Archive / April 2018
May 2018 | March 2018-
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DARLING, LOVER, FREAK
- Black Coffee
- Jade Weaver is a Wellington based Artist.
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Black coffee, Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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When a problem shared is a problem doubled
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University Reader in Government Dr Chris Eichbaum unpicks the implications of Minister Shane Jones's claims about the public sector.
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Big jump in international students
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A leap in the number of international undergraduate students at Victoria University of Wellington reflects its growing reputation as a globally ranked capital city university.
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NEWS: Wellington’s Miramar Golf Club could see half its land gobbled up by the airport in three years
- Guardians of the Bays
- By Ged Cann, April 24, 2018Picture: MAARTEN HOLLWellington Airport’s increasing demands for more space means it is looking at taking a big chunk of the Miramar Golf Club’s land.
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Miramar Golf Course, Airport Bus Stop Walkway, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Photo competition results
- Kilbirnie School
- Well done to all the students who have put an entry in the Kilbirnie School competition.
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Kilbirnie School, 72, Hamilton Road, Hataitai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Minister needed for UN sustainability goals
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The call was one of the recurring themes of the Victoria University-hosted inaugural summit to assess New Zealand's progress toward achieving the goals.
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English teaching not perfect, but it works
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Outside 'experts' to determine what texts school classes study? Not necessary, teachers themselves are expert enough, writes Lecturer Dr Gillian Hubbard from Victoria University's School of Education.
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Preview: Still life with chickens
- The Wellingtonista
- Still Life with Chickens is coming to Wellington this month after seasons in Auckland and Palmerston North.
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Foreign policy challenge NZ must be wary of
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The more US-China competition becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, the more New Zealand and its partners need to encourage a regional environment less dominated by the ambitions of the big two, writes Victoria University Professor of Strategic Studies Robert Ayson.
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The next frontier for NZ exports
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Establishing a foothold in Latin America is imperative because growth in Asia will eventually taper off, writes Dr Eldrede Kahiya from Victoria University's School of Marketing and International Business.
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Better lives, a better New Zealand
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Girol Karacaoglu, Head of Victoria University's School of Government, highlights the importance of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and explains why he and his colleagues are developing a website to monitor New Zealand's performance toward achieving them.
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Climate change a slow burn issue
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Decarbonisation is not our 'nuclear-free moment' because it is longer term and more structural than that, writes Professor Dave Frame, Director of Victoria University's New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute.
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Why Facebook is a playground for bullies
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The social media giant is designed to perpetuate outrage and should be held more accountable for anti-social behaviour, writes Victoria University Media Studies postgraduate Alex Beattie.
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12 foot Sea Nymph broken down at reef
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Sat, 28/04/2018 - 12:45 - 14:45 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 3 Total Volunteer Hours: 10 Motor failure, under anchor 100 metres North West of reef. 3 POB all in wetsuits and lijejackets. Vessel light blue 12 foot Sea Nymph Vessel Details Length: 4.00m Resources Attendees: Jake Jimmythekiwi Neil Cornwell Torrey Trevor Burgess CRV's Used: CRV Pelorus
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Result: Shaw Baton - team placegetters summary
- Olympic Harriers
- These are the team results for the top three teams in each grade. Full results w...
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Fun, social indoor tennis afternoon this Saturday
- Wellington Tennis Club
- This Saturday (5 May) we have a fun, social indoor tennis afternoon for club members and friends.
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Students’ solution to Wellington’s parking problem
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Three Victoria University of Wellington students have created a start-up business they say could solve the capital's parking problem.
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Victoria University strengthens creative links with Beijing
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington has signed two agreements with the prestigious Beijing Film Academy that will increase collaboration and creative links between the two institutions.
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Devine and Kerr Heading North with WHITE FERNS
- Cricket Wellington
- The WHITE FERNS’ ODI and T20 player of the year, Sophie Devine, and Wellington Blaze all-rounder, Amelia Kerr, have both been selected in the WHITE FERNS’ squad for the upcoming tour to England and Ireland.
