NEW ZEALAND Summer News, Dec 19, 2011

Olympians not just fair-weather crews Stuff.co.nz New Zealand rowing's elite crews had their Christmas Regatta shortened by bad weather last weekend but are still primed for a busysummer. The final day of the regatta at Lake Karapiro was abandoned on Sunday but most of the country's top boats that ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

Christmas pressies, summer reading New Zealand Doctor Online RS A collection of 100 of New Zealand's artists compiled by one of our best, Dick Frizzell's It's All About The Image is, quite simply, a good idea. This is a book to settle into a horizontal position and while away a summer's afternoon, treating your ... See all stories on this topic » New Zealand Doctor Online

Justin North creates perfect pork crackling New Zealand Herald "Sometimes I get all excited and into the spirit of things and want to do the big lavish roast pork and crackling, and ham and turkey and all that sort of stuff, and then other times I just can't be bothered," the New Zealand-born, Sydney-based chef ... See all stories on this topic »

The Johnny Possum Band Pre-Releasing 5th Album 'Short Summer' March 2012 Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News The Johnny Possum Band has played extensively throughout New Zealand and gained international exposure with two mini tours of the USA. The first in 2007 saw them receive the 'Rising Legends' Award from the National Old Time Country and Bluegrass ... See all stories on this topic » Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News

Bond Street Bridge and The Broken Heartbreakers Summer Tour Undertheradar The last time Sam played with the Heartbreakers was in mid 2010 on a winter tour to mark the release of the band's album Wintersun, and since then he has been touring extensively in Europe and New Zealand. The trio are looking forward to reuniting on ... See all stories on this topic » Undertheradar

Holiday for the kids where boredom is banned New Zealand Herald Search "Summer Fun" on aucklandcouncil.govt.nz for locations and times. A van crammed with outdoor toys such as giant Connect Four, frisbees and Space Hoppers will be touring parks to offer a change from monkey bars and slides. Don't let reading skills ... See all stories on this topic »

Nelson rainstorm New Zealand's heaviest Stuff.co.nz ... ever be suitable for future development would take a lot more timeand research, he said. Meanwhile Mr Kempthorne said holidaymakers with bookings at Pohara Top Ten Holiday Park could be safe in the knowledge that the camp would be open for summer.... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

See you in a week, love: it's Skyrim time Stuff.co.nz (blog) Our New Zealand team of lion tamers, off-the-wall designers, mad scientists and coding monkeys are all set for this wild one-day challenge. You win, you keep your own app!'' Judging the competition will be a senior Mac Developer from Skype, ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz (blog)

Pro cycling team invests in future talent Stuff.co.nz Binney and Creighton are both developing young riders, but for the first time Godfrey has invested even more deeply in the future by naming two under-19 riders, both New Zealand junior representatives – Dylan Kennett, of Waimate, and Tayla Harrison, ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

Summer's merry dance hammers everything hard Marlborough Express (blog) An excellent decision and the only option really for the New Zealand Rugby Union in giving the All Blacks head coaching job to Steve Hansen. He's done the hard yards and proven his coaching credentials at NPC, Super rugby and international rugby. ... See all stories on this topic »

Kick the Butt This Christmas TopNews New Zealand Ms. Crisp claims that the summer time is the most precise one to endorse the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and that's mainly because the majority of folks are on holiday and they tend to devote, or maybe muck up, most of their time outdoors enjoying ... See all stories on this topic » TopNews New Zealand

Quitting smoking could be best present Voxy Ms Crisp says the summer time is an excellent opportunity to promote the advantages of a healthy lifestyle because most people are on holiday and spending a lot of time outdoors in fine weather. "Giving up smoking would be a gift that goes on giving. ... See all stories on this topic » Voxy

OSCAR's Low Speed Wheatgrass Juicer For Healthy Living PRWire OSCAR is the legendary name in juice extraction, and just in time for summerand Xmas, they have brought out a fantastic new model, the OSCAR DA 1000, which is a Low speed Juicer, available now in burgundy, white or chrome. As New Zealand's leading ... See all stories on this topic »

Wet ground washes away Waikato FC's chances Stuff.co.nz It is thought to be the first time a national league match has had to be postponed due to surface flooding in Hamilton. In the previous two weeks, the young Waikato FC team picked up their first two wins of the summer, beating Hawke's Bay 2-0 in a ... See all stories on this topic »

