Archive for October, 2011
Monday, October 24th, 2011
Feel good animal stories…
Before I go on leave, I thought I would steal Tatts’ blog thunder early this week by posting some feel good animal stories… click here to read about the bling dog who has his own seeing eye dog… http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cutestuff/5845961/Home-sought-for-blind-dog-and-its-seeing-eye-companion and click here for the feel good video story of a man who raised a gorilla [...]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Haka
Following on from yesterday’s blog I thought I’d share some more on the All Black’s haka and an American connection. A number American High School and College Football teams have adopted and adapted haka and are performing variations of the haka used by the All Blacks, ‘Ka Mate‘ and ‘Kapa O Pango‘, as well us [...]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The Legend of Piri Weepu
A few weeks back I blogged about the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup. We are now in the final week with the All Blacks taking on France in the final this weekend. The big story of the World Cup so far for New Zealand had been the injury which took a pivotal player, [...]
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Behind the wall…
To satisfy Tatts (as well as google), here’s a story that includes childhood, communism and permanent damage: We used to have this thing called ‘Pioneertreffen’. It was basically a huge gathering of the best pupils and principals from every school in the country. It was an honor to be invited and usually worked as a [...]
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
A dog’s life…
Over the past week or so I’ve had the pleasure of working on a project for High Hopes For Pets in Chicago. As part of that project I had to look at dog pictures and consider baking dog cup cakes… Yes, hard day at the office indeed! While researching this subject some more, I came [...]
