Archive for July, 2011
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Day 4 Shooting at St James Anguilla
It is the end of successful day of shooting the SJSM Anguilla campus from all angles. We started at 7am and finished (about 2000 photos later) at 8pm; many thanks to Dave Moravec and Lee Wang our two indefatigable photographers. The campus is a great building in middle of the small town and the place [...]
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
travel day
Today was a travel day. It started at 5am in Bonaire and ended at 2pm in Anguilla. You get extra baggage allowance at Bonaire airport if you say you have diving gear (sadly we didn’t know this) It is only 20 minute flight to Curacao In Curacao they speak Spanish It is a 70 minute [...]
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Day 2 in Bonaire
We have just finished our second and final day in Bonaire. Tomorrow we head off flying via Curacao and St Martin before catching a ferry to Anguilla. We would like to thank all the faculty and students at St James Bonaire whose help over the last couple of days allowed us to capture many great [...]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Bonaire Photo Shoot
Today was the first day of our week long photo shoot in Bonaire and Anguilla for the St James Medical School. And here is what we learnt about Bonaire: – Population 14,000 – It is a Dutch municipality – It is only 90 miles from Venezuela – The temperature is 30C / 90F all year [...]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
the icing on the quake
Just as the heat wave that our colleagues in the Chicago office have been enduring begins to ease, this is the view from TimeZoneOne’s Christchurch, New Zealand office…. It doesn’t normally snow here, this is the heaviest snow we’ve had in 15 years and is the first time my four-year-old has even seen snow. So [...]
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
you have 4,393,500 friend requests
You may remember New Zealand’s Prime Minister from the Late Show with David Letterman. Prime Minister John Key is in the US at the moment working to strengthen the friendship between our countries. Over the past two days he has been meeting with representatives of The Hobbit co-producer New Line Cinema and today with senior [...]
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
the tuatara
Most people in TimeZoneOne circles are familiar with ‘the tuatara’ as a horrible, horrible dance move that should not be performed by anyone ever. Yesterday, in California, Shelby Supercars announced that their latest super car, which they hope will prove to be the fastest production car in the world, will bear the name ‘Tuatara’. I’m [...]
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
40 plus
In February Richard McDonald, founder of TimeZoneOne and man of the people, turned 40. This effectively means that I have known Rich for half his life. This is a stat that pushes you over the edge of the middle aged slippery slope. I missed Rich’s birthday party because I had to return to NZ to [...]
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Stick and Ball
Men (women too) like games where we have to hit a ball with a stick. This is quite a basic desire – it is physical, violent and raw. However and perhaps oddly we like stick & ball sports where on the surface not much happens – I present you with golf, baseball and cricket. All [...]
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Think with your hat on
As a companion to my previous post about positive affirmations I would like to provide even more blog-space to another way of improving how to think. My goal is to irradiate contrarian-thinking; that is the habit of responding to a statement / idea / thought etc with the all reasons why it will not work [...]
