Verve August 2015

Auckland’s Boutique Magazine.

DMI HOMESTAGERS homestaging, furniture and interior design services plus

FATHER’S DAY, THE ARTS and more

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NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST HOMESTAGING COMPANY

Dinah Malyon “If you don’t do it well, it de-values your property. If you’re going to do it, it needs to be done right.”

It’s 1997. A stylish blond hurtles down Broadway in a convertible Jaffa-red Toyota Celica — chairs, vases and barstools teetering precariously on the back seat. Behind the wheel is Dinah Malyon, CEO of New Zealand’s first homestaging company, DMI Homestagers, in her first year of business. Little would you have known, the furniture and accessories were borrowed from friends, and the sports car her only asset after a recent relationship breakup.

That was eighteen years ago. Today, Malyon sits at her desk, crammed with tidy piles of paperwork and bulging manila folders, in a corner of her 18,000-square-foot Parnell warehouse — an Aladdin’s cave of fabric swatches, towers of cushions and shelf after shelf of cake stands, candlesticks, bowls and silver-topped canisters.

Flicking through the New Zealand Herald’s Property Press in the 1990s it was common to see photographs of bare rooms.

These days, the homes advertised look effortlessly chic thanks to homestaging becoming a regular feature of a seller’s marketing budget. Pene Milne of Milne & Co. Real Estate estimates homestaging increases a property’s sale price between six and ten per cent, and often substantially more.

The day-to-day practicalities of managing 18,000 square feet of product is a trade secret Malyon is unwilling to share, but she does say everything is photographed and checked scrupulously on its return. And, in a market flooded with homestaging consultants, Malyon is willing to share her company’s points of difference: DMI has the infra-structure to say “yes” to most jobs, even when a fast turn-around is required. This week the company has between 50 and 60 homes staged. “We can always do a job — whatever it takes. We never run out of furniture.”

Eighteen years of fitting-out homes has afforded Malyon a skill that often trips-up industry newcomers. She can walk into any home (be it a $300,000 apartment or a $10,000,000 mansion) and instantly understand the rooms’ proportions and the appropriate furniture size and style. For example, Malyon says there is a common preconception that a small bed will make a bedroom look bigger. “The trick is,” she says, “to put a double bed in the small bedroom to show its potential.”

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“If you don’t do it well, it de-values your property. If you’re going to do it, it needs to be done right.” Malyon is a busy woman. In addition to homestaging work, she is the interior design consultant for a 50-house development in Mangere Bridge and has a television show audition to consider. She enjoys the pressure of deadlines and a vast work load, and retains love for her work.

“I still feel instant gratification when I view a home’s transformation.” During our hour together — and somehow not affecting the conversation flow — she pays the car-cleaner (by cheque), meets and greets a walk-in client and sets a meeting for later that afternoon, arranges delivery of an artwork, and confirms by phone that the Milford house accents are to be coastal and pale blue. Does she ever stop? Apparently, yes. She has a second home at Waiheke and loves nothing more than to sit in a chair and, well, think about work. An avid socialiser, she has become close friends with property industry contacts made in her early business years. Amongst her design heroes are award-winning interior designers Jen Pack and Virginia Fisher.

Malyon is passionate about many objects in her warehouse, pointing out a pair of matt grey bowls that were “hideously expensive” but have earned their keep gracing the kitchens of several multi-million dollar homes over twenty years. But there are precious things she will not loan out: her Hotere artwork, a two-decade-old set of Corso de Fiore tortoiseshell vases and her Sid Dickens Italian tiles.

We say goodbye, and in a gorgeous nod to the woman she was in 1997 — tearing through Newmarket with a back seat piled high with borrowed furniture — she throws a pile of bedding and a vase in the back of her black BMW and toots twice, off to conjure up the next home transformation.

UP FRONT

“The trick is,” she says, “to put a double bed in the small bedroom to show its potential.”

Interview with Dinah Malyon, CEO of DMI Homestagers

by Caroline L. Barron (www.lovewordsmusic.com)

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The beginning of August heralds the fact that yet another Matariki is behind us and so too, finally, are those long, dark winter nights. With spring comes a creeping lightness, summer is just around the corner and there’s that feeling that everything is going to be okay.

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Wynyard Central

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The Subcultures Of Today

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Discover A Toyshop

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The Mercantile

Know-alls

Innovative Young People — Plom And Balle Remuera Welcomes The Return Of Perpetual Guardian

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Doing The Right Thing?

Gifts For Father’s Day

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2B A Good Dad..... The Story Of Paul Blackham And Sons _______________

AUTOMOTIVE 18

The Honda Euro Civic _______________

BUSINESS, EDUCATION + SOCIETY 20 Fleeing To Freedom...

If Only Fleeting

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Making Real Progress On Health Care — Paul Goldsmith

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HEALTH + BEAUTY 39

The Science Of Cooking

Monochrome Moments

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Pandora’s Box

HOME + DESIGN 82

ART + ABOUT 62

Homeware

Art Of Rememberance

The Oberoi, Bali

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Sailing, Surfing, Singing

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Get Suited

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Shooting The Breeze

Music With The Audio Consultant

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Staining And Straining Our Bodies

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Fascia And Myofascia Stretching

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DISCOVER A TOYSHOP FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THEIR EUROPEAN VEHICLES.

Ask Trevor McCarrison, Co-owner of The Toy Shop, why he loves his job and the answer is simple. He gets to work on and drive some of the world’s best cars. It is this passionate for the vehicles in their care that has always underpinned The Toy Shop’s business.

Originally starting out life in Wellington, over 30 years ago, the focus hasn’t changed. Delivering the best possible service, not just for the vehicle but also for the owner. It is this ethos that has seen a lot of The Toy Shop’s clients coming back year after year and some who still send their cars from around the country to be worked on by their team.

In 2010, The Toy Shop made the move north and opened their Grey Lynn based Auckland workshop. Since opening the doors in Auckland, they have seen a steady flow of new clients, most of who arrive thanks to word of mouth. As an independent European workshop, they cater for all European makes and models but have a particular focus on Range Rover, Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin and Volvo. Although, as the name suggest, they also welcome anything that could be considered a toy. This means that on any given day, you will find a family Range Rover next to a classic BMW, an Aston Martin DB5, and a lovingly restored classic Ford Fairmont.

It is this exciting mix of vehicles that enables The Toy Shop to attract their team of technicians, parts experts and support staff. When asked about his team, Trevor describes them as “an awesome bunch.” “We’ve spent the last couple of years building just the right mix. They each bring their unique skills and experience working on different European marques.”

The Toy Shop offers a service that reaches beyond the standard, with most of their clients calling on them to manage their full vehicle needs throughout the year. As an independent workshop, they are not focussed on car sales and instead work to help their clients care for, maintain and manage their vehicle maintenance needs. Their in-house services include a

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full range of servicing, repairs, and upgrades. They deal with all the major insurance companies, so they can help you with any issues covered by mechanical or vehicle insurance. Their parts department source the best parts for the job, and most recently they have added tyre fitting and rebalancing to their offering.

Even if your needs fall outside their in-house services, such as panel and paint or upholstery, they will help manage the work through their hand-picked partners.

It’s easy to see why customers of this passionate business keep coming back, and with over 35 years doing what they love, there is no sign of The Toy Shop slowing down anytime soon.

You will currently find The Toy Shop at 562 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn. From August 31st, they will be in their new premises at 25 Ethel Street, Kingsland.

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THE ILLUSTRIOUS MAN-BUN It’s the hairstyle that is sweeping the nation; the man-bun is well and truly here...

It seems as though overnight men from all corners of the globe grew out their hair, stole their girlfriends’ hair-ties, and the man-bun was born! The hairstyle has become somewhat of a pandemic, rising to stardom when everyone from Zayn Malik to Jarod Leto began sporting the do.

So where has this ‘do’ originated from? Upon consulting Lord Google, the man-bun made its first appearance between the 6th-7th Century BC, and was donned by none other than Buddha himself. It then reappeared many years later in 1825 when Prince Okundaira of Japan was depicted wearing what I would call a ‘bed head man bun.’ George Harrison of The Beatles brought it back into fashion in the 1970s, where it then appeared a few more times in The Rocky Horror Picture

Show, and Saturday Night Live. In 1998, the character of Li Shang showed off his man-bun in the animated movie Mulan, complete with a red ribbon.

However, it was most likely David Beckham who sparked the current man-bun trend when he sported the do on the field in 2003. Twelve years on and all manner of male celebrities have turned this unique hairstyle into a phenomenon. Who knows what the future holds for the majestic man-bun, perhaps it will be upstaged by the birth of the man-braid or even the manpigtail, only time will tell.

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The Story Of Paul Blackham And Sons

The leap from managing international financial risk to making insect repellent in Motueka is less of a stretch than you might think. Meet Paul Blackham: husband of Sarah, father to two boys, financial trader, black belt, blogger, search and rescue team member and…insect repellent inventor.

Paul and Sarah hail from the United Kingdom where Paul worked in investment banking and Sarah in law.

When the couple met on a blind date in 1990, Paul was the youngest ever appointed director of Britain’s then largest investment bank SG Warburg & Co. “I handled financial risk and trading equities for the Netherlands, Spain and several other EU countries,” says Paul. After Paul resigned in 1998, the couple decided to start a family, but weren’t keen on raising children in the United Kingdom. “Friends and relatives had recommended the top of the South Island and after a ‘recce’ in 2001 we emigrated in 2003.”

Paul consciously created a flexible working life so that he could spend time as a hands-on dad. “Having children certainly makes you grow up!” says Paul.

“Trying to be a good dad has been a huge challenge, the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I know I’m a better person for it.”

For Paul, contributing to community is an important cornerstone of his family values. “I remember leaving the family holiday at Totaranui to go to Christchurch after the quake to serve with my Civil Defence team, and seeing how much people pulled together in times of need.” He is also a trustee of The Shortbread Trust, which helps raise money to support charities such as Shelterbox and Restless Developments. “We live in a local and global community and I think it is important for my kids to know life isn’t just about their needs and wants, but about how we connect with others.”

Sarah and Paul’s sons Zak (11) and Harry (10) were the catalysts for the creation of the natural, longlasting insect repellent called ‘2B’ that now keeps the couple busy.

“When you have kids you start to become concerned about what you eat and what’s in your environment – it’s not just about you anymore. Having a child with food intolerances and allergies meant that we became avid label readers. We tried to avoid strong chemicals in all areas of our lives.”

As a family with a love of the outdoors who really didn’t want to use DEET-based products, the hunt was on for a natural repellent.

“We became increasingly frustrated buying natural repellents that didn’t last for long, so I started to research alternatives to synthetic, chemical-based repellents.” Paul then ended up inventing his own formula. “It’s the typical example of the adage ‘if you can’t find it, make it yourself’.”

Initially the repellent was produced for family and friends but increased demand led the couple to launch the product at the Nelson Market. The repellent is now called 2B and went on sale under that name in July.

“Sometimes the best business ideas come from closest to home. If it helps our family then there are bound to be a lot of other parents out there looking for the same thing.”

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FATHER’S DAY

KIWI PETROL STATIONS SELL GREEN FUEL MADE FROM BEER

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DB Export Brewtroleum is a biofuel made partly out of natural beer waste and it is available at Gull pumps across the country.

As the search for more sustainable energy solutions continues, we’ve seen everything from used coffee beans to sewer fat as sources for green energy. Now, DB Export Brewtroleum is a biofuel made partly out of natural beer waste and dads, it is available at your nearest Gull pump.

The biofuel is made by distilling the leftover yeast — produced during the brewing of DB — to create 95 per cent pure ethanol. The result is a biofuel which produces less greenhouse gas emissions than regular petrol, and enables the brewery to reduce the waste created during the brewing process.

DB Export Brewtroleum is currently available at selected pumps throughout New Zealand through a partnership with Gull Service Stations.

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The result is a biofuel which produces less greenhouse gas emissions than regular petrol, and enables the brewery to reduce the waste created during the brewing process.

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Presenting The Power Of Dreams

The Honda Euro Civic Founded just after the end of the Second World War, at a time when extreme hardship was a way of life, and when many longed for unprecedented change, Honda devised an inspirational way of forward thinking that was called ‘The Power of Dreams’. “We are a company built on dreams,” they said, “and these dreams will continue to inspire us to create innovative products that enhance human mobility and benefit society.”

By dedicating itself to the advancement of mobility, Honda continues to make dreams come true... and apart from the commuter vehicles we all know and love, has achieved huge advances in racing, human-like robots (think Asimo), assisted walking, and most recently in flight (think the Honda Jet powered by Honda’s own jet engine).

A few weeks ago I was thrilled to test drive the Honda Euro Civic, acknowledged by Autocar UK as, “exceptional in some ways, and below par in absolutely none.” The first thing I noticed was the sporty looks of this stylish car. The black alloy wheels stood out boldly against the white body.

The car is so sleek that finding how to open the doors to the rear passenger seats was quite a challenge, so well camouflaged where they. Eventually with the help of my partner, we found them neatly designed to tuck into the window area — a feature I have never seen before.

Although the Honda Euro Civic looks ubersporty, it would in fact be a great choice of transport for a small family, as there is plenty of room both front and back and lots of storage space. Youngsters will love the digital/infotainment display, which is easy and intuitive to use, giving plenty of choice, with rapid access to almost any information you want, like fuel consumption for instance (which by the way is around seven litres per 100km). The rear-view parking camera was brilliant, with clear and precise views offered when reversing, and the Bluetooth smartphone connectivity, is a real pleasure for everyone in the family.

