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The release of Anna Coddingtonâs fourth studio album 'Te Whakamiha' coincided with Aotearoaâs Matariki celebrations. It sports eight uplifting waiata sung in both English and Te Reo, tunes that Coddington describes as her own take on MÄori funk.
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Storm Child by Michael Robotham
The mystery of Evie Cormacâs background has followed her into adulthood. As a child, she was discovered hiding in a secret room where a man had been tortured to death. Many of her captors and abusers escaped justice, unseen but not forgotten. Now, on a hot summerâs day, the past drags Evie back as she watches the bodies of seventeen migrants wash up on a Lincolnshire beach.
There is only one survivor, a teenage boy, who tells police their small boat was deliberately rammed and sunk. Psychologist Cyrus Haven is recruited by the police to investigate the murdersâbut recognizes immediately that Evie has some link to the tragedy. By solving this crime, he could finally unlock the secrets of her past. But what dark forces will he set loose? And who will pay the price?
Agent Zo by Clare Mulley
This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.
After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.
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"The Sunshine Coastâs compact layout belies its bounty, richly necklaced with nature-based experiences in easy reach of each other. I hop-scotched about the place like a frisky roo, lapping up its elemental riches. The welcome mat is being thickly laid-out, with Air New Zealand direct services from Auckland to the Sunny Coast underway, and with Jetstar flying the route from later this year.
"Youâve got 100 kilometres of glittering beaches at your disposal- no matter what shade of sand takes your fancy; world-class wildlife experiences; plus an enchanting hive of hinterland gems, from fabulous forest walks to characterful villages. But donât just throw your togs in the suitcase when heading to the Sunny Coast because thereâs some seriously scenic mountain trails worth packing your hiking boots for, too."
Read Mike's full article here.
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Mary and George
The story of the Countess of Buckingham, who moulded her son to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover through intrigue, making her family richer, more titled, and more influential than England had ever seen (TVNZ+).
I Am: Celine Dion
Serving as a love letter to her fans, Celine Dion highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the resilience of the human spirit as she struggles with a life-altering illness (Prime Video).
The Bear
The third season of the brilliant but stressful award-winning series about chef Carmel (Jeremy Allen White) as he tries to turn his family-owned diner into a fine dining restaurant (Disney+).
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With Dry July kicking off in a couple days, Dougal Sutherland believes it's a good time for people to think about their alcohol consumption.
Itâs a stressful time at the moment, with a cost of living crisis, workplace stresses, and drastic weather, and when times are stressful, people tend to turn to âunhealthyâ coping mechanisms.
Dougal Sutherland joined Jack Tame to chat about the telltale signs that someoneâs alcohol consumption may be becoming problematic, and a few tips for those thinking of taking on Dry July.
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Wine: Allan Scott Cecilia Brut, Marlborough $24
Why I chose it:
- I like it very much, especially the price.
- Itâs a perfect âstand-byâ wine in case of unexpected visitors.
- It is a real crowd-pleaser.
- A wine for all seasons.
- I havenât chosen a sparkling wine for while.What does it taste like?
- A blend of pinot noir and chardonnay with a creamy, yeast-infused palate that is both fresh and mellow with restrained complexity. A perfect balance of subtle sweetness and mouth-watering acidity.
Why itâs a bargain:
- Bottle-fermented sparkling wine is expensive to make, you wonât find too many good examples under $25.
Where can you buy it?
- Whisky and More, Waikato $20.99 -Big Barrel stores $less than $23
- Glengarry, Auckland $22.99Food match?
-Canapes, especially seafood, particularly oysters. It doesnât need the complication of food.
Will it keep?
- Good for a few years although it isnât vintage-dated. Drink it up.
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Iâve always thought about creating the Greatest Hits (or Greatest Myths) for gardeners. There are so many things you should and shouldnât do when gardening and creating compost.
Starting a compost system: Do we really need a âCompost Starterâ to kick it off?
