love for the Basin Reserve on Valentines Day, Friday 14 February. …Continue reading »
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Four ingredients of leadership
- Jack Yan
- I was asked by my Alma Mater, Victoria University of Wellington, to give a 90-minute lecture on leadership last week to students visiting New Zealand from Peking University and the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. (My half-serious suggestion that I spoke Cantonese and the three students from Guangdong who understood could translate to Mandarin to […]
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It’s still wise to bet against Facebook
- Jack Yan
- A non-peer-reviewed academic article from Princeton predicts Facebook will be toast by ’17, and Facebook has very cleverly responded using similar methodology to say that Princeton will have no students by 2021. The lack of review on the former left it wide open for the Facebook attack. However, it’s not unwise betting against Facebook. […]
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The real privacy policy
- Jack Yan
- Documentaries such as Terms and Conditions May Apply (embedded here) and Doc Searls’ The Intention Economy got me thinking about our privacy policy. We have one for our company, but how do we really use your private data? It got me thinking. Since we’ve been online for longer than most people, we have […]
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Finance is broken, and we still haven’t learned
- Jack Yan
- I posted this quotation from I Acknowledge on my Tumblr today: The news that should have us all worried is: the derivatives market contains $700trn of these debts yet to implode. Global GDP stands at $69·4trn a year. This means that (primarily) Wall Street and the City of London have run up phantom paper debts […]
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Public Programme: Cinema & Painting
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- February – May 2014 Opening Performance Martin Rumsby performs Hollis Frampton’s A LECTURE (1968).
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Au Revoir France: Schwalger Is Back
- Wellington Club Weekly
- John Schwalger playing for the Wellington Lions in last year’s ITM Cup.
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NZTA’s Basin Flyover Plans In Serious Trouble: Media Agrees
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Opponents of NZTA’s proposed Basin Reserve flyover have said all along that NZTA behaved in an arrogant and high-handed manner …Continue reading »
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kelburn Reading Room closed today
- Victoria University Library
- There's work happening on the Reading Room today, which means that the space and collection (DU422 - EZ) will be unavailable. The Stairs leading from the Hub to Level 3 are also closed, so please use the stairs and lifts inside the Library. The work will be complete tomorrow and the space will be open again.
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Google tracks your searches, and uses them, even when your web history is turned off
- Jack Yan
- My dislike of Google is no secret, and, as a precaution, I have every known Google tracking setting turned off. I even block the Doubleclick and YouTube cookies. However, I have to manage a page at Google Plus—and Google cleverly tracks you through its Plus service. It doesn’t lie about it: When you use […]
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Premiership Points Table – final results
- Swimming Wellington
- The final points for the 2013 Premiership Competition Points
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Food Swap – 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month
- Multicultural Services Centre of Wellington
- Local Food Network holds a produce swap at the Hill Street Farmers’ Market in Thorndon the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month. Bring your excess produce, seeds and seedlings to swap with other people. When: Every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month Where: Hill Street Farmers’ Market, Cathedral Carpark, Hill Street, Thorndon Times: […]
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Worse reality shows
- Jack Yan
- 2Tapu on Twitter hashtagged #worserealityshows tonight, with Who Wants to Marry a Mutineer? as her suggestion. The hashtag, which went viral tonight, inspired everything from The XXX Factor and America’s Next Top Bottom to The Amazing Racist to the very disturbing Are You Sexier than a Fifth Grader?. 2Tapu contributed So You Think You […]
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Newly qualified officials
- Swimming Wellington
- Congratulations to the following officials who attained regional or national qualifications at the SW long course champs at the weekend.
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Mighty Mighty RIP
- The Wellingtonista
- Not sure quite what to add so just going to post the Mighty Mighty official message here. Wail at will. The ‘Castle that Cares’, Wellington bar Mighty Mighty will be closing its doors at the end of May 2014. The institution opened on 11 November 2006 in a former Pakistani restaurant at the top of […] The post Mighty Mighty RIP appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Webstock 2014 Wednesday Warmup with the Wellingtonista and Web Drive
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s that special time again! For the fifth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Webstock conference.
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Cinema & Painting
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- 11 February – 11 May 2014 Cinema & Painting at the Adam Art Gallery, showing a work by Hollis Frampton.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington’s champion club teams: Part 3
- Wellington Club Weekly
- The Jubilee Cup winning Hutt team of 1934 with the inaugural McBain Shield after beating Petone 6-5.