Driving the Honda Euro Civic was an entirely stress-free experience, perhaps because the car felt totally dependable, reliable and safe, and also because anything one could want from an every day drive around the city, has been taken care of, and I mean everything.

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There were many features about this car that stood out for me... a few of which follow.

Being a fairly practical person I really appreciated the way the rear ‘Magic Seats’ fold up to give headroom in the back to move tall stuff (think plants and shrubs for instance) and how the rear seats and front passenger seat fold down flat to fit long objects, like a surfboard or piece of furniture.

I also liked the new Agile Handling Assist System, which when activated applied a light braking force to individual wheels when cornering, maximizing the Euro Civic’s responsiveness, stability and traction.

Many features could be operated from the steering wheel, for instance the easy paddle gear shift, which in sport mode gets super performance out of the engine and makes it fun to drive around corners whilst quickly accelerating through the gears to the speed you want to get to.

The manual shift is intelligent enough to prevent you doing any damage, even when aggressively downshifting.

With prices starting at $31,900 (plus onroad costs), I feel that the Honda Euro Civic is well-suited to almost anyone dreaming of smart up-to-the-minute mobility, style and performance packaged into a vehicle that they can easily afford.

Words: F. Harrison

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FLEEING TO FREEDOM… IF ONLY FLEETINGLY

In the USA there are approximately 1,500 medium and maximum security facilities (the nation has more jails than universities), from which around 50 people manage to escape each year.

In June, convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat made global headlines tunnelling out in a Shawshank Redemption-like escape from New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility. Around three weeks later Matt was shot and killed while his accomplice, two days after, was shot and taken back in.

Just last month, in a similar incident, Mexican crime boss Joaquin Guzman, aka El Chapo or Shorty, made a break from a maximum-security prison for the second time through a specially constructed underground 1.6 km-long tunnel complete with ventilation, lighting and stairs (quite unlike the sewerage pipe through which the fictional Shawshank hero crawled). The drugs lord, reputedly worth a cool US$1 billion, is thought to have paid in the region of $20 million in bribes to corrupt guards. “It’s not just like someone took a couple of tools, shovels and pickaxes,” former senior official at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Alonzo Pena, told the Associated Press.

“This is a very sophisticated operation.

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underneath? It’s just impossible.” In 2001, the Mexican fled another jail by hiding in a laundry basket. At the time of writing, he’s still at large.

One of the most famous prison breaks of all time occurred in 1962 at the supposedly ‘inescapable’ Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary which is situated on a tiny island off San Francisco’s coast. Crooks Clarence Anglin, his brother John Anglin along with Frank Morris cut holes in their cell walls and, having left dummy heads in their beds to fool the guards, made for the icy bay waters where it thought they perished in the strong currents. The breakout inspired the 1979 Hollywood movie, Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood.

North of the border, a couple of Canadian convicts a couple of years ago made the most brazen of bids for freedom when they escaped from the St. Jerome prison on the outskirts of Montreal by grabbing hold of a rope attached to a hijacked helicopter after it landed on the roof. Both men were captured in a matter of days.

Murderous Frenchman Pascal escaped

Gallic jails – and aided with the breakout of others – three times using the same method between 2001 and 2007, as did armed Greek robbers Vassils Paleokostas and Alket Rizai in 2006 and 2009.

Others have sprung out using rather more understated means. In 1983, Jeffrey McCoy descended nine stories of the Manhattan Correctional Center using a rope made from bedsheets, after which he eluded the law for six years, living quietly in suburban New York.

Also using bed sheets, New Zealander George Wilder fled Mount Eden Prison, his second of three breakouts during the 1960s. After breaking into Kiwi holiday homes, the convict would leave notes of thanks and apologies for the owners. He achieved a cult hero status, with people eventually leaving food out for him, and the Howard Morrison Quartet wrote the number one hit, George, the Wild(er) New Zealand Boy for the crook. Back in New York, in 2006, convict Ralph Philips fled Erie County Correctional Facility after tearing open a ceiling with a can opener.

He remained at large for nearly half a year.

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There was nothing subtle about the Maze Prison breakout of 1983, often referred to as the ‘Great Escape’, which remains the largest jailbreak in British history. Thirty-eight members of the Provisional IRA used smuggled guns to overpower prison guards, two of whom were shot. One later died of a heart attack. Three member of the gang were found the same day hiding in a nearby river using reeds to breathe.

Perhaps the most notorious jailbreaker on the list also happens to be one of the most notorious criminals in history. Serial killer, rapist and necrophile Ted Bundy eventually confessed to 30 murders, but his total victim count is thought to be much higher. Following his first arrest for kidnapping and assault in 1976, Bundy opted to defend himself in court. The trial took place in 1977 and not only was the defendant excused from wearing leg chains and handcuffs so that he could more easily address the court, but was even allowed to retreat alone to the courthouse library during a break from where he jumped from a window and escaped. He remained on the run for six days. The criminal case against Bundy was weak at the time with him looking at around a year-and-a-half in prison. There was even a possibility of acquittal. Instead, however, Bundy set about a new escape plan, purchasing a hacksaw blade from a fellow inmate and cutting a hole in the corner of his cell. Later that year, he escaped once more to continue his murderous spree. Bundy was to be executed by electric chair on 24th January, 1989.

Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

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QUESTION:

MAKING REAL PROGRESS ON

Can you make a capital gain by buying an apartment?

HEALTHCARE

YES!

Below are the facts of the case.

True story rather than an example or case study.

DATE OF PURCHASE:

June 2014, by auction

APARTMENT:

Winter brings its usual colds, sniffles and other maladies. For large families, doctor’s bills add up and that can lead some to hold off visiting the doctor when they should. In the worst circumstances, easily manageable problems can become difficult to manage.

2 x bedroom, 1 x bathroom, 1 x car park, 1 x storage locker

LOCATION:

146 Fanshawe Street, Marina Park Residences

RENTED FOR 12 MONTHS: $550.00 per week

Since coming into government in 2008, National has prioritised funding to enable children aged under six to have access to free doctors’ visits, day and night, seven days a week.

It was part of a wider effort to invest in preventative healthcare. In the same way we’ve focussed on massively improving immunisation rates for children. More than 94% of eight-month-olds are fully immunised.

Similarly, 90,000 school children in at-risk parts of the country have been targeted in a $65 million Rheumatic Fever Prevention Programme.

We’ve been making this extra investment in healthcare at a time when many developed countries around the world have been freezing, or even reducing, health funding.

And this winter, I’m particularly pleased that because of continued careful management of the government’s finances we’ve been able to extend the effort.

From this July all children under 13 years old will have access to free doctors’ visits day and night, seven days a week. This time, there has been a great uptake from General Practitioners around the country, so that virtually all GPs have signed up to the new scheme.

I do hope that throughout New Zealand mums and dads with young children will rest a little easier knowing that next time one of them gets sick they won’t have to hesitate before calling the doctor.

This year our health budget will reach a record $15.9 billion. It is an important part of our plan to deliver better care for families.

This is what careful financial management can deliver.

Of course, it’s not just for the kids. We’ve focussed District Health Boards on health targets and they’re making real progress on improving access to elective procedures, on shorter waits for cancer treatment, short stays in emergency departments, better help for smokers to quit and more heart and diabetes checks.

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SOLD:

July 2015 by auction It’s all about location and knowing the market. Buying an apartment that needs refurbishment yet in the right location offers potential.

There are a lot of apartments approaching 15 years or more in age, and many are in need of a makeover.

· Costs for this two bedroom apartment were $15,000, which included new paint, carpet and a fresh modern look. · Purchase price in June 2014 was $329,600 at auction, it was declared to be the market value. · Sold just over 12 months later for $507,000 at auction, the market had spoken.

It’s all about working with professionals who know the market: what will rent well and what will hold or increase in value.

In my opinion two bedroom apartments are always the best buy.

Additionally, a car park is essential if buying in Auckland City.

Reason for the sale was that the owner wanted the funds to buy a family home.

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Quinovic Viaduct, not only manages your rental investment but works with owners in helping them to decide what to purchase and how to maximise their rental return and protect their capital value.”

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At an English country fair in 1906, statistician and cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, asked a group of 800 guests to guess the weight of an ox. Astonishingly, the median guess of 1,207 lbs was correct to within 1% of the creature’s actual weight (1,198 lbs). Other examples of similar experiments include groups very nearly guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar and even the whereabouts of a missing military submarine. In fact, numerous studies have given credence to this fascinating phenomenon, known as the ‘wisdom of the crowd’, whereby the average judgement of a collective group of laymen often proves more accurate than that of an expert’s. Interestingly, as pointed out by James Surowiecki’s book on the subject, The Wisdom of Crowds, groups of socalled experts can often actually be staggeringly wrong — just ask those who were tasked with finding Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

‘Wisdom’, however, can also be very subjective, as verified by anyone who has ever angrily read a publicly-voted ‘Greatest Ever’ film or novel list only to discover that Star Wars or The Da Vinci Code has placed higher than, say, Raging Bull or Catch 22. But while opinions are sometimes subjective, actions are most certainly not. Pedestrians meeting in opposing directions in certain parts of Europe will likely step to the right on a busy pavement to avoid collision, but, over in Asia, they are more likely to step left.

The reason for this has nothing to do with which side of the road the people drive on, but, rather, the law of probability. In an interview with the Economist, Mehdi Moussaid of the Berlin’s Max Planck Institute says that this behaviour is adopted from past successful moves. If stepping one way worked last time, it will likely work next and so on and so forth until that action becomes habitual for any given population, or ‘crowd’. Moussaid, along with Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich, is a leading light of a new field, namely, the study of pedestrian movement.

Understanding how our footsteps flow not only makes the planning of major — and minor — events such as the Olympics or the Football World Cup far more efficient, but also makes the emergency evacuation of them — along with underground stations, arenas, ferries and the like — far faster too.

“At low densities [crowd] behaviour is cognitive and strategic,” says Moussaid. “At high density, it’s about mass movement and physical pressures.”

Perhaps the most famous — and easily explained — example of the wisdom of the crowd at work is the ‘ask the audience’ section of television show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Daniel Tammet, in his tome Embracing the Wide Sky, reasons the wisdom of the crowd often prevails here because of the varying levels of general knowledge of a general audience.

Some will undoubtedly know the correct answer and choose it, others will know which answers are likely to be wrong and make an informed guess while some will simply have no idea. The correct answer therefore is almost always at an advantage.

The wisdom of the crowd, which was first referenced

by Aristotle, is more trusted than many may realise and regularly used in the most profound of situations — trial by jury, as opposed to by a judge, for instance.

But crowds can be more easily manipulated than many may realise too. In western democracies, for

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KNOWALLS

“ Copycat behaviour has been widely regarded as one of the major contributing factors to the financial crisis, and indeed to all financial crises of the past.

” example, right-leaning political parties very skilfully, and very regularly, convince working-class voters into electing them even when they clearly don’t have a great deal of those voters’ interests at heart, an example which also touches on the important aspect of bias.

Studies have found that the wisdom of the crowd is less effective when bias is introduced because of the manner in which crowd members can influence each other. The theory goes that some personalities are prone to be more easily swayed by extra information than those who are already confident in their own opinion, meaning a crowd which opines in a similar fashion — because they are following the leads of the select few ‘thinkers’ — are likely to be far less ‘wise’ than a collection comprising entirely of individuals who think freely. So, a group which offers a more wide-ranging set of answers will almost certainly arrive closer to the correct answer than those who provide a narrower viewpoint. “No one should need warning about the dangers of herding among poorly informed decision-makers,” writes Phil Ball for BBC Future.

“Copycat behaviour has been widely regarded as one of the major contributing factors to the financial crisis, and indeed to all financial crises of the past.”

A 2004 study by the Universities of Michigan and Chicago also concluded that the more diverse a crowd, the more accurate — or wise — they are likely to be. Though, that didn’t help them in the case of Kasparov versus the world, an online competition that saw tens of thousands of individuals from 75 countries challenge Garry Kasparov to a game of chess with each of the crowd’s moves chosen by a plurality vote.

The grandmaster won in 62 moves.

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The Subcultures of Today

BOGAN

HIPSTER

EMO

GOTH

The dictionary definition states that a bogan is, “an uncouth or unsophisticated person, regarded as being of low social status.” Yikes, doesn’t exactly sound desirable, and shows like Bogan Hunters are probably just adding to the stereotype. Nevertheless, if you believe being a bogan is your calling, then simply find yourself a flannel shirt and a six pack of Woodstock and there you have it.

If you value independent thinking, counter culture, progressive politics, and have an appreciation of art and indie-rock, then I’m sorry to have to tell you, but you are a hipster. Although ‘hipsterism’ is often associated with a certain state of mind, it is also intertwined with distinct fashion sensibilities. To achieve hipster status one must never give in to what is mainstream, if your best friend is wearing a too-tight pair of leather jeggings because everyone else is, you must resist the urge to conform and rock those suspenders like it’s the 1840s.

This subculture is made up of teenagers who refuse to smile, so instead spend their time silently rocking out to soft-core punk music, which generally consists of highpitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts. An emo can be easily identified by their limited assortment of outfits, which are simply comprised of tight wool sweaters, even tighter jeans, itchy scarfs, and ripped chucks. The look is then finished off with effortlessly greasy, unwashed hair that is required to cover at least three fifths of the face and a generous amount of guy-liner.