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Instagram videos of between 2′50″ and 7′03″: it can be done, but some are hidden
- Jack Yan
- As you saw in the previous post’s postscripts, it is possible to upload videos of longer than one minute to Instagram, but Instagram may or may not let the public see them.
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Ford to stop selling passenger cars in the US and Canada, save for Mustang and Focus Active
- Jack Yan
- The Ford Focus Active: by the turn of the decade, this will be the only four-door passenger car Ford will sell in the US and Canada In a surprise move, Ford has announced that it will cease selling passenger cars in the US and Canada by the early 2020s, excepting the Mustang and the Focus Active.
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Victoria welcomes Tu'inukuafe triplets
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Identical triplets Cale, Jackson and Max Tu’inukuafe celebrated their eighteenth birthday by moving into their new home-away-from-home in Victoria University of Wellington’s halls of residence.
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New appointment will strengthen engagement at Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington has appointed Dr Lucy Baragwanath to the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement).
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Wb 299 cab update
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- Wb 299 cab update Hugh McCracken Wed, 25 Apr 2018 - 16:57
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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You can post two-minute videos in Instagram, but no one will ever see them
- Jack Yan
- Since Facebook bought Instagram, it’s been getting buggier, of course.
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WYC Camp 2018
- Wellington Youth Choir
- Kia Ora! Wellington Youth Choir has been working very hard this term! We’ve welcomed several new faces to the choir, and have raced through our repertoire in anticipation of our upcoming concerts! I have been in the choir for nearly 4 years now, and going on camp has always been something I look forward to.
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Club champs court action photos
- Wellington Tennis Club
- You may have seen our club champs winners’ photos a couple of days ago, Now here are heaps more photos of action on the day. Christy Robinson, Wellington Tennis Club women’s singles champion, 2018
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Hataitai ANZAC Project
- Hataitai Community Website
- This ANZAC Day (Wednesday 25 April) around Hataitai posters will be placed detailing the service of the men and women of Hataitai who served in the Great War.
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The aftermath of WWI
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The turmoil of the First World War didn't simply end at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month a hundred years ago, writes historian and Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies Director Associate Professor Kate Hunter.
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UK picks on independent Tweeters, falsely calls them Russian bots and trolls
- Jack Yan
- If you were one of the people caught up with ‘The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!’ and a selection of Cold War paranoia resurrected by politicians and the media, then surely recent news would make you start to think that this was a fake-news narrative? Ian56 on Twitter was recently named by the UK Government as a Russian bot, and Twitter temporarily suspended his account.
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New appointment will accelerate Victoria University commercialisation activities
- Victoria University of Wellington
- David Smol has been appointed Chair of Viclink, Victoria University of Wellington’s commercialisation company.
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Congrats to our new club champs
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Big day at the club on Sunday and we have our club champions for 2018.
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Two artists remake the world
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University is pleased to present the first survey exhibition of the work of Auckland-based artist Marie Shannon.
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Student volunteers build leadership skills and a strong community
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Last week, Victoria University of Wellington celebrated the volunteers who give generously to our community and encouraged others to give volunteering a go as part of this year’s Student Volunteer Week.
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Submit by Wednesday 2 May: Let the Government know you support the new draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The draft Government Policy Statement is a very significant change from the previous Government’s motorway-dominated policies – the policies that led to the now-defeated Basin Reserve flyover proposal.
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Club champs finals on Sunday — spectators welcome
- Wellington Tennis Club
- The club champs finals are on Sunday arvo. Come along to watch some top quality matches. Here are some very blurry snaps from some of the preliminary rounds on Thursday night.
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Flight Coffee Infographic
- Flight Coffee
- Coffee’s journey from farm to cup is complex, varied and crucial to quality.
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Mainline track extension - Summer 2018
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- Mainline track extension - Summer 2018 p9ndr0l Thu, 19 Apr 2018 - 13:00
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Symphony In the Hutt—Friday 18 May, 7pmWalter Nash...