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Tow Mohua from sth Mana to Marina
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Mon, 20/01/2014 - 19:30 - Tue, 21/01/2014 - 23:30 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 3 Total Volunteer Hours: 308 Mohua lost motor power due to diesel problem. Stern gland taking on water. Put out a panpan responded to by Southern Cross. Coastguard called by owner of Southern Cross to take tow as restricted in its ability to manouver within the marina. Coastgard picked up tow and continued to before the bar, the rafted up. Crossed bar and stood to as a towed barge left the marina. Berthed in coastguard berth with yacht alonside. Then released raftup, pulled yacht into travelift bay to lift out as taking on water through stern gland. Vessel Details Length: 11.00m Resources Attendees: AlanFisher Ben Ryan nixon ChristopherPye Lorna_Rolston Matt Annear Neil Cornwell Peter Feely Peter Tse Steve_Rolston Trevor Burgess CRV's Used: CRV Trust Porirua Rescue
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North Kumutoto Site 10 Development Proposal
- Wellington City Council
- Development of Site 10 and public space in the North Kumutoto precinct on the waterfront.
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Grab yer kilt…
- The Wellingtonista
- A little birdie told me there’s a Scottish degustation sometime in the near future at the Copthorne Oriental’s One80 restaurant.
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Upset about needing Google Plus to comment on YouTube? Here’s a radical idea: don’t
- Jack Yan
- There were a few upset people in November because Google compelled everyone who wanted to comment on YouTube to have a Google Plus profile. Even a co-founder of YouTube, Jawed Karim, objected. But it’s been a long time coming. In 2011, Google combined, as is its prerogative, YouTube accounts with its own. While […]
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Monica Z now out on DVD and Blu-ray
- Jack Yan
- Monica Z, the bio-pic about the late Swedish jazz singer starring Edda Magnason, is now out on Blu-ray and DVD, as of earlier this week. I learned about the movie not through my Swedish contacts—they were messaging me only when the film was in the cinemas—but when Edda appeared at Allsång på Skansen in […]
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All There Is Left Public Programme page
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- ARTIST LECTURE: LIEKO SHIGA City Gallery Wellington Friday 19 July, 6pm Lieko Shiga lives and works in Kitakama, Japan, a seaside village that was destroyed in the 2011 tsunami. Her photographic project RASEN KAIGAN (THE SPIRAL SHORE) has been conceptualised in the wake of this disaster. In this lecture Shiga draws on stories and narratives […]
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Temporary reading-room closure, 22 - 26 January 2014
- Victoria University Library
- Work is scheduled to be carried out in the Kelburn Library Reading Room between Wednesday 22nd of January and Sunday 26th of January. The work will only take one day to complete but as it is weather dependent we can’t determine on which day the work will be carried out.
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EPA Imposes Ludicrously Short Response Time On Basin Flyover Submitters
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The whole Basin “Bridge” (flyover) Board of Inquiry process has been rendered dangerously close to farce by the nine-month timetable …Continue reading »
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Tuesday races on again
- Mana Kayak Racing Club
- The Kupe/Mana kayak race series has kicked off again after the Christmas break. Come along on Tuesday evenings for some competitive racing. Start times are on a handicap basis with slower paddlers getting away first, and you’re grouped with others of a similar standard, so there’s always someone nearby. Races are usually 5-7 km and […]
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Vito excited about Super Rugby season
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Victor Vito playing for Marist St.
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Going to the Stadium for the Phoenix Game - Take The Train!
- Tranz Metro
- Getting to and from Westpac Stadium for the Phoenix Vs Melbourne Victory on Saturday 18 January 2014 is easy with Tranz Metro.
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A bunch of reasons to get outdoors
- The Wellingtonista
- Look at that weather. Just LOOK AT IT. Woah! We’re going to assume from all the cars parked in Thorndon that you’re already going to Garden Magic events in the dell as part of Summer City,but here are some other things you might wanna consider: Positively Pasifika: The winner of New Zealand Idol is going, […] The post A bunch of reasons to get outdoors appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Tuesday races on again
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- The Kupe/Mana kayak race series has kicked off again after the Christmas break. Come along on Tuesday evenings for some competitive racing. Start times are on a handicap basis with slower paddlers getting away first, and you’re grouped with others of a similar standard, so there’s always someone nearby. Races are usually 5-7 km and […]
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Library Closed for Wellington Anniversary
- Victoria University Library
- The Library will be closed on Monday 20th of January for Wellington Anniversary and will resume normal Trimester 3 hours on Tuesday 21st of January.