With a similar style to emos, goths typically enjoy the darker side of things, listen to death metal, and laugh on the odd occasion. Contrary to popular opinion, goths are not depressed nor suicidal, and although they can look threatening, do not worship satan. Goths are very individual people and would rather stay true to who they are and be ‘freaks’ than be like everyone else.

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Bogans, hipsters, emos, goths, bikies — where will it end? The subcultures of today are broader than ever and are becoming hard to keep up with.

Before you know it your teenage daughter is a Haul Girl and your nephew is a Brony, but what exactly defines these groups of people?

BIKIE

HAUL GIRL

BRONY

If you own a Harley Davidson or any sort of cruiser-style bike then you have most likely been labeled a bikie. This subculture is not to be confused with bikers, however, as those are people who ride any kind of bike, and are also known as motorcyclists, but apparently that term is generally thought of as uncool. The bikie is easily distinguishable by the excessive amount of black leather they wear, and their long hair and beards. Oh, and tattoos of course, you can’t be ‘cool’ and ‘badass’ without a bit of ink.

Going out, buying lots of things and showing your friends does not make you a haul girl, but going out, buying lots of things, and posting it on the internet for the world to see does. The haul girl is a sub-culture that is beginning to appear more and more frequently nowadays, and involves teenage girls displaying all of the items they have just purchased from their bi-weekly trip to the mall. Apparently this is not regarded as a form of bragging, but is instead simply providing insight on another person’s style.

This is perhaps one of the strangest sub-cultures I have come across, a brony is a male fan of the series, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

They do not give into the hype that males aren’t allowed to enjoy things that are intended for females, which I suppose is fair enough, but the fact that My Little Pony is created for girls between the ages of five and eight, is pushing it a bit.

The brony sub-culture is so significant that they even have conventions, songs, dances and costumes dedicated to the appreciation of the show.

Words: Rhianna Osborne Images from left to right: by Goth in the Alley, Erin/ Glasgow

by Charles Hamilton; Our Fair Share of Hipsters! Love SF by Christopher Michel; Brony by Quinn Dombrowski

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ENABLING FINANCIAL SUCCESS IN THE CITY August! How on earth did that happen? Winter is passing, the days are slowly getting longer and we know that spring isn’t too far away — we’re almost there.

Newmarket has had another busy month.

We have several exciting property developments underway, and more in the pipeline. Fuji Xerox’s new head office will be opening on Carlton Gore Road later this year and we have a couple of new apartment buildings in construction, with several more due to get underway soon. Also later this year Les Mills opens their impressive Newmarket gym opposite the university campus on Khyber Pass Road.

Over the past eight months we have been working very hard on the redevelopment of the Newmarket.co.nz website.

We’re aiming for it to be much

more relevant and supported by a stronger content strategy, with a more contemporary look and feel. If you haven’t visited it for a while, check it out.

Finally a very important date to mark in your diary is Sunday 27 September when Newmarket, along with the Dante Alighieri Italian Society, hosts the Italian Festival once again.

The festival has grown year on year and promises to be even bigger than ever in 2015. Don’t miss it!

Words: Mark Knoff-Thomas

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Whatever your starting point or financial goals, enableMe can help you do things smarter to ensure you get ahead faster.

It all started when Hannah, as a successful young chartered accountant with a master’s degree in taxation, took on her first mortgage. Troubled by the prospect of having a mortgage for the next 25 years, costing her almost $1 million, she sought a way to repay it as quickly as possible, at the lowest possible cost, while still having flexibility to live the life she wanted.

Not a new concept, Hannah was still keen to get the best possible outcome, so after considerable research, Hannah developed a formula (now patented), which structures debt in a unique way that saves clients thousands of dollars, irrespective of interest rates. enableMe clients are teamed up with their own financial consultant who examines their current financial situation, identifies areas where money is ‘leaking’ or being frittered

and formulates a plan to work to. By partnering with an expert that can apply financial ‘smarts’ to your situation, you can reach financial goals faster.

The relationship between client and consultant is a lot like the one you have with a personal trainer at a gym — hence their moniker ‘financial personal trainers’.

When clients first engage with enableMe, their consultant will help identify which category they are currently in (‘sinking’, ‘floating’ or ‘flying’); which financial life stage they are moving through (‘starting out’, ‘building up’ or “sitting back”); and what their plans and goals are for the next two, five and ten years. A detailed plan is then prepared in consultation with the clients and the consultant works alongside them, just like a personal trainer, to keep their clients motivated every step of the way.

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Hannah is a guest contributor and over the coming months will be sharing helpful tips and insights as to better ways to get ahead and stay ahead.

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KILL YOUR MORTGAGE NOW AND SORT YOUR FUTURE WITH YOUR OWN FINANCIAL PERSONAL TRAINER. In a world of ever-increasing costs, enableMe’s unique approach to managing your money places emphasis on your psychology of spending and the role money plays in your relationships. They do not shy away from the obstacles we all face in getting ahead, instead they offer clever tips on how cutting day-today costs will help you build a cash surplus so you have the extra money for mortgage payments. They have a unique and patented mortgage system that helps clients save thousands in interest costs. They use a simple

Hannah McQueen is a Chartered Accountant with her Masters in Taxation Law. She is the founder and director of enableMe NZ Ltd, a successful and growing business that has offices throughout NZ.

framework to calculate your retirement costs and practical solutions of how to bridge your shortfalls. Imagine if you could pay off your mortgage in 10 years instead of 25, while still having a life! And for those just starting out financially, it’s not too late - your financial personal trainer will set you on the right track.

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INNOVATIVE YOUNG PEOPLE

PLOM AND BALLE

Two design students at Massey University in Wellington are juggling the pressures of university, work and managing their blossoming clothing brand Plom and Balle.

In July last year, former Aucklanders Olivia Balle and Emma Plom, put leftover ink from one of their assignments to good use by screen printing original designs on the front and sleeves of cotton tops. Unknowingly they were taking their first step towards a profitable business venture.

After receiving praise for their tops, the girls, both 20, decided they would produce 30 for any friends that wanted them. With a few leftover, they posted them onto Facebook selling group ‘Designer Wardrobe’. “It was just overwhelming how many people wanted them,” says Miss Balle. “It’s not like we had this expectation at the start, we never wanted to be designing clothing, Emma and I both have a really strong interest in fine arts.” What began as a hobby has now become a priority for the two designers. “At first we just loved it and were happy to sell the initial bunch, but now we want to actually form it as a brand and go with it.”

“We aren’t currently focussing on profit, but getting that exposure,” says Miss Plom. Fashion blogger Tash Bonniface, with over 16,000 followers on Instagram, says that Plom and Balle is, “an exciting and different brand for everyone, which brings out the fun side in young people and can add a bit of uniqueness to every outfit.” No longer able to manage the demand on Facebook, Plom and Balle have recently launched their website. Miss Balle says that managing studying, work, and the brand is difficult but worth it.

“You have to either put everything into it or nothing at all.”

Image top left: Emma and Olivia

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REMUERA WELCOMES THE RETURN OF PERPETUAL GUARDIAN As a company with a history in the community dating back to the 1980s, Perpetual Guardian’s return to its Remuera roots is being heralded by a population among which accessible estate planning services are in high demand. This month Perpetual Guardian moved from its Greenlane location back to Remuera after a seven-year absence from the suburb.

Of the company’s 14 branches around New Zealand, the Remuera branch is the hub for one of the highest rates of giving in the country. Perpetual Guardian Remuera was responsible for approximately $9 million in charitable distributions in 2014 alone.

Regional Manager Northern Yunus Hanif has been with the company in various roles and regions over more than 16 years. He says the 2014 coming together of two of New Zealand’s oldest trustee companies, Perpetual trust and Guardian Trust, precipitated a company-wide reinvigoration, with investment in technology, a refreshed image and a renewed focus on increasing accessibility to vital philanthropy and estate planning services.

“Moving back to Remuera complements our vision to make estate planning more accessible and simple for all New Zealanders.

Our team of 12 is now easier for our existing local client base to reach, and we are better positioned to meet increasing demand from potential clients seeking advice on wills, trusts, Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPA) and broader estate planning services. We are so pleased to be back in Remuera, where we have been serving our clients and public in the immediate and surrounding communities for more than a quarter-century.

branch added another $150 million in assets under administration in the last financial year.

“More and more, our clients are seeking online solutions for wills, and over the years we have helped thousands of Kiwis meet their unique asset protection and preservation needs, from the simple to the complex. Through the provision of expert trust and estate planning and the management of service across generations, we ensure everything our clients have strived so hard to achieve is there for their families in the years to come – every Kiwi deserves that protection.”

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DOING THE RIGHT THING?

I’ve always tried to do my bit for charity and I’ve always seethed at those who haven’t. Those who complain that the donations are misplaced and misspent.

I’m suspicious of many of their motives. I’m suspicious that these so-called soothsayers are hiding their stinginess behind a convenient barrier of selfrighteousness. However, I’ve always realised there to be an element of truth to their claims, but reconciled it by reasoning that no matter how benevolent an institution, it will always have its bureaucracy and bad apples. Even if some of the money is gobbled up by red tape, even if some does line some undeserving pockets, it’s better than nothing, right? And so, when the earthquake struck Nepal earlier this year, I proudly punched my credit card details into Oxfam’s webpage.

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Since the fall of the totalitarian Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in 1979, per capita, no other nation on Earth has received more aid. As of 2009, Cambodia was home to the world’s highest concentration of NGO and donor organisations — over 2,000 — which included esteemed names like the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Such was the race to outdo their competitors, such was the desire to remain on Cambodian soil, such was the lack of co-ordination between these organisations that they would regularly spend time and money on duplicate projects. Such has been their total failure, after billions upon billions of dollars have been pumped into the country, the BBC website, in 2015, still reads: “Corruption is deeprooted and Cambodia is still one of the world’s poorest countries, with one third of people living on less than one dollar per day... Of late, land concessions and forced evictions have sparked social unrest. Many thousands of people have been displaced as the government has granted land to companies who are keen to exploit resources... Meanwhile, years of widespread illegal logging have led to a rapid decline in Cambodia’s forest cover. International watchdog Global Witness says top officials are involved in the trade.”

This isn’t news to the foreign donors. Year after year they threatened Cambodia’s corrupt government with the cessation of funds unless things changed. But the Cambodian leaders called the donors’ bluff and it didn’t take long for them to realise that those threats were as limp as their morals. Year after year the donors handed over hundreds of millions of dollars to a nation whose leaders they knew very well were, among countless atrocities, stealing rice from its starving citizens. But still, the money came. The leaders built mansions and private golf courses as its citizens shivered in bamboo huts. But still, that’s right, the money came. “It was clear that these people had a lifestyle they wanted to protect,” writes Brinkley. “Though their work was challenging, it was often rewarding.

Many were highly paid... They could live in sumptuous homes and hire as many servants as they wanted. If they cut off aid

to the government, as the human-rights groups were demanding, many donors would lose their jobs, or at least their postings.” Brinkley damns those donors as nothing but “enablers”.

Before April’s earthquake near Kathmandu, Nepal was receiving over US$1 billion annually with nearly three-quarters of that money channelled through government accounts. “But,” writes Thomas Bell, an expert on the region, for Al Jazeera, “While the donors behave like they have all the answers, they’ve never been able to deliver on their rhetoric. They are, in fact, as deeply entangled in the dysfunction, and as much part of the mess as everyone else.”

Just days before the earthquake, a collection of donors had pulled the plug on their ten-year support of a project known as the Nepal Peace Trust Fund (NPTF). No-one appears to know what became of the organisation’s finances and the donors wouldn’t explain why they withdrew. “One of the NPTFs programmes was intended to provide compensation to victims of Nepal’s conflict [the civil war which lasted from 1996 until 2006],” says Bell. “In practice, many genuine victims received nothing, while district-level politicians and administrators gave the money to local supporters. This is worth remembering now when it comes to earthquake victims.”

Weeks after the quake struck, aid had still failed to reach scores of villages outside of the capital. “It’s important to recognise that this emergency has, among other things, cruelly exposed the mess that Nepal was already living with,” Bell continues. “Many of the worst affected areas received little, or almost nothing, in terms of government or donor-driven support even before the earthquake.” The journalist doesn’t call for a cancellation of aid, rather a recalibration of “their dysfunctional and frequently counterproductive donor relationships.” It is, he says, the duty of the donors’ to learn from past mistakes and to study Nepal’s “very specific” history.

According to the World Bank, between 1981 and 2010, around 700 million souls were pulled from abject poverty. But, this is not necessarily a cause to celebrate the work of international NGOs as 627 million of those souls were Chinese.

China is a country which has received little aid, but, tellingly, dragged itself from the dark ages through good old fashioned economic growth. Conversely, over 25% of sub-Saharan African nations are now worse off than they were in 1960 even though over the past half-century the continent has been handed over US$1 trillion. “Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that aid to Africa has made the poor poorer, and the growth slower,”

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Days after the disaster, I was due to fly into Kathmandu but delayed my trip and instead headed for Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. Ironically, whilst travelling through that beautiful nation — home to some of the world’s most gentle of people — I read Cambodia’s Curse, a gripping and frustrating offering from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley that left me so angry as to question whether I would ever hand over my hard-earned cash to an international NGO ever again.

