31 August 2004

Double the fun!

Rent any DVD, CD or video during from Waitakere Libraries during Adult Learners’ Week (6-12 September), and take home another for double the entertainment!

With a full range of the latest releases as well as a stack of staple oldies, there’s sure to be something there to satisfy all tastes.

Adult Learners’ Week is held nationally to encourage lifelong learning after formal schooling has finished.

All eight Waitakere Libraries will have displays, with live demonstrations of täniko weaving, bone carving and pottery at Massey and Henderson.

Funded by the Tertiary Education Commission, the week it is also supported by the New Zealand Commission for UNESCO, ACE Aotearoa, CLASS and The Warehouse is providing corporate sponsorship.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>