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Train running day 12 January
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- <!-- da2a.script_load(); //--> 12 January was our first running day for 2014 - a brilliantly fine day - featuring cab rides in our shunting locomotive Tr189.
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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How Celia almost knocked off Helene Ritchie
- WCC Watch
- The 2013 donation and expense returns are filled with all manner of nuggets of information. For example, who knew that northern ward candidate, Peter Gilberd, who came very very close […]
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Wellington’s champion club teams: Part 2
- Wellington Club Weekly
- From the beginning of competitions to right up to the present day, we’ve chosen 25 of the most noteworthy or memorable Wellington club rugby Senior/Premier championship winning teams, Here’s the stories of five club teams that stood out between 1910 and 1929, the first year that the Jubilee Cup was contested.
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Campaign 2013: Who spent what
- WCC Watch
- 2013 Wellington City Council campaign expense returns are now online and they make for very interesting (and at times despairing) reading. Mayoral and city council candidates spent $468,991.05 trying to […]
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Did the Greens break the law?
- WCC Watch
- There sure is a wealth of nuggets of information in the campaign donations and expense returns. Check out our previous post for a good overview. There are plenty of rules […]
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Introduction to Aikido course – starting Monday 3 February 2014
- Aikido Shinryukan Wellington
- We are running another Introduction to Aikido course, starting on Monday 3 February 2014. The course will run for 4 Mondays (all of Feb). View more information and complete the online registration form
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Prince of Wales Park Water Reservoir, Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Becoming a playwright
- Circa Theatre
- Kings of the Gym playwright Dave Armstrong tells drama on the waterfront about how he became a professional playwright in New Zealand.
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Circa Theatre, Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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7s: Wellington Day 2 results
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Wellington have pipped Otago 24-19 in a very entertaining match on day two of the Bayleys National sevens tournament in Rotorua.
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Wellington and Manawatu win National Sevens titles
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: The Wellington and Auckland teams about to take the field ahead of the Men’s Cup final.
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Bring forward improvement of Cheyne Walk Play Area.
- Wellington City Council
- I would like the council to do the work on Cheyne Walk Play Area a lot earlier than planned so that families in our area have a safe and interesting place to meet and play. The equipment is very old and there is not much for children to play on. The other playgrounds in Newlands are too far away for children to walk to and people shouldn't have to drive to get to a good playground.
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A true brew
- The Wellingtonista
- For those who love cold coffee on a hot day (finally!) or just want to have a bottle of decent caffeine on hand for those days when you can’t get out for a coffee, barista Aklesha has opened a small True Brew coffee bar up in the Grand Arcade doing single origin ‘manual brewing’ (no […] The post A true brew appeared first on The Wellingtonista.
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Auditions – Happy Birthday Dear Alice
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- Auditions for our first 2014 production, Happy Birthday Dear Alice by Bernard Farrell and directed by Simon Boyes, will be held on Sunday 26th January at 2pm.
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Call-out stats - December 2013
- Stokes Valley Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Call-outs for December 2013 Fires 13 Motor Vehicle Crashes 0 Medical 1 Special Services 2 Cover-moves 0 False Alarms 3 TOTAL: 19
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2014 Senior Women's Football
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Preseason training commences Wednesday, January 22nd (6:30pm - 8:00pm) at Hutt Park under the direction of Women's Director of Football, Elliott Taylor.
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2014 men's pre-season
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Welcome to all new and returning players to Stop Out for the 2014 season. Our Men's pre-season commences on Thursday 23rd January 6.30pm at Hutt Park, Seaview. Also 5 a side commences Tuesday 14th January 6.30pm at Hutt Park. All welcome! Please contact 1st team coach Chris Sambrooke on 027 707 0255 or Club manager Justin Raffan on 021 024 23438 for further information.