- Orchestra Wellington
- Symphony In the Hutt — Friday 18 May, 7pm Walter Nash Stadium, Taita FREE ENTRY! (Tickets collected from the Walter Nash Stadium Reception from Monday 23rd April) — This gala FAMILY concert features music from Star Wars and Moana, along with Frank Sinatra, Nessun Dorma, the 1812 Overture & more.
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Symphony In the Hutt—Friday 18 May, 7pmWalter Nash...
- Orchestra Wellington
- Symphony In the Hutt — Friday 18 May, 7pm Walter Nash Stadium, Taita FREE ENTRY! (Tickets collected from the Walter Nash Stadium Reception from Monday 23rd April) — This gala FAMILY concert features music from Star Wars and Moana, along with Frank Sinatra, Nessun Dorma, the 1812 Overture & more.
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Basin Reserve Pitch a Winner at Turf Management Awards
- Cricket Wellington
- NZC has announced the winners of their 2017-18 Turf Management Awards with the Basin Reserve taking out top spot as the Domestic Short Form Pitch of the Year.
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Victoria University expertise underpins world-leading independent report on climate change
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington expertise will be a major contributor to a report that will steer government climate policies across the globe.
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Flight Coffee Infographic
- Flight Coffee
- Coffee’s journey from farm to cup is complex, varied and crucial to quality.
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Kilbirnie Sports’ Age-Group Awards Recognise Young Representatives
- Cricket Wellington
- The Wellington representative season wrapped up recently with the Kilbirnie Sports’ Age-Group Representative Awards.
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Cricket Wellington Thanks Michael Papps
- Cricket Wellington
- Having announced his retirement from cricket today, Cricket Wellington would like to congratulate Michael Papps on his career and contribution to the game over the last 20 seasons.
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Toi Art at Te Papa – a first floor glimpse
- The Wellingtonista
- Stepping into te Papa’s new Gallery space Toi Art be prepared for something a little different from your standard gallery experience.
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Summit will build momentum on UN’s goals to ‘transform our world’
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Leaders, influencers, scholars and creative thinkers are looking at how New Zealand can make progress in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a day-long summit hosted by Victoria University of Wellington.
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Keeping an eye on the future
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand could learn a thing or two about sustainable development from a unique piece of Welsh legislation, hears a Victoria University Institute for Governance and Policy Studies event.
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Pacific reset for the Defence Force? That depends
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Some tough foreign policy choices await the Government, writes Victoria University Professor of Strategic Studies Robert Ayson.
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*2018 Auditions are now open*Come join us!Orchestra Wellington...
- Orchestra Wellington
- *2018 Auditions are now open* Come join us! Orchestra Wellington now invites applicants for our 2018 round of auditions.
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*2018 Auditions are now open*Come join us!Orchestra Wellington...
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- *2018 Auditions are now open* Come join us! Orchestra Wellington now invites applicants for our 2018 round of auditions.
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Zuckerberg was either wilfully ignorant or lied during his testimony about ad data collection
- Jack Yan
- Either Mark Zuckerberg is woefully ignorant of what happens at his company or he lied during his testimony to US lawmakers last week.
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Up-and-coming rugby player scores scholarship
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Caleb Delany describes his sports scholarship to study at Victoria University of Wellington as "life changing" by helping him to follow his two passions—rugby and architecture.
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VBS virtual field trip tool globally recognised for leadership education
- Victoria University of Wellington
- An innovative teaching tool created by Victoria Business School’s Dr Christian Schott has caught the attention of AACSB International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
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GovTech accelerator set to advance public sector innovation
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Digital innovators, budding entrepreneurs and public sector agencies in Wellington are encouraged to get involved in a three-month business acceleration programme aimed at creating digital solutions for ‘better, faster and stronger’ government.
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Church Update – 16/04/18
- Miramar Salvation Army
- As this day comes to a close, so the school term comes to an end.
