'I felt sick': The harrowing content TikTok posts to 13yo girls revealed
The account’s creator - a Christchurch documentary maker researching social media for a project - described what she saw as “disturbing, discombobulating and gross”. Nadia Maxwell is now calling on social media companies to be much stricter on what young users are exposed to on their apps. Bay of Plenty Times Photo / Alex CairnsMaxwell’s project is ongoing but she told the Herald she feels “compelled” to share her TikTok experience. Cybersafety specialist John Parsons said exposure to social media at a young age led to “lost childhoods”. “Children’s developing brains should not be exposed to social media platforms like TikTok,” he told the Herald.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 23, 2024 21:09 UTC
NZ Television Awards 2024: Hit Robyn Malcolm TV Series After The Party scoops top prizes
Robyn Malcolm attends the 2024 NZ Television Awards. Critically acclaimed Robyn Malcolm drama series After The Party won big at the 2024 NZ Television awards on Friday night in Auckland, taking home a record-breaking nine awards and continuing its dominating streak as one of New Zealand’s best TV exports. After The Party has been touted as New Zealand’s best TV drama in years and recently launched on UK streaming sites after wowing audiences across the Tasman and at home. It has been lauded for its inventive storytelling, with the plot told partly in flashbacks and partly in the present day. Besides winning the overall title of New Zealand On Air Best Drama, it also won Best Editing, Best Script, Best Cinematography and Best Director.
Source:Stuff
November 23, 2024 18:32 UTC
The Great New Zealand Road Trip: Nine Questions with... David Lomas
Devonport with its quaint village shops is really small town New Zealand right in the midst of the big city. It has great parks and beaches and there is grand walking up the old volcanoes Takarunga and Maungauika for the magical views of the city and Hauraki Gulf. Sport and journalism. While I played a lot of sport (rugby, cricket a bit of soccer, ice hockey and all the racquet sports) I was never great at anything. He’s not a household name but Bob epitomises so much about so many New Zealanders who do wonderful and heroic things.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 23, 2024 17:33 UTC
Tony Tan’s Thai Duck Curry Dumpling Recipe
A unique dumpling flavour accidentally created with Tony Tan’s hearty leftovers turned the heads of the legendary chef’s friends. This recipe from his new cookbook Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class touches on its backstory and explains how to make it yourself. Meanwhile, for the curry sauce, combine the coconut milk, curry paste, palm sugar and fish sauce in a saucepan and bring to a gentle boil, stirring occasionally. Add the lime leaves and paprika, then check the seasoning and add a little salt if you think it needs it. Remove with a slotted spoon and serve immediately with a spoonful of the curry sauce and extra sliced lime leaves.
Source:Stuff
November 23, 2024 16:07 UTC
New gold in Otago hills
Lindis Pass Conservation Group volunteers Chris Piner and Jan Kelly secure a young kōwhai within a deer-proof cage in August. PHOTOS: ANNE STEVENIn 15 to 20 years we should be seeing a new kind of gold in the hills of the Lindis Pass — a type that is dug in rather than dug out! Seed has been collected from the tree and successfully propagated into healthy young trees by Group members and Otago Polytech in Cromwell. Kowhai trees were common within woody vegetation that once covered Central Otago. In 2011 the Department of Conservation (Doc) launched Project Gold, an initiative to re-establish kowhai populations in Central Otago and "ensure a golden future for Otago".
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 23, 2024 15:28 UTC
Isolated cafe owners back in business
Joss and Spinner Smith enjoy a warm sunny, Sunday at Jackson Bay. PHOTO: SUPPLIEDThe enforced holiday is over for Joss and Ian (Spinner) Smith, of Jackson Bay, South Westland. The road to their cafe, The Craypot, was blocked by slips a week ago. However, on Saturday, road crews reopened the road — the only link between Jackson Bay, Haast and the main West Coast road — State Highway 6. The road opening means Jackson Bay, and The Craypot, are once again accessible to the public from the south end of the West Coast.