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Four million page views on Autocade
- Jack Yan
- I came across an old blog post that showed that Autocade took four years to get 2,000,000 page views: not bad for an encyclopædia that receives very little promotion. That was in March 2012. It has since crossed 4,000,000, which meant the second 2,000,000 took 21 months to achieve (in December 2013). If the growth […]
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The top-selling cars in France, 2013
- Jack Yan
- Interesting what pops up on Weibo: 2013’s top-selling cars in France. 1. Renault Clio IV 2. Peugeot 208 3. Citroën C3 4. Renault Scénic III 5. Renault Mégane III 6. Dacia Sandero 7. Renault Captur 8. Volkswagen Polo V 9. Renault Twingo II 10. Peugeot 3008 The French are a patriotic bunch. In […]
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Check your Google Feedburner feeds: are they serving the correct sites?
- Jack Yan
- A month or so ago, our Feedburner stats for Lucire’s RSS feed delivery tanked. I put it down to the usual “Google being useless”, because we would have expected to see the opposite. The take-up of Feedburner feeds has usually slowly grown since we started this one in 2007, without any promotion on our end. […]
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2014 Senior Women's Football
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Preseason training commences Wednesday, January 22nd (6:30pm - 8:00pm) at Hutt Park under the direction of Women's Director of Football, Elliott Taylor.
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2014 men's pre-season
- Stop Out Sports Club
- Welcome to all new and returning players to Stop Out for the 2014 season. Our Men's pre-season commences on Thursday 23rd January 6.30pm at Hutt Park, Seaview. Also 5 a side commences Tuesday 14th January 6.30pm at Hutt Park. All welcome! Please contact 1st team coach Chris Sambrooke on 027 707 0255 or Club manager Justin Raffan on 021 024 23438 for further information.
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Keep Newtown Clean 2014
- Newtown Residents' Association
- Happy New Year. The first Keep Newtown Clean for the new year is on Saturday 11 Jan at 9am to 12.30pm. Newtown is looking good and its staying clean and tidy ….we just need to maintain the standard now. We have noticed that the tagging is not returning like it used to and that if […]
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What’s The Basin Reserve Flyover Issue All About?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- In case you’re new to the issue, here’s a quick introduction to what’s being proposed for the Basin Reserve, why …Continue reading »
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Joan Rivers had better facelifts, but it’s the future of the black cab
- Jack Yan
- Part of me admires Nissan for going after the taxi market in a big way in New York and London. Another part of me wonders why on earth the London Hackney Carriage solution is so ugly. I think Nissan should have asked Mr Mitsuoka for advice on how to Anglicize one of its […]
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Mother Goose: On Writing a Panto
- Circa Theatre
- For the first blog post of 2014, Mother Goose playwright Michele Amas tells drama on the waterfront about her experience writing a pantomime.
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Circa Theatre, Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Factory in a can - a really innovative concept
- Iona Pannett
- The DomPost highlights Framecad in the Business pages today. This innovative business has managed to downsize a factory into a shipping container which can be moved around the world to build sustainable buildings. The system is used in poor countries around the world. Maybe an idea to try in Wellington to get building costs down? Photo courtesy of framecad.co.nz
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APW brand - time for a rebrand
- Iona Pannett
- The DomPost has run a feature today on the history of the Council's APW brand.
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Crane time trials
- Mana Kayak Racing Club
- To enable paddlers and coaches to assess improvement over time we have devised the “Crane time trial”. The familiar rusty crane on one of the boatsheds east of the clubrooms is the starting point with the finish at the jetty, distance is 190 meters. We will do this regularly and if you are on the […]
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Open the shop and strip away the jargon
- Jack Yan
- I’ve been reading this Grauniad interview with Rory Stewart, MP, referred by Jordan McCluskey. I’m told that Stewart, and Labour’s Frank Field are the two worth listening to these days in British politics. On Stewart, someone who can speak with a Scots accent and has lived in Hong Kong must be a good bloke. […]
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Crane time trials
- Mana Kayak Racing Club
- To enable paddlers and coaches to assess improvement over time we have devised the “Crane time trial”. The familiar rusty crane on one of the boatsheds east of the clubrooms is the starting point with the finish at the jetty, distance is 190 meters. We will do this regularly and if you are on the […]
- Accepted from Mana Kayak Racing Club news
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7s: Mt Maunganui Sevens to usher in 2014
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Mt Maunganui is set to sizzle this Saturday with the annual Bay Engineers Supplies Provincial Sevens Tournament on Saturday being played at Blake Park.
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