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Avenues, 'Watch Me', April 2010, 815 words approx He's only 21, but Amberley's Stephen Carr already has five years' experience of running his own computer business. Words Kim Newth  Photo John McCombe With 50 to 80 hours a week spent on his business, hardworking young entrepreneur Stephen Carr has had to put his love of snowboarding on the backburner. He might not have had a holiday last year, but what he does have is an extensive database of loyal clients spread from Christchurch and Rangiora to Hanmer Springs and Kaikoura. "At 16, I never believed it would get to the scale of where it is now. I thought it'd be like a sideline hobby, not my full-time occupation. The demand is simply huge and trying to manage that is probably the biggest challenge," Stephen says. He started Bright Star PC in January 2005. The first hurdle was trying to get a certificate of incorporation
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essence , 1400 words, March 2010 Bestselling author and clinical psychologist Nigel Latta is man of the moment for worry-beset parents. His agenda is appealingly simple: calm down a bit, don't over-manage or over-protect your kids, and if they're bored thell them to go outside and play. Nigel Latta shares his thoughts on why raising children need not be ridiculously complicated with essence reporter Kim Newth For someone who has worked with sex offenders, parenting expert Nigel Latta is remarkably relaxed about parents letting their kids go play at the park. In 2003, he published Into the Darklands: Unveiling the Predators Among Us , a non-fiction book about his work with adult and adolescent offenders, now in its third edition. You would think that knowing what he knows he'd be telling everyone to watch their kids like a hawk. Wrong
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Latitude, 1150 words, Autumn 2010 words and images: kim newth New Zealand's textile industry has had a rocky 12 months, with some big players like Line 7 and Lane Walker Rudkin in receivership. In July 2009, Pacific Brands closed its factory doors in Palmerston North and Christchurch. Deane Apparel closed its Leeston clothing factory just before Christmas. So, why would anyone risk launching a new clothing label at this time, especially one made in New Zealand. West Eyreton couple Morgan and Deborah Leath are doing just that, daring to seek success with an exclusive new line of New Zealand-made shirts, designed for big blokes. He's a former police detective; she's a former registered nurse. They're never run a clothing business before. Yet the Leaths are confident thet are onto a winner with their high quality New Zealand-made shirts label, Larelli
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essence, 1200 words approx, February 2010 essence reporter Kim Newth profiles an ambitious retirement project that is starting to take shape in a shed on the outskirts of Rangiora. A giant white hull is the culmination of five years hard work for its owners Ivan and Adrienne Wolfe
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essence, 1200 words approx, December 2009 You'd think a heart attack at 48 might have persuaded former prime minister Dame Jenny Shipley to slow down and seek a quieter, more leisurely way of life. Two years after the heart attach in 2000, she did retire from politics - only ro embark on a whole new kind of troubleshooting career that sees her spend up to a third of the year offshore
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essence magazine, September 2009, approx 670 words
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essence, December 2008, 1008 words If you are, like me, a child of the 1970s then you will remember the days when 'the variety show' dominated the nation's living rooms. On our TV at home, the vertical hold was always on the blink..
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essence Magazine October 2008 approx 1300 words. Standing at Waipara’s railway station is a man of tall, lanky build dressed in railway men’s clothes. He’s about to take his lunch - a sandwich and an apple, packed in a plastic bag - in the cab of a steam locomotive. This is Wayne Mason, one of New Zealand’s most respected songwriters. He’s been a part of some of our country’s most well-loved bands from the Fourmyula, to Rockinghorse to The Warratahs. Just what was he doing at Waipara?
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essence magazine, May 2009, approx 1200 words. Sometimes it is easy to forget how comparatively young the wine industry is in New Zealand. It doesn’t seem incongruous to describe Jane Hunter as one of Marlborough’s ‘wine pioneers’, but it’s not as if she belongs to some far off distant epoch – we’re only talking about a career that goes back to the 1980s..
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essence magazine, June 2009. Approx. 450 words. Meet the lady with the pink highlights! Jane Mitchell, of Kairaki Beach, is also a breast cancer survivor who recently decided to train as a coordinator for YWCA Encore, a gentle exercise programme for women who have had breast cancer
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