The easiest way to make compost is by sticking (roughly) to a ratio of Carbon to Nitrogen of something like 30:1. If you chuck a big heap of chipped wood (C) in the bin, you will need some grass clippings (N) to fire it all off. Even a simple pee on the heap will do the trick, or some Urea fertiliser, or even some old soggy lettuce.
Crushed egg shells around your vegetables are said to stop the slugs and snails as they wonât be able to cross the sharp egg-edges with their soft and tender âfootâ. Molluscs do not actually come in contact with the sharp substrate as they glide over the slime they produce themselves!
And if you put the crushed shells into the compost bin, the calcium will eventually turn into useful calcium â eventually means âa few years later at leastâ, so donât bank on a quick-release fertiliser! Besides: they donât really add a lot of value to your compost.
Ah! To speed up composting waste material, do we need to turn the heap every now and then?
Good question! Aeration will indeed help the process a bit⌠but so do mice and rats digging tunnels for their nests. Perhaps the question should be: how much time do you, personally, have to âturnâ the compost? Every 3 or 4 weeks.
Cooked food in the compost bin?
Why not? Itâs basically the same as un-cooked food, so why chuck it in the rubbish bin?
Dead Animals or left-over meat in the compost bin?
Everything that once lived is compostable â simple as that. Animals and old meat will take longer and it might start to smell somewhat, but it certainly will compost.
Can weeds be composted?
Of course! Weeds are simply plants too and when you pull them out, they will decay and form compost, just like any other organism, but should you?
That depends on the kind of weed it is and if it has set seeds or survives on a vigorous root-system.
How fast can you make compost?
Depends on what you make it from; Youâll need C and N plus support from fungal organisms and microbial life-forms. In general, itâll go quicker when you are in a warm part of the world and slower in a cool area.
Hereâs another bit of science: a compost tumbler is usually quite a bit smaller than a wooden compost bin, sitting on the soil. That means the tumbler wonât heat up as much (or at all!) as the larger bin and that may slow the process down â but it certainly will work albeit not so fast.
What can we Learn FROM Nature making its own compost?
Leaves fall down; twigs and sticks break off and join the leaves. Fruit and seeds join the party and every now and then a big branch with deliver a lot of Carbon.
âRecycling insectsâ and Microbes help the compost process out; worms transport the end-product to deeper layers in the soil where itâs needed by the roots⌠and it just carries on in its own tempoâŚ
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On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 29 June 2024, the ultimate master of illusion Cosentino joins Jack to talk escape artistry and what happens when things go wrong.
Jack reflects on the moment Joe Biden's presidential fate became clear.
The much-anticipated documentary about Celine Dion has landed and Tara Ward appreciates it for the rawness shown by the global superstar. And, with Dry July just around the corner Dougal Sutherland highlights the importance of checking in on our behaviours during times of stress.
Get the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast every Saturday on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Microsoft faces a multi-billion dollar fine in the EU
This is to do with the complaint Slack brought to the European Commission, arguing that Microsoft's bundling of Teams with Office was anti-competitive. Preliminary findings of the investigation side with Slack, so Microsoft could be fined up to $21 billion. The Commission says Microsoft has been "forcing" Office customers to acquire Teams. It says it also doesn't help that Teams isn't interoperable with competitors' offerings. Microsoft has already committed to stopping the bundling.
Earlier this week, European Union regulators accused Apple of breaking tough new digital competition rules under the Digital Markets Act by preventing app developers from freely directing consumers to cheaper services away from Apple's payment ecosystem.
AI is coming to the Olympics broadcast"Your Daily Olympic Recap" will be a personalized show of highlights found on Peacock (the streaming service with rights to the Olympics) of the big moments you might have missed, based on your sporting preferences. To take it to the next level, the show will be narrated by a now-retired former Olympic broadcaster, whose voice will be computer generated. NBC said the AI system was trained using prior NBC broadcast audio - nothing else was required to make it happen - which is rather incredible when you think of all the voices which might be able to be "brought back".
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An ultimate master of illusion, Cosentino exploded into the world of magic on Australia's Got Talent back in 2011 and has since wowed audiences across the world on-stage and on screen with his tricks and escape acts.