“Giving money can feed the hungry, and help the sick — but it does not free people from the institutions that make them hungry and sick in the first place...”

writes Dambisa Moyo in the Wall Street Journal. “The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflationprone... and more unattractive to higher quality investment.

It’s increased the risk of civil conflict and unrest... Aid is an unmitigated political, economic and humanitarian disaster.”

As far back as 2005, the International Monetary Fund even published a not-so-subtlety-named report, Aid Will Not Lift Growth in Africa. And yet the cycle continues. “The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption,” cautions Moyo. “Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of poorcountry governments and donor-funded non-governmental organisations.”

A 2010 investigation by the Independent revealed that the Department for International Development (DfID), Britain’s governmental department that takes care of the nation’s multi-billion dollar aid budget, had lost over £700,000 in the previous five years through “fraud, corruption and abuse” by developing world leaders or non-profits using United Kingdom funds.

“But,” writes Cahal Milmo, “DfID has

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refused to release a detailed list of the projects and countries where fraud has been uncovered saying to do so would jeopardise the United Kingdom’s relationship with foreign governments and risk further abuse by detailing the nature of the offense.”

Three years later, a joint investigation by the Tampa Bay Times and The Centre for Investigative Reporting revealed that the USA’s 50 worse charities had paid their solicitors over US$1 billion in the previous past ten years while giving as little as 3% of their donations to good causes.

Reputations were further diminished in 2014 with the publication of David Craig’s book, The Great Charity Scandal, in which he details systematic and widespread abuse of funds. The United Kingdom alone has over 195,000 registered charities that raise and spend nearly £80 billion annually. “Together, they employ more than a million staff — more than our car, aerospace and chemical sectors — and make 13 billion ‘asks’ for money every year,” writes Craig in the Daily Mail. “But many charities have become hungry monsters, needing ever more of our money for their own ambitions. And while registered charities claim that almost 90p in every pound donated is spent on ‘charitable activities’, many spend at least half of their income on management,

There was outrage when it was revealed that Britain’s Save the Children charity is paying its top earner a £234,000 salary — with a further 20 employees earning in excess of £100,000 — but refused to reveal those employees’ names. A study by the magazine Third Sector concluded that as of 2014 there were 32 United Kingdom charity bosses being paid in excess of £200,000, an increase on the previous year, with a further 12 paid a whopping £300,000 or more. Writing for the Guardian, Duncan Green of Oxfam GB has attempted to justify these mammoth incomes. “People working for charities are not saints, but really pretty normal, mainly middle class types,” he says. “They have partners, kids... go on holiday... We worry about getting old, pensions, all that stuff... But it’s also a vocation, something that inspires and excites and makes you feel very lucky... Although it’s a lot of cash, it’s way below that level of responsibility would earn in the private sector.” There is intense pressure, he adds, to stretch each penny, and that needs good management.

“If you pay peanuts, you’re pretty likely to get monkeys,” he says, rather tactlessly, before adding, in brackets, “albeit wellmeaning ones.”

This is more a matter of principle than practicality. A cut in charity bosses’ salaries is hardly going to save the world’s poor, but, their payslips don’t exactly flatteringly reflect concerns about the destination of the donations — whether they be the pockets of their own CEOs, or of dictatorial despots.

off by the powerful, the cash can still do a lot good... Giving money can feed the hungry, and help the sick — but it does not free people from the institutions that make them hungry and sick in the first place... When aid is given to governments that preside over extractive institutions, it can be at best irrelevant, at worst downright counter-productive.” They make the point that it wasn’t foreign aid, for instance, that brought down South Africa’s apartheid regime, rather, international sanctions: “Those sanctions came from pressure from governments that would have preferred not to see them implemented... Governments don’t like cutting their ties to dictators who open doors for international business, or help their geopolitical agendas. Pressure needs to come from citizens...”

And so of course this shouldn’t be an excuse for us to stop punching in those credit card numbers or dropping coins into a tin. We can’t use imperfections within an already imperfect system as an excuse to simply not care. But charity is not just about giving. We must strive to create a world that needs no aid, but to do that (and in the meantime) we must ensure that our leaders — both political and charitable — are held accountable both for their actions, and lack of.

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strategy development, campaigning and fundraising — not what most of us would consider ‘good causes’.”

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Evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that aid to Africa has made the poor poorer, and the growth slower.

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Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

And so, what to do?

In their book, Why Nations Fail, MIT economist Daron Acemogly and Harvard political scientist James A. Robinson, argue that a nation’s wealth or poverty boils down to its “inclusive” and “extractive” political and economic institutions.

“Inclusive economic institutions that enforce property rights, create a level playing field, and encourage investments in new technologies and skills,” they say, “are more conducive to economic growth than extractive economic institutions that are structured to extract resources from the many by the few.”

Recognising why countries are poor — because of these extractive institutions — state the authors, will better help us understand how to help and to better manage aid. “We do not argue for its reduction,” they write in the Spectator.

“Even if a huge amount of aid is siphoned

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RUDY’S TIPS ‘N’ TRICKS

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BIG CHANGES ARE A-COMING All rentals must be insulated by July 2019. Smoke alarms compulsory by July 2016.

Smoke alarms must be installed in rentals from July next year and landlords will be responsible for ensuring an operational smoke alarm is in place. Tenants will be responsible for replacing batteries. Landlords should check on this when they do their three-monthly inspections.

There will be new powers to prosecute landlords for breaking tenancy regulations where there is a risk to the health and safety of the tenants.

The new law will require ceiling and under-floor insulation in all rental homes and the standard of insulation must be declared on the tenancy agreement.

The average cost of retrofitting both ceiling and floor insulations would be about $3,300: of course homes with concrete floors cannot have insulation. It is the tongue and groove floors that benefit most from the insulation. There are many insulation companies

out there, so get a couple of quotes, but don’t wait until next winter — get it organised now as these companies are going to be very busy soon.

Smoke alarms — any landlords that have not already installed smoke alarms in their rental properties are negligent: smoke alarms save lives! All my managed properties are fitted with smoke alarms and I become really cross when I do an inspection and find that they have been removed, or awaiting a battery! Under the Residential Tenancies Act the fine for tenants who tamper with fire alarms is up to $3,000.

This July has been so cold: it seems like the coldest Auckland winter I have ever experienced: a warm house means a warm tenant, and a warm tenant is a happy one and that is what we want.

Words: Sylvia Lund, Director

The friendly team specialising in home rentals and property management.

The big news this month is of course the roll out of Microsoft’s latest and possibly last version of Windows. Microsoft claim to have merged the best qualities of Windows 7 and Windows 8 into a highly stable and user friendly operating system.

It is a free download for anyone with a qualifying version of Windows 7 and windows 8/8.1 The free download is available for one year, so there is no rush to jump in.

You may have noticed a little icon of the Windows logo appear on your task bar. Clicking on this opens a window where you can check your PC or laptops compatibility to run the new version. You can also reserve your new copy and it will download slowly in the background. Note that if you are on a small bandwidth plan with your ISP you may incur extra data charges as the download is around 3GBs. We can supply the download via USB memory stick if you want to do it that way and also manage the install for you if you prefer.

I still build PCs to order. This is quite a popular service and I can build a computer

precisely to your needs and budget. Simple PCs just for light work or more powerful gaming computers. I build high end PCs for media work and graphic design.

We can help you with any major brand you like. We can also give advice on the level of specification you need for your intended use and supply fully setup systems with all your data migrated. We don’t simply dump your data on the desktop as some ‘experts’ do.

We integrate it properly into all the right places.

Call me to discuss your needs and we can tailor a system to suit your requirements.

At Rudy’s PC Services we can help you set up the best solution for your needs.

Call us about anything regarding your computer and we will be glad to advise you and fulfil your requirements.

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The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. Tobias Taane’s story illustrates this well. After years of dedicated training Tobias found himself in a career that did not make him happy. After making the decision to move to Wellington he discovered a way he could unleash his creative urges. It all started when he discovered the forge at The Learning Connexion — School of Creativity & Art.

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For the past few years he has hammered steel from recycled truck springs into blades. Examples he’s produced include an 11th century longsword and a Pompei style gladius. Stunning work. Tobias says, “I love getting my hands dirty and just doing it.” Not only does he love what he’s doing, he gets paid too. His work is steadily gaining attention and increasing in sales thanks to his online presence.

His story is just one of hundreds of powerful examples of people who have transformed their lives by following the path of creativity and art.

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HOW DO YOU GET PAID FOR DOING WHAT YOU LOVE?

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Do you bounce out of bed in the morning, energised, hungry for the challenges of the day?

OR Do you crawl out, hunt out the coffee, a starchy and sugary something and push yourself into the day, with moments of energy and motivation?

Do you find yourself increasingly tired, lacking motivation, and snapping at the kids?

If the latter, this is not how it is supposed to be.

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At SleepDrops we believe that sleep is THE foundation for optimal health and wellbeing. When you achieve deep sleep each night your body is much better equipped to heal itself and face the daily challenges of life. The SleepDrops team are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people though better sleep and stress management. We’ve put together our top sleep tips below to help you get a great night’s sleep!

Your body is telling you something is wrong. If you do not listen, it will up the ante, until you do. All disease starts from energy deficits.

Take some time to watch a healthy five-year-old. Look at the zest for life. That zest is how our bodies are meant to function, until the day we die.

Energy is not only about how far or fast you can run. It is the basic ingredient that your body needs to heal, be vibrant, have joy, make love and other good things.

The body is incredibly complex. The nerdy things like the Kreb cycle and Electron Transfer Chain are fascinating, but most people don’t care about them. They just want more energy. So, lets keep it simple. You have about 70 trillion cells in your body.

Energy is made in these cells by something called mitochondria.

These little critters are energy factories. You need to have healthy cells and mitochondria to make energy.

Imagine this. You are on a white sandy beach. The reflection of the sun is shimmering off the sea. You start to jog. You feel great and life is good. Now, contrast that with running on a treadmill in a dark, hot, airless cupboard. Welcome to the world of most of our mitochondria. All these little critters want to do is to serve you. They just need the right conditions and ingredients.

Modern living robs us of our ability to make abundant energy, a little at a time. We do not actually notice what is happening, until one day we just can’t do what we used to do or we get some irritating disease, like cancer.

You may be just lacking in oomph or you may have crossed the line and be suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia or something even more serious. We are all on a continuum. At one end is abundant energy. At the other is disease. Unfortunately, we have forgotten how to listen to our bodies so we don’t know where we are or how to move in the preferred direction.

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3 Make sure your room is dark. Use blackout curtains and an eye mask to support your body’s natural production of melatonin.

SLEEPDROPS’ TOP 5 SLEEP TIPS FOR WINTER:

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Switch off your laptop and step away from Facebook.

Try to avoid interacting with screens and technology in the lead up to bedtime as light from the screens can interfere with the body’s production of melatonin (your sleep hormone) and delay sleep onset by up to one and a half hours.

2 Make sure that your

4 Mineral supplementation.

Minerals taken before bed can naturally support the nervous system for relaxation.

Our Essential Sleep and Stress Nutrients provide nutritional co-factors that support all phases of sleep.

room is a comfortable temperature. The optimal room temperature for a good night’s sleep is around 18.5°C. But everyone is different. Experiment with things like heating, number of blankets and amount of clothing you sleep in to find the best temperature for you.

5 Limit your caffeine consumption during the day.

Due to its stimulatory nature we recommend not consuming caffeine after 2pm as it can take up to nine hours to be metabolised by the body.

As an alternative try drinking decaffeinated coffee, caffeinefree herbal teas or pure water throughout the afternoon.

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HEALTH + BEAUTY

WOULD YOU LIKE MORE ENERGY?

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Award-Winning Skin Care LOUISE’S 5 TIPS FOR YOUR BEST SKIN EVER

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BESTOW BEAUTY OIL This contains omega 3 from flax oil and is more beneficial for skin than fish oil. We need to get the cells working properly from within, then topical creams can be used for maximum advantage.

2. WATER WATER WATER I think everyone should download the app called Water Minder to see how much they should be drinking, plus it reminds you to have a drink.

3. DON’T OVER-EXFOLIATE Our skin is like a garden. We need to weed the garden to allow the fertiliser to penetrate but we don’t want to dig too hard.

4. FEED YOUR SKIN

Vitamins are essential for skin health both internally and topically.

5. BREATHE Lungs and cheeks are sisters so breathing can help with your glow.

A good habit to get into is to take three big breaths at every red light you come to.

Walk in the door of Louise Gray Skin Care in Mission Bay and you’ll be greeted with a smile by Nicola Ogle — head ‘meeter and greeter’. The friendliness is welcome and paves the way to a customised visit that’s completely focussed on the health of your skin.

treating and correcting skin conditions, such as hormonal disturbances, hyperpigmentation, sensitivity, dermatitis and eczema. “The body is amazing and facial skin often portrays what is happening internally,” says Louise. “We treat all of our clients with that in mind. It’s about health, wellness and nurturing.”

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Your skin is your body’s largest organ.

Just like the rest of your body it needs to be fit, healthy and performing at optimum levels to look luminous and beat issues such as pimples, pigmentation and premature aging.

Louise is a former registered nurse with a background in intensive care. “I saw firsthand how patients’ facial skin was affected by medications and stress from illness/ disease and trauma,” she says. “It’s why I always look beyond the surface of the skin to how the body is functioning.”