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April Meeting - Colonial Knob Update
- Wellington VHF Group
- Steve ZL2KG will be giving a photo presentation of the progress at Colonial Knob. Date: Thursday 26 April 2018 Time: 7:30 pm Location: Tawa Community Centre WVHFG Categories: Meetings
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There's a bigger brother watching you
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Reframing the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal as mass surveillance demands we recognise these practices as structural, not individual, issues, writes Dr Kathleen Kuehn from Victoria University's Media Studies programme.
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Novices, Annie Huggan and Presidents Results 2018
- Hutt Valley Harriers
- Saturday 14 April 2018 saw the running of the first Club races of the 2018 season, the Novices, Annie Huggan and Presidents races.
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Cambridge Analytica is merely Facebook’s ‘smaller, less ambitious sibling’
- Jack Yan
- Beyond all that had gone on with AIQ and Cambridge Analytica, a lot more has come out about Facebook’s practices, things that I always suspected they do, for why else would they collect data on you even after you opted out? Now, Sam Biddle at The Intercept has written a piece that demonstrates that whatever Cambridge Analytica did, Facebook itself does far, far more, and not just to 87 million people, but all of its users (that’s either 2,000 million if you believe Facebook’s figures, or around half that if you believe my theories), using its FBLearner Flow program. Biddle writes (link in original): This isn’t Facebook showing you Chevy ads because you’ve been reading about Ford all week — old hat in the online marketing world — rather Facebook using facts of your life to predict that in the near future, you’re going to get sick of your car. Facebook’s name for this service: “loyalty prediction.” Spiritually, Facebook’s artificial intelligence advertising has a lot in common with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica’s controversial “psychographic” profiling of voters, which uses mundane consumer demographics (what you’re interested in, where you live) to predict political action. But unlike Cambridge Analytica and its peers, who must content themselves with whatever data they can extract from Facebook’s public interfaces, Facebook is sitting on the motherlode, with unfettered access to staggering databases of behavior and preferences. A 2016 ProPublica report found some 29,000 different criteria for each individual Facebook user … … Cambridge Analytica begins to resemble Facebook’s smaller, less ambitious sibling. As I’ve said many times, I’ve no problem with Facebook making money, or even using AI for that matter, as long as it does so honestly, and I would hope that people would take as a given that we expect that it does so ethically. If a user (like me) has opted out of ad preferences because I took the time many years ago to check my settings, and return to the page regularly to make sure Facebook hasn’t altered them (as it often does), then I expect them to be respected (my investigations show that they aren’t). Sure, show me ads to pay the bills, but not ones that are tied to preferences that you collect that I gave you no permission to collect. As far as I know, the ad networks we work with respect these rules if readers had opted out at aboutads.info and the EU equivalent. Regulating Facebook mightn’t be that bad an idea if there’s no punishment to these guys essentially breaking basic consumer laws (as I know them to be here) as well as the codes of conduct they sign up to with industry bodies in their country. As I said of Google in 2011: if the other 60-plus members of the Network Advertising Initiative can create cookies that respect the rules, why can’t Google? Here we are again, except the main player breaking the rules is Facebook, and the data they have on us is far more precise than some Google cookies. Coming back to Biddle’s story, he sums up the company as a ‘data wholesaler, period.’ The 29,000 criteria per user claim is very easy to believe for those of us who have popped into Facebook ad preferences and found thousands of items collected about us, even after opting out. We also know that the Facebook data download shows an entirely different set of preferences, which means either the ad preference page is lying or the download is lying. In either case, those preferences are being used, manipulated and sold. Transparency can help Facebook through this crisis, yet all we saw from CEO Mark Zuckerberg was more obfuscation and feigned ignorance at the Senate and Congress. This exchange last week between Rep. Anna Eshoo of Palo Alto and Zuckerberg was a good example: Eshoo: It was. Are you willing to change your business model in the interest of protecting individual privacy? Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, we have made and are continuing to make changes to reduce the amount of data … Eshoo: No, are you willing to change your business model in the interest of protecting individual privacy? Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, I’m not sure what that means. In other words, they want to preserve their business model and keep things exactly as they are, even if they are probably in violation of a 2011 US FTC decree. The BBC World Service News had carried the hearings but, as far as I know, little made it on to the nightly TV here. This is either down to the natural news cycle: when Christopher Wylie blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica in The Observer, it was major news, and subsequent follow-ups haven’t piqued the news editors’ interest in the same way. Or, the media were only outraged as it connected to Trump and Brexit, and now that we know it’s far, far more widespread, it doesn’t matter as much. There’s still hope that the social network can be a force for good, if Zuckerberg and co. are actually sincere about it. If Facebook has this technology, why employ it for evil? That may sound a naïve question, but if you genuinely were there to better humankind (and not rate your female Harvard classmates on their looks) and you were sitting on a motherlode of user data, wouldn’t you ensure that the platform were used to create greater harmony between people rather than sow discord and spurring murder? Wouldn’t you refrain from bragging that you have the ability to influence elections? The fact that Facebook doesn’t, and continues to see us as units to be milked in the matrix, should worry us a great deal more than an 87 million-user data breach.
