New Zealand Music

Create a short article on a New Zealand music artist/group you like?
New Zealand music artists and groups are becoming more popular and are making some very good music. Lately I have started to like the group Smash proof as they make an extraordinary comeback and get a number one hit with their song Brother featuring Gin. It is a very cool and catchy song as I didn’t really like it when it first came out. The song is about the neighbourhood and what it’s like out there. It topped the charts for months and was a great successful comeback song.
There are many great New Zealand artists out there that I like such as Adeeze; they had some awesome songs that everyone still likes to sing and J Williams who is like New Zealand’s Chris Brown. Then you can go way back and say singers such as Dave Dobbyn and Prince Tua Teka these are all great artists that we should be proud to call Kiwis. We don’t have all that money like in America but we can still produce some good talent and singers in our little country that go on to be known all over the world. Plus there are many more young ones just waiting to be recognised.
One good thing about New Zealand artist is that you don’t have to pay hundreds just to go watch them play a few songs in concerts. For example last week Smash proof came to Whakatane to play a concert. How great is that, you will never see Chris Brown or Rihanna in Whakatane and they actually beat them for a few weeks on the charts?
Artists such as Scribe and Savage maybe not so popular in New Zealand but are really famous in America and will making lots of money which is really good for New Zealand’s Music being recognised else where. Also top-selling singer Akon first appeared singing alongside savage a New Zealand artist in their hit Moonshine which is where Akon became an overnight hit.

Achievement Standard 90030 Version 2

Album-Orientated Rock
Originally designed to describe a radio format that emphasises various album tracks rather than hit singles only. When broadcasters began to apply structured formatic techniques to the so-called “free form” underground radio of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the result was more commercial and more profitable album –orientated rock. The format became even more restrictive, scrapping the various-album-tracks approach in favour of concentrating airplay on one “emphasis track” at a time from an album, and the term album-orientated rock was replaced in the ‘90s by “rock” or “rock tracks.”

Album-orientated rock has also come to describe a certain style of rock, usually the mainstream or “corporate” brand as opposed to more extremes styles. Caution -British writers frequently interpret the acronym to stand for “Adult-Orientated Rock,” and thus misuse album-orientated rock to describe pop artists whom Americans would more commonly describe as “adult-contemporary” or even “middle of the road.”

Music Television
The first full-time music video network on cable television, signed on in the United States in 1981. Music television immediately made the visual image of an artist as important as the music itself, resulting in huge success for groups that were telegenic enough to appeal to viewers. Duran Duran, Culture Club and George Michael were some of the first performers to feel the impact of music television on their careers. In the long run, videos became an essential promotional tool for virtually all rock artists, and many artists embraced video as another avenue for artistic expression.

Detractors, however, say that the pervasiveness of music means that listeners no longer conjure up their own images when listening to a song; the images have already been conjured up for them, eliminating the pleasure – and responsibility – of using one’s imagination.

Source © 1996 Microsoft Music Corporation and/or its suppliers.

Do you think that lowering the drinking age to 18 was a good idea?

Do I think lowering the drinking age to 18 was a good idea?
I have many arguments for both yes and no! For starters I think drinking is a big problem in New Zealand especially for young teenagers and women. But if you were to put the age back up I don’t think that’s going to change any think it may even make the situation worst. As there will be more young underage drinkers breaking the law.
Young people find it cool to go out and drink but they don’t think about the consequences of this happening, you could be raped, have sex with a stranger and fall pregnant, do drugs plus much more and its not a very nice thing if it was to happen to you.
In New Zealand we have so many young talented up and coming sports stars but you see them go to waste because of “Alcohol” They start to lack off and just want to get wasted and have a beer all the time. This is a common thing for young Maoris but it isn’t the way to go, there is nothing wrong with having a beer now and then but that’s it. So you may think now that putting the age up is a good idea, yeah it will keep the younger ones out of night clubs and pubs but that’s about it. They will just go round making there own party bringing younger ones out and that will cause more fights as they don’t know how to control themselves while under the influence of “Alcohol”
I think the biggest problem is Parents! They need to control their children and be role models for them. Not just let them do whatever they want because they will turn into druggies and alcoholics at a young age. You can’t just say it’s the young ones that have drinking problems there are so many adults that are stupid and idiotic when drunk so why can they been allowed to drink? Alcohol causes so many deaths in New Zealand as drunken people take the road and this is not just young people. Yeah most of the time it is but where are their parents? Why can’t they drop them off and pick them back up, they are to blame just as much because they should be more responsible. In conclusion I don’t know if bringing the age down was a good or bad decision but I hope what I have said is a contribution to it.

Women and Alcohol AS 90030

Women and Alcohol

She has a glass or two of wine and feels it go straight to her head. He has the same amount to drink and feels fine.

Researchers confirm something many women have always suspected- it takes less alcohol for a women to feel tipsy than it does for a man, and it’s not all to do with body size. Even if a woman is the same weight as a man and drinks the same amount of alcohol, she will end up with a blood alcohol level a third higher than his. It will also take a third longer for her body to eliminate the alcohol from her blood.

Why alcohol affects women more than men and is potentially more harmful is one of a number of topics covered in a booklet produced by the Alcohol Advisory Council.

Alcohol affects women more than men because women have a higher proportion of body fat and less water in their bodies than men. This means that once it is in the bloodstream of a woman, the alcohol is not as diluted and has a stronger effect. So even if a woman is the same size as a man, she will generally be affected more quickly and feel the effects for much longer than the man will.

Both males and females have an enzyme in their stomach designed to process alcohol into a safer substance, yet for the reasons that are not yet clear to scientists, this enzyme is 70-80 percent more effective in men than women. If the liver of a healthy young woman is compared with that of a healthy young man, it will generally take her longer to process one drink than his, and a person starts to feel drunk when they drink alcohol faster than their liver can process it.

New Zealand research has found more women are drinking and the amount of alcohol consumed by women is increasing. Young women are also drinking more, and what is particularly concerning is that a significant proportion of young women are adopting a pattern of drinking similar to their male counterparts- that is, consuming large amounts of alcohol in one go.

Other topics included in the booklet are alcohol and women’s health, alcohol and sex, alcohol and pregnancy and alcohol and breastfeeding. There is also a guide to how much is too much and s section on getting help and advice.

Source: http://www.alcohol.org.nz/ 24 July 2000

Shapes

I enjoyed creating these word arts and it was fun. The reason why we are doing this is because we will have to do it later on in the year and we are just having a practise. Word art can be used for many different things such as logos, titles, on billboards and many other things.

Keyboard Experience

I am enjoying learning to type properly but I am not very fast as I do not have any experience. the only time a type would be to type up my work in school. In Infomation Management we have a daily exercise to see how fast we can type per minute and i think i can only type 45 words per minute. Now i have moved up to 50 words per minute.

Hopfully by the end of the year I'm more faster and maybe able to type without having to look at the keyboard.

Setting up my Blog

I found setting up my blog on blog spot quite simple. Blog spot has easy step to step instructions on how to do it. This was also the first time I had used blog spot and I think it is a really cool way to express yourself to others and to show people our work. The hardest thing was probably having to think of a password you will remember.