It’s a holistic approach that has seen Louise and her two therapists, Beverley Danyali and Roche Sanson, have lots of success

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The collection of trophies fighting for space on the clinic’s shelves is testament to this ethos. After receiving the Best Therapist award in the New Zealand Beauty Therapy Awards in 2003, Louise opened the centre (in 2005) and hasn’t stopped collecting them since. They include the Dermalogica Skin Expert of the Year (for Jasmine Roberts) Award, the Dermalogica Skin Care Centre of Excellence, the Dermalogica Commitment to Education and the Dermalogica Skin Centre of the Year. Beverley, who has been with Louise for seven years, added to the pool with the Dermalogica Skin Expert of the Year 2014.

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“We use Dermalogica, Medik8 and One Truth 818 Serum ,” says Louise. “I have been with Dermalogica since the beginning as they have excellent postgraduate education.”

She was the first-ever stockist of One Truth 818 Serum, which has the potential to make the skin grow biologically younger.

“We have telomeres on the end of our chromosomes and as we age they grow shorter and lead to aging,” explains Louise. “ One Truth 818 Serum contains TAM-818 which can re-lengthen the telomeres. It’s very exciting.”

“We are skin care experts and we can help you, but it’s not a magic bullet. You have to do your part. The skin is like a plant and soil, it needs nurturing and feeding or it won’t flourish.”

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STRONGER, FASTER, BETTER. I am thankful for the way my body is bouncing back post-baby. But the thing is, it takes some work, before, during and after pregnancy.

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through the fascia. Therefore, if the connective tissue is tight and restricted, the associated tissues will have poor nutrient exchange. This intensifies any painful situation.

FASCIA AND MYOFASCIAL STRETCHING

Thickening and hardening of the fascia will limit mobility.

A lot of conventional methods and therapies focus on the spot that hurts.

This is a big reason why people don’t get better. The spot that hurts is just where the pain emanates. The actual problem can be well up the chain.

Imagine a beach towel spread out from all corners. If you grab it in the middle and scrunch it up you will see it contract in many areas. This is like contracted, restricted fascia. If you pull on all ends of a towel evenly it will straighten out.

This is the focus of Myofascial stretching and through doing this the tissue really evens out.

WHAT IS FASCIA? Fascia is the least known of all tissues and an organ in its own right! Fascia is becoming more understood, but in the big picture it is still very new — this year will only be the forth international fascial research conference so there are many physical therapy modalities, chiropractors, medical practitioners, surgeons and doctors that still don’t understand or recognise fascia and its connection to joint, muscle, nerve issues and body pain.

Fascia consists of tough sheets of connective fibers that envelop and weave through every muscle, nerve and organ and ties our whole body together.

It enables us to maintain correct posture, holds our organs in place, prevents muscles from tearing, and tethers tendons to bone, giving the muscles the mechanical stability they need to contract forcefully.

If you think about an orange with all the juice tapped out, what you have left is the pulp and the fibrous webbing that separate the sections. All of this is just like fascia separating and connecting our body at the same time.

A tough sausage casing holding in the sausage as well as joining all the sausages

is another way to think about how fascia works within our bodies.

It’s a continuous supporting network that goes top to toe.

If you are wearing a jersey and you pull on one end you will feel the jersey twist, tighten and restricted around many different areas. This is what happens if fascia is restricted, contracted and tight, this pulls joints out of optimal position, traps nerves and causes pain.

For muscles and joints to function properly, the fascia and nervous system must both be healthy. This means moist, soft, flexible fascia and nerves that send full-strength signals to the muscles. Injury, overuse, underuse accidents, surgeries and poor posture can all result in tight, restricted fascia that shuts off nerves, weakens muscles, restricts movement, and causes inflammation and pain.

FASCIA THICKENS AND HARDENS WHERE THERE IS CHRONIC TENSION. Fascia holds imprints of our posture and old injuries — like an old telephone cord that keeps springing back to where its been coiled up for a long time.

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These weird and funny looking positions are technical and specific to learn but extremely self-empowering, therapeutic.

Once learnt you can do them from home, on holiday, your hotel room, gym or park, to enhance your sport, correct or maintain your posture and fix body problems. This method is powerful and effective!

Fascial stretches focus on specific individual muscles but work by tethering the end points of a fascial chain.

BENEFITS MYOFASIAL STRETCHING Myofascial stretching performed correctly will stretch, loosen and rehydrate the tissue so it can be more supple, mobile and resilient.

Eliminate body pain, correct posture, create postural strength, improve sports performance and general wellbeing, prevent re-occurring injuries and more.

Regular movement of the fascia through these skilled exercises is very powerful indeed.

Everyone can benefit from Myofascial stretching. Athletes especially need this work to even out fascial tissue that will keep twisting them up and pulling them around. This style of stretching can be learnt one on one or in a class situation.

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STAINING AND STRAINING OUR BODIES

BODY ART DOESN’T STOP WITH TATTOOS Since the dawn of civilisation bodies have been pierced to signify everything from prostitution, wealth and protection from demons.

The oldest mummified remains were found with pierced ears. Ear stretching has been practiced for millennia by tribes in Africa, Asia and America. Materials used to carry out the ritual include bone, horn, wood and stone. Famous figures with stretched lobes include the statues of Easter Island and Buddha.

The Aztecs and the Mayans pierced their tongues with thorns as a sign of status. Blood was collected, burned and offered to the gods.

The Apatani women of Arunachal Predesh in India sport large black nose plugs (and facial tattoos), a tradition that stems from time when the women were kidnapped during inter-tribal raids. It was believed the large nasal discs would deter would-be marauders and are inserted once the women have their first period.

Lip plates have been in existence for around 10,000 years in both Africa and Mesoamerica, but today, the tradition is upheld only in the former. The enormous discs donned by the Suri tribe of Ethiopia are regarded as a sign of beauty.

Some cultures believe stretching necks enhances beauty. The practice, which involves gradually increasing the amount of rings around a female’s neck from childhood, is still conducted in parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, notably the Kayan’s of Myanmar where they are known as ‘giraffe women’. There are concerns the practice is encouraged to attract tourism.

In 2013, Project Semicolon was founded to present, “hope and love to those who are struggling with depression, suicide, addiction and self-injury.”

The purpose of the USbased project is, they say, to, “encourage, love and inspire.” Following her father’s suicide, founder Amy Bleuel got a semicolon tattoo on her wrist as a tribute to him and soon realised just how powerful that symbol was: “A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence, but chose not. The author is you and the sentence is your life.”

The project has gained a massive following online and earlier this year, Heather Parrie wrote a beautiful blog about her battle with depression and subsequent decision to get said ink. “I expected the same 60-100 people who read all of my social media postings to interact with me about it,” she tells BuzzFeed after the

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post had achieved over seven million views. “Knowing that I’ve gotten to be a part of something bigger than myself is so motivating to keep working to make the world a better place.”

“I believe the semicolon tattoo is a huge inspiration to others as they know they are not alone,” adds Bleuel. The movement has reached these shores too. In July the Herald reported of Emma Jenkins’ generosity — donating all profits made from inking semicolons at her Red Cherry tattoo parlour in Rotorua to support those suffering from depression. The fact that so many people are now willing to have their bodies permanently — and briefly, painfully — stained for a cause is further proof of just how much more accepted tattooing has become in mainstream society. Once the preserve of bikers and convicts, now everyone from professionals to pop stars proudly display their ink.

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“Our bodies have become the refrigerator magnets of quotes, sayings and reminders,” writes Reef Karim, Founder and Director of the Beverly Hills Control Center and Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA, in the Huffington Post. New Zealand is, of course, no stranger to the art. A 2009 UMR Research poll concluded that, per capita, we’re the most tattooed nation on earth with one in five Kiwis sporting some kind of body ink. In 2013, the Lonely Planet even named New Zealand as the second best place in the world to get tattooed. Archaeological evidence suggests that tattooing was established in New Zealand with the arrival of Polynesian culture with bone chisels and mallets — an early ‘tattoo gun’ — found at various ancient sites. Tā moko is the name given to the sacred Maori tattoo, often of the face, which traditionally signifies the highest ranking members of a population.

Tattooing has in fact been practiced since at least Neolithic times, and, interestingly, across a vast spectrum of countries and cultures. The oldest example of tattooed human skin was found on a South American mummy dated 6,000BC whilst the oldest known European tattoo was found on the mummy of Ötzi the Iceman, currently on display in Italy. He’s thought to be around 6,000 years old. Others have been found in Egypt and Russia, proof, surely, that there is some deep-seated primeval urge to stain our skins. Dr Kirby Farrell is an author and University of Massachusetts professor specialising in anthropology, psychology and history as it relates to human behaviour. Speaking to Vice, he says that it’s at least partly due to the fact that the human race is regularly on the edge of an existential panic. “[Ernest] Becker said that if you were to see the world realistically; just how vulnerable and totally insignificant you are, in terms of the cosmos, you’d go crazy,” he adds. “So you constantly need stories that build up your self-esteem and make you feel significant, which is, of course, what culture provides.”

“Our current society craves individuality and self-expression,” says Karim. “And now many people wear their artistic expression.

We are having more trouble communicating with each other than ever before, as electronic communication will never replace face-to-face human contact. So it’s not surprising that there’s a growing trend toward communication via body ink. We don’t have to talk, we just have to look.”

It certainly wasn’t always about communication, trends or causes.

Throughout history, tattoos have also been used as a form of punishment. In China, convicts’ faces were once branded with ink, while in 17th century Japan, symbols were applied to whichever part of a criminals’ body committed the crime. The Ancient Brits saw them as badges of honour and inspired the Roman soldiers to look upon them the same. While for others, it was a holy endeavour. During the Crusades, warriors would mark themselves with a cross so should they die in battle they would be given a traditional Christian burial. For over a thousand years, tattooing was a traditional part of the culture of Myanmar until it was annexed by the British (then named Burma) which is also home to the Chin tribe where women’s face were traditionally tattooed to enhance their beauty. Last March, thousands of Buddhist devotees descended upon Thailand’s Wat Bang temple for the annual Sak Yant Festival. It sees monks tattoo ‘magical’ designs of animals and religious scripts on to recipients who are then said to be protected from harm. The ink is concocted from ingredients such as ash and snake venom, and, once finished, the monk will breathe onto the tattoo to infuse it with mystical powers.

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MERCANTILE

Recently launched, The Mercantile is an editorialised commerce platform of curated artisanship and contemporary values. Founded by Paris Mitchell and Georgia Cherrie, The Mercantile brings together hand selected vintage pieces from California alongside modern basics and interior accessories, all designed by the founders themselves.

Seeking something new and inspiring, Mitchell and Cherrie set out to build, “an online portal with the potential to develop into a myriad of mediums.” They believe The Mercantile represents the modern woman who appreciates aesthetic refinement and carries with her beautiful objects from the past. Offering vintage alongside their locally crafted garments and interiors, “The Mercantile declaims mass production to endeavour to locate ecological solutions.”

“We like to think The Mercantile has a sense of honesty to it.” The young arbiters carry a strong belief in what they want to create and a wealth of international knowledge. Mitchell and Cherrie grew up in Auckland, however both left at a young age to travel and discover design. Mitchell left for New York, where she worked at Vogue assisting the design director and Cherrie lived in Barcelona where she studied fashion marketing.

With Mitchells experience in fabrics, every piece has been chosen for its quality to stand out in a world saturated with fast fashion. The creative process begins with hand-selected products and ends with “editorial like” visuals to inspire shoppers and aesthetically guide their choices.

A fusion between two friends and their hope to create a meaningful presence within the sea of e-commerce means this is only the beginning. The Mercantile is more than just an online shopping platform but a curated guide to life, a concept whereby each piece if true and unique.

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YOUR LIFE IS CHANGING YOUR STYLE SHOULD TOO Over the past week I’ve been working with a client who has the most amazing body. An athlete who has represented New Zealand on the world stage, her shape is totally enviable. Because of that, the clothing choices available to her were many, and this caused her stress. In her busy, sporty lifestyle there had never been time to develop a sense of her own style beyond workout gear. What she tended to wear in her casual and working life were garments purchased from more teen-focussed or sport/surf stores. Recently, as her life has begun to evolve beyond the sporting arena she felt she needed to ‘grow up’ a little, as she wanted to be taken more seriously. She told me she found choosing what to wear in the morning the most stressful part of her day.

“We talked about how it was important she liked what was hanging in her wardrobe, but equally important that it sent the messages she wanted to.”

Interestingly, when we went shopping together to find her more ‘grown up’ wardrobe and tried some truly beautiful outfits, she struggled with how she looked. From where I stood, almost everything she tried looked amazing, but it was what was happening in her head that was causing her the biggest challenges. She’d look in the mirror and wouldn’t see the girl she was used to seeing. Item after item was rejected as she couldn’t cope with how she looked. After a time, she took a breath and said, “Oh, gosh. I’m being really difficult, aren’t I?” We talked about how it was important she liked what was hanging in her wardrobe, but equally important that it sent the messages she wanted to. We agreed to take ‘baby’ steps, and that it might take more than one outing. As it happened, in the end we had twelve items that she loved, that mixed and matched to give her over thirty outfits and she was delighted as it meant no more stressful mornings.

Occasionally I’ll work with someone who is simply ‘stuck’ in the way they dress. Their life has changed but they are unsure how to change their style along with it. I love to help women and men develop their own style, to have them feel not only comfortable in their ‘look’, but also feel excited by it, and that they own it.