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Fund raising for the Explorer’s Challenge
- Kelburn Scout Group
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Hawkins Hill Challenge Cancelled
- Port Nicholson Poneke Cycling Club
- Due to the very low number of entries, we've made the unfortunate decision to cancel this event.
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Weekly Wrap-up (Week 11 – Term 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Term 1 Friday 13 April – Last day of Term 1 School Holidays 14 April – 29 April ANZAC Day Wednesday 25 April.
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An exciting step in the right direction
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University climate change scientist Professor James Renwick welcomes the Government's ending of new permits for offshore oil and gas exploration.
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Holidays
- Kilbirnie School
- Have a lovely holiday and see you all back for Term 2 on Monday 30 April.
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Relay for Life team fundraising brings boost for Cancer Society
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A total of $8,790.04 was raised by Victoria University staff, students and friends as part of the Cancer Society's Relay for Life in March, placing the team ninth in the list of top fundraisers for the Wellington event.
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Rounding up the month’s racing, upcoming events + Club member discounts
- Wellington Mountain Bike Club
- It’s been an action-packed month.
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Perry and van Beek Claim Player of the Year Honours
- Cricket Wellington
- At last week’s annual Norwood Awards, Cricket Wellington acknowledged the performances of their senior players during the 2017-18 season.
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Assembly Notes from 12 April
- Kilbirnie School
- Well done Thea and Sahara for being fabulous comperes! Michelle from Parentlink drew the results for the Pie the Principal raffle.
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Junior classes will continue through the April term break
- Aikido Shinryukan Wellington
- Junior Term dates: Term 1 finishes on Friday 13 April, Term 2 starts Monday 30 April. Classes will continue through the holiday on Mondays and Thursdays 5pm – 5:50pm. The training fee for the two week holiday is covered by the $90 term rate. The first two classes are free if you are new and want to … Continue reading Junior classes will continue through the April term break →
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Club Awards Recognise Season’s Best
- Cricket Wellington
- Last week the Cricket Wellington Club Awards were held in the Basin Reserve’s Norwood Room to recognise the season’s best at the game’s grassroots.
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Bumper Summer of Junior Cricket
- Cricket Wellington
- The 2017-18 season will long be remembered as the first season in recent memory where the weather gods played their part – not a single day of junior Saturday cricket was rained off.
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Living restoratively
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Two Victoria University researchers are using their unique skill sets to support the restorative justice efforts at the University.
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Goodbye Mrs Moses!
- Kilbirnie School
- Ros Moses will be finishing at Kilbirnie School at the end of Term 1. We will all miss her and wish to congratulate her on a distinguished career. The children will be given the chance to say goodbye at a special assembly on Thursday.
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Turned alcohol ads off in Facebook? Did you honestly think they’d respect that?
- Jack Yan
- Steve Wozniak has quit Facebook, and apparently was surprised at the advertising preferences that the company had built up on him.
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Summer Gold Competition winners for 2018
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Artificially-created solid materials that act like fluids may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but this is the topic explored in the winning video entry for Victoria University’s annual Summer Gold Competition.