Kiwis can't wait to hit the road this summer Scoop.co.nz (press release) Kiwis have more travel on the cards this summer compared to last year, with almost three in five Kiwis travelling within New Zealand or abroad this holiday season. According to the latest Fly Buys/Colmar Brunton Mood of the New Zealand Traveller survey ... See all stories on this topic »

With a rattle, long wait is over for Black Caps Stuff.co.nz How far was this from the hundreds of column inches on how woefulNew Zealand was. How doomed the summer was going to be? Now the team stand on the cusp of their first win in Australia since the Hadlee days; the famed era of Kiwi cricket. ... See all stories on this topic » Stuff.co.nz

Summer sun a death sentence for Kiwis - Expert Impact PR - Public Relations (press release) Summer sun a death sentence for Kiwis – expert warns of rising melanoma toll. More than 500 people will be diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer and 80 more will die this summer according to a top New Zealand dermatologist. Dr Mark Gray, a skin cancer ... See all stories on this topic »

National Jandal Day raises $380000 for Surf Life Saving Voxy The New Zealand public proved just how much it values the essential service surf lifeguards provide on our beaches when they donated generously to Surf Life Saving's national appeal day raising $380000. Over 1500 jandal-clad surf lifeguards hit the ... See all stories on this topic »

Rains a good test for new grate SunLive More information about the project is available at www.ultrafastbroadband.co.nz or call 0800 342 735. Two reported sewer blockages were attended to over the last week. One of these was the result of cable thrusting works in Selwyn Street, the other was ... See all stories on this topic »

Auckland Harbour Bridge lanes close for Christmas Voxy "The number of people using the roads during the Christmas and New Year holidays is significantly lower than any other time in the year. The roads are generally less wet over the summer months so we can get the job done in the fastest time possible, ... See all stories on this topic » Voxy

Morocco death mystery: $700k debt New Zealand Herald The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain has reported that Mr Lamb, 47, had debts ofNZ$700000 at the time of his death. The paper says that he left more than $1.8 million in his will, which became public last week. But just $1.1m is left in a trust after ... See all stories on this topic »

Volts kick Stags in the guts for six Hawke's Bay Today If you were watching the un-televised HRV Cup Twenty/20 opener between the Central Districts Stags v Otago Volts in Dunedin, on the ball-by-ball New ZealandCricket website, you would have noted the pregnant pause on the last ball. ... See all stories on this topic »

What happens at bat camp... The Age Australia has long struggled to combat the moving ball, again highlighted in recent series against South Africa and New Zealand. Unfortunately for the Australians, ProBatter, the space-age bowling machine used at the Centre of Excellence in Brisbane ... See all stories on this topic » The Age

The year-ender that's more than a school magazine Manawatu Standard For the first time for many years there won't be a national championships motorcycle meeting at Manfeild this summer. It has essentially gone to Taupo, where it will be run by a new entrant, Napier's Pacific Motorcycle Club. It seems it costs too much ... See all stories on this topic »

Be a Happy Hunter Gatherer this Xmas Scoop.co.nz (press release) Anglers should be fishing actively in the early mornings and evenings to get the best results from trout behaviour at this time of the year. “As temperatures climb towards the middle of summer, this becomes even more important, ” Matt says. ... See all stories on this topic »

Winner by design Star Canterbury Her genre was resort wear, which is much more international and not something we sell a lot of in New Zealand. Then she also used surprising combinations of lightsummer-weight fabrics with chunky knits; clean lines contrasting with billowing shapes, ... See all stories on this topic »

Christmas photo contest Marlborough Express The Chicken Scorcher is only available for a limited time thissummer. Win a Goldair kitchen mixer by sharing your Christmas Day photos with the community. Send in photos of your Christmas Day celebrations for a photo page to run in the Express on ... See all stories on this topic » Marlborough Express

Dodgers bats ring out pre Christmas Hawke's Bay Today Dodgers New Zealand under-16 pitcher Courtney Gettins struck out nine of the 26 batters she faced while conceding six hits, including a three bagger to former White Sox infielder Angela Stubbs, and a walk. Gettins also smashed a three bagger which ... See all stories on this topic »

Tendulkar hoping for an Indian summer The Canberra Times He is a master of swing - especially reverse swing - and with Australia's batsmen struggling against the swinging ball in their drawn series with New Zealand, his fitness will bolster Tendulkar's chances of claiming that first series win on Australian ... See all stories on this topic »