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 23, 2024 15:28 UTC
Europe’s cheaper ski resorts for a snow-filled winter holiday
Zakopane is my preferred destination in Poland because of the number of ski resorts all offering something a little bit different. Zakopane in Poland because has a number of ski resorts all offering something a little bit different. And of course more of that hearty mountain food that just feels right in a town like this. Choose to base yourself closer to the larger more family-friendly Grandvalira ski resort or smaller but arguably more interesting resorts of Pal-Arinsal or Ordino. Aside from the impeccable skiing, Italy has (in my opinion) the best mountain food in all of Europe.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 23, 2024 02:06 UTC
Possums ate this pensioner’s roses. So she fought back
Photo: LDR/ Matthew RosenbergA Southland woman fed up with possums attacking her roses has assumed the role of pest controller at a council reserve. Scarlet is armed with a trap she purchased from regional council Environment Southland and has noticed that numbers spike in warmer weather. Photo: LDR/ Matthew RosenbergIt has come at a cost though, with Scarlet forced to not only purchase traps but also bait at around $50 a tube. Her concerns were raised on the back of Environment Southland announcing Predator Free Southland was on hold until further notice due to funding issues. Photo: LDR/ Matthew RosenbergIn response to questions, Environment Southland biosecurity and biodiversity operations manager Ali Meade said possum control was the responsibility of landowners.
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 23, 2024 00:15 UTC
New Zealand exporters face potential $750m hit from Trump’s tariffs under new commerce boss Howard Lutnick
Trump’s choice as his new trade tsar suggests poker skills will also be a most useful attribute in the new era. Certainly when it comes to navigating his choice of Howard Lutnick, boss of bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald and co-chair of Trump’s transition team, to head up the powerful US Department of Commerce. He made plenty of comments during the lengthy US presidential campaign that underlined his stance as a proponent of tariffs. Put tariffs on China and make US$400 billion.”Elsewhere – such as with New Zealand – talk is of tariffs at 10-20%. Both political leaders come from the business world.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 23, 2024 00:03 UTC
Shock over homicide investigation
The Lake Hāwea community is "shocked" after a homicide investigation was launched this week, eight months after the death of an Invercargill woman. Karen Gaylene White (nee Crossan), 60, died in a property in Lake Hāwea in early March. Wānaka-Upper Clutha Community Board chairman Simon Telfer said the Lake Hāwea community was "really shocked." There was a feeling of shock going through the community to have a homicide investigation take place. "There is shock that it happened, and shock at this delay between the passing and now — it has added a different dimension to people’s thoughts in it."
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 22, 2024 23:40 UTC
Eye surgeon Ian Dallison tells Parole Board hearing why he tried to kill landlord Alberto Ceccarelli
Later that day he went to Ceccarelli’s home and tried to kill him. Stuff reported Dallison told the board he’d “just given up” amid a “perfect storm”. Stuff reported the offender told the board he remembered pointing the Ruger at his former landlord and then the situation “became a bit of a blur”. Dallison told the board he had a “really good support network” outside prison and he now had “something to live for” and “something to offer the community as well”. Jane and I as well.”Snook said Dallison still had work to do before he could be considered for release.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 22, 2024 22:39 UTC
Andrew Bayly ‘loser’ incident: Frantic texts, thumbs-up from PM, photo of drinking from wine glass
One shows Bayly drinking from a wine glass at what appears to be a wine tasting at the vineyard. Andrew Bayly at a winery in Marlborough in October 2024 where he had an altercation with a worker. Hipkins asked the Prime Minister about whether Bayly had drunk before any of the three interactions that had been alleged. The Prime Minister responded with just a thumbs-up. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters would later joke to media he thought it meant “large coffee”.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 22, 2024 20:49 UTC
Six dead on holiday in Laos as tensions flare at Climate Change summit | NZ Herald News Update
Rotorua Club turns 100It started with a group of eight men wanting to set up a club, now 100 years later the Rotorua Club has more than 400 members and is still going strong.
Source:New Zealand Herald
November 22, 2024 19:47 UTC
Daily review 22/11/2024
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Source:New Zealand Herald
November 22, 2024 10:42 UTC
Christmas is a time for giving (blood)
Daughter and father Ella and Tony Gomez are encouraging people to donate blood before Christmas and have done so almost a combined 100 times throughout their lives. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSHWhen Tony Gomez donated blood in England he got given a pint of Guinness. His daughter, Ella, also gives plasma every second week — together they have given to the New Zealand Blood Service 96 times. New Zealand Blood Service national marketing and communications manager Shane Paramore said summer was often proving to be the most challenging time to meet the demand for blood and blood products. "The festive season is about giving and, for someone in hospital, a blood or plasma donation will be the best gift they ever receive," Mr Paramore said.
Source:Otago Daily Times
November 22, 2024 03:32 UTC