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Students take on real-life workplace challenges
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A new course is giving students from both Commerce and Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) faculties an internship-like experience without having to leave the lecture theatre.
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Victoria researchers study deep-water communities in Fiordland
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington research team has uncovered new insights on marine life in the rarely explored deeper waters of Doubtful, Dusky, and Breaksea Sounds in the Fiordland (Te Moana o Atawhenua) Marine Area.
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Award-winning work on display at Victoria University’s Architecture and Design campus
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Work from top Master of Architecture students in New Zealand is on display outside Victoria University of Wellington’s Architecture and Design campus in central Wellington.
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Promising Pasifika rugby player wins scholarship
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Encouraged by his high school rugby manager, Tai Neli applied for a sports scholarship at Victoria University of Wellington but never expected to hear back.
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Welcome Ms Patel and Ms de Lange!
- Kilbirnie School
- We have appointed two new, full-time permanent staff members to work with the students at our school from the start of term 2. Asha Patel will teach in room 1 and Louise De Lange will work in room 8. Asha is very well known to us all while Louise will be a new face. We are looking forward to havingthem on board!
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The ‘Dvorak For Lunch’ All Star Ensemble rehearsing...
- Orchestra Wellington
- The ‘Dvorak For Lunch’ All Star Ensemble rehearsing ahead of this Friday’s lunchtime concert at St Andrew’s on The Terrace. 12.15pm and only $10 on the door.
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WYST Youth Sailing sign-up 2019!
- Wellington Youth Sailing Scheme
- The 2019-2020 WYST season is upon us! This year we are again offering three programmes for sailors with different skillsets and sailing career objectives.
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The gamble of #deleteFacebook
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Going cold tech turkey is worth the risks, writes Alex Beattie from Victoria University's Media Studies programme.
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Preview: Your heart looks like a vagina
- The Wellingtonista
- After success at LitCrawl last year, Dominic Hoey is returning to Wellington with Your Heart Looks Like A Vagina at BATS Theatre next week.
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Waka capsize - Plimmerton/Onepoto
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Sat, 07/04/2018 - 08:30 - 09:30 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 5 Total Volunteer Hours: 8 Reported capsizing of one x Waka with 5 persons onboard in the Plimmerton area and one Waka in difficulties in the Onepoto area. IMT set up at CG Mana base, MR2 and crew ready, vessel launched on standby for 1 hr - stood down after confirmation of Waka crews were safely onshore. Vessel Details Length: 7.00m Resources Attendees: Chris Darch Darren.Drewery Weedoogie Katestewart Neil Cornwell Peter Tse Polarbear Torrey CRV's Used: CRV Pelorus
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The ‘Dvorak For Lunch’ All Star Ensemble rehearsing...
- Orchestra Wellington
- The ‘Dvorak For Lunch’ All Star Ensemble rehearsing ahead of this Friday’s lunchtime concert at St Andrew’s on The Terrace. 12.15pm and only $10 on the door.
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Making plans for Mt Albert
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Designers need only look to European examples to meet the Government's desire for high-density housing, writes Dr Morten Gjerde, Head of Victoria University's School of Architecture.
