28 Sep

Russellville Takes A Long Road Trip

On the other side of the ball junior signal caller Joey Howe is fast becoming a player college coaches are showing interest. Howe has a large frame at 6-6, which allows him to see the field nicely. He also has a strong arm and a good delivery.
The Russellville defense was relentless all evening as they [...]

16 Jun

Bush ends Europe trip with good news

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]

02 Feb

Helping foreign adventurers find their way around China

The Shanghai-based New Zealander travelled the world for more than 15 years, eventually returning home as a salesman for an electronics company.
A job offer five years ago to establish the Asian regional headquarters of a big European multinational lured the 45-year-old to the Chinese financial centre.
I have always been good at setting stuff up.
But after [...]

31 Jan

Ride bone of intention

This one had already landed on me twice during this trip, physician Colin Rickard joked about his motorbike in central Nelson on Friday.
Joking aside, the group of eight medical professionals have spent a week-and-a-half touring the South Island, raising money to help with bone marrow transplants - a treatment for leukemia - and estimated they [...]