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Contemporary Jeweller

Michael Ayling Michael Ayling is a contemporary jeweller who sees himself as an artistcraftsman, in that he hand makes his own designs. A perfectionist by nature, his workmanship is both precise and fastidious and he isn’t satisfied until he gets both form and finish just right.

Denying any serious design influences, Ayling says that he loved the smooth sleek Scandinavian style of silversmithing in the beginning, and that he used to admire the work of New Zealand’s Jens Hansen, whose work was displayed in the window of Form Design Gallery in Auckland’s High St.

He says, “I regard my jewellery as minisculpture; that’s to say that the pieces are seen from a 3D point of view, as objects in their own right, and they make sense when seen from any angle — tiny pieces of engineering or architecture.” For Ayling, the aesthetics are an interplay of the form he creates and the inherent qualities of the material he has used, such as the texture and colour. “I seem to tap into left and right brains, being naturally accurate and geometric, but on the other hand (or hemisphere!), I enjoy fluid organic forms such as fusing and reticulation, which give an unpredicted, primordial outcome.”

“I pick up ideas from here and there: often not from jewellery...it could be a gate hinge or the texture of an autumn leaf.. anything that has an element of texture, structure, form and character. Over the years I have come up with a lot of different generic forms, some of which I repeat as variations on a theme. Some become production lines and a few are very unusual and remain as one-offs. Those are my most originals works.”

Largely self-taught, Ayling spent time working with John Gabriels in the early 70s, and later with Jens Hansen, both of whom provided many insights, but he says that trial and error is how you really learn and that over 35 years, there has been plenty of both.

Academically gifted, Ayling studied medicine at Auckland Medical School.

A fellow medical student worked in the holidays for his next-door neighbour, John Gabriels, who had just opened a new jewellery workshop in the city.

“I went along to have a look and John was very generous with us, providing workspace and some tuition. Until that point, I had never had a single thought in my life about jewellery, but I was almost immediately hooked.” Jewellery-making satisfied a latent interest Ayling had in making things, and he admits to loving ‘perfect shiny surfaces’. He was soon making pieces for his friends and earning a little money with which he bought tools so he could work at home. A year later he took time out of medical school with the thought of earning a living as a craftsman. As he puts it, “I tuned in and dropped out”.

Ayling develops his original ideas first for himself and in that sense, is a true artist.

For him, the point is to realise the idea; manifest the vision. Doing this successfully provides him with “an incredible buzz,” because it crystallises an ethereal concept into a magical manifestation.

“Some pieces are made for the daring, the bold, and the therefore, beautiful,” he says. “My ideal is to create something really out-of-the-ordinary and to find a customer who shares my perception. I have come to also enjoy more and more the service aspect of commissions, where years later, I’ll hear how much a piece has been treasured and even worn to death.’

Ayling, now 60, has taught many young jewellers over the years and several have gone on to become full-time professional jewellers. “Recently, I was astounded, and gratified, to be told independently by two former students, that I had taught them all they know...a heartwarmimg exaggeration!

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‘ART OF REMEMBRANCE’

The Shield of Protective Gold Raising Funds Creatively for St David’s Future

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If you really believe in something passionately, anything is possible. When you think it isn’t possible, think again.

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Divine intervention may have put Paul Baragwanath on a path to save an iconic piece of Auckland’s heritage architecture.

together at breakneck speed and, “it has not been at all easy”, the organiser freely admits.

Since ANZAC Day this year, St David’s Presbyterian Church in Grafton (known as ‘the soldiers’ memorial church’) has avoided the wrecking ball thanks to a protective gold shield of artwork which has swathed the exterior in extraordinarily spectacular fashion.

The project needed serious money to cover real costs and serious expertise to solve a myriad of logistical problems. Buyups of scale and super quick turnarounds became the norm.

Comprising thousands of glinting gold quatrefoils by Max Gimblett ONZM, one of this country’s most celebrated living contemporary artists; the centenary installation, Art of Remembrance is Baragwanath’s brainchild which has gained widespead support from across New Zealand.

Each quatrefoil artwork represents a New Zealand soldier or nurse who served in World War I. The works are priced at $100 each so as many Kiwis as possible can afford to take part and ensure St David’s long-term survival.

Many are buying more than one of the seven different designs. An anonymous donor gave $10,000 in exchange for one single artwork. Public institutions and corporate installations are on the horizon.

Paul was sure from the very beginning that there was a way to deliver the building to future generations by fundraising creatively.

“The key lesson I’ve learnt is that you’re only constricted by your perception. If you really believe in something passionately, anything is possible. When you think it isn’t possible, think again.”

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Originally inspired by a memorial ceramic poppy from the Tower of London, the beautiful outdoor installation came

Like the purchase of the entire supply of varying thicknesses of sheet brass in New Zealand, 14,000 brackets, 40,000 pieces of gaffer tape, 1,000’s of metres of stainless steel wire and a high-tech lightning conductor.

The creation of the ‘organic fade’ by choreographing the quatrefoil clusters in a way that created movement through the façade was a “miraculous milestone.”

On 23 July the installation on St David’s Church was formally closed. As each quatrefoil is brought down, thousands will be labelled, boxed and dispatched on a ‘tour of duty’ throughout the country, “from Kaitaia to Invercargill” to peoples’ homes, exhibition spaces, the Royal Engineers Chapel and other venues such as Workshop retail stores nationwide.

Volunteers are always welcome to help process the thousands of pieces of artwork during this time. You don’t need to be strong, just have a shared belief about the importance of community, human connection, heritage and character.

“If I can see a way to improve life for people by making a contribution, that motivates me. I see great value in preserving St David’s Church and all it can serve.” Baragwanath says.

Words: Sarah Sparks

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THE BURDEN OF IDEAS AND MEANING

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ackson was born in Auckland in 1950 to Tongan and Scottish parents. He migrated to Australia in 1976 where he has lived and painted for 34 years and exhibits in both Australia and New Zealand.

Many Australians will be familiar with Jackson’s work through the annual Archibald Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has been a finalist on many occasions and was awarded the People’s Choice award three times. In 2009 his portrait of the comedian Paul Livingston (aka Flacco) won the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Packer’s Prize.

Jackson’s paintings present a distorted realism, utilising his considerable skills in precision painting and grisaille technique to depict imagined subjects. He uses symbolism and historical referencing to express wider concepts, such as his concern for the land and customary rights of Maori and the history of human interaction in New Zealand. Jackson’s work is held in private collections locally and internationally.

Artworks clockwise from top: Geyserland,The Smoking Tohunga,The General, Bird With Nest, Birds With Green Heart.

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MUSIC

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AGNES OBEL PHILHARMONICS

DANIEL JOHNS TALK

PANCHO’S LAMENT PANCHO’S LAMENT

The debut album by the Danish singersongwriter Agnes Obel went doubleplatinum in parts of Europe, and it’s easy to hear why. The beautiful haunting vocals and impeccable gorgeous piano, with often just a cello in support, sound effortless and light, with every note and word just hanging clearly in the air awaiting your ears! Imagine a classical sonata or similar with Joni Mitchell or Carole King adding rich velvety but understated vocals and you have some kind of idea of how Agnes Obel sounds!

Daniel Johns, best known for being the frontman of Silverchair, has recently released the solo album Talk — a strange but compelling beast, being both radically different but in ways similar to his previous work. It’s a kind of phoenix, a rebirth.

Possibly the quintessential New York Bar Band, Pancho’s Lament was founded by award winning song writer Jeff Cohen — ostensibly to play once a year on his birthday! They then grew into a regular fixture on the New York bar scene in the late 90s, and achieved success with their debut album Pancho’s Lament, featuring the single Truth About Romeo, which was also the theme for the hit television show Jack & Jill (which launched the careers of Amanda Peet, Jaime Pressly, Justin Kirk, and Sarah Paulson among others).

This classically trained pianist and vocalist, who relies on her voice and her piano (supported occasionally by cello, organ, harp or celesta) to envelope you in her world and lift your spirits in a way very few artists can. The song Riverside off this album is one of the most beautiful songs you will ever hear. Obel’s second album (Aventine) is another step again into this magical world she creates. Both available on CD, HDTracks.com and iTunes.

This album is soulful and heavily R&B sounding, with a relaxed but fat sound and quiet vocals. Interestingly enough Joel Little (Lorde’s co-writer/producer) worked with Johns on two of these songs — and Lorde would not sound out of place accompanying him on several of the tracks.

Hannah Cohen instead appears on some, but sounds the part — adding that extra female character where needed.

This is a transparent, personal album — somewhat revealing of Johns — “he is moving to a new place it seems, he’s not sure where but knows he’s got to do it,” as one reviewer has said. Definitely worth a listen. Available on CD and iTunes.

Words: John Moher

Thick with refreshing songs and lyrics of the indie-Americana, acoustic and poprock persuasion, there is a timelessness and innocence to this album, and a quality to the songs that come from Jeff Cohen’s long and outstanding career as a songwriter and producer. Pancho’s Lament went on to release two more albums (Leaving Town Alive and Three Sides to Every Story) but their debut self-titled album is the one to try for your first taste! All available on CD, CDBaby. com and iTunes.

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THE CARTEL

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Don Winslow has a long list of great reads to his name but his latest, The Cartel, beats them all. A fast-moving, detailed hunt and chase thriller set in the tough, very tough, world of drug lords and dealers. When Barrera gets out of prison he is hunted by Keller, a man he has harmed in more ways than one. This is a full-on Mexican drug war story, which takes you around the world and back to a very dangerous place, where life is cheap and death only a step away. Based on real situations and thinly disguised characters, The Cartel is a breath-taking tale.

Clare is chaperoning her frail and aged father on a trip back to Venice, a place he last visited during the war with his fellow New Zealand comrades. As he retraces his steps he is able to put some ghosts to rest, and he finds that he can come to terms with events that have haunted him for many years. Greg McGee, surprises — and shocks — with this generational story based in Venice and modern day Auckland. Highly recommended. Watch this book get shortlisted for a book award. You read it here first!

Good biographies are hard to beat, put an interesting life together with a very clever character and you get an exceptional read. Oliver Sacks is a famous neurologist, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and many more enlightening books. The movie Awakenings was based on one of his books. He grew up in England moved to America, had a colourful past, but he tells his life story so clearly and with such a passion and emotion that it is hard to put the book down. Now aged and ill, his crystal clear description of what happens now is compulsive reading.

Big boys toy or an efficient mode of transport around town, a scooter is high on the list of ‘dream buys’ for many guys (and quite a few girls). The, My Cool Scooter book goes through vintage versus new, Lambretta versus Vespa and many more makes of scooter and the die-hard fans who have made them fashionable, stylish and trendy.

Packed with plenty of photos and descriptions of more than 55 scooters, this little book punches well above it’s weight.

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Women He’s Undressed tells the story of Orry-Kelly, a Hollywood legend whose costume designs where adored by cinema’s greatest leading ladies. Acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong celebrates the life of this extraordinary man in her new film, Women He’s Undressed.

Featuring interviews with fashion icons Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, June Dally-Watkins, costume designers Catherine Martin, Ann Roth, Kym Barrett, Michael Wilkinson, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Hollywood identities and historians including director/producer Eric Sherman, Hollywood fixer Scotty Bowers, Leonard Maltin, David Chierichetti, Marc Eliot, William J Mann, Jean Mathison, Larry McQueen and Barbara Warner Howard (daughter of Ann and Jack Warner).

Despite just two albums to her name Amy Winehouse is one of the biggest music icons in British history. Amy Winehouse was a pop star with soul; a once in two generation musical talent whose appeal crossed cultural and demographic boundaries. But while her music made her a star, her chaotic personal life stole headlines.

In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail — 2,200 miles of America’s most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek — his long lost and former friend Katz (Nick Nolte), a down-onhis-luck serial philanderer.

Amy reveals the extraordinary life behind the sensational headlines by examining the story of a prodigiously talented young woman whose life ended far too young. With this film the world will fall in love with the real Amy Winehouse and her incredible music all over again.

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SAILING, SURFING & SINGING

Where she did come from is a somewhat unusual — and beautiful — place. Before attending Auckland’s Diocesan School for Girls and, later, King’s College, Jamie spent a great chunk of her childhood aboard a boat on the Mediterranean Sea. “I’ll always be thankful to my parents for letting my sister and I have that experience growing up,” says Jamie. “I was around seven when my dad had the idea of heading overseas and living a different kind of life.” McDell recounts idyllic memories of sailing to new islands daily, where the family would explore ruins and kick back on beaches. “We were supposed to be doing correspondence school, but, as you can imagine, the allure of the clear blue water was quite the distraction. That’s really where I started to write songs. I had a lot of time to think and was always writing tales about the ocean.”

It’s a love affair that continues to this day.

The singer-songwriter is not only a keen conservationist, but in 2012 became the first female ambassador of Surf Life Saving New Zealand. The beach, she tells me, she considers ‘home’, but if she had to choose between the ocean and music?

“I don’t think I could, they’ve always worked together for me. The ocean gives me inspiration to write and music gives me the ability to talk about conservation issues in a different way. While I don’t always write songs about the ocean, I do try to make sure it’s incorporated into my music career, whether it be part of my ‘image’ or working with different organisations. It’s a great way to inspire young people to take some interest in the outdoors or even learn about how to protect our environment.”