Cosentino has earned titles like International Magician of the Year and is bringing his act to Kiwi audiences, joining Jack Tame to pull back the curtain on the magic scene.
He dug into his introduction to magic, how his act came to be, and the crazy escapes heâs managed to pull off.
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Inside Out 2
Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust have been running a successful operation by all accounts. However, when Anxiety shows up, they aren't sure how to feel.
A Family Affair
A surprising romance kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother and her movie star boss as they face the complications of love, sex and identity.
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Among all of the immigration statistics, New Zealand is losing another being to Australia.
Burma, the countryâs last remaining elephant, is shifting across the ditch at the end of the year.
Kevin Milne understands why, but feels for the children who will no longer have an elephant to wonder at.
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In this pudding gooey caramel sauce pools around light banana sponge which is studded with buttery pecans. With all the gooeyness of sticky date pudding but less rich and sickly. Divine!
Serves 6-8
Ingredients:
½ cup dates, soaked in boiling water
2 ripe bananas
1 cup brown sugar, loosely packed
2 eggs
80g butter, melted
1 ½ cups plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp cinnamon
70g pecans
Sauce
2 cups boiling water
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 heaped tsp cornflour
70g butter, chopped
Method:
Preheat oven to 170 C fanbake. Butter a large ovenproof dish. Soak dates for 15 minutes, drain dates and blend in a food processor. Add bananas and blend until mixed. In a bowl whisk the eggs and brown sugar together until light and fluffy. Add melted butter and date and banana puree and mix until combined. Fold in sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon and pecans. Scrape batter into greased dish. Place boiling water, sugar, cornflour and butter in a jug. Stir until butter has melted. Pour over the back of a large metal spoon, over batter mixture. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until top has set and cake layer is cooked through. Dust with icing sugar and serve with cream, ice cream or custard (or all three!).Make it your own:
Add ½ cup chopped pear to the batter.
Use walnuts instead of pecans for a cheaper alternative.
Add ½ cup of chopped dark chocolate to the batter.
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âI really donât know what he said at the end of that sentence. I donât think he knows what he said either.â
That was it. The moment. The line. The death knell. And the crazy thing about the words that best defined the 2024 Presidential Election debate is that Donald Trump wasnât blustering or lying. I donât think anyone whoâd seen Joe Bidenâs attempt at an answer honestly disagreed.
Election debates are rarely significantly consequential. They might give a candidate or a party a little bump in the polls or some choice clips for social media or campaign advertisements. But as much as Democrats are in damage control today, playing down the significance of their candidateâs performance, this will go down in history as the moment that lost Biden the Presidency. The moment where it became absolutely crystal-clear for millions of people watching live and the billions of people viewing subsequent clips; either Joe Biden stands down or Joe Biden will be defeated.
The crazy thing to remember is that everything about the debate was played on his terms. This was the Democratsâ big play to dispel the criticisms of his competence and energy. Joe Biden took a full week at Camp David to prepare. His team requested rules around the microphone being cut off to stop Trump from interrupting. And yet with all the prep, all the resource, he stood there with his mouth gaping, a dithering, pitiful, sometimes incoherent picture of a diminished, elderly man. If the goal was to prove the President had the energy and sharpness for four more years, it was a stunning own goal. Trump didnât damage Biden. He didnât need to. Biden damaged Biden. Take the politics out of it. At a human level, it was sad.
Iâve covered the last three U.S elections, from Bidenâs Vice-Presidential debates in 2012 through to his win in 2020. I was in a freezing Delaware car park on election night, four years ago. Iâve long felt that age alone is no reason for someone not to be President, but that a lack of vim and vigour most certainly is. Iâve taken time to get to this point â12 months ago I felt that Biden might be able to dispel the criticisms and the noise. Now, I cannot see a way in which he recovers his campaign.
If the Democrats are to win the election, they need a new candidate. Someone young. Someone relatively centrist. Whatever it takes to pressure Biden to stand down, they must do it and do it now.