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Weekly Wrap-up (Week 10 – Term 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Term 1 Monday 9 April – Emergency Lock Down Drill Friday 13 April – Last day of Term 1 Term 2 Monday 30 April – First day back for Term 2 Wednesday 2 May – Junior Parent Teacher Interviews (bookings to open during Week 11) Monday 7 May – Senior Parent Teacher Interviews (bookings to open during Week 11) Monday 14 May – BoT meeting Monday 6 June – Open Evening Monday 17 June – BoT meeting Click here for Term Dates 2018 Important Information Lock Down Drill — Monday 9 April 2018 Wellington High School has been working with Harrison Tew®, who specialise in emergency management planning for schools, to further strengthen our emergency planning. The procedures they have developed allow us to respond safely and quickly to a range of circumstances and have been successfully implemented at schools across the country. Harrison Tew® will run specialised training with senior management, our staff and students in the lead up to a lock down exercise, which will occur on Monday 9 April. The exercise will be as real-life as possible, which will mean that parents/families will receive notification by way of text, WHS app and/or email. The information passed will emphasise that this is an exercise/practice and will explain that all updated information will then be posted on the school website. In a genuine incident, should you hear of a lock down at the school, can we please ask that you do not attend the school or phone, as we will not be able to respond. Your presence at, or contact with the school may make it more difficult for us to manage the situation, and could potentially & place your children and in fact yourselves at risk. What you need to do now Prior to this exercise, please check that your contact details (mobile phone numbers and email & addresses) are current. This will be the information we use to reach you should an emergency occur at the school. You can do this by checking your details through the parent portal [portal.whs.school.nz] and choosing ‘Details’. Download the WHS App today via Google Play store (Android) or iTunes app store (Apple) Reminders: Earthquake / school closure This is a good time to encourage you to make or review your family plan around other emergencies, such as earthquakes. You may find ‘How to get ready’ is a helpful resource. A family plan is particularly important for students who travel to school from out of zone as their transport routes may be cut off. If a decision is made to close school, for any reason, we will keep our year 9 and 10 students with us until a known adult can come and collect them from the school field. The only adults permitted to collect a student will be the caregivers and emergency contacts that we have recorded. We will only release our year 11, 12 and 13 students when it has been declared safe to do so. Please ensure that a discussion about safe routes to get home are part of your family plan. Older students may stay at school under our supervision until they are able to be collected if this arrangement forms part of your Family Emergency Plan. We thank you for your ongoing support.
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Two gorillas in the room: China and Trump
- Victoria University of Wellington
- NZ-US relations were examined at a conference co-hosted by Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Studies and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC.
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Red Bull Pump Track World Champs Qualifier this Saturday
- Wellington Mountain Bike Club
- Pump up the volume! The party comes to town this Saturday with the third Red Bull Pump Track World Champs qualifier event.
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Tennis holiday programme on this month
- Wellington Tennis Club
- First week of the holidays – Mon 16 April to Friday 20 April, 9am-12pm. $35 per day. For more info, contact the coach, Marcel: marcel@tennisinc.co.nz, 027 630 8627. Download the flyer here
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Chasing the Black Dog with beer
- The Wellingtonista
- Last night we went to the opening of the new Black Dog brewery on Cuba Street, and, spoiler alert, it was bloody delightful.
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Victoria researchers engineer new proteins to help solve global problems
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Researchers from Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Research Institute have made significant progress in the science of protein engineering, achieving a breakthrough which has implications for tackling global problems from diseases to climate change.
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Review: Troll
- The Wellingtonista
- Otto receives a photo on his phone one morning.
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Student representative takes it to the next level on University Council
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Working to improve the lives of her fellow students is a family affair for newly-elected Victoria University Council member Isabella Lenihan-Ikin.
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Deadly drug fentanyl prompts appeal for users to get $8.50 test
- Newswire.co.nz
- Picture Supplied: KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA An $8.
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Corporate Challenge 2018
- Wellington Rowing Club
- Corporate challenge 2018 will be starting in May. If you or your workplace would like to get involved send us a message or come down to the information afternoon on the 6th of May at 2.30pm. No experience is necessary and WRC provides coaching, boats and all the equipment needed, all you need to bring is a great attitude. We look forward to seeing you at the information afternoon.
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Welcome Asha and Louise!
- Kilbirnie School
- We have appointed two new, full-time permanent staff members to work with the students at our school from the start of term 2. Asha Patel will teach in room 1 and Louise De Lange will work in room 8. Asha is very well known to us all while Louise will be a new face. We are looking forward to havingthem on board!
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Pie the Principal raffle
- Kilbirnie School
- Back again for 2018- the special Movie Night raffle! Prizes include the chance to “Pie” the Principal or the Deputy Principal (Mr Dobson not Mrs Brown!) Unlimited tickets also from the office - $1 each. Get yours quickly!
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News: Changes to masters grades for 2018
- Olympic Harriers
- At recent meetings, Athletics Wellington decided to make some changes to the mas...
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