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NZ freelance health writer Noel O’Hare recently wrote about a weight-loss study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July 2008. In his stuff.co.nz opinion piece, O’Hare, who reads as a vocal supporter of the Atkins method of low-carb dieting, champions the Israeli study as strong evidence that a low-carb diet is superior [...]
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Imagine that you’re on Facebook, MySpace, your blog site, or even your emails, and someone you think you know sends you messages that are inappropriate, suggestive, libelious, or even worse. Or, your friends start asking you about an online profile you know you never created. Or, you find that your bank account’s been smartly emptied [...]
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I think the best justification I’ve discovered for singing, writing, recording and worshipping with songs can be summed up below:
“The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zeph 3:17, NKJV)
All [...]
Very cute. In case you didn’t pick it out, Yoo Ye Eun, the 5-year-old on the piano, was born blind and has had no musical training. I think what’s most telling is that at the start of the song, she began in the incorrect key – but her perfect pitch meant that she corrected her [...]
A mostly pleasant weekend, in which:
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With regards to our epic Fellowship-of-the-Ring quest (Cheryl=Gimli) to find a right church, I think we’ve settled it [...]
I can’t quite explain the immense awesome-feeling you get from composing duo Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s first musical payoff when listening to the Dark Knight’s (leaked) musical score. Let’s just say that they’ve been stretching out the build-up of the iconic “Batman” theme (“Do Re Maw Law So” in solfège) for YEARS now [...]
Here’s two Australian ad agencies pitted against each other to see who can make the best case for invading NZ:
This has been a story that’s boiled over in the Asian community over the past few weeks, and the national media have been able to get a fairly robust stream of headlines from the antics of the Asian Anti-Crime Group and its maverick founder, Peter Low.
Here are some of the recent headlines:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4610264a6160.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10520648
And some screenshots from [...]
iPhone 3G. The facts are sobering.
It’s fascinating to note that vodafone.co.nz’s servers have collapsed since 10am. Obviously this has generated interest not just from Apple lovers in New Zealand, but also those from overseas who are definitely considering flying over here just so they can be the “first in the world” to have one. I [...]
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Website: http://www.ibcchurch.com; Ph: (09) 273 3349; 2 Dannemora Drive, Dannemora, Auckland; Senior Pastor: Ken Young; Speaker: Mike Huffman; Sermon topic: “Beholding the God of Love” (Ro 8:31, 37-39); 28.6.08; 9.30am.
Rating: AA
(A=return worshipper, AA=excellent and growing, AAA=must be my home church lol)
In-the-pew report of a well-equipped, cosmopolitan church family that put on the charm offensive for us visitors [...]
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