Cricket sells its soul to sponsors Sydney Morning Herald This summer's campaign, a series of player grabs from some concocted clowning around, is no less embarrassing. There's Ricky Ponting telling us about ''never being satisfied with a good score, it's got to be a big score''. Yep, and some time soon would ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Pakistan's rise began in Australia 35 years ago PakistanToday.com.pk Since then, a number of Pakistanis had excelled for various county teams in the English summer. Pakistan had succeeded in winning their first overseas rubber, in New Zealand in 1973, and the following year went through an entire tour of England without ... See all stories on this topic » PakistanToday.com.pk

Djokovic, Kvitova Are 2011 Champions – Mondays With Bob Greene World Tennis Magazine Marina Erakovic, New Zealand's highest-ranking tennis player. Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova were named 2011 International Tennis Federation World Champions for the first time. Djokovic, who won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments, ... See all stories on this topic » World Tennis Magazine

Five get nod as key men for the future Brisbane Times Warner was also named vice-captain for Australia A in last month's tour game against New Zealand and will lead the Chairman's XI in a three-day game against India, starting on Monday. With Shaun Marsh and Cummins injured, Warner is one of just three ... See all stories on this topic »

Radio Current Affairs Documentary: Teen Drinking ABC Online In New Zealand the Law Reform Commission is pushing to lift alcohol prices by around 10 per cent and return the minimum age for buying alcohol back to 20, where it was in 1999. In Britain alcohol taxes have been going up 2 per cent above inflation each ... See all stories on this topic »

Tim Gavel's Summer reading list ABC Online (blog) Tim credited his numerous Lee Childs reads to the plane time required for his trips back and forth to New Zealand for the 2011 Rugby World Cup and his sporting biography reads as work related. Nevertheless, here's the list: You can follow this... See all stories on this topic »

Kade in pole position for All Stars selection Newcastle Herald Boyd, who like Uate represented Australia in the Four Nations tournament in the United Kingdom last month, was excused from summer conditioning with his new Newcastle teammates until they returned from their Christmas break on January 2.... See all stories on this topic »

Dave new world The Age Based on the assured way Warner batted in the second Test against New Zealand in Hobart, and also last Saturday night captaining the Thunder, the flaws that prompted Warner's exclusion from the Test and ODI teams until the past two months are gone. ... See all stories on this topic »

Lack of crowds a dart in the heart for Aussie sport Sydney Morning Herald (blog) The biggest crowd in the National Basketball League this summer is still 600 shy of the 7500 fans who attended the WAFL's Foundation Day derby clash between East Fremantle and South Fremantle. It also came in New Zealand. And the much-vaunted World ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald (blog)

How Iran Landed Our Drone On Their Runway UFODigest ... front of the most beautiful beach in New Zealand in broad daylight on a clear and calm day this summer. To all those who navigate with GPS, BEWARE! You may be told that you have reached your destination and in fact be nowhere near it, at any time. ... See all stories on this topic »

A Christmas gift they won't already have… CisionWire (press release) He created his first video installation from this material for the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing during the summer of 2009. 'Apollo Raw and Uncut ' played in gallery spaces in London and Montreal and was the first time the entire 23 hours... See all stories on this topic »

Kurtis Patterson turns down BBL deal ESPNcricinfo.com Hughes is playing for a CA Chairman's XI against the Indians in Canberra over the next three days and has the chance to begin his journey back from the confusion that engulfed his batting in Brisbane and Hobart against New Zealand. ... See all stories on this topic » ESPNcricinfo.com

Summer music: Fat Freddys Drop - Toby Laing - Music - NZ Herald ... Your preferred transport for summer touring? Whatever it ... Shotgun is where it's at for a spot of summer time mind-wandering. What's on ... Be part of the news. ... www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264...

Tastes of summer | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South ... [image]Chef Bevan Smith shares some recipes for Christmas treats. www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/food-wine/190665/tastes-summer

Blue Baths launches 1931 Show and Summertime Bar - Rotorua ... Rotorua, New Zealand ... Stylishly revamped and christened Summertime, the Blue Baths foyer bar will be open from ... Subscribe to our Industry News RSS feed... www.rotoruanz.com/media/industry_news.php?id=183

Downloadable summer | Reseller News New Zealand Downloadable summer. Hearing Voices. By Greg Adams, Auckland | Thursday, 08 December 2011. Share · Tweet. It's that time of year when we all start to think ... reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/opinion/downloadable-summer

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