Jamie, now 22, was just 16 when she was snapped up by EMI Music New Zealand, having already gained a sizeable fan base online. Her first album, Six Strings and a Sailboat, released in 2012, spawned the chart-topping single You’ll Never Take That Away and has since gone gold. “I’ve been able to use social media to really carry my career,” says the songwriter.

“When you’re making albums there are always restrictions around when you can release new material, but having online platforms means I can always be creating content for my fans so that they

can be part of the process.” I wonder how difficult it is to balance her need for privacy with the need to share at least part of her life online. “Setting up some guidelines for yourself is important,” she says. “I’m a strong believer in having that time for yourself away from your phone, the internet and technology. It should be like writing a training programme. Set yourself some goals and organise the time you’re willing to spend on them then stick to it.”

performances to just hanging out with my band. It was exhausting, I won’t deny that, but getting to the point in my music career where I can build a set that’s dynamic and interesting and have it come across well live is a real achievement for me.” Her favourite thing about the tour, she says, was getting the chance to meet the fans: “It’s fascinating to have conversations with people about what my songs mean to them or how my music has affected their With the ever life in a big or expanding online small way.”

With more interest comes universe making it Jamie feels a ever easier to get strong bond both positive and negative ‘followed’, Jamie with them for responses and it can be has some words their ages, of warning for difficult to deal with negative combined with would-be stars. “It love of comments. I grew up knowing her is much easier to social media that I should only listen to develop a bigger interaction, platform, fast, and means that they the opinions of people that I sometimes that can have almost respect and that’s what kept get overwhelming grown up as a teenager,” she together. “There my head in the right place. says. “With more are a few fans interest comes I could name both positive and who have come negative responses to every show, and it can be even from when difficult to deal with I used to play in negative comments. I grew up knowing the park to about ten people,” she says. that I should only listen to the opinions of “I really believe a lot of those fans that people that I respect and that’s what kept have been supporting me from the start my head in the right place.” have now become friends. They’re aware of my personality and the way I like to Even having signed a record contract at write music so it’s great to get feedback such a relatively young age, Jamie had the from them about new songs.” maturity to continue with her studies and go on to complete a degree in graphic Jamie adds that her ultimate goal is to design. It must surely have been tricky create a conservational organisation to balance studying and singing success. whose message is championed through “It had its moments, but I always really design and great music: “I know I’ll always wanted to do both so it was about making be writing songs so I’d love to keep sure I was organised and motivated to writing albums for as long as it’s fun. The make it work,” she says. “My lecturers dream to buy a boat and go sailing will were very understanding of what I was always be on my mind as well, so there’s a trying to achieve with my music and my few things on the cards.” record label also understood that I wanted to get through my degree. I’m so grateful As for the immediate future, Jamie has to them all.” It also means Jamie gets to some material for a new album and she put her degree to good use, having an hopes to find further inspiration from an input in both the design of her record upcoming conservation trip. “I’ve always sleeves and concepts for her music videos: wanted to create a record with a country“It makes sense if you’ve written the folk influence,” she says. “So, we’ll see song to have a vision of how it should how we go!” be displayed. The majority of my videos have been filmed at the beach so it’s probably time to get some more ‘outside the box’ ideas! I’m currently working on some graphic design projects outside of Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces music so it’s really useful to work with new perspectives as well.”

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She also recently concluded her first nationwide tour to promote her latest album, Ask Me Anything. “It was an experience-and-a-half,” beams Jamie. “I really loved everything from the actual

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Kiwi songstress Jamie McDell may be lauded as the nation’s answer to Taylor Swift, but she’s certainly not letting it go to her head. “Growing up with some amount of fame in New Zealand is probably quite different from most countries,” she says. “Not only because of our population, but mainly because of our attitudes. Kiwis find it natural to be grounded and I think I’ve just been lucky to have been surrounded by great friends and family who are all reminders of both my values and where I’ve come from.”

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WINE RAC K

Wine is subject to trends and changing tastes, both real and perceived. You might like drinking chardonnay, but when one of your friends rolls up with a pinot noir you might well find yourself drinking pinot noir even if you don’t like it as much as your chardonnay.

PREPARING FOR SPRING Winter has come. But soon we shall once again emerge from the hellishly mild and slightly damp conditions of Auckland’s winter to once again welcome spring. Which for many will mean that there will soon be heaps of things to do in the garden.

However, for those new to gardening this can sometimes feel overwhelming. But by planning and prioritising jobs, and starting to get ready now, before spring has sprung, can make everything considerably easier.

Of course the wine industry loves nothing more than to promote trends and tastes that in itself guarantees revenue and business continuity. In this sense wine trends are a bit like a game of musical chairs, but as the industry evolves, so with it does the innovation of new styles of wine.

In New Zealand, white wine reigns as king (over a billion litres was produced last year), but of significance is the growth of red wines, having reached new heights both in volume and winning numerous international awards.

One victorious winery is Yealands Wine Group where for the second consecutive year they were recognised by winning several trophies at this year’s prestigious International Wine Challenge in London. In all, Yealands received thirty-four medals, including two gold medals and thirteen silver medals spread across their wine range.

Here are three of their award-winning red wines available nationwide.

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Peter Yealands Marlborough 2014 pinot noir RRP$17.95 — Ripe and fruity with light tannins delivering balance and fresh flavours that flow through onto the palate making this a crowd pleaser. You will be hard pressed to find better value for money.

DECIDUOUS TREES, SHRUBS AND HEDGES Plant deciduous trees, roses, shrubs, and hedging as soon as you can. This will give them time to get settled in and get their roots established before spring kicks into gear. All of which will help make sure that you have healthy plant that will require less help from you later on.

Plant by digging a hole that is at least twice as deep and twice as wide as the pot your plant comes in. Back fill with a mix of your topsoil, compost, and sheep pellets. I also use Natures Organic Fertiliser, which will help to get the roots established and improve the structure of your soil.

FLOWERS

Peter Yealands Reserve Marlborough 2014 syrah RRP$21.95 — You will be in good hands here with the full ripeness of the rich fruit infused with an abundance of soft tannins and a concentrated bouquet. Easy drinking and priced well.

Peter Yealands Reserve Marlborough 2014 pinot noir RRP$21.95 — An excellent example of what a pinot should be. Displaying depth and complexity that will win you lots of friends. This clean clear headed wine has an intense bouquet and supple tannins.

Verve’s Wine Rack column is contributed by Dennis Knill, winelover and writer extraordinare!

For instant gratification you won’t go wrong with pansies, violas, primulas, polyanthus and alyssum. And if you plant now they will keep flowering well into spring.

VEGGIE GARDEN It won’t be too long before you can start getting your summer veggies planted. But while it’s still relatively cold I’d concentrate on planting greens, such as spinach, silverbeet, and kale; as well as peas, beetroot and herbs like parsley and coriander.

FRUIT TREES If you want to plant plums, peaches, apples, pears or any other deciduous fruit trees get them in as soon as possible so they can get settled before spring.

If your apples and pears need pruning you should still have time. Just make sure you choose a nice fine day. And if you’re not sure how to prune check out the pruning guide I wrote at www.kings.co.nz/garden-news/winter-pruning---fruit-trees.

And to reduce the chance of pest and disease problems it’s a good time to spray with a mix of Aquaticus Glow and copper.

Both are organic and are easy to apply.

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The Science of

COOKING

Kitchens and laboratories are more closely linked than you may think. Just about everything that is prepared and cooked undergoes some sort of scientific process, whether that be a physical and/ or chemical one. An egg white, for example, is nine-tenths water, but zap it in a microwave for a few seconds and it solidifies. Sprinkle lemon juice on a sliced apple and its flesh won’t turn brown anywhere near as quickly as when left to its own devices. In recent years, some top chefs have taken these chemical and biological reactions to another level, creating a food science known as ‘molecular gastronomy’.

The term ‘molecular gastronomy’ was originally coined in 1988 by the late Nicholas Kurti, a former physicist at Oxford University and one of Britain’s first television chefs. Kurti hosted a 1960s show named The Physicist in the Kitchen, which included such kitchen trickery as injecting hot mince pies with brandy to prevent the destruction of the crust. “I think it’s a sad reflection of our civilisation,” he once lamented, “that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.”

Heston Blumenthal is undoubtedly one of the most well-known — and skilful — pioneers of the process.

Some of his most famous creations involve the use of liquid nitrogen, one of which sees lime juice, egg white, green tea and vodka submerged for a few seconds at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit only to emerge as a frozen meringue. Blumenthal, however, is not so keen on the use of labels. “Molecular makes it sound complicated,” he tells the Observer. “And gastronomy makes it sound elitist.”

Charles Spence, another Oxford professor, has worked in conjunction with Blumenthal for over a decade. “We’ve got bee larvae ice-cream at home,” he says in an interview with the Guardian, “[it tastes] a little nutty, a little floral.” He and his team are seeking ways to make insect-eating more appealing to western taste buds. The experimental psychologist has also come up with a new brand of culinary science called gastrophysics which studies, in precise detail, how the human body actually experiences food and drink and how textures of those substances, as well as the outside environment, affect those experiences.

Spence, who co-authored a book on the subject with Betina Piqueras called The Perfect Meal, has revealed some astonishing results. For example, the person who orders their food first in a restaurant is more likely to enjoy their meal most, while the bigger the party, the more likely you are to consume (over a third more when dining with one person, rising to 75% when eating with three). The more food weighs — whether that be the food itself, or simply through using heavier cutlery — the more satisfying we will find it. Sad movies make us munch more popcorn than the comedies, while classical music is more likely to make us opt for the pricier menu choices. Even the pitch of sounds can affect our eating experience, with high-pitched sounds enhancing sweetness and lowerpitched or brass music making meals more bitter.

“It’s always surprising when shapes have tastes, and tastes have tones, and tones have instruments, and instruments have smells,” adds Spence.

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The more food weighs — whether that be the food itself, or simply through using heavier cutlery — the more satisfying we will find it.

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So-called wine connoisseurs especially beware.

Experiments revealed that not only are we more likely to think a glass of vino tastes better simply because it’s more pricey, but Spence even managed to trick wine experts into believing white wine to be red by adding food dye. The panel of judges even used white-wine terms such as lemon, honey and lychee when reviewing their trickery tipple. The gastrophysicists discovered that wine is deemed 50% sweeter when drank under a red light, further proving that sight really does play a role in taste too. Mixed coloured M&Ms are also eaten faster than a bowl of just one plain colour.

Collaborating with Blumenthal has really made the food industry take notice of Spence’s results. “At the time, people thought: ‘Science and food – that’s horrible’, although most food is scientific, in fact,”

says the Oxford professor. “Who better to change the mindset than Heston, who takes a very scientific approach to food?”

“Eating is a multi-sensory experience,” continues Blumenthal. “We may use modern thickeners, sugar substitutes, enzymes, liquid nitrogen, sous vide, dehydration and other non-traditional means but these do not define our cooking. They are a few of many tools that we are fortunate to have available as we strive to make delicious and stimulating dishes.”

Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

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RAW LEMON

SLICE

Most sweet treats are sugar laden and contain refined grains, both of which leave us with next to no nutrition and a sugar low. When we provide our body with a sweet treat that is actually full of wonderful real whole food nutrients we feel satisfied and content.

This lemon slice is a lovely healthy sweet treat to satisfy sweet cravings and provide your body with essential nutrients to work optimally.

The good fat from the coconut provides satiety and nourishment to your brain. The lemons aid digestion and support balance in the blood to achieve excellent energy levels. The raw honey is full of antioxidants and enzymes to support our immune system for keeping us well over winter.

BASE:

3 cups of preservative free desiccated coconut 1 cup of pitted dates (soaked in hot water for 5 mins to soften) 1 tablespoon or organic vanilla paste

TOPPING:

3 cups of preservative free desiccated coconut 1/4 cup of coconut oil (gently warm in pot if solid) Juice from 4 lemons 1 tablespoon of raw honey 1 teaspoon of lemon zest Make base first, blend all ingredients till well combined and sticky. Press into a lined slice tin. Put slice base in freezer to cool whilst you make the topping.

Place all topping ingredients in blender, blend till smooth.

Spread topping over base, pressing down with fingers until even and smooth. Sprinkle either with lemon zest or coconut.

Slice with a knife whilst in tin then refrigerate until hard and set.

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PUMPKIN SOUP This pumpkin soup is delicious, ďŹ lling and oh-so good for your immune system over the colder months.

The chicken stock base is very healing to the gut and provides collagen and gelatin to keep your skin, hair and nails looking gorgeous over winter.

This soup is easy, beautiful and a crowd pleaser.

BASE:

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LIVING THE DREAM AT THE OBEROI. On a trip to beautiful Bali in June, at the very last minute we were lucky enough to be offered a two-night stay at The Oberoi in Seminyak.

The Oberoi is a hotel that has managed to meet high-end market standards on all fronts, whilst retaining the original qualities of the environment and cultural touchstones that attracted visitors to Bali in the first place.

I did no research on The Oberoi prior to going — this is not unusual for me, as the element of surprise when arriving at a destination is such a joy! This has become a way to travel — to live an experience as it happens and to expect nothing. This assures me that everything I experience whilst travelling unfolds in front of me and my expectations are less about matching the room to website photography, and more about taking it in as I experience it.

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The Oberoi, Bali SEMINYAK, INDONESIA the elegant Oberoi, there is a sense that you could do nothing more than immerse yourself in total luxuriousness.

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t the same time, a more sophisticated cosmopolitan elite of artists, collectors and dealers, had already begun staying along the beautiful beach near the ten-story hotel.