If you step back, there are a couple of positives in this. Imagine for a moment if this wasnât an abnormally early election debate. Imagine if yesterday couple of weeks before the election.
Even though itâs an unprecedented situation, there is time for the Dems to scramble and to find a new candidate.
Itâs funny, in watching the fallout from the debate and imagining what will happen if Biden stands down, I was reminded of our own election in 2017 when Andrew Little stepped aside and Jacinda Ardern became leader. She enjoyed a huge surge in popularity. Jacindamania. Itâs totally possible a new Democrat candidate would experience something similar.
And even if they didnât, even if a new candidate was defeated come November, would the result be any worse for the Democrats than that which they are heading towards right now?
Either Biden stands aside or Biden will be defeated.
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Gracie Abrams second album, âThe Secret of Usâ has a more intimate feeling. Itâs shares a similar vibe to Taylor Swiftâs folk sound, with one song being a collaboration with Swift herself.
Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to review the album.
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The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
Itâs the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guestsâ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the âManor Muleâ cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.
But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manorâs immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. Somethingâs not right with the guests. Thereâs been a fire. A bodyâs been discovered.
THE FOUNDER * THE HUSBAND * THE MYSTERY GUEST * THE KITCHEN HELP
It all began with a secret, fifteen years ago. Now the past has crashed the party. And itâll end in murder at⌠The Midnight Feast.
Southern Man by Greg Iles
Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, and his old allies gone. Pursued by enemies and demoralized by a divided community, he's found sanctuary on a former cotton plantation above the Mississippi River. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville rap concert triggers a shooting - one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie.
Before the stunned city can process the tragedy, an arsonist starts torching antebellum plantation homes in Natchez and Bienville. When an unknown Black radical group claims the deadly fires as acts of historic justice, citywide panic ensues, driving a prosperous Southern town to the brink of race war. Drafted by Bienville's mayor to end the crisis and restore peace, Penn investigates the fires as casualties mount and armed marchers move toward a decisive clash.
But Penn suspects that the arson attacks may not be what they seem - not retribution by radicals, but false-flag strikes designed to trigger the very chaos he sees roiling the streets. For that mayhem provides state and county leaders the excuse to dissolve the Black-run Bienville city government and seize control. It's up to Penn and a band of locals to uncover the truth and expose those trying to destabilize the city.
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We all make waste, some of us more than others.
But how do we deal with it? It can be tough to keep everything organised and sorted.
Kate "Ethically Kateâ Hall joined Jack Tame to walk listeners through the best way to set up an efficient waste system in their homes.
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Each year the Government contributes up to $521.43 to a personâs Kiwisaver account.
The cut off for the contribution is coming up next week, and KiwiSaver members could be missing out on as much as $55,000 in their retirement savings by not collecting the full contribution.
Personal Finance Expert Lisa Dudson joined Jack Tame to discuss the long term importance of ensuring you collect your full contribution.
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Elsbeth
When the world's top tennis champion drops dead on the court, Elsbeth and Kaya home in on a rising tennis star and his competitive father and coach; Capt. Wagner begins to suspect Elsbeth's reason for being in New York goes beyond the consent decree (TVNZ+, from Tuesday 25 June).
Presumed Innocent
A horrific murder upends Chicago's prosecuting attorneys' office, as one of its own is suspected of the crime (Apple TV+).
The Outlaws
Stephen Marchantâs comedy about seven wayward strangers doing their community service returns for a third season, but can any of these âoutlawsâ really reform? (Prime Video).
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Despicable Me 4
Gru welcomes a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who's intent on tormenting his dad. However, their peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when criminal mastermind Maxime Le Mal escapes from prison and vows revenge against Gru.
The Road to Patagonia
Documentary film was shot over 16 years. âThe Road To Patagoniaâ gives us a first-hand experience of Matty Hannonâs epic surfing journey â starting at the northern edge of Alaska, down the west coast of the Americas, and finally ending at the southern tip of Patagonia. Itâs an epic journey covering 50,000 kilometres, with many twists and turns â with an unexpected love story that becomes the heart of it all.
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