Some of them bought land and built little houses, really improved versions of the homestay rooms the locals were building.

Their friends came to visit, so they built more houses and in the end it all became known as Tandjung Sari, perhaps the first boutique tropical hotel in the world.

By the 1970s it had become a favourite holiday hangout for the rich and famous from all over the world.

One of the permanent residents was a painter called Donald Friend. One of the friends of Friend was an Australian architect named Peter Muller. Together they dreamt of a bigger and grander version of Tanjung Sari on a larger piece of land nearby. It was to be based on the aesthetic scale and flavour of Balinese villages and built of traditional materials by local builders. But for every great hotel, there is at least one that got away. Times change, booms bust, investors back out, land gets sold, friends part ways, and somebody builds something somewhere else instead. But the dreams remain.

Once upon a time in Bali, within the lifetimes of many of us, the only hotels were solid Dutch colonial ones and basic but often charming Indonesian ones. Then the government decided that tourism would be good for economic development, so they built a huge ten-story hotel on a graveyard overlooking a beautiful beach. The locals were horrified and the tourists were not impressed either, because they already had plenty of ten-story hotels back home. Some of them could not afford fancy hotels anyway. The surfers stayed in bamboo huts as close to the beaches as possible, while other young travellers headed for the hills in search of art, culture and meetings with the locals. The locals responded by building somewhere for them to stay among the banana and coconut trees in their backyards, simple little bamboo and thatch rooms with verandahs in front and open-air bathrooms behind. The basic form of the modern tropical hotel was born.

In 1973, an international investor of dubious pedigree bought a beautiful piece of land on a quiet estuary, where cattle grazed among tall trees, way out beyond the beach where the young tourists gathered to eat magic mushrooms and watch the sunset. He contacted Peter Muller and asked him to design a house, then another and before long the hotel first dreamt of on another beach years earlier came back to life. They called it Kayu Aya, after the tall trees, and everybody thought they were mad, because it was miles from anywhere.

Other investors put in money and they built and landscaped, constructed rooms and pavilions, walls and paths... but great hotels don’t come easy and again things went wrong. By the time the money ran out, the buildings were usable, but the Balinese in whose name the property had been bought took it over by force.

The employees had to flee for their lives and valuable materials and equipment were looted. A series of cowboys moved in, renting rooms cheaply to passing travellers and organising wild drug-fuelled parties. Eventually the bank from which most of the money had been borrowed took possession and what was left of the Kayu Aya was auctioned.

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Biki Oberoi, head of the famous familyowned chain of hotels in India saw the potential and supported two local bidders and together they secured the property.

Peter Muller was called back yet again to fix the mess, and thus began the Oberoi we know today. Most of the employees were from the local community and many of them, or their children, are still there today. One man who used to graze his cattle under the Aya trees is retiring as you read this, after looking after the gardens for nearly forty years.

The present hotel is pretty much as it began, a rambling complex of spacious rooms in walled courtyards, built of local materials that have worn and weathered with time and all set in beautiful parkland. Guests are treated as friends or after a few visits, as family. What makes the Oberoi different, apart from its story, is that it has not lost the qualities that attracted visitors to Bali from the beginning. It is like staying in a Balinese homestay, with even more style.

Words: G. Macrae

PROPERTY:

The Oberoi is an ocean facing beach resort amidst 15 acres of lush tropical gardens. 74 Luxury Villas and Lanai Rooms are dotted along a 450 metre stretch of Seminyak Beach. It offers two restaurants, a bar, outdoor swimming pool overlooking the beach and ocean. Oberoi Spa, fitness centre and a Balinese amphitheatre.

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WHERE TO START? Great hotels don’t just happen. The smooth surfaces, seamless service and slick marketing blurbs are designed to make it look that way by hiding the sometimes less tidy processes of keeping them going. But what they also hide is the stories of their making. Behind every great hotel is a story, and sometimes it is a great story.

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Rio Helmi’s work has been exhibited globally, published in a number of photobooks and graced the likes of Vanity Fair, Vogue and The New York Times. One of Asia’s most eminent snappers, his love for photography was born from flicking through his father’s old albums.

“My dad was an avid amateur photographer,” says Bali-based Rio. “He had the most fascinating images of his and my mother’s travels from the late 30s right up until the 60s. When I was 11, I spent Christmas with my godfather’s family in Switzerland. There had been a coup in Indonesia, there was no news from my parents and we nervously adjusted ourselves to the possibility that they were dead. My godfather’s daughter entertained me by taking me into her darkroom. I was fascinated as the images appeared under the red safelight, these strange looking people that I thought were American Indians turned out to be Tibetan refugees. Unbeknownst to me, I was introduced to two very important things in my life that day: photography and Tibet. It was years after – the late 70s – that I got seriously into photography, and not until the early 80s that I became more seriously involved with the Tibetans after meeting the Dalai Lama.”

Since 1978, Rio’s specialist subject has been Asia, Indonesia especially, focussing on landscapes, and both remote tribal people and modern urban life. He’s also spent a great deal of time in Europe. I ask why he chose Bali to settle.

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“I first came here with my family to visit when I was eight and it made a huge impression on me. After high school in Europe I became disenchanted with the west so once home in Jakarta I couldn’t get Bali out of my head. I talked to a family friend of mine into coming with me overland and in 1971 we made our way across Java to Bali. It was a bit of an adventure, but being in Bali was even more so. It was very different then. You couldn’t live the semi-modern existence that exists now. Nature, the rich textures of Balinese culture, the people, all that stuff that has become the cliché of travel brochures and websites was real back then. So I got stuck!”

Rio’s upbringing, raised with what he describes as a fine mix of love and tough discipline, was certainly an interesting and seemingly privileged one, born to an Indonesian diplomat father and a Turkish mother. “On the one hand, it was a privileged life – ambassadorial residences with butler, driver, cook and so on,” he says. “My mother, a daughter of a Pasha, loved entertaining. My father was born into a small, jungle-bound village in Lampung, Sumatra. It was a highly patriarchal clan and he forged

himself into a well-educated, fluently multi-lingual man of the world. From him I learnt that being multi-lingual is an indispensable asset.” The privilege, adds Rio, diminished living in Jakarta during the Sukarno (Indonesia’s first president) era and he spent more time with his extended clan. “It was important for my dad and it also gave me a larger sense of belonging rather than just simply be a nuclear family.”

Rio admits he never felt as drawn to his Turkish roots, even though he made numerous visits to that country too.

“In the end I was an enfant terrible,” he says. “We were in Europe in the second half of the sixties and my teens were intoxicated – in more ways than one – with the whole youth rebellion: Woodstock, Flower Power, Hendrix, Joplin, the Stones, soul and anti-Vietnam.

Unlike now, nothing was segregated and all the countercultures swirled round each other and what a heady mix it was. I was swept out of this mold that my poor father had been creating for me. When I refused to go to university we stopped talking for about eight years.” They finally reconciled after Rio returned to Bali after a time spent in India and the Himalayas:

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“In retrospect, I hardly think I deserved his forgiveness, yet such was the largeness of the man’s heart. Not to mention he fell in love with his grandchildren.”

The erstwhile “enfant terrible” has long since swapped bohemianism for Buddhism, a decision, he muses, he wishes he’d made much earlier. “The Buddha’s wisdom displays itself by the minute,” says Rio. “My whole life view revolves around it and as I get older I see more in its value. But I’m not a very good Buddhist so I don’t always see it very clearly. However, my experience in Buddhism has really been made possible through the mentorship of my very patient teachers, HH the Dalai Lama and the Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche, and through them I have had the opportunity to get closer to a true understanding. Both of them are extremely generous, and also very importantly, are quite able to bridge the classic world of Buddhism and the modern reality of our lives. It’s very important to have a teacher, a mentor.”

BALI IS PREDOMINANTLY HINDU WITHIN A PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIM NATION. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT GIVES IT A DIFFERENT FEEL?

“Obviously, but it’s not really Hinduism like in India. It’s a mix of things. Anyway ‘Hinduism’ is a British invention from the 18th century. The poor missionaries had never encountered such a plethora of beliefs as they did in India, so they just used an old Persian term that uses the river Indus as its referent: Hindustan and the Hindus. Most Indians today have come to accept this as their ‘ancient religion’, and the terms like Vedanta, Advaita, Waisnawa, Sivaite became ‘sects’ of Hinduism.” This is relevant, says Rio, because when Indonesia became a republic, Bali, which had always boasted a rich array of religion and tradition, had to make a choice in order to have their belief system acknowledged by the new administration: “The Balinese had to opt for one of the so-called accepted five religions. There was a strong element that wanted Indonesia to be all Muslim, which we are not. So, after much agonising, the Balinese intelligentsia and priesthood went with Hinduism. Yes, Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, but we are not constitutionally a Muslim nation. So not only does Bali have a ‘different feel’ because it is culturally and religiously so different and exotic, but there is a fierce sense of identity, pride and ‘resistance’ too.”

While researching I came across an interview Rio gave concerning the Jakarta riots of 1998 which he covered as a photojournalist. In it, he told of how he found some Muslim clerics defending a group of Chinese. There have been similar instances since such as Muslims defending Christians during the Arab Spring. I ask Rio of he feels such occurrences get enough press attention, and, if he believes that they are helpful in diffusing wider tensions.

“The mainstream press can sometimes be so shallow it’s hardly a stream, more like a puddle. Perhaps they’re scared that if they present something to the public which requires thought they’ll lose their ratings.” Violence and sensation, alas, he laments, are what so often sell. “Personally I think it’s important not only to show Muslims defending Christians and vice versa, Jews in Israel defending the rights of Muslim Arabs but also to show the personal aspect of that in detail. We need to refocus on our humanity.

“Politics has a way of consuming everything in its way, and that just spells disaster for mankind. We live in very, very labile times. What is coming just around the corner is a probable catastrophe of epic proportions. Food and water shortages, habitat destruction, environmental tragedies, wars. If we could just pull ourselves together, we actually have the human resources to collectively avoid these disasters. Sure, we need to acknowledge and report the negative, but we need also to show in an equally powerful way examples of much more enlightened behaviour. Published images are a very powerful element in shaping people’s realities.”

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? “Some are. But some really great paragraphs are worth ten of those pictures.”

Rio also writes, in both English and Indonesian (he actually speaks five languages fluently). He’s a regular blogger at the Huffington Post and also founded the website ubundnowandthen.com, an ode to his hometown of Ubud. I ask about the biggest changes to his homeland over the past three decades.

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“There are so many, I don’t know where to start. Socially, economically, environmentally, culturally and politically it’s a completely different place from the one I came to live in during the 70s. Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish and isolate these elements, they blur into each other. But at the same time you also have quite a few of much more worldly, better educated, bright young people coming up who are committed to creating better alternatives. Currently the Balinese are in the biggest state of ferment and change since the Majapahit ‘invaders’ came across from Java way back in 14th Century.”

CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT ANY FAVOURITE SPOTS IN BALI? “There are a few, especially in the more remote places, but nowadays so many have been trashed I keep them to myself.

I say this with a smile, but I do mean it too!”

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we ran with it. It’s fun. People come in to see the prints and they get to have brunch or coffee and relax.”

EVERYONE THINKS THEY’RE A PHOTOGRAPHER NOWADAYS. IS THAT FRUSTRATING FOR YOU AND HAS THE PREVALENCE OF THE AMATEUR SNAPPER MADE YOUR JOB HARDER? “Well, it’s a little tricky to use a broad brush on this because there is also a lot of new talent unleashed by the convenience of digital. But what does rankle sometimes is the lack of discipline that this new ease on the craft side allows. There is a lack of respect not only for the craftsmanship and but also a disregard for the entire lexicon and history of photography.

Back in the 90s I remember a conversation with the late René Burri of Magnum who pointed out that our profession as photojournalists and documentarians would never be the same.

“Some of the great photographers I know personally – who are also great people – like John Stanmeyer, Mike Yamashita and James Nachtwey do workshops and Michael Freeman produces books by the wheelbarrow load. To survive with all the

amateur snappers you need marketing, however that isn’t to say that that is the essence of their success. These guys work hard. Another positive side of the workshops is that the language of photography develops and they pass on their know-how to the digital snappers, giving those who have real talent a leg up. As I speak there is a hundredperson-plus Foundry workshop going on in Ubud. Just being a great photographer is not enough. Not everyone is good at marketing or establishing presence, I certainly am not. In Indonesia we have some great new photographers coming up.

So that is a strong positive.”

OBVIOUSLY PHOTOGRAPHERS NEED A GREAT EYE, BUT IS THERE ALSO AN ELEMENT OF LUCK, OF BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME, OR DO YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK? “Luck is kind of a meaningless word for me. I use it lightly, but never seriously. What is really important is having a well-honed skill set: discipline, preparedness, a great eye, an acute awareness of conditions, good timing, and open mind.

What some people call luck for me is more about being open to what is immediately

there. My most mediocre shots come from being bound by a rigid concept or simply being inattentive. Things change constantly. You go to the exact same place twice and it is not the same. So it’s really a result of a state of mind. If you are open and in tune you will see something there and adapt.

Sure some days are tougher, but that’s normal.”

Anyway, Rio adds that his Buddhist beliefs don’t allow for luck. “I have come to understand that everything is caused by other things and conditions,” he says. “ Things don’t just happen by themselves. That changes the formula!”

Words: Jamie Christian Desplaces

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